Principal Investigator: Shannon Lee Dawdy, Ph.D.

Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

Archaeobotanist: Kristen Gremillion, Ph.D.

Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University

Phytolith Analyst: Susan Mulholland, Ph.D.

Duluth Archaeology Center, LLC

2008 Fieldwork Team:

Graduate students, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

Adela Amaral (photography)

Zachary Chase (mapping)

Megan Edwards (special samples, faunal analysis)

D. Ryan Gray (field manager, lab supervisor winter 2009)

Sarah Kautz (recording, graphics)

Jason Ramsey (logistics, lab supervisor summer-fall 2008)

Undergraduates, University of Chicago

Christopher Grant (class of 2008) (logistics)

Katherine Jacobsen (class of 2011) (website)

Local Volunteers (if we missed you, please let us know!):
Bettie Pendley, Joan Bruder, Millette White, Abraham Santa Cruz, Ryan Riddle, Anthony White, Daniel Leard, Katherine Lemberg, Chip McGimsey, Kimberly Eppler, Jim Delahoussaye, Clifford Sebastian, Senia Aguilar, and Matthew Byrne.

2008-2009 Labwork Team
In addition to the students listed above:

Tian Tian Cai

Stacy Hackner

Julia Haines

Jennifer Ganze

Petra Johnson

Sarah Sticha

Marji Bush

Matthew Reilly

Kevin Garstki

Katia Chaterji

Whitney Peterson (DePaul)

 

Other acknowledgements:

Jill-Karen Yakubik of Earth Search, Inc. lent some key pieces of equipment, as did Andrea White of the New Orleans Regional Archaeology Program at the University of New Orleans. We are especially grateful to Msgr. Crosby Kern of St. Louis Cathedral and Dr. Alfred Lemmon for their ongoing support.

This project has been made possible by the generous financial support of the Getty Foundation for the 2008 fieldwork and the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation for the 2009 season.