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Beneath Your Feet:
A popular and well illustrated booklet about ongoing archaeological research in the modern Village of Trempealeau, Wisconsin. The book introduces the process of archaeology, the history of archaeological research in this scenic town along the Upper Mississippi River. The focus is on survey and excavations directed by the authors between 2010 and 2016 that have revealed a unique religious settlement of early Mississippians from Cahokia. The community nature of the project is emphasized with resulting outreach venues that provide educational and heritage tourism assets
Beneath Your Feet: Silver Mound
A popular and well illustrated synthesis of Wisconsin's oldest and largest archaeological site. Silver Mound is the source of Hixton Silicified Sandstone that was used by Native Americans for at least 13,000 years to manufacture chipped stone tools. This National Historic Landmark contains over 1,000 Native American quarry pits and numerous rock shelters, a few with pictographs and petroglyphs. This book summarizes the geology and archaeological history of Silver Mound from extensive personal experience of the authors that are complimented by traditional Indigenous stories.
Using and Curating Archaeological Collections
All archaeologists have responsibilities to support the collections they produce, yet budgeting for and managing collections over the length of a project and beyond is not part of most archaeologists training. While this book in the SAA Press Archaeology in Action Series highlights major challenges that archaeologists and curators face with regard to collections, it also stresses the values, uses, and benefits of collections. It also demonstrates the continued significance of archaeological collections to the profession, tribes, and the public and provides critical resources for archaeologists to carry out their responsibilities. Many lament that the archaeological record is finite and disappearing. In this context, collections are even more important to preserve for future use, and this book will help all stakeholders do so.
Using and Curating Archaeological Collections
Doing research with archaeological collections / Julia A. King -- Tribal voices on archaeological collections / Angela Neller -- Care, access and use: how Nagpra has impacted collections management / Sheila Goff -- Integrating curation training in academic programs and beyond / Danielle M. Benden -- Collaborative mitigation: creative success stories using archaeological collections / Heather L. Olson and Ralph Bailey -- Best practices for collections management planning / Teresita Majewski -- Being a curator: revisiting the curation of archaeological collections from the field to the repository / Lynne P. Sullivan and S. Terry Childs -- On whose grounds? the importance of determining ownersh...
The Making of Mississippian Tradition
In this volume, Christina Friberg investigates the influence of Cahokia, the largest city of North America’s Mississippian culture between AD 1050 and 1350, on smaller communities throughout the midcontinent. Using evidence from recent excavations at the Audrey-North site in the Lower Illinois River Valley, Friberg examines the cultural give-and-take Audrey inhabitants experienced between new Cahokian customs and old Woodland ways of life. Comparing the architecture, pottery, and lithics uncovered here with data from thirty-five other sites across five different regions, Friberg reveals how the social, economic, and political influence of Cahokia shaped the ways Audrey inhabitants negotiat...
Gods of Thunder
A sweeping account of Medieval North America when Indigenous peoples confronted climate change. Few Americans today are aware of one of the most consequential periods in ancient North American history-the Medieval Warm Period of seven to twelve centuries ago (AD 800-1300 CE). On every page of this book, readers will be led down the same paths walked by Indigenous people a millennium ago, some trod by Spanish conquistadors just a few centuries later. The book will follow the footsteps of priests, pilgrims, traders, and farmers who took great journeys, made remarkable pilgrimages, and migrated long distances to new lands. Along the way, readers will discover a new history of a continent that, ...
Mississippian Beginnings
Using fresh evidence and nontraditional ideas, the contributing authors of Mississippian Beginnings reconsider the origins of the Mississippian culture of the North American Midwest and Southeast (A.D. 1000–1600). Challenging the decades-old opinion that this culture evolved similarly across isolated Woodland popu¬lations, they discuss signs of migrations, missionization, pilgrimages, violent conflicts, long-distance exchange, and other far-flung entanglements that now appear to have shaped the early Mississippian past. Presenting recent fieldwork from a wide array of sites including Cahokia and the American Bottom, archival studies, and new investigations of legacy collections, the contr...
The Oxford Handbook of Light in Archaeology
Light plays a crucial role in mediating relationships between people, things, and spaces, yet lightscapes have been largely neglected in archaeology study. This volume offers a full consideration of light in archaeology and beyond, exploring diverse aspects of illumination in different spatial and temporal contexts from prehistory to the present.
Mound City
Nearly one thousand years ago, Native peoples built a satellite suburb of America's great metropolis on the site that later became St. Louis. At its height, as many as 30,000 people lived in and around present-day Cahokia, Illinois. While the mounds around Cahokia survive today (as part of a state historic site and UNESCO world heritage site), the monumental earthworks that stood on the western shore of the Mississippi were razed in the 1800s. But before and after they fell, the mounds held an important place in St. Louis history, earning it the nickname “Mound City.” For decades, the city had an Indigenous reputation. Tourists came to marvel at the mounds and to see tribal delegations i...
The History and Archaeology of Fort Ouiatenon
The French fur trade post of Fort Ouiatenon was founded more than 300 years ago on the Wabash River in what is now Tippecanoe County, Indiana. The History and Archaeology of Fort Ouiatenon is a multidisciplinary exploration of the fort, from its founding in 1717, through its historical significance over the years, and up to its present-day use. Covering a variety of historical, archaeological, Indigenous, and living history perspectives on Fort Ouiatenon, as well as the fur trade and New France, this collection is the first volume dedicated to this important site. The volume is written with a wide audience in mind, ranging from academics to historical reenactors, Indigenous communities, and those interested in local history.
