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Skousen, Jacob

Research Archaeologist

Address and Contact Information

23 E. Stadium Dr.
209 Nuclear Physics Lab
M/C 571
Urbana, IL  61801

Education

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Research Biography

Professional Affiliations

Midwest Archaeological Conference
Southeast Archaeological Conference
Society for American Archaeology
Illinois Archaeological Survey

Research Interests

North American Archaeology, Cahokia, Mississippian societies, pilgrimage and procession, religion, landscapes, ancient roadways, geophysical survey

Selected Publications

2020 Skilled Crafting at Cahokia's Fingerhut Tract. Southeastern Archaeology doi 10.1080/0734578X.2020.1782665.

2020 Archaeological Investigations on the Emerald Avenue, a Potential Mississippian Period Roadway in Southwestern Illinois. Journal of Field Archaeology 45:372-393. (by J. Skousen, T. Larson, E. Watts Malouchos, J. Kruchten, R. Barzilai, S. Alt, and T. Pauketat).

2019 Archaeological Investigations at the Samuel's Mounds Site, Piatt County, Illinois. Illinois Archaeology 31:30-64. (by J. Skousen, B. Adams, and T. Emerson)

2018 Rethinking Archaeologies of Pilgrimage. Journal of Social Archaeology 18:261-283.

2017 The Dugan Airfield Site: A Stirling Phase Civic Node in the Southern Illinois Uplands. Illinois Archaeology 29:191-209.

2015 Tracing the Relational: The Archaeology of Worlds, Spirits, and Temporalities, edited by M. Buchanan and J. Skousen. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

2015 Moonbeams, Water, and Smoke: Tracing Other-Worldly Relationships at the Emerald Site. In Tracing the Relational: The Archaeology of Worlds, Spirits, and Temporalities, edited by M. Buchanan and J. Skousen, pp. 40–55. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

2012 Posts, Places, Ancestors, and Worlds: Dividual Personhood in the American Bottom Region. Southeastern Archaeology 31(1):57–69.

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