William E. Whittaker (Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Iowa, 2002).
Whittaker is a Project Archaeologist for the General Contracts Program at the UI-OSA. Whittaker's work at the UI-OSA includes many Phase I investigations, and Phase II and Phase III excavations in Iowa and Missouri. Previously he worked with the University of Illinois' Public Service Archaeology program directing and participating in surveys and excavations in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Missouri. He supervised excavations at the Plum Grove site in Iowa City from 1996 through 2001 for the University of Iowa. Prior to this, he was the archaeology field supervisor at the Fort McCoy Army base and a field technician for the Wisconsin State Archaeologist. He has participated in excavations in Nebraska and the Netherlands as part of his graduate school research; his master's thesis was on bison from the Cherokee Site in Iowa, his dissertation utilized faunal remains to study economic changes in the frontier of the Roman Empire.

He is a Registered Professional Archaeologist (RPA), and a member of the Society of American Archaeologist, the Iowa Archaeological Society, the Illinois Association for Advancement of Archaeology, and the Missouri Association of Professional Archaeologists, among other organizations. His areas of specialty are faunal analysis, ground-penetrating radar, and historical archeology.

His role in GCP projects consists of fieldwork supervision and report writing. His most recent accomplishments include the analysis of remains from the Late Woodland Lafayette Mound in Missouri, as well as several large surveys in Iowa.

You can e-mail William at:

William Whittaker@uiowa.edu

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