Ongoing Archaeological Project Research Articles

Dialectics of Modernity

The development of guerrilla warfare in Spain (1936–1952) has, until very recently, received very limited academic attention, especially from an archaeological perspective. This paper presents some results from an ongoing archaeological project regarding the guerrilla movement in northwestern Iberia. We specifically discuss how the archaeological record may inform understanding of a more general process, that of the emergence of industrial and modern societies in peripheral territories. We argue that by addressing the material remains of guerrilla warfare we can delve into the dialectic between guerrilla groups and the local peasant communities and trace their mutual impacts. The paper concludes that guerrilla warfare was an active agent in the introduction of different aspects of industrial and modern economies.

Uncovering Huber Lifeways

Abstract This article reports on recent findings from the ongoing archaeological project at the single- component early seventeenth-century Huber phase site, Middle Grant Creek (11WI2739), located at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Will County, Illinois. Excavations and geophysical surveys conducted over the past four years are yielding valuable data that are expanding our understandings of this critical period just prior to European colonialism. Findings have revealed a wide range of protohistoric activities, including foodways, skilled craft production, and ceremonial activities as well as far-flung trade relationships that illustrate the endurance of Indigenous trade networks into at least the early seventeenth-century. This article introduces the latest findings from Middle Grant Creek and brings them into discussions of this key period in Midwestern archaeology.

Uncovering Huber Lifeways: An Overview of Findings from Four Years of Excavations at the Huber Phase Middle Grant Creek Site (11WI2739) in Northern Illinois

This article reports on recent findings from the ongoing archaeological project at the single- component early seventeenth-century Huber phase site, Middle Grant Creek (11WI2739), located at Midewi...

Scripta Manent: Notes on a Book

Monitoring public perceptions of an ongoing archaeological project, although often discussed, is still a marginal activity, overshadowed by excavation and laboratory routines. The problem remains even if the research team is strongly orientated towards the broadest possible dissemination of the archaeological information, as in the case of Dispilio, a Neolithic lakeside settlement in northern Greece. A visitors' book, kept since 1996, illustrates in a colourful way the visitors' impressions, offering at the same time a glimpse of the complex mechanisms that forge these impressions.Moreover, a close examination of the written comments makes it clear that there is much more to be 'read' underneath their obvious flattering remarks, and that they should be incorporated in a more systematic ethnographic study of the archaeological visit's performance.