1916-1989
Dr. David A. Baerreis was born in 1916. He was an American archaeologist who specialized in studying North American Indian cultures. His main interest was in the Mississippi River region of the United States and prehistory of surrounding Indian groups. He wrote extensively on the Upper Plains Indian cultures and how climate effected the way they lived and where they lived. Dr. Baerreis' work helped make connections between historical climatology and archaeology through his collaboration with the researchers at the Institute for Environmental Studies Center for Climatic Research.
In 1953 the Waubesa Contracting Stem was named by David Baerreis. The Waubesa Contracting Stem is a chipped stone projectile point with a broad-bladed point, ages between 100 B.C. to 200 A.D., from the Early Woodland (Prairie phase) in Wisconsin and was made from local cherts or orthoquartzite.
Dr. Baerreis was Emeritus Professor of anthropology /environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin. In 1982, Dr. Baerreis moved to Taos, New Mexico. Baerreis lived to be 73 years old, and died in Taos, New Mexico on October 31, 1989.
Some of his publications include:
Spiro Focus Basketry (1947).
The Preceramic Horizons of Northeastern Oklahoma (1951).
Prehistoric Indians in Wisconsin (1955).
Woodland Cultures on the Western Prairies: The Rainbow Site Investigations (1990).
1976 Climate and Culture in the Western Great Lakes Region by Baerreis, R. A. Bryson, and J. E. Ktuzbach (Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 1:39-57).
Indians of Northeastern Illinois
The Great Lakes Project: The Geographic Location of Potawatomi Bands: 1795 - 1846 written by Dr. David A. Baerreis. Copyright 1996 by Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology and The Trustees of Indiana University.
"The major objective of this report has been to determine the location of the various bands of Potawatomi Indians at the time treaties ceding land to the United States were made and simultaneously to determine the extent to which these same lands were occupied by other Indian tribes at the time of the respective cessions." The report includes the tribal distribution in relation to land cessions in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
Former link, http://www.uwlax.edu/Colleges/mvac/point/waubesa.htm, (2006)
Former link, http://www.unm.edu/~anthro/323/323bib.html, (2006)
Glenn A. Black Laboratory, http://www.gbl.indiana.edu/publ.html, (2006)
Prairie Archaeology: Papers in Honor of David A. Baerreis (Publications in Anthropology/University of Minnesota, No. 3) by Guy Gibbon, Robert F. Spencer/Published 1983
Edited By: Lillian Dolentz, 2008