December, 2008
CURRICULUM VITA Kenneth B. Farnsworth
Education:
B.A. (1969) with departmental honors: Northwestern University, Department of Anthropology, Evanston, IL
M.A. (1971) University of Michigan, Department of Anthropology, Ann Arbor.
Candidate in Philosophy (1973) University of Michigan, Department of Anthropology and Museum, Ann Arbor. Ph.D. qualifying paper (1972: 136 pp.): “Evaluation of Prehistoric Regional Settlement Systems for the Middle Woodland Period in Illinois.”
Employment:
1970-1972: Research Assistant, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
1972-1974: Editorial Assistant for American Antiquity, journal of the Society for American Archaeology. Dr. Edwin N. Wilmsen, Editor. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
1974-1998: Director, Contract Archeology Program, Center for American Archeology, Kampsville, IL
1998-2001: Senior Archeologist, Center for American Archeology, Kampsville, IL (part-time position).
1998: Senior Researcher, Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Department of Anthropology. (Jacksonville, IL, Research Lab: part-time position)
1999-2001: Senior Researcher, Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, University of Illinois at Urbana- 2
Champaign, Department of Anthropology. (Springfield, IL, Research Lab: part-time position)
2002-present: Senior Research Editor, Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Anthropology. (Springfield, IL, Research Lab: full-time position)
1986-present: Research Associate in Archaeology, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL (non-salary professional affiliation)
Primary Fieldwork Experience:
Student
1968: Northwestern University summer archaeological field school, Macoupin site excavations, Middle Woodland habitation site, lower Illinois Valley floodplain (S. Struever, director).
1968: Student excavator, Perrin’s Ledge Crematory site excavations, Late Woodland mortuary site, lower Illinois River valley (S. Struever, director).
Supervisory
1969: Conducted regional archaeological surveys on the Deerplain Terrace, lower Illinois Valley floodplain (S. Struever, Director).
1969: Conducted regional archaeological survey of the Macoupin Valley, IL (S. Struever, director).
1970: Conducted archaeological survey and archaeological history study of mound groups and habitation remains in the area of Naples, IL, lower Illinois River shoreline (S. Struever, director).
1970: Crew Chief, Northwestern University summer field school, Koster site excavations. Deeply stratified Archaic and Woodland habitation site, lower Illinois River valley (S. Struever, director).
Field Research
1971: Directed summer Northwestern University field school (NUAFS) excavation program at the Loy site, Middle Woodland blufftop 3
habitation site, Macoupin Valley, IL.
1974-1975: Directed two-summer NUAFS excavation program at the Crane site, Middle Woodland floodplain habitation site, Macoupin Valley, IL.
1974-1998: Directed and variously participated in over 500 Contract Archeology Program field projects at the Center for American Archeology, Kampsville, IL
Publications and Reports
Contract Completion Reports:
(Center for American Archeology, Reports of Investigation series)
Not listed:18 small-scale ROI completed between 1974-79, and five larger reports that are now published (KF 1985, 1987, 1996, 1999a and 1999b).
#17 (1975) An Archeological Survey of Portions of Three Adjacent Valleys in the Nutwood Watershed, Jersey County, Illinois: pp. 1-17. (Soil Conservation Service)
#20 (1975) An Archeological Survey of Flood Control Structures 4A, 5, and 12C and Associated Flood-Pool Zones in the McKee Creek Drainage, Brown and Adams Counties, Illinois: pp. 1-30. (Soil Conservation Service)
#25 (1976) An Archeological Survey of the Lower Illinois River Shoreline (Miles 1-80): pp. 1-95. (Army Corps of Engineers)
#27 (1976) An Archeological Survey of Flood Control Structures #6-7, 9-11, 12B, and 13-16 and Associated Flood-Pool Zones in the McKee Creek Drainage, Brown and Adams Counties, Illinois: pp. 1-57. (Soil Conservation Service)
#40 (1977) A Cultural Resource Survey of the Eldred and Spankey Levee and Drainage District Project Area, Greene County, Illinois: pp. 1-140. (Army Corps of Engineers)
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#41 (1977) (with A. Koski) An Archeological Survey and Test Excavation Study of the Plano and East Frankfort Transmission Line Corridors, LaSalle, Grundy, Kendall and Will County, Illinois: pp. 1-163. (Commonwealth Edison Co.)
#45 (1978) (with D. Asch, C. Udesen, and A. Koski) Development of Preliminary Predictive Models of Regional Prehistoric Settlement in the Lower Illinois and Adjacent Mississippi River Drainages, Illinois: pp. 1-115. (IL Department of Conservation)
#46 (1978) (with P. Neusius) The Archeology of Pere Marquette State Park: 1878- 1978: pp. 1-126. (IL Department of Conservation)
#117 (1981) (with J. Batura) Archeological Survey at Beaver Dam State Park, Macoupin County, Illinois: pp. 1-103. (IL Department of Conservation)
#130 (1983) (with J. Walthall) In the Path of Progress. Development of Illinois Highway Archeology, and the FAP 408 Project: pp. 1-44. (IL Department of Transportation)
#222 (1995) (with K. Atwell and R. Perkins) Sulphur Spring Excavations, Perry Springs, Pike County, Illinois: pp. 1-17. (J. L. Wade Museum, Griggsville, IL)
(Recent Unpublished Contract Archaeology Research Reports)
(1998) (with K. Atwell) Documentation for a Human Burial Recovered by 1985 C.A.A. Excavations at Pere Marquette State Park Lodge, Jersey County, Illinois: pp. 1-26. (IL Department of Natural Resources; IL Historic Preservation Agency)
(1999) Evaluation of an 1825-1850 Pioneer Homestead Occupation at the Levis Site: 1998 Excavation Update: pp. 1-31. (Illinois Valley Cultural Heritage Society; IL Historic Preservation Agency)
(2001) Documentation of Human Burials and Mortuary Remains Recovered from Test Excavations at Naples- 5
Russell Mound #8, Ray Norbut Conservation Area, Pike County Illinois: pp.1-127. (IL Department of Transportation; IL Department of Natural Resources; IL Historic Preservation Agency)
(2003) Stuart Struever’s 1958 Excavations at the Heineken Site, Putnam County, Illinois: pp. 1-38. (IL Transportation Archaeological Research Program, University of Illinois, Urbana)
Scientific Publications:
1973 An Archaeological Survey of the Macoupin Valley. Illinois State Museum, Reports of Investigations 26. Springfield.
1977 (with S. Struever) Chapter 6. Preserving Archaeological Resources. In Preservation Illinois: A Guide to State and Local Resources (edited by R. E. Knack), pp. 34-42. Illinois Department of Conservation, Division of Historic Sites, Springfield.
1978 Unit III (pp. 26-30), and Unit IV. In Predictive Models in Archaeological Resource Management (assembled by M. K. Brown), pp. 54-58. Illinois Archaeological Survey Circular No. 3. University of Illinois, Department of Anthropology, Urbana.
1979 (with D. Asch and N. Asch) Woodland Subsistence and Settlement in West-Central Illinois. In Hopewell Archaeology (edited by D. S. Brose and N. Greber), pp. 80-85. Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio.
1981a (with D. Cook) Clay Funerary Masks in Illinois Hopewell. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 6(1): 3-15.
1981b (with D. Asch, C. Udesen, and A. Koski) Upper Mississippi River and Lower Illinois River Units. In Predictive Models in Illinois Archaeology (edited by M. K. Brown), pp. 55-72. Illinois Department of Conservation, Division of Historic Sites, Springfield.
1983 (with J. Walthall) In the Path of Progress: Development of Illinois Highway Archaeology, and the FAP 408 Project. American Archaeology 6
3(3): 169-181.
1984 (with N. Conard, D. Asch, N. Asch, D. Elmore, H. Gove, M. Rubin, J. Brown, M. Wiant, and T. Cook) Accelerator Radiocarbon Dating of the Evidence of Evidence for Prehistoric Horticulture in Illinois. Nature 308(#5958): 443- 446.
1985 (with A. Koski) Massie and Archie: A Study of Two Hopewellian Homesteads in the Western Illinois Uplands. Center for American Archeology, Kampsville Archeological Center, Research Series 3. Kampsville, IL.
1986a (with D. Asch) Early Woodland Chronology, Artifact Styles, and Settlement Distribution in the Lower Illinois Valley Drainage. In Early Woodland Archeology (edited by K. B. Farnsworth and T. E. Emerson), pp. 326-457. Kampsville Seminars in Archeology, Vol. 2. Center for American Archeology, Kampsville, IL.
1986b Black Sand Culture Origins and Distribution. In Early Woodland Archeology (edited by K. B. Farnsworth and T. E. Emerson), pp. 634-641. Kampsville Seminars in Archeology, Vol. 2. Center for American Archeology, Kampsville, IL.
1987 Preliminary Evaluation of Bannerstones and Other Ground- Stone Artifacts in the Wear Collection from the Bullseye Site, 11-Ge-127. In The Bullseye Site: A Floodplain Archaic Mortuary Site in the Lower Illinois River Valley (by H. Hassen and K. B. Farnsworth), pp. 13-54. Illinois State Museum, Reports of Investigations 42. Springfield.
1989a Rediscovery of a Lost Woodland Site in the Lower Illinois Valley. Illinois Archaeology 1(1): 82-99.
1989b (with T. Emerson) The Macoupin Creek Figure Pipe and its Archaeological Context: Evidence for Late Woodland/Mississippian Interaction Beyond the Northern Border of Cahokian Settlement. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 14(1): 18-37.
1990a The Evidence for Specialized Middle Woodland Camps in Western Illinois. Illinois Archaeology 2: 109-132.
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1990b (with T. Emerson and R. Glenn) Patterns of Late Woodland/Mississippian Interaction in the Lower Illinois Valley Drainage. In Cahokia and the Hinterlands (edited by T. E. Emerson and R. B. Lewis), pp. 83-118. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
1993 New Information on Titterington Salvage Excavations at the Hartford Church Archaic Cemetery. In Highways to the Past: Essays on Illinois Archaeology in Honor of Charles J. Bareis (edited by T. E. Emerson, A. C. Fortier, and D. L. McElrath). Illinois Archaeology 5: 141-147.
1995 (with J. O’Gorman) Trade and Transition: European Trade Goods and Late Historic Mortuary Sites in Illinois. Illinois Archaeology 7: 109-147.
1996 A Short History of the Gravel Springs Distillery and Bottling Works. Kampsville Studies in Archeology and History, No. 2. Center for American Archeology, Kampsville, IL.
1997 (with J. Walthall and T. Emerson) Constructing (on) the Past, in Celebrating National Accomplishments. Common Ground 2(1): 26-33.
1998a (with R. Hughes, T. Berres, and D. Moore) Revision of Hopewellian Trading Patterns in Midwestern North America Based on Mineralogical Sourcing. Geoarchaeology 13(7): 709-729.
1998b (with J. O’Gorman) Oneota in the Lower Illinois River Valley. The Wisconsin Archeologist 79(2): 62-92.
1999a (with K. Atwell) Crimson Circle Mounds: Late Woodland Ritual and Settlement Patterns at the Confluence of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. Illinois Archaeology 11: 80-148.
1999b (with D. Goatley and K. Atwell) The O’Donnell Site Late Woodland Occupation at the Confluence of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. Illinois Archaeology 11: 50-79.
2000a (with T. Berres, R. Hughes, and D. Moore) Illinois Platform Pipes and Hopewellian Exchange: A Mineralogical Study of Archaeological Remains. In Studies 8
In Illinois Archaeology in Honor of Howard D. Winters (edited by A.-M. Cantwell and L. A. Conrad). Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers 29, Springfield. [In press]
2000b Recognizing Our Own: Historic Summary and Overview of IAS Honors and Awards 1958-1999. Illinois Archaeology 12: 315- 323.
2000c The Woodland Period. Illinois Antiquity 35 (3): 8-9.
2001 The Woodland Period. In Discover Illinois Archaeology (edited by A. Berkson and M. D. Wiant), pp. 8-9. Illinois Association for the Advancement of Archaeology and Illinois Archaeological Survey. [Reprint of 2000c citation]
2003 (with B. Koldehoff) Kingfisher-Effigy Bone Hairpins: Clues to Late Woodland Iconography and Social Complexity in West-Central Illinois. Illinois Archaeology 15 &16 (2003—2004):30-51.
2004a (with T. E. Berres, R. E. Hughes, and D. M. Moore) Illinois Platform Pipes and Hopewellian Exchange: A Mineralogical Study of Archaeological Remains. In: Aboriginal Ritual and Economy in the Eastern Woodlands. Essays in Memory of Howard D. Winters (edited by A.-M. Cantwell, L. A. Conrad, and J. E. Reyman), pp. 182-214. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers 30, Springfield.
2004b (with R. E. Warren) Preface. People, Plants, and Animals: Archaeological Studies of Human—Environment Interactions in the Midcontinent. Essays in Honor of Leonard W. Blake. Illinois Archaeology 15 & 16:iii-vi.
2004c Hopewellian Studies in the Lower Illinois Valley: 1878--1928. In Early Hopewell Mound Explorations: The First Fifty Years in the Illinois River Valley (assembled and edited by K. B. Farnsworth), pp. 4-98. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Studies in Archaeology 3. University of lllinois, Champaign-Urbana.
2005 (with T. E. Emerson, R. E. Hughes, S. U. Wisseman, and M. Hynes) Tremper Mound, Hopewell Catlinite, and PIMA Technology. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 30(2):189-216.
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2006 Historical Overview of Gregory Perino’s Excavations at Archaic and Woodland Sites in West-Central Illinois. In Illinois Hopewell and Late Woodland Mounds. The Excavations of Gregory Perino 1950-1975 (edited by K. B. Farnsworth and M. D. Wiant), pp. 1-98. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Studies in Archaeology 4. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
2008 1937 CCC Archaeology at Pere Marquette State Park, Jersey County, Illinois. Illinois Antiquity 43 (3):23-28.
2009a (with M. D. Wiant and E. R. Hajic) The Archaic Period in the Lower Illinois River Basin. In: Archaic Societies: Diversity and Complexity Across the Midcontinent (edited by T. E. Emerson, D. L. McElrath, and A. C. Fortier), pp. 229-285. State University of New York Press, Albany.
2009b Archival Salvage Archaeology: Stuart Struever’s 1958-59 Excavations at the Heineken Site in Putnam County. Illinois Archaeology 21 [in production].
Editorial Experience:
Editorial Assistant:
1972-74 Editorial Assistant for American Antiquity, journal of the Society for American Archaeology (Dr. Edwin N. Wilmsen, editor. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Primary task for 1972: production assistant for American American Antiquity Index: 1935-1965. Issued as Volume 37, No. 3, Pt. 2 of American Antiquity (July, 1972).
Series Editor:
1985-97 Series Editor (with J. Walthall) for 15 volumes of Transportation Archeology monographs in two Center for American Archeology scientific-publication series prepared at the Kampsville, IL, Archeological Center: CAA Technical Reports (5 volumes), and CAA Research Series (10 Volumes.* 10
*Research Series:
Vol. 1 (1985): The Hill Creek Homestead and the Late Mississippian Settlement in the Lower Illinois Valley (M. D. Conner).
Vol. 2 (1985) Smiling Dan: Structure and Function at a Middle Woodland Settlement in the Illinois Valley (B. D. Stafford and M. B. Sant).
Vol. 3 (1985) Massey and Archie: A Study of Two Hopewellian Homesteads in the Western Illinois Uplands (K. B. Farnsworth and A. L. Koski).
Vol. 4 (1985) Campbell Hollow Archaic Occupations: A Study of Intrasite Spatial Structure in the Lower Illinois Valley (C. R. Stafford).
Vol. 5 (1985) Holocene and Late Pleistocene Geology of the Napoleon Hollow Site in the Lower Illinois Valley (T. R. Styles).
Vol. 6 (1986) Woodland Period Occupations of the Napoleon Hollow Site in the Lower Illinois Valley (M. D. Wiant and C. R. McGimsey).
Vol. 7 (1988) The Archaic and Woodland Cemeteries at the Elizabeth Site in the Lower Illinois Valley D. K. Charles, S. R. Leigh and J. E. Buikstra).
Vol. 9 (1991) The Kuhlman Mound Group and Late Woodland Mortuary Behavior in the Mississippi River Valley of West-Central Illinois (K. A. Atwell and M. D. Conner).
Vol. 10 (1992) Early Woodland Occupations at the Ambrose Flick Site in the Sny Bottom of West-Central Illinois (C. R. Stafford).
Vol. 11 (1997) Early Woodland Occupations at the Bushmeyer and Nearby Sites in the Sny Bottom of West-Central Illinois (B. D. Stafford).
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*Technical Reports:
Vol. 1 (1985) Deer Track: A Late Woodland Village in the Mississippi Valley (C. R. McGimsey and M. D. Conner).
Vol. 2 (1986) Cypress Land: A Late Archaic/Early Woodland Site in the Lower Illinois River Floodplain (M. D. Conner).
Vol. 3 (1986) Early Late Woodland Occupations in the Fall Creek Locality of the Mississippi Valley (D. T. Morgan and C. R. Stafford).
Vol. 4 (1989) Central Illinois Expressway Archeology: Floodplain Archaic Occupations of the Illinois Valley Crossing (B. D. Stafford).
Vol. 5 (1994) Central Illinois Expressway Archeology: Upland Occupations of the Illinois Valley Crossing (B. D. Stafford).
Recent Edited Studies:
2007a The Sangamo Frontier: History and Archaeology in the Shadow of Lincoln, by Robert Mazrim. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
2007b The Range Site 4: Emergent Mississippian George Reeves and Lindeman Phase Occupations, by John E. Kelly, Steven J. Ozuk, and Joyce A. Williams. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Transportation Archaeological Research Reports 18. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
2009 Excavations on the Third Terrace and Front Ramp of Monks Mound, Cahokia: A Personal Narrative, by Nelson A. Reed. Prepared for publication in Illinois Archaeology 21. [in production]
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Assembled and Edited Volumes:
1986 (with T. E. Emerson) Early Woodland Archeology. Kampsville Seminars in Archeology, Vol. 2. Center for American Archeology, Kampsville, IL.
2002 “Now Quite Out of Society.” Archaeology and Frontier Illinois, by Robert Mazrim. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Bulletin 1. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
2004 Early Hopewell Mound Explorations: The First Fifty Years in the Illinois River Valley. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Studies in Archaeology 3. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
2006 (with M.D. Wiant) Illinois Hopewell and Late Woodland Mounds. The Excavations of Gregory Perino 1950-1975. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Studies in Archaeology 4. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
2008 More from the Illinois Frontier: Archaeological Studies of Nine Early-Nineteenth-Century Sites in Rural Illinois, by Robert Mazrim. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Bulletin 2. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. 13
Research Focus
Woodland-period subsistence and settlement distribution; regional artifact-style and boundary-identification studies; and prehistoric trade interaction. Pioneer to Civil War period historical-site documentation and interpretation: emphasis on early industrial, commercial, manufacturing, and military sites.
Memberships
Society for American Archaeology: 1968-present.
Society of Professional Archaeologists: 1977-present. (Board of Directors: 1981-1984) (Standards Board: 1987-1988)
Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council: 1980-1983.
Illinois Archaeological Survey: 1971-present. (Board of Directors: 1983-1990) (President Elect: 1991-1992) (President: 1993-94; 1995-96)
Illinois Association for the Advancement of Archaeology: 1973-present.