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Job Announcements

Scientific Specialist, Archaeological Data Preservation (Chapaign, IL) | Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS) (More info and Apply Online by 6 pm (CDT) on October 20, 2023.

Senior Archaeologist (Indianapolis) | Indiana Department of Transportation (More info and Apply Online)

State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) Archaeologist (Topeka, KS) | Kansas Historical Society (More info and Apply online, open until filled)

Senior Archaeologist and On-call Field Archaeologist | WSP

☛ Burial Consultation Coordinator | Wisconsin State Historic Preservation Office (More info and Apply Online).

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

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

☛ 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

☛ Call for MAC Distinguished Career Award nominations

☛ Death of Indiana's second State Archaeologist

☛ Read James (Jim) Skibo's obituary 

☛ 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