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Archaeology,
Geography, and Rock River Laboratory, Inc.
For over 20 years, Rock River Laboratory, Inc.
has provided both routine and specialized field and laboratory
services to archaeological and geographical projects on three
continents. In many cases, analytical techniques have been developed
and modified for the unique requirements of specific project.
These investigations have taken place in areas as diverse as the
prairies of the Midwest, coastal forests of Alaska, lowland jungles
of the Amazon and Belize, wetlands in the central Mexican highlands,
piedmont scrub of southern Italy, the Continental Shelf of the
Gulf of Mexico, and the bottom of the Black Sea.
Our clients have included:
- U.S. Forest Service;
- Federal Aviation Administration;
- U.S. Corps of Engineers;
- U.S. Minerals Management
Service;
- National Geographic
Society;
- Argonne National Laboratory;
- Illinois Department
of Conservation;
- Illinois Historic
Preservation Agency;
- Illinois Department
of Transportation;
- Illinois Department
of Law Enforcement;
- Kentucky Department
of Transportation;
- UCLA; University of
Pennsylvania;
- University of Kentucky;
- University of Missouri-St.
Louis;
- University of Minnesota;
- University of Wisconsin-Madison;
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee;
- Southern Illinois
University;
- American Resources
Group, Ltd.;
- Center for American
Archaeology;
- Old Missouri Research
Institute;
- Mississippi Valley
Archaeology Center, Inc.;
- and R. Christopher
Goodwin & Associates, Inc.
In addition to numerous reports, the results
of these studies have been presented at the meetings of the:
- Applied Geography Conference;
- Archaeological Institute of America;
- Associated Schools of Construction;
- Association of American Geographers;
- American Chemical Society;
- Brazilian Archaeological Society;
- British Society of Soil Science;
- Chacmool Conference;
- Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers;
- Conference on Underwater Archaeology;
- Geological Society of America;
- Illinois Archaeological Survey;
- Illinois Geographical Society;
- Illinois History Symposium;
- Illinois State Academy of Science;
- Interdisciplinary Conference on Belize;
- International Conference on Pedo-Archaeology;
- International Conference on the Study and
Conservation of Earthen Architecture;
- International Congress of Americanists;
- International Union of Anthropological and
Ethnological Sciences;
- Midwest Archaeological Conference;
- Midwest Association for Latin American Studies;
- Minerals Management Service Information Transfer
Meeting;
- Missouri State Academy of Science;
- National Cooperative Soil Survey Conference;
- National Council for Geographic Education;
- Nebraska Academy of
Sciences;
- Penrose Conference
on Archaeological Geology;
- Society for American
Archaeology;
- Society for Historical
Archaeology;
- Southeastern Archaeological
Conference;
- and World Congress
of Soil Science.
See a list of publications
of studies in which Rock River Laboratory, Inc. has participated.
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