September, 2015 was the second-annual TCPA-sponsored celebration of Tennessee Archaeology Awareness Month (TAAM), as well as the first year of “official” Archaeology Month celebrations. In addition to keeping track of and helping facilitate TAAM events across the state, the TCPA celebrated with the second annual “30 Days of Tennessee Archaeology” blogfest highlighting archaeological work throughout the state. You can find those posts under the “Blog” page of this site, and also compiled in a handy index below. Many thanks to all the contributors for sharing their archaeological experiences with us!
- Day 1: Welcome to Tennessee Archaeology Awareness Month! (Tanya Peres)
- Day 2: Co-Creation as an Archaeological Practice (Robert Connolly)
- Day 3: Ground Truthing: The Pinson Environment and Archaeology Regional Landscape (PEARL) Project begins testing geophysical results (Sarah Sherwood, Stephen Carmody, and Alice Wright)
- Day 4: What put the “Forge” in Pigeon Forge? (Alan Longmire)
- Day 5: Ethnohistory, Archaeology, and Lt. Henry Timberlake (Aaron Deter-Wolf)
- Day 6: Human Behavior from Rocks and Lasers (Ryan Parish)
- Day 7: Project Archaeology in Tennessee (Valerie McCormack)
- Day 8: Revisiting the Noel Cemetery Site through Basement Archaeology (Hannah Guidry)
- Day 9: The 2015 Tennessee Archaeology Awareness Month Poster! (Tanya Peres)
- Day 10: Partners in Preservation: The Rediscovery of the First Bridge over the Cumberland River (Phillip Hodge)
- Day 11: The State of Paleoethnobotanical Research in East Tennessee (Jessie Johanson)
- Day 12: An Integrative Archaeological and Geomorphological Approach: Understanding Site Distributions and Prehistoric Settlement Patterns along the Little River, East Tennessee (Howard Cyr)
- Day 13: Landscape of Liberation: Civil War African American Archaeology in Tennessee (Zada Law)
- Day 14: Archaeology at Rock Creek Mortar Shelter, Pickett State Forest (Jay Franklin)
- Day 15: A Collaborative Effort: Protecting Archaeological Sites and Sensitive Ecological Habitats (Sarah Levithol)
- Day 16: Archaeology and Archives: A Complimentary Approach to the Past (Marsha Welch)
- Day 17: Preserving our Past at TDOT (Ryan Robinson)
- Day 18: The Front End of the Brentwood Library Site Excavation (Mike C. Moore)
- Day 19: You Can Learn a Lot from a Spear Point! Or, Why Archaeologists Will Nerd Out Over Your Box of Arrowheads (Shane Miller and Jesse Tune)
- Day 20: TVA and the Thousand Eyes Archaeological Site Stewardship Program (Erin Pritchard)
- Day 21: Archaeology in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Heath Bailey)
- Day 22: Late Archaic – Early Woodland Transitions at the Townsend Sites (Kandi Hollenbach)
- Day 23: Secrets in the Smoke: Prehistoric Tobacco Use in Tennessee (Stephen Carmody)
- Day 24: A Tale of Two Archaic Sites: Identifying Correlations Between Intensity of Tool Use and Land-Use Patterns (Annie Melton)
- Day 25: Exploring Agricultural Lands and Crop Failure around Mississippian Period Sites in Middle Tennessee (Andrew Gillreath-Brown)
- Day 26: The Changing Landscape of Slavery at Tipton-Haynes (Daniel Brock)
- Day 27: Snake Monster Gorgets of the Southern Appalachians (Mark M. Crawford III)
- Day 28: Unearthing Clover Bottom’s Majority: Using Archaeology to Trace One Community’s Path to Freedom (Kathryn Sikes)
- Day 29: Archaeology at Rotherwood (40SL61), a Mississippian Site on the Holston River in Kingsport (Jay Franklin)
- Day 30: Tennessee Dog Burials (Lacey Fleming)
- 30 Days of Tennessee Archaeology, 2015: a Wrap Up (Tanya Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf)
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