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Job Announcements

☛  Archaeologist/Laboratory Director | Wapsi Valley Archaeology, Inc. (Open until filled)

☛  Field Archaeologists Wanted for Phase III Data Recovery Excavations in Des Moines, Iowa | Wapsi Valley Archaeology (open until filled)

☛  The Office of the State Archaeologist at the University of Iowa is seeking a Research Archaeologist (More info - Apply online by March 10 24, 2023)

☛  The Chippewa National Forest, in partnership with the Conservation Corps of Minnesota and Iowa (CCMI), is seeking an Archaeology and Heritage Program Specialist (More info - Apply Online by March 3, 2023)

☛ The University of Kansas is looking for an Assistant/Associate Curator of Archaeology AND an Assistant/Associate Professor of Anthropology (PDF Flyer - Apply online - Open until filled)

☛ GS11 archaeologist job opportunity for the Apostle Islands in Wisconsin (view PDF flyer)

☛ Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) is hiring a State Historic Preservation Officer (More info - Apply by January 23, 2023)

☛ The National Parks Foundation Mellow Fellows are now accepting applications for paid Postdoctorate Fellowships (More info) 

☛ Missouri State University is accepting applications for a Research Archaeologist (More info and Apply Online) 

☛ UW-Milwaukee Department of Anthropology is searching for an Assistant/Associate Professor in Great Lakes Archaeology (More info and Apply Online)

☛ The Field Museum is looking for a Assistant or Associate Curator of North American Anthropology and Archaeology (More info and Apply Online)

News & Updates

Renew your membership for 2023

☛ Announcing 2023 Summer Field School in Historical Archaeology with Southern Illinois University (SIU)

☛ 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)

☛ Introducing 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