ITARP, as a joint UIUC-IDOT program, is actively involved in the archaeology of Illinois doing hundreds of archaeological surveys and dozens of excavations each year. These activities allow the efficient planning and construction of the state's transportation network. The new information gathered as part of this process also have made major contributions to our understanding of Illinois archaeology. ITARP personnel disseminate the results of this research through publications such as articles and books, conference papers and public lectures, school presentations, and museum and interpretive displays.

Current Research
Staff Presentations
IDOT Bibliography

Alexander, Linda

2002 Class Tour, University of Illinois Anthropology 220, Professor Barry Lewis.

2001 Class Tour, University of Illinois Anthropology 220, Professor Barry Lewis (with A. C. Fortier, E. A. Hargrave, and A. Neller)

2001 "Phase I Cultural Resources Survey and Phase II Testing of 23DL169, 23DL171, 23DL173, 23DL178, and 23DL180 for Proposed Improvements to Route 65, Dallas County, Missouri" (with T. Schumann and D. Austin). Report on file at the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Jefferson City, Missouri.

2001 "Exploring the Archaeology of Danville: The Danville By-Pass Project" (with D. McElrath and K. Shane Vanderford). Lecture presented for Illinois Archaeology Awareness Week, Bremer Conference Center.

1999 "Phase I Cultural Resources Survey, Route 94, St. Charles County, Missouri" (with M. Keepen).

2001 "All About Archaeology." Lectures presented during 8-week After School Enrichment Program, Yankee Ridge School.

1998 "An Archaeological Survey of the Horseshoe Lake State Park, Madison County Illinois" (with T. R. Pauketat and M. A. Rees) in Illinois Museum Reports of Investigations, No. 55.

Books and Book Chapters

2001 The Practice of Archaeology in Large Transportation-Related Corridors: The FAI-270 Archaeological Mitigation Project (T. Emerson and J. Walthall). To be included in a volume dealing with preserving cultural resources in the face of large-scale capitalistic development in former Soviet block countries of eastern Europe. Edited by Ludomir Lozny, to be published in Poland.

2001 Interpreting Discontinuity and Historical Process in Midcontinential Late Archaic and Early Woodland Societies (T. Emerson and D. McElrath). In The Archaeology of Tradition: Agency and History Before and After Columbus, edited by T. Pauketat. University Press of Florida, Gainesville (In press).

2001 Death and Ritual in Early Rural Cahokia (T. Emerson, E. Hargrave, and K. Hedman). In Theory, Method and Technique in Modern Archaeology, edited by R. J. Jeske, and D. K. Charles. Bergin and Garvey, Westport. In preparation.

2000 Serpents, Female Deities, and Fertility Symbolism in the Early Cahokian Countryside (T. Emerson, B. Koldehoff and T. Pauketat). Prepared for publication in Mounds, Modoc, and Mesoamerica: Papers in Honor of Melvin L. Fowler, edited by S. Ahler. Illinois State Museum, Scientific Papers Series. (In press).

2000 An "Intrinsic Characteristics" Approach to Chert Classification: An American Bottom Case Example (D. McElrath and T. Emerson). In Taxonomy, Traditions, and Transition: Papers in Honor of James B. Stoltman, edited by R. Yerkes. Special Publication, Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, University of Iowa Press. Iowa City.

2000 Social Evolution or Social Response? A Fresh Look at the "Good Grey Cultures" (D. McElrath, T. Emerson, and A. Fortier). Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation in the Midcontinent edited by T. Emerson, D. McElrath, and A. Fortier. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska.

2000 The Des Plaines Complex and the Late Woodland Stage in Northern Illinois (T. Emerson and A. Titelbaum). Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation in the Midcontinent edited by T. Emerson, D. McElrath, and A. Fortier. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1999 Representations of Hegemony as Community at Cahokia (T. Pauketat and T. Emerson). Material Symbols: Culture and Economy in Prehistory, edited by J. Robb, pp. 302-317. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No. 26, Carbondale, Illinois.

1997 Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

1997 Cahokia and the Four Winds of Mississippiandom (T. Pauketat and T. Emerson). Cahokia: Ideology and Domination in the Mississippian World, pp. 269-278. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1997 Cahokia Elite Ideology and the Mississippian Cosmos. Cahokia: Ideology and Domination in the Mississippian World, pp. 190-228. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1997 Reflections from the Countryside on Cahokian Hegemony. Cahokia: Ideology and Domination in the Mississippian World, pp.167-189. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1997 Introduction: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World (T. Pauketat and T. Emerson). Cahokia: Ideology and the Domination in the Mississippian World, pp. 1-29. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Edited Volumes

2000 Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation in the Midcontinent (Editors, T. Emerson, D. McElrath, and A. Fortier). University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1997 Cahokia: Ideology and Domination in the Mississippian World (Editors, T. Pauketat and T. Emerson). University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Published Articles

2000 Strangers in Paradise: Recognizing Ethnic Mortuary Diversity on the Fringes of Cahokia (T. Emerson and E. Hargrave). Southeastern Archaeology 19(1):1-23.

2000 Figurines, Flint Clay Sourcing, the Ozark Highlands, and Cahokian Acquisition (T. Emerson and R. Hughes). American Antiquity 65(1):79-101.

1999 Review Feature: Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power (T. Emerson, W. Dancey, T. Pauketat, A. Whittle, E. DeMarrais, W. DeBoer, and A. Kehoe). Cambridge Archaeological Journal 9(2):249-275.

1999 The Langford Tradition and the Process of Tribalization on the Middle Mississippian Borders. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 24(1):3-56.

1998 The Meyer Site: A Terminal Late Archaic Residential Camp in the American Bottom (A. Fortier, T. Emerson, and K. Parker). Illinois Archaeology 10(1&2):195-228.

1997 Constructing (on) the Past: Illinois Paves the Way for Preservation Partnerships. (J. Walthall, K. Farnsworth and T. Emerson). Common Ground 2(1):26-33.

1996 Preserving the Shipwrecks of the Prairie State. Illinois Archaeology 8(1&2):1-22.

1996 The Svehla Effigy Elbow Pipe and Spud: Mississippian Sacra from the Sutter Collection. Tennessee Anthropologist 21(2):124-131.

Papers Presented

2001 "PIMA Technology and Cahokia Flint Clay Figures in the Upper Mississippi River Valley" (with M. Hynes, S. Wisseman, and R. Hughes). Paper presented the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

2001 "An Introduction to Cahokia 2001." Paper presented the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

2000 "Crossing Boundaries Between Worlds: Changing Beliefs and Mortuary Practices at Cahokia." Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology, 65th Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2000 "Embodying Power and Resistance at Prehistoric Cahokia" (with T. Pauketat). Paper presented in Dynamics of Power. Seventeenth Annual Visiting Scholar Conference, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Carbondale, Illinois.

2000 "Red Goddesses on the Mississippi." Lecture presented to the Archaeological Institute of America, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois.

2000 "Cahokia and Mississippian Symbolism." Lecture presented to University of Illinois Press, UIUC, Champaign, Illinois.

2000 "The Stone Goddesses of Cahokia." Lecture presented in the Winter Lecture Series, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Collinsville, Illinois.

1999 "Langford Tradition Mortuary Patterns at the Material Services Quarry Site in the Upper Illinois River Valley" (with K. Hedman). Paper presented at the 45th Midwest Archaeological Conference, East Lansing, Michigan.

1999 "Building on the Past: The Archaeology of Large Transportation-Related Corridors." Paper presented in "Landscapes in Transition: Recent Approaches to Cultural Heritage Research and Preservation," organized by Ludomir Lozny, Hunter College, CUNY, New York.

1999 "An Emic Approach to Chert Classification: An American Bottom Example" (with D. McElrath). Paper presented in Taxonomy, Traditions, and Transition: A Symposium in Honor of James B. Stoltman. Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, Illinois.

1999 "Kane Mounds and Mississippian Mortuary Variation at the Edge of Cahokia" (with E. Hargrave). Paper presented in Brownian Motion: Reflections on the Past. Society for American Archaeology, 64th Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois.

1998 "Filling the Void: Understanding the Late Woodland of North Central Illinois" (with A. Titelbaum). Paper presented at the 43rd Midwest Archaeological Conference, Muncie, Indiana.

1998 "Death in the Morning: The Modern Context of a 14th Century Massacre." Prepared for the Department of Anthropology Faculty Colloquium on "The Anthropological Dimensions of Mortuary Practices." UIUC, Urbana, Illinois.

1997 "Rural Floodplain Resettlement and Its Implications for Cahokian Provisioning." Invited paper in New Evidence of Early Cahokian Provisions and Rituals. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

1997 "Great Lakes Shipwrecks." Presentation in NR480 at US Forest Service Eastern and Southern Regions University, St. Louis, Missouri.

1996 "Flint Clay, Figurines, and the Cahokia Trade in Elite Goods" (with R. E. Hughes). Paper presented at the 54th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Iowa City, Iowa.

1996 "Minerals Distinguish Native American Pipestone Sources" (with R. E. Hughes, D. M. Moore, T. E. Berres and K. B. Farnsworth). Paper presented at the 54th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Iowa City, Iowa.

1996 "Illinois' Sunken 'Treasures': An Overview of the State's Lake Michigan Maritime Heritage." Paper presented at the 6th Historic Archaeology in Illinois Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana.

1996 "The Production of Hegemony and Mississippianism in the Guise of Communalism" (with T. Pauketat). Paper presented in Material Symbols: Culture and Economy in Prehistory. Thirteenth Annual Visiting Scholar Conference, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Carbondale, Illinois.

1996 "Sourcing of Cahokia Middle Mississippian Flint Clay Figurines" (with R. Hughes). Poster paper presented at the 30th International Symposium on Archaeometry, University of Illinois, Urbana.

1996 "New Data and Preliminary Insights into the Cahokian Collapse" (with E. Hargrave, K. Hedman, M. Simon, and V. Williams). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.

1996 With William Wheeler and Richard Linden. "Saving the Shipwrecks of the Prairies: The Struggle for the Lady Elgin and Seabird." Paper presented at the Society for Historic Archaeology Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Book Reviews

1999 Harrold, F. and R. Eve (editors), "Cult Archaeology and Creationism: Understanding Pseudoscientific Beliefs About the Past" (Expanded Edition). Illinois Archaeology 11:208-210.

1998 O'Brien, M, and R. Dunnell (editors), "Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley." Southeastern Archaeology 17(2):192-194.

1998 Russell, Sharman Apt. "When the Land was Young: Reflections on American Archaeology." Illinois Antiquity 33 (3):22.

1998 Lyman, R. Lee, Michael J. O'Brien, And Robert C. Dunnell. "The Rise and Fall of Culture History" and "Americanist Culture History: Fundamentals of Time, Space, and Form." Illinois Archaeology 10(1&2):356-357.

2001 "Implications of the Archaic Lithic Assemblage from the Tree Row Site in Fulton County, Illinois. Paper presented the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

2001 "Cahokia's Upland Villages" (with D. Jackson). Paper presented the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

1996 "Results of the Fox River Bridge Crossings Survey." Paper presented at the 1996 Midwest Archaeological Conference, Beloit, Wisconsin.

2001 Class Tour, University of Illinois Anthropology 220, Professor Barry Lewis (with E. A. Hargrave, A. Neller, and S. Ghosh).

1999 "An Examination of Mississippian Settlements in the Lower Illinois River Valley" (with D. J. Nolan). Paper presented at the 1999 Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference. East Lansing, Michigan.

1998 "The Archaeology of Lima Lake Alluvial Fans: Some Initial Observations" (with D. J. Nolan). Paper presented at the Illinois Archaeological Survey Annual Workshop.

2000 "An Assessment of the Radiocarbon Data Base for Middle Woodland Havana Tradition" (with S. Studenmund). Paper presented at Perspectives on Middle Woodland at the Millennium, sponsored by the Center for American Archeology, Pere Marquette Lodge and Conference Center, Grafton, Illinois.

1999 "After the Archaic: A Re-Examination of the Woodland and Late Prehistoric Radiocarbon Database from West-Central Illinois." Paper presented at the annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, East Lansing, Michigan.

1997 "Constructing (on) the Past: Illinois Paves the Way for Preservation Partnerships" (with T. E. Emerson and J. Walthall) in Common Ground 2(1).

1996 "Minerals Distinguish Native American Pipestone Sources" (with T. E. Emerson, R. E. Hughes, D. M. Moore, and T. E. Berres). Paper presented at the 54th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Iowa City, Iowa.

Papers Presented

2002 "Below the Big Bend: Preliminary Results of Archaeological Survey of Illinois Route 29 between Chillicothe and I-180." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Illinois Archaeological Survey, Bloomington, Illinois.

2001 "Investigating the Past while Interacting with the Present: Working with Descendent Communities in Iowa" (with J. F. Doershuk, C. L. Peterson, and A. Becker). Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in the electronic symposium "Working with Indigenous People and Other Descendent Communities," New Orleans, Louisiana.

2001 "An Analysis of Great Oasis and Mill Creek Ceramics from the Cowan, Broken Kettle, and Phipps Sites, Northwest Iowa" (with M. Maliborski). Paper presented at the 113th Annual Meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science, Des Moins, Iowa.

2001 "Phase III Archaeological Investigations at Sites 13HA181 and 13HA385, Hardin County." Paper presented at the 2001 Annual Iowa Department of Transportation Design Conference, Ames, Iowa.

2000 "Digging for Understanding: Archaeological Field Methods and American Indian Concerns" (with J. F. Doershuk, L. J. Zimmerman, T. Kapler, and W. Green). Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in the symposium "Field Schools for the Next Millennium: Mixing Student Training, Research, and Public Education," Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2000 "Investigations at 13HA385: A Preserved Middle Archaic Bone Grease Manufacturing Locality along the Iowa River in Hardin County, Iowa." Paper presented at the joint 46th Annual Midwest Archaeological and 58th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota.

1999 "Implications of Ceramic Motifs and Designs at the Cowan Site" (with J. K. Weinrich). Paper presented at the 111th Annual Meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science in the symposium "Interdisciplinary Archaeology in Northwest Iowa: The Cowan Site (11WD88)," Ames, Iowa.

1999 "Digging for Understanding: Archaeological Field Methods and American Indian Concerns" (with J. F. Doershuk, L. J. Zimmerman, T. Kapler, and W. Green). Paper presented at the 57th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

1999 "Implications of Ceramic Motifs and Designs at the Cowan Site" (with J. K. Weinrich). Paper presented at the 57th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference in the symposium "Recent Investigations at the Great Oasis Cowan Site (13WD88)," Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

1999 "The Dixon Site Lithic Assemblage." Paper presented at the 57th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference in the symposium "Western Oneota Movement and Relations," Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Publications

2003 "The Archaic Occupations of the Allen Fan Site (13HA355) in the Iowa Valley of Central Iowa" (with J. M. Collins, R. D. Mandel, and M. T. Dunne). The Plains Anthropologist. Memoir 34.

2001 "Oneota Overview of South Central Iowa." Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society, 48:59-69.

2001 University of Iowa 2001 Field School in the Neutral Ground of Northeast Iowa (with J. F. Doershuk). Iowa Archeological Society Newsletter 51(4):5-7.

1999 Bison Hunters of the Western Prairies: Archaeological Investigations of the Dixon Site (13WD8), Woodbury County, Iowa. Editor and contributor. Report 21. Office of the State Archaeologist, The University of Iowa, Iowa City.

1998 "Springbrook State Recreation Area Archaeological Resources." In The Natural History of Springbrook State Recreation Area, Guthrie County, Iowa, edited by Raymond R. Anderson and Bill J. Bunker, p. 25. (with S. J. Schermer and W. Green). Guidebook 66. Geological Society of Iowa, Iowa City.

1997 "Medicine Birds and Mill Creek-Middle Mississippian Interaction: The Contents of Feature 8 at the Phipps Site (13CK21)." American Antiquity 62:538-553.

1996 "A Reanalysis of Mill Creek Midden Formation." Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society 43:119-127.

1996 "Experts Demonstrate Methods to Control Cutbank Sites Erosion." Iowa Archeological Society Newsletter 46(3):1-2.

2002 "The Greater Rockford Airport Project: Prehistoric Investigations along the Rock and Kishwaukee Rivers." Lecture presented at the 33rd annual meeting of the Illinois Association for the Advancement of Archaeology, Rockford, Illinois.

2001 "Competitors or Colleagues: The Archaeology of the East St. Louis Mound Group" (with D. L. Booth and T. Pauketat). Paper presented the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

2001 "The Spirit of 776: Late Woodland Identities and Societal Diversity on the Eve of the 'Big Bang'." Paper presented at the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

2001 Class Tour, University of Illinois Anthropology 220, Professor Barry Lewis (with L. Alexander, E. A. Hargrave, and A. Neller).

n.d. "A Tradition of Discontinuity: American Bottom Early and Middle Woodland Culture History Reexamined." In Practicing Traditions: An Archaeology of Historical Processes Before and After Columbus, edited by T. Pauketat, University of Florida Press. In Press.

2000 Social Evolution or Social Response? A Fresh Look at the "Good Gray Cultures" after Four Decades of Midwest Research Formation of a Late Woodland Heartland in the American Bottom: The Patrick and Sponemann Phases. (with D. Jackson, junior author) In Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation across the Midcontinent, edited by T. E. Emerson, D. L. McElrath, and A. C. Fortier, pp. 123-147. University of Nebraska Press.

2000 The Formation of a Late Woodland Heartland in the American Bottom: The Patrick and Sponemann Phases. (with D. Jackson, junior author) In Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation across the Midcontinent, edited by T. E. Emerson, D. L. McElrath, and A. C. Fortier, pp. 123-147. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska.

2000 The Early Late Woodland Occupation of the American Bottom. (with D. L. McElrath, senior author). In Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation across the Midcontinent, edited by T. E. Emerson, D. L. McElrath, and A. C. Fortier, pp. 97-121. University of Nebraska Press.

2000 "The Land Between Two Traditions: Middle Woodland Societies of the American Bottom." Paper presented at the CAA Conference entitled: Perspectives on Middle Woodland at the Millennium.

1999 Review of Staging Ritual Hopewell Ceremonialism at the Mound House Site, Greene County, Illinois, by J. Buikstra, D. Charles, and G. M. Rakita, Illinois Archaeology Vol. 11(1&2):210-213.

1999 "The Middle Woodland Stage in the American Bottom Hinterland of Illinois." Paper presented at the session Taxonomy, Traditions, and Transition at the Society for American Archaeology 64th Annual Meeting.

1999 "Cultural Resource Management in Illinois: the History and Make-up of Preservation Laws, the Assessment Process, Regulatory and Management Agencies, and the Nature of Cultural Resources." Lecture given at the University of Illinois.

1998 "Pre-Mississippian Economics in the American Bottom of Southwestern Illinois, 3000 BC-AD 1050" in Research in Economic Anthropology, edited by Barry Isaac, pp. 341-392, vol. 19, JAI Press, Inc.

1998 "The Meyer Site: A Terminal Late Archaic Residential Camp in the American Bottom" (with T. E. Emerson and K. Parker) in Illinois Archaeology 10.

1997 "Mississippian Iconography at the Vogt Petroglyph Site, Monroe County, Illinois." Paper presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, Tennessee.

1997 "The Formation of a Late Woodland Heartland in the American Bottom: The Patrick and Sponemann Phases" (with D. K. Jackson). Paper presented at the Urbana Late Woodland Conference, Urbana, Illinois.

1997 "The Development of Late Woodland in the American Bottom" (with D. L. McElrath). Paper presented at the Urbana Late Woodland Conference, Urbana, Illinois.

1997 "The Development of Late Woodland in the American Bottom" (with D. McElrath). Paper presented at the Urbana Late Woodland Conference, Urbana, Illinois.

1996 "The Middle to Late Woodland Transition in the American Bottom," (with D. K. Jackson and M. L. Simon). Paper presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.

2003 "The Patrick Phase Along the Lower Missouri: New Data and Interpretations." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Missouri Archaeological Society, Columbia.

2002 "Recent Investigations along the Mississippi River Bluffs in St. Clair County: The Visitor's Center Project." Paper presented at the Annual Workshop in Illinois Archaeology, Illinois Archaeological Survey, Bloomington.

2002 "Late Woodland Settlement Dynamics and Social Interaction in the American Bottom Uplands, A.D. 650-900." Unpublished doctoral thesis, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

2001 "Late Woodland Ceramics and Social Interaction in the American Bottom." Paper presented at the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

2000 "The Bivouac Site (11MS1665): An Emergent Mississippian Camp in the American Bottom Uplands" (with Kathryn E. Parker and Nathan J. Babcook). Illinois Archaeology 12:218-243.

2000 "Valuing the Past: Symbols of Identity and Nationalism on Mexican and Central American Currency." Applied Semiotics 9:483-493.

1998 "Summary Report on the 1995 Excavations at the Barton Site (23SL69), St. Louis County, Missouri" (with R. L. Sanders, B. Vollman, J. Fitzsimmons, E. A. Reber, K. E. Parker, E. A. Hargrave, and K. Hedman). The Missouri Archaeologist 59:99-124.

1998 "Paleoindian and Archaic Lithic Exploitation and Settlement Patterns in Northeastern Illinois: A Linnig Site Perspective." The Wisconsin Archaeologist 79(2):284-302.

1998 "Handling Cultural Resource Compliance in a Nutshell." The St. Louis Countian (November 9):2.

1996 "Salvaging the Spanish Village Site (23SL69 and 23SL135), Bridgeton, Missouri" (with Joseph Craig). Central States Archaeological Journal 43(4):173-176.

1999 "Penstone: Site Function at a Titterington Phase Occupation in West-Central Illinois" (with S. J. Studenmund). Paper presented at the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, East Lansing, Michigan.

1998 "New Perspectives on Archaic Period Upland Occupations in West-central Illinois" (with S. Studenmund and W. James). Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

2002 "Inter- and Intra-site Comparisons of Mississippian Diet in the American Bottom: Results of Recent Stable Isotope Analysis of Bone Collagen and Apatite" (with K. Hedman). Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology. In Press.

2001 Book Review. J. E. Buiksta, J. A. O'Gorman and C. Sutton. "Never Anything So Solemn: An Archaeological, Biological, and Historical Investigation of the Nineteenth-Century Grafton Cemetery." Illinois Antiquity 13(1 & 2).

2001 "New Insights into the Mortuary Ritual of Early Rural Cahokia." Presented to the IAAA, Urbana, Illinois.

2001 "Inter- and Intra-site Comparisons of Mississippian Diet in the American Bottom: Results of Recent Stable Isotope Analysis of Bone Collagen and Apatite" (with K. Hedman). Paper presented the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

2001 "Revisiting American Bottom Mississippian Mortuary Behavior" (with K. Hedman). Paper presented the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

2001 "New Insights into the Mortuary Ritual of Early Rural Cahokia." Paper presented at the East Central Illinois Archaeological Society Meeting, September. Urbana, Illinois.

2001 Class Tour, University of Illinois Anthropology 220, Professor Barry Lewis. (with A. C. Fortier, L. Alexander, and A. Neller)

2001 Class Tour, University of Illinois Anthropology 220, Professor Barry Lewis (with S. Ghosh, A. Neller, and M. Farkas).

2001 "Death and Ritual in Early Rural Cahokia." In Theory, Method and Technique in Modern Archaeology, edited by R. J. Jeske and D. K. Charles. Bergin and Garvey, Westport. In preparation.

2000 "Strangers in Paradise? Recognizing Ethnic Mortuary Diversity on the Fringes of Cahokia" (with T. E. Emerson). Southeastern Archaeology 19 (in press).

1999 "Mortuary Variability in Early Rural Cahokia" (with K. Hedman). Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 64th Annual Meeting.

1999 "Kane Mounds and Mississippian Mortuary Variation at the Edge of Cahokia" (with T. E. Emerson). Paper presented in the Brownian Motion symposium at the Society for American Archaeology 64th Annual Meeting.

1998 "Summary Report on the 1995 Excavations at the Barton Site (23SL69), St. Louis County, Missouri" (with R. L. Sanders, B. Vollman, J. Fitzsimmons, E. A. Reber, K. E. Parker, J. M. Galloy, and K. Hedman). The Missouri Archaeologist 59:99-124.

1997 "Reconstruction of Mississippian Diet in the American Bottom" (with V. Williams and K. Hedman). Poster presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, St. Louis, Missouri.

1997 "Osteological Investigations at Hill Prairie Mound Ms251" (with K. Hedman). Poster presented at the Annual Meetings of the Illinois Archaeological Survey.

1996 "Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Ratios from Bone Collagen and Apatite: Reconstruction of Late Mississippian Diet" (with V. Williams and K. Hedman). Poster presented at the International Symposium on Archaeometry, Urbana, Illinois.

1996 "New Data and Preliminary insights into the Cahokian Collapse" (with T. E. Emerson, E. A. Hargrave, M. Simon, and V. Williams). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.

1996 "Reconstruction of Late Mississippian Diet with Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Ratios from Bone Collagen and Apatite" (with A. Hargrave and V. Williams). Paper presented at the 30th International Symposium on Archaeometry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

2001 "Inter- and Intra-site Comparisons of Mississippian Diet in the American Bottom: Results of Recent Stable Isotope Analysis of Bone Collagen and Apatite" (with E. A. Hargrave). Paper presented the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

2001 "Revisiting American Bottom Mississippian Mortuary Behavior" (with E. A. Hargrave). Paper presented the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

2001 "Death and Ritual in Early Rural Cahokia." In Theory, Method and Technique in Modern Archaeology, edited by R. J. Jeske and D. K. Charles. Bergin and Garvey, Westport. In preparation.

1999 "Langford Tradition Mortuary Patterns at the Material Services Quarry Site in the Upper Illinois River Valley" (with primary author T. E. Emerson). Paper presented at the 45th Annual Midwestern Archaeological Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing.

1999 "Mortuary Variability in Early Rural Cahokia" (with E. A. Hargrave). Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 64th Annual Meeting, Chicago.

1998 "Summary Report on the 1995 Excavations at the Barton Site (23SL69), St. Louis County, Missouri" (with R. L. Sanders, B. Vollman, J. Fitzsimmons, E. A. Reber, K. E. Parker, J. M. Galloy, and E. A. Hargrave). The Missouri Archaeologist 59:99-124.

1997 "Osteological Investigations at Hill Prairie Mound Ms251" (with E. A. Hargrave). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Illinois Archaeological Survey.

1997 "Reconstruction of Mississippian Diet in the American Bottom: Stable Isotope Analysis of Bone Collagen and Apatite" (with V. Williams and E. A. Hargrave). Poster presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, St. Louis, Missouri.

1996 "Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Ratios from Bone Collagen and Apatite: Reconstruction of Late Mississippian Diet" (with Valerie Williams and Eve A. Hargrave). Poster presented at the International Symposium on Archaeometry, Urbana, Illinois.

1996 "New Data and Preliminary insights into the Cahokian Collapse" (with T. E. Emerson, E. A. Hargrave, M. Simon, and V. Williams). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.

1996 "Reconstruction of Late Mississippian Diet with Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Ratios from Bone Collagen and Apatite" (with A. Hargrave and V. Williams). Paper presented at the 30th International Symposium on Archaeometry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

1996 "Revisiting Saukenauk." Paper presented at the Historic Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

2002 "Middle Woodland and Early Late Woodland Remains from the Upper Reaches of the Sandy Creek Drainage" (with D. Nolan). Paper presented at the 2002 Illinois Archaeological Society Workshop, Bloomington, Illinois.

2000 "Ceramic Diversity in the Uplands: American Bottom Chronology Reconsidered." Paper presented at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Macon, Georgia.

2002 Slide presentation on the Hoxie Farm site with examples of excavated artifacts to ECIAS, Urbana, Illinois.

2002 "Digging in the Land of Plenty, ITARP Investigations at the Hoxie Farm Site, 2000-2002." Paper presented at the 2002 IAS Annual Meeting and Workshop, Bloomington, Illinois.

2001 "Recent Investigations at the Hoxie Farm Site, an Upper Mississippian Huber Phase Site in Cook County, Illinois. Paper presented the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

2001 "Cahokia's Upland Villages" (with M. Evans). Paper presented the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

1999 "The Yellow Bluff Site: A Middle Woodland Mound Site Located on the Sangamon Drainage of Central Illinois." Paper presented at the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, East Lansing, Michigan.

1997 "The Formation of a Late Woodland Heartland in the American Bottom, Illinois: The Patrick and Sponemann Phases" (with A. C. Fortier) Paper presented at the Urbana Late Woodland Conference, UIUC, Urbana, Illinois.

1997 "A Late Mississippian Sand Prairie Occupation at the Hawkins Hollow Site." Paper presented at the IAS Annual Meeting.

1996 "The Middle to Late Woodland Transition in the American Bottom" (with A. C. Fortier and M. Simon). Paper presented for symposium entitled: Heartland and Frontiers: Reexamining the Late Woodland Transition. Society for American Archaeology, 61st Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana.

in press "Replication of Columella Shell Beads." Illinois Archaeology Vol. 14.

in press "Animal Remains from Archaeological Sites on Nevis" (with E. S. Wing). In The Prehistory of Nevis and the Leeward Islands, S. Wilson (ed.). Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut.

2003 "Use of Fire in Shell Bead Manufacture at Cahokia." Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 44(1):981–90.

2002 "Faunal Remains from the Tutu Site in The Tutu Archaeological Village Site: A Multidisciplinary Case Study in Human Adaptation, edited by E. Righter, pp. 141–165. Routledge, London.

2002 "Olivella Beads from Spiro and the Plains." American Antiquity 67:697-709.

2001 "The Evidence for Fire to Make Shell Beads at Cahokia." Paper presented at the Illinois Association for the Advancement of Archaeology, Annual Meeting, Cahokia Mounds State Park, Collinsville, Illinois.

2001 "Marine Shell Use at Cahokia During the Moorehead Phase." Paper presented at the 58th Annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

2000 "Pacific Coast Shell Beads from the Spiro Site." Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2000 "The Department of Defense National Archaeological Curation Assessment Project." Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1998 "Marine Shells from Mississippian Archaeological Sites." Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

1998 "Faunal Remains from the Palmer Site (8SO2), with a Focus on Shark Remains." Florida Anthropologist 51(4)177-192.

1995 "Shellfish Gatherers of Florida's East Coast." In Final Report on the Archeological Investigations at the Seminole Rest Site (8VO124), E. A. Horvath (ed.). Southeast Archaeological Center, National Park Service, Tallahassee, pp. 59-91.

1993 "Sharks and Shark Products in South Florida." Monograph 2, Institute for Archaeology and Paleoenvironmental Studies, Gainesville, Florida.

1991 "Shark Remains as Gender Role Indicators." Paper presented at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jackson, Mississippi.

1990 "Review of Purdy, Robert (1990) A Key to the Common Genera of Neogene Shark Teeth." In American Elasmobranch Society Newsletter No. 4.

1989 "A Guide to Identifying Shark Centra from Southeastern Archaeological Sites" (with C. Fitzgerald). Southeastern Archaeology 88(2):146-157.

2002 "Recent Investigations along the Goose Lake Meander, St. Clair County: The Sauget Industrial Park Project" (with K. Richards). Paper presented at the 2002 IAS Annual Meeting and Workshop, Bloomington, Illinois.

2002 "Illinois's Oldest Shoe: The Kerr Canyon Sandal." Paper presented at the 2002 IAS Annual Meeting and Workshop, Bloomington, Illinois.

2002 "Cahokian Ritual and the Ramey Field: New Insights from Old Collections" (with T. Pauketat). In Southeastern Archaeology 21(1):79-91.

2002 "The Archaeology and History of Horseshoe Lake, Alexander County, Illinois" (with M. Wagner). Center for Archaeological Investigations Research Paper No. 60, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.

2001 "Middle Woodland Lithic Procurement and Land Use in the Interior Uplands: The Crockerdale Site, Monroe County, Illinois." In Illinois Archaeology, vol. 13(1 & 2).

2001 Public identification of artifacts (with K. Richards and D. Booth) at Artifact Identification Day, Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois.

2001 "Settling In: Clovis and Dalton Land Use and Lithic Procurement in the Central Mississippi Valley" (with J. A. Walthall). Paper presented the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

2001 "Early Rivers, Emerald and Pfeffer: Recent Investigations at Two Early Mississippian Upland Centers" (with J. D. Kruchten and T. R. Pauketat). Paper presented the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

1999 "The LaSurs Disk Core Cache: New Perspectives on an Old Phenomenon" (with C. Baxter). Paper presented at the IAS Annual Meeting, Pere Marquette State Park.

1999 "Paleoindian Research in Illinois' Past" (with J. Walthall). Paper presented at the IAS Annual Meeting, Pere Marquette State Park.

1999 "Attica Chert and Clovis Land Use in Illinois." Illinois Archaeology Vol 11 (1&2):1-26.

1999 "Across the Divide: Dalton Land Use in the Southern Till Plains" (with J. Walthall). Illinois Archaeology, Vol 11 (1&2):27-49.

1998 "The Illinois Dalton GIS Project: A Progress Report" (with J. Walthall). Paper presented at the Illinois Archaeological Survey Annual Workshop.

1998 "Recent Excavations at Three Upland Mississippian Communities in the Cahokia Region." Paper presented at the Illinois Archaeological Survey Annual Workshop.

1998 "The Louis A. Sondag Collection: Documenting the History and Prehistory of Valmeyer, Illinois" in Rediscovery 4:49-63.

1998 "The Miller Farm Sites: Early Mississippian Occupations on Turkey Hill" (with G. D. Wilson). Illinois Antiquity (32)2.

1998 "The Archaeology and History of Horseshoe Lake, Alexander County, Illinois." Report submitted to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Springfield, Illinois.

1998 "Hunter-Gathered Interaction and Alliance Formation: Dalton and the Cult of the Long Blade." Plains Anthropologist 43:257-273.

1996 "AG Church Site Lithics: Technology, Economy, and the Mississippian Emergence." Illinois Archaeology 8:117-145.

1996 "Transportation Corridors and Cahokia's Hinterlands." Paper presented at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Birmingham, Alabama.

2001 American Bottom Independence, AD 400-900. Paper presented at the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

2001 "Exploring the Archaeology of Danville: The Danville By-Pass Project" (with L. Calentine and K. Shane Vanderford). Lecture presented for Illinois Archaeology Awareness Week, Bremer Conference Center.

2000 Toward an "Intrinsic Characteristics" Approach to Chert Raw Material Classification: An American Bottom Example (with T. E. Emerson). Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 215-244.

2000 Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation Across the Midcontinent (edited with T. E. Emerson and A. C. Fortier). University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska.

2000 Social Evolution or Social Response? A Fresh Look at the "Good Grey Cultures" after Four Decades of Research in the Midwest (with T. E. Emerson and A. C. Fortier). In Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation across the Midcontinent, edited by T. E. Emerson, D. L. McElrath, and A. C. Fortier, pp. 3-36, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska.

2000 The Early Late Woodland Occupation of the American Bottom (with A. C. Fortier). In Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation Across the Midcontinent, edited by T. E. Emerson, D. L. McElrath, and A. C. Fortier, pp. 97-121. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1999 "An Emic Approach to Chert Classification: An American Bottom Example" (with T. E. Emerson). Paper presented for the Session Taxonomy, Traditions, and Transition presented at the Society for American Archaeology 64th Annual Meeting.

1999 Review of Projectile Technology, edited by J. Knecht, Illinois Archaeology Vol 11 (1&2):216-218.

1996 The Cunningham Site: A Late Woodland Occupation in the American Bottom (with M. C. Meinkoth and K. Hedman). Illinois Transportation Archaeology Research Program Research Reports No. 41. University of Illinois, Department of Anthropology, Urbana.

Publications

2002 "A Distinctive PaleoIndian Assemblage from the Central Illinois River Valley." Illinois Antiquity 37 (4):3-7.

2001 "Examining the Role of Nets in South Branch Phase Ceramic Vessel Production." Illinois Antiquity 36 (3):7-8.

2000 "Late Woodland peoples in west central Illinois." In Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation across the Midcontinent, (with W. Green) edited by T. E. Emerson, D. L. McElrath, and A. C. Fortier, pp. 345-386. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1998 "Characterizing Lima Lake Oneota" (with L. A. Conrad). The Wisconsin Archaeologist 79 (2):116-145.

1998 "Was the Cochran 10 site a Theban persistent place? Assemblage structure and settlement patterns in the Early Archaic of west central Illinois" (with E. G. Hansen). Illinois Archaeology 10:294-330.

Presentations

2002 "Late Prehistoric Pipestone and Chert Use in the Lima Lake Locality of the Upper Mississippi River Valley." Lecture presented at the annual Geodeland Earth Sciences Clubs, Inc. show at Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois.

2002 "Middle Woodland and Early Late Woodland Remains from the Upper Reaches of the Sandy Creek Drainage" (with R. Hickson). Paper presented at the 2002 Illinois Archaeological Society Workshop, Bloomington, Illinois.

2002 "Sacred Stone: Catlinite Depictions of Oneota Art and Symbolism." Paper presented in the Voices From the Past: A Celebration of Native American Art and Culture lecture series at The Quincy Museum, Quincy, Illinois.

2001 "Down in the Boondocks: An Overview of Recently Discovered Middle Woodland Massey Phase Remains from Morgan County, Illinois." Paper presented at the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

2001 "A Summary of Archaeological Investigation for the North Bottom Road Project in the Lima Lake Locality of the Upper Mississippi River Valley." A slide-based lecture to the Illinois Valley Archaeological Society Chapter/IAAA.

2001 "Examining Early Holocene Mobility Patterns Through the Examination of Extra-Local Chert Artifact Distributions." A slide-based presentation and artifact identification session to the Mississippi Valley Chapter of the IAAA.

2001 "The Culture History of West Central Illinois." A slide-based presentation and artifact identification session to the annual meeting of the Henderson County Soil and Water Conservation District.

2001 "Recent Insights into the Prehistory of the Lima Lake Locality." Presentation to the Quad Cities Archaeological Society chapter of the IAAA, Rock Island, Illinois.

1999 "Protohistoric Remains from the Lima Lake Locality of the Upper Mississippi River Valley" (with L. A. Conrad and S. L. Tieken). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, East Lansing, Michigan.

1999 "An Examination of Mississippian Settlement in the Lower Illinois River Valley" (with M. Farkas). Paper presented at the Midwest Archaeological Conference, East Lansing, Michigan.

1998 "The Archaeology of Lima Lake Alluvial Fans: Some Initial Observations" (with M. Farkas). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Illinois Archaeological Survey, Springfield, Illinois.

1998 "An Assessment of Current Archaeological Research in the Uplands of West Central Illinois" (with D. B. Goatley and S. J. Studenmund). Paper presented at the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Muncie, Indiana.

1997 "The Late Woodland Stage in Western Illinois" (with W. Green). Paper presented at the Urbana Late Woodland Conference, Urbana, Illinois.

1996 "Characterizing Lima Lake Oneota" (with L. A. Conrad). Paper presented at the Plains Anthropological Conference. Iowa City, Iowa.

2002 Paleoethnobotany slide presentation to ECIAS, Urbana, Illinois.

2002 "Crops Before Corn: Early Plant Cultivation in the Eastern Woodlands." Presented at the East Central Illinois Archaeological Society meeting, Urbana, Illinois.

2001 "Red Cedar, White Oak, and Bluestem Grass: The Colors of Mississippian Construction." Paper presented the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

2000 "Regional Variations in Plant Use Strategies in the Midwest during the Late Woodland." In Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation Across the Midcontinent, edited by T. E. Emerson, D. L. McElrath, and A. C. Fortier, pp. 37-73. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1997 "Regional Variations in Plant Use Strategies in the Midwest During the Late Woodland." Paper presented at the Late Woodland Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

1996 "New Data and Preliminary Insights into the Cahokian Collapse" (with T. E. Emerson, E. A. Hargrave, K. Hedman, and V. Williams). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.

1996 "The Middle to Late Woodland Transition in the American Bottom" (with A. C. Fortier and D. K. Jackson). Paper presented for symposium entitled: Heartland and Frontiers: Reexamining the Late Woodland Transition. Society for American Archaeology, 61st Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana.

2001 "Exploring the Archaeology of Danville: The Danville By-Pass Project" (with D. McElrath and L. Calentine). Lecture presented for Illinois Archaeology Awareness Week, Bremer Conference Center.

2001 "Archaeological Investigations at the Graham Farm Site (11CO83): A Late Archaic Camp Site in East-Central Illinois." Paper presented the Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

1999 "Further Contributions to the Fauna Analysis at the Cowan Site (13WD88)." Paper presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, Iowa City, Iowa and the Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

1998 "The Ghost Horse Site and the French Illinois Country" in Illinois Antiquity: (33)3, September.

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