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Contents of Volume 1, Number 1 (1989):
Presidents Statement
Editors Comment

Mississippian Faunal Remains from the Lundy Site (11-Jd-140), Jo Daviess County, Illinois
Mona L. Colburn

Cahokias Immediate Hinterland: The Mississippian Occupation of Douglas Creek
Brad Koldehoff

Lighting the Pioneer Homestead: Stoneware Lamps from the Kirkpatrick Kiln Site, La Salle County, Illinois
Floyd R. Mansberger, John A. Walthall, and Eva Dodge Mounce

Rediscovery of a Lost Woodland Site in the Lower Illinois Valley
Kenneth B. Farnsworth


Contents of Volume 1, Number 2 (1989):

Horticultural Technology and Social Interaction at the Edge of the Prairie Peninsula
Robert J.Jeske

The Pike County, Illinois, Piasa Petroglyph
Iloilo M. Jones

Reconstructing Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Chicago Area
David Keene

Radiocarbon Dates for the Great Salt Spring Site: Dating Saltpan Variation
Jon Muller and Lisa Renken

The Effectiveness of Five Artifact Recovery Methods at Upland Plowzone Sites in Northern Illinois
Douglas Kullen

Contents of Volume 2, Numbers 1 and 2 (1990):
Foreword
John A. Walthall

Introduction: A Historical Perspective on Short-Term Middle Woodland Site Archaeology in West-Central Illinois
James R. Yingst

Isolated Middle Woodland Occupation in the Sny Bottom
Gail E. Wagner

The Widman Site (11-Ms-866): A Small Middle Woodland Settlement in the Wood River Valley, Illinois
Thomas R. Wolforth, Mary L. Simon, and Richard L. Alvey

The Point Shoal Site (11-My-97): A Short-Term Havana Occupation along Upper Shoal Creek, Montgomery County, Illinois
James R. Yingst

Coldfoot: A Middle Woodland Subsistence-Activity Site in the Uplands of West-Central Illinois
Susana R. Katz

The Evidence for Specialized Middle Woodland Camps in Western Illinois
Kenneth B. Farnsworth


Contents of Volume 3, Number 1 (1991):

Models of Prehistoric Site Location for the Upper Illinois River Valley
John P. Hart and Robert J.Jeske

Archaeological and Osteological Analysis of Mound 38 at the Albany Mound Group (11-Wt-1)
Michael D. Conner and David W. Link

One Hundred Years of Investigations at the Linn Site in Southern Illinois
Charles R. Cobb

Observations on the Baehr Mounds Chert Disks: The American Museum of Natural History Collections
Carol A. Morrow

Current Research, edited by Mark J.Wagner

Book Reviews


Contents of Volume 3, Number 2 (1991):

The Diana Site (11-R-331), An Archaic and Woodland Settlement in Southwestern Illinois
Neal H. Lopinot

Current Research, edited by Mark J.Wagner

Book Review

Contents of Volume 4, Number 1 (1992):
Chert Resources of Northern Illinois: Discriminant Analysis and an Identification Key
Jacqueline A. Ferguson and Robert E. Warren

Observations on Two Tomahawk Pipes from the Central Illinois River Valley
Duane Esarey

The Guy Smith Site and Stone-Box Graves: New Perspectives from Old Collections
George R. Milner and Sissel Schroeder

Payson Chert: A Distinctive Lithic Raw Material from Adams County, Illinois
Richard L. Fishel

Book Reviews, edited by Neal H. Lopinot

Current Research, edited by Mark J.Wagner


Contents of Volume 4, Number 2 (1992):
Cultural Resistance of the Prairie Kickapoo at the Grand Village, McLean County, Illinois
Alice Berkson

Book Reviews, edited by Neal H. Lopinot


Contents of Volume 5, Numbers 1 and 2 (1993): Highways to the Past: Essays on Illinois Archaeology in Honor of Charles J.Bareis
Introduction
Thomas E. Emerson, Andrew C. Fortier, and Dale L. McElrath

PART I: HISTORICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Some Modern C-Transforms at Cahokia: A Conversation with Clyde Sweitzer
James M. Collins, Mikels Skele, and Clyde A. Sweitzer

The Monks of Cahokia
William R. Iseminger

Joseph Smith, Zelphs Mound, and the Armies of Zion: The Construction of American Indians from Archaeological Evidence in Illinois in the Nineteenth Century
Thomas J.Riley

Stable Carbon Isotope Research at the Illinois State Museum in 1967
Robert L. Hall

Archaeological Postholing: A Proposed Subsurface Survey and Site-Testing Methodology
Larry R. Abbott and Craig A. Neidig

Ground-Cover Effects on the Discovery of Archaeological Sites in Central Illinois
R. Barry Lewis

Geomorphology of the Northern American Bottom as Context for Archaeology
Edwin R. Hajic

Floodplain Landscape Evolution and Prehistoric Settlement: An Example from the Meredosia Region of the Lower Illinois River Valley
Harold Hassen

Taphonomy and Bone Density in Archaeoichthyology: A Reassessment
Douglas J.Brewer

Eastern North American Population Dynamics
Jon Muller

Saving the Great Nobb: A Case Study in the Preservation of Cahokias Monks Mound Through Passive Management
Thomas E. Emerson and William I. Woods


PART II: PALEOINDIAN AND ARCHAIC ARCHAEOLOGY
Exploring Paleoindian Site Distribution in Illinois
Michael D. Wiant

Clovis Procurement and Land-Use Patterns in the Confluence Region of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois Rivers
Kenneth B. Tankersley and Juliet E. Morrow

Artifact Distribution and Chert Use at the Barton-Milner Site: A Middle Archaic Occupation in North-Central Illinois
Jacqueline A. Ferguson and Robert E. Warren

New Information on 1932 Titterington Salvage Excavations at the Hartford Church Archaic Cemetery
Kenneth B. Farnsworth

Mule Road: A Newly Defined Late Archaic Phase in the American Bottom
Dale L. McElrath

The Seiwell Site: A Terminal Archaic Site in the Illinois Uplands
Richard L. Alvey


PART III: MIDDLE AND LATE WOODLAND ARCHAEOLOGY
Middle Woodland Ceramic Classification: Some Different Approaches
Patrick J.Munson and Cheryl Ann Munson

Crab Orchard Settlement Patterns and Residential Mobility
Michael L. Hargrave and Brian M. Butler

Meridian Hills: An Upland Holding Phase Middle Woodland Habitation Site
Joyce A. Williams

A Prehistoric Frontier in the Prairie Peninsula: Late Woodland Upland Settlement and Subsistence Patterns
William Green

The Wilderman Site (11S729): A Late Woodland Period Settlement in Southwestern Illinois
Thomas R. Wolforth and Mary L. Simon


Late Woodland Ceramic Figurines from the Jamestown Site in Perry County, Illinois
Mark J.Wagner

Digging in Jersey County, Illinois, in 1951
Dan F. Morse

The Bald Eagle Site: A Late Woodland Burial Mound Complex
Paula Cross

American Bottom House Types of the Archaic and Woodland Periods: An Overview
Andrew C. Fortier

Observations Regarding Sedentism in Central Silver Creek and the Enduring Significance of the FAI-64 Archaeological Mitigation Program
George R. Holley


PART IV: MIDDLE MISSISSIPPIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
The Downs Site (11CN171) and the Mississippianization of Late Woodland Cultures in Central Illinois
Michael J.Higgins

The Doyle Site: A Late Prehistoric Keyhole Structure
Christy L. Wells, George R. Holley, and William I. Woods

Two Elaborate Middle Mississippian Graves from the Kingston Lake Site, Peoria County, Illinois
Lawrence A. Conrad

Middle Mississippian Households in the Central Illinois River Valley: Examples from the Tree Row and Baker-Preston Sites
Michael C. Meinkoth

The Emerald Site and the Mississippian Occupation of the Central Silver Creek Valley
Brad Koldehoff, Timothy R. Pauketat, and John E. Kelly

Settlement Plans and Community Social Interaction: An Example from the Knoebel Site in Southwestern Illinois
Jeanette E. Stephens

The Determann Borrow Site: A Mississippian Occupation on the Silver Creek Drainage
Douglas K. Jackson

Bottom Envy: The Interpretive Influence of the American Bottom
Kevin P. McGowan

Settlements Amidst Swamps
George R. Milner

Spatially Isolated Structures in the Cahokia Locality: Short-Term Residences or Special-Purpose Shelters?
Fred A. Finney

Sand Prairie Phase Human Remains from the Multicomponent Schlemmer Site in the American Bottom
Jolee A. West

Preliminary Observations of Building Density at Cahokias Tract 15A and Dunham Tract
Timothy R. Pauketat

Archaeological Investigations on the Western Periphery of the Cahokia Site
Neal H. Lopinot, Alan J.Brown, and George R. Holley

The Skeletons of Fingerhut: An Early Cahokia Cemetery
Linda L. Klepinger

The Fingerhut (11S34/7) Cemetery Three Decades Later
Charles O. Witty

The Pulcher Site: An Archaeological and Historical Overview
John E. Kelly

A Survey of Elaborate Mississippian Copper Artifacts from Illinois
Kelvin Sampson and Duane Esarey

Cultural Taxonomy, Cross-Cultural Types, and Cahokia
Patricia J.OBrien


PART V: HISTORIC PERIOD ARCHAEOLOGY
Stylistic and Temporal Analysis of Jesuit Rings in the Illinois Country
John A. Walthall

The Trotier Site: A French Colonial House Site in the Village of Cahokia
Bonnie L. Gums

Deciphering the Grand Village of the Illinois: A Preliminary Assessment of the Grand Village Research Project
Lenville J.Stelle, James A. Brown, Charles L. Rohrbaugh, Thomas E. Emerson, and Robert Jeske

The Robert Watts Site: Archaeological Excavations of a Late Eighteenth/Early Nineteenth Century Euroamerican Farmstead
Joseph S.Phillippe

Skeletal Remains from a Historic Sauk Village (11RI81), Rock Island County, Illinois
Kristin Hedman

Gunflints from Hutsonville: A Study in Historic Lithic Technology
William Flesher and Karen Powell

Who Took Out the Trash at the Davis Mansion?: Gender Visibility and the Archaeological Record
Floyd Mansberger


Contents of Volume 6, Numbers 1 and 2 (1994):

The Archaeology of the East St. Louis Mound Center: Past and Present
John E. Kelly

The Joan Carrie Site: A Short-Term Patrick and Dohack Phase Occupation on the American Bottom Bluff Edge
Duane Esarey and Sissel Johannessen

Archaeological Geology at the Bash Site
James M. Collins, E. Arthur Bettis III, and Timothy J.Kemmis

Book Review, edited by Neal H. Lopinot


Contents of Volume 7, Numbers 1 and 2 (1995):

Microliths and the Kunnemann Tract: An Assessment of Craft Production at the Cahokia Site
George R. Holley

A Preliminary Analysis of Mississippian Jar Rim Heights from the Central Illinois River Valley
Richard L. Fishel

The Vogt Petroglyph Complex in Monroe County, Illinois
Andrew Fortier

Additional Notes on the Burned Building Beneath Cahokias Kunnemann Mound
Timothy R. Pauketat


Trade and Tradition: Trade Goods and Late Historic Mortuary Sites
Jodie A. OGorman and Kenneth B. Farnsworth

Late Woodland Occupations in the Lower Illinois Valley: A Comparison of Upland and Lowland Sites
Sarah J. Studenmund, Laura E. Johnson, Marjorie B. Schroeder, and Karli White

Book Reviews, edited by Neal Lopinot


Contents of Volume 8, Numbers 1 and 2 (1996):
Preserving the Shipwrecks of the Prairie State
Thomas E. Emerson

Insight Through Icons
Gregory D. Wilson

The AG Church Site: An Introduction
Brad Koldehoff, Julie Zimmermann Holt, Larry Kinsella, and Timothy R.
Pauketat

AG Church Site Features and Community Organization
Julie Zimmermann Holt

AG Church Site Ceramics: Clues to Community Change
Timothy R. Pauketat

AG Church Site Lithics: Technology, Economy, and the Mississippian Emergence
Brad Koldehoff

AG Church Site Subsistence Remains: The Procurement and Exchange of Plant and Animal Products During the Mississippian Emergence
Julie Zimmermann Holt

Book Reviews, edited by Neal H. Lopinot


Contents of Volume 9, Numbers 1 and 2 (1997):
Who Met the Mississippians at the Mouth of the Apple River? Investigations at 11Ca44
David W. Benn

Eighteenth-Century Ceramics from Fort de Chartres III
Vergil E. Noble

Identification of the Geologic Sources for Obsidian Artifacts from Three Middle Woodland Sites in the American Bottom, Illinois
Richard E. Hughes and Andrew C. Fortier

Archaeological Investigations at Little Grassy Lake, Southern Illinois, 19661967
Jonathan E. Reyman

NAGPRA Inventory of Human Remains and Associated Funerary Objects at the Illinois State Museum and Dickson Mounds Museum
Robert E. Warren and David G. McBride

Seasonal Occupation Patterns in Illinois History: A Case Study in the Lower Illinois River Valley
Duane Esarey

Native American Settlement and Chert Use in Starved Rock State Park
Jacqueline A. Ferguson

Book Reviews, edited by Neal Lopinot


Contents of Volume 10, Numbers 1 and 2 (1998):

Early and Middle Archaic Settlement Systems in the Modoc Locality, Southwest Illinois
Steven R. Ahler

A Summary of Changes in Archaic Period Subsistence and Site Function at Modoc Rock Shelter
Steven R. Ahler and Bonnie W. Styles

The Strong Site and the Dennis Hollow Phase: A New Perspective on Middle Archaic Chronology, Technology, and Subsistence
Gregory R. Walz, Brian Adams, Paul P. Kreisa, Kevin P. McGowan, and
Jacqueline M. McDowell

The Meyer Site: A Terminal Late Archaic Residential Camp in the American Bottom
Andrew C. Fortier, Thomas E. Emerson, and Kathryn E. Parker

Archaeological Investigations at the Hayden Site, A Titterington Phase Settlement in St. Louis County, Missouri
Joe Harl

Quasar: A Stratified Archaic Site in the Floodplain of the Lower Illinois River Valley
Daniel B. Goatley

Was the Cochran 10 Site (11-Wa-140) a Theban Persistent Place?Assemblage Structure and Settlement Patterns in the Early Archaic of West Central Illinois
Eric G.Hansen and David J.Nolan

The Christianson Site (11-RI-42): A Paleoindian Occupation in the Lower Rock River Valley, Illinois
J.Bryant Evans and Kevin T. Womac

Book Reviews, edited by Thomas E. Emerson


Contents of Volume 11, Numbers 1 and 2 (1999):
Attica Chert and Clovis Land Use in Illinois: The Anderson and Perkins Sites
Brad Koldehoff

Across the Divide: Dalton Land Use in the Southern Till Plains
John A. Walthall and Brad Koldehoff

The O'Donnell Site Late Woodland Occupation at the Confluence of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers
Daniel B. Goatley, Kenneth B. Farnsworth, and Karen A. Atwell

Crimson Circle Mounds: Multi-Cultural Access, Mississippian Emergence, or Further Evidence of Jersey Bluff Ritual Diversity at the Confluence of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers
Karen A. Atwell and Kenneth B. Farnsworth

The Korando Site (11J334): A Mississippian Ritual Cave and Rock Art Site in Southwestern Illinois
Mark J. Wagner, Mary R. McCorvie, and Charles A. Swedlund

The LaMoine River Dugout Canoe Schuyler County, Illinois
Alan D. Harn

Book Reviews, edited by Thomas E. Emerson



Contents of Volume 12, Numbers 1 and 2 (2000):

In Memoriam, Jeanette E. Stephens (1947-2000)
Brian M. Butler

The Bosque Medio Site: A Hopewellian Campsite in the American Bottom Uplands
Andrew C. Fortier and Swastika Ghosh

Early Late Woodland Resource Exploitation Strategies as Seen from the Formal Garden Site, Rock Island, Illinois
Thomas R. Wolforth, Mary L. Simon, and Paul P. Kreisa

Reminiscences of George Langford
Douglas Kullen

A Glimpse of Village Life at Nouvelle Chartres
Bonnie L. Gums and Charles O. Witty

The Power of Place and Rock Art in Southern Illinois: The Austin Hollow Rock Site
Mark J. Wagner, Bethany J. Myers, and Charles A. Swedlund

Recent Investigations in the Vicinity of Mounds 27 and 28 at Cahokia: The Yale Avenue Borrow Pit
Brad Koldehoff, Charles O. Witty, and Mike Kolb

The Bivouac Site (11MS1665): An Emergent Mississippian Camp in the American Bottom Uplands
Joseph M. Galloy, Kathryn E. Parker, and Nathan J. Babcook

Theodore H. Lewis and the Northwestern Archaeological Survey’s 1891 Fieldwork in the American Bottom
Fred A. Finney

The Cave Creek Rockshelter (11J-822) and Seasonal Settlement in the Western Shawnee Hills
Brian M. Butler and Brian G. DelCastello

Recognizing Our Own: Historic Summary and Overview of IAS Honors and Awards: 1958-1999
Kenneth Farnsworth

Book Reviews, edited by Thomas E. Emerson


Contents of Volume 13, Numbers 1 and 2 (2001):

Middle Woodland Lithic Procurement and Land Use in the Interior Uplands: The Crockerdale Site, Monroe County, Illinois.
Brad Koldehoff

The Center Grove Site: A Nearly Invisible Early Mississippian Mortuary Facility in the Uplands of Madison County, Illinois
Donald L. Booth

The Dillow’s Ridge Site and the Production of Mill Creek Chert Tools.
Brian M. Butler and Charles R. Cobb

French Colonial Material Culture from an Early Eighteenth-Century Outpost in the Illinois Country.
John A. Walthall and Margaret Kimball Brown

Archaeobotanical Remains from Early Eighteenth-Century French Deposits at Nouvelle Chartres.
Kathryn E. Parker

Book Reviews, edited by Thomas E. Emerson


Contents of Volume 14, Numbers 1 and 2 (2002; 2005):

A Late Woodland Louisa Phase Household in the Upper Mississippi Valley, Henderson County, Illinois
David W. Benn and Derek V. Lee

Bioarchaeological Analyses of Special-Purpose Graves from Kingston Lake, Dickson Mounds, and Cahokia: New Perspectives on Programmed Death in Illinois
Dawn E. Cobb and Alan D. Harn

The Old Man Site #3 (11MS542): A Lohmann Phase Farmstead
Alleen M. Betzenhauser

The Flatboat America (11PU280): An Early Nineteenth-Century Flatboat Wreck in Pulaski County, Illinois
Mark J. Wagner

Book Reviews, edited by Thomas E. Emerson




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