Publications
2023 McLeester, M., Anastasio, A., and Grignon, J. Enduring Legacies of Agriculture: Long-term Vegetation Impacts of Ancestral Menominee Agriculture, Wisconsin, USA, Ethnobiology Letters, 14(1): 80-91.
2023 Fenner, J., Schurr M., and McLeester, M. Modeling the Chronology of a Late Precontact Site Using Radiocarbon and Trade Good Dates: Middle Grant Creek, Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 42(2).
2022 McLeester, M., Schurr, M., Martin, T., and Wheeler, J. From Wet Lands to Dry Spaces (And Back Again): Archaeological Perspectives on the Use, Drainage, and Restoration of the Kankakee Wetlands, USA, Journal of Wetland Archaeology, Special Edition.
2021 McLeester, M. and Casana, J. Finding Fields: Locating Archaeological Agricultural Landscapes Using Historical Aerial Photographs, American Antiquity, 86(2): 283-304.
2021 Schurr, M., McLeester, M., and Countryman, J. A New Approach to Population: Using Multiple Measures to Estimate the Population of a Protohistoric Village in the Western Great Lakes Region, USA, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 64: 101338.
2021 Morrison, K, Hammer, E.….McLeester, M…and Zanon, M. Mapping Past Human Land Use Using Archaeological Data: A New Classification for Global Land Use Synthesis and Data Harmonization, PLOS One, 16(4), e0246662.
2021 Schurr, M. and McLeester, M. The Old College Site (12SJ228), Highlighting Hoosier Archaeological Sites, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, web resource.
2020 McLeester, M. and Schurr, M. Paleoclimate of the Little Ice Age to the Present in the Kankakee Valley of Illinois and Indiana, USA Based on 18O/16O Isotope Ratios of Freshwater Shells, Environmental Archaeology, 26(6): 555-566.
2020 McLeester, M. and Schurr, M. Uncovering Huber Lifeways: An Overview of Findings from Four Years of Excavations at the Huber Phase Middle Grant Creek Site (11WI2739) in Northern Illinois, Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 45(2): 102-129.
2019 McLeester, M., Schurr, M., Sterner, K., and Ahlrichs, R., Protohistoric Marine Shell Working: New Evidence from Northern Illinois, American Antiquity, 87(3): 549-558.
2018 McLeester, M., Storage, Seasonality, and Women’s Labor in Northern Illinois: Reintroducing Pollen Analysis to Investigations of Protohistory, North American Archaeologist, 39(4): 239-259.
2018 McLeester, M., Casana, J., Schurr, M., A. Chad Hill, and Wheeler, J., Detecting Prehistoric Landscape Features Using Thermal, Multispectral, and Historical Imagery Analysis at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, Illinois, Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 21: 450-459.
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Technical Reports
2020 McLeester, M. and Schurr, M. The 2019 Archaeological Investigations at the Old College Site (12SJ228) at the University of Notre Dame. Submitted to the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Indianapolis, Indiana. Permit #2019033.
2019 Schurr, M. and McLeester, M. The 2018 Archaeological Investigations at the Old College Site (12SJ228) at the University of Notre Dame. Submitted to the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Indianapolis, Indiana. Permit #2018025.
