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Student Paper Competition
Congrats to this year's winners!
Congratulations to Jeremy Davis (University of Alabama) who won the 2008 Student Paper Competition! This year's second place winner was Christopher Moore (University of Kentucky). Thank you to all those who submitted their papers to the Student Paper Competition this year, and thank you to the Student Paper Review Committee.Past Winners of the Competition
| Year | Author | Title | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Jeremy Davis (1st Place) University of Alabama |
Crafting in the Countryside: A Comparison of Three Late Prehistoric Nonmound Sites in the Black Warrior River Valley | 198 volumes, four vessel replicas, a four foot fingerwoven scarf, a reproduction knife, and nine ceramic coasters. Estimated prize value: $4,754.00 |
| 2008 | Christopher Moore (2nd Place) University of Kentucky |
A Macroscopic Investigation of Technological Style and the Production of Middle to Late Archaic Fishhooks at the Chiggerville, Read, and Baker Sites, Western Kentucky | Lifetime SEAC membership; back issues of Southeastern Archaeology. Estimated value: $800.00 |
| 2007 | Glenn Strickland (1st Place) University of Mississippi |
The Archaeological Unifying Constant: Interpretations of a Late Mississippian Mound Group through Digital Spatial Modeling | 315 books; 8 craft items; 1 original print; cards and stationary |
| 2007 | Clete Rooney (2nd Place) University of Florida |
Beyond Kingsley: Reconcepualizing the Archaeology and Anthropology of Fort George Island, Florida | Lifetime SEAC membership; back issues of Southeastern Archaeology |
| 2006 | Mary Beth Fitts (1st Place) University of North Carolina |
People of the River, People of the Trail: Mapping Catawba Coalesence | 281 books; 5 craft items; NPS Training workshop |
| 2006 | Adam Schieffer (2nd Place) University of South Florida |
What's Cookin'? European Influence on Cherokee Subsistence at Coweeta Creek during the Qualla Phase (A.D. 1300-1908) | Lifetime SEAC membership; back issues of Southeastern Archaeology |
| 2005 | Lance Greene University of North Carolina |
Race, Class, and Material Culture in Antebellum North Carolina | 237 books; 2 craft items |
| 2004 | Victor Thompson University of Kentucky |
The Formation and Function of Shell Rings: A Case Study from Sapelo Island | 282 books; 13 craft items; 1 day of geophys survey |
| 2003 | John Marcoux University of North Carolina |
The Materialization of Status and Social Structure at Kogers Island Cemetery, Alabama | |
| 2002 | Jennifer Myer University of Alabama |
Among the fields: Mississippian settlement patterns in the Black Warrior Valley | 265 books; a TaMara Beane pot |
| 2001 | Ashley Dumas University of Alabama |
Plotting the Past: A Study in Archaeological Method at the Original Tabasco Factory, Avery Island, Louisiana | 225 books; a TaMara Beane pot |
| 2000 | Greg Wilson University of North Carolina |
Small Celt, Big Celt, Old Celt, New Celt: The Moundville Greenstone Industry in the Black Warrior Valley, Alabama | 275 books |
| 1999 | Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman University of Georgia |
Vertebrate Subsistence in the Mississippian-Historic Period Transition | 300 books |
| 1998 | Keith Little University of Alabama |
The Emergence of Etowah: A Prehistoric Polity which Occupied Portions of the Valley and Ridge and Piedmont in Northwest Georgia and Northeast Alabama | 224 books |
| 1997 | Amber VanDerwarker University of North Carolina |
Feasting and the Formulation of Food Use at the Toqua Site | 227 books |
| 1996 | Jason McBrayer Tulane University |
Elite Polygyny in Southeastern Chiefdoms | 183 books |
| 1995 | Sissel Schroeder Pennsylvania State University |
Ancient Landscapes and Sociopolitical Change in the Southern American Bottom, Illinois | 167 books |
| 1994 | Mary Beth Trubitt Northwestern University |
The Formation of House Floor and Fill Assemblages in the Mississippian American Bottom, Illinois | 150 books |
| 1993 | Patrick Jones Tulane University |
Lake of the Taensa: A Report on a Recent Survey of Lake St Joseph, Louisiana | 132 books |
| 1992 | Amy Lambeck Young University of Tennessee |
An Analysis of Nails from the Gibbs House Site | 73 books |