Robert J. Jeske

Robert J. Jeske

Office: Sabin 275B
Phone: (414) 229-2424
e-mail: jeske@uwm.edu
Web Page: www.uwm.edu/Dept/ArchLab/
Degree: Ph.D., Northwestern University

Research Interests:
My research interests include the economics of stone tool production and use, the changes in social organization and technology during the late prehistoric periods in the American Midwest, survey methods and settlement models, and archaeological site formation processes. Recently, I have used core-periphery theory to explore questions of ethnicity and social organization in the late prehistoric periods of the Midwest. I have performed fieldwork and conducted research on sites in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New Mexico and Peru. I am also involved in public archaeology and historic preservation, and have worked with government, non-profit and private organizations to use archaeology to serve the public interest.

Selected Publications:
2006 "Hopewell Regional Interactions in Southeastern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois: A Core/Periphery Approach". In Recreating Hopewell, edited by Douglas K. Charles and Jane E. Buikstra, pp. 285-309. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

2003 "Langford and Fisher Ceramic Traditions: Moiety, Ethnicity or Power Relations in the Upper Midwest?" Essays in Honor of Robert H. Hall, edited by John D. Richards and Melvin Fowler, Wisconsin Archaeologist 83(1-2) 65-180.

2003 "Lithic Procurement and Use within Mississippian Social Networks" In Theory, Method, and Practice in Modern Archaeology, edited by Robert J. Jeske and Douglas K. Charles, pp. 223-237. Praeger Press, Westport.

2002 (Robert J Jeske, Daniel M. Winkler and Chrisie L. Hunter) "Paleoindian and Archaic Occupations of the Kelly North Tract at Carcajou Point in Southeast Wisconin." Wisconsin Archeologist 82(2):5-31.

2002 (John D. Richards and Robert J. Jeske) "Location, Location, Location: The Temporal and Cultural Contexts of Late Prehistoric Settlement in Southeast Wisconsin" Wisconsin Archeologist 82(2):32-54.

2002 "The Langford Occupation at the LaSalle County Home Site in the Upper Illinois River Valley" Wisconsin Archeologist 28(1): 78-122.

2001 (R. J. Jeske and L. A. Kuznar) "Canine Digging Behavior and Archaeological Implications" Journal of Field Archaeology 28(3/4):383-394.

2000 "The Washington Irving Site: Langford Tradition Adaptation in Northern Illinois", In Mounds, Modoc, and Mesoamerica: Essays in Honor of Melvin Fowler, edited by Steven R. Ahler, Scientific Papers 28, pp. 265-294. Illinois State Museum, Springfield.

1999 "World Systems Theory, Core Periphery Interactions and Elite Economic Exchange in Mississippian Societies." In, World-Systems Theory in Practice, edited by P. Nicholas Kardulias pp. 203-222. Rowman and Littlefield, New York.

1998 "The Davidson Site (12Pr260): A Huber/Berrien Upper Mississippian Habitation and Burial Site in Porter County, Indiana" Michigan Archaeologist 44 (3):121-150.

1994 "Residual Effects of Grave Desecrations: The GE Mound Case". Public Archaeology Review 2 (2): 8-13.

1993 (Stelle, L.J., C.L. Rohrbaugh, J.A. Brown, T.E. Emerson, and R. Jeske) "Deciphering the Grand Village of the Illinois: A Preliminary Assessment of the Grand Village Research Project" in Highway to the Past: Essays on Illinois Archaeology in Honor of Charles J. Bareis, edited by Emerson, T.E., D. McElrath, and A. Fortier. Illinois Archaeology 5(1-2):508-516.

1993 (R. Jeske and R. Lurie) The Archaeological Visibility of Bipolar Technology: An Example from the Koster Site. MidContinental Journal of Archaeology 18 (2):131-160.

1992 Energetic Efficiency and Lithic Technology: An Upper Mississippian Example. American Antiquity 57:467-481.

1992 Environment, Ethnicity, and Subsistence Change: The Late Woodland to Mississippian Transition in the Upper Midwest; Michigan Archaeologist 38 (1-2): 55-70.

1992 (R. Lurie and R. J. Jeske) Looking at the Past to See Our Way To The Future: The Beginnings of the U of the Lake Conference. Michigan Archaeologist 38 (1-2)1-18.

1991 "The Wabash-Erie Divide and Prehistoric Cultural Contact: The Northeast-Midwest Transition in Northern Indiana". Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Proceedings, 1990 25: 100-108. Bloomington.

1991 (John P. Hart and Robert J. Jeske) Models of Prehistoric Site Location for the Upper Illinois River Valley. Illinois Archaeology 3: 3-22.

1990 "Langford Tradition Subsistence, Settlement, and Technology" MidContinental Journal of Archaeology 15: 221-49.

1990 (Rochelle Lurie and Robert J. Jeske) Chipped Stone Schema and Documentation, in At the Edge of Prehistory: Huber Phase Archaeology in the Chicago Area, James A. Brown and Patricia J. O'Brien, eds, pp. 284-294. Center for American Archeology Press, Kampsville.

1990 "Environmental Variation and Prehistoric Site Settlement on the Prairie Peninsula: The View From Fermilab." Wisconsin Archaeologist 71 (3-4): 137-171.

1989 "Economies in Lithic Use among Prehistoric Hunter-gatherers", in Time, Energy and Stone Tools, Robin Torrence, editor, pg. 34-45. Cambridge University Press.

1989 "Horticultural Technology and Social Interaction at the Edge of the Prairie Peninsula" Illinois Archaeology, 1:103-20.

1988 (R.J. Jeske, R. Lurie and A.S, Hohol) "Lithic Analysis", in Putney Landing Archaeological Investigations at a Havana-Hopewell Settlement on the Mississippi River, West-Central Illinois, C.W. Markman, editor. Northern Illinois University Report of Investigations 15: 198-269, Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb.

Monographs:
1988 The Archaeology of the Chain O'Lakes Region in Northeastern Illinois, Cultural Resources Study 5, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield.

Edited Books
2003 Theory, Method, and Technique in Modern Archaeology (Robert J. Jeske and Douglas K. Charles). Preager Press, Westport.

Edited Journal Volumes
2003 Wisconsin Archeologist, Special Edition Current Issues in the Archaeology of the Western Great Lakes: Problems and Progress 82 (1-2).

1992 Michigan Archaeologist, Special Edition The U of the Lake Conferences 38 (1-2).

Book Reviews, Commentary:
2002: Problems and Progress in Western Great Lakes Prehistory. Current Issues in the Archaeology of the Western Great Lakes: Problems and Progress 82 (1-2):3-4.

2002 Professionalism in Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management. The SAA Archaeological Record 2 (1):27-29

2001 Power and Gender in Oneota Culture by Thomas E. Berres. Book review for Illinois Archaeology 13: 39-46.

2000 Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric Southwest by Christy G. Turner II and Jacqueline Turner. Book review for Nahua Newsletter 21-1:15-21.

1996 The Organization of North American Prehistoric Chipped Stone Tool Technologies. Book review for American Antiquity 61 (1):175-176.

1993 Comment on "Why Hunter-Gatherers Work: An Ancient Version of the Problem of Public Goods", by Kristen Hawkes. Current Anthropology 34 (4):354-355.

1993: Review of Warfare in Mesoamerica, by Ross Hassig. Book Review for Nahua Newsletter 15:7-15.

1991 The Hopewell Site: A Contemporary Analysis Based on the Work of Charles C. Willoughby. Book Note for American Antiquity 56 (2):380.