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52nd Annual
Midwest Archaeological Conference
Holiday Inn Hotel and Conference Center
Urbana, Illinois
October 12–15, 2006

UPDATED PRELIMINARY PROGRAM


Poster Presentations: The standard poster size for MAC 2006 is 48” x 48”; although the backboards are large enough to accommodate larger widths for posters (to 60”) if you find you need more space, the height may not exceed 48”. The poster sessions are scheduled for Friday afternoon (October 13) and Saturday morning (October 14). Read more about poster guidelines >

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Thursday afternoon, October 12, 2006
Session 1. Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Landscape Evolution and Cultural Change in the Prairie Peninsula: A Symposium Honoring R. Bruce McMillan

IAS Board Meeting (4:00 to 6:00 p.m.)

IAS Business Meeting (6:30 to 8:30 p.m.)

Friday morning, October 13, 2006
Session 2. General Session: Late Woodland
Session 3. General Session: Late Prehistory-Protohistory & Mississippian
Session 4. General Session: French Colonial/Historic
Session 5. General Session: Methods in Archaeology

MAC Board Meeting (12:00 to 1:00 P.M.)

Friday afternoon
Session 6. Symposium: A Celebration of Illinois Archaeology: Fifty Years of the Illinois Archaeological Survey
Session 7. General Session: Preservation/Education/Field Reports
Session 8. Symposium: Current Research from Ball State University
Session 9. General Poster Session
Session 10. Symposium: New Perspectives on Oneota Archaeology at Lake Koshkonong, Southeastern Wisconsin

Friday evening
MAC Reception: Celebrating 50 Years of Illinois Archaeology (6:00 to 10:00 p.m.)

Saturday morning, October 14, 2006
IAAA Board Meeting (7:30 to 8:30 A.M.)

Session 11. Symposium: Red Wing Archeology: New Data, New Insights
Session 12. Symposium: Current Research of the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Midcontinent
Session 13. Poster Session: The National Science Foundation-Sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates in Geophysical Survey at Strawtown, Indiana (Indiana University/Purdue University-Ft. Wayne)
Session 14. Symposium: Plants and Technology

Lunch Break

Saturday afternoon
Session 15. Symposium: Eight Years and 8,828 Surface Collected Units Later: Research Results
Session 16. General Session: Middle Woodland/Hopewell
Session 17. Workshop: Modern and Ancient Technologies

MAC Business Meeting (4:30 to 5:30 p.m.)

Saturday evening
Cash Bar (6:00 P.M.)

Banquet (6:30 P.M.)
Guest speaker Steve Lekson of the University of Colorado-Boulder
On Chaco, Cahokia, and Post-Classic North America


October 12, 2006
Thursday afternoon

Session 1 - 1:00 P.M.
Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Landscape Evolution and Cultural Change in the Prairie Peninsula: A Symposium Honoring R. Bruce McMillan
Organizer: Styles, Bonnie (Illinois State Museum)

Wood, W. Raymond - 1:00
R. Bruce McMillan: A Life Spent in the Pursuit of Excellence

Grimm, Eric C. and David M. Nelson - 1:15
Vegetation and Climate in Illinois: Paleoindian to Historic

Saunders, Jeffrey J. - 1:30
Mammoth Hunters in Illinois! (Don't Bet On It)

Hajic, Edwin R. and Michael D. Wiant - 1:45
Patterns of Landscape Evolution in Holocene Landsystems, the Archaeological Record, and Culture Change

Kay, Marvin D. - 2:00
It's the Water! Why People Were Where They Were

Warren, Robert E. - 2:15
Rockshelters, Animal Resources, and Human Foragers in the Western Ozark Highland

Styles, Bonnie W. and Jane E. Buikstra - 2:30
Landscape History, Subsistence, and Health in the Illinois and Mississippi River Valleys

Martin, Terrance D. and Alan Harn - 2:45
New Perspectives on Bison and Bison Hunters in Illinois

Brown, James E. - 3:00
Before the Plow: Human Impact on the Prairie Peninsula Landscape

Discussant: McMillan, R. Bruce (Illinois State Museum) - 3:15

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4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
IAS Board meeting

6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
IAS Business Meeting


October 13, 2006
Friday morning

Session 2 - 8:30 A.M.
General Session: Late Woodland

Brashler, Janet and Donald Gaff - 8:30
Excavations at the South Flats Earthwork (20MU2)

Conner, Michael - 8:45
Late Woodland Settlement and Mortuary Patterns in the Sny Bottom

DelCastello, Brian G. - 9:00
The Organization of Lithic Technology at the Rohlfing Site (23Fr525): a Late Woodland Occupation in the Uplands of Franklin County, Missouri

Dunham, Sean, Michael Hambacher, and Eric Drake - 9:15
The Bark Dock Site (20CH95): A Stratified Woodland Site on the Shore of Lake Superior

Galloy, Joseph M., Patrick Durst, and Jeffery D. Kruchten - 9:30
The Janey B. Goode Site (11S1232): Recent Investigations and New Insights into the Terminal Late Woodland Period

Break - 9:45

Felix, Rhett - 10:00
A Reexamination of the Steuben Point

Millhouse, Phil - 10:15
Effigy Mound People in Jo Daviess County, Illinois

Nycz, Christine and Amy Graham - 10:30
The Mary Craig Site (11PK1567): A La Crosse Phase Site in the Sny Bottom Region of the Mississippi River Valley

Royce, Karen L. - 10:45
The Late Woodland Scioto Trails Site (33FR8) in the Middle Ohio River Valley

Wagner, Stephen - 11:00
Ritual Activity at Gottschall Rockshelter

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Session 3 - 8:00 A.M.
General Session: Late Prehistory-Protohistory & Mississippian

Nagel, Cindy L., Cindy L. Peterson, and John G. Hedden - 8:00
Developing a Dataset for the Examination of Post-Contact Changes in Indigneous Lifeways and Material Cultures in Iowa

Peterson, Staffan - 8:15
A Wide Area Geophysical Survey of a Mississippian Town: Costs and Benefits of Efficient Survey Techniques

Moore, Christopher - 8:30
Salvage Investigations at 12D123, a Middle Fort Ancient Anderson Phase Site in Southern Indiana

Bader, Anne T. and Michael W. French - 8:45
New Evidence of Mississippian House Patterns at the Falls of the Ohio River

Munson, Cheryl Ann, Robert G. McCullough, C. Russell Stafford, and Michael R. Strezewski - 9:00
The 2005 Archaeological Investigations at the Prather Site (12CL4): Surveys, Geoarchaeology, and Test Excavations

Weeks, Rex - 9:15
Student Paper Competition: Notes on the Pre-Contact Origins of the Midewiwin

Dolan, Shannon and Steven R. Kuehn - 9:30
An Oneota Longhouse Structure from East-Central Wisconsin

Break - 9:45

Mollerud, Katy - 10:00
Student Paper Competition: Ring Around the Ramey: A Comparison of Ramey Incised Pottery from the Sites of Cahokia, Aztalan and the Apple River Region

Betzenhauser, Alleen - 10:15
Student Paper Competition: Mississippian Farmsteads of Greater Cahokia: the Case for Integrated Rural Populations

Byers, A. Martin - 10:30
"Franchising" Cahokia: Hinterland Cult Interaction

Craig, Joseph and Susan B. Vorreyer 10:45
Expressing Authority in Cahokia's Rural Districts: Investigations at the Lange Site, a Mississippian Period Civic and Ceremonial Center in Illinois

Emerson, Kjersti - 11:00
Preliminary Observations on Continuity and Variation in Fisher Phase Ceramics

Jackson, Doug - 11:15
The Huber Site (11CK1): Some Notes and Observations on Recent Impacts to the Site

Esarey, Duane and Robert Mazrim - 11:30
Rethinking the "Dawn of History": The Schedule, Signature, and Agency of European Goods in Protohistoric Illinois

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Session 4 - 8:00 A.M.
General Session: French Colonial/Historic

Adams, Brian, Alice Berkson, Ilona Matkovszki, and Michael E. Smith - 8:00
The Martin Homestead: Early Prosperity on the Wabash Border

Baumann, Timothy - 8:15
In Black & White: Social Segregation in Missouri's Little Dixie

Baxter, Jane Eva - 8:30
Layering Meaning onto Landscapes: Class, Display, and Experience in 19th Century Pullman

Branstner, Mark C. and Richard Fishel - 8:45
The Chenoweth Site (11MD771): A 19th Century Farmstead in McDonough County, Illinois

Franzen, Jon - 9:00
"What! Ruins so soon!": Historical Archaeology of Euro-American Settlement on Grand Island, Lake Superior, Michigan

Genheimer, Bob - 9:15
The Policeman in the Privy: A Police Uniform and More in a 19th Century Cincinnati Privy

Green, William - 9:30
Uncovering and Re-covering Two Pre-Civil War Structures in Beloit, Wisconsin

Kirkley, Samantha - 9:45
Making the Mark: An Interpretation of Ironstone Makers Marks in 19th Century America

Break - 10:00

Lee, Jane - 10:15
Community, Culture, and Connections: Historical and Archaeological Investigations of two Residential Lots in the Hyde Park Neighborhood of North St. Louis, Missouri

Lurie, Rochelle, John Morris, and June Hope Lanners - 10:30
Uncovering the Henry Bates House and Shoemaker's Shop at the Macktown Historic Site in the Macktown Winnebago County Forest Preserve

Hargrave, Michael and Lenville Stelle - 10:45
Geophysical and Archaeological Investigations at Fox Fort

Harl, Joe - 11:00
Archaeological Investigations at a French Colonial Church Complex, Florissant, Missouri

Mason, Carol I. - 11:15
Reading the Rings: Decoding Iconographic ("Jesuit") Rings

Strezewski, Michael - 11:30
The 2006 Excavations at Kethtippecanunk: An Eighteenth Century French and Wea Indian Town

Fennell, Christopher - 11:45
Crossroads, Cultures and Ethnogenic Bricolage

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Session 5 - 8:00 A.M.
General Session: Methods in Archaeology

Cobb, Dawn E., Michael D. Wiant, and Nicholas W. Klobuchar - 8:00
In Search of Kaskaskia Cemeteries: GIS Technology and Virtual Reconstruction

Cullen, Kevin M. - 8:15
Student Paper Competition: Identifying Sweat Lodges in the Archaeological Record

Doershuk, John F., Paul L. Garvin, and Julia Clark - 8:30
Recent Research on Fire-cracked Rock Composition and Distribution at 13LN323, Palisades-Dows State Preserve, Linn County, Iowa

Johnson, Donald and Fred Finney - 8:45
Natural Prairie (Mima) Mounds of the Upper Midwest: Their Abundance, Distribution, Origin, and Archaeological Implications

Koziarski, Ralph - 9:00
North Bay in Spring: Preliminary Results of Faunal Analysis from the Richter Site (47DR80)

Kuehn, Steven - 9:15
Preliminary Analysis of the Rosewood Site (11S639) Faunal Assemblage

Lovis, William A., G. William Monaghan, and Alan B. Arbogast - 9:30
Dune Activation, Cycling, and the Taphonomy of Stratified Archaeological Sites in the Lake Michigan Coastal Zone

Lurie, Rochelle and Clare Tolmie - 9:45
Finding Undisturbed Sites in Unexpected Places: 11Wi3243, a Late Archaic Site on the South Bluff of the Des Plaines River

Break - 10:00

Plummer, Janilee - 10:15
Whorls and Wheels

Raff, Jennifer, Della Cook, and Frederika Kaestle - 10:30
The Madonna and Child Trope: Mortuary Practices in Illinois

Schmidt, Christopher and Kimberly Allegretto - 10:45
Dental Evidence for a Late Woodland Maize-supplemented Diet

Stelle, Lenville - 11:00
Imaging Pictographs

Wissemann, Sarah, Thomas E. Emerson, Randall E. Hughes, and Kenneth B. Farnsworth - 11:15
The Catlinite Conundrum

McElrath, Dale and Madeleine Evans - 11:30
Is the Leading Middle Archaic Point Type All Washed Up? A Return to Matanzas Beach

Wagner, Mark and Brad Koldehoff - 11:45
From Southern Illinois to Kansas: Documenting the Seyferth Family Collection, Jackson County, Illinois

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Lunch Break

12:00 to 1:00 P.M.
MAC Board Meeting


Friday afternoon

Session 6 - 1:30 P.M.
Symposium: A Celebration of Illinois Archaeology: Fifty Years of the Illinois Archaeological Survey

Organizer: Wagner, Mark (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

Butler, Brian M. - 1:30
Introductory Remarks

Brown, James - 1:45
Making Waves with the Multi-disciplinary Approach in Archaeology

Styles, Bonnie - 2:00
Archaeozoological Research in Illinois: An 80 Year Legacy

Buikstra, Jane E. - 2:15
Bioarchaeology in West-Central Illinois: Setting the Standard

Struever, Stuart - 2:30
Reflections on Building Archaeological Research Institutions

Benchley, Elizabeth - 2:45
From Illinois' Monks Mound to the Florida Panhandle

Break - 3:00

Hall, Robert - 3:15
My initiation into Illinois Archaeology 1961–1967

Harn, Alan - 3:30
Highlights of 50 Years of Archaeology in the Spoon River Area of Illinois

Muller, Jon - 3:45
Southern Illinois in Prehistory

Lewis, Barry - 4:00
But the IAS Neglected to Teach Me about Leopards

O'Brien, Patricia - 4:15
The Sacred Red Rock of the Kansa

Wagner, Mark - 4:30
Closing Remarks

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Session 7 - 1:00 P.M.
General Session: Preservation/Education/Field Reports

Cohen, Barbara E. and William Green - 1:00
Taming the Media Shrew: Positive Publicity for Archaeology

DeMore, Mimi - 1:15
Student Paper Competition: The Crisis in Archaeological Curation - An Indiana Story: A Random Sampling from the Indiana State Historic Preservation and Archaeology Office - The Final Talley

Millhouse, Phil, Michael Farkas, and Thomas E. Emerson - 1:30
Rediscovering the Aiken Mound Group

Nostrant, Cynthia and Michael Nassaney - 1:45
Public Education at Fort St. Joseph

Paulus, B Gregory, Suzanne E Harris, and Carol Diaz-Granados - 2:00
Lost in the Woods: Rediscovering the Maddin Creek Site (23WA26) in Washington County, Missouri

Ward, Amy - 2:15
All Roads Lead to Manville: A Look at Multifamily Dwellings Associated with 19th century Industry

Burks, Jarrod and Albert M. Pecora - 2:30
Filling the Middle Archaic Gap in Ohio: Excavation Results from a Buried Site (33AT982) on the Lower Hocking River in Southeastern Ohio

Break - 2:45

Ensor, Bradley - 3:00
Archaeological Investigations at the Lower Huron Metropark, Southeast Michigan

Monaghan, G. William and William A. Lovis - 3:15
Chronology and Evolution of the Green Point Flood Plain and Associated Cucurbita pepo

Nolan, David J., Richard Fishel, and Robert Hickson - 3:30
Building a Regional Chronology: A Review of Recent Excavations in the LaMoine River Basin of Western Illinois

Schurr, Mark - 3:45
The Prehistoric Ceramic Sequence of Northwestern Indiana: A View from the Collier Lodge Site (12PR36)

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Session 8 - 4:15 P.M.
Symposium: Current Research from Ball State University

Organizer: Wyatt, Jennifer (Ball State University)

Wyatt, Jennifer C. - 4:15
Student Paper Competition: Data Marks the Spot: Results from a Formal Pedestrian Survey At the Patty Ann Farms Site

Reece-Hall, Marla - 4:30
Hesher (12-Hn-298) and Commissary (12-Hn-2): Contrasting Patterns in Two Proximate Albee Cemeteries

Wyatt, Jennifer C. and Mark Groover - 4:45
Exploring Water-Based Settlement and Site Complexity Patterns in Indiana: The Mississinewa Reservoir Survey Revisited

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Session 9 - 1:00 to 4:30 P.M.
General Poster Session

Barrante, Stephanie, Erin Claussen, LisaMarie Malischke, Michael Nassaney, and Cynthia Nostrant
The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project: 2006 Field Season

Berkson, Alice and Ansel Anderson
Master Naturalist Volunteers: Promoting Archaeology Education and Stewardship in East Central Illinois

Booth, Don and Steve Dasovich
The Poag Road Site (11MS31): Recent Investigations

Bowen, Jonathan
Faunal and Floral Remains from the Feurt Village Site, Scioto County, Ohio

Dancey, William S., Paul J. Pacheco, and Steven P. Howard
The Dow #2 Site and the the Question of Middle Woodland Settlement Stability in Ohio

Hargrave, Michael L., Christopher Fennell, Terrance Martin, and Paul Shackel
Geophysical Investigations at New Philadelphia, an Integrated Town on the Illinois Frontier

Hedman, Kristin
Regional Variation of Strontium Isotope Ratios in the Midwest

Kinsella, Larry and Brenda Beck
"I Bust my Axe and Look What I Have to Show for It!"

Lensink, Stephen C. and Lynn M. Alex
A Late Prehistoric Agricultural Field Complex in Northwest Iowa

Mayfield, Tracie, Jane Eva Baxter-Gordon, and Jennifer Hasso
When is a Carriage House More than Just a Carriage House?: Examining Landscapes of Power in George M. Pullman's "Industrial Utopia"

Nassaney, Michael, Stephanie Barrante, Erin Claussen, LisaMarie Malischke, and Cynthia Nostrant
The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project: 2006 Field Season

Norris, F. Terry and Timothy Pauketat
A Pre-Columbian Rock-art Map of the Mississippi

Paulus, B Gregory, Timothy Baumann, and Carol Diaz-Granados
Lost in the Woods: Rediscovering the Maddin Creek Site (23WA26) in Washington County, Missouri

Redmond, Brian
Late Woodland Use of Marine Shell in Mortuary Contexts: A Case Study from Northern Ohio

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Session 10 - 1:30 P.M.
Symposium: New Perspectives on Oneota Archaeology at Lake Koshkonong, Southeastern Wisconsin
Organizer: Jeske, Robert J. (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Birmingham, Robert A. - 1:30
A Late 13th /Early 14th Century Oneota Component at Carcajou Point

Foley Winkler, Kathleen M. - 1:45
The 2006 Excavations at the Schmeling Site (47JE833)

Schneider, Seth A. and Melissa Brown - 2:00
The Ceramic Assemblage from the Schmeling Site (47JE833)

Jeske, Robert J. - 2:15
The 2006 Excavations at the Crescent Bay Hunt Club Site

Break - 2:30

Schneider, Seth A. - 2:45
The Ceramic Assemblage from the Crescent Bay Hunt Club Site (47JE904) and Its Significance to the Late Prehistory of Southeastern Wisconsin

Jeske, Robert J., Anne Gaynor, and Louise Lambert - 3:00
Oneota Lithic Technology at Lake Koshkonong, Southeast Wisconsin

Nicholls, Brian D. - 3:15
Oneota Resource Utilization of the Lake Koshkonong Region

Jeske, Robert J. - 3:30
Oneota Occupation of Lake Koshkonong; Dates, Diets, Technology and Spatial Organization

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6:00 to 10:00 P.M.
MAC Reception: Celebrating 50 Years of Illinois Archaeology


October 14, 2006
Saturday morning

7:30 to 8:30 A.M.
IAAA Board Meeting


Session 11 - 8:30 A.M.
Symposium: Red Wing Archeology: New Data, New Insights

Organizer: Schirmer, Ron (Minnesota State University, Mankato), Co-Organizer: Dobbs, Clark (Archaeological and Geophysical Consortium)

Dobbs, Clark A. - 8:30
Data, reality, and models at the Red Wing Locality

Wendt, Dan - 8:45
Woodland to Oneota Settlement Shifts in Far Western Wisconsin

Kelly, Stephen M. - 9:00
Emerging from the Woods: the elusive Late Woodland of the Red Wing Locality

Holley, George R. - 9:15
A New Ceramic Sequence for the Red Wing Locality

Stevenson, Katherine P. and Constance M. Arzigian - 9:30
Mound excavations in the Red Wing Locality

Break - 9:45

Blue, Kathleen T. - 10:00
Family or Foes?: Intentional Modification of Skeletal Remains from the Red Wing Locality

Lusteck, Robert K. - 10:15
The Maize Trade in the Prehistoric Midwest

Schirmer, Ronald C. - 10:30
The Mechanics of Interaction in the Red Wing Locality

Boden, Peggy J. - 10:45
Preliminary Report of Findings at the Burnside School Site, Red Wing, Minnesota

Henning, Dale R. - 11:00
Red Wing Participation in the Mississippian Interaction Sphere, Fact or Fiction?

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Session 12 - 8:30 A.M.
Symposium: Current Research of the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Midcontinent

Organizer: Winkler, Daniel (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Co-Organizer: Carr, Dillon (Michigan State University)

Amick, Daniel S. and Thomas J. Loebel - 8:30
The Clovis Archaeological Record of the Western Great Lakes: Part 1. Paleoenvironmental Context and Archaeological Patterns

Loebel, Thomas J. and Daniel S. Amick - 8:45
The Clovis Archaeological Record of the Western Great Lakes: Part 2. Pattern Interpretations and Archaeological Implications

Overstreet, David F. - 9:00
Confirming Contexts at the Cardy Site (47DR79): A fluted point (Gainey?) Site on the Door Peninsula, Wisconsin

Nilsson, Niles E., Mark F. Seeman, Garry L. Summers, Larry L. Morris, Elaine Dowd, and Paul J Barans - 9:15
Bloody Stones: Results and Implications of Blood Residue Analysis at the Nobles Pond Site (33ST357)

Winkler, Daniel M. - 9:30
The Paleoindian Occupation of the Lake Koshkonong Region in Southeastern Wisconsin

Break - 9:45

White, Andrew A. - 10:00
An Exploration of the Ballistic Properties of Paleoindian Hafted Bifaces from Northern Indiana

Ritchie, Kenneth C. and Sissel Schroeder - 10:15
Paleoindian Subsistence Behavior: Hunting for Answers with a GIS

Carr, Dillon H. - 10:30
Skinning the Cat: Alternative Residential and Logistical Approaches to Cyclically Procuring Lithic Raw Materials

Hudson, Jean, Kira Kaufmann, Pete Fantle, and Toni Revane - 10:45
Gainey Elk Hunters in Northern Wisconsin?

Discussant: Shott, Michael J. (University of Akron) - 11:00

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Session 13 - 8:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.
Poster Session: The National Science Foundation-Sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates in Geophysical Survey at Strawtown, Indiana (Indiana University/Purdue University-Ft. Wayne)

Irons, Jonathan
Using Remote Sensing to Investigate the Community Plan of 12-H-883

Heller, Andrew
Investigating the "Empty" Areas of Castor Farm (12-H-3)

Evans, Joe
Defining Increased Sensitivity: A Comparison of the Bartington 601-2 and Geoscan FM256 Gradiometers

Luce, Teri
Searching for the Stockade Walls at 12-H-3

McCullough, Robert C. and Andrew White
The National Science Foundation-Sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates in Geophysical Survey at Strawtown, Indiana: Background for the Second Year

Jurkovich, Sarah M.
Geophysical Anomalies: Is it Possible to Distinguish Between What is Cultural and What is Geological?

Britcher, Keri and Lisa Phinney
Stratigraphic Complications in Geophysical Attempts to Locate Strawtown's Lost Enclosure

Paschall, Gabrielle
Assessing Predictability for Storage Features Using Geophysical Techniques

Taylor, Martha
Comparative Analysis of the Homemade Resistance Meter and Traditional Resistance Meter

Stewart, James
Resistivity in Profile: Defining Features with Vertical Resistivity Data

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Session 14 - 8:30 A.M.
Symposium: Plants and Technology

Organizer: Simon, Mary (Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program); Co-Organizer: Parker, Kathryn (Great Lakes Ecosystems and ITARP, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Parker, Kathryn - 8:30
Introductory Remarks

Calentine, Leighann - 8:45
Chipped Stone Hoes and Gardening in Middle Woodland Illinois

Wisseman, Sarah - 9:00
True Grit: Cooking Grains in Experimental Pots

Arzigian, Connie - 9:15
Pit Storage and Plants

Wright, Patti J. - 9:30
Towards an Understanding of Carbonized Sunflower Remains

Break - 9:45

Wymer, DeeAnne - 10:00
Organic Material on Hopewell Copper: The Field Museum's Hopewell Site Collection

Baldia, Christel M., Kathryn A. Jakes, and Maximilian O. Baldia - 10:15
The Use of Dye Technology as Indicated by Polychrome Hopewell Textiles from Seip Mound

Thompson, Amanda and Mary Simon - 10:30
An Analysis of Textile Fragments from the Janey B. Goode Site

Bush, Leslie - 10:45
Bison, Chert, Corn, and Captives: Interactions at the Edge of the Mississippian World

Discussant: Green, William (Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College) - 11:00

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Lunch


Saturday afternoon

Session 15 - 1:00 P.M.
Symposium: Eight Years and 8,828 Surface Collected Units Later: Research Results

Organizer: Snyder, Genesis (Binghamton University)

Staley, Elijah - 1:00
Testing the Uniqueness of Sites 12MA648 and 12MA649

Harrison, Noel - 1:15
Determining Site Function and Relationship between 12MA648 and 12MA649 through Refitting Analysis

Knox, Vernon - 1:30
The Effect of Chert Types on Prehistoric Stone Tool Production Based on the Lithic Material from 12MA648 and 12MA649

Assebework, Tadewos - 1:45
Prehistoric Chert Utilization and Stone Tool Production at 12MA648 and 12MA649 Archaeological Sites in Indiana

Snyder, Genesis - 2:00
Who Cares About the Ware?

Perkins-Prather, Janet - 2:15
Did Settlers Make Their Own Brick on Sites 12MA648 and 12MA649?

Break - 2:30

Head, Sara - 2:45
A CD/DD Analysis of Sites 12MA648 and 12MA649

Bundles, Sean - 3:00
Investigating the Presence of an Animal Processing Structure Using Faunal Bone Analysis and Geographic Comparisons

Sterkel, Trisha and Sarah Kiley - 3:15
What's for Dinner? A Faunal Analysis of Sites 12MA648 and 12MA649

Spencer, Kenneth - 3:30
A Home in the Woods: A Comparative Analysis of Squatter, Tenant and Other Ephemeral Pioneer Homestead Sites

Anderson, Sarah E. - 3:45
A Preliminary Assessment of Ephemeral Site Type on Site 12MA648 and 12Ma649

Murphy, Harry - 4:00
Eight Years and 8,828 Surface Collected Units Later: Assessing Two Small Historic/Lithic Scatter Sites Eligible for the National Register

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Session 16 - 1:00 P.M.
General Session: Middle Woodland/Hopewell

Fortier, Andrew - 1:00
Investigations at the Egan Site: Middle and Early Late Woodland Campsites along Brushy Fork Creek in the Lower Illinois River Valley Uplands

Vorreyer, Susan B. and Joseph Craig - 1:15
The Cowmire Creek Site: A Havana Tradition Middle Woodland Habitation in St. Louis County, Missouri

Carr, Christopher - 1:30
Scioto Hopewell Ritual Flamboyance Implies Intense Social Competition: A Problematic Inference

Giles, Bretton and Charles Cobb 1:45
Remembering the Birds: Hopewell Images of Falcons, Vultures, and Double-Headed Birds

Riordan, Robert - 2:00
Investigating the Moorehead Circle

Cowan, Frank and John Picklesimer - 2:15
The Shriver Circle Earthwork 160 Years After Squier and Davis

Culver, Emily, Wm. Patrick Ward, and Shannon M. Fie - 2:30
Smokin'! Pipestone Production at Bracke #1

Break - 2:45

Greber, N'omi B., Richard W. Yerkes, Katharine C. Ruhl, Anne B. Lee, Dawn W. Gagliano, Jarrod Burks, and Martha P. Otto - 3:00
Interpretations of Several Low Mounds within Seip Earthworks, Ross County, Ohio

Lynott, Mark - 3:15
Investigation of the Main Enclosure Wall at the Hopewell Mound Group, Ohio

Pacheco, Paul, Jarrod Burks, and Dee Anne Wymer - 3:30
The Ohio Hopewell Settlement at Brown's Bottom #1 (33RO21)

Snyder, Daniel and Michael Powers - 3:45
An Analysis of the Brown's Bottom #1 (33RO21) Bladelet Assemblage: A Double-Blind Experiment in Usewear Analysis

Steinhilper, Judy and DeeAnne Wymer - 4:00
Paleoethnobotany at Brown's Bottom 1 Site: A Hopewell Habitation Site in Ross County, Ohio

Horton, George - 4:15
A Hopewellian Buffalo Tale

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Session 17 - 1:00 to 4:00 P.M.
Workshop: Modern and Ancient Technologies

Organizer: Timothy Pauketat (University of Illinois); Co-organizer: Doug Jackson (Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program)

Ancient Technology:
Display of Upper Mississippian Ceramics from the Southern Lake Michigan Area

Jackson, Doug and Kjersti Emerson
McCullough, Robert C. and Brian Redmond
Mark Schurr
Lurie, Rochelle and Catherine Bird
Kuehn, Steve
Brown, James
Jeske, Robert

The Grossman Celt Cache
Susan Alt and Timothy Pauketat

Ancient Groundstone Technologies
Kinsella, Larry

Ancient Mollusk Shell-working Technology
Laura Kozuch

Orthoquartzites of the Midwest
Koldehoff, Brad and Timothy Pauketat
Boszhardt, Robert and Jack Ray

Modern Technology:
Geophysics

Hargrave, Michael

Mobile Mapping and Expedited Reporting
Britt, Tad

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4:30 to 5:30 P.M.
MAC Business Meeting

6:00 P.M.
Cash Bar

6:30 P.M.
Banquet
Guest Speaker: Steve Lekson (University of Colorado-Boulder)
On Chaco, Cahokia, and Post-Classic North America

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noted in link.

2007 Program
( 184K .pdf)

2006 Program
(275K .pdf)

2006 Abstracts
(1MB .pdf)

2005 Program
(509K .pdf)

2004 Program
(1MB - .pdf)

2003 Abstracts
(web)

2002 Abstracts
(157K - web)

2002 Abstracts
(175K - .doc)

2002 Brochure
(.pdf)