January 2012

CURRICULUM VITAE

KENNETH EDWARD SASSAMAN, JR.

Present Addresses Department of Anthropology 1112 Turlington Hall, P.O. Box 117305 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-7305 (352)392-6772 (352)392-6929 (FAX) sassaman@ufl.edu 9221 NW 10th Place Gainesville, FL 32606 (352)331-3764

Birth Date and Place November 7, 1957 Baltimore, Maryland

Education University of Massachusetts, Amherst; 1983-1991; Ph.D. Anthropology 1991 University of South Carolina, Columbia; 1980-1983; M.A. Public Service Archaeology 1983. University of Maryland, College Park; 1975-1979; B.A. Anthropology 1979.

Employment Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of Florida Archaeology (2009-present), Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville.

Chair (Oct. 2006-2009), Interim Chair (June 2005-Oct. 2006),

Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville. Professor (2011-present); Associate Professor (2002-2011);

Assistant Professor (1998-2002), Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville.

Archaeologist II, Savannah River Archaeological Research Program,

South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina (1987-1998).

Instructor, Department of History and Anthropology, Augusta State

University, Augusta, Georgia (1991-1998)

Appointments/Offices National Organizations Incoming Editor, American Antiquity (2012-2014), Society for American Archaeology. Panel Member (2007-09), Archaeology Division, National Science Foundation. Editorial Board (2004-07), Society for American Archaeology Press. Panel Member (2002-04), Wenner-Gren Foundation. Program Chair (2003), Society for American Archaeology.

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Secretary (2000-2002), Archeology Division of the American Anthropological Association. Chair, Committee on Awards (2001-2002), Society for American Archaeology. Member, Crabtree Award Committee (2009-present), Society for American Archaeology. Member, Committee on Award for Excellence in Ceramic Studies (1998-2001), Society for

American Archaeology. Member, Committee on Awards (1997-2000), Society for American Archaeology. Member, Program Committee (1996-1997), Society for American Archaeology. Member, Editorial Board (American Archaeology, 2001-2003), The Archaeological Conservancy. Regional Organizations Program Chair (2011), Southeastern Archaeological Conference. President (2006-2008), President-Elect (2004-06), Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Secretary (1998-2000), Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Program Chair (1998), Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Editor (Southeastern Archaeology 1994-1996), Southeastern Archaeological Conference. State Organizations President (1994-1995), Council of South Carolina Professional Archaeologists. Vice President (1992-1993), Council of South Carolina Professional Archaeologists. Editor (South Carolina Antiquities 1989-1999), Archaeological Society of South Carolina. Member, Editorial Board (Mississippi Archaeology, 1997-2001), Mississippi Archaeological

Association. Member, Cultural Resources Subcommittee (1994-1998), South Carolina Heritage Trust. Member (1993-1996), South Carolina Board of the National Register of Historic Places. Departmental Chair (2006-2009) and Interim Chair (2005-2006), Department of Anthropology, University of

Florida. Undergraduate Coordinator (2003-2009), Department of Anthropology, University of Florida. Adjunct Assistant Professor (1992-1997), Department of Anthropology, University of South

Carolina, Columbia.

Awards James Mooney Award for the best book written on the South or Southerners from an

anthropological perspective, Southern Anthropological Society, 2008 (People of the Shoals, University Press of Florida, 2006)

Amerind Foundation Award for symposium Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherers in North America (co-organizer with Donald Holly), annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, 2008.

Jean and Robin Gibson Term Professor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 2003-2004.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, Teaching Award, 2001. C. B. Moore Award for Excellence in Archaeology by a Young Scholar in Southeastern Studies.

Lower Mississippi Survey and Peabody Museum, Harvard, 1994. Outstanding Service Award, Archaeological Society of South Carolina, 1994. National Award for Excellence, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Windows

on the Past, 1992.

Grants/Contracts/Fellowships (P.I. or co-P.I.)

Contract, Silver Glen Springs Watershed Restoration Project, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Forest Service, 2010-2011 Contract, Cultural Resource Assessment Survey of Infrastructure Repair and Trail Rebuilding

within Hontoon Island State Park, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 2009.

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Dissertation Improvement Grant (Neill Wallis), National Science Foundation, Woodland Period Interaction: Swift Creek on the Atlantic Coast, 2007-2008.

Contract, Cultural Resources Assessment Survey of Suwannee Transmission Phase Two, Central Florida Electric Cooperative, 2007-2008.

Survey and Planning Grant, Florida Department of State, Thornhill Lake Archaeological Project, 2006-2007.

Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, Inventory and Analysis of the William H. Claflin Collection, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 2003.

Research Grant, National Science Foundation, Demise of the Shell Mound Archaic: Ecological Circumstances Attending Abandonment of the Middle Savannah River Valley, 3500 B.P., 2002-2004.

Survey and Planning Grant, Florida Department of State, Crescent Lake Archaeological Survey, 2002-2003.

University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Research Award, Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Dating of Carbon Residues on Orange Period Ceramics from Northeast Florida, 1999-2000.

Survey and Planning Grant, Florida Department of State, St. Johns Archaeological Project, Phase I, 1999-2000

Research Grant, National Geographic Society, Stallings Island Revisited, 1999-2000. University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Research Award, Stallings Island

Revisited, 1999-2000. Archaeological Research Trust Grant, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology,

Radiocarbon Dating for Stallings Archaeological Project, 1997 Research and Productive Scholarship Grant, University of South Carolina, Excavations at 38ED5,

1995-96. Challenge Cost-Share Agreement, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Mims

Point Archaeological Project, Phase III, FY 1995. Robert L. Stephenson Archaeological Research Fund, Victor Mills Site Analysis, 1994. Challenge Cost-Share Agreement, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Mims

Point Archaeological Project, Phase II, FY 1993. Survey and Planning Grant, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, for South

Carolina Archaeological Synthesis Project: Phase II (with J. Leader and D. G. Anderson); FY 1993.

Challenge Cost-Share Agreement, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Mims Point Archaeological Project, Phase I, FY 1992.

Survey and Planning Grant, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, for South Carolina Archaeological Synthesis Project: Phase I (with D. G. Anderson, C. Judge and L. F. Stine); FY 1991.

European Studies Grant, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts; Spring 1985. Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research; January 1985. Public Service Archaeology Fellowship, Federal Highway Administration, United States

Department of Transportation; 1980-1982.

Research and Field Experience 2009-present, Project Director, Lower Suwannee Archaeological Survey, Levy and Dixie Counties,

FL. 2000-present, Project Director, St. Johns Archaeological Field School, Volusia, Lake, and Marion

counties, FL. 2002-2003, Project Director, Crescent Lake Archaeological Survey, Flagler and Putnam counties,

FL. 1999-2000, Project Director, excavation and analysis of the Stallings Island site, 9CB1, Columbia

County, GA. 1995-99 - Project Director, excavation and analysis of Ed Marshall site, 38ED5, Edgefield County,

SC.

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1994-96 - Project Director, excavation and analysis of Victor Mills site, 9CB138, Columbia County, GA.

1992-97 - Project Director, excavation and analysis of Mims Point, 38ED9, Edgefield County, SC. Sumter National Forest, United States Forest Service. Robert Morgan, Coordinator.

1990-96 - Project Director, excavation of Tinker Creek site, 38AK224, , Aiken Co., SC. A public outreach project of the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program. M.J. Brooks, Program Manager.

1990-92 - Project Director, excavation and analysis of 38AK157, Aiken Co., SC. Savannah River Archaeological Research Program. M.J. Brooks, Program Manager.

1989 - Analyses of prehistoric site collections and computer analyses of site locations for synthesis of archaeological resources on the Savannah River Site. Savannah River Archaeological Research Program. M.J. Brooks, Program Manager.

1988-89 - Technofunctional analyses of fiber-tempered pottery and soapstone artifacts from sites in the Savannah River Valley for Ph.D. dissertation. Savannah River Archaeological Research Program. G.T. Hanson, Program Manager.

1987 - Project Director, excavation and analysis of 38AK158 and 38AK159, Aiken Co., SC. Savannah River Archaeological Research Program. G.T. Hanson, Program Manager.

1985-86 - Visiting Researcher. Analysis of lithic assemblages from Pen Point, Barnwell Co., SC. Savannah River Archaeological Research Program. G.T. Hanson, Program Manager.

1985 - Survey of pollen data at Universities in West Germany; European Studies Program, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts. H.M.Wobst, Director.

1984 - Project Director, Pen Point Site excavations, Barnwell Co, SC. Savannah River Archaeological Research Program. G.T. Hanson, Program Manager.

1983 - Field Archaeologist, Ft. San Felipe excavations, Paris Island, Beaufort Co., SC. South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology. S. South, Principal Investigator.

1983 - Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina; geological analysis of sediment from Mulberry Mounds site, Kershaw Co., SC.

1982 - Field Archaeologist, Minim Island Shell Midden test excavations, Georgetown Co., SC. Carolina Archaeological Services. L. Drucker, Principal Investigator.

1981-82 - Teaching/Field Assistant, University of South Carolina Archaeological Field School at Mulberry Mounds site, Kershaw Co., SC. L. Ferguson, S. Green and D. Lewarch, co-directors.

1980 - Field Archaeologist, Kuhlman Mound excavations, IL. FAP 408 Highway Project; Northwestern University Archaeological Research Center, Contract Archaeology Office, Evanston, IL. J. Buikstra, Principal Investigator.

1980 - Field Archaeologist, Cultural Resources Reconnaissance, Wicomico River (East). Federal Maintenance Project, Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore Division; Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland. J. Quilter, Principal Investigator.

1979 - Research Assistant, archival research and ethnographic interview, Colonial Williamsburg, VA. Research of M. Leone, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland.

1979 - Teaching/Field Assistant, University of Maryland Archaeological Field School, Historic Alexandria, VA. A. Palkovich, Director.

1978 - Student Excavator, University of Arizona Archaeological Field School, Grasshopper Pueblo, AZ. W. Longacre, Director.

Teaching Experience 2007 – Visiting Professor, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Five-day mini-course on Complex

Hunter-Gatherers. 1998-present - Assistant (1998-2002); Associate (2002-present) Professor, Department of

Anthropology, University of Florida. ANT 2000 – General Anthropology; ANT 4110 - Archaeological Theory; ANT 3153 – North American Archaeology; ANT 4114 – Principles of Archaeology; ANT 6186 – Problems in Southeastern Archaeology; ANG 6930 – Hunter-Gatherers; ANG 6930 Archaeological Ceramics; ANG 6930 – Regional Analysis; ANT6930 –

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Archaic Societies of the Eastern U.S.; ANT 4823/24 Field/Lab Session in Archaeology; ANG6930 – Archaeology of Alternative Futures

1991-1998 - Instructor, Department of History and Anthropology, Augusta State University. ANT

101 - Introductory Anthropology; ANT 303 - Archaeological Method and Theory; ANT 314 - Biological Anthropology; ANT 495a - Hunter-Gatherer Political Ecology; ANT 495a, b - Archaeological Field School.

1992 - Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina.

ANTH 533- North American Archaeology. 1984-1987 - Teaching Associate (1985-1987), Teaching Assistant (1984), Department of

Anthropology; Instructor (1986), Division of Continuing Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. ANTH 102B - Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory; ANTH 103B - Human Origins and Variation.

1983 - Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina. ANTH 101 -

Primates, People and Prehistory. 1979-1980 - Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland. ANTH 101 -

Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology; ANTH 461 - Human Osteology; ANTH 241 - Introduction to Archaeology; ANTH 441 - Old World Prehistory.

Books/Monographs/Edited Volumes

n.d. North American Archaeology (second author with Timothy Pauketat). Cambridge University

Press, New York. (contract signed June 2008). n.d. Pen Point: A Stratified Archaic Site on the Savannah River, Barnwell County, South Carolina.

Savannah River Archaeological Research Papers 14. (in preparation). 2012 Recent Developments in Southeastern Archaeology: From Colonization to Complexity

(second author with David G. Anderson). Society for American Archaeology Press (in press).

2011 Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process (first editor with D. Holly). University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

2010 The Eastern Archaic, Historicized. Altamira Press, Lanham, MD.

2008 The New Archaic (special section editor). The Archaeological Record 8(5):6-40. 2006 People of the Shoals: Stallings Culture of the Savannah River Valley. University Press of

Florida, Gainesville (winner of a 2008 James Mooney Award, Southern Anthropological Society).

2002 G. S. Lewis-East: Early and Late Archaic Occupations along the Savannah River, Aiken

County, South Carolina (first author with I. R. Daniel, Jr. and C. R. Moore). Savannah River Archaeological Research Papers 12.

1999 The Archaeological Northeast (second editor with M. A. Levine and M. S. Nassaney). Bergin

and Garvey, Westport, CT. (paperback edition issued 2000) 1997 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Pedo-Archaeology (third editor with

A. C. Goodyear and J. E. Foss). Anthropological Studies 10. Occasional Papers of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

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1996 Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast (first editor with D. G. Anderson). University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

1996 The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast (second editor with D. G. Anderson). University

of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 1996 Distributional Archaeology in the Aiken Plateau: Intensive Survey of E Area, Savannah River

Site, South Carolina. (second author with M.A. Cabak and J.C. Gillam). Savannah River Archaeological Research Papers 8.

1995 Native American Interactions: Multiscalar Analyses and Interpretations in the Eastern

Woodlands. (second editor with M.S. Nassaney) University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville. 1995 Archaic Period Archaeology of the Georgia Coastal Plain and Coastal Zone (second author

with D.T. Elliott). Georgia Archaeological Research Design Papers 11. Report 35. Laboratory of Archaeology, University of Georgia, Athens.

1995 Middle and Late Archaic Archaeological Records of South Carolina: A Synthesis for

Research and Resource Management (revised, second edition) (first author with D.G. Anderson). Savannah River Archaeological Research Papers 6.

1994 Middle and Late Archaic Archaeological Records of South Carolina: A Synthesis for

Research and Resource Management (first author with D.G. Anderson). Council of South Carolina Professional Archaeologists.

1993 Early Pottery in the Southeast: Tradition and Innovation in Cooking Technology. University of

Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 1993 Mims Point 1992: Archaeological Investigations at a Prehistoric Habitation Site in the Sumter

National Forest, South Carolina. Savannah River Archaeological Research Papers 4. 1993 Early Woodland Settlement in the Aiken Plateau: Archaeological Investigations at 38AK157,

Savannah River Site, Aiken County, South Carolina. Savannah River Archaeological Research Papers 3.

1992 Paleoindian and Early Archaic Period Research in the Lower Southeast: A South Carolina

Perspective (second editor with D.G. Anderson and C. Judge). Council of South Carolina Professional Archaeologists, Columbia.

1990 Native American Prehistory of the Middle Savannah River Valley: Synthesis of Archaeological

Investigations on the Savannah River Site, Aiken and Barnwell Counties, South Carolina. (first author with M.J. Brooks, G.T. Hanson and D.G. Anderson). Savannah River Archaeological Research Papers 1.

Articles/Book Chapters

n.d. Drowning Out the Past: How Humans Historicize Water and Water Historicizes Them. In Big Histories, Human Lives: Tackling Problems of Scale in Archaeology, edited by J. E. Robb and T. R. Pauketat. School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe (in press).

n.d. The Multicultural Genesis of Stallings Culture. In South Carolina Archaeology (tentative title),

edited by A. King. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia (submitted for review). 2012 Hunter-Gatherer Theory in North American Archaeology (first author with A. Randall). In

Handbook on North American Archaeology, edited by T. R. Pauketat. Oxford University Press, Oxford (in press).

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2012 Shell Mounds of the Middle St. Johns Basin, Northeast Florida (first author with A. Randall).

In The Origins of New World Monumentality, edited by R. L. Burger and R. M. Rosenswig. University Press of Florida, Gainesville (in press).

2011 Transformative Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology in North America. In Hunter-Gatherer

Archaeology as Historical Process, edited by K. Sassaman and D. Holly, pp. 1-13. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

2011 History and Alterity in the Eastern Archaic. In Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical

Process, edited by K. Sassaman and D. Holly, pp. 187-208. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

2010 (E)mergent Complexities during the Archaic in Northeast Florida (second author with A.

Randall). In Ancient Complexities: New Perspectives in Pre-Columbian North America, edited by S. Alt, pp. 8-31. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

2010 Bridging the Empirical Divide of Human Variation Research in the New World. In Human

Variation in the Americas: The Integration of Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, edited by B. M. Auerbach, pp. 347-364.. Occasional Paper 18, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

2010 Getting from the Late Archaic to the Early Woodland in Three Middle Valleys (those being the

Savannah, St. Johns, and Tennessee). In Trend, Tradition, and Turmoil: What Happened to the Southeast Archaic?, edited by D. H. Thomas and M. Sanger, pp. 229-235. American Museum of Natural History, New York.

2010 Comment on Close, Angela E. “Inherited Social Difference at the Edges of Flakes,

Cambridge Journal of Archaeology 20(3). 2010 Structure and Practice in the Archaic Southeast. In Contemporary Archaeology in Theory:

The New Pragmatism, edited by R. W. Preucel and S. A. Mrozowski, pp. 170-190. Wiley, New York. Originally published 2004.

2009 The View from the Southeast (second author with T. R. Kidder). In Archaic Societies of the

American Midwest, edited by T. R. Emerson et al., pp. 667-696. State University of New York Press, Albany.

2008 The New Archaic: It Ain’t What it Used to Be. The Archaeological Record 8(5):6-8. 2007 The Cultural History of Bannerstones in the Savannah River Valley (first author with A. R.

Randall). Southeastern Archaeology 26: 196-211. 2007 Mid-Holocene Cultural Dynamics in Southeastern North America (third author with D. G.

Anderson, and Michael Russo). In Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics: A Global Perspective on Mid-Holocene Transitions, edited by D. G. Anderson, K. A. Maasch, and D. H. Sandweiss, pp. 457-490. Elsevier, London.

2007 Comment on Robin Beck et al., Eventful Archaeology: The Place of Space in Structural

Transformation. Current Anthropology 48:850-851. 2006 Stallings Island Revisited: New Observations on Occupational History, Community

Patterning, and Subsistence Technology (first author with M. E. Blessing and A. R. Randall). American Antiquity 71: 539-566.

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2006 Dating and Explaining Soapstone Vessels: A Comment on Truncer. American Antiquity 71:141-156.

2006 Comment on Ian Keen, Constraints on the Development of Enduring Inequalities in Late

Holocene Australia. Current Anthropology 47:25-26. 2005 Poverty Point as Structure, Event, Process. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

12:335-364. 2005 Hills on the Plain: Archaeology and Geology of the Zorn Sites, Bamberg County, South

Carolina (first author with P. Nystrom and S. Zorn). South Carolina Antiquities 37:1-42. 2004 Complex Hunter-Gatherers in Evolution and History: A North American Perspective. Journal

of Archaeological Research 12:227-280. 2004 Common Origins and Divergent Histories in the Early Pottery Traditions of the American

Southeast. In Early Pottery: Technology, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast, edited by Rebecca Saunders and Christopher Hays. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

2004 Structure and Practice in the Archaic Southeast. In North American Archaeology, edited by T.

K. Pauketat and D. D. Loren, pp. 79-107. Blackwell, Oxford. 2004 Early and Middle Holocene Periods, 9500 to 3750 B.C. (second author with D. G. Anderson).

In Handbook of North American Indians: Southeast, pp. 87-100. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.

2004 Late Holocene Period, 3750 to 650 B.C. (first author with D. G. Anderson). In Handbook of

North American Indians: Southeast, pp. 101-114. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.

2004 Roots of the Theocratic Formative in the Archaic Southeast (first author with M. J.

Heckenberger). Hunter-Gatherers in Theory and Archaeology, edited by G. Crothers, pp. 423-444. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University.

2004 Crossing the Symbolic Rubicon in the Southeast (first author with M. J. Heckenberger). In

Signs of Power: The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast, edited by J. Gibson and P. Carr, pp. 214-233. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

2003 Archaeological Consequences of Urban Land-Use Conversion in Northeast Florida, 1970-

1995 (first author with C. Russell and J Endonino). Southeastern Archaeology 22:196-209. 2003 The Editors Speak: Reminiscences of the Editors of the Journal Southeastern Archaeology on

the Occasion of its Twentieth Anniversary (junior author with W. H. Marquardt et al.). Southeastern Archaeology 22:1-8.

2003 New AMS Dates on Orange Fiber-Tempered Pottery from the Middle St. Johns Valley and

Their Implications for Culture History in Northeast Florida. The Florida Anthropologist 56:5-13.

2002 Woodland Ceramic Beginnings. In The Woodland Southeast, edited by D. G. Anderson and

R. C. Mainfort, Jr., pp. 398-420. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 2001 Histories By the Archaeologist, For the Archaeologist. In Histories of Southeastern

Archaeology, edited by S. Tushingham and J. Hill, pp. 234-242. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

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2001 Middle Eastern Archaic. In Encyclopedia of Prehistory, edited by P. Peregrine, pp. 318-321. Kluwer Academic, New York.

2001 Late Eastern Archaic. In Encyclopedia of Prehistory, edited by P. Peregrine, pp. 243-247.

Kluwer Academic, New York. 2001 Articulating Hidden Histories of the Mid-Holocene. In Archaeology of the Appalachian

Highlands, edited by L. P. Sullivan and S. Prezanno, pp. 102-120. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

2001 Communities of Practice in the Early Pottery Traditions of the American Southeast (first

author with W. Rudolphi). Journal of Anthropological Research 57:407-425. 2001 Hunter-Gatherers and Traditions of Resistance. In The Archaeology of Traditions: Agency

and History Before and After Columbus, edited by T. K. Pauketat, pp. 218-236. University Press, of Florida, Gainesville.

2000 Agents of Change in Hunter-Gatherer Technology. In Agency in Archaeology, edited by M. A.

Dobres and J. Robb, pp. 148-168. Routledge, London.

1999 A Southeastern Perspective on Soapstone Vessel Technology in the Northeast. In The Archaeological Northeast, edited by M. A. Levine, K. E. Sassaman, and M. S. Nassaney, pp. 76-95. Bergin and Garvey, Westport, CT.

1998 Distribution, Timing, and Technology of Early Pottery in the Southeastern United States.

Revista de Arqueologia Americana 14:101-133.

1998 Stallings Culture. In Archaeology of Prehistoric North America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Guy Gibbon, pp. 810-813. Garland, New York

1998 Crafting Cultural Identity in Hunter-Gatherer Economy. In Craft and Cultural Identity, edited by C. Costin and R. Wright. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 8:93-107.

1998 Distributional Archaeology in the Southeast: An Early Archaic Example from the Aiken

Plateau, South Carolina (second author with M. A. Cabak and J. C. Gillam). Southeastern Archaeology 17:22-37.

1998 Archaic Perspectives South of the Border. In The Archaic Period in Pennsylvania: Hunter-

Gatherers of the Early and Middle Holocene Period, edited by P.A. Raber, P.E. Miller, and S.M. Nesius, pp. 139-152 Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg.

1998 Lithic Technology and the Hunter-Gatherer Sexual Division of Labor. In Reader in Gender

Archaeology, edited by K. Hays-Gilpin and D. S. Whitley, pp. 159-171. Routledge, London. Reprinted. Originally published 1992.

1997 Refining Soapstone Vessel Chronology in the Southeast. Early Georgia 25:1-20. 1997 Lithic Technology and the Hunter-Gatherer Sexual Division of Labor. Annual Editions:

Archaeology 97/98:77-83. Reprinted. Originally published 1992. Dushkin/McGraw Hill, Guilford, Connecticut.

1996 Technological Innovations in Economic and Social Contexts, pp. 57-74; Middle and Late

Archaic Architecture (first author with R. J. Ledbetter), pp. 75-96. In Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast, edited by K.E. Sassaman and D.G. Anderson. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

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1996 Environmental and Chronological Considerations, pp. 3-15 (third author with D.G. Anderson

and L.D. O'Steen); Modeling Paleoindian and Early Archaic Settlement in the Southeast: A Historical Perspective, pp. 16-28 (second author with D.G. Anderson); Early Archaic Settlement in the South Carolina Coastal Plain, pp. 58-83; The Need for a Regional Perspective, pp. 215-221 (first author with D.G. Anderson); Paleoindian and Early Archaic Research in the South Carolina Area, pp. 222-237 (second author with D.G. Anderson). In The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast, edited by D.G. Anderson and K.E. Sassaman. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

1995 An Early Archaic Assemblage from the Bates Hill Road Site (38AK703), Aiken County, South

Carolina (second author with A.E. DeBiase and M.J. Brooks). South Carolina Antiquities 27:53-62.

1995 Putting the Ogeechee in Its Place (first author with K. Wilson and F. Snow). Early Georgia

23(1):20-40. 1995 Archaeological Testing at the Brassell Site (9GL6), Glascock County, Georgia. Early Georgia

23(1):41-76. 1995 The Cultural Diversity of Interactions among Mid-Holocene Societies of the American

Southeast. In Native American Interaction: Multiscalar Analyses and Interpretations in the Eastern Woodlands, edited by M.S. Nassaney and K.E. Sassaman, pp. 174-204. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

1995 Introduction: Understanding Native American Interactions, pp. xix-xxxviii (second author with

M.S. Nassaney); Epilogue, pp. 341-353 (first author with M.S. Nassaney). In Native American Interaction: Multiscalar Analyses and Interpretations in the Eastern Woodlands, edited by M.S. Nassaney and K.E. Sassaman. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

1995 The Social Contradictions of Traditional and Innovative Cooking Technology in the Prehistoric

American Southeast. In The Emergence of Pottery, edited by W. Barnett and J. Hoopes, pp. 223-240. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.

1995 Lithic Technology and the Hunter-Gatherer Sexual Division of Labor. Annual Editions:

Archaeology 95/96:168-174. Reprinted. Originally published 1992. Dushkin Publishing Group, Guilford, Connecticut.

1994 Crosby Bay (38AK682): Paleoindian and Early Archaic Occupations at a Carolina Bay in

Aiken County, South Carolina (second author with K. Eberhard and M.J. Brooks). South Carolina Antiquities 26:33-46.

1994 Production for Exchange in the Mid-Holocene Southeast: A Savannah River Valley Example.

Lithic Technology 19:42-51. 1994 Changing Strategies of Biface Production in the South Carolina Coastal Plain. In The

Organization of Stone Tool Technologies, edited by P. Carr, pp. 99-117. International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor.

1993 Twenty-Five Lessons in Twenty-Five Years of Middle and Late Archaic Archaeology. South

Carolina Antiquities 25:30-42. 1993 Hunter-Gatherer Site Structure at Upland Sites in the South Atlantic Coastal Plain.

Southeastern Archaeology 12:117-136.

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1993 The Second Fall of the Stallings Culture: Shellmidden Looting in South Carolina and Georgia. In Site Destruction in Georgia and the Carolinas, edited by D.G. Anderson and V. Horak, pp. 26-31. Readings in Archaeological Resource Protection 2. National Park Service, Interagency Archaeological Services Division, Atlanta.

1992 Early Archaic Settlement of the South Carolina Coastal Plain. In Paleoindian and Early

Archaic Period Research in the Lower Southeast: A South Carolina Perspective (edited by D.G. Anderson, K.E. Sassaman and C. Judge). Council of South Carolina Professional Archaeologists.

1992 Lithic Technology and the Hunter-Gatherer Sexual Division of Labor. North American

Archaeologist 13:249-262. 1992 Gender and Technology at the Archaic-Woodland "Transition." In Exploring Gender Through

Archaeology: Selected Papers from the 1991 Boone Conference, edited by Cheryl Claassen, pp.71-79. Monographs in World Prehistory 11, Prehistory Press, Madison.

1991 Adaptive Flexibility in the Morrow Mountain Phase of the Middle Archaic Period. South

Carolina Antiquities 23:31-41. 1990 The Heard Robertson Collection (first author with G.S. Lewis). South Carolina Antiquities

22:49-62. 1990 An Unusually Large Biface from the Phil Neeley Site, 38BM85, Bamberg County, South

Carolina (second author with A.C. Goodyear, N. Powell, T. Charles and C.B.DePratter). South Carolina Antiquities 22:1-16.

1990 Point Bar Geoarchaeology in the Upper Coastal Plain of the Savannah River Valley, South

Carolina: A Case Study (second author with M.J. Brooks). In Archaeological Geology of North America, edited by N.P. Laska and J. Donahue, pp. 183-197. Geological Society of America, Centennial Special Volume 4, Boulder.

1989 Pattern and Process in the Middle Archaic of South Carolina. (second author with D.B.

Blanton). In Studies in South Carolina Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Stephenson, edited by A.C. Goodyear and G.T. Hanson, pp. 53-72. South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Anthropological Studies 9.

1989 Prehistoric Settlement in the Aiken Plateau: Summary of Archaeological Investigations at

38AK158 and 38AK159, Aiken County, South Carolina. South Carolina Antiquities 21:31-64. 1988 Raw Material Procurement and the Reduction of Hunter-Gatherer Range in the Savannah

River Valley (first author with G.T. Hanson and T. Charles). Southeastern Archaeology 7:79-94.

1988 Indian Fires in the Prehistory of New England (second author with W.A. Patterson III). In

Holocene Human Ecology in Northeastern North America, edited by G.P. Nicholas, pp. 107-135. Plenum, New York.

1985 A Preliminary Typological Assessment of MALA Hafted Bifaces from the Pen Point Site,

Barnwell County, SC. South Carolina Antiquities 17:1-17. 1984 Stratigraphic Description and Interpretation of the Mulberry Mound Site (38KE12), Kershaw

County, South Carolina. Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Anthropology Research Reports 1.

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1983 The Political Economy of Resource Management: a General Model and Application to Foraging Societies in the Carolina Piedmont (second author with S.W. Green). In Ecological Models in Economic Prehistory, edited by G. Bronitsky, pp. 261-290. Arizona State University, Anthropological Research Papers 29.

Book Reviews 2011 Archaeology of Louisiana, edited by Mark Rees. American Anthropologist 113:691-692. 2009 Native American Landscapes of St. Catherine’s Island, Georgia (3 volumes), by David Hurst

Thomas. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19:141-143 2008 The Chattahoochee Chiefdoms, by John H. Blitz and Karl G. Lorenz. American Antiquity

73:380-381. 2006 Gulf Coast Archaeology, edited by N. M. White. Journal of Anthropological Research 62:294-

295. 2004 Catawba Indian Pottery: The Survival of a Folk Tradition, by Thomas John Blumer. Journal of

Anthropological Research 60:425-426. 2002 The Ancient Mounds of Poverty Point: Place of Rings, by Jon L. Gibson. Southeastern

Archaeology 20:199-201. 2001 Florida’s Indians from Ancient Times to the Present, by J. T. Milanich. Florida Anthropologist

54(1):58-59. 1999 Hardaway Revisited: Early Archaic Settlement in the Southeast, by I. Randolph Daniel, Jr.

American Antiquity 64:702-704. 1997 Of Caves and Shell Mounds, edited by Kenneth C. Carstens and Patty Jo Watson.

Southeastern Archaeology 16:86-87. 1996 Chesapeake Prehistory: Old Traditions, New Directions, by Richard J. Dent, Jr. Antiquity

70:1003-1004. 1995 The Development of Southeastern Archaeology, edited by Jay Johnson. Journal of Middle

Atlantic Archaeology 11:166-168. 1993 The Archaeology of William Henry Holmes, edited by David J. Meltzer and Robert C. Dunnell.

Southeastern Archaeology 12:159-161. 1993 The Siouan Project: Seasons I and II, edited by R.S. Dickens, H.T. Ward and R.P.S. Davis,

Jr. American Antiquity 58:374-375. 1992 The Organization of Core Technology, edited by J.K. Johnson and C. Morrow. North

American Archaeologist 13:71-76.

Technical Reports 2011 St. Johns Archaeological Field School 2007-09: Silver Glen Run (first author with Z. I. Gilmore,

and A. R. Randall). Technical Report 12. Laboratory of Southeastern Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida.

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2011 Archaeological Investigations at Salt Springs (8MR2322), Marion County, Florida (second author with J. M. O'Donoughue and M. E. Blessing). Technical Report 11. Laboratory of Southeastern Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida.

2011 Lower Suwannee Archaeological Survey 2009-2010: Investigations at Cat Island (8DI29), Little

Bradford Island (8DI32), and Richards Island (8LV137) (first author with P. S. McFadden, and M. P. Mones). Technical Report 10. Laboratory of Southeastern Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida.

2009 Cultural Resource Assessment Survey of Infrastructure Repair and Trail Rebuilding within

Hontoon Island State Park (second author with A. R. Randall). Technical Report 9. Laboratory of Southeastern Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville.

2005 St. Johns Archaeological Field School 2003-2004: Hontoon Island State Park (second author

with A. R. Randall). Technical Report 6. Laboratory of Southeastern Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville.

2005 Demise of the Shell Mound Archaic: Ecological Circumstances Attending Abandonment of

the Middle Savannah River Valley, 3500 B.P., 2002-2004. Report submitted to the National Science Foundation, March 2005.

2003 Crescent Lake Archaeological Survey. Technical Report 5. Laboratory of Southeastern

Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville. 2003 St. Johns Archaeological Field School 2000-2001: Hontoon Island and Blue Spring State

Parks. Technical Report 4. Laboratory of Southeastern Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville.

2000 St. Johns Archaeological Project Phase I: A GIS Approach to Regional Preservation Planning

in Northeast Florida (first author with J. C. Russell and J. Endonino). Technical Report 3, Laboratory of Southeastern Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville.

1999 Stallings Island Revisited: Modern Investigation of Stratigraphy and Chronology. Report

submitted to the National Geographic Society in partial fulfillment of Grant #6411-99. 1998 Abstracts of the Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference,

November 11-14, 1998, Greenville, South Carolina. (first editor with G. J. Waters). Southeastern Archaeological Conference Bulletin 41.

1996 Reconnaissance Survey of the Site 7 of the Proposed Three Rivers Landfill and Technology

Center Savannah River Site, Aiken County, South Carolina (second author with M. Cabak, M. Beck and C. Gillam). Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, Technical Report Series 22.

1994 Intensive Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Domestic Water Upgrade, Savannah River

Site, Aiken and Barnwell Counties, South Carolina (second author with M. Cabak, G. Lewis, and G. Wingard). Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, Technical Report Series 21.

1993 Intensive Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Central Sanitary Wastewater Treatment

Facility, Savannah River Site, Aiken and Barnwell Counties, South Carolina (second author with D.K. Stephenson). Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, Technical Report Series 19.

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1993 Intensive Archaeological Survey of the F/H Surface Enhancement Project Area, Savannah River Site, Aiken and Barnwell Counties, South Carolina (first author with J.C. Gillam). Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, Technical Report Series 18.

1993 Intensive Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Savannah River Ecology Laboratory

Conference Center and Educational Facility, Savannah River Site, Aiken County, South Carolina (second author with D. K. Stephenson and D. C. Crass). Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, Technical Report Series 17.

1992 Intensive Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Site R Sanitary Landfill, Savannah River

Site, Aiken and Barnwell Counties, South Carolina (first author with D. K. Stephenson and W. Green). Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, Technical Report Series 16.

1990 Archaeological Testing at 38AK157, Savannah River Site, Aiken County, South Carolina.

Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, Technical Report Series 13. 1989 Technical Synthesis of Archaeological Investigations on the Savannah River Site, Aiken and

Barnwell Counties, South Carolina (first author with M.J. Brooks, G.T. Hanson and D.G. Anderson). Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, Technical Report Series 12.

1989 Archaeological Resource Management Plan (second author with M.J. Brooks, R.D. Brooks

and G.S. Lewis). Report submitted to the Savannah River Operations Office, U.S. Department of Energy.

1989 Intensive Archaeological Survey and Testing of the NPR Reference Site Area, Savannah

River Site, Barnwell County, South Carolina. (second author with M.J. Brooks, R.D. Brooks and R.B. Kenion). Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, Technical Report Series 11.

1989 Archaeological Testing at 38BR553, Savannah River Site, Barnwell County, South Carolina.

(second author with M.J. Brooks, R.D. Brooks and G.S. Lewis). Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, Technical Report Series 10.

1987 Report of Archaeological Investigations at 38AK158 and 38AK159, Aiken County, South

Carolina. Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, Technical Report Series 9. 1980 Cultural Resource Reconnaissance, Wicomico River (East). (third author with J. Quilter et

al.). Report submitted to the Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore Division.

Symposia Organized

2007 Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherers in North America (co-organizer with

Donald Holly), annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, 2008. (winner of the 2008 Amerind Foundation Award).

1998 Culture-History as Paradigm: Thriving Legacy, Harmless Anachronism, or Intellectual

Handicap? Forum organized for the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Greenville, SC. 1993 Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast. Symposium organized with D.G. Anderson for

the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Raleigh, NC. 1992 Pre-Columbian Native Encounters. Symposium organized with M.S. Nassaney for the

Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock, AR.

1991 Sandhills Archaeology. Symposium organized with C. Braley for the Southeastern

Archaeological Conference, Jackson, MS.

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1991 Paleoindian and Early Archaic Research in the Lower Southeast: A South Carolina

Perspective. Symposium organized with D.G. Anderson for the South Carolina Synthesis Project, Council of South Carolina Professional Archaeologists, Columbia, SC.

1984 Studies in the Organization of Lithic Technology. Symposium organized for the 49th Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Portland, OR.

Invited Public Lectures 2011 Shell Cities and Other Ancient Wonders of the Northern Gulf Coast of Florida. Gainesville

Chapter of the American Archaeological Institute, Gainesville, FL. 2011 Precocious Developments in the American Southeast. Oak Hammock Institute for Learning

in Retirement series Neolithic Parallels in the New World, organized by John Scott, Gainesville, FL.

2010 Archaeology and Climate Change. Dialogues with Florida’s Past. Public Archaeology Lab at

New College and Time Sifters Archaeology Society, Sarasota, FL. 2010 The Future of Archaeology. Public symposium in honor of H. Martin Wobst, Department of

Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 2010 Ancient Shell Mounds of the St. Johns River, Northeast Florida. Lecture for American Indian

Heritage Month, USDA Agricultural Research Service-Center, Gainesville, FL. 2010 The Untold Story of Ancient Life on the Northern Gulf Coast of Florida. Lecture for Florida

Archaeology Month, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Cedar Key Museum, Cedar Key, FL. 2010 Archaeological Insights on the Ancient Shellworks of the St. Johns River, Northeast Florida.

Third Annual Gator Knap-In. Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park, White Springs, FL.

2010 Shell Monuments of Memory in the St. Johns River Valley of Northeast Florida. Warm

Mineral Springs/Little Salt Springs Archaeological Society, North Port, FL. 2009 Outsmarting Rising Water for 8000 Years: An Archaeology of Ancient Cultures of the St.

Johns River Valley. Evenings at Whitney Public Lecture Series. The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, Marineland, FL.

2009 Juniper Club: 100 Years… and the 7000 Before. Annual Board Meeting of the Juniper Club,

Louisville, KY. 2009 Coping with Rising Water in Florida for 12,000 Years. Traces of Our Past: Florida’s History

through Archaeology. Public Archaeology Lab at New College and Time Sifters Archaeology Society, Sarasota, FL.

2009 Archaeological Insights on the Shell Works of the St. Johns River Valley, Northeast Florida.

Trail of Florida’s Indian Heritage Speaker Series, January 10, Fort Walton Beach, FL. 2007 Ancestral Perspectives on Archaic Archaeologies. Banquet speaker, Midwest Archaeological

Conference, October 6, Notre Dame, IN. 2007 One if by Land, Two if by Sea: A Multicultural Genesis for Native North America. Department

of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

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2007 Shell Mounds of the Middle St. Johns Valley, Northeast Florida. Department of Anthropology, University of West Georgia, Carollton.

2007 Monumental Landscapes of the St. Johns Basin, Northeast Florida. Weedon Island Cultural

Center, St. Petersburg, FL.

2006 Monuments of Incredulity: Southeastern Archaic Mounds in Non-Evolutionary Perspective. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois-Chicago, IL.

2006 The Cultural Natural History of Northeast Florida. Florida Museum of Natural History Lecture

Series, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 2006 Building a Better Archaic (blueprints available in three scales). Department of Anthropology,

University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. 2004 Monuments without Kings: The Ritual Landscapes of the Archaic Southeast. Gainesville

Chapter of the American Archaeological Institute, Gainesville, FL. 2004 Landscapes of Structure and Communities of Practice in the Archaic Southeast. Department

of Anthropology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 2003 Landscapes of Power and Communities of Practice in the Archaic Southeast. Archaeological

Research Facility, Spring Lecture Series 2003. University of California, Berkeley, CA. 2001 The Archaic That Never Was: History and Power for the Cold Societies of Eastern North

America. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. 2000 Return to the Island of the Dead: Stallings Prehistory in the Middle Savannah River Valley.

Florida Archaeology Week, Big Talbot Island State Park, FL. 1999 Island of the Dead: Stallings Prehistory in the Middle Savannah River Valley. Keynote

speaker for the annual meeting of the Missouri Archaeological Society, Columbia, MO. 1997 Hunter-Gatherer Social Organization as Ethnic Process. New Approaches to New World

Precolumbian Social Organization, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

1996 Rebuilding Stallings Prehistory from the Ground Up; and, Rethinking Hunter-Gatherer

Prehistory from the Top Down. Fall 1996 Visiting Lecture Program, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

1994 10,000 Years of Native American Interaction and Identity. Featured lecture, National Native

American Month, Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC. 1994 Greenspace, Use-Rights, and the Commons: Managing Environments the Hunter-Gatherer

Way; and, Alternative Solutions to Environmental Degradation in Prehistory. The 1994 Cullum Program: The Environment: Complexity and Conflict. Augusta College, Augusta, GA.

1992 How Post-Modernist Incursions Brought the Study of Gender to Archaeology. Anthropology

Colloquium Series, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 1992 Prehistoric Archaeology of the Savannah River Site and Beyond. Savannah River Ecology

Laboratory Seminar Series, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia.

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Conference Papers (invited and Contributed)

2011 Futurologists Look Back. Paper presented in symposium the 110

th Annual Meeting of the

American Anthropological Association, Montréal, QC, Canada, 2011 Turning the Tide on Northern Gulf Coast Florida Archaeology (first author with P. McFadden,

M. Monés, and E. Anderson). Paper presented in symposium at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jacksonville, FL

2011 Archaic Histories Beyond the Shell Heap along the Middle St. Johns River, Florida (second

author with A. Randall, M. Blessing, Z. Gilmore, and J. O’Donoughue). Paper presented in symposium at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jacksonville, FL

2011 Making Stone Tools is Like Building Mounds, or, the Desire to Humanize Post-Humanize the

Scientific Analysis of Lithics. Keynote address at the conference Everyone Made Stone Tools: Exploring Methodology in Lithic Analysis. Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Providence, RI.

2010 The Shell Game at Silver Glen Run, Now You See an Archaic Village, Now You Don’t (first

author with P. McFadden, A. Randall, and R. Estabrook). Paper presented in symposium at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington, KY.

2010 Visit Shell City: Another Coastside Attraction (third author with A. Randall and M. Mones).

Paper presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington, KY.

2010 Monumental Transformations on Both Sides of the Atlantic. (second author with A. R.

Randall). Paper presented in symposium at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, MO.

2010 How the Experiences of Ancient Floridians Inform the Challenges of Sea-Level Rise Today. In

Keeping Our Heads above Water: Surviving the Challenges of Sea-Level Rise in Florida, organized by Reed Noss. Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, FL.

2009 Introducing the Lower Suwannee Archaeological Survey. Paper presented at the 66th Annual

Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Mobile, AL. 2009 Archaeological Testing of Near-Shore Deposits at Salt Springs (8MR2322), a Preceramic

Archaic Site in the Ocala National Forest, Florida (second author with J. M. O’Donoughue). Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Mobile, AL.

2009 Recent Developments in Southeastern Archaeology (second author with D. G. Anderson).

Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Mobile, AL.

2009 Drowning Out the Past: How Humans Historicize Water and Water Historicizes Them. In

From Moments to Millennia: Scale and Change in Human History, School for Advanced Research Seminar, organized by J. E. Robb and T. R. Pauketat, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM.

2008 St. Johns Archaeological Field School 2008, Part I: Shellworks and Villages of Silver Glen

Run (first author with A. Randall, N. Wallis, M. Blessing, and Z. Gilmore). Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, NC.

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2008 St. Johns Archaeological Field School 2008, Part II: Mount Taylor Shell Ridge at Silver Glen

Run (second author with A. Randall). Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, NC.

2008 Getting from the Late Archaic to the Early Woodland in Three Middle Valleys (those being the

Savannah, St. Johns, and Tennessee). Paper presented at the Third Caldwell Conference, St. Catherine’s Island, GA, American Museum of Natural History.

2008 Eastern Archaic Prehistory “as if” History. Paper presented in symposium at the 73

rd Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver.

2007 St. Johns Archaeological Field School, 2008: Silver Glen Run (first author with A.R. Randall and N.J. Wallis). Paper presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Knoxville, TN.

2007 The Alterity of Complexity and the Illusion of Change (first author with Asa R. Randall). Paper

in symposium "Complexity and Transformation in World Archaeology," 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

2007 (E)mergent Complexities during the Archaic in Northeast Florida (second author with Asa R.

Randall). Paper in symposium "Confounding Categories and Conceptualizing Complexities," 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

2006 Shell Mounds of the Middle St. Johns Basin, Northeast Florida (first author with Asa R.

Randall). Paper in symposium "New World Shell Mounds and Shell Middens: A Bicoastal Comparison," 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2006 Selective Memory during the Late Archaic in East-Central Florida (second author with Asa R.

Randall). Paper in symposium "Uses of the Past: Negotiating Social Change through Memory and Tradition," 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2005 St. Johns Archaeological Field School 2005: The Hontoon Dead Creek Village (second author

with A. R. Randall and N. Wallis). Paper presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, TN.

2005 (Re)Placing Archaic History (second author with A. R. Randall). Paper in symposium

"Theorizing Place in Archaeology: Prospects and Potentialities," 70th Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, UT. 2005 Paleoindian to Archaic Transition in the South Atlantic Slope (first author with K. A. Bridgman

and A. R. Randall). Paper in symposium "Paleoindian-Archaic Transition," 70th Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, UT. 2005 Hontoon Dead Creek Mound. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Florida

Anthropological Society, Gainesville, FL. 2004 St. Johns Archaeological Field School 2004: Part I, Hontoon Island Shell Mounds (first author

with A. R. Randall and M. E. Blessing). Paper presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, St. Louis, MO.

2004 St. Johns Archaeological Field School 2004: Part II, Hontoon Island’s Habitation Sites Shell

Mounds (second author with A. R. Randall and P. Hallman). Paper presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, St. Louis, MO.

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2004 Containers of Time and Space in Archaic Culture. Paper presented in symposium at the 69th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Canada.

2003 Thinking Regionally and Acting Locally in 25 Years of SRARP Archaic Archaeology. Paper in symposium Research as Compliance: 25 Years of the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program. 60th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, NC.

2003 Recent Field Investigations at Hontoon Island and Crescent Lake, Florida (fist author with M. E. Blessing, P. R. Hallman, and A. R. Randall). Paper presented at the 60

th Annual Meeting

of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, NC.

2001 New Perspectives on Spatial Patterning of Stallings Communities (second author with M. E. Blessing). Paper presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, TN.

2001 St. Johns Archaeological Field School 2001 (first author with P. M. O'Day, J. C. Endonino, and

J. J. Schultz). Paper presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, TN.

2001 Common Origins and Divergent Histories in the Early Pottery Traditions of the American

Southeast. Paper presented in symposium at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA.

2000 University of Florida Archaeological Field School at Blue Spring State Park, Volusia County,

Florida. Paper presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Macon, GA.

2000 The Digitized St. Johns: A GIS Approach to Regional Preservation Planning in Northeast

Florida (first author with J. C. Russell and J. C. Endonino). Paper presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Macon, GA.

1999 Complex Is as Simple Does: History and Power in the Archaic Southeast. Paper presented

in a symposium at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Pensacola, FL.

1999 Return to Stallings Island (first author with D. T. Elliott). Paper presented at the 56th Annual

Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Pensacola, FL. 1999 Resisting and Persisting in the Archaic Southeast. Paper presented in symposium at the 64th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, IL. 1998 Recent Research on Stallings Prehistory. Paper presented at the Fall Meeting of the Society

for Georgia Archaeology, Valdosta, GA. 1998 Learning to Craft the Left-Handed Way. Paper presented in symposium at the 63rd Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, WA. 1997 Excavating Ed Marshall. Paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern

Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge, LA. 1997 Unsolved Mysteries of Mt. Pleasant's Paleoindian and Archaic Prehistory. Paper presented at

the Second Annual Conference on Mt. Pleasant Archaeology, Mt. Pleasant, SC. 1997 Dating Soapstone Vessels. Paper presented at the Spring Meeting of the Society for Georgia

Archaeology, Augusta, GA.

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1997 Acquiring Stone, Acquiring Power. Invited paper presented in symposium at the 62nd Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, TN. 1996 Distributional Archaeology in the Aiken Plateau (second author with M.A. Cabak and J.C.

Gillam). Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Birmingham, AL.

1996 Left-Handed Potters, Unilineal Descent, and the Social Power of Gender. Invited paper

presented in symposium at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Birmingham, AL.

1996 The Soapstone Vessel Dating Project: A Preliminary Report. Paper presented at the 53rd

Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Birmingham, AL. 1996 Articulating Hidden Histories of the Mid-Holocene. Invited paper presented at the Conference

on Integrating Appalachian Highlands Archaeology, New York State Museum, Albany. 1996 Excavations in the Stallings Midden at the Ed Marshall Site (38ED5). Paper presented at the

22nd Annual Conference on South Carolina Archaeology, Columbia, SC. 1995 Crafting Cultural Identity in Hunter-Gatherer Economies. Invited paper presented in

symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

1995 The Handedness of Stallings Potters and Its Implication for Social Organization (first author

with W. Rudolphi). Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Knoxville, TN.

1995 Social Controls over Resource Expansion and Contraction (first author with R.B. Walker).

Invited paper presented in symposium at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, MN.

1995 Searching for Shad at the Victor Mills Site. Paper presented at the 21st Annual Conference

on South Carolina Archaeology, Columbia, SC. 1995 The Archaic Southeast: 7000 Years of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity. Invited paper presented in

symposium on Southeastern Archaeology at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Atlanta.

1994 In the Shadow of Stallings Island. Paper presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the

Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington, KY. 1994 Putting the Ogeechee in Its Place (first author with K. Wilson and F. Snow). Paper presented

at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington, KY. 1994 Changes in the Landscape: The Savannah River Valley. Invited paper presented in

symposium at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington, KY.

1994 The Last Twenty-Five Years of Middle and Late Archaic Archaeology in South Carolina.

Paper presented at the 20th Annual Conference on South Carolina Archaeology, Columbia, SC.

1994 Recent Excavations at Mims Point (38ED9), Edgefield County, South Carolina. Paper

presented at the Fall Meeting of the Society for Georgia Archaeology, Statesboro.

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1993 Middle and Late Archaic Architecture (first author with R. Jerald Ledbetter). Paper presented

in symposium at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Raleigh, NC.

1993 The Products and Precedents of Southeastern Mid-Holocene Archaeology (first author with

David G. Anderson). Paper presented in symposium at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Raleigh, NC.

1993 Technological Innovations in the Economic and Social Lives of Mid-Holocene Southeast

Populations. Paper presented in symposium at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Raleigh, NC.

1993 The Social Contradictions of Traditional and Innovative Cooking Technology in the Prehistoric

American Southeast. Invited paper presented in symposium at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, MO.

1993 Archaeology at Mims Point. Paper presented at the 19th Annual Conference on South

Carolina Archaeology, Columbia, SC.

1992 Colluvial Contexts for Prehistoric Sites in the Aiken Plateau. Invited paper presented in

symposium on Site Formation Processes in the Atlantic Coastal Plain, University of South Carolina, Coastal Carolina, Conway, SC.

1992 Understanding Pre-Columbian Native Encounters (second author with M.S. Nassaney).

Paper presented in symposium at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock, AR.

1992 Raiders, Traders, and Refugees in the Mid-Holocene of the American Southeast. Paper

presented in symposium at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock, AR.

1992 Recent Investigations at Late Archaic Sites in the Savannah River Region. Paper presented

at the Spring Meeting of the Society for Georgia Archaeology, Savannah, GA. 1992 Changing Strategies of Biface Production in the South Carolina Coastal Plain. Invited paper

presented in symposium at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh, PA.

1992 Prehistoric Research as Compliance. Presentation made to Department of Energy Workshop

on Cultural Resource Management, Charleston, SC.

1991 The Regional Perspective and Methodology of Sandhills Archaeology (first author with Chad

Braley). Paper presented in symposium at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jackson, MS.

1991 Long-term Habitation for Small-scale Societies in the Aiken Plateau. Paper presented in

symposium at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jackson, MS.

1991 Women, Men, and the Origins of Southeastern Fiber-tempered Pottery. Invited paper

presented in symposium at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jackson, MS.

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1991 The Second Fall of the Stallings Culture: Shellmidden Looting in South Carolina and Georgia. Paper presented in the COSCAPA workshop, Site Destruction in the Southeast: A South Carolina Perspective, Columbia, SC.

1991 Early Archaic Settlement of the South Carolina Coastal Plain. Paper presented in symposium

for the South Carolina Synthesis Project, Council of South Carolina Professional Archaeologists, Columbia, SC.

1991 Woodland Period Occupations in the Aiken Plateau (first author with D. K. Stephenson and

W. Green). Invited paper presented at the Spring Conference of the Society for Georgia Archaeology, Augusta, GA.

1991 Gender and Technology at the Archaic-Woodland "Transition." Invited paper presented at the

Anthropology and Archaeology of Women Conference, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.

1991 Gender and Technology in Prehistory. Paper presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA.

1991 The Androgenic Nature of Prehistoric Lithic Technology. Invited paper presented in the

plenary session The Archaeology of Gender at the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference, Ocean City, MD.

1990 Cultural Quarries: Strategies for Scavenging and Recycling Lithic Refuse (first author with M.

J. Brooks). Paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Mobile, AL.

1990 The Heard Robertson Collection (first author with G. S. Lewis). Paper presented at the 16th

Annual Conference on South Carolina Archaeology, Columbia, SC; and at the Spring Meeting of the Society for Georgia Archaeology, Atlanta, GA.

1989 Economic and Social Contexts of Early Ceramic Vessel Technology in the American

Southeast. Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Tampa, FL.

1989 Innovative Late Archaic Cooking Technology. Paper presented at the 15th Annual

Conference on South Carolina Archaeology, Columbia, SC. 1988 Production for Exchange among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the Savannah River Valley.

Paper presented at the 53th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Phoenix, AZ.

1988 Point Bar Geoarchaeology in the Upper Coastal Plain of the Savannah River Valley (second

author with M.J. Brooks). Paper presented at the 53th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Phoenix, AZ.

1988 Archaeological Investigations at Two Prehistoric Upland Sites in Aiken County, SC. Paper

presented at the 14th Annual Conference on South Carolina Archaeology, Columbia, SC. 1987 Raw Material Procurement and the Reduction of Hunter-Gatherer Mobility in the Savannah

River Valley (first author with G.T. Hanson and T. Charles). Paper presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charleston, SC.

1986 Hunter-Gatherer Fire-use and Resource Manipulation in the Mesolithic of Northwestern

Europe. Paper in symposium at Northeastern Anthropological Association Meetings, Buffalo, NY.

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1986 Upland Lithic Scatters and Middle Archaic Settlement in the Carolina Piedmont. Invited paper

presented in symposium at the Northeastern Anthropological Association Meetings, Buffalo, NY.

1985 The Middle Archaic Period in the Savannah River Valley: Patterns of Adaptive Flexibility.

Invited paper presented in symposium Prehistory of the Savannah River Valley at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Birmingham, AL.

1984 Recent Investigations of Archaic Period Typology and Technology in the Upper Coastal Plain

of South Carolina (second author with G.T. Hanson). Paper presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Pensacola, FL.

1984 Middle and Late Archaic Settlement Mobility and Technological Organization in the South

Carolina Piedmont. Paper in symposium at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Portland, OR.

1982 The Effects of Surface Processes on the Distribution of Aboriginal Ceramics at Mulberry.

Paper presented at the 9th Annual Conference on South Carolina Archaeology, Columbia, SC.

1981 The Historic Well and Socio-Economic Change in Alexandria, Virginia. Paper presented at

the 8th Annual Conference on South Carolina Archaeology, Columbia, SC.

Symposium Discussant 2011 Theorizing the Salish Sea: New Perspectives on the Gulf of Georgia Region of the Northwest

Coast. Organized by C. Grier, K. Supernant, and P. Dolan. 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, CA.

2009 Indigenous Materialities and Archaeological Analysis in the Eastern Woodlands, organized by

K. Kaspar and H. M. Wobst. 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA.

2008 Biological and Archaeological Variation in the New World, organized by Benjamin Auerbach,

2008 Visiting Scholar Conference, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

2007 Theoretical and Methodological Contributions of Hunter-Gatherer Pottery Studies, organized

by Larkin Hood and Jelmer Eerkens. 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.

2002 Understanding Landscapes of Southeastern Hunter-Gatherers. Organized by V. Thompson

and C. Gillam. 59th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Biloxi, MS.

2000 Native American Archaeology in Georgia: What We Know in the Year 2000. Organized by P.

Garrow. 57th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Macon, GA. 1999 Histories of Southeastern Archaeology. Organized by J. Hill and S. Tushingham. 56th Annual

Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Pensacola, FL. 1997 Current Research on the Green River: Diverse Studies of Common Problems. Organized by

J. Fenton. 54th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge, LA.

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1997 Ethnoarchaeology in the Southeast. Organized by R. Kenion and J. Rice. 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, TN.

1996 Recent Lithic Studies in North Carolina. Organized by L.E. Abbott. 53rd Annual Meeting of

the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Birmingham, AL. 1996 Impacts of Early Holocene Warm/Dry Interval on Early and Middle Archaic Cultures of the

East Coast of North America. Organized by L. McWeeney and D. Kellogg. 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA.

1995 Lithic Analysis and Behavioral Implications. Organized by P. Carr. 52nd Annual Meeting of

the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Knoxville, TN.

Membership

American Anthropological Association Society for Georgia Archaeology Society for American Archaeology Mississippi Archaeological Association Southeastern Archaeological Conference Florida Anthropological Society Registry of Professional Archaeologists Florida Archaeological Council

Research Interests

Hunter-gatherer ecology, social theory, community organization, monumentality, archaeological theory, macroregional studies, lithic and ceramic technology, technological change, geoarchaeology, Eastern United States prehistory.