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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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SEAC Crew

Klint received his Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from the University of Alabama.  He is now a graduate student at Florida State University.  In addition to his work in archeology, Klint is also interested in other areas of Anthropology, including linguistics and cultural Anthropology.  "People often fail to realize that to understand human behavior, especially in the past, requires a four-field, holistic approach."  Klint has worked on numerous archeological projects across the Southeast.  He will be working for the Park Service for the duration of the summer field season.

SEAC Crew

Ben's first Bachelor degree was in Physics from Florida State University.  His second was in Anthropology from the University of Colorado.  He has spent the last five years doing archeology in the Southwest region of the US.  He is currently enrolled in the Anthropology Masters Program at Florida State University.  His area of concentration is spatial analysis, remote sensing technologies and their applications to archeology, currently with a focus on European Prehistory and peopling of the New World.

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Jennifer is from Athens, GA. She received her Bachelor's in Anthropology from the University of Georgia. She and her husband Adam are currently in the process of moving to Tallahassee. Jennifer is starting the search for a Master's program and is considering Florida State University.

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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 to 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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Rolando Garza

NPS Archeologist

Zuleya Gokay

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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 a full-time employee for SEAC and has spent the last year working in various parks in the Shouteast.  She is planning on pursuing a Masters degree in Anthropology at Florida State University in the Fall.

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Kellei Jefferson

SEAC Crew

Kellei graduated with a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Ohio State University.  She is currently working on a Masters degree in Anthropology at Florida State University, and is interested in bioarcheology and paleopathology.  The Shiloh project is her first field experience.

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. His research interests include historical sites archaeology and Caribbean archeology. He is an archeological 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."

Chris Lydick

SEAC Crew

Chris will be working at Shiloh for the duration of the summer field season.  He received his Bachelor degrees in Anthropology (Magna cum laude) and Classics from the University of Florida, Gainesville.  Chris has recently finished his first year of graduate studies at Florida State University, and following this field season, will return to Tallahassee in order to finish his work for a Masters degree.  His primary interests are the Southeastern Archaic Period, particularly in rockshelter contexts; seasonal mobility; trade; and mortuary analysis.  A native of Jacksonville, FL, Chris enjoys camping, hiking, and canoeing.

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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. Jessica was an artifact analyst at The American Museum of Natural History in New York for a year. 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.

SEAC Crew

Bop is a native of Cocoa Beach, Florida. He is currently living in Tallahassee and works full time at SEAC. He received his Bachelor's in Anthropology from the University of Central Florida in Orlando. His Masters coursework has been completed from the University of South Florida and he is currently finishing his thesis.

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Heather was one of our volunteers at the site last year. She is from Clarkston, Michigan and is currently living in Tallahassee, Florida. She received her Bachelor's from Albion College in Albion, MI with a major in Biology and a minor in Anthropology. She attended field school in Ireland.

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Corin Pursell

SEAC Crew

Corin is from St. Louis, Missouri and is currently living in Carbondale, Illinois. He is attending Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and is in his first year of the Master's program. He received his Bachelor's in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis.

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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. She is a member of the Chickasaw Nation.

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Josh Wells

SEAC Crew

Josh received his Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from the University of Wyoming in 1997, and is currently a graduate student in the PhD program at Indiana University, where he is also a research fellow with the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology.  He resides in Bloomington, IN with his wife Julie and their cat.  He will be working with SEAC for the next year.

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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 recently graduated from Florida State University with a Master of Science in a multidisciplinary program for Social Sciences. 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 on the site. She is married to Wm. Brian Yates, and has two cats.