ROI117, Archaeological Survey of Chain O' Lakes State Park, Noble County Indiana
Creators: name: Ryker, Hannah
name: Smith, Jacob
name: Ross, Emily
name: Lawton, Zoe
name: Barzilai, Rebecca
name: Nolan, Kevin
name: Thompson, Christine
Publisher: name: (:unav)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Indiana
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subject: Noble County
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/70361/noble-county
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: 12No319
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/136355/12no319
subject: 12No320
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/136356/12no320
subject: 12No298
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/136354/12no298
subject: 12No324
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/136359/12no324
subject: 12No310
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/136360/12no310
subject: 12No321
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/136357/12no321
subject: 12No323
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/136358/12no323
subject: 12No322
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/136361/12no322
subject: 12No325
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/136362/12no325
subject: Artifact Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/340/artifact-scatter
subject: Isolated Artifact
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/344/isolated-artifact
subject: Historic Church / Religious Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/313/historic-church-religious-structure
subject: Historic School
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/4841/historic-school
subject: Ceramic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/1/ceramic
subject: Glass
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/6/glass
subject: Ground Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/7/ground-stone
subject: Building Materials
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/8/building-materials
subject: Metal
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subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey
subject: Systematic Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/12/systematic-survey

description: This is the tDAR document page that represents Reports of Investigation 117 from the Applied Anthropology Laboratories, Ball State University. The Applied Anthropology Laboratories (AAL) at Ball State University conducted a Phase Ia archaeological investigation at the Chain O’ Lakes State Park (COLSP) with support from a Historic Preservation Fund grant. The primary goals of this research were to investigate the location of historic-era Mulberry School and a presumed contact-era American Indian Village north of Bowen Lake.

Research focuses on two survey areas: 1) a 15.07 ac (6.1 ha) area near the park entrance around the extant foundation of the Mulberry School; and 2) an approximately 50.25 ac (20.34 ha) area located in the presumed contact-era American Indian Village north of Bowen Lake. The present survey documented seven new sites and resurveyed two existing sites.

Recovered artifacts included 268 historic metal, glass, ceramic, and other objects dating to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; 16 precontact lithic artifacts; and one artifact of unknown origin. Ten features were documented between both survey areas. Fieldwork did not encounter human remains. Cultural periods represented in the artifact assemblage include Unidentified Prehistoric and late nineteenth and early twentieth century Historic.