Illinois Archaeological Survey

Soils telling time: Integrating geoarchaeology, experimental archaeology, and Bayesian modeling to refine dating cultural deposits

This study combines archaeological soil micromorphology, experimental archaeology, and Bayesian chronological modeling to refine the timing of a pit fill sequence at a 13-14th century CE Ancestral Native American village. Framed within an event-based archaeological perspective, t...

Microsynteny Analysis Clarifies the Early Diversification of Cypriniform Fishes

While genomic data are powerfully informative for phylogenetic inference, traditional sequence-based analyses can be confounded by issues like homoplasy and incomplete lineage sorting, leaving deep nodes unresolved. Synteny, the conservation of gene order along a chromosome, pres...