Staff Archaeologist BA in Anthropology, Minor in History and Political Science Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN M.S. in Anthropology from Purdue University. Thesis: Debitage Analysis of the Brush College School Site: A Late Archaic Titterington Phase Site in West Central Illinois. E-mail: felix@uiuc.edu

General Interest/Area of Focus

Rhett is interested in lithic technologies particularly debitage analysis, archaic culture, and Mid-Western North American Archaeology; as well as Middle Woodland sites in the central Illinois River valley.

Memberships/Awards/Accomplishments

• Illinois Association for the Advancement of Archaeology
• Midwest Archaeological Conference
• Register of Professional Archaeologists
• Society for American Archaeology

Previous Positions

• Archaeological Technician: Purdue University CRM programs
  
• Archaeological Technician II: Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., Hurricane, WV

Current Research

Lithic debitage analysis of Titterington age sites.

Selected Bibliography

2001 Paper presented at the West Virginia Archaeological Society Meeting: Preliminary Discussion of Phase III Archaeological Investigations of the Willow bluff Site’s (46Ka352) Prehistoric Components (Rhett B. Felix and Bill Huser)

2003 Archaeolgical Testing Short Report: 11-MG-202 (Rhett B. Felix and David J. Nolan)

2004 Interim Report of Archaeological Survey Along the Proposed IL Route 29 Corridor (Fishel, Richard L., Rhett B. Felix and James M. Pisell)

2005 2004 Archaeological Investigations at Site 11MD771 (Chenoweth Site) for the IL 336/US 136 Frontage Road Project. Archaeological Testing Short Report No. 197,
Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (David J. Nolan and Rhett B. Felix)

Complete Vitae (pdf)

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