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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19:
Place: Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site - Interpretive Center

2:30-4:00 Board meeting
3:00-4:30 Site walking tour - meet Bill Iseminger in the lobby
4:30-6:00 Dinner (on your own - Ramon's is always a favorite)
6:00-7:30 Annual Business meeting
7:30-9:30 IAS New Members Reception: Live music and cash bar

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20:
Place: SIUE - Morris University Center, 2nd floor (Dogwood-Maple-Oak-Redbud rooms)

8:00 James Brown - Remembering Melvin Fowler

Morning Symposium: New Deal Archaeology

8:30 Mary McCorvie & Mark Wagner - The New Deal in Illinois Archaeology: An Introduction
8:45 Joyce Williams & Meghan Jones - “52 Stone Celts, 67 Stone Axes, 219 War Arrowheads…”: The WPA Inventory of the Madison County Historical Society Collection in 1938
9:00 John Kelly, William Iseminger, & Susanna Bailey - The Role of Harriet Smith and the WPA in the History of Investigations at Cahokia Mounds

9:15 BREAK

9:30 Brian Butler & Jessica Howe - The Prehistory of Southern Illinois: The WPA Connection
9:45 Clare Tolmie - One Dam Project After Another: the CCC in Du Page County
10:00 Douglas Kullen - The Archeology of a New Deal Project: Batavia’s Island Park in Kane County, Illinois
10:15 Kjersti Emerson - The Fisher Site: The Legacy of the W.P.A in Northern Illinois

10:30 BREAK

10:45-11:45 Agency Reports:

Joe Phillippe, IHPA
Tom Emerson, ITARP
Sharron Santure, NRCS
Mike Wiant, ISM - Site files
Brian Kolde, IAAA

11:45 – 1:00 LUNCH BREAK
The SIUE Anthropology Lab (Peck 0403) will be open to visitors during the lunch break.

Afternoon Symposium: Current Research in Illinois Archaeology

1:00 Lenville Stelle - Blood of the Ancestors Grotto (11SA557): Ritual Behavior
1:15 Michael Conner & Jodie O'Gorman - New Excavations at Morton Village, an Oneota-Mississippian Site in the Central Illinois Valley
1:30 Gregory Vogel - Geophysical Remote Sensing and GIS at the Mound House Site
1:45 Terrance Martin, Christopher Fennell, & Anna Agbe-Davies - Archaeology at New Philadelphia: A Review of the 2008 Season
2:00 Corin Pursell - Five Years of Ongoing Excavations at Kincaid Mounds

2:15 BREAK

2:30 Brad Koldehoff, Joseph Galloy, Jeffery Kruchten, Patrick Durst, & Charles Witty - Recent Investigations in the American Bottom Region
2:45 Miranda Yancey - Interpreting a Mississippian Landscape
3:00 Steve Boles & Tim Pauketat - Two Recent Celt Cache Discoveries in the American Bottoms
3:15 Jeffery Kruchten - Salvage Excavations at the Pfeffer Site
3:30 John Kelly - The Architecture of Cahokia’s West Plaza: The 2008 Test Excavations

3:45 BREAK

4:00 Mary Vermilion & William Iseminger - SIUE Excavations of Cahokia's North Palisade
4:15 James Brown, Lori Belknap, John Kelly, Lucretia Kelly, Julieann Van Nest, Kathleen Ehrhardt, & Kathryn Parker - The 2008 Investigations at Mound 34
4:30 Lori Belknap - Copper Technology at Mound 34
4:45 Jamie Haines - Analysis of Historical Euro-American Skeletal Remains from the Old Darwin Cemetery, Darwin, Illinois
5:00 Julie Holt - Engaging Undergraduates in Illinois Archaeology

6:00- 10:00 AWARDS BANQUET
Place: SIUE - Peck 0403

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21:
Place: Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site - Woodhenge

6:30 a.m. Equinox sunrise