Time's River: Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi Valley

Contributors

Contributors Ian Brown received a B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1973 and a Ph.D. from Brown University in 1979. He served as Assistant Director of Harvard University’s Peabody Museum for many years. He is currently a Distinguished Teaching Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. He is also Curator of Gulf Coast Archaeology at the Alabama Museum of Natural History. He specializes in the archaeology and history of Southeastern Indians, and has spent over thirty- five years excavating sites in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Kevin L.Bruce is the current Planning Team Leader on the McKenzie River Ranger District, Oregon. He received his Master’s degree in anthropology from the Eastern New Mexico University in 2001. His research interests include prehistoric hunter-gatherer lifeways, stone tool technologies, GIS, and geophysical survey techniques and applications. Philip J. Carr is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Center for Archaeological Studies, University of South Alabama, with research interests in stone tools, hunter-gatherers, and the organization of technology. Robert C. Dunnell received a B.A. degree from the University of Kentucky in 1964 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1967. He worked for thirty years at the University of Washington, including thirteen years as department chair. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington and Adjunct Professor at Mississippi State University and the University of Tennessee; he is also Affiliate Curator at the Yale Peabody Museum. His research interests include Mississippi valley archaeology, dating, and archaeological theory, especially evolutionary theory. James Feathers is the Director of the Luminescence Dating Laboratory and 536 / Contributors a research associate professor at the University of Washington. His main research is in the application of luminescence dating in archaeological contexts. Gayle J. Fritz is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. General research interests include ethnobotany, paleoethnobotany, and agricultural origins and developments , with primary involvement in the North American Southeast and Midwest , as well as the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico. Michael L. Galaty is associate professor of anthropology at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. He conducts field research in both Europe and North America. His research interests include the origins of complex societies and prehistoric political economy. He is a ceramic analyst who employs chemistry and petrography to better understand systems of pre- and Protohistoric ceramic manufacture, distribution, and consumption. S. Homes Hogue received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill, in 1988. She is currently Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair at the Department of Anthropology, Ball State University. Research interests include bioarchaeology and zooarchaeology of the southeastern United States. H. Edwin Jackson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he teaches Southeastern prehistory, cultural resources policy, and methods of analysis. His research focuses on Mississippian-period chiefdoms, in particular the role animal exploitation plays in economic, social, and ideological systems of prehistoric societies. Jay K. Johnson is a Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Mississippi. He received his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Research interests include remote sensing, GIS, lithic analysis, and ethnohistory. Carl P. Lipo is Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology and Research Scientist at the Institute for Integrated Research in Materials, Environments , and Society at California State University, Long Beach. His research interests include the use of evolutionary theory to explain human cultural change in the archaeological record, cultural transmission, remote sensing, geophysics, luminescence dating, and quantitative methods. Hector Neff is Professor of Anthropology and Research Scientist at the Institute for Integrated Research in Materials, Environments, and Society at California State University, Long Beach. One focus of his research is the application of chemical characterization to prehistoric craft production and exchange systems. He has pursued this interest through ceramic-sourcing studies in Mesoamerica, North America, and many other regions of the world. Evan Peacock is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Senior Research Associate at the Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University. Contributors / 537 He is an environmental archaeologist with interests in evolutionary theory, paleobiogeography, cultural resource management, and the application of “hard science” methods in archaeology. Janet Rafferty is a Professor of Anthropology and Senior Research Associate at the Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University. Her research...