September 2021 marks the eighth annual TCPA-sponsored celebration of Tennessee Archaeology Awareness Month (TAAM)! To celebrate Tennessee’s archaeological heritage, TCPA has organized another great “30 Days of Tennessee Archaeology” blogfest. Starting September 1st, a new daily blog post can be found using the index below.
As always, a huge thanks to all the bloggers helping to promote and preserve Tennessee’s unique archaeological heritage!
Day 1: Welcome to the 30 Days of Tennessee Archaeology 2021 Blogfest – President’s Welcome (Kandi Hollenbach)
Day 2: Photogrammetry at Fort Campbell: 3D Modeling and Digital Curation of Features and Artifacts (Michael J. Miller)
Day 3: Revelations from UTC’s Side-Scan SONAR Survey in the Tennessee River Near Chattanooga (Morgan Smith)
Day 4: Egbert Floyd Hassler (1863-1966): Early Explorer of Rockshelters and Caves on the Cumberland Plateau (Kevin E. Smith
Day 5: “This why we do what we do”: The Trail of Tears at Port Royal State Historic Park (David Britton)
Day 6: Stones River National Battlefield (Marna Bastian)
Day 7: Kids’ Corner: Meet an Archaeologist! (Kandi Hollenbach and Leslie Chang-Jantz)
Day 8: Mud Glyph Cave 2021 (Aubrey Roemer)
Day 9: UTC Archaeology Program Update (Morgan Smith)
Day 10: The Kelly’s Battery Site and Salvage Archaeology in Middle Tennessee (Scott Jones)
Day 11: Sometimes, a Saltpan Just Isn’t a Saltpan: An Example from Bledsoe’s Lick in Sumner County, Tennessee (Paul Eubanks, Kaitlynn Mililchamp, and Tiffany Saul)
Day 12: Dive Into Underwater Archaeology this Fall at the Nashville Parthenon (Katherine Petrole)
Day 13: Perfectly Preserved Persimmon (Kelly Santana)
Day 14: An Early Archaic Site in Hickman County (Ryan Parish and Peyton Cullen)
Day 15: Kids’ Corner: Corn is A-maize-ing! (Leslie Chang-Jantz and Kandi Hollenbach)
Day 16: Spilling the Beans on the Beanome Project: A Bio-Cultural Study of the Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) in the New World (Timothy Baumann, Katharina Holand, Ingo Ohlsson, Kandi Hollenbach, Hector Castro, and Shawn Campagna
Day 17: Archaeological and Geomorphological Investigations at a Site on the Cumberland River (Hannah Guidry and Duane Simpson)
Day 18: Fish Weir Recording in Eastern Tennessee (Timothy Dodson)
Day 19: Curly-Tail Dog Bottles and Triskele Gorgets: Why Regional Styles Can Be More Revealing than “Types” (Kevin Smith)
Day 20: 2021 Tennessee Archaeology Awareness Month Poster: Tennessee Ancient Native American Cave Art (Sierra Bow)
Day 21: Indian Shelter: Preliminary Results of a Salvage Excavation at a Prehistoric Rock Shelter on the St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School Campus (Emma Greer, Kathleen Perkins, and Marion Knoll)
Day 22: Mounds, Forts, and Caves: Tennessee State Archaeological Park (Phil Hodge)
Day 23: Children’s Toys of Late 19th Century Knoxville, TN (Garrett Wamack)
Day 24: Creating a Sustainable Public Archaeology Program at the Lone Rock Stockade through Community Partnerships (Camille Westmont)
Day 25: The Smallest Pieces, The Larger Story (Catie Latham)
Day 26: Learning More About NAGPRA: Resources and Beyond (Ellen Lofaro and Elizabeth Ronald)
Day 27: Bringing Old Data to Light: A Site File Project (Brooke Persons)
Day 28: The Importance of Archaeology in Tennessee State Parks Interpretation (Hobart Akin)
Day 29: The Use of LiDAR to Examine Abandoned Copper Mines in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park (Howard Cyr, Valerie Altizer, and Ellen Lofaro)
Day 30: That’s a Wrap! Thanks for a Great 2021 Blogfest! (Kandi Hollenbach)
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