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- 1/30/2013: The Changing Face of Contemporary Egyptology: Old Perspectives and New Directions Listen Now
- 1/23/2013: Maritime Archaeology in the South Pacific and Southeast Asia Listen Now
- 1/16/2013: “And They Also Made Boats…” Maritime Archaeology in Pharaonic Egypt” Listen Now
- 1/9/2013: The Nuts and Bolts of Compliance Archaeology Listen Now
- 1/2/2013: Indiana Jones Listen Now
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Jeffrey H. Altschul
Jeffrey H. Altschul is the Chairman of the Board of Statistical Research, Inc., a for-profit cultural resource management firm headquarted in Redlands, California. He has a B.A. in Anthropology from Reed College and a PhD in Anthropology from Brandeis University. Dr. Altschul is a nationally recognized expert in the development and use of archaeological predictive modeling and has been the Principal Investigator for more than 700 cultural resource investigations and programs, predominantly in the Southwest and southern California. He has directed numerous projects for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Air Force, Bureau of Land Management, Prima County (Arizona), Navajo Nation, Arizona Department of Transportation and numerous other agencies and private sector firms. Dr. Altschul is currently president of the Register of Professional Archaeologists and sits on the Arizona Governor’s Archaeological Advisory Council. View Guest page
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Kathryn Bard
Kathryn Bard is a Professor of Archaeology at Boston University. She received her B.A from Connecticut College in 1968, M.F.A. from Yale University in 1971, M.A. from University of Michigan and University of Toronto in 1974 and 1976, respectively, and lastly, her Ph.D from University of Toronto in 1987. In the course of her career she has conducted field excavations in Egypt (Predynastic settlements at Hu, Hu-Semaineh and pharaonic port of Mersa/Wadi Gawasis) and Ethiopia (Ona Edna Aboi Zewge and Ona Nagast) for over 20 years. Bard also authored and coauthored numerous books and article, including “An introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt,” “From Farmers to Pharaohs: Mortuary Evidence for the Rise of Comple Society in Egypt,” and most recent book coauthored with R. Fattovich, R. Pirelli and A. Manzo “Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, A Pharaonic Harbor on the Red Sea.” View Guest page
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Tim Beach
Tim Beach holds the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environment and International Affairs and is Professor of Geography and Geoscience at Georgetown University. He has conducted field research in the US Corn Belt, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Syria, Turkey, and Germany funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, USAID, USIA, and Georgetown University. Based on these field studies, he has published many articles and chapters and has made numerous scientific presentations around the world. His research focuses on soil and agricultural systems, environmental change, and geoarchaeology. He also teaches courses in environmental science and physical geography (climatology, hydrology, geomorphology, and environmental management) and how these relate to international management and policy in the STIA and environmental studies programs. View Guest page
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Dr. William Belcher
Dr. William Belcher is currently serving as the Deputy Director for the Central Identification Laboratory of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. He received his B.A. and M.A. in anthropology from Western Washington University, M.S. in Quaternary Studies from the University of Maine, and he received his PhD in Anthropology from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining JPAC, Bill conducted archaeological research in northern New England and the Maritime Provinces, the Pacific Northwest, and Pakistan. In the service of JPAC he has led recovery and investigation operations in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, United Kingdom, the Republic of Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Palau, the United States, and North Korea. He has over 25 years of archaeological field and laboratory experience, and has published over 30 articles and reports in professional archaeological, anthropological, and historical journals and books. View Guest page
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Danielle M. Benden
Danielle M. Benden is a Curator of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin in the Department of Anthropology. She received her B.S. in Archaeology from the University of Wisconsin-La Cross and M.S. in Museum and Field Studies with an archaeology emphasis from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Ms. Benden has more than 10 years experience conducting archaeological investigations in the Midwest. Her own archaeological research focuses on the archaeology of southwestern Wisconsin. Currently, she is co-directing a 3-year research project that focuses on the presence of Mississippian peoples in the Upper Mississippi River Valley about 1,000 years ago. View Guest page
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Christopher A. Bergman
Christopher A. Bergman is a Principal Archaeologist with URS Corporation in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received his PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology from the University of London in 1985. He has worked extensively in the Middle East, Europe, and Japan, and in the United States has been actively involved in Cultural Resource Management studies related to natural gas and petroleum products pipelines for over 20 years. Dr. Bergman’s research interests include lithic technology, experimental archaeology, and the material culture of people living in marginal resource settings. View Guest page
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Steve Black
Steve Black is an assistant professor of anthropology at Texas State University in San Marcos. He specializes in the prehistoric foraging peoples of greater Texas, archaeological methodology, public education, and Cultural Resource Management. He is founding editor and current co-editor of TexasBeyondHistory.net (TBH), the virtual museum of Texas’ cultural heritage. Although the bulk of Steve’s career has been spent doing university-based CRM research in south-central North America (Texas), he enjoyed a sojourn doing Maya archaeology in Guatemala and Belize and spent eight years building TBH. Black’s ongoing research program, Ancient Southwest Texas, involves archaeological field investigations in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwest Texas. View Guest page
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Cory Breternitz
Cory Breternitz has over 45 years of field, analysis and publishing experience. He has participated in some of the largest regional projects including the National Park Service Chaco Canyon Project, New Mexico and the Dolores Project, Colorado. He has worked for academic institutions, museums, the Navajo Tribe, and private consulting firms. For 25 years Cory owned Soil Systems, Inc. a private firm that conducted some of the largest excavations linked to the Hohokam culture in Arizona. View Guest page
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Tobi A. Brimsek
Tobi A. Brimsek is the Executive Director for the Society for American Archaeology and has held this position for the past 17 years. She received her B.A. degree from Goucher College, M.A. degree from University of Michigan, M.S. degree from Catholic University. View Guest page
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Richard Buckley
Richard Buckley from the University of Leicester is the lead archaeologist on the Greyfriars project. After graduating from the University of Durham in 1979, Richard became a Field Officer with Leicestershire Archaeological Unit from 1980 to 1995. During this time he worked on the investigation of Leicester Castle Hall and John of Gaunt’s Cellar (1986), the Shires excavation (1988-89) and the Causeway Lane excavation (1991). In 1995, he formed (with Patrick Clay), University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) where, as co-director, he manages archaeological fieldwork projects principally in the East Midlands, specializing in urban sites and historic buildings. He was consultant and project manager for the Highcross Leicester Project, which led to three major excavations with a budget of over £4m. View Guest page
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Susan M. Chandler
Susan M. Chandler is President of Alpine Archaeological Consultants, Inc., a cultural resources management firm in Colorado that she founded in 1987. Ms. Chandler holds an M.A. in Anthropology (Archaeology) from the University of Colorado. She has worked extensively in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and El Salvador. Her publications include articles in American Archaeology, Utah Archaeology 1990, and chapters in numerous edited volumes. Ms. Chandler has authored or co-authored over 100 papers and reports on various aspects of cultural resources. Susan is past president of the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists and the American Cultural Resources Association (ACRA). She has also served as Treasurer of the Society for American Archaeology. She remains a member of the Utah Professional Archaeological Council, the Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists, and the New Mexico Archaeological Council. View Guest page
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Geoff A. Clark
Geoff A. Clark in the course of his remarkable career was a Regent’s Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He has headed the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association, and the Anthropology Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Clark is the author, co-author or editor of over 250 articles, notes, reviews and comments, and 11 monographs and books on human biological and cultural evolution. His current interests turn on the logic of interference underlying knowledge claims in the various aspects of modern human origins research, and with applications of neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory in archaeology. Clark has done fieldwork in Arizona, Mexico, France, Spain, Cyprus, Turkey, and Jordan. He also lectures on race, racism, and ethnic conflicts, as well as the conflict between religion and science, human evolution, and modern human origins. View Guest page
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Eric H. Cline
Dr. Eric H. Cline is Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at The George Washington University. A former Fulbright scholar, Dr. Cline holds degrees in Classical Archaeology (BA, Dartmouth), Near Eastern Archaeology (MA, Yale), and Ancient History (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania). His field experience extends for over 25 years in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece, Crete, and the United States. He is Associate Director (USA) at the site of Megiddo (biblical Armageddon) in Israel. Dr. Cline is a prolific author and three-time winner of the Biblical Archaeology Society’s Award for “Best Popular Book on Archaeology”. He is perhaps best known for The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age (2000); Jerusalem Besieged: From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel (2004); From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible (2007); and Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction (2009). View Guest page
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Terence D’Altroy
Terence D’Altroy is the Loubat Professor of American Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology and the founding Director of the Columbia Center for Archaeology at Columbia University. He has conducted research in Missouri, California, Mexico, Peru, and Argentina since 1969. Most recently, he has been supervising research by his students in the Cuzco region and royal plantations in the jungles north of Machu Picchu. His research and publications, including 5 books and monographs and about 50 articles, have dealt primarily with the principles and practice of Inca politics, economics, militarism, and infrastructure. At present, he is completing the second edition of The Incas (Blackwell), a comprehensive overview of the empire, written for a broad audience. View Guest page
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Loren Davis
Loren Davis is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Oregon State University. Dr. Davis received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Alberta in 2001 and joined Oregon State University in 2004. He is the Executive Director of the university’s Keystone Archaeological Research Fund and Director of the Pacific Slope Archaeological Laboratory. Dr. Davis’ current research focus is on initial peopling of the west coast of North America. He has conducted archaeological investigations in the Pacific Northwest and in northwest Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. Loren directs an archaeological research program each summer in western Idaho at the Cooper’s Ferry site, which contains an early record of Western Stemmed Tradition occupations. View Guest page
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Matthew Des Lauriers
Matthew Des Lauriers is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Anthropological Research Institute at California State University, Northridge. He has worked in Baja California since 2000, primarily on the island of Isla Cedros. Dr. Des Lauriers is engaged in co-operative research with scholars from the Insituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia of Mexico, Oregon State University, and the University of California, Irvine. Matthew’s contributions have extended from historic period otter hunters and miners to the earliest colonization of the Baja California Peninsula. His present Proyecto Arqueologico Isla Cedros has dramatically changed intepretations of the indigenous history of Baja California. View Guest page
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William H. Doelle
William H. Doelle is President and owner of Desert Archaeology, Inc. (founded in 1989) and President and CEO of the nonprofit Center for Desert Archaeology in Tucson, Arizona. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. Bill’s research interests are the large-scale demographic and cultural changes of the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest. He is also involved in preservation programs and in developing public outreach venues. Desert Archaeology has a staff of 37 employees. In 2009, Archaeology Magazine, named Desert Archaeology’s project on prehistoric irrigation farming as a “Top Ten Discovery “of the year. Bill’s nonprofit Center for Desert Archaeology staff has conducted a series of grant-funded projects and its public outreach arm produces the quarterly magazine, Archaeology Southwest, web-based materials, and monthly archaeology café events. Funding is generated from grants, memberships, private donors, and endowments. View Guest page
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John F. Doershuk
John F. Doershuk is a State Archaeologist of Iowa (since 2007) and Adjunct Assistant Professor (since 1995) in the Department of Anthropology at The University of Iowa. Doershuk has 29 years of professional experience in cultural resource management archaeology including involvement as a principal investigator or project archaeologist on more than 1,200 archaeological projects throughout the Midwest. His early field experience was with a large excavation project on the Ohio Hopewell Harness Mound site near Chillicothe, Ohio; in his current role as State Archaeologist of Iowa he is intensively involved with consultation and research involving ancient mounds and cemeteries. John has published or co-published 20 articles in professional journals and co-edited two monographs in addition to being author or co-author of 45 conference papers and 100s of archaeological reports. View Guest page
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Brian Fagan
Brian Fagan is an archaeologist, historian and a writer. He received his B.A, M.A. and Ph. D. at Pembroke College, Cambridge in archaeology and anthropology. From 1959 through 1965 he was Keeper of Prehistory at the Livingstone Museum, Zambia, where he was involved in fieldwork on multidisciplinary African history and in monuments conservation. In 1966 he moved to the United States and became Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in communicating archaeology to the general audiences through lecturing, writing, and other media. His many books include three volumes for the National Geographic Society, including the bestselling “Adventure of Archaeology”. Other works include “The Rape of the Nile,” “The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations,” “Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans,” and many others. View Guest page
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Michael Faught
Dr. Michael Faught is a senior Maritime Archaeologist at Panamerican Consultants, Inc, assistant professor at the Department of Anthropology at University of Florida and Treasurer and Board Member at Archaeological Research Cooperative. He received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology at University of Arizona in 1978, 1989 and 1996, respectively. His research interests include Paleoindian and Early Archaic cultures, their origins, pathways, settlement patterns, and emergence of regional traditions. Dr. Faught extensively uses predictive modeling, remote sensing, underwater excavation and geoarchaeological sampling methods for submerged prehistoric sites in his research. He also has experience conducting archaeology with avocationals, high schoolers, and people with physical and mental disabilities. View Guest page
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Michael Gear
Michael Gear received his B.A. and M.A. at Colorado State University specializing in physical anthropology. Around the same time he wrote his first novel. And in all he has published 12 novels and coauthored with Kathleen 23 novels on various historical and anthropological themes. His “Morning River” was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, and the National Book Award in 1998. And currently the Gears are working on the story for their next prehistory book, “The People of the Thunder,” a novel set as Moundville, Alabama in 1300s. He is currently the Principal Investigator for the Wind River Archaeological Consultants. View Guest page
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Joan H. Geismar
Joan H. Geismar is an urban archaeologist in private practice in the New York City metropolitan area since 1981. Dr. Geismar has worked extensively on 18th and 19th century sites and buried ships. She is a founder and Past President of the Professional Archaeologists of New York City, Inc. (PANYC). View Guest page
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Isaac Gilead
Isaac Gilead is a Professor of Archaeology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. Dr. Gilead received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Hebrew University, Jerusalem in 1974, 1976, and 1982, respectively. His research interests include archaeology of Beer Sheva, the Stone Age archaeology of the southern Levant, the archaeology of the Chalcolithic period, the archaeology of arid zones, and most importantly the archaeology of Nazi extermination centers. He has done extensive fieldwork at Nazi extermination centers in Poland and, specifically, at the operation Reinhardt camps of Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka. He also authored and co-authored numerous books and articles that were published in various peer-reviewed journals. View Guest page
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Richard Gould
Dr. Richard Gould is a Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at Brown University and a forensic anthropologist with the federal Disaster Mortuary Operations Recovery Team (DMORT). Since completing his PhD. in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkley in 1965, Dr. Gould studied human cultural and behavioral adaptations to stress, risk, and uncertainty. He came to Brown University as Professor of Anthropology in 1981. After the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, he led trial forensic recoveries at the WTC and full recoveries at “The Station” Nightclub Fire scene in West Warwick, RI, in 2003. Most recently, he assisted with victim identifications and recoveries as a forensic anthropologist with DMORT in Gulfport, MS, and in New Orleans/St. Bernard Parish, LA, immediately following hurricane Katrina. Dr. Gould has published 12 books and monographs as well as numerous papers and articles in peer-reviewed journals. View Guest page
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Cody Gregory
Cody Gregory is an Information Systems Technician at John Milner Associates, Inc., currently based at the Army Corps VCP facility in St. Louis, MO. Cody served in the U.S. Air Force from 2003 to 2008 as a Mental Health Technician. He is an Operation Enduring Freedom veteran who deployed to Afghanistan and worked as a Hurricane Katrina responder. He recently received his A.A. degree in Biology from St. Charles Community College and he plans to pursue a B.A. in Environmental Science. Mr. Gregory was originally hired as an archaeological laboratory technician during the first term of the VCP project at the St. Louis lab. He subsequently advanced to the position of lab manager. He is now responsible for managing Information Technologies at VCP and also assists with training and technical support for the digital imaging system. View Guest page
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Amy Gusick
Amy Gusick is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her archaeological concentration is on early maritime Pacific Rim hunter-gatherers. She is also interested in formulating models of behavioral variations in the coastal hunter-gatherers and in early migration and mobility into and within the New World. Currently, her fieldwork is centered on Santa Cruz Island, California and on a submerged landscape in the southern Gulf in Baja California. View Guest page
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Vance Holliday
Vance Holliday is Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Geosciences University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. in Geology at the University of Colorado-Boulder (1982). His research interests extend into geoarchaeology, Paleoindian archaeology and Quaternary landscape evolution. His research areas are focused on the American Southwest and northern New Mexico. Dr. Holliday is also Executive Director of the Argonaut Archaeological Research Fund (AARF) which is dedicated the to study of the earliest peopling of the Greater Southwest. Vance has also done field work in the Pampas of Argentina and the Don River Valley in Russia. He has authored and edited several volumes including Soils in Archaeology: Landscape Evolution and Human Occupation (1992), Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains (1997), and Soils and Archaeological Research (2004). View Guest page
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Brent E. Huffman
Brent E. Huffman is an award-winning director, writer, and cinematographer of documentaries and television programs. He is also an assistant professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. His work ranges from documentaries aired on The Discovery Channel, The National Geographic Channel, NBC, CNN, PBS and Al Jazeera. He has been making social issue documentaries and environmental films for more than a decade in Asia, Africa and Middle East. Huffman was also an editor of Julia Reichert’s and Steven Bognar’s Primetime Emmy winning PBS documentary series A Lion in the House about children battling cancer. He also recently completed a book about his experiences in China called Life in the Heart of China: Diary from a Forbidden World. Most recently, he completed documentary The Colony for Al Jazeera about China in Africa. He is currently working on two new documentaries in Afghanistan and China. View Guest page
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Bill Iseminger
Bill Iseminger is the Assistant Site Director, curator, and public relations manager at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. He has worked at Cahokia for most of his professional career. Bill received his M.A. from Southern Illinois University (Carbondale). He has written extensively on Cahokia and the Mississippian culture for a variety of professional and popular publications. He has most recently authored the volume Cahokia Mounds, America’s First City. View Guest page
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Ray Karl
Ray Karl is Professor of Archaeology and Heritage at Bangor University, Wales, United Kingdom. Originally from Vienna, Austria, he moved to Britain over a decade ago. He has worked mostly in later prehistoric 'Celtic' archaeology, both on the European continent and in Britain. His other main research interest is archaeological practice, heritage management, and public archaeology. He has conducted the Austrian study for the “Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe” project, which examined the European archaeological labor market and is currently conducting the Austrian part of the “Studying Archaeology in Europe” project. He has also recently published a major monograph critically examining the neo-positivist foundations of Austrian archaeology (2010), and another one assessing Austrian archaeological heritage management law and practices (2011). View Guest page
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Tom King
Tom King is an archaeologist who has branched out to practice and advocate for heritage or cultural resource management. Dr. King has done research in California and the Micronesian islands, managed consulting groups, helped structure historic preservation systems (Micronesia), overseen federal project review (Advisory Council on Historic Preservation), served as litigant and expert witness in heritage lawsuits, and consulted and taught. Now known for his work with indigenous groups and local communities, he has authored eight books on archaeology and heritage/cultural resource management as well as articles and Internet offerings on heritage topics. His most recent nonfiction book, Our Unprotected Heritage, critiques contemporary cultural resource management and environmental impact assessment. He also conducts archaeological research with The Historic Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), focusing on the 1937 disappearance of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. View Guest page
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Curtis E. Larsen
Curtis E. Larsen is a geoarcheologist and geomorphologist recently retired from a career with the U.S. Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.). He has had a rich and varied career undertaking both geological and archeological endeavors, combining them whenever possible. Curt received his geological training (B.S.) at the University of Illinois at Urbana. He received his M.A. in anthropology and archeology from Western Washington University and his PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago. He is the author of far-ranging geological as well as archeological papers. His book, Life and Land Use on the Bahrain Islands (1983) is an early example of the fruitful interaction between geology and archeology that has become known as geoarchaeology. Curt had a distinguished career as a consulting archaeologist in the cultural resource management field before moving on to government at the U.S.G.S. Larsen continues to be interested in impacts of sea level variation on archeological resources. View Guest page
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Paula Kay Lazrus
Paula Kay Lazrus is the current President of the AIA’s New York Society and an Assistant Professor at St. John’s University. She received her B.A. in Anthropology at University of Pennsylvania, M.A. in Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College and her Ph.D. at Boston University. She has worked, lived, and traveled extensively in Italy over the past thirty years. Her research interests range from the protection and conservation of antiquities to changing land-use patterns in Italy, and the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software as a tool for better visualizing and understanding past. She is also very involved in the exciting and stimulating world of the Reacting to the Past pedagogy which gives students a challenging way to take command of their studies through intense role playing activities organized around pivotal events in history and the documents and literature that surround them. View Guest page
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Stephen H. Lekson
Stephen H. Lekson is Curator of Archaeology (Museum of Natural History) and Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado. He has directed more than 20 archaeological projects across the Southwest. Dr. Lekson's publications include numerous articles and several major volumes including A History of the Ancient Southwest (2009), The Architecture of Chaco Canyon (2007), and Archaeology of the Mimbres Region (2006). Steve lectures extensively on Southwestern archaeology at professional and popular venues. View Guest page
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Sandra L. Lopez Varela
Sandra L. Lopez Varela is a full-time research professor and co-founder of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Morelos (UAEM), Mexico. She completed her undergraduate degree at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, and then obtained her M.A. in Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology of the University College London, and her Ph.D. in Archaeology at the University of London. She received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2012. She is currently holding the Archaeology Seat of the American Anthropological Association. She has served as President of the Society for Archaeological Sciences (2009-2011) and as President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-Mexico (2008-2010). Since 2009, she is a Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Arts, Technology and Humanities. View Guest page
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Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach
Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach is Professor of Geography at the George Mason University. She received her B.A. from California State University-Chico (1982), M.A and Ph.D. from University of Minnesota-Minneapolis (1984, 1990). Her research and teaching specialties are in Hydrology and Water Quality, Geoarchaeology, Earth Systems Science, Spatial Statistics, Global Change, and Gender and Science. Dr. Luzzadder Beach has conducted field research in California, Iceland, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Turkey, and Syria. She has published numerous book chapters and journal articles spanning fields from geography, geology, and archaeology to ethnobiology. View Guest page
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Dru McGill
Dru McGill is a PhD candidate in the Indiana University Department of Anthropology and Associate Faculty at Indiana University South Bend. His recent research focuses on late-prehistoric peoples of the American Midwest and social-context archaeology, with special foci in cultural property law and archaeological ethics. He is a former 6-year member of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Committee on Ethics where he acted as an organizer of the SAA Ethics Bowl. He is co-author of the book “Ethics in Action: Case Studies in Archaeological Dilemmas” (2008). He is currently a member of the World Archaeological Congress (WAC) Committee on Ethics and was recently elected Treasurer of WAC. View Guest page
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Dr. Thomas McGovern
Dr. Thomas McGovern is Professor of Archaeology at City University of New York Graduate Center and Hunter College. He received his PhD at Columbia University in 1979. Dr. McGovern specializes in zooarchaeology and has extensive fieldwork experience in North America, Europe, E. Arctic and Caribbean with a major focus on the European expansion of the Viking Age (c 800-1000 CE) into a very diverse set of North Atlantic island ecosystems and the subsequent dynamics of human impact, climate change, and inter-cultural contacts. He is one of the founders of the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) and its coordinator since 1992. He also directs the Hunter College Zooarchaeology lab, and is an Associate Director of the Human Ecodymanic Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center. View Guest page
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Kate McMahon
Kate McMahon serves as the Laboratory Supervisor for the Veterans Curation Project (VCP). She is employed at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (St. Louis District) and provides training and oversight for artifact rehabilitation for the three VCP labs. She completed her undergraduate work at the College of Wooster with a major in Archaeology and minors in Geology, Anthropology, and Sociology. Her honor's thesis focused on the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age Transition Period in Ireland. Ms. McMahon has participated in numerous archaeological investigations throughout the southwestern United States. These include surveys and excavations throughout California and Arizona; including the La Osa Archaeological Survey (Red Rock, AZ) and the Joint County Courts Cemetery Excavation Project (Tucson, Arizona). Kate received a National Science Foundation Grant to excavate at the Athienou Archaeological Site, in Cyprus. View Guest page
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Francis P. McManamon
Francis P. McManamon is the Executive Director of the Center for Digital Antiquity, an organization devoted to broadening and improving the ease of access to the archaeological information and to the long-term preservation of archaeological information. He also holds a position of a Research Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. View Guest page
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David Meltzer
David Meltzer is Henderson-Morrison Professor of Prehistory and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Meltzer received his Ph.D. at the University of Washington (1984). His research interests center on the origins, antiquity and adaptations of the first Americans who colonized the North American continent at the end of the Pleistocene (Ice Age). He seeks to explore how hunter-gatherers met the challenges of moving across and adapting to the vast, ecologically diverse landscape of Late Glacial North America, during a time of significant climate change. Dr. Meltzer is the author of numerous books including Folsom (2006), Search for the First Americans (1993), and First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America (2009). Dr. Meltzer is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. View Guest page
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Terry Norris
Terry Norris is a Senior District Archaeologist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District. He received his PhD in Colonial Studies at St. Louis University. Terry’s interests are in the prehistory and colonial heritage of the central Mississippi Valley as well as in 19th century rivercraft and historic cartography. Dr. Norris is president of the Cahokia Mounds Museum Society and serves on the Board of the St. Louis Science Center. View Guest page
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Kathleen O’Neal
Kathleen O’Neal received her B.A. from California State University in Bakersfield, and her M.A. from California University in Chico. She conducted PhD studies at the University of California in LA and did post-graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. In the 80’s she worked for the US Department of Interior as the Wyoming State Historian, and later as the Archaeologist for Wyoming, Kansas, and Nebraska. She has twice been the recipient of the federal government’s “Special Achievement Award” for outstanding management of our nation’s cultural heritage. She has been writing full-time since 1986 and has over 100 non-fiction publications in the fields of archaeology and history, authored 9 novels, and coauthored with her husband 23 international bestsellers. View Guest page
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Laurie Ott
Laurie Ott is President of the University Health Care Foundation, a nonprofit organization for patient care in Augusta, Georgia. The endowed Foundation provides many community benefits through including support of the area’s only certified Breast Health Center. Ms. Ott received her BA in Latin American Studies from George Washington University and an M.A. in Communications from Gonzaga University. Ms. Ott was the founding Executive Director of the CSRA Wounded Warrior Care Project, a community based model for returning U.S. service members from Iraq and Afghanistan. From 1994 to 2007, Ms. Ott was an anchor and reporter at WRDW, the CBS affiliate in Augusta, where she won numerous reporting awards, including the Edward R. Murrow Investigative Reporting award. Laurie has also been honored with the Associated Press and Georgia Association of Broadcasters reporting awards. In 2010 she received the Department of the Army Commander’s Award for Public Service at Fort Gordon, GA. View Guest page
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Dr. Mike Parker Pearson
Dr. Mike Parker Pearson is one of Europe's leading prehistorians. His research domain extends across Britain and Denmark. He has also worked in Madagascar. Dr. Pearson has specialized in the study of later prehistory, especially Neolithic and Bronze Age societies. He earned his BA at Southampton University and continued towards a PhD at Cambridge. His professional career included serving an Inspector of Monuments for English Heritage, and moving on to an academic position at Sheffield University, where he worked for 22 years. Michael joined the faculty at University College London in 2012 as Professor of British Later Prehistory. He is the author and editor of 18 volumes, in addition to numerous scholarly papers, Dr. Pearon’s work is widely cited and he is recognized as a leading authority on death and symbolism in the prehistoric world. He has pioneered archaeological investigations in the Hebrides of Scotland. In 2003 he began work on the Stonehenge Riverside Project, which has revolutionized our understanding of the history, use and significance of one of the world's most famous and intriguing archaeological monuments. Currently Dr. Pearson is engaged in re-assessing the role of the Beaker people in English prehistory. View Guest page
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James Potter
James Potter is a principle investigator for PaleoWest, archaeological consulting firm. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkley and his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 1997. Since then he has worked on projects throughout the American Southwest, including the Animas-La Plata Reservoir Project in southwest Colorado, the Large-site Mapping Project on the Ute Mountain Reservation, and the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project in Northwestern New Mexico. Dr. Potter authored and coauthored numerous books and monographs, as well as published articles in various journals, including American Antiquity, Kiva Journal Anthropological Archaeology, and the Journal of Field Archaeology. His research interests include early village formation in the American Southwest, landscape studies, faunal analysis, hunting and feasting as social practice, identity construction, and American Indian involvement in archaeology. View Guest page
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Chris Pulliam
Chris Pulliam is currently an archaeologist and team leader in the St. Louis District Curation and Archives Analysis Branch as well as the assistant director of the Corps’ Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections. Prior to working with the Corps, he was an archaeologist with the American Archaeology Division at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and the manager of the Missouri Archaeological Society. Over the past 19 year he has worked on numerous archaeological collections management projects. He also served as an archaeologist on JPAC and was involved in the recovery attempts of Vietnam War missing in action military personnel. View Guest page
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Dr. Anne Pyburn
Dr. Anne Pyburn is Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University and Vice-President of World Archaeological Congress. She received her M.A. and PhD in Anthropology at University of Arizona, Tuscon in 1984 and 1988, respectively. Currently she is a director of the Center for Archaeology in the Public Interest, Chau Hiix Project in Belize and Principal Investigator of MATRIX Project. She authored, co-authored and co-edited numerous books and articles, including “Ungendering Civilization: Reinterpreting the Archaeological Record” and “Prehistoric Maya Community And Settlement At Nohmul, Belize.” View Guest page
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Donald Redford
Donald Redford is a professor of Egyptology in the departments of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and History at the Pennsylvania State University. He is an internationally renowned scholar of ancient Egypt and Biblical studies, and a noted expert on the 18th Dynasty Amarna period. Dr. Redford is the author of several books, including Akhenaten, The Heretic King (Princeton, 1984) and Israel, Canaan & Egypt in Ancient Times (Princeton, 1992), and numerous articles. He has been frequently featured in series and documentaries on A&E, The History Channel, and the BBC. Prof. Redford has been the director of the Akhenaten Temple Project since 1972. View Guest page
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Lawrence H. Schiffman
Lawrence H. Schiffman is a Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Judaic Studies at Yeshiva University. He received his BA, MA, and PhD degrees from the department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. He taught for 39 years at New York University, where he was Edelman Professor of Hebrew and chair of the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. He is a specialist in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Judaism in late antiquity, the history of Jewish law, and Talmudic literature. View Guest page
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Linda Scott-Cummings
Linda Scott-Cummings is founder (1972) and president of Paleo Research Institute (PRI) in Golden, Colorado. The firm originally focused on analyzing the botany at archaeological sites through scientific analysis and interpretations of pollen and seeds. Dr. Scott-Cummings received her Ph.D. in 1980. PRI’s services have expanded to include a variety of specialized human subsistence resource studies, including phytoliths (small silica casts of cells in plants), starch, protein residue, chemical assays of organic remains, and radiocarbon dating. PRI is now integrating multiple analyses to model past climates and to interpret the composition and human utilization of past environments. PRI has 10 employees and performs analyses for clients world-wide. Linda continues to develop new methods and has transferred her skills by offering workshops (at Colorado State University) and designing a series of on-line courses about archaeobotany and past diets and environments (www.paleoresearch.com). View Guest page
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Lynne Sebastian
Lynne Sebastian is an archaeologist specializing in the American Southwest, and has carried out fieldwork in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. Her publications include The Chaco Anasazi, a book about the political and economic structure of the Chaco system, and an edited volume entitled Archaeology & Cultural Resource Management: Visions for the Future. Dr. Sebastian received her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico where she currently holds an adjunct associate professorship. She is a former New Mexico State Archaeologist and State Historic Preservation Officer. She is currently Director of Historic Preservation Programs at the SRI Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing historic preservation through education, training, technical assistance, and research. Dr. Sebastian is a past President of the Society for American Archaeology and the current President-elect of the Register of Professional Archaeologists. View Guest page
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Sarah Sherwood
Sarah Sherwood is currently an Assistant Professor in the Environment Studies Program at Sewanee: the University of the south, where is also serves as the University Archaeologist. She received her PhD from the University of Tennessee in 2001. Prior to coming to Sewanee Dr. Sherwood worked as a consulting Geoarchaeologist and Associate Director for the Archaeology Research Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. She has conducted field work across the Eastern US and overseas in Iceland, South Africa, Western and Eastern Europe. She is currently working in two very different parts of the world, on the Southern Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee and Alabama and in the Balkans of Eastern Europe. View Guest page
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Hampton Sides
Hampton Sides is the author of numerous bestselling works of narrative history and is an award-winning contributor to such publications as Outside, National Geographic, and The New Yorker. His 2001 World War II narrative Ghost Soldiers has sold more than a million copies worldwide. Blood and Thunder, his history of Kit Carson and the conquest of the West, was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2007 by Time magazine. Hampton's most recent bestseller, Hellhound on His Trail, about the hunt for MLK assassin James Earl Ray, is under development with Universal Pictures. A frequent lecturer at universities and literary conferences and a consultant to numerous PBS documentaries, Sides is a fellow of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Edwards Media Program at Stanford, and serves on the board of directors of the Author’s Guild. A native of Memphis and a graduate of Yale, he lives in Santa Fe. View Guest page
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Dr. Claire Smith
Dr. Claire Smith is President of the World Archaeological Congress and Professor at Flinders University, Australia. She received her PhD in archaeology at the University of New England in 1996. She is the recipient of Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, held a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum for Natural History and was a visiting scholar at universities in South Africa and the USA, including Columbia University, New York. Claire authored, co-authored and co-edited nine books and more than 40 refereed articles in English, Spanish, Catalan and Japanese. Her research interests include the impact of the Northern Territory Emergency Response on Aboriginal identity in the Barunga region, and an analysis of the possession and distribution of Ngadjuri knowledge, and how this articulates with notions of identity, heritage and land use. View Guest page
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Michael E. Smith
Michael E. Smith is Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University. He is an archaeologist who has directed fieldwork projects at numerous Aztec sites in central Mexico, pioneering the excavation of houses and the study of daily life. He has published six books and numerous scholarly articles on the Aztecs; his books include Aztec City-State Capitals (2008), and the population textbook, The Aztecs (3rd edition, 2012). In addition to the study of the domestic realm, Smith’s research in Mexico has focused on Aztec cities and urbanism, imperialism, and economics. He also carries out interdisciplinary and comparative research on cities and urban life, from deep history to the present. View Guest page
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Mark Staniforth
Mark Staniforth is an Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He received his M.A. in History from the University of Sydney (1993) and his Ph.D. from Flinders University, Adelaide (1999). Mark is one of leading maritime archaeologists with extensive experience in historical archaeology, maritime archaeology, museum and heritage studies gained during a thirty-year career. He is the author of numerous articles as well as books, including “Material Culture and Consumer Society.” He is an elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of two International Scientific Committees - International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management and International Committee on Underwater Cultural Heritage. Currently Mark is a member of the Bach Dang and Van Don Battlefield Research Projects as well as one of the three Chief Investigators for The Australian Historic Shipwreck Protection Project. View Guest page
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Julie K. Stein
Julie K. Stein is Executive Director of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, where she remains Professor in the Department of Anthropology. Julie holds M.A and Ph.D. degrees (University of Minnesota). Her research focuses on geoarchaeology, especially sediments at archaeological sites and archaeological stratigraphy. She explores prehistoric coastal adaptations of the Northwest Coast, and the geoarchaeology of historical sites. She has published several books on Northwest Coast shell midden sites, including Is it a House? Archaeological Excavations at English Camp, San Juan Islands, Washington (2011), Vashon Island Archaeology: A View from Burton Acres Shell Midden (2002), and Deciphering a Shell Midden (1992). The volume Effects of Scale on Archaeological and Geoscientific Perspectives examines interdisciplinary research; and Sediments in Archaeological Context assesses archaeological sediments laid down in various environmental settings. View Guest page
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Peter Stone
Peter Stone is Head of School of Arts and Cultures and Professor of Heritage Studies in the International Center for Culture and Heritage Studies at Newcastle University. In 2003 he worked as adviser to the Ministry of Defense regarding the identification and protection of the archaeological cultural heritage of Iraq. He has remained active in working with the military to refine attitudes and develop processes for the better protection of cultural property in times of conflict. Peter has worked extensively overseas and advised UNESCO on the development of the World Heritage Education Program and helped draft the World Heritage in Young Hands kit. He has published widely on heritage management, interpretation and education, including The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq (2008) with Joanne Farchkh Bajjaly, and edited Cultural Heritage, Ethics and the Military (2011). View Guest page
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Omar Sultan
Mr. Omar Sultan is an expert on Afghan culture and heritage. He served as Deputy Minister of Information and Culture to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from 2005 through 2011. He holds Bachelor and Master Degrees in Art and Archaeology from Aristotelian University in Thessaloniki, Greece. A brilliant spokesperson and representative for the preservation of Afghan cultural heritage, Mr. Sultan is a native of Kabul and participated in several important excavations in Afghanistan in the 1970s. He currently lives in North Carolina and is a founding member of Americans for Permanent Peace in Afghanistan. View Guest page
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Amanda Sutphin
Amanda Sutphin is Director of Archaeology, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). The agency safeguards NYC’s architectural, historical and cultural heritage. Its Archaeology Department oversees the city’s archeological resources. Ms. Sutphin (M.A. Pennsylvania State University) has worked as an archaeologist in New York City for over sixteen years. View Guest page
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Dr. James Tabor
Dr. James Tabor is Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte where he is professor of Christian Origins and Ancient Judaism. Since earning his PhD. at the University of Chicago in 1981, Tabor combined work on ancient texts with extensive fieldwork in archaeology in Israel and Jordan, including Qumran, Sepphoris, Masada, and Wadi el-Yabis in Jordan. Over the past decade he has teamed up with Shimon Gibson to excavate “John the Baptist” cave at Suba, the “Tomb of the Shroud” discovered in 2000, and ongoing work at Mt. Zion. Most recently, Tabor, along with Rami Arav, have been involved in the re-exploration of two tombs in East Taploit; the controversial “Jesus Tomb” and a related tomb less than 200 feet away that has ossuary inscriptions Tabor and Arav interpret as Judaeo-Christian. His most recent book, co-authored with Simcha Jacobovici, is "The Jesus Discovery: The New Archaeological Find that Reveals the Birth of Christianity." View Guest page
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Dr. Laura Tedesco
Dr. Laura Tedesco serves as Cultural Heritage Program Manager for the U.S. State Department in Afghanistan. She was posted in Kabul for 16 months where she oversaw and guided US efforts to support and preserve Afghan cultural heritage sites and monuments. Dr. Tedesco holds a PhD in Anthropology from New York University where her area of study included the Near East and Central Asia. Before joining the State Department, Dr. Tedesco worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She has conducted field research in the Republics of Georgia and Armenia, as well as in Syria and other nations in western and south Asia. View Guest page
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Michael S. (Sonny) Trimble
Michael S. (Sonny) Trimble is the Chief of the Curation and Archives Analysis Branch, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), St. Louis District. He is also the Director of the Veterans Curation Program (VCP). Sonny received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Missouri, Columbia . His specialties include North American archaeology, archaeological forensics, collections and archives management, and GIS. Sonny’s group assisted the Department of Justice for 2.5 years on a Presidential mission to gather and analyze forensic data documenting murder and crimes against humanity carried out by Iraq’s former regime under Saddam Hussein. The results of these scientific investigations and reports provided the Iraqi legal system with forensic evidence for the prosecution by the Iraqi High Tribunal. He played a critical role in procuring the funding for the VCP program and is responsible for its overall operation. View Guest page
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Diana di Zerega Wall
Diana di Zerega Wall is Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) and has directed numerous projects in historic archaeology. She is currently excavating Seneca Village in Central Park and is co-author of the award winning book Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City (2001). View Guest page
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Cheryl Ward
Cheryl Ward is a maritime archaeologist and director of the Center for Archaeology & Anthropology at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Texas A&M University, and an M.S. in Bioarchaeology from the University of London’s Institute of Archaeology. Dr. Ward is principal investigator for maritime artifacts at the pharaonic port at Wadi Gawasis on the Red Sea in Egypt and recently reconstructed and sailed an ancient Egyptian seagoing ship. Past projects include remote surveys of the Black Sea; reconstruction of the world's oldest planked boats at Abydos, Egypt, and directing an underwater archaeological survey off the coast of Turkey. Her published works include Sacred and Secular: Ancient Egyptian Ship Construction (2000, AIA Monographs series), The Philosophy of Shipbuilding: Conceptual Approaches to the Study of Wooden Ships (2004, Texas A&M University Press), and many articles in both scholarly and popular journals. View Guest page
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Donald J. Weir
Donald J. Weir is CEO and founder (1988) of Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group, Inc. (CCRG). Don holds an MA degree in Anthropology from Michigan State University. CCRG is a full-service cultural resources firm with headquarters in Jackson, Michigan, and offices in New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and, Illinois. In 2009 CCRG acquired Coastal Carolina Research, Inc., of Tarboro North Carolina. The company provides expertise in all phases of archaeological investigations, geospatial analysis, laboratory studies, and above-ground research. CCRG focuses on pipeline, transportation, and other linear corridor projects. Don Weir has been the major author of over 100 technical reports as well as articles and papers at regional and national professional meetings. He has served on the Board and as Treasurer of the American Cultural Resources Association. He was the Treasurer of the Society for American Archaeology and served on the Board of the Society for Historical Archaeology. View Guest page
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Jacqui Wood
Jacqui Wood is an archaeologist and a director of Saveock Water Archaeology in Cornwall, Britain, where she also runs an archaeological field school. She has been researching the practical aspects of daily life in prehistoric Europe for the past 30 years. She regularly appears on various archaeological TV programs. Most recently she participated on a Time Team special program on the Mesolithic period, which is scheduled to be broadcasted in the New Year. Dr. Wood wrote an article in “Archaeology Experiences Spirituality” about the Witchcraft pits from the proceedings of the World Archaeology Conference. She has also published two books about prehistoric foods “Prehistoric Cooking” and “Tasting the Past: Recipes from the Stone Age to the Present.” Dr. Wood was on the National Education Committee of the Council for British Archaeology. View Guest page
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Dr. Rita Wright
Dr. Rita Wright is an anthropological archaeologist and a professor of anthropology at New York University. She received her B.A. at Wellesley College (1975), her M.A and PhD at Harvard University (1978 and 1984, respectively). She conducted her field research in South Asia and the Near East examining urbanism, state formation, gender relations, exchange networks and cultural heritage. Dr. Wright participated in excavations in Iran at Tal-l Malyan, ancient Anshan, Mehrgarh in Baluchistan, Pakistan, and the city of Harappa in Pakistan. She also conducts a survey of the northern areas of Afghanistan to identify archaeological sites involved in the trade of lapis lazuli and more recently copper and tin. Dr. Wright also examines secondary Mesopotamian sources for studies of gender relations and division of labor in the ancient past, and the significance of widespread contacts in developmental histories. View Guest page
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“And They Also Made Boats…” Maritime Archaeology in Pharaonic Egypt”
January 16, 2013
Hosted by Dr. Joseph Schuldenrein
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While the contributions of the ancient Egyptians to Western Civilization are familiar to the general public, this brilliant culture's seafaring technology is little known. Recent investigations have revealed that a sophisticated and efficient shipbuilding industry thrived in Pharaonic Egypt. River and seafaring vessels were locally and regionally built that facilitated commerce and transportation along the Nile and beyond. This episode examines how terrestrial and maritime archaeology enables researchers to reconstruct the ancient technology of Egyptian shipbuilding. Maritime archaeologist Cheryl Ward (Coastal Carolina University) and Egyptologist Kathryn Bard (Boston University) together with a team of experts have successfully reproduced and sea-tested an ancient Egyptian vessel on the Red Sea. They discuss the implications of their findings, which expand the reach of Egyptian civilization in the Mediterranean Basin and elsewhere.
Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality and 21st Century Archaeology
Wednesday at 3 PM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Variety Channel
This show targets an audience interested in archaeology. It explores myths surrounding this exotic, often misunderstood field and acquaints listeners with the contemporary practice of unearthing the human past. Themes range from Dr. Schuldenrein’s own “Indiana Jones”-like adventures in the land of the Bible to his team’s archaeological forensics effort to unearth Kurdish mass graves in Iraq. That undertaking helped convict Saddam Hussein in 2006. Topical issues contribute to the evolution vs. creationism controversy based on updated fossil records and innovative DNA studies. An episode highlights the main funding source for archaeology in the U.S. (Hint: the oil and gas industry). Experts reveal the latest high-tech approaches to buried archaeological landscapes that provide clues to understanding climate change, past, present and future. Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality and 21st Century Archaeology is broadcast live every Wednesday at 3 PM Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica Variety Channel
Dr. Joseph Schuldenrein
Joseph Schuldenrein is president and senior scientist of Geoarcheology Research Associates (GRA) in Yonkers, New York. He has been a Visiting Scholar at New York University since 1996. His professional expertise is in geoarchaeology, a sub-discipline that introduces earth science techniques to traditional archaeological excavation. Joe has worked extensively across North America and the Old World. He received his doctorate in 1983 at the University of Chicago. Recent research in North America has concentrated on the urban archaeology of New York City and Native American landscapes of the Atlantic Coast. Joe’s projects in South Asia have ranged from Human Origins investigations to the beginnings of civilization of the Indus Valley. During the Iraq war Dr. Schuldenrein’s team helped direct a forensic archaeological mission in support of the Saddam Hussein prosecution. His newest venture is an assessment of Cultural Heritage Sites in war-torn Afghanistan (2011). Dr. Schuldenrein publishes widely in numerous archaeological and geological journals. He is a reviewer for American Antiquity, Geoarchaeology, and Quaternary Science Reviews. He has acted as Principal Investigator or Consulting Scientist for grants awarded by the National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory. Dr. Schuldenrein has been interviewed for PBS, as well as national and regional TV and radio outlets over the past 30 years.
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