Baltus, Melissa R

Melissa R Baltus
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Positions

Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology , College of Arts and Letters

Contact Info

Melissa.Zych@utoledo.edu

selected publications

Article (Faculty180)
- 2023
  
  Site Investigations and Features at Joe Louis (11CK284). Illinois Archaeology. 33:77-97.
- 2023
  
  Summarizing Joe Louis:11CK284 in the Late Fisher Tradition. Illinois Archaeology. 33:201-212.
- 2023
  
  Ceramic Assemblage from Joe Louis. Illinois Archaeology. 33:124-149.
- 2023
  
  Introduction and Regional Context for Joe Louis Site (11CK284): A Late Fisher Tradition Village on the Little Calumet.. Illinois Archaeology. 33:58-76.
- 2023
  
  The Role of Plants and Animals in the Termination of Three Buildings at the Spring Lake Tract Neighborhood, Cahokia.. American Antiquity.
- 2019
  
  The Cahokian Crucible: Burning Ritual and the Emergence of Cahokian Power in the Mississippian Midwest. American Antiquity.
- 2018
  
  Creating and Abandoning ‘Homeland’: Cahokia as Place-of-Origin (title change from initial submission based on reviewer comments; original title: Defining Diaspora: A View from the Cahokia Homeland). Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.
- 2017
  
  Exploring New Cahokian Neighborhoods: Structure Density Estimates from the Spring Lake Tract Cahokia. American Antiquity. 82:742-760.
- 2017
  
  Matter, Places, and Persons in Cahokian Depositional Acts. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 24:974-997.
- 2012
  
  An Ancient Medicine Lodge in the Richland Complex. Illinois Archaeology . 24:159-183.
- 2012
  
  Elements of Ancient Power in the Cahokian World. Journal of Social Archaeology . 12:167-192.
- 2010
  
  The Bottlemy Site (11MH495): An Emerging and- Mature Late Woodland Occupation in Northeastern Illinois. Illinois Archaeology. 22:580-609.
Article (Web of Science)
- 2020
  
  Creating and Abandoning "Homeland": Cahokia as Place of Origin. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY. 27.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10816-019-09433-x
- 2020
  
  Diasporic Connections: Cahokia and the Greater Southeast. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY. 27.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10816-020-09447-w
- 2019
  
  The Cahokian Crucible: Burning Ritual and the Emergence of Cahokian Power in the Mississippian Midwest. AMERICAN ANTIQUITY. 84:438-470.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2019.34
- 2017
  
  EXPLORING NEW CAHOKIAN NEIGHBORHOODS: STRUCTURE DENSITY ESTIMATES FROM THE SPRING LAKE TRACT, CAHOKIA. AMERICAN ANTIQUITY. 82:742-760.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2017.33
- 2017
  
  Matter, Places, and Persons in Cahokian Depositional Acts. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY. 24:974-997.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10816-016-9304-0
- 2015
  
  Correlation does not equal causation: Questioning the Great Cahokia Flood. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 112:E3753-E3753.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1509104112
- 2012
  
  Elements of ancient power in the Cahokian world. Journal of Social Archaeology. 12:167-192.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/1469605311433369
Book (Faculty180)
- 2017
  
  Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas: Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms. Lexington Books.
Book Review (Web of Science)
- 2017
  
  Ritual and Archaic States. JOANNE M. A. MURPHY , editor. 2016. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. xv + 244 pp. 28 B&W illustrations, 11 maps, 2 tables. $89.95 (hardcover), IBSN 978-0-8130-6278-5.. Ed. 82.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2017.17
Chapter (Faculty180)
- 2021
  
  Agentive Ash and Dispersed Power in the Cahokia Mississippian World. Agent of Change: The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past.
- 2021
  
  Communities in Conflict. Reconsidering Mississippian Households and Communities,. University of Alabama Press.
- 2019
  
  Religious Partners: Material and Human Actors in the Creation of Early Cahokia. Shamans, Priests, Practice, Belief: Archaeological Examination of Religion and Ritual in the Eastern Woodlands. University of Alabama Press.
- 2018
  
  From Caches to Gatherings, the Relationality of Intentionally Deposited Objects in Mississippian Buildings. Archaeology and Ancient Religion in the American Midcontinent. University of Alabama Press. 81-116.
- 2017
  
  Vessels of Change: Everyday Relationality in the Rise and Fall of Cahokia. Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas. Lexington Books. 63-86.
- 2015
  
  Unraveling Entanglements: Reverberations of Cahokia’s Big Bang. Tracing the Relational: The Archaeology of Worlds, Spirits, and Temporalities. University of Utah Press. 350-399.
Conference Poster (Faculty180)
Correction (Web of Science)
- 2018
  
  Matter, Places and Persons in Cahokian Depositional Acts (vol 24, pg 974, 2017). JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY. 306-310.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10816-017-9327-1
Lecture or Panel Discussion (Faculty180)
- 2016
  
  Border Crossing in the Digital Age: Typology, technological style, and the need to see (thoughts from the 2014 Late Prehistoric Ceramics Workshop). Midwest Archaeological Conference.
Other Scholarly Work (Faculty180)
- 2015
  
  Correlation does not equal causation: Questioning the Great Cahokia Flood. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Presentation (Faculty180)
Proceedings (Faculty180)
- 2014
  
  Building Power: Earthen Monuments in the Construction of Elite Identities in Pre-Columbian North America
Review (Faculty180)
- 2017
  
  Review of "Ritual and Archaic States" edited by Joanne M.A. Murphy. 613-614.

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