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Job Announcements

☛ Scientific Specialist, Archaeology | Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS) (More info and Apply Online by 6 pm CST February 18)

☛ Senior Scientific Specialist, Archaeology | Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS) (More info and Apply Online by 6 pm CST March 21)

☛ Archaeologist (Madison and Stevens Point, WI) | USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service (More info and Apply Online by December 13, 2024)

☛ Native American Graves Protection & Repatriation Act Assistant | Auburn University College of Liberal Arts Sociology Department (More info and Apply Online)

☛ Assistant Professor (Southeastern US Indigenous Archaeology) | University of Tennessee, Knoxville (More info and Apply Online)

☛ Tenure-track Assistant Professor (Anthropological Archaeology, North American specialization) | Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Indiana University Indianapolis (IU Indy) (More info and Apply Online)

☛ Senior Archaeologist (Wisconsin) | Stantec Environmental Consulting (More info and apply)

☛ Michigan State University is looking for an Assistant/Associate Professor of Anthropology specializing in Cultural Resource and Heritage Management. (More info and to apply (or go here MSU Careers Details - Assistant/Associate Professor Tenure System) Accepting applications until November 1.

☛ Assistant Collections Manager (3-year position) | Field Museum (More info and Apply Online) 

☛ 1-year Fellowship (starting early 2025) | Field Museum (More info and Apply Online) 

☛ Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for Art of the Ancient Americas (3-yr term) | Saint Louis Art Museum (More info and Apply Online)

☛ Associate Architectural Historian (Michigan) | Chronical Heritage (More info and apply online)

News & Updates

**NOTE The MAC website is currently being upgraded offsite. Membership renewals for 2025 will be delayed until the new website is functioning by mid-February. 

☛ William (“Bill”) L. Mangold Obituary

☛ Michigan State University is announcing its summer program Field Methods in Digital Heritage, summer 2024 (More info and Apply) 

☛ Michigan Tech is announcing its summer field school (program webpage) and (application form). Any inquiries can be sent to Dan Trepal at djtrepal@mtu.edu

☛ Death of Indiana's second State Archaeologist

☛ Read James (Jim) Skibo's obituary 

☛ Two new rules on NAGPRA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (https://cam.illinois.edu/policies/rp-14/ and https://nagpra.illinois.edu/procedures/)

☛ New Videos on Archaeology of Personhood and Soul Concepts of Pre- and Post-contact Indians of the Eastern Woodlands (direct link to videos, full notice with symposium details)

☛ Online guide to “Talking About Race,” designed by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (webpage)

☛ Check out the book series Midwest Archaeological Perspectives

Recent Theses & Dissertations

☛ From “Intricate, Tortuous, and Difficult Channel” to “Western Venice:” The Transformation of the St. Clair Maritime Landscape from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries

☛ Interpreting the Buffalo Lake Locality: Analysis of Projectile Point and Ceramic Assemblages Recovered from Kratz Creek (47MQ39), Neale (47MQ49), and McClaughry (47MQ42) Sites

☛ Temporal Use of Koster Mounds: Functional Morphology, Mortuary Practices, and Paleopathology in the Prehistoric Lower Illinois River Valley

☛ An Examination of Flintlock Components at Fort St. Joseph (20BE23), Niles, Michigan

☛ Community Identity, Culinary Traditions and Foodways in the Western Great Lakes

☛ A Multiproxy Analysis of Culinary, Technological, and Environmental Interactions in the Northern Great Lakes Region

☛ "This is the Way Things are Run": Land Use on the Grand Portage Reservation During Office of Indian Affairs Occupation, 1854-1930

☛ Stone Tools and Agricultural Communities: Economic, Microwear, and Residue Analyses of Wisconsin Oneota Lithic Assemblages