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Past News items and stories previously featured on our homepage.
2013
[stltoday.com January 3, 2013]
[American Archaeology, Spring 2013]
[Stltoday.com January 30, 2013]
[University of Illinois LAS News January 2013]
[stltoday.com January 3, 2013]
[stltoday.com January 2, 2013]
2012
[News Bureau, University of Illinois December 18, 2012]
[The News Gazette November 29, 2012]
[November 21, 2012]
[Inside Higher Ed November 15, 2012]
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.
[October 10, 2012]
This fall, the Illinois State Archaeological Survey will resumed its investigations at one of the most significant French colonial sites in the Midwest: the site of the 1732 Fort de Chartres.
[October 1, 2012]
Representatives from the University of Illinois and volunteers worked on an archeological dig in a wooded area between Grafton and Pere Marquette State Park which is suspected to be a block house used to monitor the Illinois River at the onset of the War of 1812. Part of the block foundation was being uncovered as the archeologists looked for definitive evidence of a military presence, such as a military uniform button or weapon parts.
[The Telegraph (Alton) September 24, 2012]
September is Archaeology Awareness Month in Illinois. This year's theme highlights the archaeology of the War of 1812 in the Illinois County. Since 2003 ISAS has been involved in excavations at Fort Johnson in Warsaw, Illinois.
[September 17, 2012]
[September 17, 2012]
[September 7, 2012]
[September 6, 2012]
[September 5, 2012]
[September 4, 2012]
Summary and Highlights of ISAS work in 2011
[August 30, 2012]
[University of Illinois News Bureau Release, August 6, 2012]
[STL Beacon July 18, 2012]
[NPR June 2, 2012]
[May 25, 2012]
[March 27, 2012]
[March 27, 2012]
The selection of a recently executed Statewide Programmatic Agreement for the Mitigation of Adverse Effects to Euro-American Tradition Archaeological Sites in the State of Illinois by the ACHP is an mark of the quality and professionalism of IDOT's Transportation Archaeology program under the leadership of of Dr. John Walthall (recently retired) and Brad Koldehoff, IDOT. Click here for copy of ACHP announcement [Link].
[March 26, 2012]
[stlouiscbslocal.com January 5, 2012]
[theatlanticcities.com January 3, 2012]
2011
Found Mound In East St. Louis
(Update on Excavations at East St. Louis at the end of article)
[The State Journal Register December 31, 2011]
[Quincy Herald-Whig December 24, 2011]
[Science Vol. 334, December 23, 2011]
[December 16, 2011]
[December 6, 2011]
[The Journal-Standard, December 1, 2011]
[The Journal-Standard, November 24, 2011]
[Belleville News-Democrat (BND.com), November 13, 2011]
[WUIS Public Radio | November 8, 2011]
[November 8, 2011]
The New York Times, October 31, 2011
[WCIA TV, November 2, 2011]
[St. Louis Magazine, November 2011]
[University of Illinois News Bureau, October 18, 2011]
[Cahokian, Fall 2011]
[October 11, 2011]
[October 1, 2011]
[October 4, 2011]
[October 4, 2011]
[October 4, 2011]
[September 21, 2011]
[Quincy Herald-Whig
September 17, 2011]
[Belleville-News Democrat
September 6, 2011]
Summary and Highlights of ISAS in 2010
[September 2, 2011]
For their efforts on the New Mississippi River Bridge Project, ISAS and IDOT were selected as one of twelve groups from over 125 nominees recognized by the Federal Highway Administration to reward the commitment to deliver projects that protect and enhance the environment, but that also shorten project delivery, advance innovateive technology and "go greener."
[August 31, 2011]
Donation of thousands of artifacts from nearly 100 archaeological features that were filled prior to the Civil War.
[August 12, 2011]
Saving our Past-Archaeology and Site Preservation
[August 12, 2011]
[The State Journal-Register June 26, 2011]
[The State Journal-Register June 25, 2011]
[June 23, 2011]
[June 23, 2011]
[June 21, 2011]
[Inside Illinois, June 16, 2011]
[Quincy-Herald Whig June 4, 2011]
[May 27, 2011]
[The News Gazette May 11, 2011]
[April 29, 2011]
[April 29, 2011]
(updated with 2011 Recipient)
[April 29, 2011]
[April 28, 2011]
[March 31, 2011]
[March 18, 2011]
[February 9, 2011]
[February 7, 2011]
[Janary 6, 2011]
[January 2011]
2010
(Belleville-News Democrat)
[July 21, 2010]
Illinois State Fairgrounds – Springfield
Exposition Building
[October 7, 2010]
2010 Archaeology Awareness Month in Illinois
September is Illinois Archaeology Awareness Month which celebrates and highlights the importance of archaeology in understanding the cultural heritage of Illinois.
• Talks, exhibits, and events
• Illinois 2010 Archaeology Awareness Month Poster
(info on obtaining a poster contact Eve Hargrave)
• ISAS video
As reported in the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette [PDF]
[posted June 1, 2010]
Illinois Artifact Looter Sentenced
Major looting crime committed at Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge. [PDF]
[posted June 1, 2010]
2009
 NEW PUBLICATION! Archaic Societies: Diversity and Complexity across the Midcontinent
Available through SUNY Press. Sweeping and detailed, this long-awaited volume is an indispensable guide to the Archaic period across the midcontinent. Archaeologists throughout the region share the latest excavation results and analytical perspectives to reveal and reinterpret the worlds of those Native peoples who lived there for some 9,000 years (up to about 3,000 years ago). Of particular concern is the establishment of relative and absolute chronologies for the Archaic period, the relationships between the artifacts left behind and the peoples who made and used them, and the changing interactions between cultures, climate, and landscape. Archaeologists offer useful, up-to-date overviews of Archaic societies, assessment of stratigraphic sequences, and detailed discussions of finds and interpretations from the Mississippi and Ohio river regions and the Great Lakes. Comprehensive and accessible, this landmark book is a must for anyone wanting to understand a crucial but little-understood period in North America’s prehistory.
Thomas E. Emerson is Director of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS), a Division of the Institute of Natural Resources Sustainability at the University of Illinois and the Illinois Department of Transportation. At ITARP, Dale L. McElrath is Senior Cultural Resource Archaeologist and Statewide Survey Coordinator, and Andrew C. Fortier is Special Projects Coordinator. Archaic Societies is a companion volume to their Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation across the Midcontinent.
2007-2008
ITARP Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
This project will assist us in organizing our large collection from the World Heritage Cahokia site that includes materials from some of the earliest work at this mound center under University of Illinois researchers A.R. Kelly and W. Moorehead in the 1930s as well as major excavations by long-time U of I professor Charles J. Bareis.
(posted March 15, 2008)
Illinois Department of Transportation's Cultural Resources Management Program Nationally Honored
Dr. John Walthall and Illinois Department of Transportation's cultural resources management program have been honored by being awarded the Society for American Archaeology's 2008 Award for Excellence in Cultural Resource Management. Dr. Walthall was presented the award in Vancouver, BC at the annual SAA conference this spring. Joining him was his wife, Nina Walthall.
(posted April 3, 2008)
Listing of Transportation Archaeologists and Cultural Resource Managers by State
The list, linked via the ISAS Transportation Archaeology page, includes, at a minimum, a contact point in each state for transportation-related archaeological inquiries.
The list does not attempt to include all archaeological staff. For that information please contact the individual state offices.
Requests for changes to this list should be directed to Wendy Smith French, Assistant Coordinator, Statewide Survey Division, ISAS, University of Illinois at wfrench@uiuc.edu, 217-265-5479.
Link to the list.
(posted January 29, 2008)
ITARP 2006 Annual Report
posted December 12, 2007
One of ITARP’s primary mission goals is to disseminate information to both professional audiences and the public at large. Our annual report is designed specifically to provide an overview of the program’s yearly activities for Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and University of Illinois (UIUC) administrators, the archaeological community, and the general public. The contexts of this report reflect the view of the contributors who are responsible for the facts and accuracy of the data presented herein. The contexts do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of IDOT.
ITARP Annual Reports Page
ITARP Archaeological Exhibit Opens at Krannert Art Museum
posted August 31, 2007
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dates: August 31, 2007 - June 1, 2008
The Archaeological Heritage of Illinois Exhibit
Prepared by professional archaeologists at the Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program (ITARP), this temporary exhibition presents objects of material culture related to native peoples who lived in Illinois from approximately 9500 B.C.E. to C.E. 1800. More than 100 items are on display, including clay figurines, bracelets and other ornaments, spear points and fish hooks, pipes, cooking jars, digging and weaving tools and ceremonial objects of exquisite quality and variety.
Story on the Exhibit
News Bureau, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Watch Channel 3 News Segment
The French Colonial Heritage Project
posted April 4, 2007
ITARP and Sangamo Archaeological Center are proud to announce the French Colonial Heritage Project.
The French Colonial Heritage Project is designed to expand and summarize the understanding of life in French communities during the 18th and early 19th century using archaeological remains and documents from that period.
Please download our three-page flyer filled with all the details of the French Colonial Heritage Project.
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