30 Days of Tennessee Archaeology – 2019

2019 30 Days of Tennessee Archaeology Blogfest

Day 1: Welcome! (Jared Barrett)

Day 2: Re-envisioning the Noel Stone-Grave Cemetery (40DV3), Davidson County, Tennessee (Kevin E. Smith)

Day 3: New Perspectives on the Oldest Tennesseans (Scott Jones)

Day 4: An Archaeology Day Camp at Pickett Chapel (Phil Hodge)

Day 5: Exploring the Evidence for Tennessee rock in an Ohio Burial Mound at the Hopewell Site (Ryan M. Parish and Brian Rowe)

Day 6: Archaeology in a Box Education program (Emma Wiley)

Day 7: Archaeology at the Brunsoni Furnace (40SW219) (Susan Andrews and Marc Wampler)

Day 8: Middle Tennessee State University’s Archaeological Field School 2019 at Castalian Springs (Brittany R. Hunter)

Day 9: Middens and Earthworms: UTK 2019 Archaeology Field School at Cherokee Farm (Kandi Hollenbach)

Day 10: TCPA ARCHAEOLOGY DAY AT BELL’S BEND PARK (Paige Silcox)

Day 11: Where Community Advocacy Meets Cultural Resources Management: A Collaborative Project at the Wolf Gap Education Outreach, Inc in Pulaski, Tennessee (Lauren Walls)

Day 12: Interpreting European Glass Trade Beads from Cane Notch in East Tennessee (Nathan Shreve and Christina Bolte)

Day 13: Why is This Here? The Parthenon in Nashville (Katherine M. Petrole)

Day 14: Growing Native Crops (Kandi Hollenbach)

Day 15: Recent Geophysical and Archaeological Testing at David Crockett Birthplace State Park (40GN12, 40GN205) (Reagan Cornett and Eileen Ernenwein)

Day 16: Urban Sanitation in Nashville (Patty McMahon)

Day 17: Results of New Analyses from the Pile Mound Site (40Fn180) (Jay Franklin; Lauren Christensen; Renee Walker; and Megan Shannon) 

Day 18: Swift Creek Pottery from Pinson Mounds and the Development of a Complicated Stamped Pottery Design Matching Application (Scot Keith, Karen Smith, and Josh Blackmon)

Day 19: Wagons East! Colorado State University’s 51st archaeological field school at Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park is first east of the Mississippi River (Edward Henry)

Day 20: Cultural Resource Management and Collaboration with Tribal Representatives: The Norris Lake Reservoir Island F Archaeological Survey, Union County, Tennessee (Krista Jordan-Greene)

Day 21: The Old Town Heritage Project Update 2019: Geophysics for Research and Preservation Planning (Kevin Smith)

Day 22: Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey at University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s McClung Museum – Study of the Battle of Fort Sanders in Knoxville (Howard Cyr and Stacie Beach)

Day 23: Social Domains and the Practice of Steatite Tempering in Ceramics in Upper East Tennessee (Nathan Shreve  and SD Dean)

Day 24: Paths of Sodalities: The Significance of Fist Effigy Beakers at the Obion Site (Melinda A. Martin)

Day 25: The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Cultivating a NAGPRA Community of Practice (Ellen Lofaro and Anne Amati)

Day 26: Career Spotlight – Jefferson Chapman, PhD – Tennessee Archaeologist and Museum Director

Day 27: Why is it Important to Engage the Public in Archaeology? (Hannah Boney)

Day 28: Helping Us Bring Back a Special Place: Geophysical Survey of the Old First Presbyterian Church and Old City Cemetery Site (40RD271) (Laura Bartel)

Day 29: Locating Archaeological Deposits in West Tennessee Through Geoarchaeological Surveys (Katie Proctor)

Day 30: Using Digital Data for a Landscape Analysis of Pre-contact Settlement and Site Preservation at Fort Campbell Military Installation, Kentucky and Tennessee (Danny Gregory)

Day 31: 2019 Blogfest (That’s a Wrap!) (Jared Barrett)

Bonus blogs!

The Annual Fly Knap-in and Flintknapping (Michael Miller)