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William I. Woods Office: 217A Lindley Hall
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| Research Interests and Current Projects |
My research interests center on Abandoned Settlements, Anthropogenic Environmental |
I am presently a member of research teams working with anthropogenic soils and related environmental history and prehistory in the Brazilian Amazon, Belgium, and at the UNESCO World Heritage Cahokia Mounds Site in southwestern Illinois. Another current research topic concerns carbon sequestration in soils as a potential mitigating process for land degradation and atmospheric CO2 accumulation. An ancillary interest involves birds has an indicator of anthropogenic environmental change. |
| More information on Dr. Woods' research is available here. |
| Courses Taught and Teaching Awards |
| GEOG 379: Topics in Cultural: 1491 |
GEOG 531/EVRN 420 Seminar: “Soils” |
GEOG 571/EVRN 420 Seminar: “Cultural Landscape” |
GEOG 531/EVRN 420 Seminar: “Global Environment and Civilization” |
| Awards |
1999: Paul Simon Outstanding Scholar-Teacher Award (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) |
| Publications During the Last 5 Years |
Olson, K.R., R.L. Jones, A.N. Gennadiyev, S. Chernyanskii, W.I. Woods, and J.M Lang. |
Verslype L., I. Leroy, A. Defgnée, W.I. Woods, and B.K. Young. 2006.Walhain/Walhain-Saint-Paul : le château et sa basse-cour. Synthèse des campagnes 2003-2004, dans Chroniques de l'archéologie wallonne, 13. |
Woods, William I., Newton P. S. Falcão, and Wenceslau G. Teixeira. 2006. Biochar Trials aim to enrich soil for smallholders. Nature 443:144. |
Olson, K.R., R.L. Jones, A.N. Gennadiyev, S. Chernyanskii, W.I. Woods, and J.M. Lang. 2005. Tillage Induced Erosion on a Mound at Cahokia Archaeological Site. Soil Survey Horizons 46:146-160. |
Verslype L., Leroy I., Young B.K., Woods W.I., and A. Defgnée. 2005. Walhain, Walhain-saint-Paul,Le château. Archéologie d 'un patrimoine paysager et monumental, dans J. Maquet, dir., Le patrimoine médiéval de Wallonie, Namur, pp. 379-381. |
Woods, William I. 2005. Die dunklen Erden Amazoniens. In Handbuch der Bodenkunde edited by Rainer Horn, Hans-Peter Blume, Peter Felix-Henningsen, Walter Fischer, |
Glaser, Bruno, and William I. Woods, editors. 2004. Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. |
Glaser, Bruno, Wolfgang Zech, and William I. Woods. 2004. History, Current Knowledge, and Future Perspectives of Geoecological Research Concerning the Origin of Amazonian Anthropogenic Dark Earths (Terra Preta). In Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time, edited by Bruno Glaser and William I. Woods, pp. 9-17. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. |
Lovell, W. George, Henry F. Dobyns, William M. Denevan, William I. Woods, and Charles C. Mann. 2004. 1491: In Search of Aboriginal America. Journal of the Southwest 46(3):441-461. |
Madari, Beata, Wim G. Sombroek, and William I. Woods. 2004. Research on the Anthropogenic Dark Earth Soils of Amazônia: Could It Be a Solution for Sustainable Agricultural Development in the Amazon? In Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time, edited by Bruno Glaser and William I. Woods, pp. 169-181. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. |
Verslype L., I. Leroy, W.I. Woods, and B.K. Young. 2004.Walhain/Walhain-saint-Paul: la basse-cour du château. Chroniques de l 'Archéologie wallonne 12:20-21. |
Woods, William I. 2004. Anthropogenic Soils and Sustainability in Amazônia. In WorldMinds: |
Woods, William I. 2004. Population Nucleation, Intensive Agriculture, and Environmental Degradation: The Cahokia Example. Agriculture and Human Values 21:151-157. |
Woods, William I. 2004. Photographs published in Lewino, Frédéric. Le mystère de la terre noire. Le Point 1672:86-87 |
Woods, William I., and Bruno Glaser. 2004. Towards an Understanding of Amazonian Dark Earths. In Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time, edited by Bruno Glaser and William I. Woods, pp. 1-8. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. |
Woods, William I., and Bailey K. Young, Jr. 2004. Landscape Transformation: The Making of a Medieval Outer Bailey (Walhain, Belgium). AVISTA Forum Journal 14(1):66-67. |
Dalan, Rinita A., George R. Holley, William I. Woods, Harold W. Watters, Jr., and John A. Koepke. 2003. Envisioning Cahokia: A Landscape Perspective. Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb. |
Kämpf, Nestor, William I. Woods, Wim G. Sombroek, Dirse Kern, and Tony Cunha. 2003. Classification of Amazonian Dark Earths and Other Ancient Anthropic Soils. In Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties and Management, edited by Johannes Lehmann, Dirse C. Kern, Bruno Glaser, and William I. Woods, pp. 77-102. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. |
Lehmann, Johannes, Dirse C. Kern, Bruno Glaser, and William I. Woods, editors. 2003. Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties and Management. Kluwer Academic Publishers, |
Olson, Kenneth R., Robert L. Jones, Alexander N. Gennadiyev, Sergey Chernyanskii, William I. Woods, and J. M. Lang. 2003. Soil Catena Formation and Erosion of Two Mississippian Mounds at Cahokia Archaeological Site, Illinois. Soil Science 168 (11):812-824. |
Olson, Kenneth, R., Robert, L. Jones, Alexander, N. Gennadiyev, Sergey Chernayanskii, and William I. Woods. 2003. Soil Formation on Monks Mound. Soil Survey Horizons 44(3):73-85. |
Woods, William I. 2003. Development of Anthrosol Research. In Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties and Management, edited by Johannes Lehmann, Dirse C. Kern, Bruno Glaser, and William I. Woods, pp. 3-14. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. |
Woods, William I. 2003. Soils and Sustainability in the Prehistoric New World. In Exploitation |
Gennadiyev, A.N., K.R. Olson, S.S. Chernyanskii, R.L. Jones, J.M. Lang, and W.I. Woods. 2002. The Use of the Fly Ash for the Quantitative-Chronological Assessment of Soil Matter Mechanical Migration (By the Example of Cahokia Mounds, USA). In Landscape Geochemistry and Soil Geography, edited by N.S. Kasimov and M.I. Gerasimova, pp. 370-388. Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University Press. |
Gennadiev, A.N., K.R. Olson, S.S. Chernyanskii, R.L. Jones, and W.I. Woods. 2002. Quantification of Soil Erosion Rates within the Indian Mounds Area in Illinois, the United States. Eurasian Soil Science 35:S8-S17. |
Olson, K.R., R.L. Jones, A.N. Gennadiyev, S. Chernyanskii, and W.I. Woods. 2002. Soil |
Olson, Kenneth R., Robert L. Jones, Alexander N. Gennadiyev, Sergey Chernyanskii, William I. Woods, and J. M. Lang. 2002. Accelerated Soil Erosion of a Mississippian Mound at Cahokia Site in Illinois. Soil Science Society of America Journal 66:1911-1921. |
Sombroek, Wim G., Dirse C. Kern, Tarcício Rodrigues, Manoel da Silva Cravo, Tony Jarbas, William I. Woods, and Bruno Glaser. 2002. Terra Preta and Terra Mulata: Pre-Columbian Amazon Kitchen Middens and Agricultural Fields, Their Sustainability, and Their Replication. 17th World Congress of Soil Science. Bangkok, Thailand |
Woods, William I. 2002. Review of Cultivated Landscapes of Native North America, by William |
Woods, William I. 2002. Photograph published in Mann, Charles C. The Forgotten People of Amazonia. Science 297:921. |
Woods, William I. 2002. Photographs and co-authored map published in Mann, Charles C. The Real Dirt on Rainforest Fertility. Science 297:920, 922-923. |
Bozarth, Steven R., Charles R. Clement, Eduardo Goés Neves, and William I. Woods. 2007. Phytoliths and Terra Preta: The Hatahara Site Example. In Terra Preta Nova: A Tribute to Wim Sombroek, edited by Woods, William I., Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, and Antoinette WinklerPrins. Springer, Berlin. (Accepted for publication). |
Kämpf, Nestor, William I. Woods, Dirse C. Kern, and Tony J. Cunha. n.d. Classificação das Terras Pretas de Índio. 2007. In As Terras Pretas de Índio: Caracterização e manejo para formação de novas áreas, edited by Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Beata E. Madari, Vinícius M. Benites, Dirse C. Kern, and Newton P. S.Falcão. Embrapa, Brasilia. (In press). |
Kern, Dirse Clara, Nestor Kämpf, William I. Woods, William M. Denevan, Marcondes Lima da Costa, and Francisco Juvenal Lima Frazão. 2007. Evolução do Conhecimento em Terra Preta de Índio. In As Terras Pretas de Índio: Caracterização e manejo para formação de novas áreas, edited by Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Beata E. Madari, Vinícius M. Benites, Dirse C. Kern, and Newton P. S.Falcão. Embrapa, Brasilia. (In press). |
Rebellato, Lilian, Eduardo Goés Neves, Heiko Grosch, William I. Woods, and Bruno Glaser. 2007. Terra Preta at the Hatahara Site: Diachronic Considerations of Amazonian Land-Use. In Terra Preta Nova: A Tribute to Wim Sombroek, edited by Woods, William I., Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, and Antoinette WinklerPrins. Springer, Berlin. (Accepted for publication). |
Steiner, Christoph, Wenceslau G. Teixeira, William I. Woods, and Wolfgang Zech. Indigenous Knowledge about Terra Preta Formation. 2007. In Terra Preta Nova: A Tribute to Wim Sombroek, edited by Woods, William I., Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, and Antoinette WinklerPrins. Springer, Berlin. (Accepted for publication). |
Teixeira, Wenceslau, and William I. Woods. Sambaquis and Terra Preta: Prehistoric Brazilian Anthrosols. 2007. In Terra Preta Nova: A Tribute to Wim Sombroek, edited by Woods, William I., Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, and Antoinette WinklerPrins. Springer, Berlin. (Accepted for publication). |
Thayn, Jonathan, Kevin Price, William I. Woods, and Eduardo Goés Neves. 2007. Locating Ancient Anthropogenic Soils under Amazonian Tropical Forests Using MODIS Time-Series Analysis. In Terra Preta Nova: A Tribute to Wim Sombroek, edited by Woods, William I., Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, and Antoinette WinklerPrins. Springer, Berlin. (Accepted for publication). |
Woods, William I. 2007. Mudanças causadas pelo homem no solo - uma ferramenta para entender o passado. In As Terras Pretas de Índio: Caracterização e manejo para formação de novas áreas, edited by Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Beata E. Madari, Vinícius M. Benites, Dirse C. Kern, and Newton P. S.Falcão. Embrapa, Brasilia. (In press). |
Woods, William I. 2007. Amazonia, 11,000+ B.C. to A.D. 1491. The Geographical Review. (In press). |
Woods, William I. 2007. Amazonian Dark Earth Symposium and Associated Bio-Char Workshop. International Union of Soil Sciences Newletter (In press). |
Woods, William I., and William M. Denevan. 2007. Discovery, Study, and Bibliography of Amazonian Dark Earths, 1870s-1970s. In Ethnogeographic Research in Latin America: Essays Honoring William V. Davidson, edited by Peter H. Herlihy, Kent Mathewson, and Craig S. Revels. Geoscience and Man series, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. (In press). |
Woods, William I., and William Denevan. 2007. Terra Preta Research: The PreSombroek, Sombroek, and PostSombroek Periods. In Terra Preta Nova: A Tribute to Wim Sombroek, edited by Woods, William I., Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, and Antoinette WinklerPrins. Springer, Berlin. (Accepted for publication). |
Woods, William I., Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, and Antoinette WinklerPrins, Editors. 2007. Terra Preta Nova: A Tribute to Wim Sombroek. Springer, Berlin. (Accepted for publication). |
Grabowski, Lawra A., James L. J. Houpis, William I. Woods, and Kevin A. Johnson. 2001. |
McCann, Joseph M., William I. Woods, and Donald W. Meyer. 2001. Organic Matter and |
Woods, William I., and Joseph M. McCann. 2001. El Origen y Persistencia de las Tierras Negras de la Amazonía. In Desarrollo Sostenible en la Amazonia: Mito o Realidad?, edited by M. Hiraoka and S. Mora, pp. 23-30. Editorial Abya-Yala, Quito, Ecuador. |
Holley, George R., Rinita A. Dalan, William I. Woods, and Harold W. Watters, Jr. 2000. |
Woods, William I. 2000. Monks Mound Revisited. In Preprints. Terra 2000. 8th International |
Woods, William I., Joseph M. McCann, and Donald W. Meyer. 2000. Amazonian Dark Earth |
Woods, William I., and Joseph M. McCann. 1999. The Anthropogenic Origin and Persistence of |
Holley, George R., William I. Woods, Rinita A. Dalan, and Harold W. Watters, Jr. 1997. |
Woods, William I., and George R. Holley. 1997. Appendix 5: Current Research (1984-89). In |
Woods, William I., Christy L. Wells, Harold W. Watters, Jr., and Donald W. Meyer. 1996. |
Woods, William l. 1995. Comments on the Black Earths of Amazonia. Papers and Proceedings |
Woods, William l. 1994. Midwest Archaeological Conference. Society for Archaeological |
Emerson, Thomas E., and William I. Woods. 1993. Saving the Great Nobb: Preservation |
Lopinot, Neal H., and William I. Woods. 1993. Wood Overexploitation and the Collapse of |
Wells, Christy L., William I. Woods, and George R. Holley. 1993. The Doyle Site: A Late |
Woods, William I. 1993. ICT-11 Phase 11 Testing. In The Archaeology the Cahokia Mounds |
Woods, William I. 1993. A Study of Prehistoric Settlement-Subsistence Relationships in |
Woods, William I. 1993. A Review of The Underdraining of Farmland in England During the |
Woods, William I., Editor. 1992. Late Prehistoric Agriculture: Observations from the Midwest. |
Woods, William I., and George R. Holley. 1991. Upland Mississippian Settlement in the |
Emerson, Thomas E., and William I. Woods. 1990. The Slumping of the Great Knob: An |
Holley, George R., Neal H. Lopinot, Rinita A. Dalan, and William I. Woods. 1990. South Palisade |
Woods, William I. 1990. Symposium: The Evidence for Late Prehistoric Agriculture in the |
Holley, George R., Neal H. Lopinot, William I. Woods, and John E. Kelly. 1989. Dynamics of |
Woods, William I., and George R. Holley. 1989. Appendix 3: Current Research at the Cahokia |
Woods, William l. 1988. Soils and Sediment Analyses. In Excavations at the Hansen Site (15 |
Woods, William l. 1988. Soil Chemical Investigations at Five Historic Sites in Illinois. Illinois Cultural Resources Study No. 4. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield. 52 pp. |
Billeck, William T., Elizabeth Benchley, Robert Mierendorf, and William I. Woods. 1987. Final |
Brown, Alan J., James M. Collins, Bonnie L. Gums, George R. Holley, Mikels Skele, Christy L. |
Woods, William I. 1987. Maize and the Late Prehistoric: A Characterization of Settlement |
Woods, William I. 1987. Archaeological Investigations at the St. Louis Arsenal. In Nineteenth |
Pauketat, Timothy R., and William I. Woods. 1986. Middle Mississippian Structure Analysis: The Lawrence Primas Site (11-Ms-895) in the American Bottom. The Wisconsin Archeologist 67(2):104-127. |
Wells, Christy L., William I. Woods, and Neal H. Lopinot. 1986. Archaeological Investigations at |
Woods, William I. 1986. Appendix B. Analysis of Sediments. In Archaeological Excavations at |
Williams, Joyce A., William I. Woods, F. Terry Norris, Timothy R. Pauketat, and Daniel S. Eibeck. 1985. Archaeological Investigations at the St. Louis Arsenal Site. St. Louis District Cultural Resource Management Report No. 22. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis |
Pauketat, Timothy R., Christy L. Wells, and William I. Woods. 1984. Cultural Resource |
Pauketat, Timothy R., Christy L. Wells, William I. Woods, and Neal H. Lopinot. 1984. Cultural |
Weymouth, John W., and William I. Woods. 1984. Combined Magnetic and Chemical Surveys of Forts Kaskaskia and de Chartres Number 1, Illinois. Historical Archaeology 18(2):20-37. |
Woods, William I. 1984. Soil Chemical Investigations in Illinois Archaeology: Two Example |
Koldehoff, Brad, Christy L. Wells, and William I. Woods. 1983. A Cultural Resource Survey of TenProposed Dry Detention Basins in the Harding Ditch Area of St. Clair County, Illinois. St. Louis District Cultural Resource Management Report No. 2. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District. 57 pp. |
Wells, Christy L., Brad Koldehoff, and William I. Woods. 1983. A Cultural Resource Survey at |
Woods, William l. 1983. A Cultural Resource Survey of a Proposed Dry Detention Basin in Cape LaCroix Creek Watershed, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. St. Louis District Cultural Resource Management Report No. 1. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District. 38 pp. |
Woods, William I. 1982. Analysis of Soils from the Carrier Mills Archaeological District. In The |
Williams, Kenneth R., and William I. Woods. 1981. Big Muddy River Unit (IX). In Predictive |
Fowler, Melvin L., Prudence Precourt, Gerald C. Cone, Gregory James, and William I. Woods. |
Woods, William I. 1980. The Significance of Tunnel Erosion to Archaeology. In Proceedings of |
Woods, William I. 1977. The Quantitative Analysis of Soil Phosphate. American Antiquity |
Woods, William I. 1975. The Analysis of Abandoned Settlements by a New Phosphate Field |
Eidt, Robert C., and William I. Woods. 1974. Abandoned Settlement Analysis -Theory and |
Woods, William I. 1974. A Review of The Peasant Urbanites: A Study of Rural-Urban Mobility in |
