The Guthrey Archeological Site is a Native American archaeological site in

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, located near the

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east of the city of

Miami, Missouri Miami ( ) is a city in Saline County, Missouri, United States. The population was 175 at the 2010 census. History Miami was originally called Greenville, under which name it was platted in 1838. A post office called Miami has been in operation ...

. Archaeological investigation was undertaken in the summer of 1964, and the site was listed on the

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in 1970.

Description

The Guthrey Site is the earliest known

Oneota Oneota is a designation archaeologists use to refer to a cultural complex that existed in the Eastern Plains and Great Lakes area of what is now occupied by the United States from around AD 900 to around 1650 or 1700. Based on the classificat ...

occupation area in Missouri. Occupation dates are estimated as 1350 to 1400, with the possibility for both earlier and later habitation. Oneota was a general cultural growth which developed in an area bounded by lines drawn from

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, due north to the

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, east to Aztalan (in

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), and south to

Cahokia Cahokia Mounds ( 11 MS 2) is the site of a Native American city (which existed 1050–1350 CE) directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis. The state archaeology park lies in south-western Illinois between East St. L ...

in East St. Louis. Supported by a subsistence economy, the Oneota peoples hunted, fished, gardened, and gathered wild food plants.

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Buildings and structures in Saline County, Missouri Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Saline County, Missouri {{NorthAm-native-stub

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