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Contributors sharon Allitt is a private consultant. she specializes in faunal analysis and human skeletal anatomy. she intermittently teaches anthropology and anatomy courses as an adjunct professor. Her interests include stable isotope research, how the shift from hunting and gathering to cultivation impacted exploitation of local wildlife and the relationship between diet and disease. she received her doctoral degree in 2011 from Temple University where she studied a variety of prehistoric north American human and faunal skeletal collections including those from the Mohr site in Pennsylvania. she was awarded the 5th Annual Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference Graduate student Paper Award for her preliminary dissertation research, which focused on using dog bone as a proxy for human bone in stable isotope analysis looking for the presence of maize at prehistoric archaeological sites. Christopher P. Barton received his PhD in anthropology from Temple University and is the principal investigator at Timbuctoo, new Jersey. He received his BA from Rowan University and his MA in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, he is currently an adjunct professor at Widener University. Charles Bello is an archaeologist currently employed by the federal Emergency Management Agency (fEMA), stationed in Region Viii, Denver, Colorado, and is a member of the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists and the Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists. He attended graduate school at new york University. Joseph Blondino is a graduate student in anthropology at Temple University. Although his research focuses primarily on pre-contact populations in the middle Atlantic region, he also has a great interest in military archaeology and early colonial sites, such as the Marcus Hook Plank log House. He has worked on numerous sites in the region ranging from Paleoindian camps to historic period industrial sites in both the academic/research and compliance realms. He is interested in landscape and site formation and how geologic factors and processes affect both choice of site location by past populations and how cultural deposits are manifested in the archaeological record. He is also a proponent of public outreach and believes that an educated public is one of the most powerful tools at the disposal of the historic preservation community. ian Burrow studied history and archaeology at the universities of Exeter and Birmingham in England. from 1975 to 1988 he worked in several archaeological positions in England, including directing the Oxford Archaeological Unit. since 1988 394 Contributors he has worked with Richard Hunter at Hunter Research, undertaking numerous projects in the Mid-Atlantic, new Jersey, and in Trenton. He has published papers on aspects of regional historical archaeology and teaches as an adjunct in several new Jersey colleges. He is a fellow of the society of Antiquaries of london and a Registered Professional Archaeologist. He has served as President of the Register of Professional Archaeologists and of the American Cultural Resources Association. John M. Chenoweth received his MA in anthropology in 2006 from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in anthropology in 2011 from the University of California , Berkeley. His research uses historical archaeology to study how social identity is created through practice in daily life and how membership in a social group changes how people act and see the world. He has worked in the Us northeast and in the Caribbean , primarily studying religious, racial, and class identities, and in particular the Religious society of friends, better known as “Quakers.” He is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. sarah Chesney is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Her research focuses on the development of scientific botany in early federal Philadelphia and the historical archaeology of early American urban domestic sites. she received her MA in anthropology from William and Mary in 2009 and has done archaeological work in Maryland, Virginia, new Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Currently she is a Barra foundation Dissertation in Art and Material Culture fellow at the Mcneil Center for Early American studies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Carolyn Dillian is an assistant professor of anthropology at Coastal Carolina University where she teaches courses in archaeological theory and method, regional seminars, and archaeological field schools. she has coauthored several articles on the life and work of Dr. Charles Conrad Abbott but also has research interests in north American prehistory, archaeological geochemistry, and prehistoric hunter-fishergatherers in Kenya. she currently directs research at Waties island in south Carolina and is a field Director with the Koobi fora field school in Kenya. Charles fithian is curator of...

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