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Historic Ceramics - Discussion of wares, technology, vessel form and function, and history with local case studies. 

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Historic Lithics - Marbles and more.

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Gulf Ordnance Plant--World War II munitions factory at Prairie, Mississippi

"Literature Review and Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Prairie Branch, Mississippi State University Agricultural Extension Service, formerly Gulf Ordnance Plant, Monroe County, Mississippi," report submitted to Mississippi Department of Archives and History by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc.

 

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Two Early 20th century sawmill towns; Mish (Covington County, Mississippi) and Chancey (Quitman County, Mississippi) -- one in the Piney Woods, one in the Delta hardwood swamp

"Phase I...Mish" (2002 report submitted to Mississippi Department of Archives and History by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc.)

"Phase I…O'Keefe Wildlife Management Area, Quitman County, Mississippi" (2003 report submitted to Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks)

 

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Summaries of my document and collections research on Mississippi and Arkansas 19th and early 20th century stoneware potteries

"Nineteenth Century Arkansas Stoneware Potteries" (2001 South Central Historic Archaeology Conference, Little Rock)

"Mississippi Stoneware Potters" (2002 Mississippi Archaeological Association  annual meeting, Plymouth Bluff, Mississippi)

 

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Colonial French artifacts from the site of Spanish Arkansas Post

"The Ft. Desha Conundrum" (2000 symposium on Arkansas Post organized by L. Stewart-Abernathy, Society for Historic Archaeology, Quebec)

"Colonial Ceramics from Three Sites of the Arkansas Post, ca. 1700-1800" (1999 South Central Historic Archaeology Conference, Memphis)

 

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A ca. 1820 (Removal era) cabin from Memphis, with Chickasaw, Choctaw, and English ceramics

 

"The Harry Osborne Collection: An Early Nineteenth-Century Artifact Assemblage from Memphis, Tennessee" with R.C. Mainfort (1999 Mississippi Archaeology 34-1)

 

 

 

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