Dear Mound City Chapter members,

Just a reminder that Mound City chapter will be sponsoring an informational
booth on archaeology during the Public Session the annual conference for the
Society for Historical Archaeology on Saturday, January 10th in Grand Ballroom D
at Union Station. If you are interested in volunteering in the booth, then
please contact Greg Paulus (bgpaulus@... or (314) 704-3507) or
myself. See below for list of speakers that afternoon or visit the SHA website
at www.sha.org

Best,

Tim Baumann
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Missouri-St. Louis
8001 Natural Bridge Road
Clark Hall 507
St. Louis, MO 63121-4499

Office: 314-516-6021
Fax: 314-516-7235
website: http://www.umsl.edu/~anttbaum/


Speakers to highlight Missouri history

A public session during the Society for Historical Archaeology's 2004 Conference
on Historical and Underwater Archaeology will allow the public to learn more
about the Show-Me State.

A group of speakers, including two University of Missouri-St. Louis professors,
will highlight historical archaeology in Missouri from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 10 in
Grand Ballroom D of the Hyatt Regency Hotel, One Saint Louis Union Station in
St. Louis.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (314)
516-6021 or e-mail tbaumann@....
The speakers will include:

J. Frederick Fausz, Associate Professor of History at UMSL, "When the Osage
Indians were the Gateway to the West," 1 to 1:20 p.m.
Forty years before the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
made St. Louis the "Gateway to the West," the Osage Indians dominated the lower
Missouri River.

Joseph Harl, Principal Investigator at the Archaeological Research Center of St.
Louis, "Archaeological Investigations at the Daniel Boone and Nathan Boone Homes
in Augusta," 1:20 to 1:40 p.m.
Recent archaeological investigations at the Daniel and Nathan Boone homes
exposed remains of the original log cabin used by the Boone family when they
first came to Missouri around 1800.

Timothy Baumann, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UMSL, "The Search for
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable," 1:40 to 2 p.m.
In May of 2002, the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-St.
Louis conducted an archaeological investigation to uncover the physical remains
of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the alleged founder of Chicago, in the St.
Charles Borromeo Catholic Cemetery in St. Charles.

Douglas D. Scott, Great Plains Team Leader at the Midwest Archeological Center,
"A Lively Cannonade: Archeological Evidence of the Missouri Civil War Battle of
Wilson's Creek, August 10, 1861," 2:20 to 2:40 p.m.
As part of a multi-year study of Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, the
National Park Service's Midwest Archeological Center has recovered nearly 2,000
artifacts related to the Aug. 10, 1861, battle.

Annalies Corbin, Assistant Professor of History at East Carolina University in
Greenville, N.C., and Bradley A. Rodgers, Associate Professor of History at East
Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., "Skeleton in the Sand: Interpreting the
Wreck of the Steamboat Montana," 2:40 to 3 p.m.
On June 22, 1884, the largest steamboat ever built to operate on the Missouri
River struck a St. Charles railroad bridge and sank. After being salvaged for
the cargo and all usable pieces and parts, the shattered hull of the vessel was
quickly forgotten. In October 2002, Corbin and Rodgers conducted an
archaeological excavation at the wreck.

Carol Diaz-Granados, Research Associate and Lecturer in the Department of
Anthropology at Washington University, "Digging Up the 1904 St. Louis World's
Fair," 3 to 3:20 p.m.
Buckets, buttons, bottles, coins, and dish fragments -- remnants from one of the
most famous fairs in world history. These came from a 12-year "salvage" project
that was implemented not only to excavate these remnants and teach scientific
methods of archaeological excavation, but also to examine the city's past.

The Society for Historical Archaeology, established in 1967, is the largest
scholarly group concerned with the archaeology of the modern world.
For more information on the society, visit the web site at www.sha.org.

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