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Anthropology 220: Field Archaeology, Erin Riggs
Anthropology 220: Field Archaeology, Erin Riggs
Anthropology Courses
This is a sample syllabus for Anthropology 220: Archaeological Field Methods, conducted during the Summer 2017 term at Parkland College. The course provides students with hands-on experiences with real skills employed by professional archaeologists. Student projects were conducted at Allerton Park in Monticello, Illinois, and focused on the historical Robert Allerton period of the site (early 20th century). A culminating activity shifted to prehistoric culture with an on-site dig.
The Rock Art Of The Blood Of The Ancestors Grotto (11sa557): The Archaeology Of Religious Theater, Lenville J. Stelle
The Rock Art Of The Blood Of The Ancestors Grotto (11sa557): The Archaeology Of Religious Theater, Lenville J. Stelle
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
11SA557 is a pictographic rock art site in the Hill Section of southern Illinois. To date, 33 icons, both simple and complex, have been identified. The distinctive biophysical qualities of the site have compelled an interpretation that it was in some fundamental sense “female.” Ethnohistorical and ethnographic explorations inform a treatment of 11SA557 as a religious theater where female puberty ceremonies of the Dhegiha Sioux were performed. Exploitation likely dates to the Protohistoric period. Twenty-one elements of religious theater are explored archaeologically and ethnographically. The application of the heuristic model of religious theater afforded a measureable enhancement of the understanding …
Who Were The First Americans?, Bruce Willis
Who Were The First Americans?, Bruce Willis
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A discussion of the earliest sites in the Americas.
The Rock Art Of The Blood Of The Ancestors Grotto (11sa557): A Natural History Of The Imaging Methodology, Lenville J. Stelle
The Rock Art Of The Blood Of The Ancestors Grotto (11sa557): A Natural History Of The Imaging Methodology, Lenville J. Stelle
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
In the study of rock art in general, and pictographs in particular, how we collect and manipulate the images displayed on a canvas of nature determines both what is seen and what can be reposed for the future. The identification of an undocumented rock art site, primarily pictographic, in the Hill Section of southern Illinois afforded an opportunity to take a fresh look at the methodologies employed in data recovery and analysis. We herein detail a natural history of our investigations of 11SA557. Our methods involved the generation of five different types of image data, an eight-element protocol for the …
The 1730 Fox Fort: Historical Debate And Archaeological Endeavor, Lenville J. Stelle
The 1730 Fox Fort: Historical Debate And Archaeological Endeavor, Lenville J. Stelle
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
For more than one hundred years historians and archaeologists have debated the location of the 1730 fortification created by the Meskwaki on the prairies of eastern Illinois. After four summers of archaeological exploration of the Arrowsmith Battle Ground (11ML6), architectural patterns consistent with the historical record of the siege and diagnostic elements of the Meskwaki material assemblage have been identified. The present paper summarizes these findings and concludes this to be the site of the 1730 Fox fort.
Nine Gal Tavern, Lenville J. Stelle
Nine Gal Tavern, Lenville J. Stelle
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
The Nine Gal Tavern site (11CH541) is located in western Champaign County, Illinois. Reconnaissance of the locality in 1987 and again in 1991 revealed a complex artifactual assemblage (n=4,875). Historical documentation and the archaeological recovery converge to suggest an evolving site function during the pre-Civil War period. By examining seven sociocultural variables, the pioneer tavern is modeled as passing through three discernable evolutionary stages: the Incidental Tavern, the Incipient Tavern, and the Full Tavern. The first and third of these stages are demonstrated at this site.
Surface Collection Of The Grand Village Of The Illini State Historic Site, Lenville J. Stelle
Surface Collection Of The Grand Village Of The Illini State Historic Site, Lenville J. Stelle
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
The parcel of land today known as the Grand Village of the Illini State Historic Site (GVOI) was purchased by the state of Illinois in 1991. It is currently under the administration of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (Figure 4. 1). As the likely location of the Grand Village of the Kaskaskia described by Marquette, La Salle, and others, the site provides an unusual opportunity to examine archaeological questions focusing on the Contact period of North American history.
Deciphering The Grand Village Of The Illinois: A Preliminary Assessment Of The Grand Village Research Project, Lenville J. Stelle, James A. Brown, Charles L. Rohrbaugh, Thomas E. Emerson, Robert Jeske
Deciphering The Grand Village Of The Illinois: A Preliminary Assessment Of The Grand Village Research Project, Lenville J. Stelle, James A. Brown, Charles L. Rohrbaugh, Thomas E. Emerson, Robert Jeske
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
On April 24, 1987, Thomas Emerson at the State Historic Preservation Office received a telephone call from a Chicago lawyer who wanted an answer to a simple question: "Are there any laws that protect old Indian villages and graves that are on the National Register?" Unfortunately, the answer was a simple “no.” At the time, Emerson did not suspect that this question would initiate a more than four-year struggle to save one of the most important historic sites in the country. The site, known variously as the Zimmerman site, the Grand Village of the Kaskaskia, Old Kaskaskia Village, the Grand …