How has OSA impacted you or your community?: Help us celebrate our 60th anniversary! Let us know–How has OSA impacted you or your community? OSA truly wouldn’t be what it is today without the hard work and dedication of our staff, students, volunteers, partners, and participants. For that, we express a whole-hearted THANK YOU! We’re crowd-sourcing testimonials from our current and former employees, students, volunteers, statewide and community partners, anyone who’s been to an outreach event or engaged with our social media, and any other collaborators! We’d love to hear about when, who, a ..read more

It’s a beautiful day to be at Effigy Mounds National Monument! Cherie and Elizabeth are participating in a recommendations workshop for EFMO’s long range interpretative planning process. Last summer and autumn, we joined NPS staff, community stakeholders, and Tribal partners to help develop themes and goals. Now we’re discussing, what are the best tools for the tasks? We’re learning tons! #iowa #thisisiowa #findyourpark #nps #driftlessarea #driftlessadventures (at Effigy Mounds National Monument) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvPOQNHlZTV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1935rx4r1a2jx ..read more

Questionnaire for Managers/Administrators of Professional Archaeology or Cultural Heritage-related Social Media Channels: Attention archaeology & cultural heritage professionals! Do you manage social media accounts for your organization, company, University or your your own professional brand? We need insight on how we’re using it & with what resources. Survey at the link, please share with those who do this kind of work! Looking for those who use social media in a professional capacity, whether for work or personal, paid or volunteer. No personal info is being collected & response ..read more

We hit a pretty big milestone late last Friday afternoon - we now have 30,000 recorded archaeological sites in Iowa! Our site files are submitted not only by professional archaeologists working in the state, but by YOU! We wouldn’t have the robust database we have without the assistance of farmers, landowners, archaeology enthusiasts, and avocational archaeologists. Thank you for working with us! #iowa #archaeology #archaeologists #archaeologicalsites #siterecords #iowahistory https://www.instagram.com/p/BtML6kGBXpC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7wm8xwj3qqio ..read more

With great sadness, we say goodbye to long-time Iowa archaeologist and friend, Toby Morrow. Condolences to Toby’s family, his co-workers at Wapsi Valley Archaeology in Anamosa, and his friends and colleagues near and far. There will be a memorial for Toby at the spring meeting of the Iowa Archeological Society next year - details forthcoming. Toby received his BA and MA from the University of Iowa, and passed his qualifying exams and completed coursework for a PhD at the University of Wisconsin. He worked as a project archaeologist for the General Contracts Program (GCP) of the University o ..read more

It’s the last official week of Iowa Archaeology Month! There are still plenty of events happening, and it looks like the weather is finally clearing up a bit for people to enjoy sites and parks! We’re still looking for some competitors to visit and hashtag Iowa archaeological sites and exhibits across Iowa for a chance to win an apparel and accessories package, so don’t forget to let us know if you’re playing!Because the Iowa Archaeology Month theme is “Archaeology in Our Backyard,” we thought we would re-share our “Do’s and Don'ts of Artifact Collecting.” This information is available on ou ..read more

BiddingOwl - Iowa Archeological Society Auction: Woah, this auction is heating up! 10 more days! There’s a bidding war going on for the replica catlinite pipes, but plenty of items with no bids yet! We cover shipping ..read more

Are you in high school, a parent of high schoolers, or someone interested in going back to college? Since our Iowa Archaeology Month theme is “Archaeology in Our Backyard,” we wanted to highlight some places in Iowa where you can study archaeology! Archaeology is a sub-field of Anthropology, so we typically find archaeology as a concentration within an Anthropology program. Some colleges will also do an individualized track if they don’t have a departmental focus – which is great, because archaeology is so multi-disciplinary ..read more