Rachel McTavish, Anthropology, UW-Milwaukee
“Life and Stress at a Langford Village Site, A Case Study of Langford Adaptations from the Robinson Reserve Site (11Ck2)”

Previous researchers have argued that during the Late Prehistoric (ca. AD 1100-1450), increasing contact and competition with Middle Mississippians, including warfare and raiding, resulted in major socio-cultural transformations of Late Woodland groups in northern Illinois. It is clear from archaeological data that the Langford Tradition represents groups that took on some aspects of Mississippian lifeways, but resisted others. An examination of resource processing by Langford groups of the Upper Midwest is used to investigate adaptations to dynamic stressors, such as intergroup conflict and dietary stress. The Robinson Reserve site (11CK2),is used as a case study.