Dr. Logan Miller
Professor of Anthropology
Office
SCH Schroeder Hall 360
Office Hours
Wed 10-1
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Biography
I am an anthropological archaeologist with research interests in lithic analysis and the archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands. In class, I talk about the harm of believing in alien pyramids and encourage students to collect cigarette butts around campus.
Current Courses
ANT 481.001 Advanced Archaeological Field School
ANT 381.001 Archaeological Field School
ANT 497.001 Capstone Research In Applied Community And Economic Development
ANT 499.001 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
ANT 498.001 Professional Practice In Anthropology
ANT 460.001 Research Design In Anthropology
Ph D Anthropology
Ohio State University
Columbus OH
MA Anthropology
Ohio State University
Columbus OH
BA Anthropology
Wright State University
Dayton OH
Excellence Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement of the Year by a Pre-tenured Faculty Member
ISU College of Arts and Sciences
2019
Research Initiative Award
Illinois State University
2018
Student Paper Award
Society for American Archaeology
2014
Student Poster Award
Society for American Archaeology
2013
Grants and Contracts
Elemental analysis of Ground Stone Axes from Noble-Wieting using pXRF
Julian Marvel, Logan Miller.
Office of Student Research. December 2022 - June 2023
Summer Faculty Fellowship
Logan Miller.
Illinois State University CAS. July 2019 - June 2020
Pre-Tenure Faculty Initiative Grant
Logan Miller.
ISU College of Arts and Sciences. July 1 2018 - June 30 2019
University Research Grant Program - New Faculty Initiative Grant
Logan Miller.
Illinois State University. July 1 2016 - June 30 2017
Patricia Essenpreis Memorial Grant
Logan Miller.
Ohio Archaeological Council. August 2015 - March 2016
AMS Radiocarbon Dating of an Illinois Hopewell Ritual Staging Area
Colt Graves, Logan Miller.
Office of Student Research. - 2021
Encyclopedia
The Noble-Wieting Cultural Site
Logan Miller, Jacob Skousen.
240-241, (2025)
Journal Article
Clovis Use-Wear Analysis: A Review
Logan Miller.
Northeast Anthropology, 95-96, 10-32, (2025)
Description, Microwear, and Morphometrics of Clovis and Possible-Clovis Lithic Artifacts from the Kasten Site, Erie County, Ohio, USA
Metin Eren, Michelle Bebber, Brian Redmond, Paul Kasten, Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew Boulanger.
Lithic Technology, 50, 67-81, (2025)
RENEWED INVESTIGATIONS OF THE WHIPPLE SITE: EVIDENCE FOR A FOURTH LOCUS OF ACTIVITY ALONG THE ASHUELOT RIVER IN SWANZEY, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Stephanie Scialo, Cory Atkinson, Logan Miller, David Leslie.
Archaeology of Eastern North America, 53, 87-113, (2025)
Experimental Bison Butchery Using Replica Hafted Clovis Fluted Points and Large Handheld Flakes
Metin Eren, Michelle Bebber, Lawrence Mukusha, Michael Wilson, Andrew Boehm, Briggs Buchanan, Logan Miller, Matthew Skoglund, Matthew Skoglund, John Hayes, Max Barta, Samantha Bates, Ryan Callaghan, Chester Floyd, Seth Morris, Spencer Neuharth, Clay Newcomb, Steven Rinella, Corinne Schneider, Mary Margaret Smith, Ann Parfitt, David Meltzer.
JAS: Reports, (2024)
Hit or Miss: Do Microscopic Linear Impact Traces (MLITs) Form on Clovis Stone Tips Launched Via Atlatl into Foliage and Sediment?
Lawrence Mukusha, Logan Miller, Andrew Smith, Michelle Bebber, Linda Spurlock, John Garrath, Joseph Ortiz, Michael Wilson, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew Boulanger, Metin Eren.
Journal Of Archaeological Science: Reports, 55, (2024)
Isotopic evidence for non-local elk hunting by the Noble-Wieting community
Abigail Chipps Stone, Kelly Kennedy, Logan Miller, Jacob Skousen, Ryan Lange.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, (2024)
NEWLY REPORTED CLOVIS POINTS AND POSSIBLE PREFORMS FROM OR NEAR THE WELLING, MIELKE, AND DEBOLT FARM SITES, OHIO
Andrew Smith, Charles Stephens, David Mielke, Andy Wilson, Tom Debolt, Fred Groseclose, Paul Hothem, Matthew Boulanger, Briggs Buchanan, Logan Miller, Michelle Bebber, Metin Eren.
Northeast Anthropology, 91-92, 52-78, (2024)
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance IV: An Experimental Assessment of Knife Edge Effectiveness and Wear
Metin Eren, Logan Miller, Brett Story, Michael Wilson, Michelle Bebber, Briggs Buchanan.
Lithic Technology, (2024)
Settling Down with Anthropomorphic Clay Figurines in Eastern North America.
Logan Miller.
Frontiers in Human Dynamics: Institutions and Collective Action, 6, (2024)
Bladelets, Blood, and Bones: Integrating Protein Residue, Lithic Use-Wear, and Faunal Data from the Moorehead Circle, Fort Ancient
Robert Riordan, Logan Miller, Abigail Stone.
American Antiquity, (2023)
Description, Morphometrics, and Microwear of Two Paleoindian Fluted Points from Nebraska and Illinois
Metin Eren, Michelle Bebber, Matthew Wendel, Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan.
Lithic Technology, 48, 318-326, (2023)
Early Paleoindian Personal Adornment: An Example from the Brian D. Jones Site in Avon, Connecticut
David Leslie, Logan Miller.
PaleoAmerica, 9, 48-59, (2023)
Thinking about artifact description, collections, access, and replicability: Clovis and possible-Clovis artifacts from the Wyandot County and Portage County Historical Societies, Ohio
Lawrence Mukusha, Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew Boulanger, Ronald Marvin, Sarah Fisher, Robert Kunst, Michelle Bebber, Metin Eren.
Northeast Anthropology, 90, 1-25, (2023)
Toolstone characterization, description, morphometrics, and microwear of the lithic assemblage from Uptar, Magadan Oblast, Northeastern Siberia, Russia
Metin Eren, Fernando Diaz-Martin, Antonio Tarrino, Heather Smith, Briggs Buchanan, Logan Miller, Matthew Boulanger, Maureen King, Sergei Slobodin.
Archaeological Research in Asia, (2023)
Gulf of Maine Archaic Tradition Occupations at the Edgewood Apartments Site, Plainville Massachusetts
David Leslie, Zachary Singer, Logan Miller, Katharine Reinhart, Brian Jones.
Archaeology of Eastern North America, 50, 1-29, (2022)
The Mielke Clovis Site (33SH26), Western Ohio, USA, Geochemical Sourcing, Technological Descriptions, Artifact Morphometrics, and Microwear
Matthew Boulanger, Briggs Buchanan, Logan Miller, Brian Redmond, Bob Christy, Brandi MacDonald, David Mielke, Ryun Mielke, Connie Mielke, Tate Maurer, Bruce Meyer, Monty Meyer, Brian Trego, Andy Wilson, Pete Cartwright, Leo Ott, Michelle Bebber, David Meltzer, Metin Eren.
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 47, 69-102, (2022)
A collection of early Holocene flaked-stone crescents from the northern Great Basin
Matthew Boulanger, Logan Miller, Philip Fisher.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 37, (2021)
Antelope Springs: A Folsom Site in South Park, Colorado
Matthew Boulanger, Robert Patton, Brian Andrews, Michelle Bebber, Briggs Buchanan, Ian Jorgeson, Logan Miller, Metin Eren, David Meltzer.
PaleoAmerica, 7, 114-132, (2021)
Current Evidence Supports Welling as an Outcrop-Related Base Camp
Metin Eren, Fernando Diez-Martin, Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Richard Haythorn, Matthew Boulanger, Ashley Rutkoski, Jennifer Bush, James Norris, Owen Lovejoy, Richard Meindl, Michelle Bebber.
American Antiquity, (2021)
Description, Geometric Morphometrics, and Microwear of Five Clovis Fluted Projectile Points from Lucas and Wood Counties, Northwest Ohio, USA
Alyssa Perrone, Michelle Bebber, Matthew Boulanger, Briggs Buchanan, Logan Miller, Brian, Metin Eren.
Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 3, 1034-1047, (2021)
Late Archaic and Early Woodland Stone Tools from Killbuck, Holmes County, Ohio
Damon Mullen, Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Fernando Diez-Martin, Todd St John, Metin Eren, Michelle Bebber.
Current Research In Ohio Archaeology, (2021)
Ritual, Labor Mobilization, and Monumental Construction in Small-Scale Societies
Logan Miller.
Current Anthropology, 62, 164-197, (2021)
Technical Descriptions of Artifacts from the Dresden Mound Cache, Ohio
Metin Eren, Damon Mullen, Linda Spurlock, Bob Christy, Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Jennifer Bush, Michelle Bebber.
Current Research In Ohio Arhaeology, (2021)
The Nelson stone tool cache, North-Central Ohio, U.S.A.: Assessing its cultural affiliation
Eren, Michelle Bebber, Anna Mika, Kat Flood, Leanna Maguire, Dusty Norris, Alyssa Perrone, Damon Mullen, Scott Centea, Chase Centea, Bob Christy, Rami Daud, Jermaine, Robert Patton, Brian Redmond, Briggs Buchanan, Richard Haythorn, Logan Miller, Mark Conaway, Rebecca Gurbuz, Stephen Lycett, David Kilby, Brian ANdrews, Brandi MacDonald, Boulanger, David Meltzer.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 37, (2021)
A Wall-Trench Structure from the Langford Tradition Village of Noble-Wieting (11ML24), McLean County, Illinois
Logan Miller, Robert McCullough, Jacob Skousen.
Illinois Archaeology, 31, 1-29, (2020)
Bladelets and Middle Woodland Situations in Southern Ohio
Logan Miller.
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 45, 226-242, (2020)
The Effect of Heat on Lithic Microwear Traces: An Experimental Assessment
Ashley Rutkoski, Logan Miller, Leanna McGuire, Metin Eren, Michelle Bebber.
Lithic Technology, 45, 38-47, (2020)
Toward a Situational Approach to Understanding Middle Woodland Societies in the North American Midcontinent
Edward R. Henry, Logan Miller.
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 45, 187-202, (2020)
Description, Morphometrics, and Microwear of Two Clovis Points from Pandale, Val Verde County, Texas
James Norris, Alyssa Perrone, Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Robert Patten, Michelle Bebber, Metin Eren.
Bulletin of the Texas Archaeological Society, 89, 121-128, (2019)
Hunter-gatherer gatherings: stone-tool microwear from the Welling Site (33-Co-2), Ohio, USA supports Clovis use of outcrop-related base camps during the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas
Logan Miller, Michelle Bebber, Ashley Rutkoski, Richard Haythorn, Matthew Boulanger, Briggs Buchanan, Jennifer Bush, Owen Lovejoy, Metin Eren.
World Archaeology, 51, 47-75, (2019)
The Black Diamond Site, Northeast Ohio, USA: a New Clovis Occupation in a Proposed Secondary Staging Area
Metin I Eren, Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew Boulanger, Michelle Bebber, Brian Redmond, Charles Stephens, Lisa Coates, Patricia Boser, Becky Sponseller, Matt Slicker.
Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2, 211-233, (2019)
Toward Recognizing the Prehistoric Butchery of Frozen Meat: An Archaeological Experiment and Stone Tool Microwear Analysis
Samantha Kirgesner, Michelle Bebber, Ashley Rutkoski, Logan Miller, Metin Eren.
Lithic Technology, 44, 1-7, (2019)
Description, morphometrics, and microwear of Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene artifacts from Southwestern Kentucky, USA
Metin I Eren, Michelle Bebber, Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew Boulanger, Robert Patton.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 20, 516-523, (2018)
Hopewell Bladelets A Bayesian Radiocarbon Analysis
Logan Miller.
American Antiquity, 83, 224-243, (2018)
Microwear Analysis of Hopewell Bladelets from Two Sites Associated with the Stubbs Earthworks, Southwest Ohio
Logan Miller.
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 43, 281-297, (2018)
SPRACKLEN (33GR1585): NEW INSIGHTS INTO SHORT-TERM MIDDLE WOODLAND SITES IN THE UPLANDS
Logan Miller, Tyler R Heneghan.
Journal of Ohio Archaeology, 5, 1-15, (2018)
Thermoluminescence (TL) and Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) Dating of Two Burned Clovis Wyandotte Chert Lithic Specimens from Paleo Crossing (33ME274), Ohio, USA
Metin I Eren, Briggs Buchanan, Brian Redmond, James Feathers, Logan Miller, Brian Andrews.
Lithic Technology, 43, 18-25, (2018)
Description and Microwear Analysis of Clovis Artifacts on a Glacially-Deposited Secondary Chert Source Near the Hartley Mastodon Discovery, Columbiana County, Northeastern Ohio, U.S.A.
Michelle Bebber, Logan Miller, Matthew Boulanger, Brian Andrews, Brian Redmond, Donna Jackson, Metin Eren.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 12, 543-552, (2017)
No Smoking Please? Campus Cigarette Butt Collection as an Archaeological Field Exercise
Logan Miller.
Journal of Archaeology and Education, 1, (2017)
The morphometrics and microwear of a small Clovis assemblage from Guernsey County, Southeastern Ohio, U.S.A.
Angelia Werner, Kathleen Jones, Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Alastair Key, Matthew Boulanger, Crystal Reedy, Michelle Bebber, Metin Eren.
Journal of Archaeological Science:Reports, 15, 318-329, (2017)
MANA from heaven: Testing the utility of minimum analytical nodule analysis at large, repeatedly reoccupied ceremonial sites
Logan Miller.
8, 1-10, (2016)
Smudge Pits and Stone “Drills”: The Use of Chipped Stone Tools at Burrell Orchard
Logan Miller, Brian G. Redmond.
Lithic Technology, 41 (2), 164-178, (2016), 10.1080/01977261.2016.1168145
The Wauseon Clovis fluted point preform, Northwest Ohio, U.S.A.: Observations, geometric morphometrics, microwear, and toolstone procurement distance
Logan Miller.
Journal of Archaeological Science : Reports, 10, 147-154, (2016)
Ritual economy and craft production in small-scale societies: Evidence from microwear analysis of Hopewell bladelets
Logan Miller.
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 39, 124–138, (2015)
Lithic microwear analysis as a means to infer production of perishable technology: a case from the Great Lakes
Logan Miller.
Journal of Archaeological Science, 49, 292–301, (2014)
Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Bladelet Use at the Moorehead Circle, Fort Ancient
Logan Miller.
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 39 (1), 83–102, (2014)
Illuminating activities at Paleo Crossing (33ME274) through microwear analysis
Logan Miller.
Lithic Technology, 38 (2), 97-108, (2013)
Presentations
Middle Woodland Bifaces with Glossy Polish: Adzes, Hoes, or Other?
Logan Miller.
Society for American Archaeology, Denver Colorado, April, 2025
Integrating Tribal Consultation and K9 Archaeological Human Remains Detection (K9 arcHRD) Surveys to Protect Ancestors During Archaeological Field Schools
Kaila Akina, Jennifer Hall, Elizabeth Malouchos, Jacob Skousen, Logan Miller.
Midwest Archaeological Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October, 2024
Of Course it’s Quartz: Prelimi nary Results and Lithic Analysis from Site 107 -23 in Orange, CT
Landon Whitney, Eric Hefter, Logan Miller.
Eastern States Archaeological Federation, Ocean CIty, Maryland, October, 2023
Crane and Loy: Middle Woodland Settlements on Macoupin Creek, Greene County, Illinois
Logan Miller, Kenneth Farnsworth.
Midwest Archaeological Conference, Bowling Green, KY, October, 2023
Beyond the Natural Community: Village Structure, Architecture, Temporality, and Community at Noble-Wieting
Jacob Skousen, Logan Miller, Robert McCullough.
Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse Wisconsin, October, 2022
Examining Lithics and Community at Noble-Wieting
Logan Miller.
Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse Wisconsin, October, 2022
Introducing the Noble-Wieting Cultural Site
Jacob Skousen, Logan Miller, Logan Pappenfort, Kaila Akina, Elizabeth Watts Malouchos.
Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin, October, 2022
Recent Research at the Noble-Wieting Cultural Site
Jacob Skousen, Logan Miller.
Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin, October, 2022
Detection and Identification of Possible Tobacco Residues in Burnt Crusts of Hopewell Pottery from Lower Illinois River Valley
Clarneisha Burnside, Kenneth Farnsworth, Colt Graves, Logan Miller, Ruth Ann Armitage.
American Chemical Society Central Regional Meeting, Ypsilanti, MI, June, 2022
Path Dependence in Middle Woodland Ceremonial Landscapes
Logan Miller.
Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture and the Environment, Tamba, FL, April, 2022
Use-Wear Evidence for Bead Production at the Middle Woodland Period Crane Site, Greene County, Illinois
Logan Miller, Kenneth Farnsworth, Brad Koldehoff.
Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April, 2022
A Probable Paleoindian Encampment at the Two Wrasslin’ Cats Site, East Haddam, Connecticut
Sarah Sportman, Mark Clymer, Logan Miller, David Leslie.
88th Annual Meeting of the Eastern States Archaeological Federation, Online, November, 2021
Lithic Use-Wear Evidence of Middle Woodland Pearl/Shell Bead Production at the Crane Site, Greene County, Illinois
Logan Miller, Kenneth Farnsworth, Brad Koldehoff.
Annual Meeting of the Illinois Archaeological Survey, Online, September, 2021
Bladelets and Middle Woodland Situations in Southern Ohio
Logan Miller.
2019 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Mankato, Minnesota, October, 2019
Ceremonial Situations in the North American Midcontinent: Perspectives from the Middle Woodland Era
Edward Henry, Logan Miller.
2019 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Mankato, Minnesota, October, 2019
Toward a Situational Approach to Understanding Middle Woodland Societies in the North American Midcontinent
Edward Henry, Logan Miller.
2019 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Mankato, Minnesota, October, 2019
Preliminary Results of the 2019 Illinois State University Field School at Noble-Wieting
Logan Miller.
63rd Annual Meeting of the Illinois Archaeological Survey, Collinsville, Illinois, October, 2019
Temporal Changes in Wall Trench Structures at the Upper Mississippian Village of Noble-Wieting, McLean County, Illinois
Logan Miller.
Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM, April, 2019
Overview of an Excavated Wall Trench Structure from Noble-Wieting, McLean County, Illinois
Logan Miller.
2018 Midwest Archaeological Conference, South Bend, IN, October 4, 2018
A Langford House from Noble - Wieting, McLean County, Illinois
Logan Miller.
62 nd Annual Meeting of the Illinois Archaeological Survey, Champaign, IL, September 15, 2018
Dating the emergence and decline of Middle Woodland blade technology
Logan Miller.
83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington DC, April, 2018
Paleo Crossing (33 ME 274): A Synthesis of Recent Research
Logan Miller, Metin Eren, Brian Redmond, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew Boulanger.
Midwest Archaeological Conference, Indianapolis IN, October, 2017
PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF A JOINT ISU AND ISAS FIELD SCHOOL AT THE NOBLE-WIETING SITE (11ML24)
Logan Miller, Jacob Skousen, Robert McCullough.
Midwest Archaeological Conference, Indianapolis IN, October, 2017
There’s a Hopewell Site Where?! The 2016 Investigations at the Spracklen Site.
Logan Miller.
Ohio Archaeological Council, Columbus, Ohio, April 28, 2017
Spracklen: A Hopewell encampment in the Little Miami River Valley
Logan Miller.
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Iowa City, Iowa, October, 2016