Office The Year in Review OSA mission statement, academic activities, staff achievements, annual work plan accomplishments, and plans of the State and prospects for FY 2017. By the Numbers Archaeologist An overview of FY 2016 through numbers and charts. Fiscal Year 2016 Student Success Twenty-three undergraduate and five graduate students were involved in various OSA archaeological and related research Annual Report and repository activities over the course of the fiscal year. Research The OSA conducts a wide range of research activities to discover the archaeological and architectural history of Iowa and surrounding midcontinent over the last 13,000 years. Bioarchaeology In FY 2016 the OSA Bioarchaeology Program’s efforts have focused on fulfilling its responsibilities towards the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act as well as engaging in public education and outreach events. Education & Outreach The OSA provides resources and opportunities that encourage the understanding, appreciation, and stewardship of Iowa’s archaeological past. OSA Mission The Year in The position of State Archaeologist was established in 1959. Read the entire mission statement. Read more about: Review Advisory Committee Indian Advisory Council Academic Activities OSA staff instructed two UI classes during FY 2016 and led a class project for the UI Mobile Museum. Staff Achievements One book chapter publication, a Mary Jo Small Fellowship Award, and an OSA Report publication were among OSA staff efforts. FY 2016 Annual Work Plan Accomplishments In FY 2016 the OSA continued energetically pursuing research, education and outreach, and service activities throughout Iowa, the surrounding region, and internationally. FY 2017 Plans and Prospects For FY 2017 the OSA has established 20 specific objectives. Nuts and Bolts for FY 2016 Organization chart; financial details; strategic plan 2010– 2016; and listings of OSA’s public presentations, papers presented at professional meetings, publications, service, and technical reports. John F. Doershuk, State Archaeologist and Director of the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist Return to Table of Contents Academic Activities Lara Noldner John F. Doershuk Elizabeth Reetz OSA Bioarchaeology Director State Archaeologist OSA Education & Outreach Director Instructor Instructor Project Coordinator First-Year Seminar: A Tour of Biological Field Archaeology Society and Educational Applications of Anthropology Chemical Concepts (Leslie Flynn, Instructor) Iowa Lakeside Laboratory Students explore the diverse field of biological UI class project with Flynn’s College of Education anthropology and learn about many of the ways The 2016 Lakeside Laboratory archaeological field students who worked with industry partners to that knowledge of human biology can inform us school continued on-going research efforts in the develop an exhibit-based curricula for the Mobile about how people have evolved, migrated, and Iowa Great Lakes region including excavations at a Museum’s exhibit Hawkeye Power: Clean Energy for adapted to the many regions of the world we now Woodland-era site (13DK96) within the Kettleson- Iowans. inhabit. Hogsback Wildlife Management Area adjacent to Spirit Lake. Spring 2016 Fall 2015 Summer 2016 5 students 18 students 8 students Brown Bags Brown Bag at the OSA is a regular series through which OSA staff and guests share their research over the lunch hour. Topics include individuals’ areas of interest, work in the field, and recent developments in archaeology and architectural history throughout Iowa and the Midwest. Presentations are free and open to the public and are held in OSA’s main laboratory. Attendees are encouraged to engage in discussion and exchange following the presentation. Date of In Presenter Association Title Presentation Attendance 10/2/2015 Bill Whittaker UI The Archaeology of Iowa City. 40 Ceramics in the Red Wing Locality: Analysis 10/9/2015 Kyle Harvey UI 33 of the Silvernale Site (21GD03) Assemblage The Chumash Rock Art of South-Central Iowa Floodplain Mapping Proj- California: An Introduction and Discussion 11/13/2015 Michelle Wienhold ect, Iowa Flood Center, and UI 26 of the Archaeological and Environmental Hydroscience and Engineering Click to enlarge and Return to The Year in Review Context James R. McGrath, Lasers, X-rays, Fire, Rocks and Mud: An 1/29/2016 Luke Stroth, and UI Update on Archaeological Analyses from 42 James G. Enloe the Woodpecker Cave Field School view list of Brown Beneath the City Beautiful: The Archaeology 2/12/2016 Bill Whittaker UI 22 Return to Table of Contents of Des Moines Washington County Sheriff's Brett Sorrells, Department, Samaritan De- Using Detection Dogs for the Identification Bag presentations 3/25/2016 Jim Peters, and 38 tection Dogs and Washington of Human Burial Sites Mike Zahs County Community Schools Staff Achievements Book Chapter Contribution Awards OSA Report Publication Central Plains Tradition Smoking Pipes in Mary Jo Small Staff Fellowship Award Oneota Historical Connections: Working the Glenwood Locality of Iowa: Within a Together in Iowa Landscape of the Rising and Falling Sky Elizabeth Reetz receieved this award to attend the 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American This volume is the outcome of a conference John Hedden contributed a chapter to Archaeology (SAA) Conference in Orlando, Florida, held in 1997 at UI focusing on Oneota historical Perspectives on the Archaeology of Pipes, where Elizabeth co-presented a poster with connections and the archaeological history of Tobacco and other Smoke Plants in the Ancient Ho-Chunk Tribal Historic Preservation Officer the Chiwere-speaking Iowa and Otoe peoples. Americas focusing on Central Plains tradition use Bill Quackenbush in a session sponsored by the The conference attracted over 70 participants of pipes. The publication summarizes the common Indigenous Populations Interest Group titled: from seven states and the District of Columbia types of smoking pipes recovered from the Creating Collaborative Learning Opportunities including members of the Chiwere-speaking Glenwood locality and looks at the small sample for Indigenous Youth with Archaeology-based tribes, ethnohistorians, linguists, osteologists, of effigy pipe styles and those displaying specific Environmental Education. Elizabeth also attended and archaeologists. Click here to read more or iconographic decorations. An assessment of annual business meetings for Project Archaeology purchase a PDF of the publication. a possible prehistoric and the SAA’s Public Archaeology and Indigenous ritual landscape for the Populations interest groups, as well as chaired Glenwood locality is meetings for the Public Education Committee and attempted based on the their network of state coordinators. presence of pipe styles Creating Collaborative Learning Opportunities for Indigenous Youth with Archaeology-based Environmental Education Elizabeth Reetz, University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist and William Quackenbush, Ho-Chunk Nation Department of Heritage Preservation, Cultural Resources Division Archaeologists are in a unique position to promote heritage and preservation through environmental education, the fundamentals of which have overlapping and parallel themes in archaeology education and outreach. Recently, successful community-based collaborative research and archaeology fieldwork initiatives between archaeologists and Native American/First Nations communities have prompted tribal leaders to pursue ways for youth in their communities to engage in contemporary cultural and natural resources work, thus inspiring future stewardship and introducing youth to professional pathways. With the guidance of archaeologists and tribal community educators, youth can participate in authentic, hands-on archaeological activities that place them into the roles of scientists and researchers and allow them to interpret their own archaeological heritage.A July 2015 partnership between archaeologists and the Ho-Chunk Nation in Wisconsin provided a place-based archaeological as well as decorative learning experience at a site area that was personally relevant to the student participants.A solid and collaborative planning process between archaeologists and tribal staff contributed to a successful workshop where all parties met their goals of strengthening partnerships and providing an enriching experience for the students. The integration of science-based archaeology with a traditional cultural learning environment provided a comfortable setting that resulted in noticeable engagement and enthusiasm. motifs associated with Click here to Project Background The HCN Workshop Theoretical & Conclusions & Next Steps We present a recent partnership between archaeologists and the Ho-Chunk Nation (HCN) “By sharing my passion for Wisconsin’s archaeology and Methodological Frameworks ENVIRONMENTAL NATIVE AMERICAN EDUCATION LEARNING STYLES geology in a fun way, I ultimately hope to kindle a love for of Wisconsin where an informal assessment revealed that successful communication and Environmental Education: archaeology, ecology, land stewardship and related subjects Foundational Objectives of EE ARCHAEOLOGY CULTURAL COLLECTIVE collaboration resulted in an enriching summer workshop for HCN youth. An examination of this • Teaches children and adults how to learn EDUCATION WELL-BEING LANDSCAPES in these children, providing them a lifetime of opportunities to AWARENESS – to acquire an awareness and RESEARCH about and investigate