Hi,

Several of us recently organized a session at the Williamsburg SHA 
focused loosely around mid-nineteenth century settlement/agrarian 
frontiers in the American Midwest, with comparative data from other 
areas, including Canada and Australia.

We would very much like to contact anybody doing similar research in 
other international areas, particularly English-speaking colonial 
regions in the nineteenth century.  South Africa, Australia, and New 
Zealand come immediately to mind, but other areas would also be of 
interest.  Other language areas with Western European settlers might 
also be of interest ...

We would also be interested in talking to other folks in the US or 
Canada involved in similar research that we were not able to contact 
before the 2007 SHA meetings.

If you know anybody doing research, etc., please contact either 
myself or Alasdair Brooks ([log in to unmask]).  Thanks in 
advance
-- 

Mark C. Branstner
Historic Archaeologist

Illinois Transportation
Archaeological Research Program
209 Nuclear Physics Lab, MC-571
23 East Stadium Drive
Champaign, IL 61820

Phone: 217.244.0892
Fax: 217.244.7458
Cell: 517.927.4556
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