New Histories of Pre-Columbian Florida

List of Contributors

Contributors Keith Ashley is coordinator of archaeological research and instructor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of North Florida. Robert J. Austin is vice president and principal investigator at Southeastern Archaeological Research, Inc. He received a PhD in anthropology from the University of Florida in 1997. Meggan E. Blessing is a PhD candidate at the University of Florida. Her research interests are centered on the Archaic Southeast, zooarchaeology, and animism. Robert S. Carr co-founded the Archaeological and Historical Conservancy in 1985 and has served as its executive director since 1999. He has worked with the State of Florida’s Division of Historic Resources, the National Park Service, and MiamiDade County. He received a MA in Anthropology from Florida State University, is former editor of The Florida Anthropologist, a former president of the Florida Archaeological Council, and the recipient of the Bullen Award and Florida’s Historic Preservation Award. Craig Dengel is a PhD student at Louisiana State University. For the past five years he has investigated Woodland period settlement patterns along the Florida Gulf coast as an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education fellow at Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City. Zackary I. Gilmore is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida. He received his BA in 2007 from Texas A&M University and MA from Southern Illinois University, both in anthropology. He is interested in the types and scales of social interaction engaged in by Archaic Period hunter-gatherers in the southeastern United States. His current work focuses on the spread of early Contributors 284 potterytechnologyandthedevelopmentoflarge-scalegatheringplacesinnortheast Florida during the Late Archaic. George M. Luer holds a PhD in archaeology from the University of Florida. His research specialties include ceramics, shell tools, metal ornaments, canoe canals, shell middens,radiocarbondating,zooarchaeology,andgeomorphology,especiallyasthey relate to American Indians such as the Calusa, Tocobaga, and their predecessors. Paulette S. McFadden is a PhD candidate at the University of Florida. Her research uses geoarchaeological methods to focus on environmental change in coastal environments , particularly as it relates to human-landscape relationships. Jeffrey M. Mitchem is associate archeologist for the Arkansas Archeological Survey and research associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas. He directs ongoing research at the Parkin site in Parkin Archeological State Park in northeastArkansas.HisresearchinFloridacenterson theWoodland and Mississippian cultures on the peninsular Gulf coast, early Spanish contact, ceramic analysis, and the history of Florida archaeology. Micah P. Monés is a PhD candidate at the University of Florida. His research examines Woodland shell works on Florida’s northern Gulf coast. JasonM.O’DonoughueisaPhDstudentattheUniversityofFlorida.Hisresearchfocuses on the archaeology, history, and paleohydrology of Florida’s freshwater springs. AndreaPalmiottoisaPhDstudentattheUniversityofFlorida. Her researchcenters on seasonality and mobility patterns among coastal populations on the northern Gulf coast of Florida. Thomas J. Pluckhahn is associate professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida. His work focuses on the archaeology of the southeastern United States, particularly the societies of the Woodland period (ca. 1000 BC to AD 1000) on the Gulf coast. Asa R. Randall is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma . His research examines the origins and significance of shell mounds in the Middle St. Johns valley. Vicki Rolland is research assistant in the Archaeology Laboratory at the University of North Florida. Contributors 285 Michael Russo focused on subsistence and seasonality studies of Late Archaic and Woodland wetland sites in Florida in his MA and PhD work at the University of Florida. Since 1994 he has worked at the National Park Service Southeastern ArcheologicalCenter ,wherehehasinvestigatedstateand federallyowned coastalLate Archaic shell rings and mounds and Woodland ring middens and mounds from South Carolina to Louisiana. Kenneth E. Sassaman is Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of Florida Archaeology at the University of Florida. His research in Florida centers on the ancient people of the middle St. Johns River valley and the northern Gulf coast. Rebecca Saunders, a University of Florida graduate, has done work on prehistoric and early historic sites on the lower Atlantic and Gulf coasts for almost 40 years. She is interested in the development and sustainability of coastal cultures and in the utilitarian and social uses of pottery. Theresa Schober is an archaeologist and museum consultant in southwest Florida, where she directed restoration and exhibit development to provide a public museum at Mound House on Fort Myers Beach. Her research focuses on human adaptations to coastal environments...