Prehistoric Settlement of Western Missouri During the Mississippian Period

Detail discusion of the archaeological record of three phases or complexes--(1) the Steed-Kisker phase; 2) the Nebraska phase of the Central Plains tradition, and 3) the Pomona variant--found in the Kansas City vicinity, circa AD 900-1500. The author concludes that the groups occupying the Kansas City region during the Mississippian period, while influenced by settlements in the Mississippi Valley, had a stronger relation with the Central Plains group. "It is contended that those groups occupying the Kansas City vicinity during the Mississippian period, including Steed-Kisker, were derived from indigenous populations that were influenced by, but not derived from Mississippian centers to the east."