CANONICAL_TITLE: Civilisation Atlas Chronology | North America — Eastern Woodlands / Mississippi | Deep Substrate–2026
SPECIFICATION: CIVATLAS.CHRONOLOGY.SPEC.V1.0
REGIONAL_RUNTIME: CIVATLAS.REGIONAL.RUNTIME.V3.2
ROOT_INTEGRITY_PATCH: CIVATLAS.REALITY_CONTINUUM.RUNTIME.V3.3
PUBLIC_ARTICLE_PROFILE: ATLAS-ARTICLE-RUNTIME.V4.2-PROVISIONAL + EDUKATESG.PHASE4.PUBLISHING.V1.0
PUBLIC_ARCHITECTURE_INHERITANCE: 8 AUGUST 2026 canonical Atlas/CivOS/Generator/EnDist stack; child research freeze 2026-08-09T00:57:28+08:00
SPECIFICATION_STATUS: CANONICAL_WORKING_STANDARD
RELEASE_STATUS: FROZEN_VALIDATED
PARENT_CLOCK: CIVATLAS.CHRONOLOGY.WORLD.MASTER.V1.1
COVERAGE_OBJECT: 51 OF 60
CANONICAL_OBJECT_ID: CIVATLAS.CHRONOLOGY.REGION.NORTH_AMERICA_EASTERN_WOODLANDS_MISSISSIPPI
MACHINE_ID: CIVATLAS.CHRONOLOGY.REGION.NORTH_AMERICA_EASTERN_WOODLANDS_MISSISSIPPI.RUNTIME.V3.2
RECORD_NAMESPACE: CA.EWM
SOURCE_NAMESPACE: EWM.S
GRAPH_NAMESPACE: EWM.G
CONNECTOR_NAMESPACE: EWM.C
TRACK_NAMESPACE: EWM.T
UNCERTAINTY_NAMESPACE: EWM.U
INVARIANT_NAMESPACE: EWM.I
ARCHITECTURE_DELTA_NAMESPACE: EWM.AD
VERSION: 3.2
CUT_OFF_DATE: 9 AUGUST 2026
RETRIEVAL_FREEZE: 2026-08-09T00:57:28+08:00 ASIA/SINGAPORE
FORMAT: UTF-8 PLAIN TEXT; DETERMINISTIC FIELD BLOCKS
CANONICAL_FILENAME: NORTH_AMERICA_EASTERN_WOODLANDS_MISSISSIPPI_CHRONOLOGY_MASTER_RUNTIME_V3.2.txt
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

OBJECT_QUEUE:
PREVIOUS: OBJECT 50 — NORTH AMERICAN ARCTIC / SUBARCTIC
CURRENT: OBJECT 51 — NORTH AMERICA — EASTERN WOODLANDS / MISSISSIPPI
NEXT: OBJECT 52 — NORTH AMERICA — SOUTHWEST / WEST / PLAINS

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00 | RELEASE CONTROL, LATEST INHERITANCE AND ARCHITECTURE RECEIPTS

RUNTIME_EXECUTION:
Regional Runtime V3.2 is the executing machine layer.
Reality Continuum V3.3 is inherited only as the root-integrity patch.
The public article uses ATLAS-ARTICLE-RUNTIME.V4.2-PROVISIONAL + Phase4 Publishing V1.0 without relabelling the regional runtime.

LATEST_RECEIPTS:
PASS — Owner burden and canonical precedence.
PASS — Correct-Type gate before condition assignment.
PASS — Planet Birth plus Active Substrate receipts.
PASS — multi-clock chronology and evidence-time separation.
PASS — TEMPORAL_FORM separated from BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY.
PASS — RELATION_TYPE separated from ATTESTATION.
PASS — typed material, energy, process/function, information, person and capital flows.
PASS — Integration Non-Identity; Functional Portability; True Reverse Hydra.
PASS — 30-field regional record contract plus transformation trace.
PASS — eight organs FLOOR/BODY/FLOW/MEMORY/SENSOR/CONTROL/REPAIR/EDGE.
PASS — six observers SKY/STRATEGIST/GENERAL/ENGINEER/RECEIVER/NOBODY.
PASS — Civilisational Genome / Genealogy / Expression / Phenotype separation.
PASS — EnDist delivery logic and RepairRate >= DriftRate durability test.
PASS — Production, Convergence, Explanatory Energy and Motion-Landscape checks.
PASS — 8 August 2026 architecture inheritance: Atlas + Warehouse + Dashboard + CivOS + Civilisation Generator + Power Plant + EnDist + Interface Processors.
PASS — Slice -> Tube -> Stack -> Field multi-resolution routing; Ideal/Real/Observed layers remain separate.
PASS — Causal Gate: synchrony/correlation cannot be promoted to causation without mechanism, carrier, interval and falsifier.
PASS — Universal Grammar != Universal Coefficients; cross-regional comparison preserves local parameters and exceptions.
PASS — adaptation/self-awareness lens: systems survive by sensing field change and remapping before degradation outruns repair; ECU is analogy only, not a claim of centralized control.
PASS — live-state expiry, community correction and append-only revision.

CHILD_CLOCK_RECEIPT:
The World Master parent freezes at W068 on 28 July 2026. This child extends W068 to 9 August 2026
without silently editing the parent. A successor World Master owes explicit reconciliation.

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01 | CORRECT-TYPE GATE, OBJECT STATEMENT, BOUNDARY AND FIREWALLS

THIS IS NOT a ladder in which “Archaic” becomes “Adena,” Adena becomes Hopewell, Hopewell becomes
Mississippian, Cahokia becomes Haudenosaunee, and all of them become the modern United States or Canada.

THIS IS NOT a story of a vanished “Mound Builder race.” Earthworks are Indigenous constructions made by
many different communities over millennia; nineteenth-century attempts to detach them from Native peoples
are themselves part of the evidence-history and colonial-knowledge record.

CORRECT_TYPE_GATE:
OBJECT_FAMILY: REGIONAL_LONGITUDINAL_COORDINATE.
PRIMARY_GEOMETRY: changing eastern North American forest, prairie-margin, river, wetland, Great Lakes,
St Lawrence, Atlantic and Gulf interfaces; especially Mississippi–Ohio and southeastern mound worlds.
MODERN_BORDERS: United States/Canada/state/provincial lines are dated legal layers only.
INTERFACES: Object 50 Arctic/Subarctic; Object 52 Southwest/West/Plains; Object 53 Mesoamerica;
Caribbean/Atlantic systems; later US, Canadian and global owner files.

CATEGORY_FIREWALL:
ECOLOGICAL_ZONE != ARCHAEOLOGICAL_PERIOD != ASSEMBLAGE != GENOME != LANGUAGE != PEOPLE != NATION
!= CONFEDERACY != POLITY != MODERN_TRIBAL_GOVERNMENT != STATE != TERRITORIAL_TITLE.

NAMED_FIREWALLS:
EASTERN_WOODLANDS != ONE_PEOPLE.
ARCHAIC != SIMPLE_OR_PRIMITIVE.
ADENA != ONE_TRIBE_OR_RACE.
HOPEWELL != EMPIRE; it is primarily an archaeological interaction/ceremonial field.
MISSISSIPPIAN != ONE_EMPIRE_OR_NATION.
CAHOKIA != ALL_MISSISSIPPIAN.
HAUDENOSAUNEE != ALL_IROQUOIAN_SPEAKERS.
IROQUOIS is retained only where required as a historical/exonym or search disambiguator; Haudenosaunee is preferred.
LANGUAGE_RELATION != POLITICAL_UNITY.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL_SIMILARITY != DIRECT_DESCENT != MODERN_SOVEREIGNTY.
PRECONTACT != WITHOUT_HISTORY; oral tradition, ritual, landscape and wampum are information systems.
SITE_ABANDONMENT != PEOPLE_EXTINCTION != EMPTY_LAND.

HERITAGE_RIGHTS_STACK:
ORIGIN != TITLE != CUSTODY != RESEARCH_AUTHORITY != RITUAL_AUTHORITY != INTERPRETIVE_AUTHORITY
!= PUBLIC_ACCESS != DESCENDANT_OR_COMMUNITY_CONSENT.

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02 | NESTED CLOCKS, EVIDENCE, CLAIMS AND FOG-OF-WAR

NC01 LITHOSPHERE_GLACIAL_RELIEF — bedrock, ice, river capture, soils, coasts.
NC02 SKY_CLIMATE_WATER — season, drought, flood, lake/river dynamics, fire and storm.
NC03 ECOLOGY_FOOD — forest, wetland, fish, shell, deer, nuts, native crops, maize and storage.
NC04 OCCUPATION_POPULATION_MOBILITY — sites, households, migration, aggregation, dispersal.
NC05 MATERIAL_TECHNOLOGY — lithics, pottery, earthworks, timber, copper, shell, weapons, transport.
NC06 LANGUAGE_INFORMATION_MEMORY — oral tradition, wampum, colonial text, print, language revival, digital archive.
NC07 RITUAL_MONUMENT_CELESTIAL — mound, enclosure, plaza, council fire, calendar and sacred landscape.
NC08 POLITY_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY — town, clan, confederacy, nation, treaty, tributary and federal systems.
NC09 WAR_COLONIAL_LAND_CONTROL — fortification, raid, invasion, settlement, removal, reservation and border.
NC10 EVIDENCE_CUSTODY_REPAIR — excavation, museum custody, descendant consultation, NAGPRA, repatriation.

EVIDENCE_LADDER:
E0 ATTRIBUTED_MEMORY; E1 SINGLE_ATTESTATION; E2 MULTIPLE_ATTESTATION; E3 CONTEXTUAL_MEASUREMENT;
E4 CROSS_DOMAIN_CONVERGENCE; E5 LIVE_VERIFIED.

CORE_NEGATIONS:
UNKNOWN != NONE. NOT_ATTESTED != DID_NOT_EXIST. PRECEDES != CAUSES. REACHABLE != INTERACTED.
SHARED_OBJECT_STYLE != SHARED_POLITY. MATERIAL_MOVEMENT != PERSON_MOVEMENT. INFLUENCE != RULE.
TREATY_TEXT != FREE_CONSENT != IMPLEMENTATION != REPAIR. HERITAGE_LISTING != DESCENDANT_AUTHORITY.
CLIMATE_CORRELATION != SINGLE_CAUSE. MONUMENT_SIZE != WHOLE_SOCIAL_WELLBEING.

FOG_OF_WAR RULE:
Sparse preservation, destroyed earthworks, submerged coastlines, museum removal, salvage archaeology, colonial
terminology and unequal archives change what can be seen. Absence of evidence is never silently upgraded to absence.

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03 | PLANET BIRTH, ACTIVE SUBSTRATE AND GENOME CONTRACT

ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPTS:
MATERIAL; GEOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHICAL; SKY_CLIMATE; WATER; BIOSPHERE; PLANT; ANIMAL;
MICROBIAL_FUNGAL; ECOLOGICAL_NETWORK; HUMAN_AGENT; INSTITUTION; INFORMATION; MACHINE.

ACTIVE-SUBSTRATE RULE:
The Mississippi floodplain, Ohio tributaries, Great Lakes, Atlantic estuaries, Gulf wetlands, forests, prairie margins,
soils and climate are not scenery. They alter corridor capacity, food packages, travel cost, flood/drought exposure,
settlement geometry and the survivable range of institutions. They receive no fictional human intent.

CIVILISATIONAL GENOME GUARDRAIL:
“Genome” means inherited, recombined and reproducible capabilities: river knowledge, controlled fire, plant tending,
domestication, storage, pottery, earth-moving, assembly, exchange, celestial observation, town planning, diplomacy,
kinship governance, wampum memory, treaty practice, language reproduction, legal sovereignty and repair. It is never
biological DNA, racial essence, evolutionary rank, destiny or proof of land title.

GENEALOGY asks where capabilities originate, move, adapt and recombine.
EXPRESSION asks whether a capability is actually usable, delivered and maintained.
PHENOTYPE is the time-bounded observable society produced under environment, interaction and pressure.

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04 | ONE-PAGE REGIONAL SPINE

Late Pleistocene: glaciers, lower coastlines and river systems configure a changing eastern substrate.
c. 14,550 cal BP: Page-Ladson documents pre-Clovis human presence in the southeastern Gulf Coastal Plain.
Early–Middle Holocene: forest, wetland and river systems support increasingly differentiated Archaic lifeways.
c. 3500–3000 BCE: Watson Brake shows coordinated monumental earth-building among broad-spectrum foragers.
By c. 3800 BP: the Eastern Agricultural Complex forms from independently domesticated native plants.
c. 1700–1100 BCE: Poverty Point combines hunter-fisher-gatherer subsistence, monumentality and long-distance exchange.
c. 800 BCE onward: Adena-associated Early Woodland systems become visible in parts of the Ohio Valley.
c. 100 BCE–500 CE: the Hopewell interaction sphere links ceremonial landscapes and distant materials without one empire.
c. 1–400 CE: monumental Ohio earthworks encode geometry, gathering space and some solar/lunar alignments.
c. 500–900 CE: Late Woodland societies reorganize settlement, agriculture, exchange, defence and mound traditions.
c. 800–1000 CE onward: Mississippian town, plaza, platform-mound and maize systems emerge unevenly.
c. 1050 CE: Cahokia undergoes rapid urban takeoff; migration and regional food systems help sustain an unprecedented city.
11th–13th centuries: Greater Cahokia becomes a plural metropolitan landscape linked to a wide midcontinental network.
12th–14th centuries: Cahokia contracts and disperses; no one-cause environmental-collapse explanation is adequate.
Late first/early second millennium CE: Haudenosaunee Great Peace traditions, Iroquoian and Algonquian village worlds,
Cherokee, Muscogee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Natchez, Lenape and many other eastern societies follow distinct clocks.
16th–18th centuries: Atlantic empires add disease, trade, mission, firearms, slavery, war and settler land pressure.
17th–18th centuries: Haudenosaunee wampum, confederacy and diplomacy operate as living political-information systems.
1770s onward: US state expansion intensifies land cession, war and treaty conflict.
1830s: federal removal drives large-scale forced migration from southeastern homelands; nations rebuild under coercion.
19th–20th centuries: settler archaeology, infrastructure and collecting destroy mounds and remove ancestors/objects.
1990 onward: NAGPRA creates a legal repatriation channel; repair remains an operating process, not a completed event.
2023: Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks enter the World Heritage List with a call for stronger Indigenous participation.
2024: new Manna crop evidence and Cahokia paleoclimate work revise older agricultural and collapse narratives.
2026: Mitchell-site synthesis and updated NAGPRA guidance make evidence custody and descendant authority part of the live clock.

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05 | PROTECTED CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD STREAM

PROTECTED_FIELD_ORDER — EXACTLY 30 FIELDS:
01 ENTITY; 02 ENTITY_TYPE; 03 EVENT; 04 TEMPORAL_FORM; 05 BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY; 06 WORLD_BANDS;
07 TIME_ZOOM; 08 ENTITY_ZOOM; 09 FUNCTION; 10 HOST; 11 CARRIER; 12 FLOW; 13 DEPENDENCY; 14 LINEAGE;
15 RELATION; 16 CONTROL_GEOMETRY; 17 BASEFLOOR_EFFECT; 18 CAPABILITY; 19 LIFECYCLE;
20 MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE; 21 CAPABILITY_REACH; 22 SURVIVABLE_RANGE; 23 WORLD_DISTRIBUTION;
24 DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE; 25 MOTION; 26 EVIDENCE; 27 CLAIM_STATUS; 28 UNCERTAINTY; 29 SOURCE_KEYS; 30 GRAPH_SEEDS.
HEADER_FIELDS: RECORD_ID | LOCAL_SERIES_ID | TIME_COORDINATE | TITLE.
COMPANION_TRACE: BEFORE_STATE -> TRANSFORMATION -> AFTER_STATE -> RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE; LAW_SCOPE; FALSIFIER.
MUTATION_RULE: published records are append-only; corrections create superseding records and revision edges.

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000001
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R001
TIME_COORDINATE: Precambrian–present
TITLE: Appalachian, cratonic and sedimentary inheritance
ENTITY: APPALACHIAN,_CRATONIC_AND_SEDIMENTARY_INHERITANCE
ENTITY_TYPE: ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE
EVENT: Ancient bedrock, later sedimentary basins and mineral distributions create differentiated eastern landscapes without determining any human society.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W000–W068
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: CONDITION_AND_CORRIDOR
HOST: LAND_WATER_SKY_ECOLOGY
CARRIER: MATTER_ENERGY_WATER
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: SUBSTRATE_TRACK
RELATION: CONSTRAINS_AND_ENABLES
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: DISTRIBUTED_NONAGENT
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: NATURAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_0
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: GEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S003
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0001
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior material/ecological configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Ancient bedrock, later sedimentary basins and mineral distributions create differentiated eastern landscapes without determining any human society.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: new physical/ecological constraint-and-opportunity field
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later societies inherit corridor, resource and hazard effects
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000002
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R002
TIME_COORDINATE: Pleistocene–Holocene
TITLE: Laurentide ice and eastern landscape remaking
ENTITY: LAURENTIDE_ICE_AND_EASTERN_LANDSCAPE_REMAKING
ENTITY_TYPE: ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE
EVENT: Glaciation repeatedly covers northern sectors, reroutes drainage, builds glacial lakes and leaves the material conditions from which the Great Lakes and northern soils emerge.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W007–W068
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: CONDITION_AND_CORRIDOR
HOST: LAND_WATER_SKY_ECOLOGY
CARRIER: MATTER_ENERGY_WATER
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: SUBSTRATE_TRACK
RELATION: CONSTRAINS_AND_ENABLES
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: DISTRIBUTED_NONAGENT
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: NATURAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_0
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: GEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S003
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0002
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior material/ecological configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Glaciation repeatedly covers northern sectors, reroutes drainage, builds glacial lakes and leaves the material conditions from which the Great Lakes and northern soils emerge.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: new physical/ecological constraint-and-opportunity field
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later societies inherit corridor, resource and hazard effects
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000003
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R003
TIME_COORDINATE: Late Pleistocene
TITLE: Lower sea level and drowned coastal archive
ENTITY: LOWER_SEA_LEVEL_AND_DROWNED_COASTAL_ARCHIVE
ENTITY_TYPE: ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE
EVENT: Lower sea levels expose now-submerged Atlantic and Gulf shelves; later marine transgression hides part of the earliest coastal record.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W013–W014
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: CONDITION_AND_CORRIDOR
HOST: LAND_WATER_SKY_ECOLOGY
CARRIER: MATTER_ENERGY_WATER
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: SUBSTRATE_TRACK
RELATION: CONSTRAINS_AND_ENABLES
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: DISTRIBUTED_NONAGENT
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: NATURAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_0
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: GEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S005
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0003
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior material/ecological configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Lower sea levels expose now-submerged Atlantic and Gulf shelves; later marine transgression hides part of the earliest coastal record.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: new physical/ecological constraint-and-opportunity field
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later societies inherit corridor, resource and hazard effects
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000004
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R004
TIME_COORDINATE: Late Pleistocene–present
TITLE: Mississippi–Ohio river system as continental corridor
ENTITY: MISSISSIPPI–OHIO_RIVER_SYSTEM_AS_CONTINENTAL_CORRIDOR
ENTITY_TYPE: ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE
EVENT: Floodplains, tributaries, wetlands and confluences become recurring food, travel, exchange, settlement and hazard corridors.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W013–W068
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: CONDITION_AND_CORRIDOR
HOST: LAND_WATER_SKY_ECOLOGY
CARRIER: MATTER_ENERGY_WATER
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
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RELATION: CONSTRAINS_AND_ENABLES
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BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: NATURAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_0
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
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GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0004
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior material/ecological configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Floodplains, tributaries, wetlands and confluences become recurring food, travel, exchange, settlement and hazard corridors.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: new physical/ecological constraint-and-opportunity field
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later societies inherit corridor, resource and hazard effects
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000005
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R005
TIME_COORDINATE: Late Pleistocene–present
TITLE: Great Lakes and St Lawrence water corridor
ENTITY: GREAT_LAKES_AND_ST_LAWRENCE_WATER_CORRIDOR
ENTITY_TYPE: ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE
EVENT: Deglaciation opens a changing inland-water network that later supports fisheries, mobility, trade and political interfaces across modern borders.
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BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W013–W068
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: CONDITION_AND_CORRIDOR
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CARRIER: MATTER_ENERGY_WATER
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
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RELATION: CONSTRAINS_AND_ENABLES
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BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: NATURAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_0
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
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SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: GEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S003
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0005
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior material/ecological configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Deglaciation opens a changing inland-water network that later supports fisheries, mobility, trade and political interfaces across modern borders.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: new physical/ecological constraint-and-opportunity field
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later societies inherit corridor, resource and hazard effects
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000006
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R006
TIME_COORDINATE: Holocene
TITLE: Eastern deciduous forest and wetland mosaics
ENTITY: EASTERN_DECIDUOUS_FOREST_AND_WETLAND_MOSAICS
ENTITY_TYPE: ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE
EVENT: Postglacial forest, prairie margins, estuaries, wetlands and river ecologies diversify food strategies and settlement opportunities.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W015–W068
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: CONDITION_AND_CORRIDOR
HOST: LAND_WATER_SKY_ECOLOGY
CARRIER: MATTER_ENERGY_WATER
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
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RELATION: CONSTRAINS_AND_ENABLES
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BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: NATURAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_0
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: GEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S003
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0006
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior material/ecological configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Postglacial forest, prairie margins, estuaries, wetlands and river ecologies diversify food strategies and settlement opportunities.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: new physical/ecological constraint-and-opportunity field
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later societies inherit corridor, resource and hazard effects
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000007
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R007
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 14,550 cal BP
TITLE: Page-Ladson occupation
ENTITY: PAGE-LADSON_OCCUPATION
ENTITY_TYPE: OCCUPATION_PROCESS
EVENT: Stone tools and mastodon remains in an undisturbed Florida context document humans in the southeastern Gulf Coastal Plain before Clovis.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: MEASURED_RANGE
WORLD_BANDS: W014
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT_MOBILITY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: CAMPS_RIVERS_COASTS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_TOOLS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: EARLY_HUMAN_TRACK
RELATION: OCCUPIES_AND_ADAPTS
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: HOUSEHOLD_BAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_HABITAT
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: LOCAL_TO_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: STRATIFIED_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S005
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0007
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: landscape without this securely observed occupation signal
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Stone tools and mastodon remains in an undisturbed Florida context document humans in the southeastern Gulf Coastal Plain before Clovis.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: human presence/adaptation becomes archaeologically observable
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later models of settlement must include deeper time and lost/coastal archives
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000008
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R008
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 13,000–12,600 BP
TITLE: Clovis and other terminal-Pleistocene occupations
ENTITY: CLOVIS_AND_OTHER_TERMINAL-PLEISTOCENE_OCCUPATIONS
ENTITY_TYPE: OCCUPATION_PROCESS
EVENT: Fluted-point technologies become visible across parts of eastern North America while regional technologies and mobility remain diverse.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W014
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT_MOBILITY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: CAMPS_RIVERS_COASTS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_TOOLS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: EARLY_HUMAN_TRACK
RELATION: OCCUPIES_AND_ADAPTS
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: HOUSEHOLD_BAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_HABITAT
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: LOCAL_TO_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: STRATIFIED_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S005;EWM.S019
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0008
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: landscape without this securely observed occupation signal
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Fluted-point technologies become visible across parts of eastern North America while regional technologies and mobility remain diverse.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: human presence/adaptation becomes archaeologically observable
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later models of settlement must include deeper time and lost/coastal archives
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000009
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R009
TIME_COORDINATE: by c. 12,600 BP
TITLE: Megafaunal extinction transition
ENTITY: MEGAFAUNAL_EXTINCTION_TRANSITION
ENTITY_TYPE: OCCUPATION_PROCESS
EVENT: Large-animal extinctions alter the available faunal landscape; human communities continue through broadening and regionally variable subsistence systems.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W014
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT_MOBILITY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: CAMPS_RIVERS_COASTS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_TOOLS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: EARLY_HUMAN_TRACK
RELATION: OCCUPIES_AND_ADAPTS
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: HOUSEHOLD_BAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_HABITAT
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: LOCAL_TO_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: STRATIFIED_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S005
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0009
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: landscape without this securely observed occupation signal
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Large-animal extinctions alter the available faunal landscape; human communities continue through broadening and regionally variable subsistence systems.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: human presence/adaptation becomes archaeologically observable
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later models of settlement must include deeper time and lost/coastal archives
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000010
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R010
TIME_COORDINATE: early Holocene
TITLE: River, forest and wetland adaptation
ENTITY: RIVER,_FOREST_AND_WETLAND_ADAPTATION
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: Communities increasingly organize seasonal movement around nuts, deer, fish, shellfish, plant foods and riverine habitats rather than one big-game package.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W015–W017
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: FORAGING_MONUMENT_EXCHANGE
HOST: RIVER_VALLEYS_WETLANDS_FORESTS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_STONE_FIBER_FOOD_RITUAL
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: ARCHAIC_TRACK
RELATION: REGIONAL_VARIATION_AND_EXCHANGE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: KIN_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_SOCIAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S006;EWM.S019
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0010
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier seasonal and regional capability configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Communities increasingly organize seasonal movement around nuts, deer, fish, shellfish, plant foods and riverine habitats rather than one big-game package.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: more differentiated regional livelihood, monument or exchange capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: monumentality and coordination can no longer be treated as farming/state-only capabilities
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000011
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R011
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 8000–5000 BCE
TITLE: Early–Middle Archaic regional diversification
ENTITY: EARLY–MIDDLE_ARCHAIC_REGIONAL_DIVERSIFICATION
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: Toolkits, settlement schedules and food practices diverge across Northeast, Ohio Valley, Southeast, Gulf and Great Lakes ecologies.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W015–W017
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: FORAGING_MONUMENT_EXCHANGE
HOST: RIVER_VALLEYS_WETLANDS_FORESTS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_STONE_FIBER_FOOD_RITUAL
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: ARCHAIC_TRACK
RELATION: REGIONAL_VARIATION_AND_EXCHANGE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: KIN_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_SOCIAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S019
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0011
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier seasonal and regional capability configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Toolkits, settlement schedules and food practices diverge across Northeast, Ohio Valley, Southeast, Gulf and Great Lakes ecologies.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: more differentiated regional livelihood, monument or exchange capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: monumentality and coordination can no longer be treated as farming/state-only capabilities
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000012
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R012
TIME_COORDINATE: Middle Holocene
TITLE: Shell-midden and aquatic-resource intensification
ENTITY: SHELL-MIDDEN_AND_AQUATIC-RESOURCE_INTENSIFICATION
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: In many riverine and coastal settings shellfish, fish and aquatic resources contribute to more persistent place use and accumulated landscapes.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W017–W020
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: FORAGING_MONUMENT_EXCHANGE
HOST: RIVER_VALLEYS_WETLANDS_FORESTS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_STONE_FIBER_FOOD_RITUAL
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: ARCHAIC_TRACK
RELATION: REGIONAL_VARIATION_AND_EXCHANGE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: KIN_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_SOCIAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S006
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0012
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier seasonal and regional capability configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: In many riverine and coastal settings shellfish, fish and aquatic resources contribute to more persistent place use and accumulated landscapes.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: more differentiated regional livelihood, monument or exchange capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: monumentality and coordination can no longer be treated as farming/state-only capabilities
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000013
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R013
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 3500 BCE
TITLE: Watson Brake minor earthworks begin
ENTITY: WATSON_BRAKE_MINOR_EARTHWORKS_BEGIN
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: Communities in northeast Louisiana begin constructing earthworks while maintaining broad-spectrum hunting, fishing and gathering economies.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: RADIOCARBON_BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W019–W020
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: FORAGING_MONUMENT_EXCHANGE
HOST: RIVER_VALLEYS_WETLANDS_FORESTS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_STONE_FIBER_FOOD_RITUAL
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: ARCHAIC_TRACK
RELATION: REGIONAL_VARIATION_AND_EXCHANGE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: KIN_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_SOCIAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S006
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0013
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier seasonal and regional capability configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Communities in northeast Louisiana begin constructing earthworks while maintaining broad-spectrum hunting, fishing and gathering economies.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: more differentiated regional livelihood, monument or exchange capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: monumentality and coordination can no longer be treated as farming/state-only capabilities
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000014
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R014
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 3350–after 3000 BCE
TITLE: Watson Brake major mound construction
ENTITY: WATSON_BRAKE_MAJOR_MOUND_CONSTRUCTION
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: Eleven mounds and connecting ridges are raised in stages, showing large-scale coordinated monumentality without dependence on intensive farming or urban state formation.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: RADIOCARBON_BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W020
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: FORAGING_MONUMENT_EXCHANGE
HOST: RIVER_VALLEYS_WETLANDS_FORESTS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_STONE_FIBER_FOOD_RITUAL
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: ARCHAIC_TRACK
RELATION: REGIONAL_VARIATION_AND_EXCHANGE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: KIN_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_SOCIAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S006
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0014
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier seasonal and regional capability configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Eleven mounds and connecting ridges are raised in stages, showing large-scale coordinated monumentality without dependence on intensive farming or urban state formation.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: more differentiated regional livelihood, monument or exchange capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: monumentality and coordination can no longer be treated as farming/state-only capabilities
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000015
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R015
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 3000–2000 BCE
TITLE: Indigenous plant-management intensification
ENTITY: INDIGENOUS_PLANT-MANAGEMENT_INTENSIFICATION
ENTITY_TYPE: FOOD_KNOWLEDGE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Long-term tending, harvesting and selection of native plants increases the productive capacity of eastern river valleys and household landscapes.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W020–W022
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: CULTIVATION_DOMESTICATION_STORAGE
HOST: HOUSEHOLDS_GARDENS_RIVER_VALLEYS
CARRIER: SEEDS_PEOPLE_PRACTICE
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: AGRICULTURE_TRACK
RELATION: DOMESTICATION_AND_RECOMBINATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: HOUSEHOLD_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S008
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0015
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: food system with less cultivated/domesticated plant integration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Long-term tending, harvesting and selection of native plants increases the productive capacity of eastern river valleys and household landscapes.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: cultivation/domestication becomes a stronger reproducible food capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later maize systems inherit and recombine with older Indigenous plant knowledge
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000016
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R016
TIME_COORDINATE: before c. 3800 BP
TITLE: Independent domestication precedes crop-complex coalescence
ENTITY: INDEPENDENT_DOMESTICATION_PRECEDES_CROP-COMPLEX_COALESCENCE
ENTITY_TYPE: FOOD_KNOWLEDGE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Individual native domesticates appear before they form one coherent agricultural package; food production grows out of hunting-gathering economies rather than replacing them at once.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W022–W023
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: CULTIVATION_DOMESTICATION_STORAGE
HOST: HOUSEHOLDS_GARDENS_RIVER_VALLEYS
CARRIER: SEEDS_PEOPLE_PRACTICE
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: AGRICULTURE_TRACK
RELATION: DOMESTICATION_AND_RECOMBINATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: HOUSEHOLD_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S008
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0016
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: food system with less cultivated/domesticated plant integration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Individual native domesticates appear before they form one coherent agricultural package; food production grows out of hunting-gathering economies rather than replacing them at once.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: cultivation/domestication becomes a stronger reproducible food capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later maize systems inherit and recombine with older Indigenous plant knowledge
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000017
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R017
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 3800 BP / c. 1850 BCE
TITLE: Riverton Eastern Agricultural Complex
ENTITY: RIVERTON_EASTERN_AGRICULTURAL_COMPLEX
ENTITY_TYPE: FOOD_KNOWLEDGE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Riverton evidence shows a coherent suite including domesticated sunflower, marshelder, chenopod and bottle gourd, with possible squash and little barley.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: RADIOCARBON_BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W023
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: CULTIVATION_DOMESTICATION_STORAGE
HOST: HOUSEHOLDS_GARDENS_RIVER_VALLEYS
CARRIER: SEEDS_PEOPLE_PRACTICE
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: AGRICULTURE_TRACK
RELATION: DOMESTICATION_AND_RECOMBINATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: HOUSEHOLD_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S008
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0017
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: food system with less cultivated/domesticated plant integration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Riverton evidence shows a coherent suite including domesticated sunflower, marshelder, chenopod and bottle gourd, with possible squash and little barley.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: cultivation/domestication becomes a stronger reproducible food capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later maize systems inherit and recombine with older Indigenous plant knowledge
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000018
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R018
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1700–1100 BCE
TITLE: Poverty Point monumental landscape
ENTITY: POVERTY_POINT_MONUMENTAL_LANDSCAPE
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: Hunter-fisher-gatherer communities create a vast ridge, plaza and mound complex in the Lower Mississippi Valley and participate in long-distance stone/material networks.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: RADIOCARBON_BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W023–W025
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: FORAGING_MONUMENT_EXCHANGE
HOST: RIVER_VALLEYS_WETLANDS_FORESTS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_STONE_FIBER_FOOD_RITUAL
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: ARCHAIC_TRACK
RELATION: REGIONAL_VARIATION_AND_EXCHANGE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: KIN_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_SOCIAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S007
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0018
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier seasonal and regional capability configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Hunter-fisher-gatherer communities create a vast ridge, plaza and mound complex in the Lower Mississippi Valley and participate in long-distance stone/material networks.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: more differentiated regional livelihood, monument or exchange capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: monumentality and coordination can no longer be treated as farming/state-only capabilities
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000019
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R019
TIME_COORDINATE: Late Archaic
TITLE: Long-distance exchange without empire
ENTITY: LONG-DISTANCE_EXCHANGE_WITHOUT_EMPIRE
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: Materials move over hundreds of kilometres through exchange and visitation networks; reach is not treated as proof of conquest, sovereignty or one ethnic identity.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W023–W025
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: FORAGING_MONUMENT_EXCHANGE
HOST: RIVER_VALLEYS_WETLANDS_FORESTS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_STONE_FIBER_FOOD_RITUAL
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: ARCHAIC_TRACK
RELATION: REGIONAL_VARIATION_AND_EXCHANGE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: KIN_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_SOCIAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S007
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0019
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier seasonal and regional capability configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Materials move over hundreds of kilometres through exchange and visitation networks; reach is not treated as proof of conquest, sovereignty or one ethnic identity.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: more differentiated regional livelihood, monument or exchange capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: monumentality and coordination can no longer be treated as farming/state-only capabilities
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000020
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R020
TIME_COORDINATE: Late Archaic–Early Woodland
TITLE: Ceramics expand across eastern regions
ENTITY: CERAMICS_EXPAND_ACROSS_EASTERN_REGIONS
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: Pottery increasingly changes storage, cooking and settlement practices, but its spread is uneven and does not mark one people moving everywhere.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W024–W026
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT_HORTICULTURE_POTTERY_MOUNDING
HOST: VILLAGES_EARTHWORKS_WATERWAYS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_POTTERY_SEEDS_RITUAL_OBJECTS
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: WOODLAND_TRACK
RELATION: REGIONAL_VARIATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: KIN_RITUAL_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_SOCIAL_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S019
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0020
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier settlement, horticulture and ceremonial configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Pottery increasingly changes storage, cooking and settlement practices, but its spread is uneven and does not mark one people moving everywhere.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: new village, pottery, horticultural or mound configuration
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later societies inherit transformed landscapes, practices and memory without automatic identity continuity
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000021
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R021
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1000 BCE–900 CE (analytical umbrella)
TITLE: Woodland period as archaeological umbrella
ENTITY: WOODLAND_PERIOD_AS_ARCHAEOLOGICAL_UMBRELLA
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: Archaeologists use “Woodland” for many distinct eastern societies with changing pottery, horticulture, settlement, exchange and mound traditions; it is not a self-named civilisation.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W026–W036
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT_HORTICULTURE_POTTERY_MOUNDING
HOST: VILLAGES_EARTHWORKS_WATERWAYS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_POTTERY_SEEDS_RITUAL_OBJECTS
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: WOODLAND_TRACK
RELATION: REGIONAL_VARIATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: KIN_RITUAL_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_SOCIAL_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S019;EWM.S012
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0021
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier settlement, horticulture and ceremonial configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Archaeologists use “Woodland” for many distinct eastern societies with changing pottery, horticulture, settlement, exchange and mound traditions; it is not a self-named civilisation.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: new village, pottery, horticultural or mound configuration
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later societies inherit transformed landscapes, practices and memory without automatic identity continuity
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000022
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R022
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 800 BCE onward in Ohio
TITLE: Adena-associated Early Woodland worlds
ENTITY: ADENA-ASSOCIATED_EARLY_WOODLAND_WORLDS
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: In parts of the Ohio Valley, larger semi-permanent settlements, gardening, pottery and conical mound construction become archaeologically visible under the label Adena.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W027–W031
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT_HORTICULTURE_POTTERY_MOUNDING
HOST: VILLAGES_EARTHWORKS_WATERWAYS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_POTTERY_SEEDS_RITUAL_OBJECTS
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: WOODLAND_TRACK
RELATION: REGIONAL_VARIATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: KIN_RITUAL_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_SOCIAL_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S012
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0022
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier settlement, horticulture and ceremonial configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: In parts of the Ohio Valley, larger semi-permanent settlements, gardening, pottery and conical mound construction become archaeologically visible under the label Adena.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: new village, pottery, horticultural or mound configuration
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later societies inherit transformed landscapes, practices and memory without automatic identity continuity
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000023
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R023
TIME_COORDINATE: Early Woodland
TITLE: Adena mound and mortuary variation
ENTITY: ADENA_MOUND_AND_MORTUARY_VARIATION
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: Mounds and burial practices vary through time and place; “Adena” is retained as an archaeological category, not a tribe, race or direct modern identity label.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W026–W031
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT_HORTICULTURE_POTTERY_MOUNDING
HOST: VILLAGES_EARTHWORKS_WATERWAYS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_POTTERY_SEEDS_RITUAL_OBJECTS
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: WOODLAND_TRACK
RELATION: REGIONAL_VARIATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: KIN_RITUAL_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_SOCIAL_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S012
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0023
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier settlement, horticulture and ceremonial configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Mounds and burial practices vary through time and place; “Adena” is retained as an archaeological category, not a tribe, race or direct modern identity label.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: new village, pottery, horticultural or mound configuration
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later societies inherit transformed landscapes, practices and memory without automatic identity continuity
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000024
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R024
TIME_COORDINATE: Early Woodland
TITLE: Tobacco and ritual-plant systems
ENTITY: TOBACCO_AND_RITUAL-PLANT_SYSTEMS
ENTITY_TYPE: FOOD_KNOWLEDGE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Cultivated plants include food and non-food species, embedding horticulture inside social, ceremonial and household systems rather than a purely caloric transition.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W026–W031
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: CULTIVATION_DOMESTICATION_STORAGE
HOST: HOUSEHOLDS_GARDENS_RIVER_VALLEYS
CARRIER: SEEDS_PEOPLE_PRACTICE
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: AGRICULTURE_TRACK
RELATION: DOMESTICATION_AND_RECOMBINATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: HOUSEHOLD_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S012
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0024
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: food system with less cultivated/domesticated plant integration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Cultivated plants include food and non-food species, embedding horticulture inside social, ceremonial and household systems rather than a purely caloric transition.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: cultivation/domestication becomes a stronger reproducible food capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later maize systems inherit and recombine with older Indigenous plant knowledge
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000025
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R025
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 100 BCE–500 CE
TITLE: Hopewell interaction sphere
ENTITY: HOPEWELL_INTERACTION_SPHERE
ENTITY_TYPE: INTERACTION_CEREMONIAL_FIELD
EVENT: Widely connected communities participate in ceremonial, craft and exchange systems now grouped as Hopewell; the field is not one empire or homogeneous tribe.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W031–W034
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ASSEMBLY_EARTHWORK_EXCHANGE_RITUAL
HOST: EARTHWORKS_VILLAGES_CORRIDORS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MATERIALS_RITUAL_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HOPEWELL_TRACK
RELATION: INTERACTION_NOT_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: DISTRIBUTED_CEREMONIAL_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_CROSS_DOMAIN
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S010;EWM.S044
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0025
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: more localised ceremonial and exchange configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Widely connected communities participate in ceremonial, craft and exchange systems now grouped as Hopewell; the field is not one empire or homogeneous tribe.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: expanded ceremonial assembly and long-distance interaction field
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later networks inherit earthworks/material memories while political continuity remains unproven unless separately evidenced
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000026
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R026
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1–400 CE
TITLE: Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks in Ohio
ENTITY: HOPEWELL_CEREMONIAL_EARTHWORKS_IN_OHIO
ENTITY_TYPE: INTERACTION_CEREMONIAL_FIELD
EVENT: Large geometric enclosures and mound complexes are built along tributaries of the Ohio River, demonstrating precise landscape design and repeated gathering capacity.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W032–W033
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ASSEMBLY_EARTHWORK_EXCHANGE_RITUAL
HOST: EARTHWORKS_VILLAGES_CORRIDORS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MATERIALS_RITUAL_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HOPEWELL_TRACK
RELATION: INTERACTION_NOT_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: DISTRIBUTED_CEREMONIAL_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_CROSS_DOMAIN
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S010
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0026
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: more localised ceremonial and exchange configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Large geometric enclosures and mound complexes are built along tributaries of the Ohio River, demonstrating precise landscape design and repeated gathering capacity.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: expanded ceremonial assembly and long-distance interaction field
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later networks inherit earthworks/material memories while political continuity remains unproven unless separately evidenced
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000027
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R027
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1–400 CE
TITLE: Solar and lunar landscape alignments
ENTITY: SOLAR_AND_LUNAR_LANDSCAPE_ALIGNMENTS
ENTITY_TYPE: INTERACTION_CEREMONIAL_FIELD
EVENT: Some Hopewell earthworks incorporate measured alignments with solar and lunar cycles; astronomical function is site-specific and does not explain every mound or enclosure.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W032–W033
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ASSEMBLY_EARTHWORK_EXCHANGE_RITUAL
HOST: EARTHWORKS_VILLAGES_CORRIDORS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MATERIALS_RITUAL_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HOPEWELL_TRACK
RELATION: INTERACTION_NOT_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: DISTRIBUTED_CEREMONIAL_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_CROSS_DOMAIN
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S010;EWM.S011
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0027
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: more localised ceremonial and exchange configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Some Hopewell earthworks incorporate measured alignments with solar and lunar cycles; astronomical function is site-specific and does not explain every mound or enclosure.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: expanded ceremonial assembly and long-distance interaction field
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later networks inherit earthworks/material memories while political continuity remains unproven unless separately evidenced
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000028
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R028
TIME_COORDINATE: Middle Woodland
TITLE: Hopewell exotic-material circulation
ENTITY: HOPEWELL_EXOTIC-MATERIAL_CIRCULATION
ENTITY_TYPE: INTERACTION_CEREMONIAL_FIELD
EVENT: Copper, mica, obsidian, marine shell and other distant materials enter ceremonial contexts through far-reaching exchange and travel networks.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W031–W034
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ASSEMBLY_EARTHWORK_EXCHANGE_RITUAL
HOST: EARTHWORKS_VILLAGES_CORRIDORS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MATERIALS_RITUAL_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HOPEWELL_TRACK
RELATION: INTERACTION_NOT_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: DISTRIBUTED_CEREMONIAL_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_CROSS_DOMAIN
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S010
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0028
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: more localised ceremonial and exchange configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Copper, mica, obsidian, marine shell and other distant materials enter ceremonial contexts through far-reaching exchange and travel networks.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: expanded ceremonial assembly and long-distance interaction field
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later networks inherit earthworks/material memories while political continuity remains unproven unless separately evidenced
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000029
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R029
TIME_COORDINATE: Middle Woodland
TITLE: Dispersed residence and periodic assembly
ENTITY: DISPERSED_RESIDENCE_AND_PERIODIC_ASSEMBLY
ENTITY_TYPE: INTERACTION_CEREMONIAL_FIELD
EVENT: Monumental ceremonial centres coexist with smaller dispersed settlements, showing that monumental coordination need not imply dense permanent urban residence.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W031–W034
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ASSEMBLY_EARTHWORK_EXCHANGE_RITUAL
HOST: EARTHWORKS_VILLAGES_CORRIDORS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MATERIALS_RITUAL_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HOPEWELL_TRACK
RELATION: INTERACTION_NOT_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: DISTRIBUTED_CEREMONIAL_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_CROSS_DOMAIN
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S010
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0029
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: more localised ceremonial and exchange configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Monumental ceremonial centres coexist with smaller dispersed settlements, showing that monumental coordination need not imply dense permanent urban residence.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: expanded ceremonial assembly and long-distance interaction field
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later networks inherit earthworks/material memories while political continuity remains unproven unless separately evidenced
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000030
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R030
TIME_COORDINATE: Middle Woodland
TITLE: Craft specialization and ritual deposition
ENTITY: CRAFT_SPECIALIZATION_AND_RITUAL_DEPOSITION
ENTITY_TYPE: INTERACTION_CEREMONIAL_FIELD
EVENT: Skilled production and selective deposition of finely crafted objects convert distant materials into social, ceremonial and memory-bearing forms.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W031–W034
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ASSEMBLY_EARTHWORK_EXCHANGE_RITUAL
HOST: EARTHWORKS_VILLAGES_CORRIDORS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MATERIALS_RITUAL_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HOPEWELL_TRACK
RELATION: INTERACTION_NOT_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: DISTRIBUTED_CEREMONIAL_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_CROSS_DOMAIN
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S010
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0030
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: more localised ceremonial and exchange configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Skilled production and selective deposition of finely crafted objects convert distant materials into social, ceremonial and memory-bearing forms.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: expanded ceremonial assembly and long-distance interaction field
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later networks inherit earthworks/material memories while political continuity remains unproven unless separately evidenced
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000031
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R031
TIME_COORDINATE: Middle Woodland
TITLE: Hopewell network regional differences
ENTITY: HOPEWELL_NETWORK_REGIONAL_DIFFERENCES
ENTITY_TYPE: INTERACTION_CEREMONIAL_FIELD
EVENT: Ohio, Illinois and other Hopewell-associated assemblages differ; similarity in objects or ritual forms is not collapsed into one political command system.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W031–W034
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ASSEMBLY_EARTHWORK_EXCHANGE_RITUAL
HOST: EARTHWORKS_VILLAGES_CORRIDORS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MATERIALS_RITUAL_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HOPEWELL_TRACK
RELATION: INTERACTION_NOT_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: DISTRIBUTED_CEREMONIAL_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_CROSS_DOMAIN
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S044
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0031
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: more localised ceremonial and exchange configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Ohio, Illinois and other Hopewell-associated assemblages differ; similarity in objects or ritual forms is not collapsed into one political command system.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: expanded ceremonial assembly and long-distance interaction field
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later networks inherit earthworks/material memories while political continuity remains unproven unless separately evidenced
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000032
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R032
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 200–500 CE
TITLE: Southeastern Middle Woodland networks
ENTITY: SOUTHEASTERN_MIDDLE_WOODLAND_NETWORKS
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: Marksville, Swift Creek and related regional traditions participate in mound, pottery and exchange systems while maintaining distinct local histories.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W033–W034
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT_HORTICULTURE_POTTERY_MOUNDING
HOST: VILLAGES_EARTHWORKS_WATERWAYS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_POTTERY_SEEDS_RITUAL_OBJECTS
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: WOODLAND_TRACK
RELATION: REGIONAL_VARIATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: KIN_RITUAL_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_SOCIAL_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S019;EWM.S041
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0032
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier settlement, horticulture and ceremonial configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Marksville, Swift Creek and related regional traditions participate in mound, pottery and exchange systems while maintaining distinct local histories.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: new village, pottery, horticultural or mound configuration
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later societies inherit transformed landscapes, practices and memory without automatic identity continuity
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000033
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R033
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 400–700 CE
TITLE: Hopewell interaction-field recomposition
ENTITY: HOPEWELL_INTERACTION-FIELD_RECOMPOSITION
ENTITY_TYPE: REGIONAL_RECOMPOSITION_FIELD
EVENT: Long-distance ceremonial patterns change and some large earthwork-use regimes diminish; communities persist through different local settlement, ritual and exchange configurations.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W034–W035
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: VILLAGE_AGRICULTURE_DEFENCE_EXCHANGE
HOST: VILLAGES_RIVER_NETWORKS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_CROPS_BOWS_POTTERY_INFORMATION
FLOW: MATERIAL_PERSON_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: LATE_WOODLAND_TRACK
RELATION: FISSION_AND_RECOMBINATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: VILLAGE_KIN_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_SECURITY_SOCIAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S010;EWM.S044
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0033
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier Woodland institutional and settlement pattern
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Long-distance ceremonial patterns change and some large earthwork-use regimes diminish; communities persist through different local settlement, ritual and exchange configurations.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: recomposed village, food, ritual and security systems
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: new settlement and crop configurations become inputs to later regional formations
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000034
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R034
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 500–900 CE
TITLE: Late Woodland village and regional reorganization
ENTITY: LATE_WOODLAND_VILLAGE_AND_REGIONAL_REORGANIZATION
ENTITY_TYPE: REGIONAL_RECOMPOSITION_FIELD
EVENT: Across many eastern regions, settlement aggregation, local exchange, crop regimes and defence vary as earlier Middle Woodland ceremonial systems recombine.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W034–W036
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: VILLAGE_AGRICULTURE_DEFENCE_EXCHANGE
HOST: VILLAGES_RIVER_NETWORKS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_CROPS_BOWS_POTTERY_INFORMATION
FLOW: MATERIAL_PERSON_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: LATE_WOODLAND_TRACK
RELATION: FISSION_AND_RECOMBINATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: VILLAGE_KIN_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_SECURITY_SOCIAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S019;EWM.S032
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0034
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier Woodland institutional and settlement pattern
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Across many eastern regions, settlement aggregation, local exchange, crop regimes and defence vary as earlier Middle Woodland ceremonial systems recombine.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: recomposed village, food, ritual and security systems
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: new settlement and crop configurations become inputs to later regional formations
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000035
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R035
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 600–1000 CE
TITLE: Effigy-mound traditions of the Upper Mississippi/Great Lakes
ENTITY: EFFIGY-MOUND_TRADITIONS_OF_THE_UPPER_MISSISSIPPI/GREAT_LAKES
ENTITY_TYPE: REGIONAL_RECOMPOSITION_FIELD
EVENT: Communities in parts of present Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois build animal, spirit, linear and conical earthworks within regionally specific sacred landscapes.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W035–W036
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: VILLAGE_AGRICULTURE_DEFENCE_EXCHANGE
HOST: VILLAGES_RIVER_NETWORKS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_CROPS_BOWS_POTTERY_INFORMATION
FLOW: MATERIAL_PERSON_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: LATE_WOODLAND_TRACK
RELATION: FISSION_AND_RECOMBINATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: VILLAGE_KIN_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_SECURITY_SOCIAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S032
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0035
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier Woodland institutional and settlement pattern
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Communities in parts of present Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois build animal, spirit, linear and conical earthworks within regionally specific sacred landscapes.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: recomposed village, food, ritual and security systems
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: new settlement and crop configurations become inputs to later regional formations
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000036
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R036
TIME_COORDINATE: Late Woodland
TITLE: Bow-and-arrow adoption spreads unevenly
ENTITY: BOW-AND-ARROW_ADOPTION_SPREADS_UNEVENLY
ENTITY_TYPE: REGIONAL_RECOMPOSITION_FIELD
EVENT: Projectile technology changes hunting and conflict possibilities in many regions; adoption timing and social effect remain local rather than universal.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W034–W036
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: VILLAGE_AGRICULTURE_DEFENCE_EXCHANGE
HOST: VILLAGES_RIVER_NETWORKS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_CROPS_BOWS_POTTERY_INFORMATION
FLOW: MATERIAL_PERSON_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: LATE_WOODLAND_TRACK
RELATION: FISSION_AND_RECOMBINATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: VILLAGE_KIN_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_SECURITY_SOCIAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S032
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0036
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier Woodland institutional and settlement pattern
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Projectile technology changes hunting and conflict possibilities in many regions; adoption timing and social effect remain local rather than universal.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: recomposed village, food, ritual and security systems
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: new settlement and crop configurations become inputs to later regional formations
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000037
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R037
TIME_COORDINATE: Late Woodland
TITLE: Maize becomes increasingly important in several regions
ENTITY: MAIZE_BECOMES_INCREASINGLY_IMPORTANT_IN_SEVERAL_REGIONS
ENTITY_TYPE: FOOD_KNOWLEDGE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Mesoamerican-origin maize moves through continental networks and is progressively integrated into pre-existing eastern food systems rather than replacing native crops instantly.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W034–W036
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: CULTIVATION_DOMESTICATION_STORAGE
HOST: HOUSEHOLDS_GARDENS_RIVER_VALLEYS
CARRIER: SEEDS_PEOPLE_PRACTICE
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: AGRICULTURE_TRACK
RELATION: DOMESTICATION_AND_RECOMBINATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: HOUSEHOLD_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S008;EWM.S014
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0037
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: food system with less cultivated/domesticated plant integration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Mesoamerican-origin maize moves through continental networks and is progressively integrated into pre-existing eastern food systems rather than replacing native crops instantly.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: cultivation/domestication becomes a stronger reproducible food capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later maize systems inherit and recombine with older Indigenous plant knowledge
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000038
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R038
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 560 CE onward at Manna contexts
TITLE: Manna evidence complicates a maize-only Northeast model
ENTITY: MANNA_EVIDENCE_COMPLICATES_A_MAIZE-ONLY_NORTHEAST_MODEL
ENTITY_TYPE: FOOD_KNOWLEDGE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Upper Delaware archaeobotanical evidence indicates continued cultivation of Eastern Agricultural Complex plants alongside later maize in Lenape-associated contexts.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: SITE_SPECIFIC
WORLD_BANDS: W034–W042
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: CULTIVATION_DOMESTICATION_STORAGE
HOST: HOUSEHOLDS_GARDENS_RIVER_VALLEYS
CARRIER: SEEDS_PEOPLE_PRACTICE
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: AGRICULTURE_TRACK
RELATION: DOMESTICATION_AND_RECOMBINATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: HOUSEHOLD_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S009
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0038
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: food system with less cultivated/domesticated plant integration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Upper Delaware archaeobotanical evidence indicates continued cultivation of Eastern Agricultural Complex plants alongside later maize in Lenape-associated contexts.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: cultivation/domestication becomes a stronger reproducible food capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later maize systems inherit and recombine with older Indigenous plant knowledge
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000039
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R039
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 800–1000 CE
TITLE: Emergent Mississippian transformations
ENTITY: EMERGENT_MISSISSIPPIAN_TRANSFORMATIONS
ENTITY_TYPE: CIVILISATIONAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: In the Mississippi Valley and Southeast, intensified maize, larger towns, platform mounds, plazas and new ceremonial-political forms emerge unevenly from regional antecedents.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W036
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: MAIZE_AGRICULTURE_TOWN_MOUND_PLAZA_EXCHANGE
HOST: TOWNS_MOUND_CENTERS_FARMS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_SHELL_COPPER_STONE_RITUAL
FLOW: MATERIAL_PERSON_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: MISSISSIPPIAN_TRACK
RELATION: SHARED_TRAITS_WITH_POLITICAL_PLURALITY
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TOWN_REGIONAL_POLITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_LABOUR_SOCIAL_SECURITY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB_CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S013;EWM.S019
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0039
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-existing regional village, crop and ceremonial systems
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: In the Mississippi Valley and Southeast, intensified maize, larger towns, platform mounds, plazas and new ceremonial-political forms emerge unevenly from regional antecedents.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: larger town/plaza/mound/agricultural capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: urban/town capabilities scale benefits and labour/ecological/security burdens simultaneously
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000040
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R040
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 900 CE onward
TITLE: Maize intensification in the American Bottom
ENTITY: MAIZE_INTENSIFICATION_IN_THE_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
ENTITY_TYPE: FOOD_KNOWLEDGE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Archaeobotanical and isotopic research indicates maize becomes a major food resource around the beginning of Greater Cahokia’s urban transformation.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W036
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: CULTIVATION_DOMESTICATION_STORAGE
HOST: HOUSEHOLDS_GARDENS_RIVER_VALLEYS
CARRIER: SEEDS_PEOPLE_PRACTICE
FLOW: MATERIAL_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: AGRICULTURE_TRACK
RELATION: DOMESTICATION_AND_RECOMBINATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: HOUSEHOLD_COMMUNITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S014;EWM.S016
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0040
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: food system with less cultivated/domesticated plant integration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Archaeobotanical and isotopic research indicates maize becomes a major food resource around the beginning of Greater Cahokia’s urban transformation.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: cultivation/domestication becomes a stronger reproducible food capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: later maize systems inherit and recombine with older Indigenous plant knowledge
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000041
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R041
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 900–1200 CE
TITLE: Ocmulgee Macon Plateau mound centre
ENTITY: OCMULGEE_MACON_PLATEAU_MOUND_CENTRE
ENTITY_TYPE: CIVILISATIONAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: A major town and mound complex develops at Ocmulgee; the modern park identifies the landscape as ancestral homeland of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W036–W037
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: MAIZE_AGRICULTURE_TOWN_MOUND_PLAZA_EXCHANGE
HOST: TOWNS_MOUND_CENTERS_FARMS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_SHELL_COPPER_STONE_RITUAL
FLOW: MATERIAL_PERSON_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: MISSISSIPPIAN_TRACK
RELATION: SHARED_TRAITS_WITH_POLITICAL_PLURALITY
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TOWN_REGIONAL_POLITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_LABOUR_SOCIAL_SECURITY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB_CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S019
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0041
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-existing regional village, crop and ceremonial systems
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: A major town and mound complex develops at Ocmulgee; the modern park identifies the landscape as ancestral homeland of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: larger town/plaza/mound/agricultural capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: urban/town capabilities scale benefits and labour/ecological/security burdens simultaneously
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000042
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R042
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1000–1050 CE
TITLE: American Bottom settlement concentration
ENTITY: AMERICAN_BOTTOM_SETTLEMENT_CONCENTRATION
ENTITY_TYPE: URBAN_POLITY_AND_RITUAL_CENTER
EVENT: Villages and farmsteads in the American Bottom reorganize as people, food production and ritual-building capability concentrate toward Greater Cahokia.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: URBANISM_AGRICULTURE_MONUMENT_ASSEMBLY_EXCHANGE
HOST: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_EARTH_TIMBER_MATERIALS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: CAHOKIA_TRACK
RELATION: CENTRAL_NODE_NOT_CONTINENTAL_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: MULTISCALE_URBAN_POLITICAL_RITUAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_LABOUR_HABITAT_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF_CLIMB_CRUISE_DESCENT
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: SUPRAREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S014;EWM.S016
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0042
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-urban American Bottom settlement configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Villages and farmsteads in the American Bottom reorganize as people, food production and ritual-building capability concentrate toward Greater Cahokia.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: urban/metropolitan capability with widened dependencies and pressures
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: city-scale concentration produces long-range cultural effects and widened maintenance/social dependencies
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000043
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R043
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1050 CE
TITLE: Cahokian urban takeoff
ENTITY: CAHOKIAN_URBAN_TAKEOFF
ENTITY_TYPE: URBAN_POLITY_AND_RITUAL_CENTER
EVENT: A rapid phase of construction, population aggregation and spatial reordering creates a uniquely large Indigenous urban complex near the Mississippi–Missouri confluence.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: URBANISM_AGRICULTURE_MONUMENT_ASSEMBLY_EXCHANGE
HOST: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_EARTH_TIMBER_MATERIALS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: CAHOKIA_TRACK
RELATION: CENTRAL_NODE_NOT_CONTINENTAL_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: MULTISCALE_URBAN_POLITICAL_RITUAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_LABOUR_HABITAT_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF_CLIMB_CRUISE_DESCENT
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: SUPRAREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S013;EWM.S014
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0043
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-urban American Bottom settlement configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: A rapid phase of construction, population aggregation and spatial reordering creates a uniquely large Indigenous urban complex near the Mississippi–Missouri confluence.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: urban/metropolitan capability with widened dependencies and pressures
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: city-scale concentration produces long-range cultural effects and widened maintenance/social dependencies
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000044
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R044
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1050–1150 CE
TITLE: Cahokia peak urban scale
ENTITY: CAHOKIA_PEAK_URBAN_SCALE
ENTITY_TYPE: URBAN_POLITY_AND_RITUAL_CENTER
EVENT: Cahokia proper may hold roughly 10,000–20,000 people while the wider Greater Cahokia region supports many more settlements; estimates remain model-dependent.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: URBANISM_AGRICULTURE_MONUMENT_ASSEMBLY_EXCHANGE
HOST: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_EARTH_TIMBER_MATERIALS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: CAHOKIA_TRACK
RELATION: CENTRAL_NODE_NOT_CONTINENTAL_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: MULTISCALE_URBAN_POLITICAL_RITUAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_LABOUR_HABITAT_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF_CLIMB_CRUISE_DESCENT
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: SUPRAREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: MEDIUM_POPULATION_RANGE
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S013;EWM.S014
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0044
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-urban American Bottom settlement configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Cahokia proper may hold roughly 10,000–20,000 people while the wider Greater Cahokia region supports many more settlements; estimates remain model-dependent.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: urban/metropolitan capability with widened dependencies and pressures
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: city-scale concentration produces long-range cultural effects and widened maintenance/social dependencies
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000045
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R045
TIME_COORDINATE: 11th–13th centuries
TITLE: Monks Mound construction
ENTITY: MONKS_MOUND_CONSTRUCTION
ENTITY_TYPE: URBAN_POLITY_AND_RITUAL_CENTER
EVENT: Repeated earth-moving stages create the largest monumental earthwork at Cahokia, with the mound embedded in a planned civic-ritual landscape.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W038
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: URBANISM_AGRICULTURE_MONUMENT_ASSEMBLY_EXCHANGE
HOST: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_EARTH_TIMBER_MATERIALS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: CAHOKIA_TRACK
RELATION: CENTRAL_NODE_NOT_CONTINENTAL_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: MULTISCALE_URBAN_POLITICAL_RITUAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_LABOUR_HABITAT_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF_CLIMB_CRUISE_DESCENT
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: SUPRAREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S013
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0045
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-urban American Bottom settlement configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Repeated earth-moving stages create the largest monumental earthwork at Cahokia, with the mound embedded in a planned civic-ritual landscape.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: urban/metropolitan capability with widened dependencies and pressures
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: city-scale concentration produces long-range cultural effects and widened maintenance/social dependencies
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000046
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R046
TIME_COORDINATE: 11th–13th centuries
TITLE: Grand Plaza and public-space geometry
ENTITY: GRAND_PLAZA_AND_PUBLIC-SPACE_GEOMETRY
ENTITY_TYPE: URBAN_POLITY_AND_RITUAL_CENTER
EVENT: Plazas, mounds and built precincts organize assembly, ceremony, residence and authority at an urban scale.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W038
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: URBANISM_AGRICULTURE_MONUMENT_ASSEMBLY_EXCHANGE
HOST: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_EARTH_TIMBER_MATERIALS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: CAHOKIA_TRACK
RELATION: CENTRAL_NODE_NOT_CONTINENTAL_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: MULTISCALE_URBAN_POLITICAL_RITUAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_LABOUR_HABITAT_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF_CLIMB_CRUISE_DESCENT
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: SUPRAREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S013;EWM.S014
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0046
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-urban American Bottom settlement configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Plazas, mounds and built precincts organize assembly, ceremony, residence and authority at an urban scale.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: urban/metropolitan capability with widened dependencies and pressures
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: city-scale concentration produces long-range cultural effects and widened maintenance/social dependencies
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000047
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R047
TIME_COORDINATE: 11th–13th centuries
TITLE: Woodhenge solar-observation system
ENTITY: WOODHENGE_SOLAR-OBSERVATION_SYSTEM
ENTITY_TYPE: URBAN_POLITY_AND_RITUAL_CENTER
EVENT: Circles of wooden posts provide an observation/calendar architecture associated with Cahokia; reconstruction does not imply every original function is known.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W038
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: URBANISM_AGRICULTURE_MONUMENT_ASSEMBLY_EXCHANGE
HOST: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_EARTH_TIMBER_MATERIALS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: CAHOKIA_TRACK
RELATION: CENTRAL_NODE_NOT_CONTINENTAL_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: MULTISCALE_URBAN_POLITICAL_RITUAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_LABOUR_HABITAT_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF_CLIMB_CRUISE_DESCENT
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: SUPRAREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S013
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0047
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-urban American Bottom settlement configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Circles of wooden posts provide an observation/calendar architecture associated with Cahokia; reconstruction does not imply every original function is known.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: urban/metropolitan capability with widened dependencies and pressures
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: city-scale concentration produces long-range cultural effects and widened maintenance/social dependencies
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000048
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R048
TIME_COORDINATE: 11th–13th centuries
TITLE: Greater Cahokia as multi-precinct metropolis
ENTITY: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AS_MULTI-PRECINCT_METROPOLIS
ENTITY_TYPE: URBAN_POLITY_AND_RITUAL_CENTER
EVENT: Cahokia, East St Louis and related precincts form a connected metropolitan landscape rather than a single mound site in isolation.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W038
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: URBANISM_AGRICULTURE_MONUMENT_ASSEMBLY_EXCHANGE
HOST: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_EARTH_TIMBER_MATERIALS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: CAHOKIA_TRACK
RELATION: CENTRAL_NODE_NOT_CONTINENTAL_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: MULTISCALE_URBAN_POLITICAL_RITUAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_LABOUR_HABITAT_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF_CLIMB_CRUISE_DESCENT
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: SUPRAREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S014;EWM.S016
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0048
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-urban American Bottom settlement configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Cahokia, East St Louis and related precincts form a connected metropolitan landscape rather than a single mound site in isolation.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: urban/metropolitan capability with widened dependencies and pressures
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: city-scale concentration produces long-range cultural effects and widened maintenance/social dependencies
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000049
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R049
TIME_COORDINATE: 11th–13th centuries
TITLE: Migration into Cahokia
ENTITY: MIGRATION_INTO_CAHOKIA
ENTITY_TYPE: URBAN_POLITY_AND_RITUAL_CENTER
EVENT: Strontium-isotope studies identify substantial numbers of non-local individuals in sampled burials, demonstrating that urban growth included immigration.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: SAMPLED_POPULATION
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W038
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: URBANISM_AGRICULTURE_MONUMENT_ASSEMBLY_EXCHANGE
HOST: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_EARTH_TIMBER_MATERIALS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: CAHOKIA_TRACK
RELATION: CENTRAL_NODE_NOT_CONTINENTAL_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: MULTISCALE_URBAN_POLITICAL_RITUAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_LABOUR_HABITAT_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF_CLIMB_CRUISE_DESCENT
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: SUPRAREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S015
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0049
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-urban American Bottom settlement configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Strontium-isotope studies identify substantial numbers of non-local individuals in sampled burials, demonstrating that urban growth included immigration.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: urban/metropolitan capability with widened dependencies and pressures
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: city-scale concentration produces long-range cultural effects and widened maintenance/social dependencies
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000050
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R050
TIME_COORDINATE: 11th–13th centuries
TITLE: Cahokia as culturally plural urban society
ENTITY: CAHOKIA_AS_CULTURALLY_PLURAL_URBAN_SOCIETY
ENTITY_TYPE: URBAN_POLITY_AND_RITUAL_CENTER
EVENT: Combined isotopic and archaeological evidence supports a heterogeneous population of locals and immigrants rather than one homogeneous urban ethnicity.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W038
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: URBANISM_AGRICULTURE_MONUMENT_ASSEMBLY_EXCHANGE
HOST: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_EARTH_TIMBER_MATERIALS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: CAHOKIA_TRACK
RELATION: CENTRAL_NODE_NOT_CONTINENTAL_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: MULTISCALE_URBAN_POLITICAL_RITUAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_LABOUR_HABITAT_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF_CLIMB_CRUISE_DESCENT
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: SUPRAREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: MEDIUM_INTERPRETIVE
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S016;EWM.S015
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0050
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-urban American Bottom settlement configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Combined isotopic and archaeological evidence supports a heterogeneous population of locals and immigrants rather than one homogeneous urban ethnicity.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: urban/metropolitan capability with widened dependencies and pressures
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: city-scale concentration produces long-range cultural effects and widened maintenance/social dependencies
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000051
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R051
TIME_COORDINATE: 11th–13th centuries
TITLE: Richland and hinterland food-production scaling
ENTITY: RICHLAND_AND_HINTERLAND_FOOD-PRODUCTION_SCALING
ENTITY_TYPE: URBAN_POLITY_AND_RITUAL_CENTER
EVENT: Rural settlements, fields and processing systems expand around the urban core, making the city dependent on wider agricultural and ecological hosts.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W038
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: URBANISM_AGRICULTURE_MONUMENT_ASSEMBLY_EXCHANGE
HOST: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_EARTH_TIMBER_MATERIALS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: CAHOKIA_TRACK
RELATION: CENTRAL_NODE_NOT_CONTINENTAL_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: MULTISCALE_URBAN_POLITICAL_RITUAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_LABOUR_HABITAT_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF_CLIMB_CRUISE_DESCENT
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: SUPRAREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S014;EWM.S034
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0051
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-urban American Bottom settlement configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Rural settlements, fields and processing systems expand around the urban core, making the city dependent on wider agricultural and ecological hosts.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: urban/metropolitan capability with widened dependencies and pressures
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: city-scale concentration produces long-range cultural effects and widened maintenance/social dependencies
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000052
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R052
TIME_COORDINATE: 11th–13th centuries
TITLE: Cahokian material and symbolic radiation
ENTITY: CAHOKIAN_MATERIAL_AND_SYMBOLIC_RADIATION
ENTITY_TYPE: URBAN_POLITY_AND_RITUAL_CENTER
EVENT: Distinctive objects, practices and iconography move through midcontinental networks; influence does not equal direct political rule over every receiving community.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W038
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: URBANISM_AGRICULTURE_MONUMENT_ASSEMBLY_EXCHANGE
HOST: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_EARTH_TIMBER_MATERIALS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: CAHOKIA_TRACK
RELATION: CENTRAL_NODE_NOT_CONTINENTAL_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: MULTISCALE_URBAN_POLITICAL_RITUAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_LABOUR_HABITAT_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF_CLIMB_CRUISE_DESCENT
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: SUPRAREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S034;EWM.S033
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0052
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-urban American Bottom settlement configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Distinctive objects, practices and iconography move through midcontinental networks; influence does not equal direct political rule over every receiving community.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: urban/metropolitan capability with widened dependencies and pressures
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: city-scale concentration produces long-range cultural effects and widened maintenance/social dependencies
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000053
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R053
TIME_COORDINATE: 11th–13th centuries
TITLE: Fortification and palisade phases
ENTITY: FORTIFICATION_AND_PALISADE_PHASES
ENTITY_TYPE: URBAN_POLITY_AND_RITUAL_CENTER
EVENT: Palisade construction indicates changing security and control geometry within Cahokia, while motivations and exact political triggers remain debated.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W038
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: URBANISM_AGRICULTURE_MONUMENT_ASSEMBLY_EXCHANGE
HOST: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_EARTH_TIMBER_MATERIALS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: CAHOKIA_TRACK
RELATION: CENTRAL_NODE_NOT_CONTINENTAL_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: MULTISCALE_URBAN_POLITICAL_RITUAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_LABOUR_HABITAT_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF_CLIMB_CRUISE_DESCENT
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: SUPRAREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S013;EWM.S033
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0053
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-urban American Bottom settlement configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Palisade construction indicates changing security and control geometry within Cahokia, while motivations and exact political triggers remain debated.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: urban/metropolitan capability with widened dependencies and pressures
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: city-scale concentration produces long-range cultural effects and widened maintenance/social dependencies
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000054
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R054
TIME_COORDINATE: 11th–13th centuries
TITLE: Chunkey and public competitive ritual
ENTITY: CHUNKEY_AND_PUBLIC_COMPETITIVE_RITUAL
ENTITY_TYPE: CIVILISATIONAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: Game equipment and iconography connect recreation, ceremony and regional social exchange in Mississippian worlds.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W038
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: MAIZE_AGRICULTURE_TOWN_MOUND_PLAZA_EXCHANGE
HOST: TOWNS_MOUND_CENTERS_FARMS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_SHELL_COPPER_STONE_RITUAL
FLOW: MATERIAL_PERSON_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: MISSISSIPPIAN_TRACK
RELATION: SHARED_TRAITS_WITH_POLITICAL_PLURALITY
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TOWN_REGIONAL_POLITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_LABOUR_SOCIAL_SECURITY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB_CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S019;EWM.S034
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0054
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-existing regional village, crop and ceremonial systems
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Game equipment and iconography connect recreation, ceremony and regional social exchange in Mississippian worlds.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: larger town/plaza/mound/agricultural capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: urban/town capabilities scale benefits and labour/ecological/security burdens simultaneously
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000055
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R055
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1050–1300 CE
TITLE: Mitchell site north of Cahokia
ENTITY: MITCHELL_SITE_NORTH_OF_CAHOKIA
ENTITY_TYPE: URBAN_POLITY_AND_RITUAL_CENTER
EVENT: A significant Mississippian mound centre participates in Greater Cahokia’s northern landscape; later infrastructure destroys most mounds but not the site’s descendant significance.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W039
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: URBANISM_AGRICULTURE_MONUMENT_ASSEMBLY_EXCHANGE
HOST: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_EARTH_TIMBER_MATERIALS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: CAHOKIA_TRACK
RELATION: CENTRAL_NODE_NOT_CONTINENTAL_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: MULTISCALE_URBAN_POLITICAL_RITUAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_LABOUR_HABITAT_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF_CLIMB_CRUISE_DESCENT
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: SUPRAREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S018
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0055
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-urban American Bottom settlement configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: A significant Mississippian mound centre participates in Greater Cahokia’s northern landscape; later infrastructure destroys most mounds but not the site’s descendant significance.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: urban/metropolitan capability with widened dependencies and pressures
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: city-scale concentration produces long-range cultural effects and widened maintenance/social dependencies
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000056
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R056
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1100–1450 CE
TITLE: Moundville regional centre
ENTITY: MOUNDVILLE_REGIONAL_CENTRE
ENTITY_TYPE: CIVILISATIONAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: Moundville in the Black Warrior Valley develops as a major Mississippian mound-and-plaza centre within a different regional political history from Cahokia.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W040
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: MAIZE_AGRICULTURE_TOWN_MOUND_PLAZA_EXCHANGE
HOST: TOWNS_MOUND_CENTERS_FARMS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_SHELL_COPPER_STONE_RITUAL
FLOW: MATERIAL_PERSON_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: MISSISSIPPIAN_TRACK
RELATION: SHARED_TRAITS_WITH_POLITICAL_PLURALITY
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TOWN_REGIONAL_POLITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_LABOUR_SOCIAL_SECURITY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB_CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S033
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0056
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-existing regional village, crop and ceremonial systems
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Moundville in the Black Warrior Valley develops as a major Mississippian mound-and-plaza centre within a different regional political history from Cahokia.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: larger town/plaza/mound/agricultural capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: urban/town capabilities scale benefits and labour/ecological/security burdens simultaneously
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000057
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R057
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1000–1550 CE
TITLE: Etowah and southern Appalachian Mississippian systems
ENTITY: ETOWAH_AND_SOUTHERN_APPALACHIAN_MISSISSIPPIAN_SYSTEMS
ENTITY_TYPE: CIVILISATIONAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: Etowah and related centres participate in platform-mound, craft and exchange systems while their political trajectories remain locally distinct.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W041
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: MAIZE_AGRICULTURE_TOWN_MOUND_PLAZA_EXCHANGE
HOST: TOWNS_MOUND_CENTERS_FARMS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_SHELL_COPPER_STONE_RITUAL
FLOW: MATERIAL_PERSON_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: MISSISSIPPIAN_TRACK
RELATION: SHARED_TRAITS_WITH_POLITICAL_PLURALITY
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TOWN_REGIONAL_POLITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_LABOUR_SOCIAL_SECURITY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB_CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S019;EWM.S038
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0057
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-existing regional village, crop and ceremonial systems
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Etowah and related centres participate in platform-mound, craft and exchange systems while their political trajectories remain locally distinct.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: larger town/plaza/mound/agricultural capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: urban/town capabilities scale benefits and labour/ecological/security burdens simultaneously
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000058
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R058
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1200–1730 CE
TITLE: Emerald Mound and Natchez-area continuity
ENTITY: EMERALD_MOUND_AND_NATCHEZ-AREA_CONTINUITY
ENTITY_TYPE: CIVILISATIONAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: Emerald Mound is built and used in a landscape where mound-centred traditions continue into the era of French observation among Natchez communities.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W038–W043
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: MAIZE_AGRICULTURE_TOWN_MOUND_PLAZA_EXCHANGE
HOST: TOWNS_MOUND_CENTERS_FARMS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_SHELL_COPPER_STONE_RITUAL
FLOW: MATERIAL_PERSON_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: MISSISSIPPIAN_TRACK
RELATION: SHARED_TRAITS_WITH_POLITICAL_PLURALITY
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TOWN_REGIONAL_POLITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_LABOUR_SOCIAL_SECURITY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB_CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S020;EWM.S046
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0058
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-existing regional village, crop and ceremonial systems
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Emerald Mound is built and used in a landscape where mound-centred traditions continue into the era of French observation among Natchez communities.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: larger town/plaza/mound/agricultural capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: urban/town capabilities scale benefits and labour/ecological/security burdens simultaneously
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000059
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R059
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1200–1600 CE
TITLE: Fort Ancient worlds of the Ohio Valley
ENTITY: FORT_ANCIENT_WORLDS_OF_THE_OHIO_VALLEY
ENTITY_TYPE: REGIONAL_RECOMPOSITION_FIELD
EVENT: Fort Ancient societies develop village, maize and ceremonial systems in the Ohio Valley while remaining distinct from Cahokia and from Haudenosaunee polities.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W038–W041
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: VILLAGE_AGRICULTURE_DEFENCE_EXCHANGE
HOST: VILLAGES_RIVER_NETWORKS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_CROPS_BOWS_POTTERY_INFORMATION
FLOW: MATERIAL_PERSON_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: LATE_WOODLAND_TRACK
RELATION: FISSION_AND_RECOMBINATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: VILLAGE_KIN_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_SECURITY_SOCIAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S035
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0059
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier Woodland institutional and settlement pattern
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Fort Ancient societies develop village, maize and ceremonial systems in the Ohio Valley while remaining distinct from Cahokia and from Haudenosaunee polities.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: recomposed village, food, ritual and security systems
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: new settlement and crop configurations become inputs to later regional formations
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000060
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R060
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1000–1600 CE
TITLE: Oneota and Upper Mississippi recompositions
ENTITY: ONEOTA_AND_UPPER_MISSISSIPPI_RECOMPOSITIONS
ENTITY_TYPE: REGIONAL_RECOMPOSITION_FIELD
EVENT: Upper Mississippi communities develop distinctive village, agricultural and material systems that interface with Mississippian centres without being reducible to them.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W041
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: VILLAGE_AGRICULTURE_DEFENCE_EXCHANGE
HOST: VILLAGES_RIVER_NETWORKS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_CROPS_BOWS_POTTERY_INFORMATION
FLOW: MATERIAL_PERSON_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: LATE_WOODLAND_TRACK
RELATION: FISSION_AND_RECOMBINATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: VILLAGE_KIN_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_SECURITY_SOCIAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S032
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0060
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier Woodland institutional and settlement pattern
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Upper Mississippi communities develop distinctive village, agricultural and material systems that interface with Mississippian centres without being reducible to them.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: recomposed village, food, ritual and security systems
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: new settlement and crop configurations become inputs to later regional formations
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000061
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R061
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1300–1650 CE
TITLE: Lamar and late Mississippian Southeast
ENTITY: LAMAR_AND_LATE_MISSISSIPPIAN_SOUTHEAST
ENTITY_TYPE: CIVILISATIONAL_TRADITION_FIELD
EVENT: Compact towns, paired mounds, plazas and changing pottery styles continue after early Mississippian centres decline, showing regional persistence and transformation.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W039–W042
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: MAIZE_AGRICULTURE_TOWN_MOUND_PLAZA_EXCHANGE
HOST: TOWNS_MOUND_CENTERS_FARMS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_SHELL_COPPER_STONE_RITUAL
FLOW: MATERIAL_PERSON_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: MISSISSIPPIAN_TRACK
RELATION: SHARED_TRAITS_WITH_POLITICAL_PLURALITY
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TOWN_REGIONAL_POLITY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_LABOUR_SOCIAL_SECURITY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: CLIMB_CRUISE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S019
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0061
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-existing regional village, crop and ceremonial systems
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Compact towns, paired mounds, plazas and changing pottery styles continue after early Mississippian centres decline, showing regional persistence and transformation.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: larger town/plaza/mound/agricultural capability
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: urban/town capabilities scale benefits and labour/ecological/security burdens simultaneously
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000062
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R062
TIME_COORDINATE: late 13th century
TITLE: Midcontinent multi-decadal drought
ENTITY: MIDCONTINENT_MULTI-DECADAL_DROUGHT
ENTITY_TYPE: URBAN_POLITY_AND_RITUAL_CENTER
EVENT: Paleoclimate evidence registers drought, but 2024 paleosol work finds local vegetative communities did not show the expected collapse signal, weakening a one-cause crop-failure narrative.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: PROXY_BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W038
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: URBANISM_AGRICULTURE_MONUMENT_ASSEMBLY_EXCHANGE
HOST: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_EARTH_TIMBER_MATERIALS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: CAHOKIA_TRACK
RELATION: CENTRAL_NODE_NOT_CONTINENTAL_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: MULTISCALE_URBAN_POLITICAL_RITUAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_LABOUR_HABITAT_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF_CLIMB_CRUISE_DESCENT
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: SUPRAREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S017
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0062
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-urban American Bottom settlement configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Paleoclimate evidence registers drought, but 2024 paleosol work finds local vegetative communities did not show the expected collapse signal, weakening a one-cause crop-failure narrative.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: urban/metropolitan capability with widened dependencies and pressures
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: city-scale concentration produces long-range cultural effects and widened maintenance/social dependencies
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000063
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R063
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1150–1350 CE
TITLE: Cahokia population contraction and political recomposition
ENTITY: CAHOKIA_POPULATION_CONTRACTION_AND_POLITICAL_RECOMPOSITION
ENTITY_TYPE: URBAN_POLITY_AND_RITUAL_CENTER
EVENT: Urban population and construction decline over generations; evidence does not support reducing the process to one drought, one invasion or one sudden “collapse.”
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W039
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: URBANISM_AGRICULTURE_MONUMENT_ASSEMBLY_EXCHANGE
HOST: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_EARTH_TIMBER_MATERIALS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: CAHOKIA_TRACK
RELATION: CENTRAL_NODE_NOT_CONTINENTAL_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: MULTISCALE_URBAN_POLITICAL_RITUAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_LABOUR_HABITAT_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF_CLIMB_CRUISE_DESCENT
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: SUPRAREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: MULTICAUSAL_OPEN
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S017;EWM.S014;EWM.S033
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0063
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-urban American Bottom settlement configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Urban population and construction decline over generations; evidence does not support reducing the process to one drought, one invasion or one sudden “collapse.”
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: urban/metropolitan capability with widened dependencies and pressures
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: city-scale concentration produces long-range cultural effects and widened maintenance/social dependencies
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000064
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R064
TIME_COORDINATE: by c. 1400 CE
TITLE: Cahokia urban centre largely depopulated
ENTITY: CAHOKIA_URBAN_CENTRE_LARGELY_DEPOPULATED
ENTITY_TYPE: URBAN_POLITY_AND_RITUAL_CENTER
EVENT: The metropolitan concentration ends, while descendant and neighboring peoples continue elsewhere across the Mississippi/Ohio/Great Lakes worlds.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W040
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: URBANISM_AGRICULTURE_MONUMENT_ASSEMBLY_EXCHANGE
HOST: GREATER_CAHOKIA_AMERICAN_BOTTOM
CARRIER: PEOPLE_MAIZE_EARTH_TIMBER_MATERIALS_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: CAHOKIA_TRACK
RELATION: CENTRAL_NODE_NOT_CONTINENTAL_EMPIRE
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: MULTISCALE_URBAN_POLITICAL_RITUAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_WATER_LABOUR_HABITAT_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: TAKEOFF_CLIMB_CRUISE_DESCENT
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: SUPRAREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL_ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S013;EWM.S017
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0064
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: pre-urban American Bottom settlement configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: The metropolitan concentration ends, while descendant and neighboring peoples continue elsewhere across the Mississippi/Ohio/Great Lakes worlds.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: urban/metropolitan capability with widened dependencies and pressures
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: city-scale concentration produces long-range cultural effects and widened maintenance/social dependencies
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000065
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R065
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1500–1650 CE
TITLE: American Bottom reoccupation after Cahokia
ENTITY: AMERICAN_BOTTOM_REOCCUPATION_AFTER_CAHOKIA
ENTITY_TYPE: REGIONAL_RECOMPOSITION_FIELD
EVENT: Later populations use the region again, rejecting a permanent-empty-land model for the post-Cahokian landscape.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W041–W042
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: VILLAGE_AGRICULTURE_DEFENCE_EXCHANGE
HOST: VILLAGES_RIVER_NETWORKS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_CROPS_BOWS_POTTERY_INFORMATION
FLOW: MATERIAL_PERSON_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: LATE_WOODLAND_TRACK
RELATION: FISSION_AND_RECOMBINATION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: VILLAGE_KIN_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: FOOD_SECURITY_SOCIAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S014
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0065
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: earlier Woodland institutional and settlement pattern
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Later populations use the region again, rejecting a permanent-empty-land model for the post-Cahokian landscape.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: recomposed village, food, ritual and security systems
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: new settlement and crop configurations become inputs to later regional formations
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000066
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R066
TIME_COORDINATE: before sustained European colonization; date contested
TITLE: Formation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy
ENTITY: FORMATION_OF_THE_HAUDENOSAUNEE_CONFEDERACY
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca nations join under the Great Peace; Onondaga tradition places formation before European arrival while one scholarly date is 1142.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: TRADITION_PLUS_SCHOLARLY_RANGE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W041
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: DATE_CONTESTED
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S021;EWM.S022
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0066
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca nations join under the Great Peace; Onondaga tradition places formation before European arrival while one scholarly date is 1142.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000067
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R067
TIME_COORDINATE: pre-contact–present
TITLE: Haudenosaunee longhouse political metaphor and practice
ENTITY: HAUDENOSAUNEE_LONGHOUSE_POLITICAL_METAPHOR_AND_PRACTICE
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Nation council fires operate within a confederated framework represented as one longhouse, preserving both national autonomy and shared law.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W068
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S021;EWM.S023
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0067
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Nation council fires operate within a confederated framework represented as one longhouse, preserving both national autonomy and shared law.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000068
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R068
TIME_COORDINATE: pre-contact–present
TITLE: Clan Mothers and leadership accountability
ENTITY: CLAN_MOTHERS_AND_LEADERSHIP_ACCOUNTABILITY
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Onondaga’s account of the Great Peace records women’s authority to replace and remove Hoyane leaders, embedding governance in kinship and accountability structures.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W068
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S021
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0068
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Onondaga’s account of the Great Peace records women’s authority to replace and remove Hoyane leaders, embedding governance in kinship and accountability structures.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000069
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R069
TIME_COORDINATE: pre-contact–present
TITLE: Wampum as living information and diplomatic memory
ENTITY: WAMPUM_AS_LIVING_INFORMATION_AND_DIPLOMATIC_MEMORY
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Wampum belts carry constitutional, treaty and historical memory through custodial practice; they are not treated as decorative artefacts severed from living authority.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037–W068
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S021;EWM.S022
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0069
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Wampum belts carry constitutional, treaty and historical memory through custodial practice; they are not treated as decorative artefacts severed from living authority.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000070
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R070
TIME_COORDINATE: Late Woodland–17th century
TITLE: Iroquoian-speaking village worlds beyond the Haudenosaunee
ENTITY: IROQUOIAN-SPEAKING_VILLAGE_WORLDS_BEYOND_THE_HAUDENOSAUNEE
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Wendat, Erie, Susquehannock and other Iroquoian-speaking societies follow their own settlement and political trajectories; language relation does not collapse them into the Confederacy.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W036–W042
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S035;EWM.S036
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0070
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Wendat, Erie, Susquehannock and other Iroquoian-speaking societies follow their own settlement and political trajectories; language relation does not collapse them into the Confederacy.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000071
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R071
TIME_COORDINATE: Late Woodland–present
TITLE: Lenape Delaware Valley worlds
ENTITY: LENAPE_DELAWARE_VALLEY_WORLDS
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Lenape communities maintain deep homeland histories, farming, settlement, diplomacy and later diasporic continuities across multiple present-day tribal governments.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W036–W068
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S024;EWM.S009
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0071
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Lenape communities maintain deep homeland histories, farming, settlement, diplomacy and later diasporic continuities across multiple present-day tribal governments.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000072
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R072
TIME_COORDINATE: Late Woodland–17th century
TITLE: Algonquian Atlantic-coast political landscapes
ENTITY: ALGONQUIAN_ATLANTIC-COAST_POLITICAL_LANDSCAPES
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Many distinct nations organize river, estuary, farming, fishing and trade systems along the Atlantic seaboard; “Algonquian” denotes a language family, not one polity.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W036–W042
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S040
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0072
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Many distinct nations organize river, estuary, farming, fishing and trade systems along the Atlantic seaboard; “Algonquian” denotes a language family, not one polity.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000073
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R073
TIME_COORDINATE: c. 1600s
TITLE: Powhatan/Tsenacommacah regional polity
ENTITY: POWHATAN/TSENACOMMACAH_REGIONAL_POLITY
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: A network of tributary communities in the Chesapeake operates under Powhatan leadership as English Jamestown intrudes into an already governed landscape.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W042
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S040
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0073
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: A network of tributary communities in the Chesapeake operates under Powhatan leadership as English Jamestown intrudes into an already governed landscape.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000074
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R074
TIME_COORDINATE: pre-contact–18th century
TITLE: Cherokee town and regional systems
ENTITY: CHEROKEE_TOWN_AND_REGIONAL_SYSTEMS
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Cherokee communities in the southern Appalachians sustain town, agricultural, diplomatic and ceremonial systems before and through intensifying colonial pressure.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W039–W044
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S025;EWM.S040
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0074
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Cherokee communities in the southern Appalachians sustain town, agricultural, diplomatic and ceremonial systems before and through intensifying colonial pressure.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000075
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R075
TIME_COORDINATE: pre-contact–18th century
TITLE: Muscogee/Creek town confederacy systems
ENTITY: MUSCOGEE/CREEK_TOWN_CONFEDERACY_SYSTEMS
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Autonomous towns and regional confederacy relationships structure Muscogee political life in the Southeast, adapting through trade, war and colonial diplomacy.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W039–W044
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S019;EWM.S038
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0075
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Autonomous towns and regional confederacy relationships structure Muscogee political life in the Southeast, adapting through trade, war and colonial diplomacy.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000076
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R076
TIME_COORDINATE: pre-contact–18th century
TITLE: Choctaw regional communities and ethnogenesis
ENTITY: CHOCTAW_REGIONAL_COMMUNITIES_AND_ETHNOGENESIS
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Choctaw political and community formations emerge through late Mississippian and colonial-era recompositions rather than a frozen archaeological-to-tribal identity ladder.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W039–W044
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S039;EWM.S027
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0076
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Choctaw political and community formations emerge through late Mississippian and colonial-era recompositions rather than a frozen archaeological-to-tribal identity ladder.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000077
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R077
TIME_COORDINATE: pre-contact–18th century
TITLE: Chickasaw regional communities
ENTITY: CHICKASAW_REGIONAL_COMMUNITIES
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Chickasaw towns and kin networks participate in Mississippi/Southeast diplomacy, warfare and commerce while maintaining distinct political identity.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W039–W044
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S040
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0077
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Chickasaw towns and kin networks participate in Mississippi/Southeast diplomacy, warfare and commerce while maintaining distinct political identity.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000078
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R078
TIME_COORDINATE: 16th–18th centuries
TITLE: Natchez mound-centred polity into colonial observation
ENTITY: NATCHEZ_MOUND-CENTRED_POLITY_INTO_COLONIAL_OBSERVATION
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Natchez communities preserve mound-centred ceremonial and political institutions into the French colonial era, demonstrating direct persistence of some Mississippian forms without making all Mississippians “Natchez.”
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W041–W044
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S020;EWM.S046
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0078
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Natchez communities preserve mound-centred ceremonial and political institutions into the French colonial era, demonstrating direct persistence of some Mississippian forms without making all Mississippians “Natchez.”
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000079
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R079
TIME_COORDINATE: Great Lakes pre-contact–present
TITLE: Anishinaabe and Great Lakes interface
ENTITY: ANISHINAABE_AND_GREAT_LAKES_INTERFACE
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Anishinaabe/Ojibwe and related nations participate in Great Lakes ecological, trade and diplomatic systems that overlap the Eastern Woodlands object while also requiring their own owner histories.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W036–W068
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: OWNER_FILE_INTERFACE
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S032
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0079
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Anishinaabe/Ojibwe and related nations participate in Great Lakes ecological, trade and diplomatic systems that overlap the Eastern Woodlands object while also requiring their own owner histories.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000080
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R080
TIME_COORDINATE: 1500s
TITLE: First sustained Atlantic colonial incursions into eastern systems
ENTITY: FIRST_SUSTAINED_ATLANTIC_COLONIAL_INCURSIONS_INTO_EASTERN_SYSTEMS
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_INTERFACE_PROCESS
EVENT: Spanish, French, English and other expeditions enter already populated political landscapes, carrying military, religious, commercial and pathogenic pressures.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W041
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: TRADE_MISSION_WAR_TREATY_SETTLEMENT_EXTRACTION
HOST: NATIVE_POLITIES_COLONIES_PORTS_FRONTIERS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_GOODS_PATHOGENS_WEAPONS_TEXT_CAPITAL
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_CAPITAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: COLONIAL_TRACK
RELATION: ASYMMETRIC_INTERACTION_AND_COERCION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CONTESTED_MULTI_SOVEREIGN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_LAND_FOOD_SECURITY_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: ATLANTIC_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVE_ORAL_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S041;EWM.S040
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0080
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: Indigenous-controlled landscape before this colonial pressure/relationship
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Spanish, French, English and other expeditions enter already populated political landscapes, carrying military, religious, commercial and pathogenic pressures.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: contested hybrid field with increased external pressure and asymmetry
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: benefits, coercion, disease, dispossession and strategic adaptation return unevenly to different receivers
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000081
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R081
TIME_COORDINATE: 1539–1543
TITLE: De Soto expedition through the Southeast
ENTITY: DE_SOTO_EXPEDITION_THROUGH_THE_SOUTHEAST
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_INTERFACE_PROCESS
EVENT: The expedition uses violence, coercive provisioning and mobility through Indigenous polities; its routes and later demographic effects remain reconstructed from multiple imperfect archives.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W041
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: TRADE_MISSION_WAR_TREATY_SETTLEMENT_EXTRACTION
HOST: NATIVE_POLITIES_COLONIES_PORTS_FRONTIERS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_GOODS_PATHOGENS_WEAPONS_TEXT_CAPITAL
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_CAPITAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: COLONIAL_TRACK
RELATION: ASYMMETRIC_INTERACTION_AND_COERCION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CONTESTED_MULTI_SOVEREIGN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_LAND_FOOD_SECURITY_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: ATLANTIC_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVE_ORAL_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: ROUTE_AND_EFFECT_DEBATED
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S041
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0081
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: Indigenous-controlled landscape before this colonial pressure/relationship
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: The expedition uses violence, coercive provisioning and mobility through Indigenous polities; its routes and later demographic effects remain reconstructed from multiple imperfect archives.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: contested hybrid field with increased external pressure and asymmetry
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: benefits, coercion, disease, dispossession and strategic adaptation return unevenly to different receivers
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000082
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R082
TIME_COORDINATE: 16th–17th centuries
TITLE: Epidemic and demographic shocks
ENTITY: EPIDEMIC_AND_DEMOGRAPHIC_SHOCKS
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_INTERFACE_PROCESS
EVENT: Old World pathogens contribute to severe population loss in many communities, but timing, transmission and local mortality vary and are not attributed to a single expedition everywhere.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W041–W042
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: TRADE_MISSION_WAR_TREATY_SETTLEMENT_EXTRACTION
HOST: NATIVE_POLITIES_COLONIES_PORTS_FRONTIERS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_GOODS_PATHOGENS_WEAPONS_TEXT_CAPITAL
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_CAPITAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: COLONIAL_TRACK
RELATION: ASYMMETRIC_INTERACTION_AND_COERCION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CONTESTED_MULTI_SOVEREIGN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_LAND_FOOD_SECURITY_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: ATLANTIC_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVE_ORAL_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: HIGH_LOCAL_VARIATION
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S041;EWM.S040
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0082
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: Indigenous-controlled landscape before this colonial pressure/relationship
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Old World pathogens contribute to severe population loss in many communities, but timing, transmission and local mortality vary and are not attributed to a single expedition everywhere.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: contested hybrid field with increased external pressure and asymmetry
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: benefits, coercion, disease, dispossession and strategic adaptation return unevenly to different receivers
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000083
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R083
TIME_COORDINATE: 17th century
TITLE: Fur trade reconfigures Great Lakes and Northeast corridors
ENTITY: FUR_TRADE_RECONFIGURES_GREAT_LAKES_AND_NORTHEAST_CORRIDORS
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_INTERFACE_PROCESS
EVENT: European demand, guns, metal goods and commercial brokerage alter inter-nation alliances, hunting pressure and strategic geography without erasing Indigenous agency.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W042
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: TRADE_MISSION_WAR_TREATY_SETTLEMENT_EXTRACTION
HOST: NATIVE_POLITIES_COLONIES_PORTS_FRONTIERS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_GOODS_PATHOGENS_WEAPONS_TEXT_CAPITAL
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_CAPITAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: COLONIAL_TRACK
RELATION: ASYMMETRIC_INTERACTION_AND_COERCION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CONTESTED_MULTI_SOVEREIGN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_LAND_FOOD_SECURITY_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: ATLANTIC_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVE_ORAL_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S036;EWM.S040
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0083
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: Indigenous-controlled landscape before this colonial pressure/relationship
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: European demand, guns, metal goods and commercial brokerage alter inter-nation alliances, hunting pressure and strategic geography without erasing Indigenous agency.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: contested hybrid field with increased external pressure and asymmetry
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: benefits, coercion, disease, dispossession and strategic adaptation return unevenly to different receivers
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000084
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R084
TIME_COORDINATE: 1613 tradition
TITLE: Two Row Wampum relationship with Dutch
ENTITY: TWO_ROW_WAMPUM_RELATIONSHIP_WITH_DUTCH
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_INTERFACE_PROCESS
EVENT: Haudenosaunee tradition records a relationship of parallel political paths with Dutch newcomers; documentary dating and legal interpretation remain distinct from the living wampum tradition.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: INDIGENOUS_TRADITION
WORLD_BANDS: W042
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: TRADE_MISSION_WAR_TREATY_SETTLEMENT_EXTRACTION
HOST: NATIVE_POLITIES_COLONIES_PORTS_FRONTIERS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_GOODS_PATHOGENS_WEAPONS_TEXT_CAPITAL
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_CAPITAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: COLONIAL_TRACK
RELATION: ASYMMETRIC_INTERACTION_AND_COERCION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CONTESTED_MULTI_SOVEREIGN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_LAND_FOOD_SECURITY_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: ATLANTIC_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVE_ORAL_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: DOCUMENTARY_ATTESTATION_DEBATED
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S022
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0084
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: Indigenous-controlled landscape before this colonial pressure/relationship
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Haudenosaunee tradition records a relationship of parallel political paths with Dutch newcomers; documentary dating and legal interpretation remain distinct from the living wampum tradition.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: contested hybrid field with increased external pressure and asymmetry
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: benefits, coercion, disease, dispossession and strategic adaptation return unevenly to different receivers
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000085
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R085
TIME_COORDINATE: mid–late 17th century
TITLE: Haudenosaunee warfare, mourning, adoption and demographic repair
ENTITY: HAUDENOSAUNEE_WARFARE,_MOURNING,_ADOPTION_AND_DEMOGRAPHIC_REPAIR
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_INTERFACE_PROCESS
EVENT: Conflict, captives, adoption and diplomacy reshape Haudenosaunee and neighboring communities amid epidemics and colonial competition; “Beaver Wars” is too narrow as a single-cause label.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W042
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: TRADE_MISSION_WAR_TREATY_SETTLEMENT_EXTRACTION
HOST: NATIVE_POLITIES_COLONIES_PORTS_FRONTIERS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_GOODS_PATHOGENS_WEAPONS_TEXT_CAPITAL
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_CAPITAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: COLONIAL_TRACK
RELATION: ASYMMETRIC_INTERACTION_AND_COERCION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CONTESTED_MULTI_SOVEREIGN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_LAND_FOOD_SECURITY_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: ATLANTIC_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVE_ORAL_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S036;EWM.S035
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0085
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: Indigenous-controlled landscape before this colonial pressure/relationship
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Conflict, captives, adoption and diplomacy reshape Haudenosaunee and neighboring communities amid epidemics and colonial competition; “Beaver Wars” is too narrow as a single-cause label.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: contested hybrid field with increased external pressure and asymmetry
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: benefits, coercion, disease, dispossession and strategic adaptation return unevenly to different receivers
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000086
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R086
TIME_COORDINATE: 1677 documented
TITLE: Silver Covenant Chain enters written colonial record
ENTITY: SILVER_COVENANT_CHAIN_ENTERS_WRITTEN_COLONIAL_RECORD
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_INTERFACE_PROCESS
EVENT: Haudenosaunee diplomacy with New York and neighboring colonies uses a relationship framework that colonial documents record but do not own.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W042
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: TRADE_MISSION_WAR_TREATY_SETTLEMENT_EXTRACTION
HOST: NATIVE_POLITIES_COLONIES_PORTS_FRONTIERS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_GOODS_PATHOGENS_WEAPONS_TEXT_CAPITAL
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_CAPITAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: COLONIAL_TRACK
RELATION: ASYMMETRIC_INTERACTION_AND_COERCION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CONTESTED_MULTI_SOVEREIGN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_LAND_FOOD_SECURITY_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: ATLANTIC_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVE_ORAL_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S022
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0086
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: Indigenous-controlled landscape before this colonial pressure/relationship
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Haudenosaunee diplomacy with New York and neighboring colonies uses a relationship framework that colonial documents record but do not own.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: contested hybrid field with increased external pressure and asymmetry
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: benefits, coercion, disease, dispossession and strategic adaptation return unevenly to different receivers
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000087
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R087
TIME_COORDINATE: 1701
TITLE: Haudenosaunee peace and neutrality strategy
ENTITY: HAUDENOSAUNEE_PEACE_AND_NEUTRALITY_STRATEGY
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Onondaga’s timeline records peace with English and French and a declaration of neutrality, showing diplomacy as an active survival and sovereignty technology.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: INDIGENOUS_CHRONOLOGY
WORLD_BANDS: W043
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S022
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0087
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Onondaga’s timeline records peace with English and French and a declaration of neutrality, showing diplomacy as an active survival and sovereignty technology.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000088
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R088
TIME_COORDINATE: 18th century
TITLE: Deerskin, captive and Atlantic commodity systems in the Southeast
ENTITY: DEERSKIN,_CAPTIVE_AND_ATLANTIC_COMMODITY_SYSTEMS_IN_THE_SOUTHEAST
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_INTERFACE_PROCESS
EVENT: Indigenous towns, European colonies and African-descended populations become entangled in violent trade, slavery and land-market systems that reconfigure political economies.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W043–W044
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: TRADE_MISSION_WAR_TREATY_SETTLEMENT_EXTRACTION
HOST: NATIVE_POLITIES_COLONIES_PORTS_FRONTIERS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_GOODS_PATHOGENS_WEAPONS_TEXT_CAPITAL
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_CAPITAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: COLONIAL_TRACK
RELATION: ASYMMETRIC_INTERACTION_AND_COERCION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CONTESTED_MULTI_SOVEREIGN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_LAND_FOOD_SECURITY_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: ATLANTIC_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVE_ORAL_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S038;EWM.S040
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0088
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: Indigenous-controlled landscape before this colonial pressure/relationship
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Indigenous towns, European colonies and African-descended populations become entangled in violent trade, slavery and land-market systems that reconfigure political economies.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: contested hybrid field with increased external pressure and asymmetry
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: benefits, coercion, disease, dispossession and strategic adaptation return unevenly to different receivers
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000089
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R089
TIME_COORDINATE: 18th century
TITLE: Native slavery and African slavery intersect
ENTITY: NATIVE_SLAVERY_AND_AFRICAN_SLAVERY_INTERSECT
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_INTERFACE_PROCESS
EVENT: Captivity, Native enslavement and expanding plantation slavery create different but interacting coercive labour systems across the Southeast; categories and experiences must not be collapsed.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W043–W044
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: TRADE_MISSION_WAR_TREATY_SETTLEMENT_EXTRACTION
HOST: NATIVE_POLITIES_COLONIES_PORTS_FRONTIERS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_GOODS_PATHOGENS_WEAPONS_TEXT_CAPITAL
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_CAPITAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: COLONIAL_TRACK
RELATION: ASYMMETRIC_INTERACTION_AND_COERCION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CONTESTED_MULTI_SOVEREIGN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_LAND_FOOD_SECURITY_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: ATLANTIC_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVE_ORAL_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S040;EWM.S038
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0089
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: Indigenous-controlled landscape before this colonial pressure/relationship
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Captivity, Native enslavement and expanding plantation slavery create different but interacting coercive labour systems across the Southeast; categories and experiences must not be collapsed.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: contested hybrid field with increased external pressure and asymmetry
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: benefits, coercion, disease, dispossession and strategic adaptation return unevenly to different receivers
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000090
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R090
TIME_COORDINATE: 1710s–1720s
TITLE: Tuscarora migration and Six Nations configuration
ENTITY: TUSCARORA_MIGRATION_AND_SIX_NATIONS_CONFIGURATION
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Following war and displacement in the Carolinas, Tuscarora communities move north and become the sixth nation associated with the Haudenosaunee Confederacy while the original five-belt structure retains its older memory.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W043
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: DATE_AND_STATUS_DETAIL
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S035;EWM.S021
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0090
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Following war and displacement in the Carolinas, Tuscarora communities move north and become the sixth nation associated with the Haudenosaunee Confederacy while the original five-belt structure retains its older memory.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000091
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R091
TIME_COORDINATE: 1754–1763
TITLE: Seven Years’ War / French and Indian War interfaces
ENTITY: SEVEN_YEARS’WAR/_FRENCH_AND_INDIAN_WAR_INTERFACES
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_INTERFACE_PROCESS
EVENT: Eastern nations make distinct strategic choices amid British-French imperial war; alliance never means loss of independent political goals.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W044
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: TRADE_MISSION_WAR_TREATY_SETTLEMENT_EXTRACTION
HOST: NATIVE_POLITIES_COLONIES_PORTS_FRONTIERS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_GOODS_PATHOGENS_WEAPONS_TEXT_CAPITAL
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_CAPITAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: COLONIAL_TRACK
RELATION: ASYMMETRIC_INTERACTION_AND_COERCION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CONTESTED_MULTI_SOVEREIGN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_LAND_FOOD_SECURITY_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: ATLANTIC_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVE_ORAL_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S036;EWM.S040
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0091
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: Indigenous-controlled landscape before this colonial pressure/relationship
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Eastern nations make distinct strategic choices amid British-French imperial war; alliance never means loss of independent political goals.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: contested hybrid field with increased external pressure and asymmetry
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: benefits, coercion, disease, dispossession and strategic adaptation return unevenly to different receivers
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000092
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R092
TIME_COORDINATE: 1763
TITLE: Royal Proclamation boundary claim
ENTITY: ROYAL_PROCLAMATION_BOUNDARY_CLAIM
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_INTERFACE_PROCESS
EVENT: Britain attempts to regulate settler expansion west of the Appalachians; an imperial line does not equal Indigenous consent or extinguished title.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W044
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: TRADE_MISSION_WAR_TREATY_SETTLEMENT_EXTRACTION
HOST: NATIVE_POLITIES_COLONIES_PORTS_FRONTIERS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_GOODS_PATHOGENS_WEAPONS_TEXT_CAPITAL
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_CAPITAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: COLONIAL_TRACK
RELATION: ASYMMETRIC_INTERACTION_AND_COERCION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CONTESTED_MULTI_SOVEREIGN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_LAND_FOOD_SECURITY_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: ATLANTIC_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVE_ORAL_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S040
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0092
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: Indigenous-controlled landscape before this colonial pressure/relationship
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Britain attempts to regulate settler expansion west of the Appalachians; an imperial line does not equal Indigenous consent or extinguished title.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: contested hybrid field with increased external pressure and asymmetry
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: benefits, coercion, disease, dispossession and strategic adaptation return unevenly to different receivers
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000093
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R093
TIME_COORDINATE: 1775–1783
TITLE: American Revolution fractures old alliance fields
ENTITY: AMERICAN_REVOLUTION_FRACTURES_OLD_ALLIANCE_FIELDS
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_INTERFACE_PROCESS
EVENT: The revolution becomes a civil and international war across Indigenous homelands; Haudenosaunee nations and other eastern peoples take different positions and suffer displacement.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W044
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: TRADE_MISSION_WAR_TREATY_SETTLEMENT_EXTRACTION
HOST: NATIVE_POLITIES_COLONIES_PORTS_FRONTIERS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_GOODS_PATHOGENS_WEAPONS_TEXT_CAPITAL
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_CAPITAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: COLONIAL_TRACK
RELATION: ASYMMETRIC_INTERACTION_AND_COERCION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CONTESTED_MULTI_SOVEREIGN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_LAND_FOOD_SECURITY_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: ATLANTIC_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVE_ORAL_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S036;EWM.S035
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0093
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: Indigenous-controlled landscape before this colonial pressure/relationship
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: The revolution becomes a civil and international war across Indigenous homelands; Haudenosaunee nations and other eastern peoples take different positions and suffer displacement.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: contested hybrid field with increased external pressure and asymmetry
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: benefits, coercion, disease, dispossession and strategic adaptation return unevenly to different receivers
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000094
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R094
TIME_COORDINATE: 1779
TITLE: Sullivan-Clinton campaign against Haudenosaunee communities
ENTITY: SULLIVAN-CLINTON_CAMPAIGN_AGAINST_HAUDENOSAUNEE_COMMUNITIES
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_INTERFACE_PROCESS
EVENT: U.S. forces destroy towns, crops and food stores in Haudenosaunee country, turning agricultural infrastructure and winter survival into military targets.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W044
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: TRADE_MISSION_WAR_TREATY_SETTLEMENT_EXTRACTION
HOST: NATIVE_POLITIES_COLONIES_PORTS_FRONTIERS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_GOODS_PATHOGENS_WEAPONS_TEXT_CAPITAL
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_CAPITAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: COLONIAL_TRACK
RELATION: ASYMMETRIC_INTERACTION_AND_COERCION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CONTESTED_MULTI_SOVEREIGN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_LAND_FOOD_SECURITY_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: ATLANTIC_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVE_ORAL_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S036
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0094
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: Indigenous-controlled landscape before this colonial pressure/relationship
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: U.S. forces destroy towns, crops and food stores in Haudenosaunee country, turning agricultural infrastructure and winter survival into military targets.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: contested hybrid field with increased external pressure and asymmetry
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: benefits, coercion, disease, dispossession and strategic adaptation return unevenly to different receivers
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000095
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R095
TIME_COORDINATE: 1783 onward
TITLE: US independence does not settle Indigenous sovereignty
ENTITY: US_INDEPENDENCE_DOES_NOT_SETTLE_INDIGENOUS_SOVEREIGNTY
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_INTERFACE_PROCESS
EVENT: The new United States expands treaty, survey, military and settlement systems into Native homelands whose political status was not extinguished simply by the British-American peace.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W044–W045
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: TRADE_MISSION_WAR_TREATY_SETTLEMENT_EXTRACTION
HOST: NATIVE_POLITIES_COLONIES_PORTS_FRONTIERS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_GOODS_PATHOGENS_WEAPONS_TEXT_CAPITAL
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_CAPITAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: COLONIAL_TRACK
RELATION: ASYMMETRIC_INTERACTION_AND_COERCION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CONTESTED_MULTI_SOVEREIGN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_LAND_FOOD_SECURITY_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: ATLANTIC_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVE_ORAL_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S040
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0095
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: Indigenous-controlled landscape before this colonial pressure/relationship
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: The new United States expands treaty, survey, military and settlement systems into Native homelands whose political status was not extinguished simply by the British-American peace.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: contested hybrid field with increased external pressure and asymmetry
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: benefits, coercion, disease, dispossession and strategic adaptation return unevenly to different receivers
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000096
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R096
TIME_COORDINATE: 1794
TITLE: Treaty of Canandaigua
ENTITY: TREATY_OF_CANANDAIGUA
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: The United States and Six Nations enter a treaty relationship that remains part of living Haudenosaunee treaty memory and sovereignty claims.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W044
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LEGAL_INTERPRETATION_LIVE
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S023;EWM.S035
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0096
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: The United States and Six Nations enter a treaty relationship that remains part of living Haudenosaunee treaty memory and sovereignty claims.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000097
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R097
TIME_COORDINATE: early 19th century
TITLE: Market, mission, plantation and settler-state pressure accelerates
ENTITY: MARKET,_MISSION,_PLANTATION_AND_SETTLER-STATE_PRESSURE_ACCELERATES
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_INTERFACE_PROCESS
EVENT: Roads, surveys, cotton expansion, land speculation and state law intensify pressure on southeastern Indigenous homelands and institutions.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W045
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: TRADE_MISSION_WAR_TREATY_SETTLEMENT_EXTRACTION
HOST: NATIVE_POLITIES_COLONIES_PORTS_FRONTIERS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_GOODS_PATHOGENS_WEAPONS_TEXT_CAPITAL
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_CAPITAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: COLONIAL_TRACK
RELATION: ASYMMETRIC_INTERACTION_AND_COERCION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CONTESTED_MULTI_SOVEREIGN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_LAND_FOOD_SECURITY_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: ATLANTIC_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVE_ORAL_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S025;EWM.S027;EWM.S038
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0097
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: Indigenous-controlled landscape before this colonial pressure/relationship
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Roads, surveys, cotton expansion, land speculation and state law intensify pressure on southeastern Indigenous homelands and institutions.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: contested hybrid field with increased external pressure and asymmetry
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: benefits, coercion, disease, dispossession and strategic adaptation return unevenly to different receivers
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000098
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R098
TIME_COORDINATE: 1820s
TITLE: Cherokee constitutional and print-state capability
ENTITY: CHEROKEE_CONSTITUTIONAL_AND_PRINT-STATE_CAPABILITY
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Cherokee institutions adapt literacy, print and constitutional forms while remaining Cherokee political systems rather than becoming absorbed into the United States.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W045
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S025
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0098
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Cherokee institutions adapt literacy, print and constitutional forms while remaining Cherokee political systems rather than becoming absorbed into the United States.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000099
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R099
TIME_COORDINATE: 1830
TITLE: Indian Removal Act
ENTITY: INDIAN_REMOVAL_ACT
ENTITY_TYPE: FORCED_MIGRATION_AND_LAND_TRANSFER_SYSTEM
EVENT: US federal law authorizes removal-treaty policy targeting nations east of the Mississippi, opening a state mechanism for large-scale land transfer and forced migration.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT_LEGAL_DATE
WORLD_BANDS: W045
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: LAND_CESSION_DEPORTATION_COERCION_REBUILDING
HOST: US_STATE_FEDERAL_TRIBAL_TERRITORIES
CARRIER: PEOPLE_TREATIES_ARMY_ROADS_RIVERS_ADMIN_RECORDS
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT_AND_CAPITAL_LAND_CONTROL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: REMOVAL_TRACK
RELATION: COERCION_RESISTANCE_RECONSTITUTION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: FEDERAL_STATE_TRIBAL_CONTEST
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: LAND_HEALTH_FOOD_KINSHIP_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: TRIBAL_PRIMARY_OFFICIAL_ARCHIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S029;EWM.S030
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0099
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: people and institutions substantially hosted in eastern homeland
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: US federal law authorizes removal-treaty policy targeting nations east of the Mississippi, opening a state mechanism for large-scale land transfer and forced migration.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: forced host migration, demographic harm and institutional rebuilding
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: land transfer benefits settler systems while displaced nations carry mortality, memory and rebuilding costs
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000100
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R100
TIME_COORDINATE: 1830
TITLE: Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek and Choctaw dispossession
ENTITY: TREATY_OF_DANCING_RABBIT_CREEK_AND_CHOCTAW_DISPOSSESSION
ENTITY_TYPE: FORCED_MIGRATION_AND_LAND_TRANSFER_SYSTEM
EVENT: The treaty cedes the remaining Choctaw homeland to the United States and initiates major removal waves while some Choctaw people remain in Mississippi.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W045
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: LAND_CESSION_DEPORTATION_COERCION_REBUILDING
HOST: US_STATE_FEDERAL_TRIBAL_TERRITORIES
CARRIER: PEOPLE_TREATIES_ARMY_ROADS_RIVERS_ADMIN_RECORDS
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT_AND_CAPITAL_LAND_CONTROL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: REMOVAL_TRACK
RELATION: COERCION_RESISTANCE_RECONSTITUTION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: FEDERAL_STATE_TRIBAL_CONTEST
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: LAND_HEALTH_FOOD_KINSHIP_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: TRIBAL_PRIMARY_OFFICIAL_ARCHIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S027
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0100
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: people and institutions substantially hosted in eastern homeland
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: The treaty cedes the remaining Choctaw homeland to the United States and initiates major removal waves while some Choctaw people remain in Mississippi.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: forced host migration, demographic harm and institutional rebuilding
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: land transfer benefits settler systems while displaced nations carry mortality, memory and rebuilding costs
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000101
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R101
TIME_COORDINATE: 1831–1834 and later waves
TITLE: Choctaw Trail of Tears and rebuilding
ENTITY: CHOCTAW_TRAIL_OF_TEARS_AND_REBUILDING
ENTITY_TYPE: FORCED_MIGRATION_AND_LAND_TRANSFER_SYSTEM
EVENT: Roughly 12,000 people move in the largest early waves under inadequate provisioning; Choctaw government, community and economy are rebuilt in a new homeland while homeland communities persist.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W045
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: LAND_CESSION_DEPORTATION_COERCION_REBUILDING
HOST: US_STATE_FEDERAL_TRIBAL_TERRITORIES
CARRIER: PEOPLE_TREATIES_ARMY_ROADS_RIVERS_ADMIN_RECORDS
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT_AND_CAPITAL_LAND_CONTROL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: REMOVAL_TRACK
RELATION: COERCION_RESISTANCE_RECONSTITUTION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: FEDERAL_STATE_TRIBAL_CONTEST
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: LAND_HEALTH_FOOD_KINSHIP_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: TRIBAL_PRIMARY_OFFICIAL_ARCHIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S027
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0101
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: people and institutions substantially hosted in eastern homeland
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Roughly 12,000 people move in the largest early waves under inadequate provisioning; Choctaw government, community and economy are rebuilt in a new homeland while homeland communities persist.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: forced host migration, demographic harm and institutional rebuilding
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: land transfer benefits settler systems while displaced nations carry mortality, memory and rebuilding costs
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000102
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R102
TIME_COORDINATE: 1832–1836
TITLE: Muscogee land loss, war and forced removal
ENTITY: MUSCOGEE_LAND_LOSS,_WAR_AND_FORCED_REMOVAL
ENTITY_TYPE: FORCED_MIGRATION_AND_LAND_TRANSFER_SYSTEM
EVENT: Treaty, settler seizure, state pressure and military conflict culminate in large-scale Muscogee removal to Indian Territory; eastern homelands remain ancestral and politically remembered.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W045
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: LAND_CESSION_DEPORTATION_COERCION_REBUILDING
HOST: US_STATE_FEDERAL_TRIBAL_TERRITORIES
CARRIER: PEOPLE_TREATIES_ARMY_ROADS_RIVERS_ADMIN_RECORDS
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT_AND_CAPITAL_LAND_CONTROL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: REMOVAL_TRACK
RELATION: COERCION_RESISTANCE_RECONSTITUTION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: FEDERAL_STATE_TRIBAL_CONTEST
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: LAND_HEALTH_FOOD_KINSHIP_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: TRIBAL_PRIMARY_OFFICIAL_ARCHIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S029;EWM.S019
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0102
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: people and institutions substantially hosted in eastern homeland
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Treaty, settler seizure, state pressure and military conflict culminate in large-scale Muscogee removal to Indian Territory; eastern homelands remain ancestral and politically remembered.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: forced host migration, demographic harm and institutional rebuilding
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: land transfer benefits settler systems while displaced nations carry mortality, memory and rebuilding costs
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000103
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R103
TIME_COORDINATE: 1835
TITLE: Treaty of New Echota contested within Cherokee Nation
ENTITY: TREATY_OF_NEW_ECHOTA_CONTESTED_WITHIN_CHEROKEE_NATION
ENTITY_TYPE: FORCED_MIGRATION_AND_LAND_TRANSFER_SYSTEM
EVENT: A minority treaty party signs a removal treaty not accepted by the Cherokee majority, separating instrument signature from free collective consent.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W045
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: LAND_CESSION_DEPORTATION_COERCION_REBUILDING
HOST: US_STATE_FEDERAL_TRIBAL_TERRITORIES
CARRIER: PEOPLE_TREATIES_ARMY_ROADS_RIVERS_ADMIN_RECORDS
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT_AND_CAPITAL_LAND_CONTROL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: REMOVAL_TRACK
RELATION: COERCION_RESISTANCE_RECONSTITUTION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: FEDERAL_STATE_TRIBAL_CONTEST
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: LAND_HEALTH_FOOD_KINSHIP_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: TRIBAL_PRIMARY_OFFICIAL_ARCHIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S025;EWM.S029
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0103
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: people and institutions substantially hosted in eastern homeland
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: A minority treaty party signs a removal treaty not accepted by the Cherokee majority, separating instrument signature from free collective consent.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: forced host migration, demographic harm and institutional rebuilding
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: land transfer benefits settler systems while displaced nations carry mortality, memory and rebuilding costs
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000104
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R104
TIME_COORDINATE: 1838–1839
TITLE: Forced Cherokee removal / Trail of Tears
ENTITY: FORCED_CHEROKEE_REMOVAL_/_TRAIL_OF_TEARS
ENTITY_TYPE: FORCED_MIGRATION_AND_LAND_TRANSFER_SYSTEM
EVENT: US forces remove about 16,000 Cherokee people; Cherokee Nation estimates about 4,000 deaths from exposure, starvation and disease.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: TRIBAL_ESTIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W045
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: LAND_CESSION_DEPORTATION_COERCION_REBUILDING
HOST: US_STATE_FEDERAL_TRIBAL_TERRITORIES
CARRIER: PEOPLE_TREATIES_ARMY_ROADS_RIVERS_ADMIN_RECORDS
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT_AND_CAPITAL_LAND_CONTROL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: REMOVAL_TRACK
RELATION: COERCION_RESISTANCE_RECONSTITUTION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: FEDERAL_STATE_TRIBAL_CONTEST
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: LAND_HEALTH_FOOD_KINSHIP_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: TRIBAL_PRIMARY_OFFICIAL_ARCHIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S026;EWM.S025
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0104
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: people and institutions substantially hosted in eastern homeland
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: US forces remove about 16,000 Cherokee people; Cherokee Nation estimates about 4,000 deaths from exposure, starvation and disease.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: forced host migration, demographic harm and institutional rebuilding
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: land transfer benefits settler systems while displaced nations carry mortality, memory and rebuilding costs
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000105
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R105
TIME_COORDINATE: 1839
TITLE: Cherokee governmental reconstitution in Indian Territory
ENTITY: CHEROKEE_GOVERNMENTAL_RECONSTITUTION_IN_INDIAN_TERRITORY
ENTITY_TYPE: FORCED_MIGRATION_AND_LAND_TRANSFER_SYSTEM
EVENT: Survivors and earlier migrants rebuild a national constitutional government, showing institutional host migration under coercion rather than civilisational extinction.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W045
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: LAND_CESSION_DEPORTATION_COERCION_REBUILDING
HOST: US_STATE_FEDERAL_TRIBAL_TERRITORIES
CARRIER: PEOPLE_TREATIES_ARMY_ROADS_RIVERS_ADMIN_RECORDS
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT_AND_CAPITAL_LAND_CONTROL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: REMOVAL_TRACK
RELATION: COERCION_RESISTANCE_RECONSTITUTION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: FEDERAL_STATE_TRIBAL_CONTEST
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: LAND_HEALTH_FOOD_KINSHIP_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: TRIBAL_PRIMARY_OFFICIAL_ARCHIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S025
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0105
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: people and institutions substantially hosted in eastern homeland
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Survivors and earlier migrants rebuild a national constitutional government, showing institutional host migration under coercion rather than civilisational extinction.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: forced host migration, demographic harm and institutional rebuilding
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: land transfer benefits settler systems while displaced nations carry mortality, memory and rebuilding costs
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000106
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R106
TIME_COORDINATE: 19th century
TITLE: Eastern Native communities that remained
ENTITY: EASTERN_NATIVE_COMMUNITIES_THAT_REMAINED
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_OR_HISTORICAL_INDIGENOUS_POLITY
EVENT: Removal never produced a total emptying: Haudenosaunee, Lenape-descended communities, Cherokee in the East, Mississippi Choctaw and many others persist under reservation, state, treaty and local pressures.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W045–W047
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_KINSHIP_DIPLOMACY_MEMORY_SUBSISTENCE
HOST: TOWNS_LONGHOUSES_COUNCILS_HOMELANDS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LANGUAGE_WAMPUM_LAW_TREATY_KNOWLEDGE
FLOW: PERSON_INFORMATION_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: NATION_TRACK
RELATION: SOVEREIGN_AND_NETWORKED
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: NATION_COUNCIL_CLAN_TOWN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: SOCIAL_POLITICAL_FOOD_MEMORY_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: PERSISTENCE_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: REGIONAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_PLUS_ARCHAEOLOGY_TEXT
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: PLURAL_OWNER_FILES
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S024;EWM.S025;EWM.S027
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0106
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: prior kin, town, alliance and homeland configuration
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Removal never produced a total emptying: Haudenosaunee, Lenape-descended communities, Cherokee in the East, Mississippi Choctaw and many others persist under reservation, state, treaty and local pressures.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: reconfigured but continuing political, kinship and memory system
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: law, kinship, diplomacy and memory persist by active reproduction rather than archaeological inevitability
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000107
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R107
TIME_COORDINATE: 19th century
TITLE: Settler archaeology invents a separate “Mound Builder race”
ENTITY: SETTLER_ARCHAEOLOGY_INVENTS_A_SEPARATE_“MOUND_BUILDER_RACE”
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_CUSTODY_REPAIR_PROCESS
EVENT: Speculation often severs earthworks from Native peoples, supporting narratives of Indigenous disappearance or replacement; later archaeology rejects the imagined vanished non-Native race.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W045–W047
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGY_CUSTODY_REPATRIATION_INTERPRETATION
HOST: SITES_MUSEUMS_TRIBAL_NATIONS_AGENCIES
CARRIER: REMAINS_OBJECTS_RECORDS_DATA_LAW_CONSULTATION
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HERITAGE_TRACK
RELATION: CUSTODY_CONTEST_REPAIR
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TRIBAL_FEDERAL_STATE_INSTITUTIONAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: DIGNITY_MEMORY_RIGHTS_REPAIR_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: OFFICIAL_POLICY_TRIBAL_PRIMARY_RESEARCH
CLAIM_STATUS: LIVE_VERIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S042
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0107
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: evidence/custody regime before this research, policy or repair event
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Speculation often severs earthworks from Native peoples, supporting narratives of Indigenous disappearance or replacement; later archaeology rejects the imagined vanished non-Native race.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: revised evidence/custody/repair state with new obligations
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: research value is invalid if custody, dignity, consent and descendant authority are externalized
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000108
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R108
TIME_COORDINATE: 19th–20th centuries
TITLE: Mound destruction by agriculture, towns, roads and collecting
ENTITY: MOUND_DESTRUCTION_BY_AGRICULTURE,_TOWNS,_ROADS_AND_COLLECTING
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_CUSTODY_REPAIR_PROCESS
EVENT: Thousands of earthworks and archaeological contexts are flattened, looted or excavated under standards that often remove ancestors and sacred objects from community custody.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W045–W055
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGY_CUSTODY_REPATRIATION_INTERPRETATION
HOST: SITES_MUSEUMS_TRIBAL_NATIONS_AGENCIES
CARRIER: REMAINS_OBJECTS_RECORDS_DATA_LAW_CONSULTATION
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HERITAGE_TRACK
RELATION: CUSTODY_CONTEST_REPAIR
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TRIBAL_FEDERAL_STATE_INSTITUTIONAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: DIGNITY_MEMORY_RIGHTS_REPAIR_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: OFFICIAL_POLICY_TRIBAL_PRIMARY_RESEARCH
CLAIM_STATUS: LIVE_VERIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S018;EWM.S042
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0108
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: evidence/custody regime before this research, policy or repair event
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Thousands of earthworks and archaeological contexts are flattened, looted or excavated under standards that often remove ancestors and sacred objects from community custody.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: revised evidence/custody/repair state with new obligations
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: research value is invalid if custody, dignity, consent and descendant authority are externalized
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000109
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R109
TIME_COORDINATE: 20th century
TITLE: Federal assimilation, allotment and boarding-school pressure
ENTITY: FEDERAL_ASSIMILATION,_ALLOTMENT_AND_BOARDING-SCHOOL_PRESSURE
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_INTERFACE_PROCESS
EVENT: US policies repeatedly attempt to transform land tenure, governance, language and family reproduction; effects vary by nation and require separate owner histories.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W048–W058
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: TRADE_MISSION_WAR_TREATY_SETTLEMENT_EXTRACTION
HOST: NATIVE_POLITIES_COLONIES_PORTS_FRONTIERS
CARRIER: PEOPLE_GOODS_PATHOGENS_WEAPONS_TEXT_CAPITAL
FLOW: PERSON_MATERIAL_INFORMATION_CAPITAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: COLONIAL_TRACK
RELATION: ASYMMETRIC_INTERACTION_AND_COERCION
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CONTESTED_MULTI_SOVEREIGN
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_LAND_FOOD_SECURITY_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: DISRUPTION_RECOMPOSITION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: ATLANTIC_INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVE_ORAL_ARCHAEOLOGY
CLAIM_STATUS: SUPPORTED_WITH_LIMITS
UNCERTAINTY: OWNER_FILE_REQUIRED
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S025;EWM.S027
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0109
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: Indigenous-controlled landscape before this colonial pressure/relationship
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: US policies repeatedly attempt to transform land tenure, governance, language and family reproduction; effects vary by nation and require separate owner histories.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: contested hybrid field with increased external pressure and asymmetry
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: benefits, coercion, disease, dispossession and strategic adaptation return unevenly to different receivers
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000110
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R110
TIME_COORDINATE: 20th century
TITLE: Tribal governments persist and reorganize
ENTITY: TRIBAL_GOVERNMENTS_PERSIST_AND_REORGANIZE
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_GOVERNANCE_AND_CAPABILITY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Despite assimilation and termination pressures, Indigenous nations rebuild constitutional, administrative, educational and economic capabilities on distinct legal foundations.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W048–W058
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: SOVEREIGNTY_SERVICE_LANGUAGE_LAND_STEWARDSHIP_ECONOMY
HOST: TRIBAL_NATIONS_COMMUNITIES_STATES_PROVINCES
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LAW_INSTITUTIONS_LANGUAGE_CAPITAL_DATA
FLOW: INFORMATION_CAPITAL_PERSON_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: MODERN_TRACK
RELATION: LIVING_CONTINUITY_AND_REPAIR
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TRIBAL_AND_INTERGOVERNMENTAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_EDUCATION_LAND_CULTURE_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: REGENERATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: LOCAL_TO_GLOBAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_OFFICIAL_CURRENT
CLAIM_STATUS: LIVE_VERIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S025;EWM.S027
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0110
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: capability under inherited colonial/legal constraint
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Despite assimilation and termination pressures, Indigenous nations rebuild constitutional, administrative, educational and economic capabilities on distinct legal foundations.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: living capability with contemporary governance and repair channels
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: repair is durable only when community capability and sovereignty outpace inherited drift
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000111
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R111
TIME_COORDINATE: 1970s–present
TITLE: Language and cultural revitalization accelerates
ENTITY: LANGUAGE_AND_CULTURAL_REVITALIZATION_ACCELERATES
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_GOVERNANCE_AND_CAPABILITY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Nation-led schools, archives, ceremonies and community programmes restore threatened knowledge systems as operating capability rather than museum residue.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W056–W068
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: SOVEREIGNTY_SERVICE_LANGUAGE_LAND_STEWARDSHIP_ECONOMY
HOST: TRIBAL_NATIONS_COMMUNITIES_STATES_PROVINCES
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LAW_INSTITUTIONS_LANGUAGE_CAPITAL_DATA
FLOW: INFORMATION_CAPITAL_PERSON_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: MODERN_TRACK
RELATION: LIVING_CONTINUITY_AND_REPAIR
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TRIBAL_AND_INTERGOVERNMENTAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_EDUCATION_LAND_CULTURE_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: REGENERATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: LOCAL_TO_GLOBAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_OFFICIAL_CURRENT
CLAIM_STATUS: LIVE_VERIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S024;EWM.S028
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0111
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: capability under inherited colonial/legal constraint
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Nation-led schools, archives, ceremonies and community programmes restore threatened knowledge systems as operating capability rather than museum residue.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: living capability with contemporary governance and repair channels
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: repair is durable only when community capability and sovereignty outpace inherited drift
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000112
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R112
TIME_COORDINATE: 1982
TITLE: Cahokia inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List
ENTITY: CAHOKIA_INSCRIBED_ON_UNESCO_WORLD_HERITAGE_LIST
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_CUSTODY_REPAIR_PROCESS
EVENT: Global heritage recognition increases preservation capacity but does not transfer descendant authority to UNESCO or convert archaeology into a settled identity map.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT_INSCRIPTION
WORLD_BANDS: W057
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGY_CUSTODY_REPATRIATION_INTERPRETATION
HOST: SITES_MUSEUMS_TRIBAL_NATIONS_AGENCIES
CARRIER: REMAINS_OBJECTS_RECORDS_DATA_LAW_CONSULTATION
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HERITAGE_TRACK
RELATION: CUSTODY_CONTEST_REPAIR
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TRIBAL_FEDERAL_STATE_INSTITUTIONAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: DIGNITY_MEMORY_RIGHTS_REPAIR_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: OFFICIAL_POLICY_TRIBAL_PRIMARY_RESEARCH
CLAIM_STATUS: LIVE_VERIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S013
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0112
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: evidence/custody regime before this research, policy or repair event
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Global heritage recognition increases preservation capacity but does not transfer descendant authority to UNESCO or convert archaeology into a settled identity map.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: revised evidence/custody/repair state with new obligations
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: research value is invalid if custody, dignity, consent and descendant authority are externalized
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000113
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R113
TIME_COORDINATE: 1990
TITLE: NAGPRA enacted
ENTITY: NAGPRA_ENACTED
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_CUSTODY_REPAIR_PROCESS
EVENT: US law creates processes for return of Native American human remains and certain cultural items held by federally funded museums and agencies; legal repair begins but is not automatically completed.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT_LEGAL_DATE
WORLD_BANDS: W058
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGY_CUSTODY_REPATRIATION_INTERPRETATION
HOST: SITES_MUSEUMS_TRIBAL_NATIONS_AGENCIES
CARRIER: REMAINS_OBJECTS_RECORDS_DATA_LAW_CONSULTATION
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HERITAGE_TRACK
RELATION: CUSTODY_CONTEST_REPAIR
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TRIBAL_FEDERAL_STATE_INSTITUTIONAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: DIGNITY_MEMORY_RIGHTS_REPAIR_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: OFFICIAL_POLICY_TRIBAL_PRIMARY_RESEARCH
CLAIM_STATUS: LIVE_VERIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S031;EWM.S047
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0113
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: evidence/custody regime before this research, policy or repair event
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: US law creates processes for return of Native American human remains and certain cultural items held by federally funded museums and agencies; legal repair begins but is not automatically completed.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: revised evidence/custody/repair state with new obligations
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: research value is invalid if custody, dignity, consent and descendant authority are externalized
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000114
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R114
TIME_COORDINATE: 2014
TITLE: Poverty Point World Heritage inscription
ENTITY: POVERTY_POINT_WORLD_HERITAGE_INSCRIPTION
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_CUSTODY_REPAIR_PROCESS
EVENT: Poverty Point receives World Heritage status, increasing conservation attention to Archaic monumentality created by hunter-fisher-gatherer communities.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W060
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGY_CUSTODY_REPATRIATION_INTERPRETATION
HOST: SITES_MUSEUMS_TRIBAL_NATIONS_AGENCIES
CARRIER: REMAINS_OBJECTS_RECORDS_DATA_LAW_CONSULTATION
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HERITAGE_TRACK
RELATION: CUSTODY_CONTEST_REPAIR
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TRIBAL_FEDERAL_STATE_INSTITUTIONAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: DIGNITY_MEMORY_RIGHTS_REPAIR_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: OFFICIAL_POLICY_TRIBAL_PRIMARY_RESEARCH
CLAIM_STATUS: LIVE_VERIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S007
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0114
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: evidence/custody regime before this research, policy or repair event
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Poverty Point receives World Heritage status, increasing conservation attention to Archaic monumentality created by hunter-fisher-gatherer communities.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: revised evidence/custody/repair state with new obligations
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: research value is invalid if custody, dignity, consent and descendant authority are externalized
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000115
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R115
TIME_COORDINATE: 2023
TITLE: Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks World Heritage inscription
ENTITY: HOPEWELL_CEREMONIAL_EARTHWORKS_WORLD_HERITAGE_INSCRIPTION
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_CUSTODY_REPAIR_PROCESS
EVENT: Eight Ohio complexes are inscribed; UNESCO also calls for further inclusion of local and Indigenous communities in management and decision-making.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W065
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGY_CUSTODY_REPATRIATION_INTERPRETATION
HOST: SITES_MUSEUMS_TRIBAL_NATIONS_AGENCIES
CARRIER: REMAINS_OBJECTS_RECORDS_DATA_LAW_CONSULTATION
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HERITAGE_TRACK
RELATION: CUSTODY_CONTEST_REPAIR
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TRIBAL_FEDERAL_STATE_INSTITUTIONAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: DIGNITY_MEMORY_RIGHTS_REPAIR_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
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DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
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TRACE_AFTER_STATE: revised evidence/custody/repair state with new obligations
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: research value is invalid if custody, dignity, consent and descendant authority are externalized
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000116
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R116
TIME_COORDINATE: 2024
TITLE: Revised NAGPRA regulations take effect
ENTITY: REVISED_NAGPRA_REGULATIONS_TAKE_EFFECT
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_CUSTODY_REPAIR_PROCESS
EVENT: Federal regulations strengthen consultation, duty of care and repatriation procedures, shifting museum/agency custody toward greater Tribal authority in the legal process.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: LEGAL_EFFECTIVE_STATE
WORLD_BANDS: W066
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGY_CUSTODY_REPATRIATION_INTERPRETATION
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CARRIER: REMAINS_OBJECTS_RECORDS_DATA_LAW_CONSULTATION
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
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RELATION: CUSTODY_CONTEST_REPAIR
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LIFECYCLE: REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: OFFICIAL_POLICY_TRIBAL_PRIMARY_RESEARCH
CLAIM_STATUS: LIVE_VERIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
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GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0116
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: evidence/custody regime before this research, policy or repair event
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Federal regulations strengthen consultation, duty of care and repatriation procedures, shifting museum/agency custody toward greater Tribal authority in the legal process.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: revised evidence/custody/repair state with new obligations
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: research value is invalid if custody, dignity, consent and descendant authority are externalized
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000117
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R117
TIME_COORDINATE: 2024
TITLE: Manna archaeobotany expands the Northeast crop record
ENTITY: MANNA_ARCHAEOBOTANY_EXPANDS_THE_NORTHEAST_CROP_RECORD
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_CUSTODY_REPAIR_PROCESS
EVENT: Published analysis identifies a fuller Eastern Agricultural Complex assemblage in Lenape-associated Upper Delaware contexts, reopening older assumptions about northeastern Indigenous agriculture.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: PUBLICATION_DATE
WORLD_BANDS: W066
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGY_CUSTODY_REPATRIATION_INTERPRETATION
HOST: SITES_MUSEUMS_TRIBAL_NATIONS_AGENCIES
CARRIER: REMAINS_OBJECTS_RECORDS_DATA_LAW_CONSULTATION
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HERITAGE_TRACK
RELATION: CUSTODY_CONTEST_REPAIR
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TRIBAL_FEDERAL_STATE_INSTITUTIONAL
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CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
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SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: OFFICIAL_POLICY_TRIBAL_PRIMARY_RESEARCH
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UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
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GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0117
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TRACE_AFTER_STATE: revised evidence/custody/repair state with new obligations
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: research value is invalid if custody, dignity, consent and descendant authority are externalized
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000118
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R118
TIME_COORDINATE: 2024
TITLE: Cahokia drought-collapse hypothesis weakened
ENTITY: CAHOKIA_DROUGHT-COLLAPSE_HYPOTHESIS_WEAKENED
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_CUSTODY_REPAIR_PROCESS
EVENT: Rankin and Mueller report that paleosol vegetation signatures do not show the expected response to late-13th-century multi-decadal drought, requiring multi-causal explanations of demographic decline.
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BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: PUBLICATION_DATE
WORLD_BANDS: W066
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGY_CUSTODY_REPATRIATION_INTERPRETATION
HOST: SITES_MUSEUMS_TRIBAL_NATIONS_AGENCIES
CARRIER: REMAINS_OBJECTS_RECORDS_DATA_LAW_CONSULTATION
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HERITAGE_TRACK
RELATION: CUSTODY_CONTEST_REPAIR
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MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: OFFICIAL_POLICY_TRIBAL_PRIMARY_RESEARCH
CLAIM_STATUS: LIVE_VERIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
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GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0118
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: evidence/custody regime before this research, policy or repair event
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: Rankin and Mueller report that paleosol vegetation signatures do not show the expected response to late-13th-century multi-decadal drought, requiring multi-causal explanations of demographic decline.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: revised evidence/custody/repair state with new obligations
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: research value is invalid if custody, dignity, consent and descendant authority are externalized
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000119
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R119
TIME_COORDINATE: 2025–2026
TITLE: Effigy Mounds associated-Tribe interpretation remains active
ENTITY: EFFIGY_MOUNDS_ASSOCIATED-TRIBE_INTERPRETATION_REMAINS_ACTIVE
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_CUSTODY_REPAIR_PROCESS
EVENT: NPS identifies multiple culturally associated Tribes and treats oral histories as relevant to interpreting sacred mound landscapes, although community perspectives are not reducible to agency text.
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BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W067–W068
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGY_CUSTODY_REPATRIATION_INTERPRETATION
HOST: SITES_MUSEUMS_TRIBAL_NATIONS_AGENCIES
CARRIER: REMAINS_OBJECTS_RECORDS_DATA_LAW_CONSULTATION
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HERITAGE_TRACK
RELATION: CUSTODY_CONTEST_REPAIR
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TRIBAL_FEDERAL_STATE_INSTITUTIONAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: DIGNITY_MEMORY_RIGHTS_REPAIR_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: OFFICIAL_POLICY_TRIBAL_PRIMARY_RESEARCH
CLAIM_STATUS: LIVE_VERIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S032;EWM.S045
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TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: evidence/custody regime before this research, policy or repair event
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: NPS identifies multiple culturally associated Tribes and treats oral histories as relevant to interpreting sacred mound landscapes, although community perspectives are not reducible to agency text.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: revised evidence/custody/repair state with new obligations
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: research value is invalid if custody, dignity, consent and descendant authority are externalized
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000120
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R120
TIME_COORDINATE: 2026
TITLE: Mitchell Site sixty-year synthesis released
ENTITY: MITCHELL_SITE_SIXTY-YEAR_SYNTHESIS_RELEASED
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_CUSTODY_REPAIR_PROCESS
EVENT: ISAS publishes a 668-page synthesis of the Mitchell site, documenting both Mississippian archaeology and the destruction of most mounds during Interstate 270 construction.
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BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT_YEAR
WORLD_BANDS: W068_CHILD
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGY_CUSTODY_REPATRIATION_INTERPRETATION
HOST: SITES_MUSEUMS_TRIBAL_NATIONS_AGENCIES
CARRIER: REMAINS_OBJECTS_RECORDS_DATA_LAW_CONSULTATION
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
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LIFECYCLE: REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: OFFICIAL_POLICY_TRIBAL_PRIMARY_RESEARCH
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UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
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GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0120
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TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: ISAS publishes a 668-page synthesis of the Mitchell site, documenting both Mississippian archaeology and the destruction of most mounds during Interstate 270 construction.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: revised evidence/custody/repair state with new obligations
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: research value is invalid if custody, dignity, consent and descendant authority are externalized
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000121
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R121
TIME_COORDINATE: 13 April 2026
TITLE: NAGPRA policy guidance current update
ENTITY: NAGPRA_POLICY_GUIDANCE_CURRENT_UPDATE
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_CUSTODY_REPAIR_PROCESS
EVENT: National Park Service policy guidance is updated, providing the live 2026 legal-administrative repair surface for repatriation and disposition processes.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT_DATE
WORLD_BANDS: W068_CHILD
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGY_CUSTODY_REPATRIATION_INTERPRETATION
HOST: SITES_MUSEUMS_TRIBAL_NATIONS_AGENCIES
CARRIER: REMAINS_OBJECTS_RECORDS_DATA_LAW_CONSULTATION
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HERITAGE_TRACK
RELATION: CUSTODY_CONTEST_REPAIR
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TRIBAL_FEDERAL_STATE_INSTITUTIONAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: DIGNITY_MEMORY_RIGHTS_REPAIR_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: OFFICIAL_POLICY_TRIBAL_PRIMARY_RESEARCH
CLAIM_STATUS: LIVE_VERIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S031
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0121
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: evidence/custody regime before this research, policy or repair event
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: National Park Service policy guidance is updated, providing the live 2026 legal-administrative repair surface for repatriation and disposition processes.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: revised evidence/custody/repair state with new obligations
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: research value is invalid if custody, dignity, consent and descendant authority are externalized
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000122
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R122
TIME_COORDINATE: 2026
TITLE: Ocmulgee public interpretation foregrounds Muscogee ancestral homeland
ENTITY: OCMULGEE_PUBLIC_INTERPRETATION_FOREGROUNDS_MUSCOGEE_ANCESTRAL_HOMELAND
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_CUSTODY_REPAIR_PROCESS
EVENT: The National Park Service’s current history page identifies Ocmulgee as ancestral homeland of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, marking a shift away from archaeology detached from living descendants.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: LIVE_WEB_STATE
WORLD_BANDS: W068_CHILD
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGY_CUSTODY_REPATRIATION_INTERPRETATION
HOST: SITES_MUSEUMS_TRIBAL_NATIONS_AGENCIES
CARRIER: REMAINS_OBJECTS_RECORDS_DATA_LAW_CONSULTATION
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HERITAGE_TRACK
RELATION: CUSTODY_CONTEST_REPAIR
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TRIBAL_FEDERAL_STATE_INSTITUTIONAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: DIGNITY_MEMORY_RIGHTS_REPAIR_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: OFFICIAL_POLICY_TRIBAL_PRIMARY_RESEARCH
CLAIM_STATUS: LIVE_VERIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S019
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0122
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: evidence/custody regime before this research, policy or repair event
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: The National Park Service’s current history page identifies Ocmulgee as ancestral homeland of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, marking a shift away from archaeology detached from living descendants.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: revised evidence/custody/repair state with new obligations
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: research value is invalid if custody, dignity, consent and descendant authority are externalized
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000123
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R123
TIME_COORDINATE: 2026
TITLE: Living eastern nations remain present political actors
ENTITY: LIVING_EASTERN_NATIONS_REMAIN_PRESENT_POLITICAL_ACTORS
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_GOVERNANCE_AND_CAPABILITY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Haudenosaunee nations, Cherokee Nation, Choctaw Nation, Lenape governments, Muscogee Nation and many other eastern peoples continue as living communities and governments, not archaeological endpoints.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: LIVE_STATE
WORLD_BANDS: W068_CHILD
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: SOVEREIGNTY_SERVICE_LANGUAGE_LAND_STEWARDSHIP_ECONOMY
HOST: TRIBAL_NATIONS_COMMUNITIES_STATES_PROVINCES
CARRIER: PEOPLE_LAW_INSTITUTIONS_LANGUAGE_CAPITAL_DATA
FLOW: INFORMATION_CAPITAL_PERSON_MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: MODERN_TRACK
RELATION: LIVING_CONTINUITY_AND_REPAIR
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TRIBAL_AND_INTERGOVERNMENTAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: HEALTH_EDUCATION_LAND_CULTURE_POLITICAL_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: REGENERATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: LOCAL_TO_GLOBAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY_OFFICIAL_CURRENT
CLAIM_STATUS: LIVE_VERIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S023;EWM.S024;EWM.S025;EWM.S027
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0123
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: capability under inherited colonial/legal constraint
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TRACE_AFTER_STATE: living capability with contemporary governance and repair channels
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: repair is durable only when community capability and sovereignty outpace inherited drift
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

BEGIN_PROTECTED_RECORD
RECORD_ID: CA.EWM.000124
LOCAL_SERIES_ID: EWM.R124
TIME_COORDINATE: 2026-08-09T00:57:28+08:00
TITLE: Object 51 retrieval freeze
ENTITY: OBJECT_51_RETRIEVAL_FREEZE
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_CUSTODY_REPAIR_PROCESS
EVENT: This release closes at the stated Singapore retrieval time; later discoveries, legal changes and community corrections must enter a successor release rather than silently rewriting this one.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL_OR_EVENT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT_TIMESTAMP
WORLD_BANDS: W068_CHILD
TIME_ZOOM: TZ3_TO_TZ6
ENTITY_ZOOM: EZ3_TO_EZ7
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGY_CUSTODY_REPATRIATION_INTERPRETATION
HOST: SITES_MUSEUMS_TRIBAL_NATIONS_AGENCIES
CARRIER: REMAINS_OBJECTS_RECORDS_DATA_LAW_CONSULTATION
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION_AND_INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: SUBSTRATE+LABOUR+KNOWLEDGE+CORRIDORS+SOCIAL_REPRODUCTION
LINEAGE: HERITAGE_TRACK
RELATION: CUSTODY_CONTEST_REPAIR
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: TRIBAL_FEDERAL_STATE_INSTITUTIONAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: DIGNITY_MEMORY_RIGHTS_REPAIR_FLOOR
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: REPAIR
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC
CAPABILITY_REACH: INTERREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR_CONTEXT_DEPENDENT
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD_LOCAL_TO_INTERREGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC_EXPLICIT_OWNER_AND_CONNECTOR_REQUIRED
MOTION: ORIGIN=PRIOR_STATE; DESTINATION=AFTER_STATE; DIRECTION=TRANSFORMATIONAL; REVERSIBILITY=VARIABLE
EVIDENCE: OFFICIAL_POLICY_TRIBAL_PRIMARY_RESEARCH
CLAIM_STATUS: FROZEN_AT_CUTOFF
UNCERTAINTY: LOW_TO_MEDIUM
SOURCE_KEYS: EWM.S001;EWM.S002
GRAPH_SEEDS: EWM.G0124
TRACE_BEFORE_STATE: evidence/custody regime before this research, policy or repair event
TRACE_TRANSFORMATION: This release closes at the stated Singapore retrieval time; later discoveries, legal changes and community corrections must enter a successor release rather than silently rewriting this one.
TRACE_AFTER_STATE: revised evidence/custody/repair state with new obligations
TRACE_RETURNED_CONSEQUENCE: research value is invalid if custody, dignity, consent and descendant authority are externalized
TRACE_LAW_SCOPE: applies only to the declared entity/time/relationship type; no identity or sovereignty transfer by analogy
TRACE_FALSIFIER: stronger contradictory stratigraphy, dating, community evidence, legal record or cross-domain measurement
END_PROTECTED_RECORD

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06 | LONGITUDINAL SYSTEM TRACKS

EWM.T001 | GLACIAL_RIVER_SUBSTRATE | W007–W068 | ice, Great Lakes, Mississippi–Ohio, coasts, wetlands, flood/drought.
EWM.T002 | HUMAN_OCCUPATION | W014–W068 | Page-Ladson, terminal Pleistocene, Archaic, villages, nations, cities.
EWM.T003 | ARCHIVE_LOSS | W013–W068 | submerged shelves, acidic soils, ploughing, looting, road building, museum extraction.
EWM.T004 | NATIVE_PLANT_DOMESTICATION | W020–W068 | EAC crop formation, regional persistence, later maize recombination.
EWM.T005 | MAIZE_RECOMBINATION | W030–W068 | Mesoamerican connector -> eastern adoption -> urban scaling -> living cuisines.
EWM.T006 | EARTHWORK_MONUMENTALITY | W020–W068 | Watson Brake -> Poverty Point -> Woodland -> Mississippian -> living sacred landscapes.
EWM.T007 | CELESTIAL_OBSERVATION | W031–W068 | Hopewell alignments, Cahokia post circles, seasonal/calendrical knowledge.
EWM.T008 | EXCHANGE_NETWORKS | W020–W068 | stone, copper, mica, shell, food, diplomatic goods, colonial commodities.
EWM.T009 | HOPEWELL_INTERACTION | W031–W034 | dispersed communities, ceremonial centres, materials and assembly.
EWM.T010 | MISSISSIPPIAN_PLURALITY | W036–W043 | Cahokia, Moundville, Etowah, Ocmulgee, Natchez and many local systems.
EWM.T011 | CAHOKIA_URBANISM | W036–W040 | takeoff, immigration, agriculture, monuments, fortification, contraction, afterlife.
EWM.T012 | HAUDENOSAUNEE_GOVERNANCE | W037?–W068 | Great Peace, councils, Clan Mothers, wampum, diplomacy, sovereignty.
EWM.T013 | LENAPE_CONTINUITY | W036–W068 | Delaware Valley food, settlements, diplomacy, displacement and living governments.
EWM.T014 | SOUTHEASTERN_NATION_SYSTEMS | W039–W068 | Cherokee, Muscogee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Natchez and others.
EWM.T015 | ATLANTIC_COLONIAL_PRESSURE | W041–W068 | disease, trade, slavery, mission, war, land market and borders.
EWM.T016 | TREATY_INFORMATION | W042–W068 | wampum, oral diplomacy, written instruments, contested interpretation, living rights.
EWM.T017 | FORCED_REMOVAL | W045–W068 | legislation, treaty coercion, deportation, survival, national rebuilding, memory.
EWM.T018 | LANGUAGE_MEMORY_REPRODUCTION | W001–W068 | oral systems, wampum, print, schooling, suppression and revitalization.
EWM.T019 | HERITAGE_CUSTODY | W045–W068 | mound destruction, excavation, collection, NAGPRA, repatriation, collaborative archaeology.
EWM.T020 | REPAIR_SOVEREIGNTY | W056–W068 | nation-led governance, cultural renewal, stewardship, repatriation and legal contest.

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07 | CIVILISATIONAL GENOME / GENEALOGY / EXPRESSION REGISTER

GENOME G01 — RIVER-WETLAND LOGISTICS: water reading, canoe/foot corridors, fishing, shellfish, floodplain use.
GENOME G02 — BROAD-SPECTRUM FOOD: nuts, deer, fish, wild plants and seasonal scheduling.
GENOME G03 — INDIGENOUS DOMESTICATION: sunflower, chenopod, marshelder, squash/gourd and companion crops.
GENOME G04 — CROP RECOMBINATION: older EAC systems + imported maize/beans/squash packages under local adaptation.
GENOME G05 — EARTH MOVEMENT: mound, ridge, enclosure, plaza and platform as collective labour technologies.
GENOME G06 — PUBLIC ASSEMBLY: recurring capacity to gather people without assuming one permanent centralized state.
GENOME G07 — CELESTIAL/TEMPORAL SENSING: horizon, solar/lunar cycles and seasonal scheduling embodied in landscape.
GENOME G08 — MATERIAL EXCHANGE: long-distance materials carried through non-imperial as well as political networks.
GENOME G09 — URBAN CONCENTRATION: Cahokia demonstrates city-scale aggregation, migration and regional provisioning.
GENOME G10 — TOWN/CLAN CONFEDERATION: distributed governance scales coordination while preserving local hosts.
GENOME G11 — WAMPUM MEMORY: information durability depends on people, protocol and custodianship, not beads alone.
GENOME G12 — DIPLOMACY/TREATY: relation maintenance can outlive colonial partners and modern borders.
GENOME G13 — HOST MIGRATION: removal can force institutions to relocate while identity and governance are actively rebuilt.
GENOME G14 — REPAIR/REPATRIATION: living nations can reverse some custody flows through law, research and community authority.

GENEALOGY RULE: no arrow below means “one people became another.” It means a capability has an evidenced predecessor,
carrier, transformation, receiving host and changed expression. Horizontal transfer is expected and separately typed.

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08 | GRAPH NODES, CONNECTORS AND CORRIDORS

CORE NODES:
PAGE_LADSON; WATSON_BRAKE; POVERTY_POINT; RIVERTON; OHIO_ADENA_FIELD; HOPEWELL_EARTHWORKS;
EFFIGY_MOUNDS; AMERICAN_BOTTOM; CAHOKIA; EAST_ST_LOUIS_PRECINCT; MITCHELL_SITE; OCMULGEE;
MOUNDVILLE; ETOWAH; EMERALD_MOUND/NATCHEZ; DELAWARE_VALLEY; HAUDENOSAUNEE_COUNCIL_FIELD;
CHEROKEE_TOWNS; MUSCOGEE_TOWNS; CHOCTAW_COMMUNITIES; ATLANTIC_COLONIAL_PORTS; INDIAN_TERRITORY;
MODERN_TRIBAL_NATIONS; MUSEUM_CUSTODY; NAGPRA_REPAIR_CHANNEL.

CORRIDORS:
MISSISSIPPI–OHIO; GREAT_LAKES–ST_LAWRENCE; ATLANTIC_ESTUARY; GULF_COAST; APPALACHIAN_PASS;
DEERSKIN/ATLANTIC_TRADE; WAMPUM_DIPLOMACY; REMOVAL_ROUTES; HERITAGE_REPATRIATION.

CORRIDOR PERMEABILITY RULE:
a route can be geographically open but socially closed, militarily dangerous, seasonally unavailable, politically taxed,
or archaeologically invisible. Reachable != interacted. Material arrival != person movement.

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09 | CROSS-OBJECT CONNECTOR QUEUE

EWM.C001 | OBJECT 50 ARCTIC/SUBARCTIC <-> GREAT LAKES/NORTHEAST | people/material/knowledge edges; no annexation.
EWM.C002 | OBJECT 52 PLAINS/WEST <-> MISSISSIPPI/OHIO | bison, stone, copper, movement and political interfaces.
EWM.C003 | OBJECT 53 MESOAMERICA -> EASTERN NORTH AMERICA | maize and other crop/knowledge transmission; origin remains owner-file.
EWM.C004 | GULF/CARIBBEAN <-> SOUTHEAST | shell, maritime movement, storm ecology and colonial routes.
EWM.C005 | ATLANTIC_WORLD -> EASTERN_NATIONS | ships, pathogens, weapons, missionaries, capital, settlers and imperial law.
EWM.C006 | EASTERN_NATIONS -> INDIAN_TERRITORY | forced and voluntary person/institution movement; origin homelands persist.
EWM.C007 | MODERN_US/CANADA <-> TRIBAL_NATIONS | treaty, jurisdiction, service, court and policy interfaces; sovereignty not collapsed.
EWM.C008 | MUSEUMS/AGENCIES -> TRIBAL_NATIONS | repatriation, data, ancestors, sacred/cultural items and consultation.

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10 | CIVILISATION CAT SCAN — NON-RANKING DIAGNOSTIC SURFACES

CAT01 FLOOR: food, water, habitat, health, ecology.
CAT02 BODY: household, town, city, labour, demography, kinship.
CAT03 FLOW: river, trail, material, person, crop, wampum, treaty, capital.
CAT04 MEMORY: oral history, mound landscape, wampum, ceremony, archive, language.
CAT05 SENSOR: archaeology, Indigenous knowledge, environmental proxy, text, law, isotope, remote sensing.
CAT06 CONTROL: household, clan, town, council, confederacy, chief/polity, colony, state, federal and Tribal jurisdiction.
CAT07 REPAIR: food-buffering, adoption, migration, diplomacy, rebuilding, language revival, repatriation.
CAT08 EDGE: coast, river confluence, forest-prairie margin, Great Lakes, colonial frontier, modern border.

CAT RELEASE TEST:
Possessed capability is not assumed effective. For any claim ask: Stated -> Available -> Deployable -> Exercised -> Effective.
Then ask who received the effect, what burden was exported, what maintenance debt accumulated, and whether RepairRate >= DriftRate.

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11 | SIX OBSERVER POSITIONS AND RECEIVER/NOBODY TEST

SKY: sees rivers, networks, settlement density, climate fields and long-duration geometry.
STRATEGIST: asks which corridor, crop package, alliance or settlement configuration widens survivable range.
GENERAL: sees force, fortification, raiding, defence, removal and coercive control.
ENGINEER: sees earth volume, timber, storage, fields, transport, maintenance and reconstruction.
RECEIVER: asks whether food, security, law, diplomacy, education and repair actually reach households and communities.
NOBODY: restores people suppressed by elite or colonial archives — mound labourers, farmers, fishers, women, children, captives,
adoptees, enslaved people, displaced families, excavated ancestors, sacred sites and damaged ecologies.

NOBODY RELEASE GATE:
A “civilisational achievement” claim fails if it celebrates monuments, cities, military success or colonial infrastructure while
deleting the labour, mortality, dispossession, ecological extraction or custody burden needed to produce it.

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12 | INVARIANT CONVERGENCE TESTS

I01 MONUMENTALITY_WITHOUT_STATE: Watson Brake/Poverty Point test whether collective construction requires intensive farming/statehood.
I02 NETWORK_WITHOUT_EMPIRE: Hopewell tests whether long-distance material circulation requires territorial command.
I03 FOOD_RECOMBINATION: EAC + maize tests whether imported capability replaces or recombines with older local knowledge.
I04 URBAN_DEPENDENCY: Cahokia tests whether city scale widens dependency on hinterland food, labour, water, timber and social integration.
I05 DIVERSITY_AS_CAPABILITY_AND_LOAD: Cahokia migration tests gains and coordination pressures of plural urban assembly.
I06 CLIMATE_NOT_DESTINY: Cahokia drought evidence tests correlation against direct agricultural failure mechanisms.
I07 CONFEDERATION_WITH_LOCAL_AUTONOMY: Haudenosaunee tests scaled coordination without erasing nation-level council fires.
I08 MEMORY_HOST: wampum tests information persistence through protocol/custodian rather than material object alone.
I09 COERCED_HOST_MIGRATION: Removal tests whether institutions can survive forced geographic relocation while returning massive human cost.
I10 ARCHIVE_POWER: mound-builder myth and museum custody test how evidence control can reshape public identity narratives.
I11 REPAIR_REQUIRES_AUTHORITY: NAGPRA tests whether legal return without consultation/custodial authority closes the repair loop.
I12 MODERNITY_NON_ERASURE: living Tribal governments falsify any chronology that ends Indigenous societies at “contact.”

LAW_SCOPE: these are comparative hypotheses, not universal coefficients.
FALSIFIER RULE: contradictory high-quality cases modify or retire an invariant rather than forcing the case to fit.

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13 | EnDist, POWER-PLANT AND ADAPTATION READ

GENERATOR VIEW:
SUBSTRATE -> INPUTS -> GENERATION -> CONVERSION -> STORAGE -> ROUTING -> RECEIVER ABSORPTION -> USEFUL WORK
-> LOSSES -> REGENERATION -> NEXT STATE.

EXAMPLES:
Native crop knowledge generates calories only when seed, soil, labour, season, storage and household access align.
Hopewell material reach becomes social effect only through carriers, gathering intervals, interpretation and ritual hosts.
Cahokia’s urban power rises when food, people, earth-moving labour, public space and information synchronize; the same concentration
increases maintenance, health, conflict and ecological loads.
Haudenosaunee confederacy capability depends on council procedure, kinship authority, wampum memory and repeated diplomatic maintenance.
Colonial military/market capability can propagate as EnDist− for Indigenous receivers through land loss, disease, coercion and removal.

ADAPTATION RULE:
No society has one permanent optimal configuration. Flood, drought, war, trade, disease, migration, crop change and external power alter
the mission field; resilient systems sense, remap and adapt before change outruns repair. The newer ECU analogy is retained only as a
systems lens: inputs and loads change, so viable mappings change. It does not imply one centralized historical controller.

CAUSAL_GATE:
Synchrony is not causality. A strong causal claim requires a plausible mechanism, carrier/path, interval, receiver effect and competing-model
test. Cahokia decline therefore remains multi-causal/open: drought, hydrology, social conflict, political reorganization, mobility, ecology and
other pressures are weighted by local evidence rather than collapsed into one explanation.

UNIVERSAL_GRAMMAR_NOT_COEFFICIENTS:
The same diagnostic grammar may compare Watson Brake, Hopewell, Cahokia and Haudenosaunee systems, but their coefficients, scales,
institutions and meanings are local. Invariant convergence is a comparison tool, not a license to force unlike societies into one model.

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14 | COLONIAL CONTROL, RETURNED COST AND REPAIR TRACES

COLONIAL_TRANSFORMATION IS DECOMPOSED:
PATHOGEN != TRADE != MISSION != SETTLEMENT != TREATY != WAR != SLAVERY != LAND_SURVEY != REMOVAL.
These may interact but must not be collapsed into one “contact” event.

TRUE REVERSE HYDRA EXAMPLE — 1830s REMOVAL:
visible event: people moved west
<- federal statute, treaty machinery, state law, settler demand, army/logistics
<- plantation/land-market expansion and racialized sovereignty claims
-> household mortality, kin separation, food/health collapse, cultural-host disruption
-> land transfer to settler systems
-> rebuilding of governments and communities in new hosts
-> eastern communities that remain
-> treaty/legal memory and present sovereignty disputes.
Repair is not closed merely because a new government functions elsewhere.

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15 | EVIDENCE HISTORY, CUSTODY AND 2026 REPAIR STATE

The archive has its own chronology. Earthworks were ploughed, quarried and road-cut; ancestors and objects were removed to collections;
interpretation was often conducted without descendant authority; and “Mound Builder” speculation helped imagine Indigenous absence.

The Mitchell site makes this visible: highway construction beginning in 1960 destroyed most of an eleven-mound complex. The 2026 synthesis
therefore records two clocks at once — the Mississippian occupation and the modern destruction/research/custody history. [EWM.S018]

NAGPRA creates a legal repair channel, but the Atlas does not equate law with completed return. The live 2026 state requires consultation,
itemized evidence, custody tracking, disposition/repatriation stages, and community authority. [EWM.S031]

The Hopewell World Heritage decision likewise treats management as unfinished: it explicitly asks for further inclusion of Indigenous
communities in decision-making. Heritage recognition is therefore a capability input, not proof that the Receiver has obtained authority. [EWM.S011]

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16 | UNCERTAINTY, DISPUTE AND ABSTENTION REGISTER

EWM.U001 | Earliest occupation dates remain site-specific; Page-Ladson does not define the first arrival date for all eastern North America.
EWM.U002 | “Archaic/Woodland/Mississippian” boundaries vary regionally and are analytical conveniences.
EWM.U003 | Adena and Hopewell relations are complex; similarity and chronological succession do not prove one bounded people.
EWM.U004 | Hopewell political organisation varies; empire/state labels are withheld absent direct evidence.
EWM.U005 | Celestial alignments are strong at specific Hopewell complexes; universal astronomical purpose is not inferred for all mounds.
EWM.U006 | Maize arrival, intensification and dietary importance differ by region.
EWM.U007 | Cahokia population estimates are ranges/models, not census counts.
EWM.U008 | Strontium studies identify non-local individuals in samples; exact immigrant proportion for the whole metropolis is uncertain.
EWM.U009 | Cahokia decline is multicausal/open; drought correlation cannot substitute for demonstrated food-system failure.
EWM.U010 | Specific living-nation descent from individual archaeological sites must follow Nation-led and case-specific evidence.
EWM.U011 | Haudenosaunee Confederacy foundation date remains plural: living tradition predates European arrival; scholarly dating varies.
EWM.U012 | Two Row Wampum’s living diplomatic meaning and documentary chronology are separate evidence layers.
EWM.U013 | Epidemic timing and mortality cannot be mapped uniformly from one explorer’s route.
EWM.U014 | Colonial ethnonyms and confederacy labels can freeze fluid town/kin systems; terminology requires dated context.
EWM.U015 | Modern federal recognition, treaty status, reservation boundaries and citizenship differ by nation and belong to owner legal files.
EWM.U016 | NAGPRA compliance statistics change; any quantitative live claim requires a retrieval timestamp and expiry.

ABSTENTION RULE: when community attribution, ancestry, sacred meaning, title or legal status is unresolved, preserve the uncertainty rather than infer.

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17 | NEXT-RELEASE QUEUE / RESEARCH FRONTIER

Q01 — Incorporate new Tribal-led Cahokia descendant-community research and repatriation outcomes as released.
Q02 — Track the Mitchell-site 2026 synthesis into site-level graph edges rather than only a bibliographic node.
Q03 — Add finer Great Lakes, Atlantic Algonquian, Wendat, Shawnee and Wabanaki owner-file connectors without making Object 51 infinite.
Q04 — Expand Muscogee, Chickasaw, Natchez and Mississippi Choctaw primary-source registers.
Q05 — Track post-2024 NAGPRA implementation and any litigation/policy changes after freeze.
Q06 — Add palaeoenvironmental/flood chronologies for the American Bottom and Lower Mississippi with explicit uncertainty.
Q07 — Add ancient-DNA research only under strict community-consent, sample/custody and identity firewalls; ancestry != nation.
Q08 — Build a mound-destruction / infrastructure overlay to expose archaeological survivorship bias.
Q09 — Crosswalk maize transmission to Object 53 Mesoamerica without transferring owner claims.
Q10 — Maintain a living Indigenous correction route for terminology, community relations, sacred knowledge and custody.

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18 | SOURCE-OBJECT REGISTER

EWM.S001 | TYPE=METHOD_STANDARD | DATE=2026 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=eduKateSG | TITLE=Civilisation Atlas Regional Runtime V3.2 | LOCATOR=Internal/file-library runtime reference | USE_LIMIT=Regional machine contract; not historical evidence.
EWM.S002 | TYPE=ROOT_RUNTIME | DATE=2026 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=eduKateSG | TITLE=Reality Continuum Runtime V3.3 | LOCATOR=Internal/file-library root patch | USE_LIMIT=Root-integrity receipts only; not a regional V3.3 label.
EWM.S003 | TYPE=PARENT_CHRONOLOGY | DATE=2026 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=eduKateSG | TITLE=World / Humanity Master Chronological Spine | LOCATOR=Internal/file-library World Master | USE_LIMIT=W000–W068 synchronization; parent ends 28 July 2026.
EWM.S004 | TYPE=PUBLIC_MASTER | DATE=2026 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=eduKateSG | TITLE=The Atlas | A Navigation System for Civilisation, Reality and Repair | LOCATOR=https://edukatesg.com/portfolio/the-atlas/ | USE_LIMIT=Public architecture, Correct-Type, owner burden, operation/repair contract.
EWM.S005 | TYPE=PEER_REVIEWED_PRIMARY | DATE=2016 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Halligan et al. | TITLE=Pre-Clovis occupation 14,550 years ago at the Page-Ladson site, Florida | LOCATOR=https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600375 | USE_LIMIT=Page-Ladson stratigraphy, radiocarbon ages and human-megafauna association.
EWM.S006 | TYPE=PEER_REVIEWED_PRIMARY | DATE=2005 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Saunders et al. | TITLE=Watson Brake, a Middle Archaic Mound Complex in Northeast Louisiana | LOCATOR=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/abs/watson-brake-a-middle-archaic-mound-complex-in-northeast-louisiana/4A722B1B6A8330E4F26BB9EE3E7FCD74 | USE_LIMIT=Watson Brake chronology, construction and subsistence.
EWM.S007 | TYPE=OFFICIAL_HERITAGE | DATE=2014-current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=UNESCO World Heritage Centre | TITLE=Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point | LOCATOR=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1435 | USE_LIMIT=Poverty Point chronology, monumentality, subsistence and landscape; UNESCO framing is not sole descendant authority.
EWM.S008 | TYPE=PEER_REVIEWED_PRIMARY | DATE=2009 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Bruce D. Smith and Richard A. Yarnell | TITLE=Initial formation of an indigenous crop complex in eastern North America at 3800 B.P. | LOCATOR=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2666091/ | USE_LIMIT=Eastern Agricultural Complex chronology and Riverton crop assemblage.
EWM.S009 | TYPE=PEER_REVIEWED_PRIMARY | DATE=2024 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Justin M. Reamer | TITLE=Evidence for the Eastern Agricultural Complex Crops in the Upper Delaware Valley | LOCATOR=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/evidence-for-the-eastern-agricultural-complex-crops-in-the-upper-delaware-valley-botanical-analysis-from-the-manna-site-36pi4/87243CAE0D8BB2174D51C8F981E121B0 | USE_LIMIT=Manna site crop evidence and possible Lenape cultivation; claim remains site/context specific.
EWM.S010 | TYPE=OFFICIAL_HERITAGE | DATE=2023-current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=UNESCO World Heritage Centre | TITLE=Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks | LOCATOR=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1689/ | USE_LIMIT=Eight Ohio ceremonial-earthwork complexes, chronology, geometry, celestial alignments and management.
EWM.S011 | TYPE=OFFICIAL_DECISION | DATE=2023 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=UNESCO World Heritage Committee | TITLE=Decision 45 COM 8B.47 | LOCATOR=https://whc.unesco.org/en/decisions/8428/ | USE_LIMIT=Hopewell inscription and request to further Indigenous-community inclusion in management.
EWM.S012 | TYPE=PUBLIC_ARCHAEOLOGY | DATE=2021-current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=National Park Service | TITLE=Ohio’s Prehistoric Past | LOCATOR=https://home.nps.gov/articles/000/ohio-s-prehistoric-past.htm | USE_LIMIT=Public overview of Adena/Early Woodland in Ohio; simplified periodization treated cautiously.
EWM.S013 | TYPE=OFFICIAL_HERITAGE | DATE=current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=UNESCO World Heritage Centre | TITLE=Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site | LOCATOR=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/198/ | USE_LIMIT=Cahokia scale, chronology, features and population estimates; chiefdom terminology treated as one analytical model.
EWM.S014 | TYPE=RESEARCH_INSTITUTION | DATE=2026-current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Illinois State Archaeological Survey | TITLE=Cahokia | LOCATOR=https://www.isas.illinois.edu/research_2/cahokia | USE_LIMIT=Greater Cahokia urbanism, regional scale, population estimates, ecology and current research.
EWM.S015 | TYPE=PEER_REVIEWED_PRIMARY | DATE=2014 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Slater, Hedman and Emerson | TITLE=Immigrants at the Mississippian polity of Cahokia | LOCATOR=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.01.022 | USE_LIMIT=Strontium-isotope evidence for non-local individuals; sampled burials do not equal whole population.
EWM.S016 | TYPE=RESEARCH_SYNTHESIS | DATE=current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Illinois State Archaeological Survey / University of Illinois | TITLE=Contextualizing Diaspora within an Urbanized Cahokia | LOCATOR=https://experts.illinois.edu/en/publications/contextualizing-diaspora-within-an-urbanized-cahokia/ | USE_LIMIT=Cahokia heterogeneity, migration and urban social recomposition.
EWM.S017 | TYPE=PEER_REVIEWED_PRIMARY | DATE=2024 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Caitlin G. Rankin and Natalie G. Mueller | TITLE=Correlating Late-Holocene climate change and population dynamics at Cahokia Mounds | LOCATOR=https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836241254488 | USE_LIMIT=Paleosol stable-carbon evidence challenging simple drought-caused crop-collapse narratives.
EWM.S018 | TYPE=RESEARCH_REPORT | DATE=2026 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Illinois State Archaeological Survey | TITLE=Mounds North of Cahokia: Sixty Years of Archaeology at the Mitchell Site | LOCATOR=https://www.isas.illinois.edu/publications/research_reports | USE_LIMIT=2026 synthesis; Mitchell mounds, highway destruction, archaeology and descendant-Tribe sacred significance.
EWM.S019 | TYPE=OFFICIAL_HERITAGE | DATE=2026-current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=National Park Service | TITLE=Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park — History & Culture | LOCATOR=https://www.nps.gov/ocmu/learn/historyculture/index.htm | USE_LIMIT=Long occupation, Muscogee ancestral-homeland statement, archaeological and historic layers.
EWM.S020 | TYPE=OFFICIAL_HERITAGE | DATE=2026-current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=National Park Service | TITLE=Emerald Mound | LOCATOR=https://www.nps.gov/natr/learn/historyculture/emeraldmound.htm | USE_LIMIT=Mississippian/Natchez-area monumental chronology and survival into contact-era worlds.
EWM.S021 | TYPE=INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY | DATE=current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Onondaga Nation | TITLE=Hiawatha Belt | LOCATOR=https://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/hiawatha-belt/ | USE_LIMIT=Haudenosaunee account of confederacy, Great Peace, council fires, Clan Mothers and living wampum memory.
EWM.S022 | TYPE=INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY | DATE=current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Onondaga Nation | TITLE=Timeline | LOCATOR=https://www.onondaganation.org/history/timeline/ | USE_LIMIT=Onondaga chronology including 1142 scholarly date, Two Row tradition, Covenant Chain and 1701 peace; community framing preserved.
EWM.S023 | TYPE=INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY | DATE=current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Onondaga Nation | TITLE=Sovereignty | LOCATOR=https://www.onondaganation.org/government/sovereignty/ | USE_LIMIT=Living governmental and sovereignty perspective; not generalized to all Haudenosaunee nations.
EWM.S024 | TYPE=INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY | DATE=current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Delaware Tribe of Indians | TITLE=Lenape History | LOCATOR=https://delawaretribe.org/cultural-education/culture-and-language/lenape-history/ | USE_LIMIT=Lenape historical and traditional-knowledge framing; Delaware Tribe is one contemporary Lenape polity.
EWM.S025 | TYPE=INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY | DATE=current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Cherokee Nation | TITLE=History | LOCATOR=https://www.cherokee.org/about-the-nation/history/ | USE_LIMIT=Cherokee Nation history, constitutional reconstruction and removal memory; one Cherokee governmental voice.
EWM.S026 | TYPE=INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY | DATE=current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Cherokee Nation | TITLE=Remember the Removal — Our Journey | LOCATOR=https://www.cherokee.org/about-the-nation/remember-the-removal/our-journey/ | USE_LIMIT=1838 forced removal and Cherokee Nation estimate of deaths.
EWM.S027 | TYPE=INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY | DATE=2021-current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma | TITLE=A New Chahta Homeland: 1830–1840 | LOCATOR=https://www.choctawnation.com/news/iti-fabvssa/a-new-chahta-homeland-a-history-by-the-decade-1830-1840/ | USE_LIMIT=Choctaw removal, treaty, rebuilding and community consequences.
EWM.S028 | TYPE=INDIGENOUS_PRIMARY | DATE=current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma | TITLE=Historic Preservation | LOCATOR=https://www.choctawnation.com/about/culture/historic-preservation/ | USE_LIMIT=Current preservation, repatriation and cultural-revitalization practice.
EWM.S029 | TYPE=OFFICIAL_HISTORY | DATE=current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=National Park Service | TITLE=Trail of Tears National Historic Trail — History & Culture | LOCATOR=https://home.nps.gov/trte/learn/historyculture/index.htm | USE_LIMIT=Federal-removal process and Cherokee removal overview; tribal sources take interpretive precedence for lived effects.
EWM.S030 | TYPE=OFFICIAL_ARCHIVE | DATE=current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=National Archives | TITLE=Bureau of Indian Affairs Records: Tribal Rolls | LOCATOR=https://www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/rolls | USE_LIMIT=Indian Removal Act and removal-roll archive; administrative record is not full community history.
EWM.S031 | TYPE=OFFICIAL_POLICY | DATE=2026 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=National Park Service | TITLE=Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act — Policy | LOCATOR=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nagpra/policy.htm | USE_LIMIT=Current NAGPRA guidance, updated 13 April 2026.
EWM.S032 | TYPE=OFFICIAL_HERITAGE | DATE=2025-current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=National Park Service | TITLE=Effigy Moundbuilders | LOCATOR=https://www.nps.gov/efmo/learn/historyculture/effigy-moundbuilders.htm | USE_LIMIT=Upper Mississippi/Great Lakes effigy-mound chronology and associated Tribes.
EWM.S033 | TYPE=SCHOLARLY_SYNTHESIS | DATE=1998 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=George R. Milner | TITLE=The Cahokia Chiefdom: The Archaeology of a Mississippian Society | LOCATOR=Smithsonian Institution Press | USE_LIMIT=Cahokia archaeological synthesis; “chiefdom” remains an analytical model, not a self-name.
EWM.S034 | TYPE=SCHOLARLY_SYNTHESIS | DATE=2009 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Timothy R. Pauketat | TITLE=Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi | LOCATOR=Viking | USE_LIMIT=Cahokia synthesis and historical interpretation; hypotheses separated from measured archaeology.
EWM.S035 | TYPE=SCHOLARLY_SYNTHESIS | DATE=1994 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Dean R. Snow | TITLE=The Iroquois | LOCATOR=Blackwell | USE_LIMIT=Archaeological/historical synthesis; checked against Haudenosaunee primary perspectives.
EWM.S036 | TYPE=SCHOLARLY_SYNTHESIS | DATE=1992 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Daniel K. Richter | TITLE=The Ordeal of the Longhouse | LOCATOR=University of North Carolina Press | USE_LIMIT=Seventeenth-century Haudenosaunee/colonial transformations; interpretive synthesis.
EWM.S037 | TYPE=SCHOLARLY_SYNTHESIS | DATE=1998 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=William N. Fenton | TITLE=The Great Law and the Longhouse | LOCATOR=University of Oklahoma Press | USE_LIMIT=Haudenosaunee political-ethnographic synthesis; community traditions retain authority over living law.
EWM.S038 | TYPE=SCHOLARLY_SYNTHESIS | DATE=2003 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Robbie Ethridge | TITLE=Creek Country | LOCATOR=University of North Carolina Press | USE_LIMIT=Muscogee/Creek towns, colonial trade and political transformations.
EWM.S039 | TYPE=SCHOLARLY_SYNTHESIS | DATE=1995 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Patricia Galloway | TITLE=Choctaw Genesis, 1500–1700 | LOCATOR=University of Nebraska Press | USE_LIMIT=Choctaw ethnogenesis and colonial-era transformation; modern Nation sources used alongside.
EWM.S040 | TYPE=SCHOLARLY_SYNTHESIS | DATE=2006 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Kathleen DuVal | TITLE=The Native Ground | LOCATOR=University of Pennsylvania Press | USE_LIMIT=Interior Southeast diplomacy and colonial relations.
EWM.S041 | TYPE=SCHOLARLY_SYNTHESIS | DATE=1997 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Charles Hudson | TITLE=Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun | LOCATOR=University of Georgia Press | USE_LIMIT=De Soto expedition reconstruction; epidemic and polity effects require multi-source caution.
EWM.S042 | TYPE=HERITAGE_HISTORIOGRAPHY | DATE=current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Smithsonian Institution | TITLE=Anthropology — early mound-builder speculation | LOCATOR=https://siarchives.si.edu/history/featured-topics/henry/anthropology | USE_LIMIT=History of mound-builder speculation and archaeology; used to expose historiographic distortion.
EWM.S043 | TYPE=HERITAGE_SYNTHESIS | DATE=2015 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=Jay Miller | TITLE=Ancestral Mounds: Vitality and Volatility of Native America | LOCATOR=University of Nebraska Press / Smithsonian catalog record | USE_LIMIT=Contemporary Native mound meanings and continuity; not a universal meaning claim.
EWM.S044 | TYPE=WORLD_MASTER_RECORD | DATE=2026 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=eduKateSG | TITLE=CA.WORLD.000149 — Hopewell Interaction Sphere | LOCATOR=Internal/file-library World Master | USE_LIMIT=Parent-clock crosswalk; Hopewell is interaction/ceremonial field, not empire or homogeneous tribe.
EWM.S045 | TYPE=OFFICIAL_HERITAGE | DATE=2025-current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=National Park Service | TITLE=Effigy Mounds National Monument | LOCATOR=https://www.nps.gov/efmo/ | USE_LIMIT=Heritage and associated-Tribe interface; site-specific.
EWM.S046 | TYPE=OFFICIAL_HERITAGE | DATE=2026-current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=National Park Service | TITLE=Natchez Indians — Natchez National Historical Park | LOCATOR=https://www.nps.gov/natc/learn/historyculture/indians.htm | USE_LIMIT=Natchez-area mound-building/contact-era continuity overview; simplified public synthesis.
EWM.S047 | TYPE=OFFICIAL_POLICY | DATE=2024-current | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=U.S. Department of the Interior | TITLE=Revised NAGPRA regulations | LOCATOR=https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-announces-final-rule-native-american-graves-protection-and | USE_LIMIT=2024 regulation changes; legal rule and implementation kept separate.
EWM.S048 | TYPE=METHOD_STANDARD | DATE=2026-08-08 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=eduKateSG | TITLE=Boosting Cities — Final Master Assembly and AI Fullcode | LOCATOR=Internal/file-library canonical architecture | USE_LIMIT=Atlas/Warehouse/Dashboard/CivOS/Generator/Power Plant/EnDist/Interface Processor integration; universal grammar is not universal coefficients.
EWM.S049 | TYPE=PUBLIC_ARTICLE_PROFILE | DATE=2026-08-09 | AUTHOR/PUBLISHER=eduKateSG | TITLE=ATLAS-ARTICLE-RUNTIME.V4.2-PROVISIONAL implementation receipt | LOCATOR=Internal/file-library Object 48/49 article profile | USE_LIMIT=Page-level article controls only; does not supersede Regional Runtime V3.2.

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19 | VALIDATION, RELEASE MANIFEST AND PAYLOAD HASH

VALIDATION_SUMMARY:
PASS — Object 51 numbering follows the current World Master queue.
PASS — Regional Runtime V3.2 and Reality Continuum V3.3 root patch remain version-separated; public article profile is V4.2-PROVISIONAL.
PASS — W000–W068 inherited; child live-tail explicitly extends only to 2026-08-09T00:57:28+08:00.
PASS — archaeological labels, languages, peoples, nations, polities and modern states are firewalled.
PASS — Hopewell is encoded as an interaction/ceremonial field, not an empire.
PASS — Mississippian is encoded as a plural civilisational tradition, not one nation.
PASS — Cahokia is a city/metropolitan node, not shorthand for all Eastern North America.
PASS — Haudenosaunee living primary sources are separated from archaeological labels and colonial exonyms.
PASS — climate correlation is separated from demonstrated mechanism; 2024 Cahokia research incorporated.
PASS — evidence event-time, excavation-time, destruction-time, publication-time and custody-time may diverge.
PASS — 2026 Mitchell-site and NAGPRA updates incorporated.
PASS — Receiver/Nobody, EnDist, CAT, Genome/Genealogy/Expression and RepairRate tests installed.
PASS — Causal Gate, Interface Processor, Slice/Tube/Stack/Field, Ideal/Real/Observed and adaptation-field checks installed.
PASS — Universal Grammar != Universal Coefficients preserved.
PASS — future corrections are append-only.

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