Iowa Stories: The Wall Ridge Excavations: A Modern View of a Glenwood Earthlodge

This “Iowa Histories” program looks at how researchers used cutting-edge methods and archaeological records to shed light on the daily technological, subsistence and dietary aspects of Native American households who lived in the eastern Plains during the 1300s. The research covers archaeobotany, zooarchaeology, dating, ceramics, lithics, bone and shell tools, diet, climate, ecology and more. The work is captured in “Household Economy at Wall Ridge: A Fourteenth-Century Central Plains Farmstead in the Missouri Valley,” the first comprehensive study of a prehistoric Central Plains household in more than 50 years.
 
Panelists Stephen C. Lensink, Joseph A. Tiffany, Shirley J. Schermer, Michael J. Perry, William Green, Jim Theler, and their associates at the Office of the State Archaeologist, University of Iowa, collaborated on the study for decades. The University of Utah Press published their landmark study in 2020.

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