From Kaskaskia to Sangamo
Dispatches from Archaeological History of the Illinois Country 1600-1850
Saturday, March 16, 2013
French Artifacts of Mississippian Life
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In my particular corner of archaeology, we read the accounts written by the French during the seventeenth and eighteenth centur...
Friday, February 8, 2013
The Words They Used
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Particularly for an archaeologist, it can be a lot of fun to know a linguist. My friend Michael McCafferty studies, among othe...
Saturday, December 15, 2012
A Little Bowl in the Fort
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Native American pottery fragment from the third Fort de Chartres. Archaeologists spend a lot of time talking about pottery. Thi...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
The Garden by the Fort
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This post will begin to describe the results of our 2012 archaeological testing at the site of the 1732 Fort de Chartres, in Rand...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
Back to Fort de Chartres part I
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One of several storms approaching. I have been lost in writing a sequel to the “At Home in the Illinois Country” book, this o...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
Ethnicity in Antebellum St. Louis
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An Irish neighborhood in St. Louis, 1858. In St. Louis, the neighborhoods straddling Biddle Street between 6 th and 12 th S...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
The Ancestor of Pepsi in Antebellum St. Louis
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As I've been working on a report on a massive collection of artifacts from a Irish neighborhood in St. Louis, dating to the 1840s and 18...
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