Research Interests
- Theoretical: Anthropological archaeology, origins of rank, class, and complex societies, sociopolitical differentiation and integration, political economy of households and communities, material correlates of social memory and collective identity, technological change.
- Methodological: regional and site settlement analysis, pottery chronology and function, analysis of monumental architecture.
- Regional and Temporal: U.S. Southeast, especially Mississippian and Woodland periods (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia).
- Maya Lowlands (Belize).
I am an anthropological archaeologist whose research interests include the origins of rank, class, and complex societies, social memory and collective identity, materiality and the construction of value, and the political economy of ancient households and communities. Most of my research is focused on precolumbian Mississippian (Native American) societies in the American Southeast
