FOR FURTHER EXPLORATIONS INTO ILLINOIS ARCHAEOLOGY
The first section includes the resources listed on Page 27 of Discover Illinois Archaeology, Printing
No. 3, 2009. The second section is a more detailed list of books on Illinois archaeology.
INTERNET RESOURCES
www.illinoisarchaeology.org
ILLINOIS ARCHAEOLOGY AWARENESS MONTH (IAAM) provides a state-wide calendar of
events, a poster and related materials each September.
www.museum.state.il.us
Illinois State Museum web sites includes museumlink Illinois, an overview of the state’s natural and
cultural history, and a link to Dickson Mounds Museum.
http://dnr.state.il.us/orep/cultural/cultural.htm
Illinois Department of Natural Resources link has articles and brochures on prehistoric and historic
sites, plus a 40-page booklet Illinois Historic Cemetery Preservation Handbook.
www.illinoishistory.gov/
The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency has links to state-wide historic and archaeological sites you
can visit.
www.caa-archeology.org
Center for American Archeology (CAA)
Educational programs for all ages based in Kampsville, Illinois.
www.cahokiamounds.com
Take a virtual visit to the World Heritage site.
http://riverweb.cet.uiuc.edu/
Environmental and cultural information and images about the American Bottom region.
www.saa.org
Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
National organization of professional archaeologists; includes quarterly newsletter and curriculum
materials.
www.sha.org
Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA)
National organization of archaeologists who study the historic period; includes bibliographies.
http://archaeology.about.com
Moderated by a former Midwest archaeologist, this web site is a wealth of accurate information on a
broad range of topics, including educational resources.
PUBLICATIONS
Magazines
Illinois Antiquity www.museum.state.il.us/iaaa
Quarterly Publication of the Illinois Association for Advancement of Archaeology
american archaeology www.americanarchaeology.com.
Quarterly Publication of the Archaeological Conservancy
Peer-reviewed journals
Illinois Archaeology www.illarchsurvey.org.
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology www.midwestarchaeology.org.
Books
Emerson, Thomas E., Dale L. McElrath, and Andrew C. Fortier (editors)
2000 Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation across the Midcontinent. University of
Nebraska Press.
2009 Archaic Societies Diversity and Complexity across the Midcontinent. State University of New
York Press.
Fagan, Brian M. Ancient North America The Archaeology of a Continent. Thames and Hudson, London,
2005.
Farnsworth, Kenneth B. and Thomas E. Emerson (editors)
1986 Early Woodland Archeology. Center for American Archeology, Kampsville Seminars in
Archeology, Volume 2. Kampsville.
Folwer, Melvin L
1997 The Cahokia Atlas: A Historical Atlas of Cahokia Archaeology. Revised Edition. Illinois
Transportation Archaeological Research Program, University of Illinois, Urbana.
Hall, Robert L.
1997 An Archaeology of the Soul: North American Indian Belief and Ritual. University of Illinois Press,
Urbana.
Harn, Alan D.
1980 The Prehistory of Dickson Mounds: The Dickson Excavation. Reports of Investigations, No. 35.
Illinois State Museum, Springfield.
Justice, Noel D.
1987 Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of the Midcontinental and Eastern United States. Indiana
University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis.
McManamon, Francis P. (General Editor)
2009 Archaeology in America An Encyclopedia. Vol. 2, Midwest and Great Plains/Rocky Mountains.
Greenwod Press, Westport, CT, 2009.
Markman, Charles W.
1991 Chicago Before History: The Prehistoric Archaeology of a Modern Metropolitan Area. Studies in
Illinois Archaeology 7, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield.
Mazrim, Robert
1997 The Sangamo Frontier History & Archaeology in the Shadow of Lincoln. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago and London.
Milner, George R.
2004 The Moundbuilders: Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America. Thames & Hudson, London.
Pauketat, Timothy R.
2009 Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi. Penguin.
Penney, James
1986 Prehistoric Peoples of Southern Illinois. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern
Illinois University.
Silverberg, Robert
1968 Mound Builders of Ancient America: The Archaeology of a Myth. New York Graphic Society,
Ltd..
Struever, Stuart and Felicia Antonelli Holton
1979 Koster: Americans in Search of Their Prehistoric Past. Anchor Press/Doubleday.
Tanner, Helen
1987 Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.
Temple, Wayne C.
1977 Indian Villages of the Illinois Country. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers, Vol. 2, Part 2.
Springfield.
Trigger, Bruce G. (editor)
1978 Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 15, Northeast. Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D.C.
Tucker, Sara Jones, and Wayne C. Temple (compilers)
1977 Atlas and Supplement Indian Villages of the Illinois Country. Illinois State Museum Scientific
Papers, Vol. I, Part 1. Illinois State Museum, Springfield.
Wagner, Mark J. and Mary R. Mccorvie
1993 The Archaeology of Frontier Taverns on the St. Louis-Vincennes Trace. Popular Science Series,
Vol. XI., Illinois State Museum, and the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Walthall, John A. (editor)
1991 French Colonial Archaeology: The Illinois Country and the Western Great Lakes. University of
Illinois Press.
Walthall, John A. and Thomas Emerson (editors)
1992 Calumet and Fleur-De-Lys: Archaeology of Indian and French Contact in the Midcontinent.
Smithsonian Press.
ADDITIONAL READINGS
The sections of the reading list follow the culture history and regional divisions presented in Discover
Illinois Archaeology. Not enough publications on Illinois archaeology are generally available to the
public. A few of these readings were written for a public audience, but most have been written in a more
technical style. Readers may be able to find some volumes through interlibrary loan, while some older
readings are possibly available through digital format on the internet. We have intentionally selected
compendiums of specific subjects with the idea that they contain extensive bibliographies that will direct
the reader to numerous other sources.
By a recent count, more than 10,000 technical reports, articles, and monographs have been written on
Illinois archaeology, and there are probably triple that number of unpublished papers on the subject. We
hope this list will provide a place to begin your continued discovery of Illinois archaeology. The list was
originally compiled by Duane Esarey, Michael Wiant, and Alice Berkson, and was updated in November,
2009.
CULTURE HISTORY
PALEOINDIAN PERIOD
Fagan, Brian M.
1987 The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America. Thames and Hudson.
Graham, Russell W.
1981 Kimmswick: A Clovis-Mastodon Association in Eastern Missouri. Science 312: 1115-1117.
Walthall, John A. and Brad Koldehoff
1998 Hunter-Gatherer Interaction and Alliance Formation: Dalton and the Cult of the Long Blade.
Plains Anthropologist 43:247-273.
ARCHAIC PERIOD
Phillips, James and James A. Brown (editors)
1983 Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest. Academic Press, New York.
Fowler, Melvin L.
1959 Summary Report of the Modoc Rock Shelter: 1552, 1953, 1955, 1956. Reports of Investigations 8.
Illinois State Museum, Springfield.
Jeffries, Richard W.
1987 The Archaeology of Carrier Mills: 10,000 Years in the Saline Valley of Illinois. Southern Illinois
University Press.
Struever, Stuart and Felicia Antonelli Holton
1979 Koster: Americans in Search of Their Prehistoric Past. Anchor Press/Doubleday.
WOODLAND PERIOD
Deuel, Thorne (editor)
1952 Hopewellian Communities in Illinois. Scientific Papers 5. Illinois State Museum, Springfield.
Emerson, Thomas E., Dale L. McElrath, and Andrew C. Fortier (editors)
2000 Late Woodland Societies: Traditional and Transformation across the Midcontinent. University of
Nebraska Press.
Farnsworth, Kenneth B. and Thomas E. Emerson (editors)
1986 Early Woodland Archeology. Center for American Archeology, Kampsville Seminars in
Archeology, Volume 2. Kampsville.
Herold, Elaine Bluhm (editor)
1965 Middle Woodland Sites in Illinois. Bulletin 5. Illinois Archaeological Survey, Urbana.
Perino, Gregory
2006 Illinois Hopewell and Late Woodland Mounds. The Excavations of Gregory Perino 1950-1975.
Studies in Archaeology No. 4. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, University of
Illinois, Urbana.
Silverberg, Robert
1968 Mound Builders of Ancient America: The Archaeology of a Myth. New York Graphic Society, Ltd.
MISSISSIPPIAN PERIOD
Emerson, Thomas E. and R. Barry Lewis
1991 Cahokia and the Hinterlands: Middle Mississippian Cultures of the Midwest. University of Illinois
Press, Urbana.
Folwer, Melvin L.
1997 The Cahokia Atlas: A Historical Atlas of Cahokia Archaeology. Revised Edition. Illinois
Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Urbana.
Kelly, John E.
1990 The Emergence of Mississippian Culture in the American Bottom Region. In The Mississippian
Emergence. Bruce D. Smith, editor, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
Milner, George R.
1990 The Late Prehistoric Cahokia Cultural System of the Mississippi River Valley: Foundations,
Florescence, and Fragmentation. Journal of World Prehistory. 4:1-43.
Mink, Claudia Gellman
1999 Cahokia: City of the Sun. Revised Edition. Cahokia Mounds Museum Society, Collinsville,
Illinois.
Pauketat, Timothy R. and Thomas E. Emerson
1997 Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World. University of Nebraska Press,
Lincoln.
Young, Biloine Whiting, and Melvin L. Fowler
2000 Cahokia, The Great Native American Metropolis. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and
Chicago.
LATE MISSISSIPPIAN PERIOD
Anderson, David G.
1991 Examining Prehistoric Settlement Distribution in Eastern North America. Archaeology of Eastern
North America 19:1-22.
Brown, James A. and Patricia J. O’Brien (editors)
1990 At the Edge of Prehistory: Huber Phase Archaeology in the Chicago Area. Illinois Department of
Transportation and Center for American Archeology.
Dye, David H. and Cheryl Anne Cox (editors)
1990 Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Hollinger, R. Eric and David W. Benn
1998 Oneota Taxonomy: Papers from the Oneota Symposium of the 54th Plains Anthropological
Conference, 1996. The Wisconsin Archaeologist 79:2.
Santure, Sharron K., Alan D. Harn, Duane Esarey, Frances B. King, Nicholas W. Klobuchar,
George R. Milner, Virginia G. Smith, Bonnie W. Styles
1990 Archaeological Investigations at the Morton Village and Norris Farms 36 Cemetery. Illinois State
Museum, Reports of Investigations 45, Springfield.
Woods, William I. (editor)
1992 Late Prehistoric Agriculture: Observations from the Midwest. Illinois Historic Preservation
Agency Studies in Illinois Archaeology 8, Springfield.
COLONIAL PERIOD
Brown, Margaret Kimball and Lawrie Cena Dean
1995 The French Colony in the Mid-Mississippi Valley. American Kestrel Books, Carbondale, Illinois.
Franke, Judith A.
1995 French Peoria and the Illinois Country 1673-1846. Illinois State Museum, Popular Science Series,
Vol. XII, Springfield.
Walthall, John A. (editor)
1991 French Colonial Archaeology: The Illinois Country and the Western Great Lakes. University of
Illinois Press.
Walthall, John A. and Thomas Emerson (editors)
1992 Calumet and Fleur-De-Lys: Archaeology of Indian and French Contact in the Midcontinent.
Smithsonian Press.
Warren, Robert E. and John A. Walthall
1998 Illini Archaeology: Cultural Heritage and Repatriation. The Living Museum 60(2): 10-14.
AMERICAN PERIOD
Mansberger, Floyd
1997 Early Industrialized Pottery Production in Illinois: Archaeological Investigations at White and
Company’s Gooselake Stoneware Manufactury and Tile Works, Rural Grundy County, Illinois. Reports
of Investigations, No. 53, Illinois State Museum, Springfield.
Rohrbaugh, Charles L. and Thomas E. Emerson (editors)
1988 Historic Archaeology in Illinois. Research Report 8, Midwestern Archaeological Research Center;
Illinois Cultural Resources Study 6, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield.
Schroeder, Erik K. (editor)
1991 Landscape, Architecture, and Artifacts: Historical Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century Illinois.
Illinois Cultural Resources Study 15. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield.
Wagner, Mark J. and Mary R. Mccorvie
1992 The Archaeology of the Old Landmark Tavern: Nineteenth-Century Taverns along the St. Louis –
Vincennes Trace in Southern Illinois. Illinois Department of Transportation and Center for American
Archeology.
ILLINOIS REGIONAL STUDIES
NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS
Benchley, Elizabeth, Michael Gregg and Mark J. Dudzik
1977 Recent Investigations at Albany Mounds, Whiteside County, Illinois. Circular No. 2, Illinois
Archaeological Survey, Urbana.
Emerson, Thomas E. (editor)
1999 The Keeshin Farm Site and the Rock River Langford Tradition in Northern Illinois. Illinois
Transportation Archaeological Research Program, University of Illinois, Urbana.
Herold, Elaine Bluhm
1971 The Indian Mounds at Albany, Illinois. Davenport Museum Anthropological Papers No. 1.
Phillippe, Joseph S.
1990 The Drake Site: Subsistence and Status at a Rural Illinois Farmstead. Midwestern Archaeological
Research Center, Illinois State University, Normal.
NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS
Doershuk, John
1988 Plenemuk Mound and the Archaeology of Will County. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.
Illinois Cultural Resources Studies 3, Springfield.
Jeske, Robert J.
1988 The Archaeology of the Chain OLakes Region in Northeastern Illinois. Illinois Cultural Resources
Study No. 5, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield.
Markman, Charles W.
1991 Chicago Before History: The Prehistoric Archaeology of a Modern Metropolitan Area. Illinois
Historic Preservation Agency. Studies in Illinois Archaeology 7, Springfield..
Rohrbaugh, Charles L. Lenville, J. Stelle, Thomas E. Emerson, Gregory R. Walz, and John T.
Penman
1998 The Archaeology of the Grand Village of the Illinois: Report of the Grand Village Research
Project, 1991-1996; Grand Village of the Illinois State Historic Site (11LS13), LaSalle County, Illinois.
Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Research Papers No. 60. Urbana.
WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
Harn, Alan D.
1980 The Prehistory of Dickson Mounds: The Dickson Excavation. Reports of Investigations, No. 35.
Illinois State Museum, Springfield.
McConaughy, Mark A., Mary J. Bade, Roger Boydston, Claude V. Jackson, Frances B. King,
Elliott Lax, Terrance J. Martin, Marl Carol Masulis, Harold B. Rollins, Frank J. Vento
1993 Rench: A Stratified Site in the Central Illinois River Valley. Reports of Investigations No. 49,
Illinois State Museum, Springfield.
Meinkoth, Michael C.
1995 The Sister Creeks Site Mounds: Middle Woodland Mortuary Practices in the Illinois River Valley.
Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program Reports No. 2, Department of Anthropology,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Stafford, Barbara D.
1994 Central Illinois Expressway Archeology: Upland Occupations of the Illinois Valley Crossing.
Center for American Archeology, Kampsville, Illinois.
THE AMERICAN BOTTOM
Ahler, Steven R., M.J. Bade, F.B. King, B.S. Styles, and P. J. Thurson
1992 Late Archaic Components at Modoc Rock Shelter, Randolph County, Illinois. Reports of
Investigations No. 48, Illinois State Museum, Springfield.
Bareis, Charles J. and James W. Porter
1984 American Bottom Archaeology: A Summary of the FAI-270 Project Contribution to the Culture
History of the Mississippi River Valley. University of Illinois Press. Urbana.
Jelks, Edward B., Carl J. Ekberg, and Terrance J. Martin
1989 Excavations at the Laurens Site, Probable Location of Fort de Cartres I. Studies in Illinois
Archaeology No. 5. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield.
Pauketat, Timothy R.
1993 A Guide to the Prehistoric and Native Cultures of SW Illinois and the Greater St. Louis Area.
Illinois Archaeology Educational Series #2, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield.
Walthall, John A. and Elizabeth D. Benchley
1987 The River L’Abbe Mission: A French Colonial Church for the Cahokia Illini on Monks Mound.
Studies in Illinois Archaeology #2, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield.
Note: An extensive series of reports on American Bottom sites excavated for the FAI-270 project is
available from the Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
CENTRAL ILLINOIS
Carmichael, David L.
1977 Preliminary Archaeological Survey of the Illinois Uplands and Some Behavioral Implications.
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 2(2):219-251.
Claflin, John
1991 The Sire Site: Mississippian Outpost in the Central Illinois Prairie. In New Perspectives on
Cahokia: Views from the Periphery, edited by James B. Stoltman. Monographs in World Archaeology
No. 2, Prehistory Press, Madison, Wisconsin.
Gums, Bonnie L.
1999 Archaeology at the Whitley Site: An Early Historic Farmstead on the Prairies of Eastern Illinois.
Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program Reports No. 5, Department of Anthropology,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Roper, Donna C.
1979 Archaeological Survey and Settlement Pattern Models in Central Illinois. Scientific Papers, Vol.
XVI, Illinois State Museum. Special Paper Number 2, Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology.
LOWER ILLINOIS VALLEY
Stafford, Barbara D.
1994 Central Illinois Expressway Archeology: Upland Occupations of the Illinois Valley Crossing.
Center for American Archeology, Kampsville, Illinois.
Stafford, C. Russell
1985 The Campbell Hollow Archaic Occupations: A Study of Intrasite Spatial Structure in the Lower
Illinois River Valley. Research Series, Vol. 4, Kampsville Archeological Center, Center for American
Archeology.
Thomas, Frederick
1990 Socioeconomic Differentiation of Late Nineteenth-Century Lower Class Households in the Little
Piasa Valley, Alton, Illinois.. Midwestern Archaeological Research Center, Illinois State University,
Normal.
Wiant, Michael D. and Charles R. McGimsey (editors)
1986 Woodland Period Occupations of the Napoleon Hollow Site in the Lower Illinois Valley.
Research Series, Vol. 6, Kampsville Archeological Center, Center for American Archeology.
Note: Publications from the Center for American Archaeology include many site reports from the lower
Illinois River valley.
WABASH RIVER VALLEY
Redmond, Brian C. and Robert G. McCullough
2000 The Lake Woodland to Late Prehistoric Occupations of Central Indiana. In Late Woodland
Societies: Tradition and Transformation Across the Midcontinent, edited by Thomas E. Emerson, Dale L.
McElrath, and Andrew C. Fortier. University of Nebraska Press.
Winters, Howard D.
1963 An Archaeological Survey of the Wabash River Valley in Illinois. Reports of Investigations, No.
10. Illinois State Museum. Springfield.
Winters, Howard D.
1969 The Riverton Culture. Reports of Investigations, No. 13, Illinois State Museum and Illinois
Archaeological Survey.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
Cole, Fay-Cooper, Robert Bell, John Bennett, Joseph Caldwell, Norman Emerson, Richard
MacNeish, Kenneth Orr, and Roger Willis
1951 Kincaid, a Prehistoric Illinois Metropolis. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Jeffries, Richard W. and Brian M. Butler
1982 The Carrier Mills Archaeological Project: Human Adaptation in the Saline Valley, Illinois.
Research Paper No. 33, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale.
Muller, Jon
1986 Archaeology of the Lower Ohio River Valley. Academic Press.
Penney, James
1986 Prehistoric Peoples of Southern Illinois. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale.
Wagner, Mark J. and Mary R. McCorvie
1992 The Archaeology of the Old Landmark Tavern: Nineteenth-Century Taverns along the St. Louis Vincennes Trace in Southern Illinois. Illinois Department of Transportation and Center for American
Archeology.
Wagner, Mark J. and Brian M. Butler
1999 Archaeological Investigations at the Rose Hotel (11Jn-116), Hardin County, Illinois. Technical
Report 99-3, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.