RESEARCH NEWS

	11 Jan 01	-	Current Projects - Dr. Gary D. Crites
	11 Jan 01	-	Year 2001 Research Studies - Dr. Paul Parmalee
	28 Nov 01	-	Dr. Lynne P. Sullivan Editor-elect for SEAC
	28 Nov 01	-	Recent and Upcoming Publications - Dr. Lynne P. Sullivan
	01 Dec 01	-	Current Research Studies - Elaine A. Evans
	06 Dec 01	-	Scholars Book Praised in England and Canada
	30 Apr 02	-	"A Foreign Captive at Medinet Habu"

25 Apr 03

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"A Curious Sealed Jar" - Elaine A. Evans

  CURRENT PROJECTS - DR. GARY D. CRITES

• Inventory and stablilization of the extensive collection of pre-Columbian plant remains recovered in Tennessee during archaeological excavations of the past 66 years

• Continuous updating of information pertaining to one of the most significant collections of archaeologically recovered maize in eastern North America

• Analysis currently is underway on ethnobotanical samples from Tennessee, Indiana, and Mississippi. These samples range in age from 6,000 to 150 years old

• Working under an advance contract on a book entitled, HARVESTING THE PAST: Plants and People in Pre-Columbian Tennessee

• RECENT ARTICLES:
  - "Tennessee's First Crops: Once a Weed, Always a Weed?" published in Sequoyah Speaks (official publication of the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum), Winter 2000

• RECENT PRESENTATIONS:
  - Featured speaker at the Forest Service Conference, topic: "Fire, People, and the Central Hardwood Landscape," Eastern Kentucky University, March 2000
  
  
• Participated in the annual Cherokee Fall Festival presented at the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Vonore, Tennessee. This annual festival is a celebration of Cherokee culture and history. On both days, Dr. Crites presented a brief lecture entitled A Celebration of Corn. Corn, first domesticated in the Americas, has a 2,00 year history with the native peoples of Tennessee. Dr. Crites discussed the origin of corn, the record of corn in Tennessee prior to European arrival, and displayed some examples of the remarkable variation in corn. September 7 and 8, 2002.
  

  YEAR 2001 RESEARCH STUDIES - DR. PAUL PARMALEE

• Identification and analyses of Late Pleistocene molluscan fauna from former lake and stream beds at Saltville, Virginia

• Study of prehistoric and pre-impoundment mussel assemblages from the Holston River, Grainger County, Tennessee

• Study of Early and Middle Archaic vertebrate remains from Dust Cave, Lauderdale County, Alabama

• Identification and interpretation of Late Pleistocene vertebrate from Appalachian Caverns, Sullivan County, Tennessee

  DR. LYNNE P. SULLIVAN EDITOR-ELECT FOR SEAC

Dr. Lynne P. Sullivan has been elected Editor-elect for the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC), the professional organization for archaeologists practicing in the Southeastern United States. She will become general editor for Southeastern Archaeology, the organization's peer-reviewed journal, in the fall of 2003, as well as oversee a special publications series. Dr. Sullivan is the first female to fill this position in the journal's 20-year history. In the meantime, Dr. Sullivan has been busy serving as Program Chair for the conference's annual 4-day meeting, which was held in Chattanooga, Tennessee, 14-17 November 2001. The Conference attracted some 600 attendees and featured over 200 presentations.

  RECENT AND UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS - DR. LYNNE P. SULLIVAN

• BOOKS

  • Sullivan, L. P. and Susan Prezzano, editors: Archaeology of the Appalachian Highlands. Knoxville, Tennessee: The University of Tennessee Press, 2001.

  • White, Nancy M., L. P. Sullivan, and Rochelle Marrinan, editors: Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1999.

  • Mainfort, Robert C., Jr. and L. P. Sullivan, editors: Ancient Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1998.

• ARTICLES

  • Sullivan, L. P. and Susan C. Prezzano, "The Concept of Appalachian Archaeology," in Archaeology of the Appalachian Highlands, L. P. Sullivan and S. C. Prezzano, editors, pages xix-xxxiii. Knoxville, Tennessee: The University of Tennessee Press, 2001.

  • Sullivan, L. P. and Susan C. Prezzano, "A Conscious Appalachian Archaeology," in Archaeology of the Appalachian Highlands, L. P. Sullivan and S. C. Prezzano, editors, pages 323-331. Knoxville, Tennessee: The University of Tennessee Press, 2001.

  • Sullivan, L. P. and Christopher B. Rodning, "Gender, Tradition, and Social Negotiation in Southern Appalachian Chiefdoms," in The Archaeology of Historical Processes: Agency and Tradition Before and After Columbus, Timothy R. Pauketat, editor, pages 107-120. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2001.

  • Sullivan, L. P., "Those Men in the Mounds: Gender, Politics, and Mortuary Practices in Late Prehistoric Eastern Tennessee," in Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States, Jane M. Eastman and Christopher B. Rodning, editors, pages 101-126. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2001.

  • Sullivan, L. P., "The Curation Dilemma: A Mutual Problem for Research and Resource Management," in Archaeological Research and Heritage Preservation in the Americas, Robert D. Drennan, editor, pages 88-96. Washington, D.C.: Society for American Archaeology, 2001.

  • Lengyel, Stacey N., Jeffery L. Eighmy, and L. P. Sullivan, "On the Potential of Archaeomagnetic Dating in the Midcontinent Region of North America: Toqua Site Results," in Southeastern Archaeology, Vol 18, No 2 (1999), pages 156-171.

  • Sullivan, L. P., "Madeline D. Kneberg Lewis: Leading Lady of Tennessee Archaeology," in Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States, Nancy M. White, L. P. Sullivan, and Rochelle Marrinan, editors, pages 57-91. Gainesville, Florida: Florida Museum of Natural History, Ripley P. Bullen Series, University Press of Florida, 1999.

  • The Editors (Marrinan, Sullivan, & White), "Grit-Tempered Women," in Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States, edited by Nancy M. White, L. P. Sullivan, and Rochelle Marrinan, pages 298-314. Gainesville, Florida: Florida Museum of Natural History, Ripley P. Bullen Series, University Press of Florida, 1999.

  • Mainfort, R. C., Jr. and L. P. Sullivan, "Explaining Earthen Enclosures," in Ancient Earthen Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands, edited by R. C. Mainfort, Jr. and L. P. Sullivan, pages 1-16. Gainesville, Florida: Florida Museum of Natural History, Ripley P. Bullen Series, University Press of Florida, 1998.

  

  

    CURRENT RESEARCH STUDIES - ELAINE A. EVANS
  

  • Study and interpretation of an ancient Egyptian sandstone relief fragment of the god "Horus the Child," Ptolemaic Period (?).

  • Documentation of photographs of ancient Egyptian archaeological sites, modern cities, villages, and genre scenes, 19th and early 20th centuries.

  • Investigation and interpretation of an ancient Egyptian sealed pottery jar, Naqada Period, circa 3100 BC(?).
  • Study and interpretation of an ancient Egyptian bronze statuette of Amun-Re, Late Period, Dynasty XXI-XXII.
    
    

  

  

    SCHOLARS BOOK PRAISED IN ENGLAND

  Curator Elaine A. Evans' book Scholars, Scoundrels and the Sphinx: A Photographic and Archaeological Adventure Up the Nile received a most favorable review in the October 2001 issue of the Bulletin of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East, by Book Editor Albertine Gaur. The Cambridge, England, association promotes education and learning, with a particular focus on the history of travel and travelers in Egypt and the Near East. After brief summaries of several sections of the book, Gaur ends his critique by stating, "This is a valuable educational resource, both from the point of view of Egyptology and the development of photography. Valuable too are the Bibliographical notes that accompany each chapter."

Scholars, Scoundrels and the Sphinx was reviewed in the April 2002 issue of the American Journal of Archaeology by D.J.I.Begg, Trent University , Ontario Canada. Among his favorable comments he points out that although "lacking the artifactual and financial resources of the larger established museums. . ." a museum can nonetheless make an important contribution both to Egyptology and its dessemination, and continues "The strength of the McClung collection, at least as exhibited and published, lies in its diversity and scope." Chapter 6 about the history of the Cairo museums is sited for particular interest "...with photos of artifacts once housed in the predecessors to the current Egyptian Museum..." Begg concludes with "In spite of a few shortcomings, the book can serve as a useful introduction to the subject, and its publication of old photos will be of use to Egyptologists."

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