Undergraduate Research I986 - 1992
In 1986 I changed majors from fine arts (photography) to anthropology. I worked on a variety of archaeological projects in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. These included Contact Period Native American village sites along the Catawba River under the direction of Professors Alan May and Janet Levy, and a Colonial Plantation site under the direction of Dr. Fred Fisher and Professor Janet Levy. I would return to NC over the years to work on a documentary film project about my research and to write a National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Robinson Stone House site in Reedy Creek Park. I also studied under Professor Kathleen Yancy and published an essay on the role of voice in Native American culture. Finally, I worked for three weeks on a Gaulle village archaeological project on Saint Catherine's Island for the American Museum of Natural History in the summer of 1992.
Citations:
Carr, Thomas L.
2009 The Robinson Rock House Ruin and Plantation Site (31MK272), National Register of Historic Places Nomination. Ms. on file, Office of the State Archaeologist, Raleigh, NC.
1994 Varieties of the ‘Other’, Voice and Native American Culture, in Voices on Voice: Perspectives, Definitions, Inquiry, Kathleen Yancey ed., National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL.
1991 A Catalogue of Cultural Resources Associated with Reedy Creek Park, Mecklenburg County, N.C., Ms. on file Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library/Carolina Room.
1990 An Anthropological and Historical Perspective of the Norkett and White House Land Tracts in Northeastern Mecklenburg, County, N.C., Ms. on file Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library/Carolina Room.
Fisher, F. William
1986 Emergency Excavation and Stabilization of the Robinson Stone House Ruins (31MK272), Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Ms. on file Carolina Reading Room, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library, Charlotte, NC.
Jimenez, Joseph A.
1993 Pueblo de Santa Catalina De Guale, Auger Survey: Computer Data and "Topographic" Distribution Mapping Procedures. Unpublished report on file, St. Catherines Island Archive, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
May, J. Alan,
1989 Archaeological Excavations at the Crowders Creek Site (31GS55): A Late Woodland Farmstead in the Catawba River Valley, Gaston County, North Carolina, Ms. on file Schiele Museum of Natural History, Gastonia, NC.
Graduate Research 1993 - 1999
In the summer of 1993 I moved to Colorado to begin my graduate school studies in archaeology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I earned my Master's degree in 1996 and worked on a PhD from 1997 to 1999. The major academic projects I worked on were geophysical archaeology studies of Pueblo San Marcos, in the Galisteo Basin of New Mexico. This work was in support of Dr. Eden Welker's PhD on the site. I also conducted my own original research on creating a remote sensing model that predicted the location of ancient stone tool quarries in the Beaverhead Mountain of Montana. I was also a research assistant at the Bluff Great House Project in support of Dr. Larry Conyers research. Finally, I worked as a research assistant for Dr. Douglas Bamforth on several lithic analysis projects.
Citations:
Bamforth, Douglas B. and Mark Becker
2000 Core/Biface Ratios, Mobility, Refitting, and Artifact Use-Lives: A Paleo-Indian Example, Ms on file University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Anthropology.
Carr, Thomas L. and Mort D. Turner
1996 Evaluating Regional Lithic Procurement Using Multi-spectral Imagery and Geophysical Exploration”, in Archaeological Prospection, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 109-129.
Conyers, Lawrence B.,
1998 Acquisition, processing and interpretation techniques for ground-penetrating radar mapping of buried pit-structures in the American Southwest. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Ground-penetrating Radar. Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory, University of Kansas, pp. 53-59.
Welker, Eden A.
1997 Attributes of Aggregation at Pueblo San Marcos and Pecos Pueblo in the Northern Rio Grande. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado. University International Microfilms, Ann Arbor.
Professional Papers and Public Lectures:
1999 - Stone Tools and Satellites: Using Remote Sensing Imagery to Locate Ancient Quarries. Invited paper at the forum on Remote Sensing Applications in Archaeology, 64th annual Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, IL.
1998 - Using Combined Geophysical Methods for Defining Subsurface Patterning at Ancient Pueblo Sites: A Case Study from Pueblo San Marcos, New Mexico, invited Fryxell Symposium paper, 63rd annual Society for American Archaeology meeting, Seattle, WA.
1997 - Using High Resolution Spectroscopy to Identify Chert Artifacts and their Geologic Sources: A Pilot Study, Plains Anthropologist Conference, Boulder, CO.
1997 - Using Ground Penetrating Radar to Correlate Quaternary and Site Stratigraphy, invited paper at the Ancient Landscape Reconstruction Symposium, 62nd annual Society for American Archaeology meeting, Nashville, TN.
1997 – Applications of Multi-Spectral Imagery Analysis in Archaeology. Invited speaker at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology symposium, The Virtual Dig: Computers and the Pursuit of the Past, Philadelphia, PA.
1996 - Evaluating Regional Lithic Procurement Using Multi-spectral Imagery and Geophysical Exploration, 61st annual Society for American Archaeology meeting, New Orleans, LA.
1996 – Using Satellites to Locate Ancient Stone Tool Quarries. Invited poster presentation at University of Colorado, Center of the American West symposium Field Scientists and the Shaping of the American West.
1995 – The Potential for Using Remote Sensing Data in Archaeological Site Prediction and Investigation. Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists annual meeting, Ft. Collins, CO.
1994 – The Potential for Using Satellite Data in Beringian Archaeological Site Prediction and Investigation. 45th annual Arctic Science Conference in Anchorage, Alaska and Vladivostok, Russia.