Curriculum Vitae

Robert L. Hall

Education

University of Wisconsin, Department of Anthropology: B.A. with highest honors,1950; M.A.,1951; Ph.D.,1960; Thayer Scholar, Harvard University, 1951-1952.

Research Interests

Ethnohistory, ethnology, and archaeology, Plains and Midwestern United States.
Belief, ritual, and symbolism, North America and Mesoamerica.
Ceramic chronology, radiocarbon dating.
Mesoamerican calendar systems.
History of Indian-white contacts.

Thesis and Dissertation Titles:

A Style Analysis of Wisconsin Woodland pottery. Honors thesis, B.A. (Anthropology), the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1950.

The Late Prehistoric Occupation of Northeastern Oklahoma as Seen from the Smith Site, Delaware County. M.A. thesis (Anthropology), the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1951.

The Carcajou Site (Je2) and Oneota Development in Wisconsin. Ph.D. dissertation (Anthropology), the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1960.

Professional Positions

Field Museum, Chicago, adjunct curator of Plains and Midwestern archaeology and ethnology, 1995–1998; adjunct curator emeritus of Plains and Midwestern archaeology and ethnology, 1998 to present.
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Anthropology—associate professor, 1968-1974; professor 1974 to 1998; acting head, fall 1970; chairman, 1971-1977, 1982-1985; professor emeritus, 1998 to present.
Marquette University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work—associate professor, 1967-1968.
Illinois State Museum, Springfield–principal investigator, Starved Rock Archaeological Project, 1961-1962; curator of anthropology, 1962-1967.
University of South Dakota, Vermillion—director, Institute of Indian Studies 1959-1961; assistant professor of anthropology 1960-1961.
Lincoln-Tallman Museum, curator; Rock County Historical Society, director; Janesville, Wisconsin, 1955-1959.
State Historical Museum, Madison, Wisconsin—student volunteer, 1946-1947; student worker 1947-1949, curator I (anthropology), 1949-1951, 1952-1953.

Selected Professional Offices and Honors

Illinois Archaeological Survey—vice president, 1963-1964, 1966-1967; president, 1964-1965, 1967-1968; board member, 1971-1974.
Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1990-1991.
Illinois Archaeology Career Achievement Award from the Illinois Archaeological Survey, 1997.
Increase Lapham Medal for research in anthropology from the Wisconsin Archeological Society, 1953.
Honorary Lifetime Member, Iowa Archeological Society, 1999.
Robert L. Stigler, Jr., Lectureship in Archaeology, University of Arkansas, 2002.
Honorary societies: Phi Beta Kappa (liberal arts), chapter president; Sigma Delta Pi (hispanic), chapter president; Phi Kappa Phi (senior); Alpha Kappa Delta (sociology).
Assistant editor, American Antiquity, 1964-1968; associate editor, American Anthropologist, 1971-1972; consulting editor, Archaeoastronomy, 1984 to date.

Selected Publications

1944. The wax and fiber process of pottery restoration at the Neville Public Museum. The Wisconsin Archeologist 25(1):16-19.
1944. (Robert L. Hall, Robert C. Linck, and Warren L. Wittry). Discovery of an Indian rock shelter in Brown County. The Wisconsin Archeologist 25(3):90-94.
1950. A style analysis of Wisconsin Woodland pottery. The Wisconsin Archeologist 31(1):1-42.
1961. An archaeological investigation in the Gavin's Point area, Yankton County, South Dakota. Museum News 22 (7):1–3. W. H. Over Museum, State University of South Dakota, Vermillion.
1962. Book: The Archeology of Carcajou Point. 2 vols. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
1964. Book: Joseph R. Caldwell and Robert L. Hall eds. Hopewellian Studies. Scientific Papers 12 (whole volume). Springfield: Illinois State Museum.
1967. The Mississippi Heartland and its Plains relationships. Plains Anthropologist 12(36):175-183.
1967. Those late corn dates: isotopic fractionation as a source of error in carbon-14 dates. The Michigan Archaeologist 13(4):171-180.
1968. The Goddard-Ramey Cahokia flight: a pioneering aerial photographic survey. The Wisconsin Archeologist 49:75-79.
1968. Archaeology by lamplight: an exploration of Salts Cave, Kentucky. Central States Archaeological Journal 15(1):7-9. Reprinted from The Living Museum 28 (11):84–85.
1969. (Robert L. Hall, Larry L. Bowles, and Emily Blasingham). The Search for Lorton's Trading Post: A Report of Archaeological Excavations During 1966 in Oakley Reservoir, Macon and Piatt Counties, Illinois. Preliminary Reports 10. Illinois State Museum, Springfield. Contract report.
1970. (Robert L. Hall and Ernest Harburg). Analisis de unos tiestos de una cueva del Estado Portuguesa, Venezuela. Boletín de la Sociedad Venezolana de Espeleología 3(1):63-71. Caracas.
1972. (Melvin L. Fowler and Robert L. Hall). Archaeological phases at Cahokia. Research Series, Papers in Anthropology, No. 1. Springfield: Illinois State Museum.
1975. Chronology and phases at Cahokia. In "Perspectives in Cahokia Archaeology," Bulletin 10:15-31. Urbana: Illinois Archaeological Survey.
1975. (Melvin L. Fowler and Robert L. Hall). Archaeological phases at Cahokia. In "Perspectives in Cahokia Archaeology," Bulletin 10:1-14. Urbana: Illinois Archaeological Survey.
1976. Ghosts, water barriers, corn, and sacred enclosures in the Eastern Woodlands. American Antiquity 41(3):359-364.
1977. An Anthropocentric perspective for Eastern United States prehistory. American Antiquity 42(4): 499-518.
1978. (Melvin L. Fowler and Robert L. Hall). Late prehistory of the Illinois area. Handbook of North American Indians 15:560-568. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.
1979. In search of the ideology of the Adena-Hopewell climax. Hopewell Archaeology: The Chillicothe Conference, 258-265, eds. David S. Brose and N'omi Greber. Kent State University Press.
1980. An interpretation of the two-climax model of Illinois prehistory. Early Native Americans: Prehistoric Demography, Economy, and Technology, 401-462, ed. David Broman. The Hague: Mouton.
1983. The evolution of the calumet-pipe. "Prairie Archaeology: Papers in Honor of David A. Baerreis," 37-52, ed. Guy E. Gibbon. University of Minnesota Special Publications in Anthropology, No. 3. Minneapolis.
1983. A pan-continental perspective on Red Ocher and Glacial Kame ceremonialism. "Lulu Linear Punctated: Essays in Honor of George Irving Quimby," 74-107, eds. Robert C. Dunnell and Donald K. Grayson. Anthropological Papers, No. 72. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology.
1983. Some thought on afterlife and afterworld. Pp. 14-18 and54-58 in The Study of Ancient Human Skeletal Remains in Iowa: A Symposium. Special publication of the Office of the
1985. Medicine wheels, sun circles, and the magic of world center shrines. Plains Anthropologist 30(109):181-193.
1989. The Cultural Background of of Mississippian Symbolism. Chapter in The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Artifacts and Analysis; The Cottonlandia Conference, 239-278, ed. Patricia Galloway. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
1991. The Archaeology of La Salle's Fort St. Louis and the Problem of the Newell Fort. French Colonial Archaeology: The Illinois Country and the Western Great Lakes, 14–28, ed.
1991. Cahokia Identity and Interaction Models of Cahokia Mississippian. Chapter in Cahokia and the Hinterlands: Middle Mississippian Cultures of the Midwest, 3-34, eds. Thomas E. Emerson and R. Barry Lewis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
1991. A Plains Perspective on Mexican Cosmovision. Arqueoastronomía y etnoastronomía en Mesoamérica, 557-574, eds. Johanna Broda, Stanislaw Iwaniszewski, and Lucrecia Maupome. Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la Universidad Autónoma de México.
1991. Algunas consecuencias de las asociaciones astronómicas de las fechas de cuenta larga de la Estela 1 de La Mojarra y de la Estatuilla de Tuxtla. La Palabra y el Hombre [Revista de la Universidad Veracruzana] No. 80, pp. 9-18, October-December, 1991. Xalapa, Ver., Mexico.
1994. Review: The Book of the Year: Middle American Calendrical Systems by Munro S. Edmonson (University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1988). Archaeoastronomy, 11:118-121.
1993. Red Banks, Oneota, and the Winnebago: Views from a Distant Rock. The Wisconsin Archeologist, 74(1-4):10-79.
1993. Stable carbon isotope research at the Illinois State Museum in 1967. "Highways to the Past: Essays on Illinois Archaeology in Honor of Charles J. Bareis," 33–37, eds. Thomas E. Emerson, Andrew C. Fortier, and Dale L. McElrath, Illinois Archaeology 5:(1-2). Illinois
1995. Relating the Big Fish and the Big Stone: the Archaeological Identity and Habitat of the Winnebago in 1634. Oneota Archaeology: Past and Future Research, 19–30, ed. William Green. Report 20 of the Office of the State Archaeologist, Iowa City.
1996. American Indian Worlds, World Quarters, World Centers, and their Shrines. In "The Ancient Skies and Sky Watchers of Cahokia: Woodhenges, Eclipses, and Cahokian Cosmology," 120-127, ed. Melvin S. Fowler. The Wisconsin Archeologist 77(3-4).
1997. Book: An Archaeology of the Soul: North American Indian Belief and Ritual. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago.
1998. A comparison of some North American and Mesoamerican cosmologies and their ritual expressions. Explorations in American Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Wesley R. Hurt, 55–88, ed. Mark G. Plew. University Press of America, Lanham, Md.
2000. Sacrificed foursomes and Green Corn ceremonialism. Mounds, Modoc, and Mesoamerica: Papers in Honor of Melvin L. Fowler, 245–253, ed. Stephen A. Ahler. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers, vol. 48. Springfield. 2000.
In press. Rethinking Jean Nicolet's Route to the Ho-Chunks in 1634. Theory, Method, and Practice in Modern Archaeology, ##–##, ed. Robert J. Jeske. Bergin and Garvey, Westport, Conn.