Volume 8 (1 & 2) 2002, Special publication

Readers are reminded that back issues of The Amateur Archaeologist may be ordered by writing the Organizer at P.O. Box 821, North Andover, MA 01845 (978-685-5744). The cost of each issue is $15.00 plus $3.00 for postage (up to 5 copies), or as noted.

Volumes 3 (2), 5 (2), 6 (1), 7 (2) and 8 (1 & 2) are out of print; others are in very limited quantities.

This full volume is a monograph devoted to ASAA's continuing excavations at the Very Early Archaic Dalton encampment — the Olive Branch site — Alexander County, southern Illinois. It is entitled OLIVE BRANCH: A VERY EARLY ARCHAIC SITE ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

The monograph (264 pp.) was published in both softbound and hardbound versions with a total run of approximately 1100 copies. Both versions except for binding and dustjacket are otherwise identical featuring: a frontispiece, fold-out map of the site, 102 plates (32 in color), 49 figures (including map) and 8 tables. The binding is Smythe-sewn.

Special features are a Foreword by the late ASAA Member Dr. Robert E. Funk and Appendix about human cremains by Smithsonian Institution researchers Karin L. Bruwelheide and Douglas W. Owsley.