Boven Earthwork

	Boven Earthworks
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Reeder Township, Michigan
Nearest city	Lake City, Michigan
Area	less than one acre
NRHP reference No.	73002293
Added to NRHP	August 14, 1973

The Boven Earthworks, also known as the Boven Enclosure, the Mosquito Creek Earthworks, the Falmouth Inclosure, or Missaukee III^[2] is a Native American archaeological site designated 20MA19 located near Falmouth and Lake City, Michigan along Mosquito Creek. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[1]

Description

The Boven Earthworks includes four enclosures, with an associated burial mound.^[2]

History

The Boven Earthworks were likely constructed around AD 1470 +/-100.^[3]

The first circle was discovered by University of Michigan researchers in the summer of 1924 while they studied the nearby Aetna Earthworks.^[4]

Excavations were conducted on different circles by staff led by Emerson Greenman from the University of Michigan in 1926^[2] and by Charles Cleland from Michigan State University in 1965. They found light habitation debris and no palisade or wall indications. At least one circle had two breaches likely used as gateways, all similar to Aetna.^[2]^[5]

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Meghan C L Howey (2012), Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200-1600, University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 113, 114, 141, ISBN 9780806188058
^ Clare McHale Milner; John M. O'Shea (1998), Robert C. Mainfort; Lynne P. Sullivan (eds.), "The Socioeconomic Role of Late Woodland Enclosures in Northern Lower Michigan", Ancient Earthen Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands, University Press of Florida, ISBN 9780813015927
^ Hinsdale, W.B. (1925). Primitive Man in Michigan. University of Michigan. p. 45.
^ Meghan C. L. Howey; John M. O'Shea (April 2006), "Bear's Journey and the Study of Ritual in Archaeology", American Antiquity, 71 (2), Society for American Archaeology: 261–282, JSTOR 40035905