Area of Interest:

Archaeology, Political Economy, Chiefdoms, Quantitative Methods, North America.

Education:

Ph.D., Michigan, 1980.

Research & Activities:

Research Background: Most of my archaeological field work has been in the southeastern United States, primarily in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. A major interest has been to study the political and economic systems of the Mississippian people who lived in these areas between A.D. 1000 and the arrival of the Europeans. My methodological interests lie in ceramic analysis, chronology, spatial analysis, classification, and geological provenance studies.

Present Research: Several studies are currently in progress, among them a monograph on the culture history of the Natchez region in the Lower Mississippi Valley, and articles on Mississippian trade with a particular focus on Moundville and the Lower Mississippi Valley.

Selected Publications:

in press "Archaeological Perspectives on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Underlying Principles, Legislative History, and Current Issues." In Perspectives in Cultural Resource Law, edited by Jennifer R. Richman and Marion Forsyth. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California. (Co-authored with William Lovis, Keith Kintigh, and Lynne Goldstein)

2002 A Petrographic Study of Moundville Palettes. Southeastern Archaeology. (Co-authored with Cynthia W. Armendariz and John J. W. Rogers.)

2001 Composition and Provenance of Greenstone Artifacts from Moundville. Southeastern Archaeology 20(2): 99-117. (Co-authored with Daniel G. Gall.)

2000 Training Students in Archaeological Ethics. In Teaching Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Susan J. Bender and George S. Smith, pp. 53-57. Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C. (Co-authored with Mark Lynott.)

1998 Excavating Occaneechi Town. CD-ROM. University of North Carolina Press. (Co-edited with R.P. Stephen Davis, Jr., Patrick Livingood and H. Trawick Ward.)

1998 Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom. Smithsonian Institution Press. (Co-edited with Vernon J. Knight.)

1996 Large-Scale Patterns in the Chemical Composition of Mississippian Pottery. American Antiquity 61(3):555-572. (Co-authored with M. J. Blackman and Hector Neff.)

1991 Contrasting Patterns of Mississippi Development. In Chiefdoms: Power, Economy, and Ideology, edited by Timothy K. Earle. Cambridge University Press. pp. 193-228.