Nantucket and Other Native Places: The Legacy of Elizabeth Alden Little

Contributors

Contributors J. Clinton Andrews, 1914–1994, combined a lifelong interest in archaeology , Nantucket ecology, and local history with the practical knowledge of the working fisherman. From three generations of detailed observation, he drew on a vast body of local knowledge that he frequently made available to researchers and students at the University of Massachusetts Nantucket Field Station where he worked. Among other projects, he collaborated on grey seal, land mammal, seabird, and archaeological research. He published An Annotated List of the Salt Water Fishes of Nantucket (1973), Fishing around Nantucket (which he also illustrated) (1990, both published by the Maria Mitchell Association, Nantucket), and several articles for National Fisherman magazine. Dr. Marshall Joseph Becker has studied the Native peoples of the Delaware River and Delaware Bay regions for more than forty years. He was trained at the University of Pennsylvania in all four fields of anthropology and now applies multiple anthropological approaches to gather information about the Lenape (“Delaware Indians”) and their neighbors. Becker has published nearly 200 articles on the Lenape and other Native Americans in scholarly as well as popular journals. He also has published a number of book chapters and monographs on the peoples of the lowland Maya region. His studies of skeletal populations from archaeological sites in Italy, the Czech Republic, and elsewhere in the European Union have appeared in dozens of articles. Becker’s research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation , the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the National Geographic Society, and the Social Science Research Council. Shirley Blancke is associate curator of Archaeology and Native American Studies at the Concord Museum, Concord, Massachusetts. Specializing in local archaeology, she is a longtime member of the Massachusetts 225 226 List of Contributors Archaeological Society and served as the Massachusetts Archaeological Society Bulletin editor from 1997 to 2003. Originally from Britain, she received an MA in archaeology and anthropology from Cambridge University and a PhD from Boston University. She created some of the exhibits for the Hall of Man in Africa at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Dr. Kathleen J. Bragdon is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary. Her research focuses on the ethnohistory and sociolinguistic history of Native southern New England. Bragdon has published several books on New England Native language and culture. Her latest, Native People of Southern New England 1650–1775 (2009), represents her recent focus on “ethnohistorical linguistics.” Bragdon has received the Erminie Wheeler Voegelin Best Book Prize from the American Society for Ethnohistory and (with Ives Goddard) the Kenneth Hale Prize from the Linguistic Society of America. Elizabeth S. Chilton is an associate professor, the department chair of anthropology, and the director of the Center for Heritage and Society at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. Her research, publications, and teaching focus on the archaeology of New England, Native history, maize horticulture, social complexity, cultural resource management, and the analysis of material culture. She is the director of the UMass Amherst Field School in Archaeology, and she has directed or codirected eleven such field scho ols at UMass and Harvard University over the past twenty years. She received her MA in 1991 and her PhD in 1996, both from the Department of Anthropology at UMass Amherst. She was an assistant and then an associate professor of anthropology at Harvard University from 1996 to 2001, and she has been on the University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty since 2001. Dena Ferran Dincauze is a Massachusetts native whose nascent interest in American archaeology was supported by members of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society (MAS)—Benjamin Smith, Alfred Mansfield, and Eugene Winter. She met Betty Little at an MAS meeting, and the two were colleagues and friends almost immediately. Dincauze received her BA at Barnard College, New York City, where the encouragement of Nathalie and Richard Woodbury launched her career. Graduate study at Cambridge University in England and at Harvard completed her career training; early fieldwork in South Dakota, England, and southern New England helped her decipher the riddle of soils. Dincauze was active in the Society for American Archaeology and editor of American Antiquity. She represented MAS on the Massachusetts Historical Commission. 227 List of Contributors Tonya Baroody Largy is an archaeological consultant specializing in the analyses of both plant and animal remains from archaeological sites and also is on the staff of...