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Job Announcements

☛ Archaeologist (Lab Director, closes Aug. 11) and Historic Preservation Specialist II (Archaeological Reviewer, closes Aug. 4) | Kansas Historical Society

☛ Visiting Senior Scientific Specialist, Archaeology (Elgin, Illinois) | Illinois State Archaeological Survey (More info and Apply Online by 6 pm August 7, 2025)

☛ Visiting Senior Scientific Specialist, Archaeology | Illinois State Archaeological Survey (More info and Apply Online)

☛ Visiting Senior Scientific Specialist, Geospatial Science | Illinois State Archaeological Survey (More info and Apply Online)

☛ Director of Education and Archaeologist | Center for American Archeology, Kampsville, IL

☛ Historic Properties Researcher (Full Time) | Museum Archaeology Program, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI  (More info and Apply Online)

 

News & Updates

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The Illinois State Archaeological Survey, a division of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, proudly announces the release of their latest publication: Studies in Archaeology No. 07, Archaeology of Illinois: The Deep History of the Prairie State

☛ Illinois Archaeological Survey 2025 Grant Opportunities

☛ William (“Bill”) L. Mangold Obituary

☛ Death of Indiana's second State Archaeologist

☛ Read James (Jim) Skibo's obituary 

☛ Two new rules on NAGPRA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (https://cam.illinois.edu/policies/rp-14/ and https://nagpra.illinois.edu/procedures/)

☛ New Videos on Archaeology of Personhood and Soul Concepts of Pre- and Post-contact Indians of the Eastern Woodlands (direct link to videos, full notice with symposium details)

☛ Online guide to “Talking About Race,” designed by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (webpage)

☛ Check out the book series Midwest Archaeological Perspectives

Recent Theses & Dissertations

☛ From “Intricate, Tortuous, and Difficult Channel” to “Western Venice:” The Transformation of the St. Clair Maritime Landscape from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries

☛ Interpreting the Buffalo Lake Locality: Analysis of Projectile Point and Ceramic Assemblages Recovered from Kratz Creek (47MQ39), Neale (47MQ49), and McClaughry (47MQ42) Sites

☛ Temporal Use of Koster Mounds: Functional Morphology, Mortuary Practices, and Paleopathology in the Prehistoric Lower Illinois River Valley

☛ An Examination of Flintlock Components at Fort St. Joseph (20BE23), Niles, Michigan

☛ Community Identity, Culinary Traditions and Foodways in the Western Great Lakes

☛ A Multiproxy Analysis of Culinary, Technological, and Environmental Interactions in the Northern Great Lakes Region

☛ "This is the Way Things are Run": Land Use on the Grand Portage Reservation During Office of Indian Affairs Occupation, 1854-1930

☛ Stone Tools and Agricultural Communities: Economic, Microwear, and Residue Analyses of Wisconsin Oneota Lithic Assemblages