From Kaskaskia to Sangamo
Dispatches from Archaeological History of the Illinois Country 1600-1850
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...
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Importers' Marks from St. Louis
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Keeping on the St. Louis theme for a bit… I’m working on a study of pre-Civil War artifacts recovered during the 1990s from several do...
Saturday, June 16, 2012
A Forgotten Eighteenth Century House in St Louis?
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Speaking of archaeological features in St Louis ( see my last post ), here’s a remarkable structure that’s about to become archaeolog...
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Aspects of Urban Archaeology
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I took this photo in an 1840s-1850s residential neighborhood in St. Louis. A house once stood here, torn down long ago. More recently...
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Early French Ceramics 1
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This is probably one of the earliest pieces of French pottery from documented contexts in Illinois. It was found during the 1950s atop...
Monday, April 2, 2012
European Apothecary Pots
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During our recent excavations at the third “wooden version” of Fort de Chartres (see 2/29/2012 post ), we recovered a large fragment...
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...
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