Archaeology Papers

Listed below in chronological order are selected publications that refer to studies in which Rock River Laboratory, Inc. has participated.

For over two decades Dr. William I. Woods has served as a geoarchaeological and environmental consultant on a variety of Rock River Laboratory projects. Dr. Woods received his three degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is a Full Professor in the Department of Geography and Director of the Contract Archaeology Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Selected Biography

Woods, William I. 2002. Soils and Sustainability in the Prehistoric New World. In Exploitation and Overexploitation in Societies Past and Present, edited by Brigitta Bensing and Bernd Herrmann. LIT-Publishing House, Münster. (Accepted for publication).

Ballard, Robert D., Fredrik T. Hiebert, Dwight F. Coleman, Cheryl Ward, Jennifer S. Smith, Kathryn Willis, Brendan Foley, Katherine Croff, Candace Major, and Francesco Torre. 2001. Deepwater Archaeology of the Black Sea: The 2000 Season at Sinop, Turkey. American Journal of Archaeology 105:607-623.

McCann, Joseph M., and William I. Woods. 2001. Suelos oscuros antropogénicos en la Amazonia: Implicaciones para la sostenibilidad. In Desarrollo Sostenible en la Amazonia: Mito o Realidad?, edited by Mário Hiraoka and Santiago Mora. Editorial Abya-yala, Quito, Ecuador.

McCann, Joseph M., William I. Woods, and Donald W. Meyer. 2001. Organic Matter and Anthrosols in Amazonia: Interpreting the Amerindian Legacy. Sustainable Management of Soil Organic Matter, edited by R. M. Rees, B. Ball, C. Watson, and C. Campbell, pp. 180-189. CAB, International, Wallingford, UK.

Holley, George R., Rinita A. Dalan, William I. Woods, and Harold W. Watters, Jr. 2000. Implications of a Buried Preclassic Site in Western Belize. In Mounds, Modoc, and Mesoamerica: Papers in Honor of Melvin L. Fowler edited by Steven R. Ahler, pp. 111-124. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers Vol. 28. Springfield.

Woods, William I. 2000. Monks Mound Revisited. In Preprints. Terra 2000. 8th International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Earthen Architecture, edited by N. Sterry, pp. 98-104. James & James Ltd., London.

Woods, William I., Joseph M. McCann, and Donald W. Meyer. 2000. Amazonian Dark Earth Analysis: State of Knowledge and Directions for Future Research. In Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences, edited by F. Andrew Schoolmaster, Vol. 23, pp. 114-121. Applied Geography Conferences, Inc., Denton.

Woods, William I., and Joseph M. McCann. 1999. The Anthropogenic Origin and Persistence of Amazonian Dark Earths. In Yearbook 1999 - Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Vol. 25, edited by Cesar Caviedes, pp. 7-14. University of Texas Press, Austin.

Holley, George R., William I. Woods, Rinita A. Dalan, and Harold W. Watters, Jr. 1997. Appendix 6: Current Research (1990-95). In The Cahokia Atlas: A Historical Atlas of Cahokia Archaeology (Revised Edition), by Melvin L. Fowler, pp. 231-235. Studies in Archaeology No. 2. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Urbana.

Woods, William I., and George R. Holley. 1997. Appendix 5: Current Research (1984-89). In The Cahokia Atlas: A Historical Atlas of Cahokia Archaeology (Revised Edition), by Melvin L. Fowler, pp. 225-230. Studies in Archaeology No. 2. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Urbana.

Woods, William I., Christy L. Wells, Harold W. Watters, Jr., and Donald W. Meyer. 1996. Cautions on the Use of Soil Data for Prehistoric Reconstructions: A Belizean Example. Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences, Vol. 19, edited by F. Andrew Schoolmaster and John A. Harrington, pp. 209-217. Applied Geography Conferences, Denton, Texas.

Woods, William l. 1995. Comments on the Black Earths of Amazonia. Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences, Vol. 18, edited by F. Andrew Schoolmaster, pp. 159-165. Applied Geography Conferences, Denton, Texas.

Emerson, Thomas E., and William I. Woods. 1993. Saving the Great Nobb: Preservation through Passive Management. In Highways to the Past: Essays in Illinois Archaeology in Honor of Charles J. Bareis, edited by Thomas E. Emerson, Dale McElrath, and Andrew J. Fortier, pp. 100-107. Illinois Archaeological Survey, Urbana.

Holley, George R., Rinita A. Dalan, and Philip A. Smith. 1993. Investigations in the Cahokia Site Grand Plaza. American Antiquity 58:306-318.

Lopinot, Neal H., and William I. Woods. 1993. Wood Overexploitation and the Collapse of Cahokia. In Foraging and Farming in the Eastern Woodlands, edited by C. Margaret Scarry, pp. 206-231. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

Woods, William I. 1993. A Study of Prehistoric Settlement-Subsistence Relationships in Southwestern Illinois. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pedo-Archaeology, edited by J. E. Foss, M. E. Timpson, and M. W. Morris, pp. 175-184. Special Publication 93-03. The University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, Knoxville.

Woods, William I., Editor. 1992. Late Prehistoric Agriculture: Observations from the Midwest. Studies in Illinois Archaeology No. 8. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield. 249 pp.

Dalan, Rinita A. 1991. Defining Archaeological Features with Electromagnetic Surveys at the Cahokia mounds State Historic Site. Geophysics 56:1280-1287.

Woods, William I., and George R. Holley. 1991. Upland Mississippian Settlement in the American Bottom Region. In Cahokia and the Hinterlands: Middle Mississippian Cultures of the Midwest, edited by Thomas E. Emerson and R. Barry Lewis, pp. 46-60. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

Emerson, Thomas E., and William I. Woods. 1990. The Slumping of the Great Knob: An Archaeological and Geotechnic Case Study of the Stability of a Great Earthen Mound. In 6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture: Adobe 90 Preprints, edited by Neville Agnew, Michael Taylor, and Alejandro Alva Balderramma, pp. 219-224. The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles.

Holley, George R., Neal H. Lopinot, Rinita A. Dalan, and William I. Woods. 1990. South Palisade Investigations. Illinois Cultural Resources Study No. 14. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield. 119 pp.

Woods, William I. 1990. Symposium: The Evidence for Late Prehistoric Agriculture in the Midwestern United States. In 46 Congreso International de Americanistas: Textos y Documentos, compiled by Jan Lechner, pp. 30-31. Centrum voor Studie en Documentatie van Latijns Amerika, Amsterdam.

Mello, Mario. 1990. Il Complesso di S. Vito alla Piana: Problemi, Ricerche, Prospettive. Universitá degli Studi diSalerno, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Dell’Antichitá. Arte Tipographica, Napoli.

Woods, William I., and George R. Holley. 1989. Appendix 3: Current Research at the Cahokia Site (1984-89). In The Cahokia Atlas: A Historical Atlas of Cahokia Archaeology, by Melvin L. Fowler, pp. 227-232. Studies in Illinois Archaeology No. 6. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield.

Woods, William l. 1988. Soils and Sediment Analyses. In Excavations at the Hansen Site (15-Gp-14) in Northeastern Kentucky, by Stephen R. Ahler, pp. 80-92. University of Kentucky Program for Cultural Resource Assessment, Lexington.

Woods, William l. 1988. Soil Chemical Investigations at Five Historic Sites in Illinois. Illinois Cultural Resources Study No. 4. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield. 52 pp.

Billeck, William T., Elizabeth Benchley, Robert Mierendorf, and William I. Woods. 1987. Final Report of Archaeological Site Evaluation Studies at Three Prehistoric Sites 11-Ca-31, 11-Ca-40, and 11-Ca-87 at Commonwealth Edison's Carroll County Station. Carroll County, Illinois. Report of Investigations No. 87. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Archaeological Research Laboratory. 183 pp.

Brown, Alan J., James M. Collins, Bonnie L. Gums, George R. Holley, Mikels Skele, Christy L. Wells, and William I. Woods. 1987. Recent Archaeological Investigations by Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (May 1985-May 1986). Illinois Archaeological Survey Newsletter 1 (1-2):2-7.

Woods, William I. 1987. Maize and the Late Prehistoric: A Characterization of Settlement Location Strategies. In Emergent Horticultural Economies of the Eastern Woodlands, edited by William F. Keegan, pp. 273-292. Occasional Paper No. 7. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Woods, William I. 1986. Appendix B. Analysis of Sediments. In Archaeological Excavations at the Fitzgibbons Site, Gallatin County, Illinois, by Cathy A. Robinson, pp. 191-196. Research Paper No. 53. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Moss, Madonna L. 1985. Phosphate Analysis of Archaeological Sites, Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska. Syesis 17:95-100.

Weymouth, John W., and William I. Woods. 1984. Combined Magnetic and Chemical Surveys of Forts Kaskaskia and de Chartres Number 1, Illinois. Historical Archaeology 18(2):20-37.

Woods, William I. 1984. Soil Chemical Investigations in Illinois Archaeology: Two Example Studies. In Archaeological Chemistry - III, Advances in Chemistry Series No. 205, edited by Joseph B. Lambert, pp. 67-77. American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C.

Lynch, B. Mark, and Richard W. Jefferies. 1982. A Comparative Analysis of the Nitrogen Content of Bone as a Means of Establishing a relative Temporal Ordination of Prehistoric Burials. Journal of Archaeological Science 9:381-390.

Woods, William I. 1982. Analysis of Soils from the Carrier Mills Archaeological District. In The Carrier Mills Archaeological Project: Human Adaptations in the Saline Valley, Illinois, Vol. 2, edited by Richard W. Jefferies and Brian M. Butler, pp. 1381-1407. Research Paper No. 33. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

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