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| Special Addition! Our booklet of events throughout RAGBRAI |
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| See some fun route photos taken by our team leaders. |
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| Cindy Nagel, Co-chair and rider |
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Our fearless leader |
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Hello all you bike riders out there. My name is Cindy Nagel and I have been an employee of the OSA since 1998 working for both the General Contract Program and the Highway Archaeology Program. My current position is Assistant Project Archaeologist with GCP which I have held since 2001.
I envisioned this wonderful public outreach program one day last summer while sitting in a staff meeting (obviously not paying attention). I had daydreamed about it for some time before I pitched it a few people. They were greatly enthusiastic about it and told me to run with it. So now, here we are.
I am an avid cyclist however, I do prefer mountain biking over road riding. But whatever, you know, as long as I am on my bike. I also enjoy hiking, camping, canoeing and playing softball. Oh yeah, and I enjoy archaeology.
I am excited to promote Iowa Archaeology and the Iowa Archeological Society along this years RAGBRAI route to thousands of unsuspecting potential members.
Please join me and Team Archeology for this year’s inaugural Archaeology Month Bike Tour of Iowa.
Happy bike trails! |
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| John Hall, Co-chair and rider |
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The family man |
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John Hall lives in Iowa City and works as a GIS Technician in the Geographic Information Systems Program at the Office of the State Archaeologist; however, occasionally he is able to escape from the office to do some fieldwork too. John is co-chair of the 2008 “Team Archaeology” RAGBRAI committee and is one of the riders for the event. (Watch for John’s blogs before and during the event.) When not at work, John spends as much time as he can with his wife, Erika and their two sons, Sully (pictured with dad) and Finn; and if time permits, enjoys running and cycling in various races throughout the Midwest. |
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| John Hedden, Rider |
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Always ready to ride |
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John Hedden is a Project Archaeologist with the Highway Archaeology Program at the Office of the State Archaeologist. Originally from Kansas City, John moved to Iowa in 1992. John is an avid cyclist and regularly rides the bike trail system in Iowa City/Coralville on his two-wheeled commute to work. His hobbies include fishing, water sports, coaching and attending his five children’s various activities. His son Tanner will also be riding in RAGBRAI this year. |
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| Joe Alan Artz, Rider |
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Jumpin' Joe |
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Joe Alan Artz has been an archaeologist for over 30 years, working throughout the Great Plains and Midwest, and other places as well: most recently, Portugal and Kosovo. A graduate of the University of Kansas, he is an 18-year veteran of the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist. He specializes in the study of how the landscape we see today has changed through time. RAGBRAI gives him the opportunity to gain a new appreciation and respect for the landscape of Iowa, especially its hills. If you see a rider pausing at every bridge and road cut to look at the dirt, it's Joe. |
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| Dan Higginbottom, Rider |
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Snazzy in red |
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My name is Dan Higginbottom and for the past 9 years I have been a staff Archaeologist at the Iowa State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) at the State Historical Society in Des Moines. Special areas of interest include historical archaeology, the European Iron Age, industrial archaeology, cemetery studies, urban development, preservation law, and lithic technologies. Other hobbies include Taikwando (recently advanced to 2nd degree black belt), genealogy, book collecting, coaching little league baseball, building model airplanes out of balsa wood and tissue paper, and doing just about anything with my wife and son. 2008 marks my 10th year of serious cycling although I have never participated in a long tour like RAGBRAI. So, I am looking forward to doing two of the things that I love best, cycling with friends and promoting Iowa Archaeology.
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| Kevin Verhulst, Rider |
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What enormous fish you have! |
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My name is Kevin. I am from Ottumwa, Iowa. I have worked for the OSA for the last 3 years. I have ridden RAGBRAI twice in 2000 and 2001. My favorite hobbies are camping, hunting, fishing, and flintknapping. |
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| Daniel Horgen, Committee member and support vehicle driver |
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Super fisherman |
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Daniel Horgen, a Marshalltown native and West Branch resident, has spent more than seven years with the University of Iowa’s Office of the State Archaeologist. His current position is crew chief for the Highway Archaeology Program. He has conducted and assisted in numerous archaeological surveys and excavation projects across the state. He has authored and coauthored several technical reports for both the Highway Archaeology Program and the General Contracts Program at the OSA, and has coauthored and presented multiple conference papers on a variety of topics. He currently helps manage the Office of the State Archaeologist’s in-house lithic raw material assemblage, which is the primary resource for lithic identification and analysis at the OSA, and coauthored the Lithic Raw Material Assemblage web page. His research interests include: lithic analysis with emphasis on chert identification and sourcing; Woodland period subsistence practices, trading, and ceremonial activities; early prehistoric settlement patterns; geoarchaeology; education outreach programming; and the research of archaeological potential for 19th and 20th century farmstead sites in Iowa. |
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| Sarah Horgen, Committee member and support vehicle driver |
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She can dig it |
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Sarah Horgen is the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History (MNH). Her primary duties are managing and conducting museum programming and special events for children through adults, coordinating guided tours of over 10,000 visitors per year (around 1/3 of yearly museum attendance), and supervising student staff and volunteers. She is currently involved in the excavation and analysis of a giant sloth family in southwest Iowa, as well as research utilizing archaeological stone tool collections at MNH. Prior to joining the staff at MNH, she spent 5 years with the Office of the State Archaeologist, working in the repository and conducting fieldwork and educational outreach across Iowa. She serves as Co-chair of the Anthropology section of the Iowa Academy of Science, and as Secretary and Board Member for the Eastern Iowa Paleontology Project. In her spare time, she enjoys all things related to being outdoors, including hiking, camping, and fishing. Sarah lives in West Branch with her husband Daniel, Ella the dog, and Lucky the cat. |
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| Alan Hawkins, Committee member |
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The brains |
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Alan Hawkins is a Project Archaeologist with the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist, Highway Archaeology Program. He has been active in Midwest and Plains archaeology and cultural resource management since 1989. This experience has taken him throughout Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. His research interests include historic ceramics and glassware, and settlement pattern analysis. He has also served as the Iowa Archeological Society Membership Secretary since 2005 and Treasurer since 2007. He also enjoys outdoor activities such as camping and fishing with his son and a daughter. |
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| Lynn M. Alex, Committee member |
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The style |
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Lynn M. Alex is Director of Education and Outreach at the University of Iowa–Office of the State Archaeologist where she has also been a research archaeologist and adjunct instructor. She has conducted archaeology in the Orkney and Shetland Islands of Scotland; northern Norway; and at many sites on the North American Great Plains and prairies. She has authored, coauthored and edited numerous articles and published two books, Exploring Iowa’s Past (1980) and Iowa’s Archaeological Past (2000). She currently co-edits the Newsletter of the Iowa Archeological Society and is on the Editorial Board for the Society’s Journal. She serves on Iowa’s statewide Iowa Studies Committee, the Iowa Archeological Society Board of Directors, the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center Board of Directors, national Project Archaeology, and the Public Education Committee for the Society of American Archaeology. |
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| John Doershuk, Committee member |
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The class |
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John Doershuk is the State Archaeologist of Iowa.
Click here to read more about him. | |
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| Mark L. Anderson, Committee member |
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Super cool in flip-flops |
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My name is Mark L. Anderson and I am a Project Archaeologist with the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist, Highway Archaeology Program. I have been active in Midwest and Plains archaeology and cultural resource management since 1986. I began my academic career at the University of Oregon getting familiar with northwest coast archaeology, geology, and eastern religions and completed my undergrad and graduate studies in archaeology, geology, geography, and religious studies at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. I have worked or had some kind of archaeological experience in Oregon, South Dakota, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa, as well as two seasons excavating Archaic period sites in Ontario, Canada. My research interests include the prehistory of the Midwest and northern Plains, the Archaic period of the upper Great Lakes, lithic studies, ancient technologies, flintknapping, GPS/GIS, aerial photographic remote sensing, and recently new forays into the use of the Scanning Electronic Microscope.
I love to travel and have spent considerable time in Great Britain and the Hawaiian Islands. On my last visit to the island of Maui, I took a bicycle ride down from the top of the 10,023 ft peak of Haleakala volcano, quite the ride with virtually no pedaling! I have visited 44 of our 50 states, various provinces of Canada, Costa Rica, and recently sailed 1,000 miles of open ocean on a junket from the island of Antigua to Bermuda. Although I would have liked to participate in RAGBRAI 2008, I will have to wait for another chance as July takes me to Glacier National Park for some R and R (and fly-fishing). I will be back in time to be a presenter at the Tipton stop and hopefully, do some flintknapping there as well. |
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| Tricia Bender, Web master |
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 The gloves go so well with the do-rag!
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Tricia Bender is the resident web master at the Office of the State Archaeologist. She has worked at the OSA since 2001 and has completely redesigned its website. She also worked with John Cordell, the Curation Manager, for a semester in collections management. Tricia graduated from The University of Iowa in 2007 with a B.A. in Anthropology and a Museum Certificate. Prior to her time at The U, she earned a B.A. in English and another in Communications from Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana. In addition to her work at the OSA, Tricia is the Collections Manager at The National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library in Cedar Rapids. When not chained to her desk at one of her two jobs, she likes to cross-stitch and quilt, as well as bike as often as possible. She lives in Coralville with her husband, Ben and naughty kitty, Cornish Scrumpy. |
Updated by Mary De La Garza, July 2008.
Designed by Tricia R. Bender |
