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Kathleen Allen
Pittsburgh; the development of tribal societies, regional settlement patterns, and contact studies; eastern Woodlands and Great Lakes.

Daniel Amick
Loyola University, stone technology, site formation processes, peopling of the Americas, and hunter-gatherer life ways; currently, a Folsom assemblage from Shifting Sands in west Texas, projects in the Great Basin.
     Obsidian paleoindian points from the Black Rock Desert, Nevada geochemical analysis paper in Current Research in the Pleistocene.

Michael Barton
Arizona State University, hunter/gatherer and societies, lithic technology, geoarchaeology, and evolutionary theory, Spain and Yugoslavia, as well as the U.S. Southwest and Midwest.

Timothy G. Baugh and Fred W. Nelson, Jr.
New Mexico Obsidian Sources and Exchange on the Southern Plains, a comparison of obsidian sources in New Mexico to sites in New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma, an article abstract in Journal of Field Archaeology.

Charlotte Beck and George T. Jones
Toolstone Selection and Lithic Technology in Early Great Basin Prehistory, Western Pluvial Lakes Tradition in eastern Nevada, from the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Elizabeth Benchley
University of Western Florida, lifeways and adaptations of both pre-Columbian and historic period peoples in the Midwest and Southeast.

Jeannette M. Blackmar
The Distribution of Cody Knives: A Distinctive Trait of the Cody Complex, an article in Current Research in the Pleistocene.

Jeannette M. Blackmar and Jack L. Hofman
Cody-Complex Artifacts in Oklahoma, article in Current Research in the Pleistocene.

Peter Bleed
University of Nebraska, material culture studies, prehistoric Japan and historic North America.

James Brown
The archaeology of ancient religion in the Eastern Woodlands, an article in the Annual Reviews in Anthropology.

Jane Buikstra
University of New Mexico, bioarchaeology, mortuary studies, forensic anthropology; North & South America, Iberian Peninsula, Honduras.

David R. Bush
Pittsburgh; American Civil War prisons, prehistoric lithics, cultural resource management; currently prisoner of war treatment during the American Civil War at Johnson's Island, Lake Erie

Martin A. Byers
Intentionality, symbolic pragmatics, and material culture: Revisiting Binford's view of the Old Copper Complex. Article abstract, American Antiquity.

Kenneth P. Cannon and Richard E. Hughes
Provenance Analysis of Obsidian Paleoindian Projectile Points from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, article in Current Research in the Pleistocene.

Christopher Carr
Arizona State University, sociopolitical organization and belief systems, analysis of style, mortuary practices, quantitative methods, material technological analyses, and Eastern U.S.prehistory; Ohio Hopewell.

James W. Cogswell
Ultrasonic Disaggregation Analysis of Southwestern Michigan Early Woodland Pottery, an abstract from the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology.

William S. Dancey
Ohio State University, prehistory of the Middle Ohio Valley emphasizing settlement and land use change during the Archaic and Woodland periods.

Richard Dexter
The 1927 Aerial Photography of a Wisconsin Effigy Mound (upper Midwestern United States), an article from Aerial Archaeology Newsletter.

Boyce Driskell
University of Alabama, CRM research in the midsouth.

Charles D. Frederick and James T. Abbott
Magnetic Prospection of Prehistoric Sites in an Alluvial Environment: Examples From NW and West-central Texas, Archaic and Late Prehistoric sites, article abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Patricia Gilman
Oklahoma University, mobility and sedentism and the proportion of agricultural dependence practiced by people who live in pit structures; work Mogollon in Arizona.

Hiram "Pete" Gregory
Northwestern State University, Louisiana; Louisiana archaeology (prehistoric and colonial); Native Americans, Anglo-American and Louisiana French fishing communities, the African-American culture of the plantation regions, and the Anglo-Saxon culture of the upland South.

Kristin Gremillion
Ohio State University; paleoethnobotany, origins of agriculture, prehistory of eastern North America, paleoecology and paleodiet, evolutionary theory.

Tommy "Ike" Hailey
Northwestern State University, Louisiana;  underwater archaeology, southeastern US and the Caribbean; currently involved in a multiple-year project with the Louisiana Army National Guard preserving and protecting significant sites on National Guard properties throughout the state of Louisiana.

William T. Hartwell, Gregory M. Haynes, and David Rhode
Early Obsidian Use and Depletion at Yucca Mountain, Southern Nevada: Evidence from Obsidian Hydration Studies, article in Current Research in the Pleistocene.

Jack L.Hofman
Dating Folsom Occupations on the Southern Plains: The Lipscomb and Waugh Sites, article abstract in the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Vance T. Holliday et al.
AMS radiocarbon dating of the type Plainview and Firstview (Paleoindian) assemblages, an article in American Antiquity.

Sandra Holliman
Skeletal biology; The Chumash of California and the Arikara of the Northern Plains; a chapter in Exploring Gender Through Archaeology, on line at Appalachian State.

William J. Hunt, Jr.
Midwest Archeological Center, the study of the American fur trade with a focus on Fort Union National Historic Site,and the historical archeology of tourism.

Marvin Kay
University of Arkansas,  human ecology and culture change; Middle Paleolithic sites and complexes of the Ukraine;  Middle Missouri subarea of the Northern Plains of North America and technofunctional studies of stone tools for Paleoindian sites.

Marcel Kornfeld, Kaoru Akoshima, and George C. Frison
Stone Tool Caching on the North American Plains: Implications of the McKean Site Tool Kit, Middle Plains Archaic Wyoming; an abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Kenneth C. Kraft and Warren K. Lail
Paleoindian Tool-Stone Utyilization in Eastern Oklahoma: An Argument for Limited Mobility, an article in Current Research in the Pleistocene.

James J. Krakker
Biface Caches, Exchange, and Regulatory Systems in the Prehistoric Great Lakes Region, Turkey Tail bifaces, an abstract from the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology.

Richard Krause
University of Alabama, ethnoarchaeology and ceramic studies in the southeast, Great Plains, and other parts of the world.

R. Lee Lyman
University of Missouri, zooarchaeology and the prehistory of western North America.

Ronald Mason
Lawrence University, Great Lakes archaeology.
     Archaeoethnicity and the Elusive Menominis, Wisconsin; an article abstract from the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology.

Mark Mehrer
Northern Illinois University, North American prehistory, settlement studies, household archaeology, currently power relations and regional integration during the initial stages of complex social development around Cahokia in Illinois.

Claire McHale Milner
Pennsylvania State, Late Prehistoric period of the Upper Great Lakes; ethnohistorical and ceramic style data to investigate the adaptation of forager-farmer populations to high-risk environments.

George Milner
Pennsylvania State, osteological and archaeological research focuses on the prehistory of eastern North America, especially the late prehistoric Midwest and Southeast. Mississippian chiefdoms (particularly Cahokia in Illinois).

Christi Mitchell
Activating Women in Arikara Ceramic Production, a chapter in Exploring Gender Through Archaeology, on line at Appalachian State.

Vergil Noble
Midwest Archeological Center, 18th-century French fur trade in North America.

Michael O'Brien
University of Missouri, archaeology of hunter-collectors, 19th-century American frontier settlement, origins of domestication, and ceramic technology.

Elizabeth Prine
Gender studies on material culture in Hidatsa households ca. 1450, an abstract from a paper given at the 5th Gender and Archaeology Conference.

Jeffrey J. Richner
Midwest Archeological Center, Woodland cultures of the Great Lakes, 19th century Anglo-American occupation of the Midwest, and historic Native American cultures of the Great Lakes and Border Lakes region.

John Rick
Stanford University, hunter-gatherers, stone tool studies, analytical methodology, animal domestication; American midwest and southwest; Peru, Brazil, Mexico.

Ken Sassaman
Gender and Technology at the Archaic-Woodland "Transition", a chapter in Exploring Gender Through Archaeology, on line at Appalachian State.

Sissel Schroeder
Maize productivity in the eastern Woodlands and Great Plains of North America. Article abstract in American Antiquity.

Douglas Scott
Midwest Archeological Center, archeology of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain areas, as well as 19th-century military history and archeology, and forensic archeology.

Michael J. Shott
Reliability of Archaeological Records on Cultivated Surfaces: A Michigan Case Study, an abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.
     Activity and Formation as Sources of Variation in Great Lakes Paleoindian Assemblages, an abstract from the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology.

Wendy Sutton
High plains tipi rings may be reflective of polygynous households; an abstract from a paper given at the 5th Gender and Archaeology Conference.

James L. Theler
University of Wisconsin at LaCrosse, midwestern archaeology, North American Indians, physical anthropology, environmental archaeology, hunters and gatherers

Joseph A. Tiffany
Iowa State University, settlement studies, environmental archaeology in North America, the Midwest and on the Plains.

Susan Vehik
Oklahoma University, Plains, lithics, late prehistoric to historic transition, grassland adaptations, exchange, evolutionary ecology; evoluton of bison hunter-horticulturist relations on the southern plains

LuAnn Wandsnider
University of Nebraska, Late Prehistoric time period on the High Plains, and formation of archaeological landscapes.

Richard Wilkinson
SUNY-Albany, bioarchaeology and skeletal research, Late Woodland, midwest.

W. Raymond Wood
University of Missouri, Ozark Highlands, Great Plains, include both prehistoric studies and ethnohistory--especially of the Plains village peoples.

Gary D. Wright
SUNY-Albany, Ohio Valley Hopewell-Adena archaeology.

Don Wyckoff
Oklahoma University, lithic technology, Pleistocene environments and early human adaptations, prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the Southeast U. S.,
and anthropology of Caddoan speaking people. Currently: late Pleistocene and early Holocene environments and human adaptations in eastern and western Oklahoma.

Larry Zimmerman
University of Iowa; Oneota Archaeology.
  Larry Zimmerman and Richard A. Fox Jr. maintain a joint site on Plains Archaeology at the University of Iowa, complete with syllabi and other course data. 

Cultural History

Cultural History of the Mid-South
From the University of Memphis.

The Oneota Site
From Kim Dammers, a bibliography on the Oneota.

An Overview of the Prehistory of the Canadian Shield
From Martin S. Cooper, Archaeological Services Inc.

General Information

The Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology
which deals with archaeology of the Midcontinental United States, has electronic listing of its Table of Contents beginning in 1995, and has started providing abstracts.

Plains Anthropologist 
The anthropology of the Great Plains and adjacent areas of North America. Abstracts beginning August 1998.

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