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ISAS Latest Publication

Studies in Archaeology No. 07 

Archaeology of Illinois: The Deep History of the Prairie State, edited by Thomas E. Emerson, Dale L. McElrath, and David J. Nolan with contributions by Dana N. Bardolph, Michelle Berg, Alice Berkson, Sarah E. Boyer, Tamira K. Brennan, Lawrence A. Conrad, Kjersti E. Emerson, Thomas E. Emerson, Duane Esarey, Madeleine G. Evans, Kenneth B. Farnsworth, Andrew C. Fortier, Christina M. Friberg, Joseph M. Galloy, Douglas K. Jackson, Mera A. Hertel, Jason L. King, Brad H. Koldehoff, John M. Lambert, Thomas J. Loebel, Rochelle Lurie, Floyd Mansberger, Terrance J. Martin, Robert Mazrim, Andrew L. Mallo, Marcia L. Martinho, Mary T. McCorvie, Dale L. McElrath, G. Logan Miller, Alice Muntz, David J. Nolan, Timothy R. Pauketat, Robert J. Reber, Kevin Roberts, Mary L. Simon, B. Jacob Skousen, Michael E. Smith, Mark J. Wagner, Elizabeth Watts Malouchos, and Julie A. Zimmerman with a Foreword by Logan Pappenfort. 

This comprehensive, collaborative volume contains 16 chapters with over 40 authors and contributors from multiple institutions and organizations throughout the state, including a forward by Logan Pappenfort, Director of Tribal Relations at the Illinois State Museum.

No matter the origin of [the] passion and curiosity, there is solace in the thought that as long as humans exist, we will not cease attempting to understand one another, past, present, or indeed into our future. This volume will likely become a resource for many people from different walks of life with one thing in common: a yearning to understand the past and the lives of those who walked this landscape before us. However, I hope that this is the beginning of that journey.... This is the nature of archaeology and human curiosity; we seek to know the obfuscated past and, as a result, will be able to gain a deeper holistic understanding of who the Indigenous people of Illinois were in the deep past and who they are today.

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