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Congratulations to our Fall 2022 Graduates

We are pleased to recognize an outstanding group of students, all of whom had degrees conferred on December 16th, 2022: Terry Barbour’s dissertation is titled “The View Source Side Shell Bead Production along Florida’s Gulf Coast.” Randee Fladeboe was awarded the doctorate for her dissertation, “Reconstructing the Lives of Macaws in the Prehistoric Southwestern United […]

PhD Candidate Rocío M. López Cabral Awarded NSF DDRIG

Ph.D. Candidate Rocío M. López Cabral was awarded the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project “A Geoarchaeological Approach to the Materiality and Historical Ecology of Earth Mounds: The Colina da Monte Site (India Muerta Wetlands, Uruguary).” Rocío’s research examines how and why mid-to late-Holocene societies in southeast Uruguay carried out […]

PhD Candidate Emily Bartz Awarded NSF DDRIG

Ph.D. Candidate Emily Bartz was awarded the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project “Hunter-Gatherer Foodways in the American Southeast: Organic Residue Analysis of Stalling Period Pottery of the Middle Savannah River Valley.” Emily’s research employs organic residue analysis (ORA) to chemically analyze the resources processed within North America’s earliest pottery […]