Notice2023-11010
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology, Knoxville, TN
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Published
May 24, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology (UTK), has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Plymouth County, IA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 24, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33644-33645]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11010]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035905; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Tennessee,
Department of Anthropology, Knoxville, TN
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Tennessee, Department of
Anthropology (UTK), has completed an inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects
and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The
human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from
Plymouth County, IA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after June 23, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Ozlem Kilic, University of Tennessee, Office of the
Provost, 527 Andy Holt Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0152, telephone (865)
974-2454, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#97f8fcfefbfef4d7e2e3fcb9f2f3e2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3d52565451545e7d48495613585948">[email protected]</span></a> and <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d9afa9b8b899acadb2f7bcbdac"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e593958484a590918ecb808190">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of UTK.
The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in
this notice. Additional information on the determinations in this
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the
inventory or related records held by UTK.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, 43 individuals were removed
from the Broken Kettle Mill Creek Cemetery site (13PM1), in Plymouth
County, IA. The burials were discovered in 1964, when the landowner,
Donald Banks, found ancestral human remains
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on the property. Banks contacted David Lilly of the Iowa Archaeological
Society who excavated the site with Donald's brother, Roger Banks from
September 6 to September 27, 1964. Following the excavation, these
human remains were held by Banks. Correspondence on file at UTK
indicates that they were likely transferred to William Bass in 1965,
while he was at the University of Kansas (KU), and that Bass
subsequently brought them to Knoxville in 1971, when he began working
for the UTK Department of Anthropology. Radiocarbon dates submitted by
D. R. Henning in 1969 indicate that Broken Kettle, 13PM1, was occupied
between A.D. 960 and 1165. Broken Kettle is classified as part of the
Mill Creek Phase/Culture. While Lilly and Banks did not explicitly date
the cemetery, they did classify it as ``fairly definite'' Mill Creek,
based on artifact types, and surmised the cemetery was even associated
with the Broken Kettle site. Numerous dates obtained for Mill Creek
Phase sites range from A.D. 810-1580; however, stratigraphic evidence
has been used to posit a range of dates between A.D. 900-1400. The 12
associated funerary objects are six lots consisting of shells, four
lots consisting of faunal remains, one lot consisting of lithics, and
one lot consisting of rocks.
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from the Kimball Mound site (13PM4) in Plymouth County, IA. These human
remains are housed at UTK, but details concerning their removal and
transfer to UTK are unknown. In 1939, Charles Keyes and Ellison Orr
excavated the Kimball Mound site as Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Project 3600, during which the burials of seven individuals were
uncovered, and in 1963, Walter Klippel found a burial when he returned
to the site with Dale Henning. Records at UTK indicate that in July of
1959, William Bass examined the ancestral remains of an individual from
this site at the ``Little Bend Camp.'' Based on a pattern of practice,
the human remains listed here were likely sent to Bass while he was at
KU and then brought by him to Knoxville in 1971, when he began teaching
at UTK. Alternatively, as Klippel also subsequently taught at UTK, it
is possible that he effected the transfer to UTK.
All the above-described human remains have been identified as
Native American based on documented association with ancient Native
American sites classified as Mill Creek culture. Based on artifact
type, site location, and mortuary practice, the Broken Kettle Mound and
Kimball mounds were classified as part of the Mill Creek Culture.
Numerous dates obtained for Mill Creek Phase sites range from A.D. 810-
1580; however, stratigraphic evidence has been used to posit a range of
dates between A.D. 900-1400. No associated funerary objects are
present.
Mill Creek manifestations are grouped within the Initial variant of
the Middle Missouri Tradition. Archeological and ethnohistorical
evidence links later Middle Missouri groups with the Mandan and
Hidatsa, who are present-day members of the Three Affiliated Tribes of
the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice
are connected to one or more identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures. There is a relationship of shared group identity
between the identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures
and one or more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The
following types of information were used to reasonably trace the
relationship: archeological, geographical, and historical.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, UTK has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 44 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 12 lots of objects described in this notice are
reasonably believed to have been placed with or near individual human
remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite or
ceremony.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Three Affiliated Tribes of the
Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after June 23, 2023. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, UTK must determine
the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for
joint repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
are considered a single request and not competing requests. UTK is
responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribe
identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, Sec.
10.10, and Sec. 10.14.
Dated: May 17, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-11010 Filed 5-23-23; 8:45 am]
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