Publications

​Peer-Reviewed Books 

  • 2008    Moundville. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
  • 2006    The Chattahoochee Chiefdoms. J. H. Blitz and K. G. Lorenz. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
  • 1993    Ancient Chiefdoms of the Tombigbee. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.​

Peer-Reviewed Articles


  • 2022     Ancient Maya Embedded Economies and Changing Groundstone Densities in Households at Actuncan, Belize. L. J. LeCount, J. H. Blitz, and J. W. Tidwell. Latin American Antiquity 33(3):641-647.
  • 2022     Commemoration of a Mississippian Ceremonial Structure and Ritual Practitioner at Walling II, Alabama. J. H. Blitz and D. Bodoh. Southeastern Archaeology 41(2):98-105.
  • ​2019   Land Tenure Systems at the Ancient Maya Site of Actuncan, Belize. L. J. LeCount, C. P. Walker, J. H. Blitz, and T. C. Nelson. Latin American Antiquity 30(2):245-265.
  • 2015    Skeuomorphs, Pottery, and Technological Change. American Anthropologist 117(4):665-678. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/blitz-american_anthropologist_2015.pdf
  • 2015    Remote Sensing as Community Settlement Analysis at Moundville. J. R. Davis, C. P. Walker, and J. H. Blitz. American Antiquity 80 (1):161-169.
  • 2014    Schlerochronological Detection of Seasonality at a Late Woodland Mound. J. H. Blitz, C. F. T. Andrus , and L. E. Downs. American Antiquity 79(4):697-711.
  • 2013    Social Complexity and the Bow in the Prehistoric North American Record. P. M. Bingham, J. Souza, and J. H. Blitz.  Evolutionary Anthropology 22:81-88. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/bingham_souza_and_blitz_2013.pdf
  • 2013    Social Complexity and the Bow in the Eastern Woodlands. J. H. Blitz and E. S. Porth. Evolutionary Anthropology 22:89-95. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/blitz_and_porth_2013.pdf
  • 2013    An Integrated Geoarchaeology of a Late Woodland Sand Mound. S. C. Sherwood, J. H. Blitz, and L. E. Downs. American Antiquity 78(2):344-358. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/sherwood_blitz_and_downs_2013.pdf
  • 2011    Common House, Elite House, Council House. L. J. LeCount, A. Keller, and J. H. Blitz. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 8:19-30. Belize Institute of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize, Central America. 
  • 2010    A Comment on “Funerals as Feasts: Why Are They So Important?” L. J. LeCount and J. H. Blitz. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 20(2):263-265.
  • 2010    Direct Determination of the Contents of a Ceramic Bottle from the Moundville Site, Alabama. E. A. Reber, J. H. Blitz, and C. E. Thompson. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 35 (1):229-247. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/reber_blitz_and_thompson_2010.pdf
  • 2010    New Perspectives in Mississippian Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research 18(1):1-39. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/blitz_2010.pdf
  • 2005    Actuncan Early Classic Maya Project: Progress Report on the Second Field Season. L. J. LeCount and J. H. Blitz. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 2:67-77. Belize Institute of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize, Central America. 
  • 2004    Sociopolitical Implications of Mississippian Mound Volume. J. H. Blitz and P. Livingood. American Antiquity 69:291-301. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/blitz_and_livingood_2004.pdf
  • 2002    The Early Mississippian Frontier in the Lower Chattahoochee-Apalachicola River Valley. J. H. Blitz and K. G. Lorenz. Southeastern Archaeology 21(2):117-135. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/blitz_and_lorenz_2002.pdf
  • 2000   Changes in Long Bone Diaphyseal Strength with Horticultural Intensification in West-Central Illinois. P. S. Bridges, J. H. Blitz, and M. C. Solano. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 112:217-238. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/bridges_blitz_solano_2000.pdf
  • 1999    Mississippian Chiefdoms and the Fission-Fusion Process. American Antiquity 64(4):577-592. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/blitz_1999.pdf
  • 1997    Higher Ground: The Archaeology of North American Platform Mounds. O. Lindauer and J. H. Blitz. Journal of Archaeological Research 5(2):169-207.
  • 1996    Comment on "Playing with Power: Ballcourts and Political Ritual in Southern Mesoamerica" by J. G. Fox. Current Anthropology 37(3):497.
  • 1993    Big Pots for Big Shots: Feasting and Storage in a Mississippian Community. American Antiquity 58(1):80-96. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/blitz_1993.pdf
  • 1991    Ceremonial Centers of the Chachi. W. R. DeBoer and J. H. Blitz. Expedition 33(1):53-62. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/deboer_and_blitz_1991.pdf
  • 1988    Archaeological Investigations in the Choctaw Homeland. J. A. Voss and J. H. Blitz. American Antiquity 53(1):125-145. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/voss_and_blitz_1988.pdf
  • 1988    Adoption of the Bow in Prehistoric North America. North American Archaeologist 9(2):123-145. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/blitz_1988.pdf

​Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

  • 2022     Climate Change and Migration Among Early Agriculturalists: From Global to Mississippian Perspectives. A. R. Comstock, R. A. Cook, J. H. Blitz, and Mary L. Simon. In Following the Mississippian Spread: Climate Change and Migration in the Eastern US (ca. AD 1000-1600), edited by R. A.  Cook and A. R. Comstock pp. 1-34. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, Switzerland.
  • ​2017    What Can the Alabama Mississippians Teach Us About Human Evolution and Behavior? P. M. Bingham, J. Souza, and J. H. Blitz. In Evolution Education in the American South: Culture, Politics, and Resources in and around Alabama, edited by C. D. Lynn, A. Glaze, L. Reed, and W. Evans, pp. 239-261. Springer Nature, New York.
  • 2015    Mound X and Selective Forgetting at Early Moundville. In Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland, edited by V. P. Steponaitis and C. M. Scarry, pp.54-73. University Press of Florida.
  • 2012    Moundville in the Mississippian World. In Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology, edited by T. Pauketat, pp. 534-543. Oxford University Press, New York.​

Research Series

  • 2015    Graveline: A Late Woodland Platform Mound on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. J. H. Blitz and L. E, Downs, editors. Archaeological Report No. 34, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson. Author/Co-author: Chapters 1, 4, 5, 9.
  • 2012    Actuncan Archaeological Project: Report of the Fourth Season 2011. L. J. LeCount and J. H. Blitz, editors. Report on file at the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize, Central America, and the Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama.
  • 2012    Ground Truthing Magnetic Anomalies at Actuncan. J. H. Blitz, T. C. Nelson, and D. J. Salberg. In Actuncan Archaeological Project: Report of the Fourth Season 2011, edited by L. J. LeCount and J. H. Blitz. Report on file at the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize, Central America, and the Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama.​
  • 2005    Actuncan Early Classic Maya Project: Report of the Second Season 2004.  L. J. LeCount, J. H. Blitz, and R. S. Kelso. Report on file at the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize, Central America, and the Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama.
  • 2001    Actuncan Early Classic Maya Project: Report of the First Season 2001. L. J. LeCount and J. H. Blitz . Report on file at the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize, Central America, and the Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama.
  • 2000    Fisherfolk, Farmers, and Frenchmen: Archaeological Explorations on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, J. H. Blitz and C. B. Mann ,with contributions by J. A. Giliberti, J. D. Jewell, and C. M. Scarry. Archaeological Report No. 30, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/blitz_and_mann_2000.pdf
  • 1985    An Archaeological Study of the Mississippi Choctaw Indians. Archaeological Report No. 16, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/blitz_1985.pdf
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​Other Publications
  • 2021    “Warren Richard DeBoer.” Anthropology News website, January 6, 2021. DOI: 10.14506/AN.1564.
  • 2020     Excavations in Moundville’s Plaza. J. H. Blitz and J. A. Kowalski. Journal of Alabama Archaeology 66(2):58-80.
  • ​2019    Review of Mississippian Beginnings, edited by Gregory D. Wilson. American Antiquity 84(1):182-183.
  • 2016    New Questions for Old Collections: The Andrews Place Site 1MB1. Stones & Bones Newsletter of the Alabama Archaeological Society 58(1):2-3.
  • 2015 Andrews Place (1MB1): A Late Woodland-Mississippian Shell Midden on the Alabama Gulf Coast, edited by J. H. Blitz and G. E. Riehm. Journal of Alabama Archaeology 61(1-2):1-117.
  • 2014    Preliminary Report on the University of Alabama Department of Anthropology Field Archaeology (ANT 269) Investigations at Mounds A and B,     Moundville Archaeological Park (1TU500) Fall 2014. J. H. Blitz, J. Kowalski, and G. E. Riehm. Report on file, Office of Archaeological Research, Moundville Archaeological Park.
  • 2010    More Reasons to Meet in St. Louis. L. J. LeCount and J. H. Blitz. The SAA Archaeological Record 10(1):6-7.
  • 2009    Meet you in Saint Louis. L. J. LeCount and J. H. Blitz. The SAA Archaeological Record 9(5):5, 44.
  • 2007    Moundville.  Encyclopedia of Alabama, edited by Wayne Flynt. Auburn University. Online:  http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/ 
  • 2007    Mississippian Period. Encyclopedia of Alabama, edited by Wayne Flynt. Auburn University. Online: http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/ 
  • 2007    Test Excavations at Mound X, Moundville (1TU500), 2004. Early Moundville Archaeological Project 1, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama. Report on file at the Office of Archaeological Research, Moundville Archaeological Park. Online: http://rla.unc.edu/mdvl
  • 2005    Mounds.  In American Indian Religious Traditions: An Encyclopedia, edited by S. J. Crawford and D. F. Kelley, pp. 568-573. ABC-CLIO Press, Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford.
  • 2005    Review of The Moundbuilders: Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America, by G. R. Milner.  Southeastern Archaeology 24(1):94-95.
  • 2000    Grand-Dad’s Mound.  Alabama Archaeological Society Stones & Bones Newsletter 42(3):6-7.
  • 1998    Review of Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power, by T. E. Emerson. Southeastern Archaeology 17(2):183-185.
  • 1996    Review of Mississippian Communities and Households, edited by J. D. Rogers and B. D. Smith.  American Antiquity 61(4):805-806.
  • 1996    Review of Owl Creek Mounds: Test Excavations at a Vacant Mississippian Mound Center, by J. Rafferty. Southeastern Archaeology 15(1):113.
  • 1996    Review of Cahokia's Countryside: Household Archaeology, Settlement Patterns, and Social Power, by M. W. Mehrer.  Mississippi Archaeology 31(1):78-80.
  • 1995    Choctaw Archaeology in Mississippi.  Journal of Alabama Archaeology 41(2):135-161./uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/blitz_1995.pdf
  • 1995    Fort Maurepas and Vieux Biloxi: Search and Research. J. H. Blitz, C. B. Mann, and R. L. Bellande. Mississippi Archaeology 30(1):23-58. 
  • 1994    Review of Temples for Cahokia Lords: Preston Holder's 1955-1956 Excavations of Kunnemann Mound, by T. R. Pauketat. Southeastern Archaeology 13(2):196-198.
  • 1994    Review of Coles Creek and Mississippi Period Foragers in the Felsenthal Region of the Lower Mississippi Valley, edited by F. F. Schambach. American Antiquity 59(3):586-587.
  • 1993    Locust Beads and Archaic Mounds. Mississippi Archaeology 28(1):20-43.
  • 1993    Archaeological Investigations at the Godsey Site (22 Hr591), City of Biloxi, Mississippi.  Mississippi Gulf Coast Archaeological Project. J. H. Blitz, C. B. Mann, and J. D. Jewell. Report on file, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson. 
  • 1993    Archaeological Investigations in Coastal Jackson County, Mississippi. J. H. Blitz, and C. B. Mann. Mississippi Gulf Coast Archaeological Project, Interim Report 1. Report on file, Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
  • 1993    Fort Maurepas and Vieux Biloxi: A Search for the First French Colony of Louisiana, 1699.  Blitz, J. H., C. B. Mann, and R. L. Bellande. Mississippi Gulf Coast Archaeological Project, Interim Report 2. Report on file, Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
  • 1993    Review of Gardens of Prehistory: The Archaeology of Settlement Agriculture in Greater Mesoamerica, edited by T. W. Killion. Mississippi Archaeology 28(2):54-56.
  • 1988    Henry Collins and Southeastern Archaeology. Mississippi Archaeology 23(1):1-11. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/blitz_1988_collins_bio.pdf
  • 1986    McRae Mound: A Middle Woodland Site in Southeastern Mississippi. Mississippi Archaeology 21(2):11-40. /uploads/6/0/3/8/60386085/blitz_1986.pdf
  • 1984    A Cultural Resources Survey in Tombigbee National Forest, Mississippi. USDA Forest Service, Jackson, Mississippi.
  • 1983    Pre-Mississippian Communities; The Summerville Mound; The Summerville I Community. In Prehistoric Agricultural Communities in West Central Alabama: Excavations in the Lubbub Creek Archaeological Locality. Vol. I, edited by C. S. Peebles, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Report submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile, and IAS, Atlanta.
  • 1983    The Summerville II and III Community. J. H. Blitz and C. S. Peebles. In Prehistoric Agricultural Communities of West Central Alabama: Excavations in the Lubbub Creek Archaeological Locality. Volume I, edited by C. S. Peebles.  Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
  • 1983    An Archaeological Survey in the Choctaw Homeland. J. A. Voss and J. H. Blitz. Mississippi Archaeology 18(1):26-3.
  • 1983    A Brief Outline and Bibliography of Southeastern Mississippi Prehistory, Part II. Mississippi Archaeology 18(1):26-37.
  • 1982    A Brief Outline and Bibliography of Southeastern Mississippi Prehistory, Part I. Mississippi Archaeology 17(2):16-26.
  • 1980    Variation in Mississippian Structures at Lubbub Creek. Southeastern Archaeological Conference Bulletin 23:11-14.
  • 1979    Phase I Archaeological Investigations in the Lubbub Creek Cutoff. C. S. Peebles, J. H. Blitz, et al. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Report submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile.
  • 1978    Moonshining. In Cultural Resources Survey of Federal Mineral Lands in North Central Alabama by C. Moorehead, B. I. Coblentz, and H. N. Gillespie, pp. 391-406. Report of Investigations 7, Office of Archaeological Research, University of Alabama.
  • 1978    Moonshining and Archaeology. Journal of Alabama Archaeology 24(2):92-101.

Presentations at Professional Meetings

Symposia

  • 2021     Grinding It Out: Ancient Maya Embedded Economies and Changing Groundstone Densities in Households at Actuncan, Belize. J. H. Blitz and L. J. LeCount. 86th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, online recorded presentation.
  • 2019     Construction and Destruction at Early Moundville: Ground-Truthing Magnetic Anomalies in the Plaza. J. H. Blitz, J. R. Davis, and J. A. Kowalski. 76th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jackson, Mississippi.
  • 2019     Migration and Climate Change in Mississippian Archaeology: An Introduction and Brief History.
     84th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • 2018    Groundstone Manos and Metates as a Measure of Ancient Maya Political Economy. J. H. Blitz and L. J. LeCount. 83rd Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.
  • 2014    Skeuomorphs and the Construction of Object Value in the Ancient Eastern Woodlands.79th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas. (April 25).
  • 2012    Sclerochronological Detection of Short Term Events in Archaeological Sites: Examples from the Graveline Mound Site, Mississippi, and Sapelo Shell Rings, Georgia, U.S.A. C. F. T. Andrus, J. H. Blitz, and V. D. Thompson. Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America, Charlotte, North Carolina.
  • 2012    Social Complexity and the Bow in Prehistoric North America. P. M. Bingham and J. H. Blitz. Symposium organized at the 77th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, Tennessee.
  • 2012    The Temporal and Spatial Distribution of the Initial Appearance of the Bow in Eastern North America. J. H. Blitz and E. S. Porth. 77th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, Tennessee.
  • 2011    Mounds, Middens, and Plantations: Recent Research on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. E. A. Boudreaux and J. H. Blitz. Symposium  organized at the 68th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jacksonville, Florida.
  • 2011    Oxygen Isotope Season of Capture Records in Crassotrea virginica and Rangia cuneata Valves from the Graveline Site, Mississippi. C. F. T. Andrus, J. H. Blitz, and L. E. Downs. Paper presented at 68th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jacksonville, Florida.
  • 2011    Graveline: A Late Woodland Platform Mound on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. J. H. Blitz and L. E. Downs. 68th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jacksonville, Florida.
  • 2011    Recent Archaeology on the Mississippi Gulf Coast: An Introduction to the Projects. E. A. Boudreaux, E. A., J. H. Blitz, and P. Lieb. 68th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jacksonville, Florida.
  • 2011    Maya Houses, Neighborhoods, and Markets: Excavations and Remote Sensing at Actuncan. L. J. LeCount and J. H. Blitz. Belize Archaeology Symposium, June 30, San Ignacio, Belize, Central America.
  • 2010    Power and Status in the Late Preclassic and Early Classic Periods: Report on the 2010 Field Season of the Actuncan Archaeological Project. L. J. LeCount, A. Keller, and J. H. Blitz. Belize Archaeology Symposium, July 1, San Ignacio, Belize, Central America.
  • 2009    Scales of Value in the Prehistoric Eastern Woodlands: Polymorphs, Isomorphs, Hypermorphs, Atromorphs. 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • 2009    Craft Production in Residential Areas at Moundville. C. E. Thompson and J. H. Blitz. 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • 2009    Moundville. Black Belt Symposium, University of West Alabama, Livingston, Alabama.
  • 2007    Neighborhood, Community, and Polity: Alternative Interpretations of Mississippian Societies. J. H. Blitz and G. D. Wilson. Symposium organized at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.
  • 2007    The Termination of Mound X at Moundville. 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.
  • 2006    Mounds of Emergence, Mounds of Destination. 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • 2004    The Actuncan Early Classic Maya Project: Progress Report on the Second Season. L.J. LeCount and J. H. Blitz. Belize Archaeological Symposium, July 8, Belize City, Belize, Central America.
  • 2003    Measuring the Scale of Regional Integration in Mississippian Societies. K. G. Lorenz and J. H. Blitz. Visiting Scholar Conference, Borne on a Litter with Much Prestige: Leadership and Polity in Mississippian Society, March 14-15, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois. 

Contributed Paper

  • 2017    Social Coercion, the Bow, and the Rise of Mississippian. 74th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  • 2017    Reconsidering Mississippian Communal Food Consumption: A Case for Feasting at Moundville. Porth, E. S., J. L. Funkhouser, S. Scott, J. H. Blitz. 82nd Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • 2013    Neutron Activation Analysis of Prehistoric Pottery from the Moundville Site, Alabama. J. H. Blitz and D. J. Salberg. College Academy for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Conference, April 23, University of Alabama.
  • 2013    Skeuomorphs, Pottery, and Technological Innovation. 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawaii
  • 2012    Landscape Archaeogeophysics at Moundville. J. R. Davis, C. P. Walker, and J. H. Blitz. 69th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  • 2012    The Hidden History of the Moundville Plaza. J. H. Blitz and J. R. Davis. Presented at the Alabama Archaeological Society Meeting, June 30, Moundville Archaeological Park, Alabama.
  • 2011    Geophysical Survey at Moundville Archaeological Park. College Academy for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Conference, April 6, University of Alabama.
  • 2011    A Research Cohort in Archaeology as a Strategy to Improve Graduation Rates and Career Choice in Anthropology. J. H. Blitz and L. J. LeCount. College Academy to Improve Student Success Conference, April 6, University of Alabama.
  • 2011    The Graveline Site: An Early Late Woodland Platform Mound in Coastal Mississippi. L. E. Downs and J. H. Blitz. Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Archaeological Association, March 12, Greenville, Mississippi. 
  • 2010    The Graveline Site: A Woodland Platform Mound in Coastal Mississippi. J. H. Blitz and L. E. Downs. 67th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, October, Lexington, Kentucky.
  • 2010    Geophysical Survey at Moundville, Alabama. C. P. Walker and J. H. Blitz. 67th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, October, Lexington, Kentucky. 
  • 2006     Film Forum: Southeastern Archaeologists at Work, 1936-2005. J. H. Blitz, C. Nanfro, and C. Barrier. 63rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas.
  • 2005    The Early Moundville Archaeological Project: 2004. Alabama Association of Professional Archaeologists, September 24, Montgomery, Alabama.
  • 2004    Timing is Everything: The Periodicity of Mound Construction in Mississippian Sites. P. Livingood and J. H. Blitz. 61st Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, St. Louis. Missouri.
  • 2004    The Rise and Decline of the Lower Chattahoochee Mound Centers. K. G. Lorenz and J. H. Blitz. 69th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  • 2003    Sociopolitical Implications of Mississippian Mound Volume Reconsidered. J. H. Blitz and P. Livingood.60th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina.
  • 2002    Precolumbian Political Change in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia. J. H. Blitz and K. G. Lorenz. 67th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado.
  • 2002    A Needle in a Haystack: Finding Early Classic Maya at Actuncan, Belize. L. J. LeCount and J. H. Blitz. 67th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado.
  • 2002    The Mississippi Period in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley: A Statistical Approach for Establishing a Regional Chronology. K. G. Lorenz and J. H. Blitz. 67th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado.
  • 2001    The Sociopolitical Implications of Mississippian Mound Volume. 58th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
  • 1999    The Early Mississippian Frontier in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.  J. H. Blitz and K. G. Lorenz . 56th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Pensacola, Florida.
  • 1999    The Cool Branch Fortified Mound Center and the Moundville-Fort Walton Frontier. K. G. Lorenz and J. H. Blitz. 64th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Chicago.
  • 1998    Why Lye? Does Lye Treatment Make It Easier to Pound Maize? J. H. Blitz and P. D. Welch. 55th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Greenville, South Carolina.
  • 1997    Coastal Mississippians on the Mississippi Coast. J. H. Blitz and C. B. Mann. 54th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  • 1995    Monuments to Complexity: North American Platform Mounds as Earthen Pyramids, Sacred Precincts, and Tumuli. O. Lindauer and J. H. Blitz. 60th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • 1994    Mound Reoccupation and Cooption of Sacred Authority. 59th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, California. 
  • 1993    Sacred and Secular Assemblages from the Mississippi Gulf Coast. 50th Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina.
  • 1991    Prestige Goods Distribution on Moundville's Periphery. 48th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jackson, Mississippi.
  • 1991    Choctaw Archaeology in Mississippi. Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Richmond, Virginia.
  • 1990    Defense, Storage and "Chiefs." 47th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Mobile, Alabama.
  • 1990    Court, Church and Cemetery: The Case of the Chachi Ceremonial Center. W. R. DeBoer and J. H. Blitz. Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, SUNY-Binghamton, New York.
  • 1990    Ceramic Attributes and Mississippian Mound Activities. 55th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • 1989    Vessel Size as a Measure of Mississippian Mound Activities. 46th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Tampa, Florida.
  • 1982    An Archaeological Survey in the Choctaw Homeland. J. A. Voss, J. H. Blitz, and B. K. Cooper. 39th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Memphis, Tennessee.
  • 1982    An Archaeological Survey in the Choctaw Homeland. J. A. Voss and J. H. Blitz. 17th Annual Meeting, Southern Anthropological Society, Boone, North Carolina.
  • 1980    The Summerville Mound: A Mississippian Architectural Complex at Lubbub Creek, Alabama.  37th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • 1979    Variation in Mississippian Structures at Lubbub Creek, Alabama. 36th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.