Lab for Student Projects
Ten Hoor 27 Archaeology Laboratory (Anthropology Department)This secure space is a “teaching” laboratory for archaeology classes and student archaeology projects. There is an office for a graduate student with a computer and small library, abundant table and storage space, a separate “wet lab” room with two sinks for receiving, washing and processing materials from the Moundville field archaeology class and other field projects, and a projector-screen station for illustrated lectures. ANT 466 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology and ANT 468 Ceramics for the Archaeologist are among the “hands-on” active learning classes taught in this lab.
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Student working in the archaeology lab.
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Research Interests
Theoretical: Anthropological archaeology, origins of rank, class, and complex societies, sociopolitical differentiation and integration, political economy of households and communities, material correlates of social memory and collective identity, technological change.
Methodological: regional and site settlement analysis, pottery chronology and function, analysis of monumental architecture.
Regional and Temporal: U.S. Southeast, especially Mississippian and Woodland periods (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia).
Maya Lowlands (Belize).
Methodological: regional and site settlement analysis, pottery chronology and function, analysis of monumental architecture.
Regional and Temporal: U.S. Southeast, especially Mississippian and Woodland periods (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia).
Maya Lowlands (Belize).
Previous Research
- 2019 Analysis of the Walling II site collections, University of Alabama Museums.
- 2017-present. Artifact analysis, Actuncan Archaeological Project. Dr. Lisa LeCount, P.I.
- 2016 Excavations Southeast of Mound P, Moundville Archaeological Park.
- 2015 Excavations Northeast of Mound C, Moundville Archaeological Park.
- 2013-2014 Test Excavations, Mounds A and B, Moundville Archaeological Park.
- 2011-2013. Principal Investigator, Moundville Plaza Project, Moundville, Alabama.
- 2010-2018. Project Manager, Actuncan Archaeological Project, Belize, C.A., University of Alabama. Dr. L. J. LeCount, P.I.
- 2010-2011. Principal Investigator, Graveline Archaeological Project, Jackson County, Mississippi, University of Alabama.
- 2004-2011. Principal Investigator, Early Moundville Archaeological Project, Moundville, Alabama, University of Alabama.
- 2004 Field Director, Actuncan Archaeological Project, Belize, C.A., University of Alabama. Dr. L. J. LeCount, P.I.
- 2001 Field Director, Actuncan Archaeological Project, Belize, C.A., University of Alabama, Dr. L. J. LeCount, P.I.
- 1997-2001 Co-investigator with Dr. K. Lorenz (Shippensburg University), Chattahoochee Chiefdoms Project.
- 1992-1994 Principal Investigator, Mississippi Gulf Coast Archaeological Project, Jackson County, Mississippi. Bowdoin College.
- 1989 Archaeologist, Proyecto Arqueologico Santiago-Cayapas, Esmeraldas, Ecuador. Queens College, City University of New York, Dr. W. R. DeBoer, P.I.
- 1987 Archaeologist, Mixteca Alta Archaeology and Ethnohistory Project, Oaxaca, Mexico. City University of New York, Dr. B. Byland, P.I.
- 1984 Archaeologist, Detroit, Michigan. Commonwealth Associates, Inc.
- 1984 Archaeologist, Huron Valley Archaeological Project, Wayne County, Michigan. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
- 1984 Archaeologist, USDA Forest Service. Tombigbee National Forest, Mississippi.
- 1983 Archaeologist, Fort Gibson Lake, Oklahoma. Commonwealth Associates, Inc. Dr. D. Roper, P.I.
- 1983 Archaeologist, Manistee County, Michigan. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
- 1982 Co-investigator with Dr. J. A. Voss, University of Southern Mississippi, Choctaw Homeland Project, Kemper County, Mississippi.
- 1978-1980 Research Associate and Field Supervisor, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Lubbub Creek Archaeological Project, Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Alabama. Dr. C. S. Peebles, P.I.
- 1978-1979 Field School in Underwater Archaeology and Coastal Ecology, Newfound Harbor Marine Institute, Big Pine Key, Florida.
- 1978 Crew member, Moundville Archaeological Project, Alabama. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Dr. C. S. Peebles, Director.
- 1978 Archaeological Assistant, Office of Archaeological Research, University of Alabama.
- 1978 Crew member, Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Tishomingo County, Mississippi. Office of Archaeological Research, University of Alabama. C. B. Oakley, Director.
- 1977 Crew member, Gainesville Reservoir, Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Alabama. Office of Archaeological Research, University of Alabama. N. J. Jenkins, Director.
- 1977 Archaeological Assistant, Harris Reservoir Project, Alabama. Office of Archaeological Research, University of Alabama. C. M. Hubbert, Director.
- 1976-1977 Laboratory Assistant, Mound State Monument, Alabama. Office of Archaeological Research, University of Alabama.
- 1976 Archaeological Assistant, Bay Springs Reservoir, Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Tishomingo County, Mississippi. Office of Archaeological Research, University of Alabama. C. M. Hubbert, Director.
- 1974 Laboratory Assistant, Office of Archaeological Research, University of Alabama.
- 1973 Crew member, Tennessee Valley Authority Widows Creek Project, Jackson County, Alabama. University of Alabama. J. B. Graham, Director.
- 1973 Crew member, Tennessee Valley Authority Little Bear Creek Reservoir, Alabama. Office of Archaeological Research, University of Alabama. C. B. Oakley, Director.
