Presentations

2017    Investigating Hopewell interaction at the Crib Mound Site through source analysis of chert cache bifaces. 82nd Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 29th – April 2nd, 2017.

Discovering prehistoric behavior through rock source.     Memphis Archaeological Geologic Society Meeting, Memphis, TN, January 13, 2017.

2016   A chert type database for the Southeast. 73rd Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeology Conference, Athens, GA, October 26-29, 2016.

Hopewell chert disc caches; discovering interaction through rock source. Old Stone Fort Knap-in, Manchester, TN, October 8, 2016.

Chert sourcing using reflectance spectroscopy and the applications toward understanding human behavior from these data sets. Department of Geosciences, Seminar Series, Murray State University, Murray, KY, September 30th, 2016.

Pleistocene-Early Holocene Adaptations in the Lower Mid-South, United States. 81st Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, FL, April 6 -10, 2016.

2015    Chert research in Tennessee. Jackson Archaeological Society Meeting, Jackson, TN, October 20, 2015.

Prehistoric human behavior as viewed through tool-stone resources. Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures 2nd Annual Lecture Series, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, October 16th, 2015.

Chert resources in Tennessee. Old Stone Fort Knap-in, Manchester, TN, October 3, 2015.

Chert characterization using Reflectance Spectroscopy. 10th Meeting of the International Symposium on Knappable Materials, Barcelona, Spain, September 7-12, 2015.

Lithic Procurement Patterning as a Proxy for Identifying Late Paleoindian Group Mobility along the Lower Tennessee River Valley 80th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA, April 15-19, 2015.

Rocks, Lasers and Prehistory. Arkansas Archaeology Society Meeting, Jonesboro, AR, January 23, 2015.

The Parris collection: A life-long dedication to Archaeology. 27th Annual Meeting, Current Research in Tennessee Archaeology, Nashville, TN, January 24, 2015.

2014     Not Indiana Hornstone; Spectral Source Characterizations of Kentucky and Tennessee Ste. Genevieve and Upper St. Louis Chert 71st Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeology Conference, Greenville, SC, November 12-15, With Ellis Durham  

Provenance of Mississippian Chert Sword-form Bifaces Illustrating Selection Diversity in Inter-regional Resource Procurement. 79th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX, April 23-27, 2014.

Sourcing the Sacred: A chert source analysis of Mississippian sword-form bifaces from Tennessee. 26th Annual Meeting, Current Research in Tennessee Archaeology, Nashville, TN, January 25, 2014.

2013   Quantifying Regional Variation in Late Paleoindian Assemblages from the Lower Tennessee River Valley Using Geometric Morphometrics and Chert Sourcing 70th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeology Conference, Tampa, FL, November 7-9, 2013.     With Adam Finn

2012    Testing the ‘single source theory’ for Middle Mississippian Duck River swords 69th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeology Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, November 7-10, 2012.

Analytical testing of the ‘single source model’ for the Middle Mississippian chert ‘swords’. 33rd Annual Meeting, Mid-South Archaeology Conference, Tunica, MS June 2, 2012.

FTIR reflectance spectroscopy analysis of Dover and Ft. Payne chert. 77th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN, April 18-22, 2012.

2011    The problems with visual identification; Dover and Ft. Payne chert. 68th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeology Conference, Jacksonville, FL, November 2-5, 2011.

Non-destructive chert sourcing using Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy. Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference, Knoxville, TN, September 20-24, 2011.

Dover chert and the prehistoric quarry sites of Stewart County, Tennessee.     July meeting of the Memphis Archaeological and Geological Society, Memphis, TN, July 8, 2011.

Placing Middle Mississippian “Sword” Artifacts and Iconography in an Anthropologic Context. 32nd Annual Meeting, Mid-South Archaeology Conference, Memphis, TN, June 25, 2011.

Relationships between Procurement Strategies and Geologic Provenience at the Dover Quarry Sites, Tennessee. 76th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, CA, March 30 – April 3, 2011.

Non-Destructive Provenance Analysis of a Mississippian Sword Fragment from the Link Farm Site.     Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting, Current Research in Tennessee Archaeology, Nashville, TN, January 28-29, 2011.

2010    Chert Patina Formation and Its Implications for FT-IR Spectroscopic Provenance Studies. 67th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeology Conference, Lexington, KY, October 27-30, 2010.

Exploring the Application of Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) Spectroscopy to the Detection of Thermal Alteration in Chert. 75th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, MO, April 14-17, 2010.

Evidence for Prehistoric Quarrying Activity above Dunbar Cave Montgomery County, Tennessee.     22nd Annual Meeting, Current Research in Tennessee Archaeology: Nashville, TN, January 22-23, 2010. With William Lawerence.

2009    A New Approach to an Old Problem: The Application of Visible/Near-Infrared Reflectance (VNIR) Spectroscopy to Chert Sourcing. 66th Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeology Conference: Mobile, Alabama, November 4-7, 2009.

The Case for a Paleoindian Component at the Savage Cave Site (15Lo11). 26th Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Meeting: Murray, KY, March 2009.

Quantitative and Geologic Descriptions of Four Dover Chert Quarries in Stewart County,Tennessee. 21st Annual Meeting, Current Research in Tennessee Archaeology: Nashville, TN, January 30-31, 2009.

The Application of Geographic Information Systems in Prehistoric Quarry Research; A Case Study of the Dover Chert Quarries, Stewart County Tennessee.     26th Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Meeting: Murray, KY, March 2009.

2008   Chert Sourcing Investigations Using Visible/Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy. Poster presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference: Charlotte, NC, November 12-15.

Chert Sourcing Investigations of the Lower Tennessee and Cumberland River Valleys Using VNIR Spectroscopy. Poster presented at Murray State University’s Scholar’s Week Sigma Xi Poster Competition.