Papers from the Conference on French Colonial Archaeology in the Illinois Country, held April, 1988, in Springfield, Ill., and organized by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-287) and index.
The archaeology of La Salle's Fort St. Louis on Starved Rock and the problem of the Newell Fort / Robert L. Hall -- Fort de Chartres : archaeology in the Illinois Country / David Keene -- French colonial Fort Massac : architecture and ceramic patterning / John A. Walthall -- Ouiatenon on the Ouabache : archaeological investigations at a fur trading post on the Wabash River / Vergil E. Noble -- Documents and archaeology in French Illinois / Margaret Kimball-Brown -- The French colonial villages of Cahokia and Prairie du Pont, Illinois / Bonnie L. Gums ... [et al.] -- The Louvier site at Prairie du Rocher / Edward T. Safiran -- Ste. Genevieve, a French colonial village in the Illinois Country / F. Terry Norris -- The search for French Peoria / Thomas E. Emerson and Floyd Mansberger
Frontier colonization of the Saline Creek Valley / Michael K. Trimble ... [et al.] -- An archaeological perspective on animal exploitation patterns at French colonial sites in the Illinois Country / Terrance J. Martin -- The French in Michigan and beyond : an archaeological view from Fort Michilimackinac toward the West / Donald P. Heldman -- Variability in trade at eighteenth-century French outposts / Dean L. Anderson -- French presence in Minnesota : the view from site Mo20 near Little Falls / Douglas A. Birk