December
2006
CURRICULUM
VITAE
KENNETH
EDWARD SASSAMAN, JR.
Present
Addresses
Department of
Anthropology
1112
Turlington Hall,
(352)392-2253
ext. 205
(352)392-6929
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sassaman@anthro.ufl.edu
(352)331-3764
Birth Date
and Place
Education
Ph.D.
Anthropology 1991
M.A.
Public Service Archaeology 1983.
B.A.
Anthropology 1979.
Employment
Chair (Oct.
2006-present), Interim Chair (June 2005-Oct. 2006), Department of
Anthropology,
Associate
Professor, Department of Anthropology,
Assistant
Professor, Department of Anthropology,
Archaeologist
II, Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, South Carolina
Institute of
Archaeology and Anthropology, University of
Instructor,
Department of History and Anthropology,
Appointments/Offices
National
Organizations
Grants Review Panel, National Science Foundation (2007-present)
Editorial
Board (2004-2008), Society for
Panel
Member (2002-04), Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Program
Chair (2003), Society for American Archaeology.
Secretary
(2000-2002), Archeology Division of the American Anthropological
Association.
Chair,
Committee on Awards (2001-2002), Society for American Archaeology.
Member,
Committee on Award for Excellence in Ceramic Studies (1998-2001),
Society for
American Archaeology.
Member,
Committee on Awards (1997-2000), Society for American Archaeology.
Member,
Program Committee (1996-1997), Society for American Archaeology.
Member,
Editorial Board (American Archaeology, 2001-2003), The
Archaeological
Conservancy.
Regional
Organizations
President
(2006-2008), President-Elect (2004-06), Southeastern Archaeological
Conference.
Secretary
(1998-2000), Southeastern Archaeological Conference.
Program
Chair (1998), Southeastern Archaeological Conference.
Editor
(Southeastern Archaeology 1994-1996),
Southeastern Archaeological Conference.
State
Organizations
President
(1994-1995), Council of
Vice
President (1992-1993), Council of
Editor
(South Carolina Antiquities
1989-1999), Archaeological Society of
Member,
Editorial Board (Mississippi Archaeology,
1997-2001),
Member,
Cultural Resources Subcommittee (1994-1998),
Member
(1993-1996),
Departmental
Undergraduate
Coordinator (2003-present), Department of Anthropology,
Adjunct
Assistant Professor (1992-1997), Department of Anthropology,
Awards
Amerind Foundation Seminar Award (with Donald Holly), 2008 for Cultural
and Historical Prespectievs on Hunting and Gathering in North America
Jean
and Robin Gibson Term Professor,
College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
C.
B. Moore Award for Excellence in Archaeology by a Young Scholar in
Southeastern
Studies. Lower Mississippi Survey and
Outstanding Service
Award,
Archaeological Society of
National
Award for Excellence, United States Department of
Grants/Contracts/Fellowships
(P.I. or co-P.I.)
Contract, Cultural
Resources Assessment Survey of Suwannee Transmission Phase Two,
Survey and Planning
Franklin Research
Grant, American
Philosophical Society, Inventory and Analysis of the William H.
Claflin
Collection, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 2003.
Research Grant,
National Science
Foundation, Demise of the Shell Mound Archaic:
Ecological Circumstances Attending
Abandonment of the
Survey and Planning
University of Florida,
College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences Research Award, Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
Dating of
Carbon Residues on Orange Period Ceramics from Northeast Florida,
1999-2000.
Survey
and Planning
Research
Grant, National Geographic Society,
Archaeological
Research Trust Grant, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and
Anthropology,
Radiocarbon Dating for Stallings Archaeological Project, 1997
Research
and Productive Scholarship Grant,
Challenge
Cost-Share Agreement, United States Department of Agriculture Forest
Service, Mims Point Archaeological
Project, Phase III, FY 1995.
Robert
L. Stephenson Archaeological Research Fund, Victor Mills Site
Analysis,
1994.
Challenge
Cost-Share Agreement, United States Department of Agriculture Forest
Service, Mims Point Archaeological
Project, Phase II, FY 1993.
Survey
and Planning Grant, South Carolina Department of Archives and History,
for South
Carolina Archaeological Synthesis Project: Phase II (with J. Leader
and D.
G. Anderson); FY 1993.
Challenge
Cost-Share Agreement, United States Department of
Survey
and Planning Grant, South Carolina Department of Archives and History,
for South
Carolina Archaeological Synthesis Project: Phase I (with D. G.
Anderson, C.
Judge and L. F. Stine); FY 1991.
European
Studies Grant, Department of Anthropology,
Sigma
Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research; January 1985.
Public
Service Archaeology Fellowship,
Research
and Field Experience
2000-present,
Project Director,
2002-2003,
Project Director, Crescent Lake Archaeological Survey, Flagler and
Putnam
counties, FL.
1999-2000,
Project Director, excavation and analysis of the
1995-99
- Project Director, excavation and analysis of Ed Marshall site, 38ED5,
1994-96
- Project Director, excavation and analysis of Victor Mills site,
9CB138,
1992-97
- Project Director, excavation and analysis of Mims Point, 38ED9,
1990-96
- Project Director, excavation of Tinker Creek site, 38AK224, , Aiken
Co.,
SC. A public outreach project of the
Savannah
River Archaeological Research Program.
1990-92
- Project Director, excavation and analysis of 38AK157, Aiken Co., SC.
1989
- Analyses of prehistoric site collections and computer analyses of
site
locations for synthesis of archaeological resources on the Savannah
River
Site.
1988-89
- Technofunctional analyses of fiber-tempered pottery and soapstone
artifacts
from sites in the
1987
- Project Director, excavation and analysis of 38AK158 and 38AK159,
Aiken Co.,
SC.
1985-86
- Visiting Researcher. Analysis of
lithic assemblages from Pen Point, Barnwell Co., SC.
1985
- Survey of pollen data at Universities in
1984
- Project Director, Pen Point Site excavations, Barnwell Co, SC.
1983
- Field Archaeologist, Ft. San Felipe excavations, Paris Island,
Beaufort Co.,
SC. South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology. S. South, Principal Investigator.
1983
- Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of South
Carolina;
geological analysis of sediment from Mulberry Mounds site, Kershaw Co.,
SC.
1982
- Field Archaeologist, Minim Island Shell Midden test excavations,
Georgetown
Co., SC. Carolina Archaeological Services.
L. Drucker, Principal Investigator.
1981-82
- Teaching/Field Assistant, University of South Carolina Archaeological
Field
School at Mulberry Mounds site, Kershaw Co., SC. L.
Ferguson, S. Green and D. Lewarch,
co-directors.
1980
- Field Archaeologist, Kuhlman Mound excavations, IL. FAP 408 Highway
Project;
Northwestern University Archaeological
1980
- Field Archaeologist, Cultural Resources Reconnaissance,
1979
- Research Assistant, archival research and ethnographic interview,
Colonial
Williamsburg, VA. Research of M. Leone,
Department of Anthropology,
1979
- Teaching/Field Assistant,
1978
- Student Excavator,
Teaching
Experience
1998-present
- Assistant (1998-2002); Associate (2002-present) Professor, Department
of
Anthropology,
1991-1998
- Instructor, Department of History and Anthropology,
1992
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology,
1984-1987
- Teaching Associate (1985-1987), Teaching Assistant (1984), Department
of
Anthropology; Instructor (1986), Division of Continuing Education,
1983
- Instructor, Department of Anthropology,
1979-1980 - Teaching
Assistant, Department
of Anthropology,
Books/Monographs/Edited
Volumes
In prep
The Eastern Archaic, Histroicized.
Altamira
Press,
In prep
Pen Point: A Stratified
Archaic Site on the Savannah
River,
2006
People of the Shoals: Stallings
Culture of the
2002
G.
S. Lewis-East: Early and Late Archaic Occupations along the Savannah
River,
1999 The Archaeological Northeast
(second editor with M. A. Levine and
M. S. Nassaney). Bergin and Garvey,
1997
Proceedings of the Second International
Conference on Pedo-Archaeology (third editor with A. C. Goodyear
and J. E.
Foss). Anthropological Studies 10. Occasional Papers of the South Carolina
Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South
Carolina,
Columbia.
1996
Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast (first
editor with D. G. Anderson). University
Press of
1996
The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast
(second editor with D. G. Anderson).
1996
Distributional Archaeology in the Aiken
Plateau: Intensive Survey of E Area,
Savannah River Site,
1995
Native American Interactions: Multiscalar
Analyses and Interpretations in
the Eastern Woodlands. (second
editor with M.S. Nassaney)
1995
Archaic Period Archaeology of the Georgia
Coastal Plain and Coastal Zone (second author with D.T. Elliott).
1995
Middle and Late Archaic Archaeological
Records of South Carolina: A Synthesis
for Research and Resource Management (revised, second edition)
(first
author with D.G. Anderson).
1994
Middle and Late Archaic Archaeological
Records of South Carolina: A Synthesis
for Research and Resource Management (first author with D.G.
Anderson). Council of
1993
Early Pottery in the Southeast:
Tradition and Innovation in Cooking
Technology.
1993
Mims Point 1992: Archaeological
Investigations at a
Prehistoric Habitation Site in the
1993 Early Woodland Settlement in the
Aiken Plateau: Archaeological
Investigations at 38AK157, Savannah River Site,
1992
Paleoindian and Early Archaic Period
Research in the Lower Southeast: A South
Carolina Perspective (second editor with D.G. Anderson and C.
Judge). Council of
1990
Native American Prehistory of the
Articles/Book
Chapters
2007 The Cultural History of Bannerstones in the Savannah River Valley (with A. Randall) Southeastern Archaeology 26:196-211.
2007 Mid-Holocene Cultural Dynamics in
2007 Comment on Robin Beck et al., Eventful Archaeology: The Place of Space in Structural Transformation. Current Anthropology 48:850-851
2006
2006
Dating
and Explaining Soapstone Vessels: A
Comment on Truncer. American
Antiquity 71:141-156.
2006
Comment
on Ian Keen, Constraints on the Development of Enduring Inequalities in
Late
Holocene
2005
Poverty
2005
Hills
on the Plain: Archaeology and Geology of
the Zorn Sites,
2004
Complex
Hunter-Gatherers in Evolution and History: A North American Perspective. Journal of Archaeological Research
12:227-280.
2004
Common
Origins and Divergent Histories in the Early Pottery Traditions of the
American
Southeast. In Early Pottery:
Technology, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast, edited by Rebecca
Saunders and
Christopher Hays.
2004
Structure
and Practice in the Archaic Southeast.
In North American Archaeology,
edited by T. K. Pauketat and D. D. Loren, pp. 79-107.
Blackwell,
2004
Early
and Middle Holocene Periods, 9500 to 3750 B.C.
(second author with D. G. Anderson).
In Handbook of North American
Indians: Southeast, pp. 87-100. Smithsonian
Institution Press,
2004
Late
Holocene Period, 3750 to 650 B.C. (first
author with D. G. Anderson). In Handbook of North American Indians:
Southeast, pp. 101-114. Smithsonian
Institution Press,
2004
Roots
of the Theocratic Formative in the Archaic Southeast (first author with
M. J.
Heckenberger). Hunter-Gatherers in
Theory and Archaeology, edited by G. Crothers, pp. 423-444. Center for Archaeological Investigations,
Southern
2004
Crossing
the Symbolic Rubicon in the Southeast (first author with M. J.
Heckenberger). In Signs of
Power: The Rise of Cultural Complexity
in the Southeast, edited by J. Gibson and P. Carr, pp. 214-233.
2003
Archaeological
Consequences of Urban Land-Use Conversion in
2003
The Editors Speak:
Reminiscences of the Editors of
the Journal Southeastern Archaeology on the Occasion of its
Twentieth
Anniversary (junior author with W. H. Marquardt et al.).
Southeastern Archaeology 22:1-8.
2003
New
AMS Dates on Orange Fiber-Tempered Pottery from the
2002
Woodland
Ceramic Beginnings. In The Woodland
Southeast, edited by D. G. Anderson and R. C. Mainfort, Jr., pp.
398-420.
2001
Histories
By the Archaeologist, For the Archaeologist.
In Histories of Southeastern Archaeology, edited by S.
Tushingham
and J. Hill, pp. 234-242.
2001
Middle
Eastern Archaic. In Encyclopedia of
Prehistory, edited by P. Peregrine, pp. 318-321.
2001
Late
Eastern Archaic. In Encyclopedia of
Prehistory, edited by P. Peregrine, pp. 243-247.
2001
Articulating
Hidden Histories of the Mid-Holocene. In
Archaeology of the Appalachian Highlands,
edited by L. P. Sullivan and S. Prezanno, pp. 102-120.
2001
Communities
of Practice in the Early Pottery Traditions of the American Southeast
(first
author with W. Rudolphi). Journal of
Anthropological Research 57:407-425.
2001
Hunter-Gatherers
and Traditions of Resistance. In The Archaeology of Traditions: Agency
and History Before and After Columbus,
edited by T. K. Pauketat, pp. 218-236.
University Press, of
2000
Agents
of Change in Hunter-Gatherer Technology.
In Agency in Archaeology,
edited by M. A. Dobres and J. Robb, pp. 148-168. Routledge,
1999
A
Southeastern Perspective on Soapstone Vessel Technology in the
Northeast. In The
Archaeological Northeast, edited by M. A. Levine, K. E. Sassaman,
and M. S.
Nassaney, pp. 76-95. Bergin and Garvey,
1998
Distribution,
Timing, and Technology of Early Pottery in the
1998
Stallings
Culture. In Archaeology of
Prehistoric North America: An Encyclopedia, edited
by Guy Gibbon, pp. 810-813.
1998
Crafting
Cultural Identity in Hunter-Gatherer Economy.
In Craft and Cultural Identity,
edited by C. Costin and R. Wright.
Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association
8:93-107.
1998
Distributional
Archaeology in the Southeast: An Early
Archaic Example from the Aiken Plateau, South Carolina (second author
with M.
A. Cabak and J. C. Gillam). Southeastern
Archaeology 17:22-37.
1998
Archaic
Perspectives South of the Border. In The Archaic Period in Pennsylvania: Hunter-Gatherers
of the Early and Middle
Holocene Period, edited by P.A. Raber, P.E. Miller, and S.M.
Nesius, pp.
139-152 Pennsylvania Historical and
Museum Commission,
1998
Lithic
Technology and the Hunter-Gatherer Sexual Division of Labor. In Reader
in Gender Archaeology, edited by K. Hays-Gilpin and D. S. Whitley,
pp.
159-171. Routledge,
1997
Refining
Soapstone Vessel Chronology in the Southeast. Early
1997
Lithic
Technology and the Hunter-Gatherer Sexual Division of Labor. Annual
Editions: Archaeology 97/98:77-83. Reprinted. Originally published 1992. Dushkin/McGraw Hill,
1996
Technological
Innovations in Economic and Social Contexts, pp. 57-74; Middle and Late
Archaic
Architecture (first author with R. J. Ledbetter), pp. 75-96. In Archaeology
of the Mid-Holocene Southeast, edited by K.E. Sassaman and D.G.
Anderson. University Press of
1996
Environmental
and Chronological Considerations, pp. 3-15 (third author with D.G.
Anderson and
L.D. O'Steen); Modeling Paleoindian and Early Archaic Settlement in the
Southeast: A Historical Perspective, pp.
16-28 (second author with D.G. Anderson); Early Archaic Settlement in
the South
Carolina Coastal Plain, pp. 58-83; The Need for a Regional Perspective,
pp.
215-221 (first author with D.G. Anderson); Paleoindian and Early
Archaic
Research in the South Carolina Area, pp. 222-237 (second author with
D.G.
Anderson). In The Paleoindian
and Early Archaic Southeast, edited by D.G.
Anderson and K.E. Sassaman.
1995
An
Early Archaic Assemblage from the Bates Hill Road Site (38AK703),
1995
Putting
the
1995
Archaeological
Testing at the Brassell Site (9GL6),
1995
The
Cultural Diversity of Interactions among Mid-Holocene Societies of the
American
Southeast. In Native American
Interaction:
Multiscalar Analyses and Interpretations in the Eastern
Woodlands,
edited by M.S. Nassaney and K.E. Sassaman, pp. 174-204.
1995
Introduction:
Understanding Native American
Interactions, pp. xix-xxxviii (second author with M.S. Nassaney);
Epilogue, pp.
341-353 (first author with M.S. Nassaney).
In Native American
Interaction: Multiscalar Analyses and
Interpretations in the Eastern Woodlands, edited by M.S. Nassaney
and K.E.
Sassaman.
1995
The
Social Contradictions of Traditional and Innovative Cooking Technology
in the
Prehistoric American Southeast. In The Emergence of Pottery, edited by W.
Barnett and J. Hoopes, pp. 223-240.
Smithsonian Institution Press,
1995
Lithic
Technology and the Hunter-Gatherer Sexual Division of Labor. Annual
Editions: Archaeology 95/96:168-174. Reprinted. Originally published 1992. Dushkin Publishing Group,
1994
1994
Production
for Exchange in the Mid-Holocene Southeast:
A
1994
Changing
Strategies of Biface Production in the
1993
Twenty-Five
Lessons in Twenty-Five Years of Middle and Late Archaic Archaeology.
1993
Hunter-Gatherer
Site Structure at Upland Sites in the
1993
The
Second Fall of the Stallings Culture:
Shellmidden Looting in
1992
Early
Archaic Settlement of the
1992
Lithic
Technology and the Hunter-Gatherer Sexual Division of Labor. North
American Archaeologist 13:249-262.
1992
Gender
and Technology at the Archaic-Woodland "Transition."
In Exploring
Gender Through Archaeology: Selected
Papers from the 1991 Boone Conference, edited by Cheryl Claassen,
pp.71-79. Monographs in World Prehistory
11, Prehistory Press,
1991
Adaptive
Flexibility in the
1990
The
Heard Robertson Collection (first author with G.S. Lewis).
1990
An
Unusually Large Biface from the Phil Neeley Site, 38BM85,
1990
Point
Bar Geoarchaeology in the Upper Coastal Plain of the Savannah River
Valley,
South Carolina: A Case Study (second author with M.J. Brooks). In Archaeological
Geology of North America, edited
by N.P. Laska and J. Donahue, pp. 183-197.
Geological Society of
1989 Pattern
and Process in the Middle Archaic of
1989
Prehistoric
Settlement in the Aiken Plateau: Summary
of Archaeological Investigations at 38AK158 and 38AK159,
1988
Raw
Material Procurement and the Reduction of Hunter-Gatherer Range in the
1988
Indian
Fires in the Prehistory of New England (second author with W.A.
Patterson
III). In Holocene Human
Ecology in Northeastern North America, edited by
G.P. Nicholas, pp. 107-135. Plenum,
1985
A
Preliminary Typological Assessment of MALA Hafted Bifaces from the Pen
Point
Site,
1984
Stratigraphic Description and Interpretation
of the Mulberry Mound Site (38KE12),
1983
The
Political Economy of Resource Management: a General Model and
Application to
Foraging Societies in the Carolina Piedmont (second author with S.W.
Green). In
Ecological Models in Economic Prehistory,
edited by G. Bronitsky, pp. 261-290.
Book
Reviews
2006
2004
Catawba
Indian Pottery: The Survival of a Folk Tradition, by Thomas John
Blumer. Journal of
Anthropological Research 60:425-426.
2002
The Ancient Mounds of Poverty Point: Place
of Rings, by Jon L. Gibson. Southeastern
Archaeology 20:199-201.
2001
Florida’s Indians from Ancient Times to the
Present, by J. T. Milanich.
1999
Hardaway Revisited: Early Archaic Settlement
in the Southeast, by I.
1997
Of Caves and Shell Mounds, edited by
Kenneth C. Carstens and Patty Jo Watson.
Southeastern Archaeology
16:86-87.
1996
1995
The Development of Southeastern Archaeology,
edited by Jay Johnson. Journal
of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 11:166-168.
1993
The Archaeology of William Henry Holmes,
edited by David J. Meltzer and Robert C. Dunnell. Southeastern
Archaeology 12:159-161.
1993
The Siouan Project: Seasons
I and II, edited by R.S. Dickens,
H.T. Ward and R.P.S. Davis, Jr. American
Antiquity 58:374-375.
1992
The Organization of Core Technology,
edited by J.K. Johnson and C. Morrow. North American Archaeologist 13:71-76.
Technical
Reports
2005