Plaquemine Archaeology

Contributors

Virgil Roy Beasley III received a B.A. from the University of Central Florida and an M.A. from the University of Alabama. He is currently conducting doctoral research at Northwestern University. Mr. Beasley’s research interests include the archaeology of ¤shing populations, the use of shell as a building material, and landscape archaeology. Ian W. Brown is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama and Curator of Gulf Coast Archaeology at the Alabama Museum of Natural History . He specializes in the archaeology of the southeastern United States. Most of his research has been in the Lower Mississippi Valley, along the southwest coast of Louisiana, and in the Mobile-Tensaw delta of Alabama. He is the editor of Bottle Creek: A Pensacola Culture Site in South Alabama, which is also published by the University of Alabama Press (2003), and author of “The Calumet Ceremony in the Southeast as Observed Archaeologically” in the revised edition of Powhatan’s Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast (U. of Nebraska Press, 2006). Marvin D. Jeter (Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1977) has been the UAM Station Archeologist for southeast Arkansas with the Arkansas Archeological Survey since 1978. He has also worked in Alabama, Arizona, Tennessee, Louisiana , and Illinois. His publications include a 1989 overview of Arkansas and Louisiana archaeology, the prize-winning book Edward Palmer’s Arkansaw Mounds (U. of Arkansas Press, 1990), and Arkansas Archaeology (U. of Arkansas Press, 1999), plus a number of reports, articles, book chapters, and reviews. His main research interests are the late prehistoric and protohistoric-contact periods in the Lower Mississippi Valley and Southeast and the history of archaeology . Contributors Tristram R. Kidder received a B.A. from Tulane University in 1982 and an M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1988) from Harvard University. He is currently Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Patrick C. Livingood completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 2006 with a dissertation on Mississippi period Pearl River mound sites. He received a B.S./B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in computer science and anthropology and an M.A. in anthropology from the University of Michigan. He is currently Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. Mark A. Rees is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma in 2001 and an M.A. in historical archaeology from the University of Massachusetts at Boston in 1991. His research interests include Native American political culture and historical anthropology. He is co-editor with Cameron Wesson of Between Contacts and Colonies (U. of Alabama Press, 2002) and a contributor to The Archaeology of Traditions, edited by Timothy R. Pauketat (U. Press of Florida, 2001). Lori Roe is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in North American archaeology at Tulane University. Her dissertation research focuses on Coles Creek mound use at the Raffman site and its implications for Coles Creek social organization. Malcolm K. Shuman is the owner of SURA, Inc., a contract archaeology ¤rm in Baton Rouge. He was educated at Louisiana State University, the University of New Mexico, and Tulane University. He has done archaeology in the Southeast, in the Southwest, and in France. Richard A. Weinstein is a Principal Investigator for Coastal Environments, Inc., in Baton Rouge. He has investigated sites of all descriptions in the Lower Mississippi Valley, Florida, and coastal Texas. Douglas C. Wells is an Archaeologist/Project Manager for Coastal Environments , Inc., in Baton Rouge. He has won the Nobel Piece Prize for his work with underprivileged potsherds and reserves the right to author his own biographical pieces. 260 contributors ...