The archaeological guide to Iowa

The archaeological guide to Iowa

William E. Whittaker, 1971-

Book - 2015

Provides information on 68 important archaeological sites in Iowa, including sites of every type, from every time period, and in every part of the state.

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Subjects
Excavations (Archaeology) > Iowa.
Indians of North America > Iowa > Antiquities > Guidebooks.
Archaeology > Iowa > Guidebooks.
Historic sites > Iowa > Guidebooks.
Iowa > Antiquities > Guidebooks.
Guidebooks.
Genres
Guidebooks
Published
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press [2015]
Language
English
Main Author
William E. Whittaker, 1971- (-)
Other Authors
Lynn Marie Alex, 1948- (-), Mary C. De La Garza
Physical Description
271 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781609383374
  • Introduction. Cultural periods in Iowa archaeology
  • 1. Gitchie Manitou, Indian Mounds or Rebuilt Mounds? (Woodland or Late Prehistoric)
  • 2. Blood Run/Rock Island : A National Historic Landmark without Equal (Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric)
  • 3. Kimball Village (Late Prehistoric)
  • 4. The Cowan Site and the Origins of the Middle Missouri Tradition (Late Prehistoric)
  • 5. Sergeant Floyds Grave, Americas First National Monument (Historic)
  • 6. Double ditch : uncovering a 12th Century Iowa Community with 21st Century Technology (Late Prehistoric)
  • 7. The Litka Ridged field site : One of a Kind in Iowa (Late Prehistoric)
  • 8. Wittrock Indian Village : Quintessential Mill Creek (Late Prehistoric)
  • 9. Ancient Bison Hunting at the Cherokee Sewer Site (Archaic)
  • 10. Dixon : Bison! (Late Prehistoric)
  • 11. Turin: Poodle Skirts and Life Magazine (Archaic)
  • 12. The Earthlodge beneath your feet : Davis-Oriole (Late Prehistoric)
  • 13. Glenwood Archaeological State Preserve (Late Prehistoric)
  • 14. Old Pacific CityCemeteryy (Kuhl Site) : Equal Treatment in Death (Historic)
  • 15. The Hitchcock House : A Stop on the Underground Railroad (Historic)
  • 16. Five Island Lake : What Lies Beneath? (Paleoindian-Historic)
  • 17. Fort Dodge Military Post : Not a Trace (Historic)
  • 18. Mounds, gravestones, and murders : Vegors Cemetery (Woodland and Historic)
  • 19.Boone Mound : Early Public Archaeology in Iowa (Woodland)
  • 20. A very late historical bone bed : The Iowa State Veterinary Carcass Pit (Historic)
  • 21. West Des Moines Burial Site (Late Prehistoric)
  • 22. Terrace Hill : Garden of the Governors (Historic)
  • 23. Urban Archaeology in Downtown Des Moines (Archaic, Historic)
  • 24. The Palace Site : Did People Live in Basin Houses 7000 Years Ago? (Archaic)
  • 25. Woodland Mounds Preserve : Irreplaceable Vestiges of the Past (Woodland)
  • 26. Buxton : Faces of the Past (Historic)
  • 27. Iowaville : Village of the Ioway (Protohistoric and Historic)
  • 28. Bonaparte Pottery : Industrial Archaeology in Iowa (Historic)
  • 29. The Not-So-Empty North (Archaic, Late Prehistoric)
  • 30. Enigmatic Alignments at the Folkert Mound Group (Woodland)
  • 31. Wanampito : A Possible Ioway Site from the 1600s (Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric)
  • 32. Black Medicine Site, Hartman Reserve Nature Center : Conservation for the Sake of the Past (Woodland)
  • 33. Was There a Walled Prehistoric Village along the Cedar Valley Nature Trail? (Late Prehistoric)
  • 34. Wickiup Hill : Public Understanding and Preservation (Archaic, Historic)
  • 35. Patterson Trading Post (Historic)
  • 44. Fish Farm Mounds (Woodland)
  • 45. Nine hundred mounds gone : the Great Harpers Ferry Mound Group Disappears (Woodland)
  • 46. Paint Rock and the Lost Monolith (Protohistoric and Historic)
  • 47. The Beauty of Effigy Mounds (Archaic -Late Prehistoric)
  • 48. Pikes Peak : Mounds and the Unconstructed Fort (Woodland)
  • 49. Sny Magill : A Glimpse of What May Have Been (Archaic and Woodland)
  • 50. Dragoon Life at Fort Atkinson (Historic)
  • 51. The Hewitt-Olmstead Trading Post (Historic)
  • 52. The Elgin Brewery (Historic)
  • 53. The Ruins of Motor Town (Historic)
  • 54. Death and the Turkey River Mound Group (Archaic and Woodland)
  • 55. Four Mounds Survive the Odds (Woodland)
  • 56. Mines of Spain (Archaic-Historic)
  • 57. Oneida Cheese Factory at Bowens Prairie (Historic)
  • 58. Hadfields Cave : Refuge inside the Cliffs (Woodland)
  • 59. Jackson County rockshelters : Mouse Hollow and Levsen (Archaic-Historic)
  • 60. Hurstville Lime Kilns (Historic)
  • 61. Antoine LeClaire House (Historic)
  • 62. Weed Park Mounds : "Forever Undisturbed" (Woodland)
  • 63. Ancient Village Life at McNeal Fan (Archaic and Woodland)
  • 64. McKinney site : Does X Mark the Site? (Late Prehistoric-Protohistoric)
  • 65. Toolesboro Mounds National Historic Landmark (Woodland)
  • 66. Mounds and More Mounds at Malchow (Woodland)
  • 67. Is There an Adena or Hopewell Ring Enclosure at the Poisel Mounds? (Woodland)
  • 68. Fort Madison : Under Siege Again (Historic).

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