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Midway site

Oneota village site, Orr focus (late prehistoric)

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The Midway Site (47LC19) is a prehistoric Upper Mississippian Oneota site in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. It is located about 10 miles north of LaCrosse near the juncture of the Black and Mississippi Rivers.

Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic
Chalcolithic
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Classical Period
Post-Classical Period
Early Modern Period
Industrial Period
Contemporary Period
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Estimated occupation date

c. A.D. 1500

First excavations by A.H. Sanford

early 1920s

McKern excavation

1929

Gibbon fieldwork

1964

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Storage Structures

Refuse Pits
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Miscellaneous Features

Mussel shell heapModern-era pig burial
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Burial and Funerary Structures

Graves
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Domestic and Habitation Structures

Villages
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Food Production and Processing Features

Cooking Pits
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Country

United States

Coordinates

43.96° N, -91.34° E