Cherokee Sewer Site

The Cherokee Sewer Site (no relation to the Cherokee tribe) is a multi-component bison processing site excavated in 1973 and 1976 near the sewage treatment plant of Cherokee, Iowa. Data from the excavations suggest Archaic period (BP 10,000 - 2,800) bison hunters on the eastern Plains used different adaptive strategies to cope with climate change than those seen on the western Plains. The results produced some of the earliest models for climate change in the Midwest.