Rebecca Saunders

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Associate Curator of Anthropology
Museum of Natural Science
119 Foster Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-6562 ~ Fax: 225-578-3075
E-mail: rsaunde@lsu.edu

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., University of Florida, 1992.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Prehistoric and Early Historic Native American Sites in the Southeastern U.S.
Ceramic Analysis
Forensic Archaeology

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Saunders, Rebecca. 2001. "Seasonality, Sedentism, Subsistence, and Disease in the Protohistoric: Archaeological vs. Ethnohistoric Data along the Lower Atlantic Coast." In Protohistory and Archaeology: Advances in Interdisciplinary Research, Mark A. Rees and Cameron Wesson, eds. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Saunders, Rebecca. 2001. "Tell the Truth: The Archaeology of Human Rights Abuses in Guatemala and the Former Yugoslavia." In "Materiél" Culture: The Archaeology of 20th Century Conflict, John Schofield, William Gray Johnson, and Colleen Beck, eds. London: Routledge.

Saunders, Rebecca. 2000. Stability and Change in Guale Indian Pottery, A.D. 1300-1702. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Saunders, Rebecca. 2000. "The Guale Indians of the Lower Atlantic Coast: Change and Continuity." In Indians of the Greater Southeast During the Historic Period, Bonnie G. McEwan, ed., pp. 26-56. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.

Saunders, Rebecca and James B. Stoltman. 1999. "A Multidimensional Consideration of Complicated Stamped Ceramic Production in Southern Louisiana." Southeastern Archaeology 18(1):1-23.

Saunders, Rebecca. 1994. "The Case for Archaic Period Mounds in Southeastern Louisiana." Southeastern Archaeology 13(2):139-47.

SUPPORTED RESEARCH

2000. "Coastal Dynamics and Cultural Complexity on Choctawhatchee Bay." National Science Foundation. Co-P.I. Gregory A. Mikell, PanAmerican Consultants, Inc. (pending).

2000. "Investigations into Shell Ring Function and Social Complexity at the Fig Island Site (38CH42)." South Carolina Department of Archives and History (pending).

1997. "Americas First Coast: Exploring Archaic Settlement in North Florida." National Geographic Society Research and Exploration Grant. Co-P.I. Michael A. Russo, Southeastern Archaeological Center, National Park Service, Tallahassee, Florida.

1996. "LSUMNS NAGPRA Compliance Completion Project." National Park Service Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Grants for Museums.

1994. "Mapping the Past." LEQSF. Heather McKillop, P.I., and others; Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University.

1994. "Complicated Stamped Pottery in Louisiana." State of Louisiana, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.

COURSES TAUGHT

Louisiana Archaeology
Seminar in Contact Period Archaeology