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Mr. Eric Oosahwee-Voss
Eric Oosahwee-Voss (M.S. Central Washington University) is the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO) for the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma (UKB). The UKB is one of three federally recognized Cherokee tribes with headquarters in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Prior to his appointment as UKB THPO in early 2016, Eric worked as a Senior Archaeologist for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington State. There he became well versed in tribal based archaeology, consultation, and sovereignty issues. His family has strong connections to the Cherokee community and culture. His thesis focused on the contemporary use of river cane by Oklahoma Cherokee. It is his absolute honor and pleasure to represent the UKB in cultural resource issues.
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Dr. Sarah Sherwood
Dr. Sherwood is an Anthropological Archaeologist with a specialty in Geoarchaeology. On the Southern Cumberland Plateau she is specifically interested in prehistoric land use change over time and site formation processes of sandstone rockshelters. She and her Sewanee students are working with colleagues from various institutions on the development of indigenous horticulture. Beyond the Plateau she studies the geoarchaeology of prehistoric earthworks and mounds and how they were built. In the Midsouth, she is particularly interested in Middle Woodland and monumental architecture. In Eastern Europe she primarily works in Romania and Serbia on “urban” tells where Neolithic and later Bronze Age people congregated. Her focus there is on stratigraphy and the anthropogenic sediments that reveal daily activities and spatial organization, primarily using soil/sediment micromorphology. All of this research is carried out in collaboration with her Sewanee students, regional graduate students, and her archaeology and geology colleagues.
From http://www.sewanee.edu/academics/environmental-studies/facstaff/sherwood.php
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Mr. Eric Deetz
Eric Deetz started his archaeological career early. Son of James Deetz (yes, that James Deetz) it seemed inevitable Eric would end up in archaeology. By the time he was 15 years old, Eric was regularly assisting on projects whenever the opportunity arose. He completed his BA at San Francisco State University and went on to earn his MA in Archaeology and Heritage at the University of Leicester in 2002. Eric specializes in colonial archaeology and currently holds many positions relative to this work including serving as consulting archaeologist for the James River Institute and serving on the board of directors for the First Colony Foundation, a non-profit aimed at better understanding North Carolina’s role in the colonization of the Americas. Additionally, Eric serves as a lecturer at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, where he teaches courses on the identification and analysis of colonial artifacts, cultural resource management, and public archaeology. Eric has worked at countless sites in his tenure as an archaeologist, but states the highlight of his career thus far was spent as an archaeologist excavating at James Fort; the earliest permanent English Colony in the New World. We recently met Eric on a trip to Fort Raleigh National Monument in Manteo, North Carolina. His interview followed a two week long series of excavations SEAC was conducting in order to mitigate future damage to archaeological resources at Fort Raleigh due to shoreline erosion from sea-level rise due to climate change. Eric assisted us in this work and was happy to let us record his love and enthusiasm for archaeology as part of our ongoing “15 Questions With An Archaeologist” series. Happy listening!
Check out some recent articles highlighting and Deetz's work with us!
http://college.unc.edu/2016/06/24/lost-colony-find/
http://wunc.org/term/eric-deetz#stream/0
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pottery-roanoke-colony_us_576adf16e4b09926ce5d6ce1
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Dr. Steve Smith
Steve Smith was born in Shelby, Ohio and was raised in Columbus. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1973 with a B.A. in history. During the late 1970s he attended graduate school, worked for a private contracting firm, and in 1982 became the Historic Archaeologist in Louisiana’s State Historic Preservation Office. He received a M.A. in Anthropology (with specialty in archaeology) in 1983 from the University of Kentucky. In 1986 he came to SCIAA as the Deputy State Archaeologist. In 1991 he was named Assistant Director of the Midwestern Archaeological Research Center at Illinois State University. Steve returned to SCIAA in 1992 and was the Head of the Resource Division, later the Applied Research Division, and obtained his Ph.D. in 2010 at the Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina. In 2011 he was named the Associate Director of SCIAA and in 2014 was named Director of SCIAA.
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Dr. David G. Anderson - Bumper
University of Tennessee
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Mr. Scott Butler
Mr. Scott Butler (M.H.P., University of Georgia, RPA) has served as a Brockington and Associates archaeologist, historian, and project manager since joining the firm in 1990. Mr. Butler has completed numerous cultural resource projects throughout the Southeast, as well as in Wisconsin, New York, Utah, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Mr. Butler holds an undergraduate degree in Archaeological Sciences, and has strong historic architectural and archival research interests. As a result of his interdisciplinary background, Mr. Butler often concurrently acts as senior archaeologist, historian, and architectural historian for cultural resource projects. Recently, Mr. Butler has become an expert in the archaeology of forts, battlefields, and military encampments. Long an historian of military strategy, tactics, equipment, and weapons, Mr. Butler has studied archaeological deposits of forts, battlefields, and depots from the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, and the Spanish American War. He has built a deep base of comparative historical and archaeological data, as well as developing effective field methods to discover and record fragile soil features and artifact remains from these sites. Mr. Butler is a company Vice President and serves as a senior project manager in our Atlanta office.
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Ms. Kristen McMasters
Kristen McMasters holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, and an M.A. in Anthropology, specializing in Public Service Archeology, from the University of South Carolina. Before coming to work for the National Park Service (NPS), she was the City Archeologist for the City of Baltimore, MD. McMasters has conducted archeological and historical research on prehistoric, industrial, 18th century landscapes, African-American and battlefield sites throughout the Eastern US. Currently, she is the Archeologist and Grants Manager of the NPS American Battlefield Protection Program, Washington, DC. McMasters routinely works on projects with local partners, local governments, tribes and nonprofits to steward battlefields throughout the country from the Virgin Islands to Saipan.
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Dr. Douglas D. Scott
Dr. Douglas D. Scott is an American archaeologist most notable for his work at the Little Bighorn in the mid-1980s. Working with Richard Fox, Melissa Connor, Doug Harmon, and staff and volunteers from the National Park Service, Scott worked to sketch out a field methodology that has enabled archaeologists to systematically investigate battlefields. This work is internationally recognized as constituting a great step forward in our ability to interpret battlefields archaeologically, regardless of the extent of the historical record. At the Little Bighorn, the fieldwork produced an interpretation of the battle that for the first time gave a clear understanding of the way the battle developed and pointed out some of the glaring inaccuracies of the historiography of the event. The fieldwork also helped determine which of the 242 headstones to the 210 U.S. soldiers lost at the Little Bighorn were erroneous, and recovered skeletal elements allowed one of the soldiers to be positively identified. It was not as successful in recovering the remains of 24 men lost in Deep Ravine and whose whereabouts are unknown to this day.
Scott continued doing battlefield archaeology by working at Little Bighorn every season for 23 years. He also directed work at Big Hole Battlefield National Historical Site, Sand Creek National Historic Site, Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, Pea Ridge National Battlefield Park, and Monroe’s Crossroads Battlefield. He has assisted, advised, or volunteered on over 40 other battlefield and conflict site investigations in the U.S., England, and Belgium, including Washita National Historic Site and Honey Springs Battlefield with Bill Lees.
In another convergence the work at the Little Bighorn and the discovery of soldiers’ skeletal remains brought Scott into contact with Clyde Snow. Snow did an exceptional analysis of those remains, but also cajoled Doug Scott and Melissa Connor into taking the methods they developed in battlefield recovery to the field of forensic science. Snow’s statement that they should take their methods to a “real” battlefield led them to working for Physicians for Human Rights, the UN El Salvador Truth Commission, the UN Truth Commission for Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the U.S. State Department on a case in northern Cyprus, for PHR on the Greek side of Cyprus, and for the Regime Crime Liaison Office in Iraq. Connor shifted from prehistoric and historic archaeology to full-time forensic archaeology in 2000. She now directs the Forensic Investigation Research Station (FIRS) for Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado. Both Scott and Connor are Fellows of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
For this work, Scott has been honored with awards from the National Park Service. In 1992, he was awarded the Department of Interior's Meritorious Service Award and Medal for career accomplishments and innovative research. He served as the president of the Society for Historical Archaeology from 2006-2007. Scott is also a member of the Advisory Board for Armchair General Magazine.
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Dr. Jeffrey Mitchem
Dr. Jeffrey Mitchem (Ph.D., University of Florida, 1989) is the Survey’s Research Station Archeologist for Parkin Archeological State Park, and Research Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas–Fayetteville. He joined the Survey in 1990 to establish the Parkin research station, following appointments at Florida State University and Louisiana State University. His specializations include late prehistoric and early historic archeology of the Southeast and the Mississippi Valley, early Spanish contact sites in the New World, ceramic technology, glass bead studies, beads of Jordan and the Levant, Florida archeology, and the history of archeology in the Southeast. He is past President and Secretary-Treasurer of the Society of Bead Researchers.
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Mr. Dan Elliott
Mr. Elliott has over 39 years experience in historical and archaeological research. He has been involved in cultural resource management, academic, and non-profit research in the southeastern United States, New England, and the Caribbean. He has authored or co-authored more than 36 publications and over 200 technical research reports. He has made dozens of presentations at international, national, and state conferences, and is a strong advocate of presenting archaeological findings to the public. Since 1987, Mr. Elliott has served as Archaeologist for the historic town of Ebenezer, Georgia. His recent research projects in Georgia include Carr's Fort Battlefield, Fort Hawkins, Kettle Creek Battlefield, Nash Farm Battlefield, Savannah and Sunbury. Mr. Elliott supervised the 2005-2007 survey and excavation project at the North End Plantation on Ossabaw Island. His two technical reports on this work represent an in-depth treatment, which serves as a baseline for future research on this unique barrier island plantation site. Since 2000 Mr. Elliott has served as President of The LAMAR Institute, Inc.
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