15 Questions With An Archeologist

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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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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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 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.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_D._Scott

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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. 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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Dr. Mike Russo

Dr. Mike Russo is an archeologist at the Southeast Archeological Center.

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Dr. Rebecca Saunders

Dr. Rebecca Suanders self description - I’m a native Floridian. I received a B.A. from Florida State University in 1977. From there I departed for nearly four years of CRM fieldwork, returning to Florida, more specifically, the University of Florida, for my M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. After receiving my Ph.D. degree in 1992, I became involved in forensic archaeology, and worked sporadically in Guatemala and the former Yugoslavia. I came to the Museum of Natural Science at LSU in 1993 as the Regional Archaeologist for Southeastern Louisiana. I became Curator of Anthropology at the Museum of Natural Science in 1994, a position that also gave me adjunct status in the Department of Geography and Anthropology. In 2009, the Museum reorganized, resulting in my formal appointment to Associate Faculty status in the Department of Geography and Anthropology.

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David W. Morgan, Ph.D., works for the National Park Service, where he serves as the Regional Archeologist for the Southeast and the Director of the Southeast Archeological Center. His research focuses on the prehistoric and historic southeastern United States, where he has led field projects in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Most recently, his research has centered on underwater archeological methods and resource management; the archeology of the African Diaspora and creolization; and on changing concepts about how heritage is perceived and valued.

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