| Lori Belknap: “Hammering out the Facts: An Analysis of Copper at Mound 34, Cahokia”[pdf] First Place 2008 Illinois Archaeological Survey |
| Christopher Casey: “Prehistoric Ceramics: An Analysis and Reproduction of Cahokian Pottery”[pdf] |
| Gregory Guntren: “Using Experimental Archaeology to Reconstruct the Circular Post Structure from the D. Hitchens Site”[pdf] |
| Richard Hartrum: “Making a Dugout Canoe Using Fire and Stone”[pdf] |
| Jamie Haines: “Analysis of Historical Euro-American Skeletal Remains from the Old Darwin Cemetery, Darwin, Illinois”[pdf] Second Place 2008 Illinois Archaeological Survey student |
| Brian Evans: “Culture and the Stone: Gravestone Forms and Motifs in a Southern Illinois Cemetery”[pdf] |
| Brian Kumpf: “An Interactive Online Human Evolution Tutorial: Technological Solutions to Teaching Anthropology”[pdf] |
| Kye Miller: “Analysis and Significance of the Copper Site in Cahokia’s Hinterlands”[pdf] |
| Andrew Tiler Ross: “Mammal Behavior and Concentration in Urban Settings vs. Rural Settings”[pdf] |
| Ernesto Rivera: “West African Artifacts in the Divine Design Museum Exhibit: A Cultural Materialist Perspective” [pdf] |
| Tara Holland: “Hinduism through the Eyes of Cultural Materialism: Artifacts in the Divine Design Museum Exhibit”[pdf] |
| Aislinn Marshall: “Islamic Sacred Artifacts in the Divine Design Museum Exhibit”[pdf] |
| Leighann Jones: “Aliens or Allies: Images of Immigrants in Contemporary American Cultural Texts”[pdf] |
| Denae Crowl: “Human-Macaque Interactions and Related Effects on Macaque Behavior and Conservation”[pdf] |
| Bran McGregor: “Across an Ocean: The Yoruba Roots of American Hip-Hop”[pdf] |
| Zachary Senger: “The Language and Culture of ‘World of Warcraft’”[pdf] |
