Liberal Arts and Sciences
Laboratory of Southeastern Archaeology
Led by Kenneth E. Sassaman · Anthropology
What we study
The lab studies ancient Indigenous people of the American Southeast, focusing on climate events, land use, and cultural interactions. Research involves analyzing artifacts and environmental data to understand past societies.
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- Papers
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Current projects
Ritual interventions to climate events
Examining how ancient societies adapted to hurricanes and other climate events.
Long-term trends in human land use
Analyzing how land use patterns changed over time relative to surface water availability.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- The Promise and Peril of Coastal Infrastructure: Use Life of a Tidal Fish Trap on the Northern Gulf Coast of Florida, circa AD 400–650
2025 · American Antiquity
Studies a tidal fish trap from Florida to explore coastal infrastructure and sea-level changes.
- Hickory nut storage and processing at the Victor Mills site (9CB138) and implications for Late Archaic land use in the middle Savannah River valley
2022 · Southeastern Archaeology
Investigates hickory nut processing at Victor Mills to understand land use in Georgia.
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- Terrestrial snails from archaeological sites as proxies for relative sea level on the Gulf Coast of Florida, USA
2022 · The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
Uses snails to track sea-level changes in Florida archaeological sites.
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