Early Pottery in the Southeast: Tradition and Innovation in Cooking Technology

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments ~is book is a revised version of the doctoral dissertation I pre- ~ sented to the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1991. The members of my dissertation committee, Dena F. Dincauze, chair, H. Martin Wobst, Arthur S. Keene, and James K. Boyce, inspired me to think in new ways about old archaeological problems, and I thank them for the guidance, encouragement, and resources they provided over the course of this project. I was particularly influenced by Drs. Dincauze and Wobst; any success I have enjoyed in this endeavor is owed in large measure to their wisdom and care. A number of individuals graciously provided access to the artifact collections I examined for this project. For this my gratitude is extended to Eugene Futato, Office of Archaeological Research at Moundville; David Hally, University of Georgia; Michael Taylor, Hilton Head Museum; Genevieve Fischer, Peabody Museum, Harvard; Dan Simpkins, Lewis Larson, and Ray Crook of West Georgia College; Martha Zierden, The Charleston Museum; Sharon Pekrul and George Lewis, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology ; and Bob Carnes and Bob Neumann, Museum of Geoscience , Louisiana State University. My thanks also go to colleagues who provided data or copies of unpublished reports: Mark Brooks, David Anderson, Glen Hanson, Tommy Charles, George Lewis, Dan Robinson, Janice Campbell, Michael Trinkley, Fred Cook, Dan Elliott, Bob Johnson, Albert Goodyear, David Hally, Steve Davis, Jerald Ledbetter, and Read Stowe. I am also grateful for the theoretical insights of my fellow students at UMass, especially Michael Nassaney, John Cross, Bill Fawcett, Dean Saitta, and Elena FiIios. Equally important in this endeavor was the wealth of substantive insight provided by David Anderson and Mark Brooks on matters of southeastern prehistory. xv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Funding for this research was provided by the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program (SRARP), under the direction of Glen Hanson until 1989, and through the offices of Bruce Rippeteau, South Carolina StateArchaeologist and Director ofthe South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, and Ron Jernigan of the Savannah River Operations Office, United States Department of Energy . I can honestly say that this project, and perhaps my graduate career, would not have survived without the foresight and commitment of Glen Hanson to support student research, and for this I am especially grateful. The current SRARP managers, Mark Brooks and Richard Brooks, and its DOE contracting officer, Drew Grainger, also deserve credit for continuing in this same spirit. I have several people to thank for their thoughtful comments on drafts of this book in its various stages of development: David Anderson , Mark Brooks, Chester DePratter, George Lewis, John Gero, David Dye, Ned Jenkins, and Trudie Calvert. My deep gratitude also goes to Judith Knight and the staff of the University ofAlabama Press for their professionalism and patience. Finally, to all the others who helped to make this project materialize-to my parents, friends, and colleagues-I cast my wishes for all the best. xvi EARLY POTTERY IN THE SOUTHEAST ...