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Title: Archeological Conference Tapes, 1956

ID: 15/2/15

Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Anthropology

Extent: 0.2 cubic feet

Arrangement: Chronological

Languages: English [eng]

Archeological Conference Tapes, including original open-reel recordings and cassette dubs of the proceedings of an Illinois Archeological Conference held on January 21-22, 1956 and three tapes of an October 6, 1956 Midwestern Archeological Conference.  The Illinois Conference tape concerns highways and antiquities legislation, highway construction, site surveys, amateurs, standardization, organization and membership in the Illinois Archeological Survey.  The Midwestern Conference proceedings concern studies of the archaic, woodland and Hopewell cultures, definitions, highway programs and conference organization.

The Board of Trustees established the Department of Anthropology in 1959, separating it from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.¹ In 1961 the Illinois Archaeological Survey was presented to the Department of Anthropology for research.² In August 1976 the Department of Anthropology became part of the School of Social Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.³

1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 50th Report, May 16, 1959, p. 406.

2. Board of Trustees Transactions, 51st Report, December 19, 1961, p. 1238.

3. Board of Trustees Transactions, 58th Report, February 18, 1976, p. 523.