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Monte Abbott

SEAC Crew

Monte is the only native Tennessean on the crew. He received his BA in Anthropology from the University of Memphis in May 2000. He is currently enrolled in the graduate program in Anthropology at Washington University. His main research interest is paleoethnobotany, and he is exploring the potential for dissertation research on the plant remains from the Shiloh Indian Mounds. His Master’s research is on the paleoethnobotany of a site in Greenbriar, Arkansas.

David G. Anderson

Co-Principal Investigator

David G. Anderson is an archaeologist at the Southeast Archeological Center of the National Park Service in Tallahassee, Florida, who has been actively engaged in southeastern archaeology for almost 30 years. His technical interests include Paleoindian colonization and culture change, cultural resource management, modeling prehistoric population distributions, synthesizing archaeological research on locality to regional scales, climate and culture change, and exploring the evolution of cultural complexity in Eastern North America. The author of numerous papers (>150) and monographs (>30) on prehistoric and historic archaeology in various parts of North America and the Caribbean, in 1990 he received the Southeastern Archaeological Conference's first C. B. Moore award for excellence by a young scholar and in 1991 the Society for American Archaeology's dissertation prize for his work on organizational cycling in Mississippian chiefdoms. He also received the SAAs Presidential Recognition Award in 1997 and the Excellence in Cultural Resource Management Award for Research in 1999. Major recent publications include The Savannah River Chiefdoms: Political Change in the Late Prehistoric Southeast (Alabama 1994), The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast (Alabama 1996), and The Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast (Florida 1996). The latter two were edited volumes prepared with Kenneth E. Sassaman, and are part of a long-range effort to produce syntheses of southeastern prehistoric archaeology. He has several additional books on southeastern archaeology in preparation or in press.

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Tammy D. Cooper

Crew Chief/Lab Director

Tammy graduated from Florida State University in 1998. She is a full-time National Park Service employee and has been at SEAC for over three years. She has recently accepted a permanent position with the National Park Service. Thus far, Tammy has spent her tenure at SEAC working in the Compliance Section. Her research interests include floral and faunal analysis, remote sensing and battlefield archaeology. She has completed numerous archeological projects, serving as crew member, crew chief, and project leader. She has most recently completed the archeological investigations at the Chalmette Battlefield National Park and is co-authoring the final report. Tammy has three children: Heather, Joshua, and Elizabeth, and one grandchild, Autumn Charlot.

John E. Cornelison, Jr.

Upon graduating from high school, John joined the United States Army, where he spent six years as an attack helicopter repairman serving overseas in Germany. After leaving the Army, John returned Hattiesburg, Mississippi where he completed his BS in Political Science and his MS in Anthropology from the University of Southern Mississippi. He is beginning his 11^th year at SEAC. During his National Park Service career he has served as an interpretive park ranger, a museum technician, an archeological technician, and as an archeologist. For the last 5 ½ years John as been the manager of the 106 Compliance Section at SEAC. In this capacity he is responsible for providing archeological support to 65 parks in the National Park Service’s Southeast Region. John generally conducts 12-20 projects pre-year. These projects range in size from small-scale compliance testing to major mitigations. His main research interest is historic archaeology and Civil War Battlefields. He has recently had a chapter on his work at Chickamauga National Battlefield published in an edited volume. He is married to Elyse, and has three children: Katherine, Nathan, and Jaimie.

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John Detring

SEAC Crew

John Detring is a sophomore undergraduate student at Florida State University. He is majoring in Anthropology with a minor in Geology. He is specifically interested in archaeology. He is a newly hired staff member at the Southeast Archeological Center in Tallahassee, FL, and works in the RASP Lab. He is originally from Key Largo, FL and enjoys spear fishing, wave boarding and is a certified diver.

Elizabeth Driscoll

SEAC Crew

Liz Monahan Driscoll received her MA from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1994, and recently completed her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her interests include bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology and she has extensive training in human osteology and anatomy as well as archaeology. She is currently seeking a full-time job at a university or college in the Southeast. In the fall she will be teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University in Raleigh. She is married to David Driscoll, a medical anthropologist and epidemiologist.

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Pamela Edwards

SEAC Crew

Pam received her BA in Anthropology from the University of Memphis in May 2000 with a minor in History. She is currently enrolled in the Master’s program in Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. Her potential MA thesis topic is an analysis of lithic perforators from the Dickerson site, a prehistoric Woodland/Mississippian site in Mississippi.

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Jill Halchin

SEAC Archaeologist

Jill Halchin is an archaeologist in the Investigations and Evaluation Division at SEAC. She has MA degrees from the University of South Florida and the University of Pennsylvania.

Meredith Hardy

SEAC Crew

Meredith received her BA in English and Anthropology at Indiana University in 1994. She got a MS in Urban Studies and Urban Anthropology from the University of New Orleans in 1998, and is completing the Master’s program in Anthropology at Florida State University. Her MA thesis topic is research on the glass beads from Cumberland Island slave cabins. She is currently enrolled in the PhD program in Anthropology at Florida State University, where she plans to focus her research on French Colonial foodway systems. Her pets include two cats and a dog.

Robert Hellman

SEAC Crew

Robert Hellman is an archaeological technician for SEAC.

Rachel Horlings

SEAC Crew

Rachel was born and raised in Nigeria, the daughter of missionaries. She received her BS in Anthropology in May 2001 from Florida State University. Her research interests include underwater archaeology of both prehistoric and historic sites. She is an archaeological technician for SEAC.

R. Steven Kidd

SEAC Crew

Steven received his BS in Anthropology from the University of Southern Mississippi. He has been field supervisor at the Hermitage for three summer field seasons. He is currently pursing his MA from Florida State University. Her research interests include historical sites archaeology and Caribbean archeology. He is an archaeological technician for SEAC.

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Charles Lawson

Crew Chief

Charles received his BA in Anthropology at Iowa State University in 1998. He is enrolled in the Master’s program in Anthropology at Florida State University. His research interests include Southeastern historical archaeology, and Mesoamerican archaeology. He is a full-time employee of SEAC. He has a pet dog named "Shiloh".

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Jessica McNeil

SEAC Crew

Jessica McNeil is a doctoral student at the City University of New York Graduate School and University Center. Her focus is on North America, Southeast Lithics. Her field experience includes work in Pompeii, Iceland, Arkansas, and New Mexico. She lives in New York City with her two dogs, Max and Archie. Previous to the Shiloh Archeological Project Jessica was in Savannah, TN researching a palisade mapped in the 1870s with Dr. Paul Welch of Queens College.

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Guy Prentice

SEAC Archeologist

Dr. Guy Prentice is the head of the Regional Archeological Survey Program at SEAC. He has a PhD from the University of Florida.

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Donna Rausch

SEAC Crew

DonnaJean Rausch graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with a bachelor’s degree in Historic Preservation. She is currently working on her Masters at the University of Mississippi in Anthropology/Archaeology, having recently passed her comps. She is a new grandmother of a beautiful baby boy. Her husband Larry teaches agriculture in Perryville, MO. Larry and her dog, Sassy, visit the project regularly. She is a member of the Chickasaw Nation.

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SEAC Archeologist

Margo Schwadron has an MA degree in Anthropology from Florida State University. She works for thje Regional Archeological Survey Program at SEAC.

Ariana Slemmens

Assistant Lab Director

Ariana earned her Bachelor's degree in Anthropology at Florida State University in 2000, and will begin graduate studies focusing on historic archaeology in the Fall of 2001. Specifically she is interested in Geographic Information Systems and their applications in cultural resource management. Ariana has worked as a museum and archeological technician at the Southeast Archeological Center for the last two years.

Jay Sturdevant

Jay is a full-time employee of SEAC. He received a BA in Anthropology from Colorado State University in 1999. His research interests include both historic and prehistoric archaeology. Jay received his MA in Anthropology from the University of Nebraska in 2001. His MA thesis project was the site report from excavations at Fort Union, North Dakota. He and his wife, Katie, have three children: Skyler, Sidney, and Everest.

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Erin Westfall

SEAC Crew

A native of South Florida, Erin joined the Shiloh Archeological Project after graduating this past spring from New College of the University of South Florida, with a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology. She attended the University of Arizona Archaeological Field School in 1999, and participated in Proyecto Costa Maya in 2000 (a mapping and survey project in northwestern Yucatán, Mexico).

Chene Williams

Chene is the youngest crewperson on the team. She graduates with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Anthropology this coming Fall Semester from Florida A&M University. Chene is currently an archaeological technician for SEAC. She is engaged to be married to Suleyman Olgar, a PhD student in Mathematics Education.

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Emily M. Yates

VIP Coordinator

Emily Moss Yates works for the National Park Service at the Southeast Archeological Center in Tallahassee, Florida. She is a graduate student at Florida State University. She received her Bachelor of Arts in both Anthropology and Classical Studies from the University of Kentucky. She is the Shiloh Archeological Project VIP Coordinator in charge of all volunteers to the site. She helped with the project photography and produced the project web page each day in the field. She has been married for two years to Wm. Brian Yates, has a 10-year-old iguana named "Leon" and two orange kittens named "Akari" and "Daraka."