Pursuing Big Histories through Collaborative Research and Preservation at the Illinois State Archaeological Survey

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Timothy R. Pauketat has left an indelible mark on the field of archaeology, shaping theory and method and challenging archaeologists to investigate broad relationships between history and humanity. For Tim, archaeology should always be about big questions and big histories, about understanding the past, how it impacts heritage in the present, and mobilizing that knowledge for the future. As director of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey, Tim established the Collaborative Research Engagement section to collaboratively pursue big histories and understand how archaeology can better serve descendant communities. In honor of TRP, we discuss the preliminary results of two projects collaboratively tracing big histories in partnership with Tribal Nations. First, we review consultation and collaboration with descendant Tribal Nations on research in support of preservation at the Noble-Wieting cultural site, an impacted late precontact Mississippian and Langford tradition village site in central Illinois. Second, we detail conducting legacy collection research at the behest of the Quapaw Nation to explore ancestral connections between the Mississippian Angel Mounds center in southwestern Indiana and the late precontact phases of northeastern Arkansas.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat

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Abstract Id(s): 50861