The Archaeological Guide to Iowa.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Cultural Periods in Iowa Archaeology -- Visiting Sites -- 1. Gitchie Manitou - Indian Mounds or Rebuilt Mounds? (Woodland or Late Prehistoric) -- 2. Blood Run/Rock Island: A National Historic Landmark without Equal (Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric) -- 3. Kimball Village (Late Prehistoric) -- 4. The Cowan Site and the Origins of the Middle Missouri Tradition (Late Prehistoric) -- 5. Sergeant Floyd's Grave - America's First National Monument (Historic) -- 6. Double Ditch: Uncovering a 12th-Century Iowa Community with 21st-Century Technology (Late Prehistoric) -- 7. The Litka Ridged Field Site: One of a Kind in Iowa (Late Prehistoric) -- 8. Wittrock Indian Village: Quintessential Mill Creek (Late Prehistoric) -- 9. Ancient Bison Hunting at the Cherokee Sewer Site (Archaic) -- 10. Dixon: Bison! (Late Prehistoric) -- 11. Turin: Poodle Skirts and Life Magazine (Archaic) -- 12. The Earthlodge Beneath Your Feet: Davis-Oriole (Late Prehistoric) -- 13. Glenwood Archaeological State Preserve (Late Prehistoric) -- 14. Old Pacific City Cemetery (Kuhl Site): Equal Treatment in Death (Historic) -- 15. The Hitchcock House - A Stop on the Underground Railroad (Historic) -- 16. Five Island Lake: What Lies Beneath? (Paleoindian-Historic) -- 17. Fort Dodge Military Post - Not a Trace (Historic) -- 18. Mounds, Gravestones, and Murders: Vegors Cemetery (Woodland and Historic) -- 19. Boone Mound: Early Public Archaeology in Iowa (Woodland) -- 20. A Very Late Historical Bone Bed: The Iowa State Veterinary Carcass Pit (Historic) -- 21. West Des Moines Burial Site (Late Prehistoric) -- 22. Terrace Hill: Garden of the Governors (Historic) -- 23. Urban Archaeology in Downtown Des Moines (Archaic-Historic) -- 24. The Palace Site: Did People Live in Basin Houses 7,000 Years Ago? (Archaic).

25. Woodland Mounds Preserve: " Irreplaceable Vestiges of the Past" (Woodland) -- 26. Buxton: Faces of the Past (Historic) -- 27. Iowaville: Village of the Ioway (Protohistoric and Historic) -- 28. Bonaparte Pottery: Industrial Archaeology in Iowa (Historic) -- 29. The Not-So-Empty North (Archaic-Late Prehistoric) -- 30. Enigmatic Alignments at the Folkert Mound Group (Woodland) -- 31. Wanampito: A Possible Ioway Site from the 1600s (Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric) -- 32. Black Medicine Site, Hartman Reserve Nature Center: Conservation for the Sake of the Past (Woodland) -- 33. Was There a Walled Prehistoric Village along the Cedar Valley Nature Trail? (Late Prehistoric) -- 34. Wickiup Hill: Public Understanding and Preservation (Archaic-Historic) -- 35. Patterson Trading Post (Historic) -- 36. Easy Fishing on the Iowa River (Late Prehistoric or Historic) -- 37. Excavating the Excavations at Ginger Stairs (Archaic and Woodland) -- 38. Woodpecker Cave (Archaic-Historic) -- 39. Edgewater Park Site (Archaic) -- 40. Plum Grove - Where the Rich Left the Least (Historic) -- 41. Jack Musgrove, Dee Norton, and Hickory Hill Park (Woodland) -- 42. Jesse Hoover - Blacksmith and First Father (Historic) -- 43. Enclosures Along the Upper Iowa (Late Prehistoric) -- 44. Fish Farm Mounds (Woodland) -- 45. Nine Hundred Mounds Gone: The Great Harpers Ferry Mound Group Disappears (Woodland) -- 46. Paint Rock and the Lost Monolith (Protohistoric and Historic) -- 47. The Beauty of Effigy Mounds (Archaic-Late Prehistoric) -- 48. Pike's Peak - Mounds and the Unconstructed Fort (Woodland) -- 49. Sny Magill - A Glimpse of What May Have Been (Archaic and Woodland) -- 50. Dragoon Life at Fort Atkinson (Historic) -- 51. The Hewitt-Olmstead Trading Post (Historic) -- 52. The Elgin Brewery (Historic) -- 53. The Ruins of Motor Town (Historic).

54. Death and the Turkey River Mound Group (Archaic and Woodland) -- 55. Four Mounds Survive the Odds (Woodland) -- 56. Mines of Spain (Archaic-Historic) -- 57. Oneida Cheese Factory at Bowen's Prairie (Historic) -- 58. Hadfields Cave: Refuge inside the Cliffs (Woodland) -- 59. Jackson County Rockshelters: Mouse Hollow and Levsen (Archaic-Historic) -- 60. Hurstville Lime Kilns (Historic) -- 61. Antoine LeClaire House (Historic) -- 62. Weed Park Mounds: "Forever Undisturbed" (Woodland) -- 63. Ancient Village Life at McNeal Fan (Archaic and Woodland) -- 64. McKinney Site: Does "X" Mark the Site? (Late Prehistoric-Protohistoric) -- 65. Toolesboro Mounds National Historic Landmark (Woodland) -- 66. Mounds and More Mounds at Malchow (Woodland) -- 67. Is There an Adena or Hopewell Ring Enclosure at the Poisel Mounds? (Woodland) -- 68. Fort Madison - Under Siege Again (Historic) -- Index.

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