This article introduces new data to explorations of protohistoric lifeways and expands understandings of storage, seasonal practices, and women’s labor. Pollen analysis was conducted on sediment samples from the 1979 excavation of the late precontact Oak Forest site (11CK53) in Cook County, IL, near Chicago. The data demonstrate the springtime collection of firewood and the use of grass to line storage features. These data also capture protohistoric women’s labor, since, according to historical records, women prepared storage pits and collected firewood. Tacking between protohistory and history, findings demonstrate probable continuity in seasonal practices that requires a rethinking and refining of how we categorize change during the transition to the colonial era. Overall, this work reintroduces the effectiveness of pollen analysis to address long-standing questions in Midwestern archaeology.

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伊利诺伊州北部的储存、季节性和女性劳动：使用考古花粉分析来调查原始历史

本文介绍了探索原始历史生活方式的新数据，并扩展了对储存、季节性实践和女性劳动的理解。花粉分析是对 1979 年在芝加哥附近伊利诺伊州库克县的晚期预接触橡树林遗址 (11CK53) 的挖掘过程中采集的沉积物样本进行的。数据展示了春季收集木柴和使用草来排列存储功能。这些数据还记录了原始历史女性的劳动，因为根据历史记录，女性准备储藏坑并收集柴火。在原始历史和历史之间进行研究，发现表明季节性实践可能具有连续性，这需要重新思考和完善我们在向殖民时代过渡期间对变化进行分类的方式。全面的，