UMMAA curator Rob Beck and his colleagues, Casey Barrier (Bryn Mawr College), Ed Henry (Colorado State University), and Tim Horsley (Horsley Archaeological Prospection), will soon begin work on a massive five-year geophysical survey of the prehistoric city of Cahokia. The team will use magnetometry equipment to map about 5.5 square kilometers in the center of the ancient urban area, which is in Collinsville, Illinois, just east of St. Louis, Missouri.

A recent cover article in xyHt—a magazine for the geospatial community—discusses the technological aspects of this massive project, which begins in May 2023. Read more here.