AMERICAN ANTIQUITY AMERICAN ANTIQUITY Stanford, D. J. 1976 The Walakpa Site, Alaska: Its Place in the Birnirk and Thule Cultures. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology No. 20. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. Stroud, M. F., and H. Wilman. 1963 The Effects of Brittle Fracture on the Wear and Friction of Metals During Abrasion, in Particular of Antimony and Bismuth. British Journal Of Applied Physics 14:381-385. Tomenchuk, J. 1985 The Development of a Wholly Parametric Use- Wear Methodology and Its Application to Two Selected Samples of Epipaleolithic Chipped Stone Tools from Hayonim Cave, Israel. Unpublished Ph.D. dis- sertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto. Vaughan, P. C. 1985 Use Wear Analysis of Flaked Stone Tools. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Wright, K. H. R., and A. W. Burton 1976 Wear of Dental Tissues and Restorative Materials. In The Wear of Non-metallic Materials, edited by D. Dowson, M. Godet, and C. M. Taylor, pp. 116-126. Mechanical Engineering Publications, London. NOTE 1 The question of multiuse tools and unrecognized patterns must await further research. In this study, only a few archaeological tools were clearly used for more than one purpose. Others, along with those with unrecognized wear patterns, are probably grouped in with those tools considered unidentifiable. Received February 5, 1992; accepted September 13, 1993 THE MISSISSIPPIAN PRESENCE AND CAHOKIA INTERACTION AT TREMPEALEAU, WISCONSIN William Green and Roland L. Rodell Red-slipped pottery and a multiterrace platform mound at Trempealeau, Wisconsin, indicate the presence of an early Mississippian outpost in the upper Mississippi Valley ca. A.D. 1000. Trempealeau apparently represents a Mississippian elite site-unit intrusion from the American Bottom, and it probably served as a nodal point of early contact between Cahokia and peoples of the upper Mississippi Valley. By establishing a mound center at Trempealeau, its founders not only secured access to material goods but also facilitated the flow of information from the northern Mississippi Valley to the newly emerged elites in the American Bottom. Cerimica con engobe rojo y un terraplen con muiltiplesplataformas localizadas en Trempealeau, Wisconsin, indican la presencia de un puesto de avanzada de la sociedad representada por el periodo arqueologico Misisipiano Temprano en la alta cuenca del valle del rio Misisipi, hacia 1000 D.C. Trempealeau aparentemente representa una intrusion en esa parte del valle por grupos elites del American Bottom, y probablemente sirvi6 como lugar nodal en la interaccion temprana que se desarrollaba entre Cahokia y las poblaciones indigenas de la alta cuenca del rio Misisipi. Al establecer un centro con terraplen en Trempealeau, sus fundadores no solo aseguraron el acceso a los recursos regionales, pero tambien facilitaron la transmision de datos sobre el valle superior del rio Misisipi a los grupos elites recien salidos del American Bottom. Archaeologists have long been intrigued by the Mississippian and related sites of the upper Mississippi drainage. Current interest in this subject (e.g., Emerson and Lewis 1991; Stoltman, ed. Stanford, D. J. 1976 The Walakpa Site, Alaska: Its Place in the Birnirk and Thule Cultures. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology No. 20. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. Stroud, M. F., and H. Wilman. 1963 The Effects of Brittle Fracture on the Wear and Friction of Metals During Abrasion, in Particular of Antimony and Bismuth. British Journal Of Applied Physics 14:381-385. Tomenchuk, J. 1985 The Development of a Wholly Parametric Use- Wear Methodology and Its Application to Two Selected Samples of Epipaleolithic Chipped Stone Tools from Hayonim Cave, Israel. Unpublished Ph.D. dis- sertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto. Vaughan, P. C. 1985 Use Wear Analysis of Flaked Stone Tools. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Wright, K. H. R., and A. W. Burton 1976 Wear of Dental Tissues and Restorative Materials. In The Wear of Non-metallic Materials, edited by D. Dowson, M. Godet, and C. M. Taylor, pp. 116-126. Mechanical Engineering Publications, London. NOTE 1 The question of multiuse tools and unrecognized patterns must await further research. In this study, only a few archaeological tools were clearly used for more than one purpose. Others, along with those with unrecognized wear patterns, are probably grouped in with those tools considered unidentifiable. Received February 5, 1992; accepted September 13, 1993 THE MISSISSIPPIAN PRESENCE AND CAHOKIA INTERACTION AT TREMPEALEAU, WISCONSIN William Green and Roland L. Rodell Red-slipped pottery and a multiterrace platform mound at Trempealeau, Wisconsin, indicate the presence of an early Mississippian outpost in the upper Mississippi Valley ca. A.D. 1000. Trempealeau apparently represents a Mississippian elite site-unit intrusion from the American Bottom, and it probably served as a nodal point of early contact between Cahokia and peoples of the upper Mississippi Valley. By establishing a mound center at Trempealeau, its founders not only secured access to material goods but also facilitated the flow of information from the northern Mississippi Valley to the newly emerged elites in the American Bottom. Cerimica con engobe rojo y un terraplen con muiltiplesplataformas localizadas en Trempealeau, Wisconsin, indican la presencia de un puesto de avanzada de la sociedad representada por el periodo arqueologico Misisipiano Temprano en la alta cuenca del valle del rio Misisipi, hacia 1000 D.C. Trempealeau aparentemente representa una intrusion en esa parte del valle por grupos elites del American Bottom, y probablemente sirvi6 como lugar nodal en la interaccion temprana que se desarrollaba entre Cahokia y las poblaciones indigenas de la alta cuenca del rio Misisipi. Al establecer un centro con terraplen en Trempealeau, sus fundadores no solo aseguraron el acceso a los recursos regionales, pero tambien facilitaron la transmision de datos sobre el valle superior del rio Misisipi a los grupos elites recien salidos del American Bottom. Archaeologists have long been intrigued by the Mississippian and related sites of the upper Mississippi drainage. Current interest in this subject (e.g., Emerson and Lewis 1991; Stoltman, ed. WILLIAM GREEN * Office of the State Archaeologist, The University of Iowa, Eastlawn, Iowa City, IA 52242- 1411 ROLAND L. RODELL * Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI 54601 WILLIAM GREEN * Office of the State Archaeologist, The University of Iowa, Eastlawn, Iowa City, IA 52242- 1411 ROLAND L. RODELL * Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI 54601 American Antiquity, 59(2), 1994, pp. 334-359. Copyright ? 1994 by the Society for American Archaeology American Antiquity, 59(2), 1994, pp. 334-359. Copyright ? 1994 by the Society for American Archaeology 334 334 [Vol. 59, No. 2, 1994] [Vol. 59, No. 2, 1994]