The Woodland Southeast

Contributors

Contributors Steven R. Ahler is Senior Archaeologist at the Illinois State Museum Society in Springfield. He has worked extensively in Illinois and Missouri over the past 20 years, with research interests focusing on Late Woodland settlement systems, potential cultural effects of Archaic period environmental changes, and lithic analyses. David G. Anderson is an archaeologist with the Southeast Archeological Center of the National Park Service, based in Tallahassee, Florida. His home is in Williston, South Carolina. Judith A. Bense is a professor of anthropology and Director of the Archaeology Institute at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. She founded the archaeology program there in 1980 and conducts research in the lower southeastern United States in the Woodland, Archaic , and Historic Colonial periods. She has studied the Swift Creek culture since the 1960s and has excavated four shell midden rings of this period on the northern Gulf Coast. R. Berle Clay is Supervisory Archaeologist with Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., in Lexington , Kentucky. Charles R. Cobb is an associate professor of anthropology at State University of New York at Binghamton. His research interests include political economy, the organization of technology , and lithic studies. He is the author of From Quarry to Cornfield: The Political Economy of Mississippian Hoe Production (2000, University of Alabama Press). Currently, he is the editor of Northeast Anthropology. James W. Cogswell is a research archaeologist with Northland Research, Inc., in Tempe, Arizona. His research interests include pottery technology and ceramic sourcing through neutron-activation analysis. George M. Crothers is the 2000–2001 Visiting Scholar at the Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His research interests include the prehistory of eastern North America, cave archaeology, and the archaeology of hunter-gatherer groups. Richard Edging is a University of Missouri, Columbia, archaeologist assigned as cultural resource manager at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. He has over 25 years of experience in archaeology and historic preservation with interests that include Native American cultures, pre-Columbian Midwestern archaeology, iconography, NAGPRA, prehistoric and historic contexts, and historic archaeology. Charles H. Faulkner, professor of anthropology and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has conducted archaeological research in east and middle Tennessee for the past 36 years. During this time his research has focused on Woodland ceramics and community patterning, prehistoric activity in the dark zone of caves, and historical archaeology. Debra L. Gold is assistant professor of anthropology at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota . She received her doctorate in anthropology from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include the late prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands, early agricultural com- Contributors 665 munities, the emergence of inequality, bioarchaeology, and mortuary analysis. Recent publications include “Utmost Confusion Reconsidered: Bioarchaeology and Secondary Burial in Late Prehistoric Interior Virginia” in Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture , edited by P. M. Lambert and published by the University of Alabama Press. Kristen J. Gremillion is associate professor of anthropology at Ohio State University. Jeffrey L. Hantman is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia. He received his doctorate from Arizona State University. His research interests include Eastern Woodlands archaeology, colonialism, cultural identity, and the writing of history. He is currently directing excavations at the site of Monasukapanough in Virginia, part of a larger research program focused on the archaeology and ethnohistory of the Monacan Indian communities . Recent writings include “Monacan History at the Dawn of Colonization” in Societies in Eclipse published by the Smithsonian Institution Press. Joseph M. Herbert is currently employed as an archaeologist with the Cultural Resources Management Program at Fort Bragg and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Melissa L. Higgins received her bachelor of arts degree from Wake Forest University in 1990 and her master’s degree in anthropology from the University of Mississippi in 1994. She worked as an archaeologist for the U.S. Forest Service in south Mississippi from 1992 until June 2000. She now resides in northern Minnesota along the shore of Lake Superior. H. Edwin Jackson is professor of anthropology at the University of Southern Mississippi. He received his doctorate in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1986. He is interested in the ecological, social, political, and ritual patterning in the prehistoric use of animal resources, as well as in broader issues of southeastern prehistory. John E. Kelly is a lecturer in archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis. Tristram R. Kidder is an associate professor at Tulane University in New Orleans. Paul...