Greetings!

As many of you know, the African Diaspora Archaeology Network now
maintains a web site, at http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu, and we will be
posting a new online newsletter on current research projects. This new
newsletter represents an outgrowth of the "African American Archaeology
Newsletter" that was published in hard copy editions on a regular,
periodic basis, up through 2000. Our new newsletter, to be published here
online, will be updated as articles and news reports are received and
posted on an ongoing basis.

Please contact us if you have analysis papers, project reports, or news
updates that you'd like to contribute to this newsletter. Please submit
papers, reports, or articles as word processed documents (MS Word format
works well) to our newsletter coordinator, Thomas Wheaton
([log in to unmask]). We prefer that you avoid sending
submissions in Adobe .pdf or .html formats -- word processed documents are
more manageable for the formatting tasks we undertake before posting
papers to this web site. Thanks!

The April 2005 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html

For the April 2005 online newsletter, we present an online reprint of an
article entitled "Rediscovering New Philadelphia: Race and Racism on the
Illinois Frontier," by Paul A. Shackel, Terrance J. Martin, Joy D.
Beasley, and Tom Gwaltney. This article was published in "Illinois
Antiquity," Vol. 39, Issue 1, pp. 3-7 (March, 2004), and is presented here
with permission from the Illinois Association for Advancement of
Archaeology, which publishes "Illinois Antiquity."  You can view this
article in html or pdf formats.

Cheers,
Chris