Illinois Natural History Survey - University of Illinois

Bruce McMillan - Affiliate
Illinois State Museum
Springfield, IL 62702
MC–652
Phone: 217-524-0498   Fax: 217-785-2857
Email: mcmillan@museum.state.il.us
Title: Professional Scientist, Anthropologist
Office Location: Springfield

Research
Landscape history, human-land relationships, paleoecology, and interdisciplinary approaches to archaeology, and evolution of biota in the Prairie Peninsula.

Recognition Lincoln College, Lincoln, IL, Honorary Doctorate in Humanities, 1990
Society for American Archaeology, Presidential Award, 1994
Distinguished Alumni Award, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1995


Selected
publications
2006 Archaic faunal exploitation in the Prairie Peninsula and surrounding regions of the mid-continent (with B. W. Styles). In: Archaic Societies of the Midcontinent, edited by T, E. Emerson, D. L. McElrath, and A.C. Fortier. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln (in press).

2006. Perspectives on the biogeography and archaeology of bison in Illinois. In: Records of Early Bison in Illinois, R. B. McMillan, editor, pp. 67-147. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers 31. Springfield.

2000 Landscape history at the Illinois State Museum. The Living Museum 62(3):3-11 (with B. W. Styles).

1991 Paul W. Parmalee: A pioneer in zooarchaeology. In: Beamers, Bobwhites, and Blue-Points: Tributes to the Career of Paul W. Parmalee. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers 23 and University of Tennessee Reports of Investigations 52.

1981 Post-glacial environmental change and hunting-gathering societies of the southern Prairie Peninsula. Journal of Archaeological Science 8:215-245 (with W. E. Klippel).

1976 Prehistoric man and his environments: A case study in the Ozark Highland. Academic Press, New York & London, 272 pp. (with W. R. Wood).

1970 Early canid burial from the western Ozark Highland. Science 167:1246-1247.


Program
Affiliates
Director Emeritus, Illinois State Museum, Springfield.

Professional
society
involvement
and activities
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
American Quaternary Association
Natural Science Collections Alliance
Society for American Archaeology
Plains Anthropological Society
American Association of Museums
Association of Midwest Museums
Illinois State Academy of Science, Fellow
Sigma Xi


Education 1971 Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder

1963 M.A., Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia

1960 B.S., Education, Missouri State University, Springfield



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