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Carcajou Point site
42.9000° N, -88.9833° E
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The Carcajou Point site (47JE2, aka the Carcajou site, Carcajou village or White Crow's village) is located in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, on Lake Koshkonong. It is a multi-component site with prehistoric Upper Mississippian Oneota and Historic components. The site was occupied by Native Americans as late as the 1820s and 1830s, when the Winnebago tribe resided there. At that time, it was called "White Crow's village" after the name of the chief.
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Oneota occupation range
A.D. 998–A.D. 1528
Early radiocarbon dates (Oneota structures)
A.D. 998; A.D. 1028
Historic White Crow village
A.D. 1728–A.D. 1828
Winnebago occupancy recorded
1820s–1830s
Site referenced by archaeologist W.C. McKern
1945
Field excavation
1957
Site report published by Robert Hall
1962
Archaeological Features
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Storage Structures
Burial and Funerary Structures
Domestic and Habitation Structures
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