From Kaskaskia to Sangamo

During our recent excavations at the third “wooden version” of Fort de Chartres (see 2/29/2012 post ), we recovered a large fragment...

Back in 2002, the Sangamo Archaeological Center published a small summary of newspaper ads from St. Louis that advertised pottery bet...

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...

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...

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...

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...

During our November 2011 excavations at Fort de Chartres ( see February 29 2012 post ) we uncovered a segment of a large, deep, wall t...