St. Louis archeology

Archaeologists and crew members from the Illinois State Archaeological Survey work at an East St. Louis dig site.

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St. Louis archaeologists still split over last year's controversial antiquities sale

A year-old fracas in the St. Louis Society has left the city’s archaeology community fractured. “What we’ve seen over the past year is a fragmenting of…

Geologists from the University of Wisconsin extrude a 6-meter sediment core from the deepest point of Horseshoe Lake.

Health, Science & Environment

New insights into the curious disappearance of the Cahokia Mounds builders

The people who built and lived among the tall, sculpted mounds now preserved at Cahokia Mounds Historic Site have long presented a mystery to…

Arts

St. Louis Archaeological Society Board And Officers Resign

The board of the St. Louis Society of the Archaeological Institute of America has resigned following a dispute over plans to sell a collection of Egyptian…

A piece of tin enameled ceramic from the colonial period found in the archeological dig below site below the Poplar Street Bridge. It is likely a Spanish ceramic of polychrome majolica.

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First Evidence Of French Colonial Homes Discovered Under Poplar Street Bridge

Alex Heuer

Archeologists from the Missouri Department of Transportation are ecstatic over a discovery beneath the Poplar Street Bridge in St. Louis. They’ve…