Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi

Contributors

Contributors GEORGE J. ARMELAGOS, professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts , Amherst, is the coauthor ofDemographic Anthropology (with Alan Swedlund) and Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating (with Peter Farb). He is also coeditor ofPaleopathology at the Origins ofAgriculture . He has published extensively on the impact of diet and disease on adaptation of prehistoric populations. Armelagos has published articles in Natural History, the New }f)rk Times, and Cosmopolitan. He is an avid outdoorsperson and is an expert kayaker. IAN W BROWN, associate curator of North American collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology; Harvard University, is the author of Salt and the Eastern North American Indian: An Archaeological Study and Natchez Indian Archaeology: Culture Change and Stability in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Dr. Brown has done considerable work in Mississippi and Louisiana, notably on and around Avery Island, Louisiana. CHESTER B. DEPRATIER, research associate at the University of South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology; has written or co-written more than a dozen publications on southeastern Indians and sixteenthcentury Spanish explorations in "La Florida." His articles have appeared in American Antiquity, Southeastern Archaeology, Florida Historical Quarterly, and several edited volumes. GEORGE FIELDER, state archaeologist and director of the Tennessee Division of Archaeology; has been working in the field of cultural resource management sine 1976, when he joined the staff of the Tennessee State Historic Pres280 Contributors • 281 ervation Office. He was appointed state archaeologist in 1983. Fielder's areas of specialty include historical archaeology; legal aspects of archaeological preservation, especially cemetery and burial law; and public archaeology He is the current secretary-treasurer of the National Association of State Archaeologists. JAMES B. GRIFFIN, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan and one of the most influential American prehistorians of the twentieth century, is a recipient of the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology and is a past president of the Society for American Archaeology and the Southeastern Archaeological Conference. He is the author of more than 100 articles and monographs. Two of his works, The Prehistory ofEastern North America and The Fort Ancient ikpect, are considered classics in American archaeology. M. CASSANDRA HILL, a Ph.D. candidate in biological anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is the author of several papers and publications on iron-deficiency anemia and biocultural transitions of prehistoric Southeastern populations. She is also one of the editors for volume 4 of Archaeological Investigations in the Gainesville Lake Area of the TennesseeTombigbee Watenvay. MICHAEL P. HOFFMAN, professor in the Department ofAnthropology, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, and curator of anthropology for the University of Arkansas Museum, is the author of 30 published monographs and papers. His research interests include Caddoan and Arkansas River Valley archaeology ; Quapaw, Seneca-Cayuga, Caddo, and Cherokee tribes; and the history of southeastern archaeology CHARLES HUDSON, professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgia, is author of The Catawba Nation, The Southeastern Indians , and Elements ofSoutheastern Indian Religion. He is editor of Black Drink: A Native American Tea and Ethnology of the Southeastern Indians. His most recent research has been on the sixteenth-century Spanish explorers of the interior southeastern United States. R BARRY LEwIs, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the author of several monographs and numerous articles on the archaeology of Mississippi period communities in western Kentucky and southeastern Missouri. His contributions include the monographs Mississippian Explorative Strategies and Excavations at Two Mississippian Hamlets in the Cairo Lowland ofSoutheast Missouri and the 282 • Contributors edited book, Mississippian Towns ojthe Western Kentucky Border. He directs the UIVC Western Kentucky Research Project. DAN E MORSE, professor of anthropology at the University ofArkansas and Arkansas State University and archaeologist with the Arkansas Archeological Survey, is the author of five books, including Archaeology ojthe Central MississipPi Valley (co-written with Phyllis A. Morse), and over 125 papers. Morse serves on the Arkansas De Soto Trail Commission and is currently researching both the Protohistoric and the Colonial periods of Arkansas. He is also currently co-writing a book on the Dalton period Sloan cemetery. Major research interests include primitive technology and development of complex chiefdoms. PHYllIS A. MORSE, research associate with the Arkansas Archeological Survey, is the author of Parkin: The 1978-1979 Archeological Investigations oj a Cross County, Arkansas Site and coauthor (with Dan E Morse) of Archaeology ojthe CentralMississippi Valley. Her major research interests include the route of...