User:B1deroo

Hi, I've got a degree in archaeology so thought I'd put it to use somehow! I noticed there are some good archaeology articles on Wikipedia but for my home state, Michigan, and the Great Lakes region, there seems to be a gap. So I'm going through site reports and making articles for major sites in the area. Eventually I'm planning to do articles for the major prehistoric cultures and some of the main pottery types archaeologists have identified. Native American prehistory goes back over 10,000 years but I'm focusing on late Prehistoric to Protohistoric/Early Historic because these sites have more relevance for the Native American people living in this area, since these sites are where their ancestors lived! Therefore I'm focusing on Late Woodland, Fisher, Huber and Oneota.

Some articles I'm creating myself and others were already created, and I added a great deal of detailed information. I'm trying to present the information in an easily understandable, useful way. I'm not trying to re-type the whole site reports, I'm just hitting the high points. I'm including pictures whenever possible, when images are available in the public domain.

What really gets me frustrated sometimes is how much archaeology info is in university libraries where the general public cannot see it. Worse yet, so much is unpublished; or in a masters thesis somewhere; or in a manuscript in a professor's drawer; or locked away in a cabinet in a CRM firm or a state historical department bureaucrat's files.

Wikipedia is such a great resource for getting info out where EVERYONE can see it; and I'm happy to be a part of it!