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Van Nest, J., 2002. The Good Earthworm: How Natural Processes Preserve Upland Archaic Archaeological Sites of Western Illinois, U.S.A. Geoarchaeology 17, 53-90. doi:10.1002/gea.10003

Van Nest, J., 2004. Review of "The Sheguiandah Site: Archaeological, Geological and Paleobotanical Studies at a Paleoindian Site on Manitoulin Island, Ontario", edited by P.J. Julig. Geoarchaeology 19, 179-181.

Van Nest, J., 2014. Holocene Mississippi River Floods and Geoarchaeological Site Formation Processes in the Sny Bottom, Western Illinois, USA. Quaternary International 342, 114-138. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.05.031