The Wever Bypass excavations
Subtitle: Highway archaeology along the Great River Road in southeast Iowa
By: [by Randall M. Withrow, The Louis Berger Group, Inc.].
Contributors: Louis Berger Group; Iowa. Department of Transportation; United States. Federal Highway Administration; State Historical Society of Iowa
Publisher: Iowa Dept. of Transportation
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ames, IA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Archaeology; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities; Historic sites; Oneota Indians (Great Plains); Radiocarbon dating; Roads; Design and construction; Native Americans; Iowa. Department of Transportation; Iowa
Other titles: Highway archaeology along the Great River Road in southeast Iowa
Description: This is a story about a highway project near the small town of Wever, Iowa, and an American Indian village that existed at the location prior to the Europeans' arrival. The culture that lived in this village existed in a 10 state region of the Upper Midwest and may have been the ancestors of tribes living in the Midwest when European explorers entered the region. An archaeological recovery of information from the site was undertaken by the Iowa Department of Transportation because four-lane construction of U.S. 61 could not be accomplished without destroying most of the site. This site proved to be one of the richest archaeological finds in the State of Iowa.
Notes: Title from cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p 25).

Wever, Iowa (Lee County).

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Sponsored by the Iowa Department of Transportation in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration and the State Historical Society of Iowa.
Table of contents: title: [Introduction] --; title: The Wever Bypass --; title: Iowa's Great River Road is rich with history --; title: US 61 follows historic trail --; title: How were the Wever sites discovered? --; title: Who were the Oneota? --; title: Linking history and archaeology (p. 7) --; title: Using computers to reconstruct prehistoric pottery --; title: Early site explorations --; title: Prehistoric root cellars --; title: Why did the Iowa Department of Transportation decide to excavate the Wever site? --; title: How was the site excavated? --; title: Small-object recovery --; title: The Oneota village at Wever --; title: Farmers and hunters --; title: How does radiocarbon dating work? --; title: Why did the Oneota settle at Wever? --; title: The Ioway welcome visitors.