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ILLINOIS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY |
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Dear Out-Of-State IAS Members:
Approximately 35% of the current IAS membership base is composed of out-of-state members, many of whom used to reside or work in Illinois. Because we value our diverse membership base, we’re interested in staying in touch with those of you who have since moved away. Accordingly, we’re looking for a “What I’m Doing Now” update from out-of-state members to put up on our website. A quick paragraph or note would suffice. In this way your Illinois colleagues will be able to keep track of your current interests and projects. You can send your updates to Tom Loebel (tloebe1@uic.edu) or directly to webmaster Len Stelle (LSTELLE@PARKLAND.EDU). We hope to hear from you soon!
September 2005 marks my first decade of living and working in Hawai‘i. I live on the volcanically active island, several islands east of Honolulu. A lava flow from 1984 stopped just a few miles from Hilo, and an earthquake of 5.1 on the Richter scale shook Lynne and I awake a few nights ago. Lynne is doing fine teaching anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, and the Hawai‘i Community College, and working with a grant on historical health trends on the island. http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/
It has taken some effort and lateral thinking to relate to the archaeology here. No ceramics. No chert tools. Very few deeply stratified sites. Most challenging and stimulating is the vibrant Hawaiian culture with direct links to the archaeological record that asserts the dominant narrative of the past. I was not prepared for any of that, but I have managed to adapt, and am finally feeling like I am making contributions to the craft. I have been generating some long term research interests that provide a solid framework for the numerous and seemingly unrelated contract jobs that I am responsible for working as the Hawai‘i Island Operations Manager for Scientific Consultant Services, Inc. http://www.scshawaii.com/
My favorite research activities are tromping through the forest along the Wailuku River searching for forgotten landmarks associated with the legends of Maui, his mother Hina, and the interloper demon lizard Mo‘okuna. I spent several years working on some Hawaiian archaeoastronomy, but recently have poured my energy into traditional Hawaiian battlefields, a vastly underrepresented site type in our site inventory. I presented a portion of that research in Valparaiso, Chile last fall, and hopped over to Easter Island for a pleasant week in another part of Polynesia. The article based on that battlefield study will be coming out soon in Rapa Nui Journal. http://islandheritage.org/
Hoping to see you again, Tom Wolforth in Hilo, Hawai‘i
Dale R. Henning Being retired is great, especially in Santa Fe. Barbara and I have a nice home just outside Santa Fe, in Eldorado, where we have lived for nearly two and a half years. We have easy access to all the delights that Santa Fe offers; museums, opera, choral groups, scenery and the most really good restaurants per capita of … possibly any place. We will never see and do all that this small city offers.
Despite all the potential distractions in this environment, I continue to put in many full days doing archeological/ethnohistoric research, focused on Midwest and Plains phenomena. A lot has been accomplished and there is always more waiting to be done. Finally, there is time to tackle research problems that have been bubbling for decades; it is more than satisfying to do so. National and regional meetings can be attended without interrupting a schedule as well. I am fortunate to be able to maintain research ties and some ties to the professional community with Research Associate positions with the Illinois State Museum, the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History and the Laboratory of Anthropology here in Santa Fe. Thus, I am not yet a homeless old archeologist.
But, research is not everything. There is time for travel as well. Besides taking in the many tourist opportunities here in the southwest that are new and delightful, we have recently spent two weeks touring Umbria and in a few days will fly to Hawaii’s Big Island for 10 days, then early in May will go to Peru for over a week on a get-acquainted venture. Then, in June, off to Iowa for a combination family, business, research trip. These trips are always too short; there are always more things to see and friends to visit than time allows.
In sum: what am I doing now? Having a wonderful time.
Dr. Richard Edging (A.M. 1984, Ph.D. 1995, Univ. of Illinois) is the
archaeologist and Cultural Resources Manager at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri,
completing his 14th year for the Natural Resources Branch through the Center
for the Environmental Management of Military Lands, Colorado State
University. His duties include the inventory, preservation and protection
of archaeological sites (Native American and Historic Settler), as well as
historic buildings and structures. Richard's research interests lie in the
pre-Columbian archaeology of the Midwest and Southwestern U.S. and by
necessity Late Woodland autonomous cultures and cave archaeology. Since
leaving Illinois in 1991, Dr. Edging has published in books, written site
reports, and delivered numerous papers at regional and national conferences.
In 2003, Richard produced the historical volume Made in the Timber: A
Settlement History of the Fort Leonard Wood Region and in 2006 he will
co-author and publish a book on the pre-Columbian archaeology of the
northern Ozarks. Dr. Edging has been a member of the IAS since 1979. Richard
lives in Columbia and is married to Dr. Patricia Okker, English Professor,
University of Missouri, Columbia. Richard and Pat have two kids, Kate and
Jack. I just read Rochelle's email message requesting information.
Most of my recent research is "just across the Wabash" on the late
Mississippian Caborn-Welborn phase. See http://www.indiana.edu/~archaeo.
Links to my 2004 SEAC/MAC papers regarding the research initiated at the
Prather Mississippian site near Louisville (with Bob McCullough) and our
archaeology education program at the Hovey Lake site (with Jocelyn Turner)
are at the bottom of this page.
Also regarding public education in archaeology, our Archaeology Learning
Kits (grades 3 to 8) have gone out-of-state, and can be checked out from
the University of Southern Indiana, Distance Learning at:
http://www.usi.edu/extserv/archlgy/
An archaeology video for these grades is also available: "Archaeology at
the Hovey Lake Site: First-Hand View of the Past."
Regards,
Cheryl
Cheryl Ann Munson An update of activities
Tom Riley is Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
at North Dakota State University, Fargo. NDSU is the state's land grant
university with a student body of a little more than 12000 and externally
funded research expenditures of a little more than $100,000,000 a
year. http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ahss/office/
He is also Co-Director of the North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies,
which has an extensive archive of materials related to North Dakota and the
Northern Plains and publishes a series of books related to North Dakota
history, politics and culture. There are currently more than 52 books in
print from the Institute. http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/
In 2000, 2002 and 2003 he directed an archaeological field school at Fort
Seward, a US Military installation that helped to establish Jamestown,
North Dakota, in 1872. The fort was abandoned in 1877. The excavations
were supported by the City of Jamestown and by the ND Department of
Transportation through a Federal Transportation Enhancement
Grant. Excavations yielded signs of lavatories, trash dumps and other
features related to the fort, and helped to establish historic areas which
had been destroyed by activities occurring after the abandonment of the
fort. http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/heiraas/seward/
In 2001, He was Co Principal Investigator with Dr. Jeffrey T. Clark for an
EPSCoR funded NSF grant establishing the a Digital Database of artifacts
from the Pacific Islands ( DANA). This was the first major project of the
Archaeology Technology Laboratory at NDSU, http://atl.ndsu.edu/home/ which
engages in research involving advanced visualization, virtual reality, and
digital database management in anthropology.
The Archaeology technology Laboratory at NDSU will be sponsoring "Digital
Discovery," the 2006 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in
Archaeology Conference http://www.caa2006.org/ . CAA, founded in 1973, is
an international organization of archaeologists, computer Scientists and
Mathematicians organized to promote communication about archaeology across
those disciplines. This is the first time that the conference has met in
the United States.
Santa Fe, NM
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Bloomington, IN