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Archaeological Sites

Cahokia
From Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, an extensive compilation of research information including bibliographies, discussion forums, images, and other swell stuff.
     Cahokia and Mid-America's Mound Builders a general public article by George and Rosalie Leposky

Dickson Mounds
From the Dickson Mounds Museum, brief descriptions of the several Woodland period sites located in the vicinity of Dickson Mounds.

Fort des Chartres III
18th century French fort on the Mississippi River below Prairie du Rocher; from the Old Mobile web site.

C. B. North Site
Paleoindian and Early Archaic Occupations at the CB-North Site, Madison County, Illinois, American Bottom, an abstract in the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology.

Macktown
Late Woodland shell midden on the Rock River in Illinois, from Loyola University's 1998 field school.

Morris Wide Water
Seven canal boat hulls dating to the 19th century were discovered in the DuPage River after a dam broke in a Chicago suburb, an article in Archaeology magazine.

Research Institutions

Center for American Archeology
Forty years of investigation near the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, a record of nearly 10,000 years of human habitation in "The Nile of North America."

Center for Archaeological Investigations
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

ITARP
The Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, based at the University of Illinois-Champaign,  conducts long-term, large-scale projects that concentrate exclusively on the archaeology of Illinois.

Powell Archaeological Research Center
A group of researchers banded together to raise funds and investigate the Marie Fingerhut site, located on the western edge of the site of Cahokia. Contains a little information on ongoing research in the Cahokia area.

University of Chicago Chicago
PhD. The later prehistory and colonial periods of the Andes and Mesoamerica, Europe (from the Paleolithic to the "Celtic" Iron Age), the Near East (from the Neolithic through the conquests of Alexander), Eurasia (from the early bronze age through the Scythian era), South Asia and Oceania (from the Early Historic to the early colonial periods), and southwest Asia (from late prehistory to late antiquity) as well as ethnoarchaeology in Africa and experimental archaeology in South America.

University of Chicago, Classics Chicago
MA, PhD

University of Chicago, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Oriental Institute)
MA, PhD. Near Eastern Archaeology, North-West Semitics, Ancient Near Eastern Judaica, Assyriology, Sumerology, Hittitology, Egyptology, and Ancient Near Eastern History

Illinois State University Normal
MA, MS

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana
MA, PhD. Asia, Middle East, Europe, Oceania, Africa, America, Caribbean. Agricultural origins, evolution, and
development, hunter-gatherers, paleo-ecology and paleobiology, comparative and analytical osteology

Loyola University Chicago
MA, PhD

Southern Illinois University Carbondale
MA

Current Researchers

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.

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).

Cultural History

RiverWeb
From the University of Illinois, a terrific site on the culture history  of the American Bottom, near East St. Louis.

Illinois Archaeology Awareness
From the Illinois Archaeological Survey, a page on upcoming events in Illinois Archaeology Month.

General Information

Archaeology at About.com

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