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 classification defined in Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips' 1958 book Method and Theory in American Archaeology, the Oneota culture belongs to formative stage.

Generally accepted are the following: In addition, the Oneota culture has been divided geographically based on stylistic and socio-economic differences.

The Oneota diet included corn, beans, squash, wild rice, nuts, fish, deer, and bison, varying according to the region and locale.

Whether Oneota developed in situ out of Late Woodland cultures, was invasive, was the result of influence from (proto-)Middle Mississippian peoples, or was some mix of these, is not clear.