Senior Cultural Resource Archaeologist; American Bottom Survey Division Coordinator MA Southern Illinois University Carbondale 1990 E-mail: koldehof@uiuc.edu

General Interest/Area of Focus

North American Prehistory, Lithic Technology, Land-Use Patterns

Memberships

• Society for American Archaeology
  
• Illinois Archaeological Survey (Board of Directors, 1998-2001)
  
• Illinois Association for Advancement of Archaeology
  
• Missouri Archaeological Society
  
• Wisconsin Archeological Society
  
• Southeastern Archaeological Conference
  
• Midwestern Archaeological Conference

Awards

1998 Professional Service Award, Illinois Association for Advancement of Archaeology

Current Research

• Clovis and Dalton Lithics and Land Use
  
• Woodland and Mississippian Lithics and Land Use
  
• Lithic Quarries and Source Areas
  
• Research Potential of Packrat Middens in the Eastern North America

Previous Positions

7/95-10/97 Staff Archaeologist, American Bottom Survey Division, Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
4/93-7/95 Staff Archaeologist, Office of Contract Archaeology, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois
4/90-4/93 Senior Lithic Material Specialist, Cultural Resource Group, Louis Berger & Associates, Inc., East Orange, New Jersey

Selected Bibliography

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

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

1999 Attica Chert and Clovis Land Use in Illinois: The Anderson and Perkins Sites. Illinois Archaeology 11:1-26.

2001 Middle Woodland Lithic Procurement and Land Use in the Interior Uplands: The Crockerdale Site, Monroe County, Illinois. Illinois Archaeology 13:1-35.

2002 The Woodland Ridge Site and Late Woodland Land Use in the Southern American Bottom. Transportation Archaeological Research Reports No. 15. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, University of Illinois, Urbana.

2005 Constructing Context for African-American Archaeology in the American Bottom Region.  Illinois Antiquity (40)3:8-11.

2005 The Significance of the John Henry Collection:  Danville Porcellanite and Lithic Procurement in Eastern Illinois.  Illinois Antiquity (40)1:3-7.

Koldehoff, Brad, and Philip J. Carr
2001 Chipped Stone Technology: Patterns of Procurement, Production, and Consumption. In Excavations at Wickliffe Mounds, edited by K. W. Wesler, CD. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

Koldehoff, Brad, Dawn E. Cobb, and Jack R. Nawrot
2002 The Eastern Woodrat (Neotoma floridana) and Its Archaeological Significance: A Southern Illinois Case Study. Illinois Archaeology, vol. 14, in press.

Koldehoff, Brad, William F. Harrison, Charles W. Markman, Claude Karch
1999 The Anderson Site: A Paleoindian Campsite in DeKalb County, Illinois. The Wisconsin Archeologist 80:97-109.

Koldehoff, Brad, and John A. Walthall
2004 Settling In: Hunter-Gatherer Mobility during Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the Central Mississippi Valley. In Essays in Honor of Howard D. Winters, edited by A. Cantwell and L. Conrad, Illinois State Museum, Springfield.

Koldehoff, Brad, Melody Pope, and April Sievert           
2005 Microlithic Technology, Household Economy, and Community Interaction in Early Mississippian Farming Communities.  Poster presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, March 30-April 3, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Koldehoff, Brad           
2008 Who Were Illinois' First Pioneer? Solving a Really Cold Case. The Illinois Steward Journal Vol. 17, Issue 2.

Complete Vitae (pdf)

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