David G. Anderson

David G. Anderson. (Ph.D. Michigan 1990, MA Arkansas 1979; BA Case Western Reserve 1972). Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee 2009-2023 (Emeritus July 2023-present), Associate Professor 2004-2009; formerly with the National Park Service, 1988-2003. Awards: First C. B. Moore (now Rising Scholar) Award for Excellence in Archaeology, Southeastern Archaeological Conference 1990; Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Dissertation Prize 1991; SAA Presidential Recognition Award 1997; SAA Excellence in Cultural Resource Management Award for Research 1999; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 2014; Lifetime Achievement Award, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, 2018. Archaeological fieldwork in the Southeastern, Southwestern, and Midwestern United States, and in the Caribbean. Professional interests include exploring the development of cultural complexity in Eastern North America, climate change and its effect on human society past and present, maintaining and improving the nation’s CRM program, teaching and writing about archaeology, and developing technical and popular syntheses of archaeological research. This work is documented in some 500 books, technical monographs and shorter publications, meeting papers, and posters. Selected major publications include Cal Smoak: Archaeological Investigations Along the Edisto River in the Coastal Plain of South Carolina (Archaeological Society of South Carolina, Occasional Papers #1, 1979), with Sammy T. Lee and A. Robert Parler; Excavations at Four Fall Line Sites: The Southeastern Columbia Beltway Project, assembler (South Carolina Department of Highways and Public Transportation, 1979).The Mattassee Lake Sites: Archaeological Investigations along the Lower Santee River in the Coastal Plain of South Carolina (National Park Service, Interagency Archaeological Services–Atlanta, Special Publication 1, 1982), with Charles E. Cantley and A. Lee Novick; Prehistoric Human Ecology Along the Upper Savannah River: Excavations at the Rucker's Bottom, Abbeville and Bullard Site Groups. (National Park Service, Interagency Archaeological Services–Atlanta, Russell Papers, 1985), with Joseph Schuldenrein; Prehistory and History Along the Upper Savannah River: Technical Synthesis of Cultural Resource Investigations, Richard B. Russell Multiple Resource Area (National Park Service, Interagency Archeological Services–Atlanta, Russell Papers, 1988) with J.W. Joseph; The Savannah River Chiefdoms: Political Change in the Late Prehistoric Southeast (Alabama, 1994), The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast (Alabama 1996); Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast (Florida, 1996), the latter two edited with Ken Sassaman; The Woodland Southeast (Alabama, 2002) edited with Bob Mainfort; Archaeology, History, and Predictive Modeling (Alabama, 2003) with Steven D. Smith; The Archaeology and History of Water Island, U.S. Virgin Islands, with David Knight, and Emily M. Yates (Southeast Archeological Center, National Park Service, 2003); Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics: A Global Perspective on Mid-Holocene Transitions (Academic Press, 2007) edited with Kirk A. Maasch and Daniel H. Sandweiss; Recent Developments in Southeastern Archaeology: From Colonization to Complexity with Ken Sassaman (Society for American Archaeology Press, 2012); Archeological Investigations at Shiloh Indian Mounds National Historic Landmark,40HR7, 1999–2004 (Southeast Archeological Center, National Park Service, 2013) assembled with John E. Cornelison, Jr., and Sarah C. Sherwood; and Fifty Years of Archaeology in West-central Louisiana: Cultural Resource Investigations on Fort Polk 1972–2022, with Thaddeus G. Bissett and Matthew T. Hoover (University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology, 2023).