Illinois State Archaeological Survey - Illinois Archaeology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ISAS researchers application for chapel in Brooklyn, IL for inclusion in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom accepted by the National Park Service
[stltoday.com, January 3, 2013]

Finishing the Job: Saukenauk
[American Archaeology,Spring, 2013]

Effort to study mounds and ancient site preservation underway
[stltoday.com, January 30, 2013]

Rethinking an Ancient Artifact
[UI LAS News, January 2013]

ISAS researchers to submit chapel in Brooklyn, IL for inclusion in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
[stltoday.com, January 3, 2013]

Brooklyn, IL History Mix of Oral and Written Traditions
[stltoday.com, January 2, 2013]

Prairie Research Institute Hosts Lightning Talks
[The News Gazette November 29, 2012]

Site in Grafton May Be Military Outpost
[The Telegraph September 24, 2012]

ISAS Excavations at War of 1812 Fort Featured in Poster
[Quincy Herald-Whig September 15, 2012]

ISAS Excavations at the Mississippi River Bridge Project
[STL Beacon July 18, 2012]

Ancient Suburb Near St. Louis Could Be Lost Forever
[NPR June 2, 2012]

Indian Mounds Park Event
[March 27, 2012]

Digging Up Dirt on a Lost City
(Click on audio link at top of article)
[stlouiscbslocal.com, January 5, 2012]

Previous News Stories

Ancient Treasure Discovered on National Forest in Southern Illinois
[Posted June 5, 2012]

Dickson Mounds-20 Years Later
[Posted May 29, 2012]

Previous Illinois Archaeology Today Stories

What's New

ISAS researchers application for chapel in Brooklyn, IL for inclusion in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom accepted by the National Park Service

ISAS archaeologists Miranda Yancey and Joseph Galloy have received notification from the National Park Service that their application for the Quinn Chapel AME in Brooklyn, Illinois to be included in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom has been accepted.

[stltoday.com, January 3, 2013]

Finishing the Job: The Saukenauk Site

It was a worst-case scenario: the excavation of a significant site ended abruptly when the site was destroyed. The incomplete excavation uncovered important data, but it remained a secret because a report was never written. Some 50 years later, archaeologists are working to piece the data together and make the public aware of this project.
[American Archaeology, Spring 2013]

Study of Pipestone Artifacts Overturns
a Century-Old Assumption

Illinois State Archaeological Survey director Thomas Emerson and his colleagues discovered that pipestone pipes buried roughly 2,100 years ago in a mound site in southeast Ohio came from stone gathered in northern Illinois.

Academic Minute with Dr. Thomas E. Emerson on Ritual Black Drink Consumption at Cahokia

ISAS Director discusses a microscopic discovery that reveals big things about culture and ritual at one of North America’s largest pre-Columbian settlements.

ISAS Awards Charles J. Baries Research Assistantships for 2012

Annually, beginning in 2010, the Illinois State Archaeological Survey awarded assistantships to selected graduate students specializing in Illinois archaeology, in honor of the late Charles J. Bareis. The winners of the inaugural Charles J. Bareis Research Assistantships were: Melissa Baltus (UIUC), Sarah Otten (UIUC), and Carol Richards (ISU). In the fall of 2012, Sarah Baires, Erin Benson, and Ian Fricker secured the CJB Research Assistantship.

Illinois River Blockhouse Search by ISAS Continues

ISAS archaeologists have been searching for the "Illinois River Blockhouse" this past year. Documentary research and advanced scouting efforts identified a stone foundation suspected as being part of the blockhouse.

ISAS Examines the Remains of 280-Year Old French Fort

This fall, the Illinois State Archaeological Survey resumed its investigations at one of the most significant French colonial sites in the Midwest: the site of the 1732 Fort de Chartres.

[News Archives]