From Kaskaskia to Sangamo
Dispatches from Archaeological History of the Illinois Country 1600-1850
Monday, March 12, 2012
Queenswares in St Louis Before the War of 1812
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Back in 2002, the Sangamo Archaeological Center published a small summary of newspaper ads from St. Louis that advertised pottery bet...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
The "Cahokia Courthouse"
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Below are a few artifacts from the 1930s excavations at the “Cahokia Courthouse”. They didn’t make the final cut of my recent book on F...
Sunday, March 4, 2012
An Important French Colonial Text as a Free Download.
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Pease and Jenison’s 1940 volume Illinois on the Eve of the Seven Years War is available as a free download at the Internet Archive. This...
The Shadow of a 250-Year-Old Fort
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This is why we dug where we did in 2011 (see Fort de Chartres posts February 29 and March 2 ). This is an aerial photo taken in 192...
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Umbrella Men and Archaeology
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This is a little more esoteric post. It is a short film by Errol Morris called “The Umbrella Man”, posted by the New York Times. It is surpr...
History of the Fort in Cross Section
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During our November 2011 excavations at Fort de Chartres ( see February 29 2012 post ) we uncovered a segment of a large, deep, wall t...
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Lead Bale Seal from Fort de Chartres
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This is a lead bale seal found during our 2011 work at Fort de Chartres III. The seal was probably used during the 1740s or early 1750s. ...
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