Release Date: February 21, 2005

MONMOUTH, Ill. — “Roads to the Past: Highway Sponsored Archaeology in Western Illinois” is the title of an archaeology lecture to be presented at Monmouth College on Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the lower level classrooms of the Huff Athletic Center.

The talk will be delivered by David Nolan, coordinator of the Western Illinois Survey Division for the Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program at the University of Illinois. It will describe the basic processes used to find, document, evaluate and excavate archaeological remains located in the paths of proposed highway projects.

Nolan said the results of recent archaeological investigations undertaken in the west central portion of the state will be highlighted, including the discovery of remains from the Old French Village of Peoria.

Sponsored by the Western Illinois Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the MC Classics Department, the archaeology lecture series is free and open to the public.

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