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Bryan S Haley

Tulane University, Anthropology, Alumnus

University of Mississippi, Sociology & Anthropology, Alumnus

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I am an archaeologist that specializes in Native American sites in the southeastern United States. My Masters thesis research at the University of Mississippi and PhD dissertation work at Tulane University focused on the Hollywood site, a Mississippian mound center located in Tunica County, Mississippi. I also specialize in the archaeological applications of geospatial technologies, including geophysics, airborne remote sensing, GIS, and GNSS. My 23 years of experience with these techniques include projects in 25 states, as well as Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Micronesia. I have also been a part of number of training sessions, publications (including contributions in Remote Sensing in Archaeology, An Explicitly North American Perspective), and the PBS show Time Team America. I currently work as the principal investigator for remote sensing applications at the New Orleans office of Coastal Environments, Inc.
Supervisors: Jay Johnson and Chris Rodning
Phone: 5045162434
Address: Coastal Environments, Inc.
2045 Lakeshore Drive #315
New Orleans LA 70122

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Remote sensing techniques in cultural resource management archaeology

Proceedings of SPIE, Apr 8, 2003

Cultural resource management archaeology in the United States concerns compliance with legislatio... more

Historical, Archaeological, and Geophysical Investigations at Two Proposed Safety Rest Areas, Interstate Highway (IH) 10, Chambers County, Texas

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State, 2007

TxDOT CSJ No. 0508-03-075 Texas Antiquities Permit No. 4229 All rights reserved.

Cultural Resources Remote-Sensing Survey Of Areas Adjacent To Shamrock Island, Corpus Christi Bay, Nueces County, Texas

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State, 2015

Coastal Environments Inc. (CEI) conducted a cultural resources remote-sensing survey of two areas... more Coastal Environments Inc. (CEI) conducted a cultural resources remote-sensing survey of two areas adjacent to Shamrock Island, Nueces County, Texas. The northern-most of these covers 56.38 hectares (139.31 acres), while the southern-most survey area encompasses 44.8 hectares (110.69 acres). These are proposed locations of sand borrow areas to be used by the Nature Conservancy, Texas Coast Office for the Shamrock Island Restoration Project. Data were collected by Naismith Marine of Houston, Texas on December 15th and 17th, 2014 and supervised by the principal investigator and the remotesensing specialist from CEI. Remote-sensing equipment used in the project include a Geometrics 882 cesium magnetometer, an Edgetech 4125 dual frequency side-scan sonar system, and a digital recording fathometer. Positioning was performed with a differential global positioning system (DGPS) with corrections provided by a Virtual Reference Station (VRS). Upon delivery to CEI, additional processing and analysis was performed on the data and relevant archival work performed in order to determine the cultural significance of remote-sensing anomalies. While the remote-sensing data delineate an array of modern oil targets, two targets of possible cultural significance (designated anomalies M11 and M16) were identified. It is recommended that these targets either be avoided or that further investigations are carried out to determine their cultural significance. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER

The Burnitt Site: A Late Caddoan Occupation in the Uplands of the Sabine River Basin in Louisiana

Sensor and data fusion technologies in archaeology

Remote sensing in prehistoric archaeological research in North America has come to rely on geophy... more Remote sensing in prehistoric archaeological research in North America has come to rely on geophysical techniques. This paper reviews their application and efficiency in exploring a group of late prehistoric sites in northern Mississippi. While most archaeologists agree that the use of multiple instruments enhances a geophysical survey, there has been little work done on exploring the potential of using multivariate statistics to integrate the resultant data. Two approaches to this challenge are explored.

Geospatial Analysis and Remote Sensing from Airplanes and Satellites for Cultural Resources Management

Cultural resource management consists of research to identify, evaluate, document and assess cult... more Cultural resource management consists of research to identify, evaluate, document and assess cultural resources, planning to assist in decision-making, and stewardship to implement the preservation, protection and interpretation of these decisions and plans. One technique that may be useful in cultural resource management archaeology is remote sensing. It is the acquisition of data and derivative information about objects or materials (targets) located on the Earth's surface or in its atmosphere by using sensor mounted on platforms located at a distance from the targets to make measurements on interactions between the targets and electromagnetic radiation. Included in this definition are systems that acquire imagery by photographic methods and digital multispectral sensors. Data collected by digital multispectral sensors on aircraft and satellite platforms play a prominent role in many earth science applications, including land cover mapping, geology, soil science, agriculture, ...

Chaos Theory and the Contact Period in the Southeast

<p>This chapter provides an examination of the Contact era in the Southeast through the len... more <p>This chapter provides an examination of the Contact era in the Southeast through the lens of Chaos Theory. Everyday life in the protohistoric Native American Southeast was guided by tradition, but it was also affected in seemingly unpredictable ways by colonial exploration, trade, missionization, and settlement. The authors focus on the Yazoo Basin in northwestern Mississippi, the Apalachee province of northern Florida, the Cherokee town areas of southern Appalachia, and the areas of Natchez and Taensa settlements in southwestern Mississippi and northeastern Louisiana. The authors found that everyday life for particular people at particular places was shaped not only by local history and local forces but also by the increasingly global forces of change that affected both native peoples and European colonists.</p>

Subsurface Spatial Signatures of the Quotidian from the Olmec Heartland: Insights from Ground-penetrating Radar Surveys of the Los Soldados site, Veracruz

Reassessing Mississippian Floodplain Adaptation in the Northern Yazoo Basin of Western Mississippi

Research, Preservation, Communication: Honoring Thomas J. Green on His Retirement from the Arkansas Archeological Survey, 2016

Explores Mississippian settlement pattern of the Yazoo Basin of northwestern Mississippi and floo... more

MISSISSIPPIAN POLITIES OF THE NORTHERN YAZOO BASIN: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT HOLLYWOOD MOUNDS

PhD Dissertation, Tulane University, Department of Anthropology, 2023

The research presented in this dissertation focuses on archaeological investigations of the Holly... more The research presented in this dissertation focuses on archaeological investigations of the Hollywood Mounds site, one of several large Mississippian mound centers located in the northern Yazoo Basin of northwestern Mississippi. On a site level, the goal of the research is to delineate Hollywood Mounds’ structure and layout, and to understand how it changed during its occupation. These goals were explored through the multivariate analysis of artifacts recovered during an earlier systematic surface collection, acquisition and analyses of high-density geophysical data, excavations of areas associated with structures and other features, and radiometric dating of samples recovered during this project and previous projects. These data indicate there were three phases of occupation consisting of: (1) a village; (2) a mound center with several small mounds situated around a plaza; and (3) a mound center with one large mound and several small mounds organized around an artificially raised plaza. I propose that these occupational phases correspond to sociopolitical changes. This occupational sequence began in the mid-thirteenth century A.D. and lasted through the mid-sixteenth century A.D., and the latest occupation stage may postdate the 1541 visit to the region by the Hernando de Soto expedition. This dissertation explores the regional perspective through the analysis of mound site location, historical accounts of the Soto expedition, radiometric dating, and the multivariate analysis of previous surface collections. These analyses indicate that the northern Yazoo Basin contained a uniquely dense assortment of mound centers that formed a complex arrangement of polities. Different patterns of spacing and organization were present than those seen in other areas of the Mississippian world.

The Homestead of James Taylor White II: Historical, Archaeological, and Geophysical Investigations at Two Proposed Safety Rest Areas, Interstate Highway (IH) 10, Chambers County, Texas

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

TxDOT CSJ No. 0508-03-075 Texas Antiquities Permit No. 4229 All rights reserved.

A Search for Fort Louis de la Mobile with Archaeological Geophysics

The Big Picture at Hollywood: Archaeological and Geophysical Investigations at a Mississippian Mound Centre

Archaeological Prospection, 2014

Hollywood Mounds is a late Mississippian mound centre located in northwestern Mississippi, USA. A... more Hollywood Mounds is a late Mississippian mound centre located in northwestern Mississippi, USA. Although only four mounds are visible today topographically, prospection techniques have revealed additional mounds and other buried features that extend well beyond the site core. These features were burned, which allows them to produce highcontrast magnetic gradient anomalies. By augmenting this data with an efficient excavation strategy, the sequence of this unique cultural landscape has been reconstructed. These findings provide insight into the development of a Mississippian mound centre in this arearesults that would not be possible without archaeological prospection.

Decoding Hollywood: Interpreting the Built Environment of a Mississippian Mound Center

Paper presented at the 2012 Society for American Archaeology Confefence, Memphis, TN.

The natural and cultural landscapes ordered Mississippian society. In the Yazoo Basin, the natura... more The natural and cultural landscapes ordered Mississippian society. In the Yazoo Basin, the natural environment was dominated by the Mississippi River, which carved out the valley, leaving behind oxbow lakes and the natural levee surfaces that were the preferred locations for towns. The most characteristic features of the cultural landscape were earthen mounds and there is perhaps a higher density of these in the Yazoo Basin than anywhere else in the Mississippian Southeast. This paper presents an analysis of the monumental architecture at the Hollywood site and surrounding sites for the purpose of better understanding the nature of Mississippian political power in the Yazoo Basin.

Mapping the Chickasaw with Integrated Magnetic Geophysics

Conference Preceedings, 2007 International Society for Archaeological Prospection, Nitra, Slovakia

Results from the 2006 Geophysical Survey of Plazas at Xunatunich and Cahal Pech.

The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: A Report of the 2006 Field Season, edited by Christophe G.B. Helmke and Jaime J. Awe, pp. 19-25. Belize Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History, Belmopan., 2007

The Utility of Low Cost Thermal Sensors in Archaeological Research.

Report Prepared for the Office of Naval Research NASA Grant NAG5-7671.

An Assessment Of Geophysical Techniques At Three Sites In Central Belize.

The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: A Report of the 2005 Field Season. Edited by Christophe G.B. Helmke and Jaime J. Awe, pp. 11-38. Belize Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History, Belmopan., 2006

Sensor and Data Fusion Technologies in Archaeology

Proceedings of the ISPRS WG VII/5 Workshop, 18-19.11.2011, Cologne.

Remote sensing in prehistoric archaeological research in North America has come to rely on geophy... more Remote sensing in prehistoric archaeological research in North America has come to rely on geophysical techniques. This paper reviews their application and efficiency in exploring a group of late prehistoric sites in northern Mississippi. While most archaeologists agree that the use of multiple instruments enhances a geophysical survey, there has been little work done on exploring the potential of using multivariate statistics to integrate the resultant data. Two approaches to this challenge are explored.

Data fusion as a means of sensor evaluation in archaeological applications.

Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites VII. Edited by Meynart, Roland; Neeck, Steven P.; Shimoda, Haruhisa; Lurie, Joan B.; Aten, Michelle L. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5234, pp. 688-697 (2004)., 2004

Criteria for selecting the appropriate combination of sensors when searching for cultural feature... more Criteria for selecting the appropriate combination of sensors when searching for cultural features within an archaeological site are poorly developed and sorely needed for the economic application of remote sensing in archaeology. The Hollywood Mounds, a late prehistoric ceremonial center in the lower Mississippi alluvial valley of the southeastern United State, has been the subject of a large number of remote sensing experiments using a wide variety of both digital airborne and geophysical sensors. In addition, two seasons of ground truth excavations have been carried out at the site. Multivariate statistical analyses, beginning with a map of the known locations of house and mound remnants, allow us to derive quantitative measures of the relative value of the various instruments in this specific but fairly typical context.

Remote sensing techniques in cultural resource management archaeology

Proceedings of SPIE, Apr 8, 2003

Cultural resource management archaeology in the United States concerns compliance with legislatio... more

Historical, Archaeological, and Geophysical Investigations at Two Proposed Safety Rest Areas, Interstate Highway (IH) 10, Chambers County, Texas

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State, 2007

TxDOT CSJ No. 0508-03-075 Texas Antiquities Permit No. 4229 All rights reserved.

Cultural Resources Remote-Sensing Survey Of Areas Adjacent To Shamrock Island, Corpus Christi Bay, Nueces County, Texas

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State, 2015

Coastal Environments Inc. (CEI) conducted a cultural resources remote-sensing survey of two areas... more Coastal Environments Inc. (CEI) conducted a cultural resources remote-sensing survey of two areas adjacent to Shamrock Island, Nueces County, Texas. The northern-most of these covers 56.38 hectares (139.31 acres), while the southern-most survey area encompasses 44.8 hectares (110.69 acres). These are proposed locations of sand borrow areas to be used by the Nature Conservancy, Texas Coast Office for the Shamrock Island Restoration Project. Data were collected by Naismith Marine of Houston, Texas on December 15th and 17th, 2014 and supervised by the principal investigator and the remotesensing specialist from CEI. Remote-sensing equipment used in the project include a Geometrics 882 cesium magnetometer, an Edgetech 4125 dual frequency side-scan sonar system, and a digital recording fathometer. Positioning was performed with a differential global positioning system (DGPS) with corrections provided by a Virtual Reference Station (VRS). Upon delivery to CEI, additional processing and analysis was performed on the data and relevant archival work performed in order to determine the cultural significance of remote-sensing anomalies. While the remote-sensing data delineate an array of modern oil targets, two targets of possible cultural significance (designated anomalies M11 and M16) were identified. It is recommended that these targets either be avoided or that further investigations are carried out to determine their cultural significance. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER

The Burnitt Site: A Late Caddoan Occupation in the Uplands of the Sabine River Basin in Louisiana

Sensor and data fusion technologies in archaeology

Remote sensing in prehistoric archaeological research in North America has come to rely on geophy... more Remote sensing in prehistoric archaeological research in North America has come to rely on geophysical techniques. This paper reviews their application and efficiency in exploring a group of late prehistoric sites in northern Mississippi. While most archaeologists agree that the use of multiple instruments enhances a geophysical survey, there has been little work done on exploring the potential of using multivariate statistics to integrate the resultant data. Two approaches to this challenge are explored.

Geospatial Analysis and Remote Sensing from Airplanes and Satellites for Cultural Resources Management

Cultural resource management consists of research to identify, evaluate, document and assess cult... more Cultural resource management consists of research to identify, evaluate, document and assess cultural resources, planning to assist in decision-making, and stewardship to implement the preservation, protection and interpretation of these decisions and plans. One technique that may be useful in cultural resource management archaeology is remote sensing. It is the acquisition of data and derivative information about objects or materials (targets) located on the Earth's surface or in its atmosphere by using sensor mounted on platforms located at a distance from the targets to make measurements on interactions between the targets and electromagnetic radiation. Included in this definition are systems that acquire imagery by photographic methods and digital multispectral sensors. Data collected by digital multispectral sensors on aircraft and satellite platforms play a prominent role in many earth science applications, including land cover mapping, geology, soil science, agriculture, ...

Chaos Theory and the Contact Period in the Southeast

<p>This chapter provides an examination of the Contact era in the Southeast through the len... more <p>This chapter provides an examination of the Contact era in the Southeast through the lens of Chaos Theory. Everyday life in the protohistoric Native American Southeast was guided by tradition, but it was also affected in seemingly unpredictable ways by colonial exploration, trade, missionization, and settlement. The authors focus on the Yazoo Basin in northwestern Mississippi, the Apalachee province of northern Florida, the Cherokee town areas of southern Appalachia, and the areas of Natchez and Taensa settlements in southwestern Mississippi and northeastern Louisiana. The authors found that everyday life for particular people at particular places was shaped not only by local history and local forces but also by the increasingly global forces of change that affected both native peoples and European colonists.</p>

Subsurface Spatial Signatures of the Quotidian from the Olmec Heartland: Insights from Ground-penetrating Radar Surveys of the Los Soldados site, Veracruz

Reassessing Mississippian Floodplain Adaptation in the Northern Yazoo Basin of Western Mississippi

Research, Preservation, Communication: Honoring Thomas J. Green on His Retirement from the Arkansas Archeological Survey, 2016

Explores Mississippian settlement pattern of the Yazoo Basin of northwestern Mississippi and floo... more

MISSISSIPPIAN POLITIES OF THE NORTHERN YAZOO BASIN: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT HOLLYWOOD MOUNDS

PhD Dissertation, Tulane University, Department of Anthropology, 2023

The research presented in this dissertation focuses on archaeological investigations of the Holly... more The research presented in this dissertation focuses on archaeological investigations of the Hollywood Mounds site, one of several large Mississippian mound centers located in the northern Yazoo Basin of northwestern Mississippi. On a site level, the goal of the research is to delineate Hollywood Mounds’ structure and layout, and to understand how it changed during its occupation. These goals were explored through the multivariate analysis of artifacts recovered during an earlier systematic surface collection, acquisition and analyses of high-density geophysical data, excavations of areas associated with structures and other features, and radiometric dating of samples recovered during this project and previous projects. These data indicate there were three phases of occupation consisting of: (1) a village; (2) a mound center with several small mounds situated around a plaza; and (3) a mound center with one large mound and several small mounds organized around an artificially raised plaza. I propose that these occupational phases correspond to sociopolitical changes. This occupational sequence began in the mid-thirteenth century A.D. and lasted through the mid-sixteenth century A.D., and the latest occupation stage may postdate the 1541 visit to the region by the Hernando de Soto expedition. This dissertation explores the regional perspective through the analysis of mound site location, historical accounts of the Soto expedition, radiometric dating, and the multivariate analysis of previous surface collections. These analyses indicate that the northern Yazoo Basin contained a uniquely dense assortment of mound centers that formed a complex arrangement of polities. Different patterns of spacing and organization were present than those seen in other areas of the Mississippian world.

The Homestead of James Taylor White II: Historical, Archaeological, and Geophysical Investigations at Two Proposed Safety Rest Areas, Interstate Highway (IH) 10, Chambers County, Texas

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

TxDOT CSJ No. 0508-03-075 Texas Antiquities Permit No. 4229 All rights reserved.

A Search for Fort Louis de la Mobile with Archaeological Geophysics

The Big Picture at Hollywood: Archaeological and Geophysical Investigations at a Mississippian Mound Centre

Archaeological Prospection, 2014

Hollywood Mounds is a late Mississippian mound centre located in northwestern Mississippi, USA. A... more Hollywood Mounds is a late Mississippian mound centre located in northwestern Mississippi, USA. Although only four mounds are visible today topographically, prospection techniques have revealed additional mounds and other buried features that extend well beyond the site core. These features were burned, which allows them to produce highcontrast magnetic gradient anomalies. By augmenting this data with an efficient excavation strategy, the sequence of this unique cultural landscape has been reconstructed. These findings provide insight into the development of a Mississippian mound centre in this arearesults that would not be possible without archaeological prospection.

Decoding Hollywood: Interpreting the Built Environment of a Mississippian Mound Center

Paper presented at the 2012 Society for American Archaeology Confefence, Memphis, TN.

The natural and cultural landscapes ordered Mississippian society. In the Yazoo Basin, the natura... more The natural and cultural landscapes ordered Mississippian society. In the Yazoo Basin, the natural environment was dominated by the Mississippi River, which carved out the valley, leaving behind oxbow lakes and the natural levee surfaces that were the preferred locations for towns. The most characteristic features of the cultural landscape were earthen mounds and there is perhaps a higher density of these in the Yazoo Basin than anywhere else in the Mississippian Southeast. This paper presents an analysis of the monumental architecture at the Hollywood site and surrounding sites for the purpose of better understanding the nature of Mississippian political power in the Yazoo Basin.

Mapping the Chickasaw with Integrated Magnetic Geophysics

Conference Preceedings, 2007 International Society for Archaeological Prospection, Nitra, Slovakia

Results from the 2006 Geophysical Survey of Plazas at Xunatunich and Cahal Pech.

The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: A Report of the 2006 Field Season, edited by Christophe G.B. Helmke and Jaime J. Awe, pp. 19-25. Belize Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History, Belmopan., 2007

The Utility of Low Cost Thermal Sensors in Archaeological Research.

Report Prepared for the Office of Naval Research NASA Grant NAG5-7671.

An Assessment Of Geophysical Techniques At Three Sites In Central Belize.

The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: A Report of the 2005 Field Season. Edited by Christophe G.B. Helmke and Jaime J. Awe, pp. 11-38. Belize Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History, Belmopan., 2006

Sensor and Data Fusion Technologies in Archaeology

Proceedings of the ISPRS WG VII/5 Workshop, 18-19.11.2011, Cologne.

Remote sensing in prehistoric archaeological research in North America has come to rely on geophy... more Remote sensing in prehistoric archaeological research in North America has come to rely on geophysical techniques. This paper reviews their application and efficiency in exploring a group of late prehistoric sites in northern Mississippi. While most archaeologists agree that the use of multiple instruments enhances a geophysical survey, there has been little work done on exploring the potential of using multivariate statistics to integrate the resultant data. Two approaches to this challenge are explored.

Data fusion as a means of sensor evaluation in archaeological applications.

Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites VII. Edited by Meynart, Roland; Neeck, Steven P.; Shimoda, Haruhisa; Lurie, Joan B.; Aten, Michelle L. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5234, pp. 688-697 (2004)., 2004

Criteria for selecting the appropriate combination of sensors when searching for cultural feature... more Criteria for selecting the appropriate combination of sensors when searching for cultural features within an archaeological site are poorly developed and sorely needed for the economic application of remote sensing in archaeology. The Hollywood Mounds, a late prehistoric ceremonial center in the lower Mississippi alluvial valley of the southeastern United State, has been the subject of a large number of remote sensing experiments using a wide variety of both digital airborne and geophysical sensors. In addition, two seasons of ground truth excavations have been carried out at the site. Multivariate statistical analyses, beginning with a map of the known locations of house and mound remnants, allow us to derive quantitative measures of the relative value of the various instruments in this specific but fairly typical context.

Archaeological Remote Sensing in North America: Innovative Techniques for Anthropological Applications

Updating the highly praised 2006 publication Remote Sensing in Archaeology, edited by Jay K. John... more Updating the highly praised 2006 publication Remote Sensing in Archaeology, edited by Jay K. Johnson, Archaeological Remote Sensing in North America: Innovative Techniques for Anthropological Applications is a must-have volume for today’s archaeologist. Targeted to practitioners of archaeological remote sensing as well as students, this suite of current and exemplary applications adheres to high standards for methodology, processing, presentation, and interpretation.

The use of remote sensing technologies to address academic and applied archaeological and anthropological research problems is growing at a tremendous rate in North America. Fueling this growth are new research paradigms using innovative instrumentation technologies and broader-area data collection methods. Increasingly, investigators pursuing these new approaches are integrating remote sensing data collection with theory-based interpretations to address anthropological questions within larger research programs.

In this indispensable volume, case studies from around the country demonstrate the technically diverse and major remote sensing methods and their integration with relevant technologies, such as geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS), and include various uses of the “big four”: magnetometry, resistivity, ground-penetrating radar (GPR), and electromagnetic induction.

The study explores four major anthropological themes: site structure and community organization; technological transformation and economic change; archaeological landscapes; and earthen mound construction and composition. Concluding commentary from renowned expert Kenneth L. Kvamme overviews the practices, advances, and trends of geophysics and remote sensing in the past decade.

Remote Sensing in Archaeology: An Explicitly North American Perspective

All the money spent by the United States space program is not spent looking at the stars. NASA is... more All the money spent by the United States space program is not spent looking at the stars. NASA is composed of a vast and varied network of scientists across the academic spectrum involved in research and development programs that have wide application on planet Earth. Several of the leaders in the field of remote sensing and archaeology were recently brought together for a NASA-funded workshop in Biloxi, Mississippi. The workshop was organized specifically to show these archaeologists and cultural resource managers how close we are to being able to “see” under the dirt in order to know where to excavate before ever putting a shovel in the ground. As the book that resulted from this workshop demonstrates, this fantasy is quickly becoming a reality.In this volume, eleven archaeologists reveal how the broad application of remote sensing, and especially geophysical techniques, is altering the usual conduct of dirt archaeology. Using case studies that both succeeded and failed, they offer a comprehensive guide to remote sensing techniques on archaeological sites throughout North America. Because this new technology is advancing on a daily basis, the book is accompanied by a CD intended for periodic update that provides additional data and illustrations.

MAPPING THE CHICKASAW WITH INTEGRATED MAGNETIC GEOPHYSICS

7th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection, 2007

Geophysical techniques have been very productive on late Prehistoric sites in the southeastern Un... more Geophysical techniques have been very productive on late Prehistoric sites in the southeastern Unites States. Specifically, features exhibiting thermoremnant magnetism, such as burned waddle and daub structures, can produce dramatic responses with the magnetic gradiometer. However, sites containing more ephemeral features, including historic Native American villages, offer a more challenging target for geophysical survey. Research was conducted by the University of Mississippi on protohistoric and historic Chickasaw sites to determine the utility of integrated geophysical survey on these targets.

A Multivariate Analysis of a Surface Collection from the Hollywood Mounds Site, Tunica County, Mississippi

Southeastern Archaeological Conference, 2018

Poster presented at the 2018 Southeastern Archaeological Conference.