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 | Rebecca Saunders
Associate Curator of Anthropology
119 Foster Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Email: rsaunde@lsu.edu
Telephone: 225-578-6562
Fax: 225-578-3075 |
Bio:
I was born in Lakeland, Florida and, my how time flies, got 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 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. When the Curator of Anthropology position came open in 1994, it seemed natural to apply, and here I am.
Research Interests:
My research in the southeastern U.S. focuses on human coastal adaptations through time and the evolution of cultural complexity. I am also interested in how pottery style was used to convey information on social groupings and interactions. More broadly, my research is designed to describe and interpret the evolution of native lifeways in the Southeast from the Late Archaic (5000-2500 B.P.) through the Spanish mission period (A.D. 1565-1704). At present, I have active research programs in Archaic monumental architecture along the lower Atlantic coast and southern Louisiana. In the lab (among other things), we are upgrading our zooarchaeological comparative collection to aid in our research into adaptations.
Courses
Louisiana Archaeology, ANTH 4017, Fall semester, every other year
Seminar in Contact Period Archaeology and Ethnohistory, ANTH 7909, Fall semester, taught every other year
Selected Publications:
Books
2004 Early Pottery: Technology, Function, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast, edited by Rebecca Saunders and Christopher T. Hays. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
2000 Stability and Change in Guale Indian Pottery, A.D. 1300-1702. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Book chapters
2004 Early Pottery in the Lower Southeast: Stylistic and Technological Approaches to Function and Interaction. In Early Pottery: Technology, Function, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast, edited by Rebecca Saunders and Christopher T. Hays. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
2004 Spatial Variation in Orange Culture Pottery: Interaction and Function. In Early Pottery: Technology, Function, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast, edited by Rebecca Saunders and Christopher T. Hays. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
2002 Tell the Truth: The Archaeology of Human Rights Abuses in Guatemala and the Former Yugoslavia. In Materiél Culture: The Archaeology Of 20th Century Conflict, edited by John Schofield, William Gray Johnson, and Colleen Beck, pp. 103-114. World Archaeology Series, Routledge, London.
2002 Seasonality, Sedentism, Subsistence, and Disease in the Protohistoric: Archaeological vs Ethnohistoric Data along the Lower Atlantic Coast. In Between Contacts and Colonies: Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast, edited by Mark A. Rees and Cameron Wesson, pp. 32-48. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
2001 Negotiated Tradition? Native American Pottery in the Mission Period in La Florida. In The Archaeology of Traditions: Agency and History Before and After Columbus, edited by Timothy R. Pauketat, pp. 77-93. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
2000 The Guale Indians of the Lower Atlantic Coast: Change and Continuity. In Indians of the Greater Southeast During the Historic Period, edited by Bonnie G. McEwan, pp. 26-56. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.
1998 Forced Relocation, Power Relations, and Culture Contact in the Missions of La Florida. In Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change and Archaeology, edited by J. G. Cusick, pp. 402-429. Center for Archaeological Investigation, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
1998 Swift Creek Phase Design Assemblages from Two Sites on the Georgia Coast. In A World Engraved: Archaeology of the Swift Creek Culture, edited by Mark Williams and Daniel T. Elliott, pp. 154-180. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Articles in refereed journals
Saunders, Rebecca, and Steven Byers
Revised and Resubmitted. Genetic Relationships between Populations at Four Lower Mississippi River Valley Archaeological Sites. American Antiquity.
Saunders, Rebecca
2004 Stratigraphy at the Rollins Shell Ring Site: Implications for Ring Function. The Florida Anthropologist 57(4):249-270.
2004 An Enduring Contribution: Following Larson’s lead on pottery change in the Mission Period. Southeastern Archaeology 23(2): 178-191.
Saunders, Rebecca and James B. Stoltman
1999 A Multidimensional Consideration of Complicated Stamped Ceramic Production in Southern Louisiana. Southeastern Archaeology 18(1):1-23. |
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