ROI023, 1987 Excavations at Mounds State Park
Creators: name: Cochran, Donald R.
Publisher: name: Archaeological Resources Management Service, Ball State University
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Madison County
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/74696/madison-county
subject: Indiana
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/44778/indiana
subject: Early Woodland
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/14/early-woodland
subject: Middle Woodland
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/15/middle-woodland
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Unidentified Prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/9385/unidentified-prehistoric
subject: Late Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/11/late-archaic
subject: 12M2e
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/119165/12m2e
subject: 12M2f
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/119167/12m2f
subject: 12M2g
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/119169/12m2g
subject: 12M2h
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/119171/12m2h
subject: 12M2a
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/119157/12m2a
subject: 12M2b
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/119159/12m2b
subject: 12M2c
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/119161/12m2c
subject: 12M2d
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/119163/12m2d
subject: Mound / Earthwork
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/323/mound-earthwork
subject: Artifact Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/340/artifact-scatter
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Dating Sample
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3/dating-sample
subject: Glass
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/6/glass
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management
subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/10/site-evaluation-testing
subject: Systematic Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/12/systematic-survey

description: Between June 1 and June 26, 1987, students participating in the annual Ball State University Archaeological Field School carried out test excavations at Mounds State Park, Anderson, Indiana. The excavations were conducted under the guidelines of a proposal submitted to the Division of State Parks of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and within the framework of the Park's Archaeological Resources Management Plan (Buehrig and Hicks 1982).
Three goals were identified for the 1987 project: 
1. To establish a dating sequence for the earthworks within the park.
2. To delineate unclear earthworks at the south end of the park.
3. To provide interpretative data for the park.
These goals were identified as a means of testing whether earthwork construction occurred serially over a period of time, perhaps several hundred years, rather than within a short period of time as had been assumed by previous researchers. The field school excavations tested the proposed model by conducting limited testing of three enclosures, auger testing of the reported location of one earthwork, and the preparation of two contour maps to delineate earthwork features. The third goal of the project was realized through a compilation of the data generated through the project.