Book Description
The purpose of this paper is to explore the continuity of Oneota ceramics across a vast area of cultural expansion. There are many recognizable traits exhibited within Oneota lifeway's, subsistence, and settlement patterns; many of which must have required a significant amount of community organization. What cultural significance did these pots have? How did the decorative strategies achieve institutions of power, influence, and conformity? I am going to suggest that the ceramic expressions of Oneota groups were a methodical and purposeful effort to expand influence and power.