Senior Cultural Resource Archaeologist; Statewide Survey Coordinator MA University of Wisconsin Madison 1973 E-mail: dmcelrat@uiuc.edu

General Interest/Area of Focus

Lithic Analysis: Archaic Studies; Late Woodland Studies: Historical Processualism.

Publications

Bentz, Charles, Dale McElrath, Fred A. Finney and Richard B. Lacampagne
1988    Late Woodland Sites in the American Bottom Uplands. American Bottom Archaeology FAI-270 Reports Vol. 18. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

Emerson, Thomas E. and Dale L. McElrath
1983    A Settlement-Subsistence Model of the Terminal Late Archaic Adaptation in the American Bottom, Illinois. In Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest, edited by J. L. Phillips and J. A. Brown, pp. 219-242. Academic Press, New York.

2007    The Archaic and the Tyranny of Theory. In Archaic Societies: Diversity and Complexity Across the Midcontinent, edited by T. E. Emerson, D. L. McElrath and A. C. Fortier. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.

Emerson, Thomas E., Dale L. McElrath and Andrew C. Fortier (editors)
2000    Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation Across the Midcontinent. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.

Emerson, Thomas E., Dale L. McElrath and Andrew C. Fortier (editors)
2007    Archaic Societies: Diversity and Complexity Across the Midcontinent. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln (in press).

Emerson, Thomas E., John A. Walthall, Andrew C. Fortier and Dale L. McElrath
2006    Advances in American Bottom Prehistory: Illinois Transportation Archaeology Two Decades After I-270. Southewestern Archaeology 25(2):153-167.

Emerson, Thomas, Dale L. McElrath and Joyce A. Williams
1986    Patterns of Hinter-gatherer Mobility and Sedentism During the Archaic Period of the American bottom. In Foraging Collecting and Harvesting: Archaic Period Subsistence and Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands, edited by S. W. Neusius, pp. 247-273. Occasional Papers No. 6. Southern Illinois University, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Carbondale.

Fortier, Andrew C., Thomas Emerson and Dale L. McElrath
2006    Calibrating and Reassessing American Bottom Culture History. Southeastern Archaeology (in press).

Fortier, Andrew C. and Dale L. McElrath
2002    Deconstructing the Emergent Mississippian Concept: The Case for the Terminal Late Woodland in the American Bottom. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 27(2):172-215.

Meinkoth, Michael C., Kristin Hedman and Dale L. McElrath
2001    The Cunningham Site: A Late Woodland Occupation in the American Bottom. Illinois Transportation Archaeology Research Program Research Reports No. 41. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

McElrath, Dale L.
1986    The McLean Site (11-S-640). American Bottom Archaeology FAI-270 Site Reports 14. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

1988    The Patrick Phase Occupation of the Alpha 3 Site. In Late Woodland Sites in the American Bottom Uplands, edited by C. Bentz, D. L. McElrath, F. A. Finney and R. B. Lacampagne, pp. 169-186. American Bottom Archaeology FAI 270 Site Reports. vol. 18, C. J. Bareis and J. W. Porter, general editor. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

1988    Summary and Conclusions. In Late Woodland Sites in the American Bottom Uplands, edited by C. Bentz, D. L. McElrath, F. A. Finney and R. B. Lacampagne, pp. 317-319. American Bottom Archaeology FAI-270 Site Reports. vol. 18. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

1993    Mule Road: A Newly Defined Late Archaic Phase in the American Bottom. In Highways to the Past: Essays on Illinois Archaeology in Honor of Charles J. Bareis, edited by T. E. Emerson, A. C. Fortier and D. L. McElrath, pp. 148-157. Illinois Archaeology Vol. 5 (Nos. 1 and 2). Illinois Archaeological Survey, Urbana.

1995    Defining Archaic Cultures in the American Bottom. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Conference of the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis.

1996    Lithics. In The Cunningham Site: A Late Woodland Occupation in the American Bottom, edited by M. C. Meinkoth, D. Hedman and D. L. McElrath, pp. 125-156. Research Reports No. 41. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Urbana.

2001    Lithics. In The Cunningham Site: An Early Late Woodland Occupation in the American Bottom, pp. 119-166. Transportation Archaeological Research Reports No.9. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Urbana.

McElrath, Dale L. and Thomas Emerson
2007    Concluding Thoughts on the Archaic Occupation of the Eastern Woodlands. In Archaic Societies: Diversity and Complexity Across the Miccontinent, edited by T. Emerson, D. L. McElrath and A. C. Fortier. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln (in press).

McElrath, Dale L. and Thomas E. Emerson
2000    Toward an "Intrinsic Characteristics" Approach to Chert Raw Material Classification: An American Bottom Example. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 25(2):215-244.

McElrath, Dale L., Thomas E. Emerson and Andrew C. Fortier
2000    Social Evolution or Social Response? A Fresh Look at the "Good Grey Cultures" after Four Decades of Research in the Midwest. 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.

McElrath, Dale L., Thomas E. Emerson, Andrew C. Fortier and James L. Phillips
1984    Late Archaic Period. In American Bottom Archaeology: A Summary of the FAI-270 Project Contributions to the Culture History of the Mississippi River Valley, edited by C. J. Bareis and J. W. Porter, pp. 34-58. University of Illinois, Urbana.

McElrath, Dale L. and Fred A. Finney
1987    The George Reeves Site (11-S-650). American Bottom Archaeology FAI-270 Site Reports 15. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

McElrath, Dale L. and Andrew C. Fortier
1981    The Missouri Pacific Site #2: A Late Archaic Occupation in the American Bottom. FAI-270 Archaeological Mitigation Project Report No. 34. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana.

2000    The Early Late Woodland Occupation of the American Bottom. 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.

McElrath, Dale L., Andrew C. Fortier, Brad Koldehoff and Thomas Emerson
2006    The American Bottom Archaic: A Cultural Crossroads. In Archaic Societies: Diversity and Complexity Across the Midcontinent, edited by T. Emerson, D. L. McElrath and A. C. Fortier. University of Nebraska Press, Linconl (in press).

McElrath, Dale L., Michael C. Meinkoth and Kristin Hedman
1996    Site Interpretations. In The Cunningham Site: A Late Woodland Occupation in the American Bottom, edited by M. C. Meinkoth, K. Hedman and D. L. McElrath, pp. 189-198. Research Reports No. 41. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Urbana.

McElrath, Dale L., Joyce A. Williams, Thomas O. Maher and Michael C. Meinkoth
1987    Emergent Mississippian and Mississippian Communities at the Radic Site. American Bottom Archaeology FAI-270 Site Reports 17. University of Illinois, Urbana.

1987    The Radic Site. American Bottom Archaeology FAI-270 Site Reports 17 No. 1. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

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