"Sealed with Smoke", a new exhibit at the Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College examines the critical role of the aboriginal tobacco, pipe and smoking complex in structuring and facilitating relations among Natives and newcomers.

The exhibit runs from now through April 18th, 2004.

For more information go HERE!

Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology, edited by Thomas E. Emerson, Timothy R. Pauketat (University of Illinois)

Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology emphasizes new research syntheses and innovative theoretical approaches to the archaeology of the pre-Columbian native and early colonial inhabitants of North America east of the Mississippi River Valley. The editors are especially seeking contributors who are interested in addressing/questioning such concepts as historical process, agency, traditions, political economy, materiality, ethnicity, and landscapes through the medium of Eastern Woodland archaeology. Such contributions may take as their focus a specific theoretical or regional case study but should cast it in broader comparative or historical terms.

We seek to both challenge and inform the targeted advanced undergraduate and graduate students and professional audience. Proposals currently under consideration include topics on indigenous warfare, Archaic complexity, Iroquoia, and cultures in contact. The first books in this series are expected to be published in 2005.

Scholars interested in contributing to this series are encouraged to check the AltaMira Press web site for submission guidelines (www.altamirapress.com). Books in the series are designed to be brief (no more than 60,000 words), single or dual authored, with a limited number of black and white illustrations.

Proposals should be addressed to

Thomas Emerson
ITARP-Anthropology
23 East Stadium Drive
University of Illinois
Champaign, IL 61820
teee@uiuc.edu

On Sunday, October 19, 2003, a celebratory event at commemorating the 75th year of Aztalan State Park will be held at the close of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, from 1-3 pm. Event sponsors include the Wisconsin DNR, the Milwaukee Public Museum, and Michigan State University Department of Anthropology. A variety of activities will be held including artifact and photo displays from early excavations, site tours and more. Click HERE for more detailed information.

Archaeologist/Zoologist Dick Adams passed away this morning (September 12th, 2003). Arrangements are pending. For a brief summary of his work go here.

Dr. Jack D. Nance of Simon Fraser University passed away this summer on Sunday, June 15th, 2003. A memorial service and reception in his honor will be held Saturday, September 27th, 2003, on the campus of SFU.

Jack made many important methodological and theoretical contributions on quantitative methods and sampling in archaeology. Many of his methodological papers were derived from his long-term research in the lower Cumberland and Tennessee river valleys of Kentucky.

The Lower Cumberland Archaeological Project (LCAP), which was most active during the 1980s, resulted in several SFU theses and dissertations as well as articles in the MCJA, Southeastern Archaeology, and regional edited volumes. Much of his research concerned Archaic Period sites and lithic analysis.

A memorial scholarship for graduate students in Archaeology will be established in tribute to Jack. Information on giving to this fund can be obtained from Chantelle Olsson Chang, University Advancement, Simon Fraser University, 888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 e-mail: cholsson@sfu.ca

Announcement of a special volume of Indiana Archaeology: “Facing the Final Millennium: Studies in the Late Prehistory of Indiana, A.D. 700 to 1700” is now available from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology (DHPA). This publication (edited by Brian G. Redmond and James R. Jones III) is the result of a 1998 symposium of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, titled Facing the Final Millennium. The papers treat cultures from a range of time in Indiana’s prehistory: A.D. 700 - 1700. The authors and titles of their contributed articles are as follows:

• INTRODUCTION by James R. Jones III
• THE LATE PREHISTORY OF NORTHWESTERN INDIANA: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON AN OLD MODEL by Mark R. Schurr
• THE MORELL-SHEETS SITE: REFINING THE DEFINITION OF THE ALBEE PHASE by Beth K. McCord and Donald R. Cochran
• DENTAL EVIDENCE FOR MAIZE CONSUMPTION DURING THE ALBEE PHASE IN INDIANA by Christopher W. Schmidt and Tammy R. Greene
• MADISON TRIANGLES: THERE MUST BE A POINT by Timothy Wright
• SKELETAL BIOLOGY AND CEMETERY USE AT THE ALBEE MOUND, BUCCI, SHAFFER, AND SHEPHERD SITES by Lorena M. Havill, Andrew A. White, and Kimmarie A. Murphy
• PATTERNS OF CHANGE IN BOTANICAL REMAINS FROM SOUTHERN INDIANA DURING THE LATE WOODLAND AND LATE PREHISTORIC by Leslie L. Bush
• CULTURAL INTERACTION ALONG THE WEST FORK OF THE WHITE RIVER DURING THE LATE PREHISTORIC PERIOD by Robert G. McCullough
• IMPLICATIONS OF THE WOLF PHASE DISPERSAL OF TERMINAL WESTERN BASIN TRADITION POPULATIONS INTO NORTHERN INDIANA DURING LATE PREHISTORY by David M. Stothers and Andrew M. Schneider
• THE OLIVER PHASE OCCUPATION OF THE EAST FORK WHITE RIVER VALLEY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA by Brian G. Redmond
• THE ANGEL TO CABORN-WELBORN TRANSITION IN SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA, NORTHWESTERN KENTUCKY, AND SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS by David Pollack and Cheryl Ann Munson
• AFTERWORD: PROTOHISTORIC CULTURES AND THE PROBLEMS OF LATE PREHISTORIC-EARLY HISTORIC CONNECTIONS IN INDIANA by James R. Jones III

To access this document, go to http://www.in.gov/dnr/historic/pubs.html