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MARY EVELYN STARR BA Anthropology, Mississippi State University, 1989 MA Anthropology, University of Memphis, 1994
EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Over two decades of state and federal agency and university employment, private consulting and contract firm employment, public speaking and volunteer work. Private consulting, principal investigator, report author, and field director all phases of cultural resources management. Field crew chief and technician and laboratory analyst on prehistoric and historic sites throughout the Mid-South and in the West, Ohio Valley and Atlantic South. Specializing in Mid-South archaeology, Mississippi, protohistoric and historic periods, geoarchaeology, stoneware, and historic architecture. PREVIOUS POSITIONS AND RESEARCH 2006 • Private consulting conducting housing development surveys throughout Mississippi. • Archaeological subcontractor conducting small surveys in Mississippi and final reporting of Phase I investigations of the proposed LeFleur Lakes, Hinds, Rankin and Madison Cos., Mississippi. James Lauro, Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi. 2005 • Archaeological and architectural consulting for water line extensions in northwest Mississippi. • Archaeological subcontractor conducting Phase I and II work in Mississippi, including analysis and reporting of investigations of the proposed LeFleur Lakes, Hinds, Rankin and Madison Cos., Mississippi. James Lauro, Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi. 2004 • Archaeological and architectural consulting for water line extensions in northwest Mississippi. • Archaeological subcontractor conducting survey work in Mississippi, including a 1200 acre industrial supersite in Monroe, County, Mississippi, and a 5000 acre proposed LeFleur Lake, Hinds, Rankin and Madison Cos., Mississippi. James Lauro, Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi. 2003 • Private consulting for 700 acre waterfowl improvements including extinct sawmill town of Chancey and penal farm, O’Keefe Wildlife Management Area, Quitman County, Mississippi and waterline extensions in northwest Mississippi. • Archaeological subcontractor conducting Phase I work for borrow pits in Mississippi and tribal developments Louisiana. James Lauro, Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi. 2002 • Director of Passport in Time/Mississippi Archaeology Week testing of a late 19th/early 20th century stoneware pottery kiln on the Tombigbee National Forest, Winston County, Mississippi. • Archaeological subcontractor conducting Phase I and II work, including the extinct sawmill townsite of Mish, Covington, Co., Mississippi. James Lauro, Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi. 2001 • Project archaeologist, analyst, editor and field technician, including Mississippi cell tower sites archaeology and architecture. Weaver and Associates, Memphis, Tennessee. • Archaeological subcontractor conducting Phase I work in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, including Grenada Lake, Mississippi, timber sales. James Lauro, Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi. • Salvage in vicinity of destroyed Mississippian site, Posey Co., Indiana. Cheryl Munson, University of Indiana. 2000 • Director of Phase II testing of Memphis’ 19th century cobblestone river landing. Guy Weaver, Weaver and Associates, Memphis, Tennessee. • Archaeological subcontractor conducting surveys of Alabama cell tower sites and Arkansas development. . James Lauro, Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi. 1999 • Project archaeologist, laboratory analyst and field crew member. Guy Weaver, Weaver and Associates, Memphis, Tennessee. • Field crew chief, Ft. Polk/Kisatchie National Forest cultural resources inventory, Louisiana. Blaine Ensor, David Dye, University of Memphis. • Guest lecturer, “Indians in the Delta,” Honors History/Interdisciplinary Studies class: History of the Delta. Delta State University. • Research assistant, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and University of Arkansas at Monticello. Secretarial and administrative duties, cataloguing of collections, public outreach, and conducting small cultural resources surveys through Sponsored Research Program. John House, Marvin Jeter and Robert Mainfort, Arkansas Archeological Survey. 1998 • Testing and remote sensing at Hollywood, a Protohistoric mound complex in Tunica Co., Mississippi, and background research at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, in association with the Hollywood and Oliver projects. Drafting of various chapters concerning the Oliver site and editing of submitted chapters for volumes in preparation. Descriptive analysis and documentation of collections from the protohistoric Humber site. Jay Johnson, University of Mississippi, and John Connaway, Mississippi Department of Archives and History. • Area director, second season of field school testing of the Contact period Menard site, east-central Arkansas and analysis and reporting of excavated materials. John House and Hester Davis, Arkansas Archeological Survey and Arkansas Archeological Society. 1997 • Archaeologist, timber sales survey and site assessment, Homochitto National Forest, Mississippi Joel Dukes, National Forest Service. • Excavator on a Woodland site in the Central Basin of Tennessee. Guy Weaver, Brockington and Associates, Memphis. • Area director, first season of field school testing at Menard. John House, Hester Davis, AAS. • Soils, remote sensing, and archaeological investigations of a Dalton site in the upper Yazoo Basin of Mississippi. John Connaway, MDAH. • Field director on Highway 25-82 bypass sites testing, Oktibeeha Co., Mississippi. Janet Rafferty, Mississippi State University. 1996 • Excavator, mitigation of Hillhouse, a terminal Woodland-Emergent Mississippian village in the New Madrid Floodway, southeast Missouri. Robert Lafferty, Midcontinental Research Associates. • Archaeologist, soils and remote sensing investigations of Pemiscott Co., Missouri, sites impacted by ancient earthquakes. Tish Tuttle, University of Maryland Department of Geology. • Private consulting, four-lane planning survey in north Mississippi. Michael Baker Engineering. • Field director and report preparation on wetlands mitigation, Shelby Co., Tennessee; southern Ouachita Mountains timber sales; and Meridian Naval Air Station, Lauderdale County, Mississippi, surveys. Charles McNutt, Jr., Garrow and Associates, Memphis. • Testing of Early Mississippian Mound Cemetery site in St. Francis Co., Arkansas. John House, AAS. 1995 • Field director and report preparation of Highway 70, Central Basin of Tennessee, and Highway 80, western Tennessee, surveys and Phase II and III field director of excavation of a 19th century railroad depot, Memphis, Tennessee. Mitchell Childress, Garrow. • Field director of Woodland sites testing, Union Co. Kentucky; delineation of an unmarked historic cemetery in West Virginia; Highway 11 survey, Bluegrass Region of Kentucky; Glasgow bypass, Barrens region of Kentucky; and numerous very small utilities surveys throughout Kentucky. Nancy and Richard Ross-Stallings, Cultural Horizons, Inc. • Testing of Alligator Bayou and Troublesome Lake farmsteads, St. Francis Co., Arkansas. John House, AAS. 1994 • Field director and report author on Desha Co., Arkansas, canal survey and 6000-acre Palachucola wildlife refuge surveys, lower Savannah River, South Carolina, and field crew on south Mississippi and Great Bend of the Red River surveys. Richard Walling, Evan Peacock, and Shawn Chapman, Panamerican Consultants. • Field director and report author on Shelby Co., Tennessee, industrial park survey and field crew and report author on excavation of a Crittenden Co., Arkansas, Mississippian house and Phase II and III excavations of an intact Tchula site, Shelby Co., Tennessee. Mitchell Childress, Garrow. • Third season of excavation of the Kykendall Brake charnel house, Pulaski Co., Arkansas. John House, AAS. 1993 • Analyst and report author, Helena Harbor testing; excavator on 19th century Memphis wells; field crew and analyst on small Tennessee projects. Mitchell Childress, Garrow. • Excavator on testing of Mississippian Hollywood site. John Connaway, MDAH. • Graduate assistant, NAGPRA and general collections inventory. C.H. McNutt, University of Memphis. • Field crew on soil and pollen core sampling of Obion River bottoms, western Tennessee. June Mirecki, UM Department of Geology. • Second season of excavations at Kykendall Brake. John House, AAS. 1992 • Lithic analyst of Phase III Archaic site on the Cumberland River and field director and report author for east Arkansas canal. Mitchell Childress, Garrow. • Private consulting, small surveys in northwest Mississippi. Farmers Home Administration and others. • Field director, report author and laboratory supervisor on testing of a historic site, St. Francis Co., Arkansas, and 19th century features at Leath Orphanage, Memphis. Gerald Smith, UM. • Research assistant. C.H. McNutt, UM. • Volunteer excavator at Mississippi State University’s Owl Creek Middle Mississippian mound group and Arkansas Archeological Society’s Taylor site field schools. • First season of Kykendall Brake excavations. John House, AAS. • Processing and analysis of Mississippian vessels salvaged from the Oliver site, Coahoma Co., Mississippi. John Connaway, MDAH. • Controlled surface collection of the Lake Dumond site, Arkansas Co., Arkansas, and test excavations at Mound Cemetery. John House, AAS. • Director of testing of the protohistoric Irby site, DeSoto Co., Mississippi. David Dye, UM. 1991 • Laboratory supervisor and excavator, Parkin Archeological State Park, Arkansas. Jeff Michem, AAS. • Field director and report author of Highway 81, Washington Co., Virginia and titanium mining tracts in Greenville Co., North Carolina, and Halifax Co., Virginia, surveys; field director of mitigation of a very small Archaic site in Sussex Co., Virginia; field crew on numerous survey and testing projects throughout Virginia including 18th and 19th century deposits in Richmond, Petersburg, and Yorktown. Dennis Blanton, Center for Archaeological Research, College of William and Mary. 1990 • Draftsman. Don Linebaugh, William and Mary. • Field crew on mitigation of Woodland and Mississippian sites at Helena Harbor on the Mississippi River, Phillips Co., Arkansas. Doug Prescott, US Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis District. 1989 • Field crew on Okatibee Reservoir survey, Lauderdale Co., Mississippi. Tim Mistovich, Panamerican. • Testing at Clay Hill Late Mississippian site. John House, AAS. • Artifact analysis and write-up of the Powell Bayou site, excavated by the 1969 field school. Richard Marshall, MSU. 1988 • Field crew on survey and testing at Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, lithic and bone scatters and excavation of early 19th century Ft. Union Trading Post National Monument, North Dakota. Melissa Connors and Bill Hunt, National Park Service. • Excavation of the Clay Hill and Kent sites, eastern Arkansas. John House, University of Southern Illinois. 1986 • Field crew on testing of a shell midden on the Tombigbee River and curation. John O’Hear, MSU. • Field assistant of field school testing of Ingomar Woodland pyramidal mound, Union Co., Mississippi. Janet Rafferty, MSU. • Directed testing of Canon Mound, Tunica County, Mississippi, for National Register nomination. John Connaway, MDAH. 1985 • Field crew on test excavation of 19th century sites on the Natchez Trace; crew chief, laboratory supervisor, lithic analyst, and report author on the mitigation of Woodland sites on the Tombigbee River; lithic analyst on Tallahatta quartzite quarry excavations; and excavator on a 19th century Choctaw site, Lauderdale Co., Mississippi. Janet Rafferty, Geoff Lehmann, and John O’Hear, MSU. • Testing at Kent. John House, AAS. • Volunteer salvage of early 19th century features at Westport Landing on the Tombigbee River. Mississippi Archaeological Association. 1984 • Union and Pontotoc Cos., Mississippi, surveys and ceramic analysis and cataloging of collections from surveys. Janet Rafferty, MSU. • Volunteer salvage of a Gulf Formational site on the Black Prairie of Mississippi. MAA. • Field school assistant, mapping and testing of Tallahatta quartzite quarries, Lauderdale Co., Mississippi. Geoffrey Lehmann, MDAH. • Field school excavator on mitigation of a Late Woodland site complex in Virginia Beach Co., Virginia. James Madison University. 1983 • Analysis and reporting of Yazoo Basin collections. John Connaway, MDAH. • Analysis of materials from historic Tombigbee River landing. Richard Marshall, MSU. • Excavator, Middle Woodland Mound 6. Robert Mainfort, Pinson Mounds State Park, Tennessee. • Volunteer salvage of Early Mississippian Barrett Mound, Arkansas Archeological Society. 1982 • Field school student on Chickasaw sites survey and testing of a Gulf Formational site in Lee Co., Mississippi. Janet Rafferty, MSU. 1981 • Analyst, Early Archaic Hester site, Monroe Co., Mississippi. Sam Brookes, MDAH. JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS 1982 “The Stone Mounds (22QU538),” Mississippi Archaeology 17(1). 1984 “The Parchman Phase in the Northern Yazoo Basin: A Preliminary Analysis,” appendix to The Wilsford Site (22CO510) Coahoma County, Mississippi, by John M. Connaway. Mississippi Department of Archives and History Archaeological Report 14. Jackson. 1991 “The Powell Bayou Site: Part I,” Mississippi Archaeology 26(1). 1992 “Preliminary Report on Ceramic Vessels from the 1991 Oliver Salvage,” Mississippi Archaeology 27(2). 1997a “Powell Bayou (Part II) and Dockery: Two Mississippian Components in the Sunflower Basin of Mississippi,” Mississippi Archaeology 32(2). 1997b “The Mississippian Archaeology of Phillips County, Arkansas: Ellis Mound and Other Components,” in Results of Recent Archaeological Investigations in the Greater Mid-South, Proceedings of the 17th Mid-South Archaeological Conference, edited by Charles H. McNutt. Anthropological Research Center Occasional Paper 18, University of Memphis. 1997c “The Late Prehistoric Archaeology of Phillips County (Part I): Address to the Phillips County Historical Society, Helena, Arkansas, July 27, 1997. Phillips County Historical Review 35 (1 and 2):87-102. 1997d “The Late Prehistoric Archaeology of Phillips County (Part II): Address to the Phillips County Historical Society, Helena, Arkansas, July 27, 1997. Phillips County Historical Review 35 (3 and 4):44-48. 1999a “The Harry Osborn Collection: An Early Nineteenth-Century Artifact Assemblage from Memphis, Tennessee.” M.E. Starr and Robert C. Mainfort. Mississippi Archaeology 34(1). 1999b “Rediscovering the Menard-Hodges Site.” John H. House, Mary Evelyn Starr, and Leslie C. Stewart-Abernathy. Mississippi Archaeology 32(2). 2003 “Exploring the History of the Arkansas Stoneware Industry.” The Arkansas Archeologist 42: 1-14. NOTES AND REVIEWS 1997 “Mary Evelyn Starr’s Summer Vacation.” Mississippi Archaeological Association Newsletter 32(4). 1998a “The Northern Periphery Controlled Surface Collection at Menard-Hoges, 3AR4.” Arkansas Archeological Society Field Notes 285:3-7. 1998b “A Wheeler Punctated Fiber Tempered Sherd from Eastern Arkansas.” Arkansas Archeological Society Field Notes 285:7. 1999a Review of Lewis and Stout, eds.: Mississippian Towns and Sacred Places. Arkansas Review 30(1):82-83. 1999b “The Mary Evelyn Starr Report.” Mississippi Archaeological Association Newsletter 34(2):8-11. 1999c “Talking with Ed and Patsy White.” Arkansas Archeological Society Fieldnotes. 1999d “Mississippian ‘Coffin’ Burial.” Arkansas Archeological Society Fieldnotes 286:11-13. 1999d Review of Knight and Steponaitis, eds.: Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom. Mississippi Archaeology 32(1). 2001 Review of Warren G. Moorehead: The Cahokia Mounds, in the Classics in Southeastern Archaeology series. The Arkansas Review 32. 2006 Review of Jeffrey A. Lockwood: Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier. Arkansas Archeological Society Fieldnotes 328. CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT REPORTS 1986 Test Excavations at Two Woodland Sites, Lowndes County, Mississippi. Janet Rafferty and Mary Evelyn Starr. Report submitted to Mobile District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Cobb Institute of Archaeology Report of Investigations 3. 1991a A Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of the Route 81 Interchange Project, Washington County, Virginia. Mary Evelyn Starr, Charles Downing, and Willie Graham. Report submitted to the Virginia Department of Transportation by Center for Archaeological Research, College of William and Mary. 1991b Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of Three Falls Zone Tracts Proposed for Surface Mining, Greenville County, Virginia, and Halifax County, North Carolina. Mary Evelyn Starr, Charles Downing, and Dennis Blanton. Report submitted to TiSand Joint Venture by Center for Archaeological Research, College of William and Mary. 1991c Phase II Archaeological Investigations of the Roanoke Rapids Site Complex, Halifax County, North Carolina. Mary Evelyn Starr and Dennis Blanton. Report submitted to TiSand Joint Venture by Center for Archaeological Research, College of William and Mary. 1992a Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed YOU Building, Quitman County, Mississippi. Report submitted to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History by Mary Evelyn Starr. 1992b Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of the Boyd Property, Quitman County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Farmers Home Administration by Mary Evelyn Starr.. 1992c Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed “Hacks” Apartment Buildings, DeSoto County, Mississippi. Report submitted to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History by Mary Evelyn Starr. 1992d Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of the Davis Property, Quitman County, Mississippi. Report submitted to the Farmers Home Administration by Mary Evelyn Starr. 1992e Cultural Resources Survey of Ditch 105 near Marked Tree, Arkansas. Report submitted to Memphis District, US Army Corps of Engineers by Garrow & Assoc., Memphis. 1994a Cultural Resources Inventory of Canal 19, Desha County, Arkansas. Report submitted to Vicksburg District, US Army Corps of Engineers by Panamerican Consultants, Memphis. 1994b Cultural Resources Survey of Palachucola Wildlife Management Area, Jasper and Hampton Counties, South Carolina. Michelle Heyward, Mary Evelyn Starr, and Terry Lolly. Report submitted to Savannah District US Army Corps of Engineers by Panamerican Consultants, Tuscaloosa. 1994c A Cultural Resources Survey of the Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial Park, Shelby County, Tennessee. Report submitted to Oakley, Chester, Rike by Garrow & Assoc., Memphis. 1995a Archaeological Investigations at Helena Slackwater Harbor, Phillips County, Arkansas. M.R. Childress, M.E. Starr, and C. Koepple. Report submitted to US Army Corps of Engineers by Garrow & Assoc., Memphis. 1995b A Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of a 1.5 Acre Electricity Transmission Substation Near Independence, Knowlton County, Kentucky. Richard Ross-Stallings and Mary Evelyn Starr. Report submitted to the Kentucky Office of State Archaeology by Cultural Horizons, Inc. 1995c A Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of Two Watertank Sites, McCreary County, Kentucky. Richard Ross-Stallings and Mary Evelyn Starr. Report submitted to the Kentucky Office of State Archaeology by Cultural Horizons, Inc. 1995d A Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of Five Electricity Transmission Substations, Eastern Kentucky. Richard Ross-Stallings and Mary Evelyn Starr. Report submitted to the Kentucky Office of State Archaeology by Cultural Horizons, Inc. 1995e A Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed Glasgow Bypass, Barren County, Kentucky. Report submitted to Kentucky Transportation Cabinet by Cultural Horizons, Inc. 1995f A Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed Highway 12 Widening and Realignment, Sharpsburg to Bethel. Report submitted to Kentucky Transportation Cabinet by Cultural Horizons, Inc. 1995g Archaeological Survey Along State Route 24, Martha to Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee. Report submitted to the Tennessee Department of Transportation by Garrow & Assoc., Memphis. 1996a Archaeological Survey Along State Route 86 Between Collierville and the Mississippi State Line. Mary Evelyn Starr and Mitchell Childress. Report submitted to the Tennessee Department of Transportation by Garrow & Assoc., Memphis. 1999a A Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Land Clearing Activity and Drainage Improvement, Bear Bayou Farm, Chicot County, Arkansas. Report submitted to Harold Fitts, Greenville, Mississippi, by Arkansas Archeological Survey Sponsored Research Program, Fayetteveille. 1999b A Cultural Resources Survey of a Proposed Cellular Telephone Transmission Tower Site, Terracon Lease, near Blytheville, Mississippi County, Arkansas. Report submitted to Terracon, Nashville, Tennessee, by Arkansas Archeological Survey Sponsored Research Program, Fayetteville. 2000a Phase I Archaeological Survey of a 40 Acre Tract Proposed for Development by Walmart Corporation, Garland County, Arkansas. James Lauro and Mary Evelyn Starr. Report submitted to Walmart Corporation by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2000b A Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of a Proposed Cellular Telephone Tower Site near Fruitdale in Washington County, Alabama (Job # 00-0232). Mary Evelyn Starr and James Lauro. Report submitted to Pickering Environmental Jackson, Mississippi, and Alabama Historical Commission, Montgomery, by Mississippi Archaeology, Inc. 2000c A Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of a Proposed Cellular Telephone Tower Site near Wilmer in Mobile County, Alabama (Job # 99-0076). Report submitted to Pickering Environmental, Jackson, Mississippi and Alabama Historical Commission, Montgomery, by Mississippi Archaeology, Inc., Jackson. 2001a A Cultural Resources Reconnaissance of 2,150 Acres proposed for 2001 Timber Sales at Grenada Reservoir, Grenada County, Mississippi. Mary Evelyn Starr, James Lauro and Beau Hale. Report submitted to Vicksburg District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2001b Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of a Proposed Water Line and Water Intake Station, Clay County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Panda LLC by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2001c Phase II Cultural Resources Testing of Three Reputed Rockshelters in Irondale, Jefferson County, Alabama. Report submitted to Mobile District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2001d A Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of a Proposed Cellular Telephone Tower Site near Big Sand Hill in Washington County, Alabama (Job # 00-0245). Mary Evelyn Starr and James Lauro. Report submitted to Alabama Historical Commission, Montgomery, by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson 2001e A Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of a Proposed Cellular Telephone Tower Site near Vinegar Bend in Washington County, Alabama. Mary Evelyn Starr and James Lauro. Report submitted to Pickering Environmental by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2001f A Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of a Proposed Cellular Telephone Tower Site near Tanner-Williams in Mobile County, Alabama. Mary Evelyn Starr and James Lauro. Report submitted to Pickering Environmental by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2001g A Phase I Cultural Resources and Historical Architecture Reconnaissance of the Proposed Location of the Lauderdale Cellular Telephone Tower Site, Lauderdale County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Gallett & Associates, Birmingham, by Weaver and Associates, LLC, Memphis. 2001h A Phase I Cultural Resources and Historical Architecture Reconnaissance of the Proposed Location of the Kemper Springs Cellular Telephone Tower Site, Kemper County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Gallett & Associates, Birmingham, by Weaver and Associates, LLC, Memphis. 2001i A Phase I Cultural Resources and Historical Architecture Reconnaissance of the Proposed Location of the Porterville Cellular Telephone Tower Site, Kemper County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Gallett & Associates, Birmingham, by Weaver and Associates, LLC, Memphis. 2001j A Phase I Cultural Resources and Historical Architecture Reconnaissance of the Proposed Location of the Scooba Cellular Telephone Tower Site, Kemper County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Gallett & Associates, Birmingham, by Weaver and Associates, LLC, Memphis. 2001k A Phase I Cultural Resources and Historical Architecture Reconnaissance of the Proposed Location of the Shuqualak Cellular Telephone Tower Site, Kemper and Noxubee Counties, Mississippi. Report submitted to Gallett & Associates, Birmingham, by Weaver and Associates, LLC, Memphis. 2001l A Phase I Cultural Resources and Historical Architecture Reconnaissance of the Proposed Location of the Evans Lake Cellular Telephone Tower Site, Noxubee County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Gallett & Associates, Birmingham, by Weaver and Associates, LLC, Memphis. 2001m A Phase I Cultural Resources and Historical Architecture Reconnaissance of the Proposed Location of the Macon Cellular Telephone Tower Site, Noxubee County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Gallett & Associates, Birmingham, by Weaver and Associates, LLC, Memphis. 2001n A Phase I Cultural Resources and Historical Architecture Reconnaissance of the Proposed Location of the Iuka Cellular Telephone Tower Site, Tishomingo County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Gallett & Associates, Birmingham, by Weaver and Associates, LLC, Memphis. 2001o A Phase I Cultural Resources and Historical Architecture Reconnaissance of the Proposed Location of the South Iuka Cellular Telephone Tower Site, Tishomingo County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Gallett & Associates, Birmingham, by Weaver and Associates, LLC, Memphis. 2001p A Phase I Cultural Resources and Historical Architecture Reconnaissance of the Proposed Location of the Burnsville Cellular Telephone Tower Site, Tishomingo County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Gallett & Associates, Birmingham, by Weaver and Associates, LLC, Memphis. 2001q Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of an 11 Acre Tract Proposed for Wetland Mitigation, Cooley Creek near Minden, Webster Parish, Louisiana. M.E. Starr and J. Lauro. Report submitted to the Vicksburg District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Webster Parish Police Jury by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2001r A Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Power Line Corridors, Congentrix Energy Power Plant Facility, Lowndes County, Mississippi, and Lamar County, Alabama. Brian R. Collins, Mary E. Starr and Guy G. Weaver. Report submitted to Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. Birmingham, by Weaver and Associates, LLC, Memphis. 2002a Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of New Right-of-Way, From Mississippi Highway 25 to U.S. Highway 80, Rankin County, Mississippi. .James Lauro and Mary Evelyn Starr. Report submitted to Mississippi Department of Archives and History by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi. 2002b Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of a 40 Acre Tract Proposed for a Borrow Pit, Starkville Bypass, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Eutaw Construction Co., West Point, Mississippi, by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2002c Cultural Resources Survey of School Section Land, Madison County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Department of Archives and History by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2002d Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of a Fifteen Acre Borrow Pit for Highway 25 Four-Lane Construction, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. Report submitted to D.B. Johnson Construction Co., Burnsville, Mississippi, by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2002e Cultural Resources Survey of a 60 Acre Tract proposed for Residential Development, Madison County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Mississippi Department of Archives and History, by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2002f Phase II Cultural Resources Assessment of 22-Cv-595 and 22-Cv-596 at the Extinct Sawmill Town of Mish, Covington County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Wildlife Technical Services, Inc., Vicksburg, by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2002g Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of a 15 Acre Gravel Pit, Lincoln County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Oddee Smith Construction Co., Brookhaven, Mississippi by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi. 2003a Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Water Line Extensions, Quitman and Tallahatchie Counties, Mississippi. Report submitted to South Quitman Utility Association, Inc., Marks, Mississippi, and Evans Engineering, PA, Clarksdale, Mississippi by Mary Evelyn Starr. 2003b Cultural Resources Survey of Approximately 700 Acres, O’Keefe Wildlife Management Area, formerly the Village of Chancy and State Penal Farm Camp B, Quitman County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Parks and Fisheries by Mary Evelyn Starr. 2003c Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Borrow Pits along U.S. Highway 25, Winston County, Mississippi. Mary Evelyn Starr and James Lauro. Report submitted to Eutaw Construction, Inc. by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2003d Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of a 54-acre Proposed Borrow Pit for the U.S. Highway 6 Four-Laneing, Pontotoc County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Eutaw Construction Co. by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc. Jackson. 2003e Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of a 40 Acre Tract Proposed for Development in Section 1, Township 11N, Range 16W, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. Report submitted to Hazclean Environmental Consultants, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi and Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Jena, Louisiana, by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2003f Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of Small Tracts Proposed for Development in Grant Parish, Louisiana. Report submitted to Hazclean Environmental Consultants, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi and Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Jena, Louisiana, by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2003 g Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of a 15 Acre Tract Proposed for Development in Section 1, Township 11N, Range 16W, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana. Report submitted to Hazclean Environmental Consultants, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi, by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2004a Cultural Resources Survey, Proposed Water Line Extensions, Claremont, Mattson and Dublin, Coahoma County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Moore Bayou Water Association and Evans Engineering, Clarksdale, Mississippi, by Mary Evelyn Starr. 2004b Document Review and Archaeological Reconnaissance of a Proposed Industrial Supersite, Prairie Research Unit, Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Mississippi State University, Formerly the Site of the Gulf Ordnance Plant, Prairie, Monroe County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Monroe Chamber of Commerce, Aberdeen, Mississippi, by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi. 2004c Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Bike/Hiking Trail, Natchez Trace Parkway, Madison County, Mississippi. Report submitted to National Park Service, Southeastern Archaeological Center, Tallahassee, Florida and Natchez Trace Parkway, Tupelo, Mississippi (Permit #NATR-04-002) by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2005a Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Water Line Extensions, Coldwater and Tallahatchie Rivers, Quitman County, Mississippi. Report submitted to South Quitman Utility Association, Inc., Marks, Mississippi, and Evans Engineering, PA, Clarksdale, Mississippi, by Mary Evelyn Starr 2005b Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of a 5-acre Tract Proposed for a Housing Development, Houston, Chickasaw County, Mississippi. Report submitted to City of Houston, Mississippi, by Mary Evelyn Starr 2005c Cultural Resources Survey, Proposed Water Line Extensions, New Africa Community, Coahoma County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Pine Grove Water Association and Evans Engineering, Clarksdale, Mississippi, by Mary Evelyn Starr. 2005d Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of a 5 Acre Tract Proposed for a Housing Development, Batesville, Panola County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Charlie Sanders, Sanders Lumber and Construction Co., Senatobia, Mississippi, by Mary Evelyn Starr. 2005e Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of a 60 Acre Tract Proposed for a Housing Development, Prichard, Tunica County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Larry Haynes, Mid-America Development Foundation, Clarksdale Mississippi, by Mary Evelyn Starr. 2005f Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed Clinton-Byram Roadway, Hinds County, Mississippi. Mary Evelyn Starr, James Starnes, Ryan Hardy and James Lauro. Report submitted to Waggoner Engineering, Inc. and Hinds County Board of Supervisors. Report submitted by Archaeology Mississippi Inc., Jackson. 2005g Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Airport Road Modifications, Natchez Trace Parkway, Hinds County, Mississippi. Report submitted to National Park Service, Southeastern Archaeological Center, Tallahassee, Florida, and Natchez Trace Parkway, Tupelo, Mississippi (Permit No. NATR 2005-001) by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson. 2005h Report on 22-Ra-660, Lakeland Commons Development, Rankin County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Solutions, Inc., Vicksburg, Mississippi, by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi. 2006a Cultural Resources Survey of an Approximately 16 Acre Tract Proposed for a Housing Development, Glendale, Forrest County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Cecil Boyd, General Homes, Inc., Hattiesburg, Mississippi, by Mary Evelyn Starr. 2006b Cultural Resources Survey of Land Proposed for a Residential Development, Cole Road, Oak Grove Community, Lamar County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Craig Flanagan, Flanagan Construction, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, by Mary Evelyn Starr. 2006c Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of Land Proposed for New Hope Missionary Baptist Church residential Developments, Washington Community, Adams County, Mississippi. Report submitted to New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Deacon Board, Morgantown, Mississippi, by Mary Evelyn Starr. 2006d Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of Land Proposed for Barkley Manor Estates Residential Development, Palmer’s Crossing Community, Forrest County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Craig Flanagan, Flanagan Construction, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, by Mary Evelyn Starr. 2006e Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of Land Proposed for Stewart Estates Residential Development, Batesville, Panola County, Mississippi. Report submitted to Ted Stewart, Batesville, Mississippi, by Mary Evelyn Starr. 2006f Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed LeFleur Lake, Hinds, Madison and Rankin Counties, Mississippi. Mary Evelyn Starr, James May, Daniel Allen, James Lauro and Kristen Kinsella. Report submitted to Waggoner Engineering, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi; Vicksburg District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; and Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Report submitted by Archaeology Mississippi, Inc.
PAPERS PRESENTED 1984 “Parchman Phase Ceramics.” Mississippi Archaeological Association annual meeting. 1991 “The Roanoke Rapids Site Complex.” Archaeological Society of Virginia fall meeting. 1992 “The Oliver Site (22CO503) Vessel Assemblage.” Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock. 1996 “Mississippian Occupation of Phillips County, Arkansas.” Midsouth Archaeological Conference, Memphis. 1997a “Palmer and Lewis at Menard and Indian Bay: The Smithsonian Institution Collections.” Arkansas Archeological Society annual meeting, Little Rock. 1997b “Late Prehistoric Chronology in the Central Mississippi River Valley.” Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge. 1998a “CRM’s Contributions to Mississippian Studies in the Southern Central Mississippi Valley.” In a symposium in honor of C.H. McNutt. Midsouth Archaeological Conference, Memphis. 1998b “Recent Investigations at the Irby Site.” J.C. Brandon and M.E. Starr. Midsouth Archaeological Conference, Memphis. 1998c “Humber and Oliver: Two Contact Period Sites in the Yazoo Basin.” Arkansas Archeological Society annual meeting, Cambden. 1998d “Rediscovering the Menard-Hodges Site.” J. House and M.E. Starr. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Greenville, South Carolina. 1999a “Oliver and Menard: Protohistoric Occupation in the Delta.” Mississippi Archaeological Society annual meeting, Natchez. 1999b “Colonial Ceramics from Three Sites of the Arkansas Post, ca. 1700-1800.” South Central Historic Archaeological Conference, Memphis. 1999c “Mississippian Architecture in the Central Mississippi Valley.” Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Pensacola. 1999d “DeSoto Park Mounds (40SY5): Late Woodland, Mississippian, and Federal Army Occupation on the Memphis Bluffs.” B.R. Collins, M.E. Starr, and J. Wall. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Pensacola. 2000a “The Ft. Desha Conundrum.” In a symposium on Arkansas Post organized by L. Stewart-Abernathy, Society for Historic Archaeology Conference, Quebec. 2000b “Putting the Late Prehistoric Architecture of the Central Mississippi Valley in a Mid-Continental Perspective.” Midsouth Archaeological Conference annual meeting, Memphis. 2000c “The Problem of Quapaw Origins, the View from the East Bank.” Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Macon, Georgia. 2000d “Recent Archaeological Investigations on the Cobblestone Landing, Memphis, Tennessee.” G.G. Weaver and M.E. Starr. South Central Historic Archaeology Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 2001 “Artifacts, not Antiques: The History of the Arkansas Stoneware Industry.” South Central Historic Archaeological Conference, Little Rock 2002 “Nineteenth Century Stoneware Industry of Mississippi.” Mississippi Archaeological Association annual meeting, Columbus. 2006 “Mississippi Folk Pottery.” In the Alabama Pottery Symposium associated with the Alabama Folk Pottery Exhibition, Birmingham Museum of Art.
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