Assistant Professor, Anthropology
B.A., History, Louisiana State University, 1985
M.A., Historical Archaeology, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1991
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, 2001 |
Short List of Research Interests:
- Archaeology of Eastern North America
(ca. AD 1000-1900)
- Political Culture and Complexity
- Historical Anthropology
- Ethnohistory
- Archaeological Method and Theory
- Ceramics and Faunal Analysis
Recent Grants:
- 2003-2006 Archaeological Survey and Testing of Plaquemine Mounds in South Central Louisiana. Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund Research Competitiveness Subprogram. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette ($90,628). Online: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mar4160/pmap.html
- 2003 Documentation and Database Development for St. Peter Roman Catholic Church Cemetery, Carencro, Louisiana. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. St. Peter Roman Catholic Church. Carencro, Louisiana ($5,567).
- 2003 Archaeological Investigations of the Old Barn Near the Current Factory at Avery Island. Support for the Winter Intersession Archaeology Field School. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. MclIhenny Company and Avery Island, Inc. ($991).
- 2002 Summer Research Award. Office of Faculty Development and Academic Planning, University of Louisiana at Lafayette ($4,800).
- 2002 Mound Stabilization and Site Preservation at Bayou Portage Guidry (16SM38). National Association of State Archaeologists Emergency Site Preservation Grant, through the Louisiana Division of Archaeology. Matching grant from the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana ($1000).
Selected Publications and Research Reports:
- 2003 Review of The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760, edited by Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2002. Southeastern Archaeology 22(2):228-230.
- 2003 UL Lafayette Archaeology Field School at the Amand Broussard Site and the Early Acadian Archaeological Project. Louisiana Archaeological Society Newsletter 30(2):8-13.
- 2003 Bayou Portage Guidry and the Plaquemine Mounds Archaeological Project. Louisiana Archaeological Society Newsletter 30(1):16-21.
- 2003 Archaeological Investigations of the Old Barn (16IB76) Near the Current Tabasco Factory at Avery Island, Louisiana. Submitted to the McIlhenny Company, Avery Island, Inc., and the Louisiana Division of Archaeology, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
- 2002 Subsistence Economy and Political Culture in the Protohistoric Central Mississippi Valley. In Between Contacts and Colonies: Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast, edited by C. B. Wesson and M. A. Rees, pp. 170-198. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
- 2001 Historical Science or Silence? Toward a Historical Anthropology of Mississippian Political Culture. In The Archaeology of Traditions: The Southeast Before and After Columbus, edited by T. R. Pauketat, pp. 121-140. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
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- 001 Mississippian Culture History: the Contributions of Phillips, Ford and Griffin. In Historical Perspectives on Midsouth Archeology, edited by Martha Rolingson, pp. 85-92. Research Series No. 58. Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville.
- 2000 Mapping and Testing of the Greenhouse Complex at Ha Ha Tonka State Park. Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly 17(3):4-19.
- 1997 Coercion, Tribute, and Chiefly Authority: the Regional Development of Mississippian Political Culture. Southeastern Archaeology 16(2)113-133.
- Rees, Mark A., Gina S. Powell, and Neal H. Lopinot
2003 The Search for Delaware Town: Results of the 1999 and 2000 CAR-SMSU Field Schools. Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly 20(1):4-10.
- Wesson, Cameron B., and Mark A. Rees (editors)
2002 Between Contacts and Colonies: Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
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