Academic Papers
Abigail Maher, John Henshaw, and Scott Strickland (2025) – Unraveling Keyser: Investigating Communities of Practice in the Potomac River Valley. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology PDF
Martin Gallivan and Jessica Jenkins (2024) – The Oyster Revolution: Shell Middens, Shell Temper, and Settling down in North America’s Chesapeake Region. Frontiers in Human Dynamics 6:1-14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2024.1360290. PDF
Martin Gallivan, Jessica Jenkins, and Sophie Thacker-Gwaltney (2024) – Kiskiak: The settlement history of a Dispersed Village in Tidewater Virginia. North American Archaeologist. 45(3-4):129-156. https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931241264806. PDF
Martin Gallivan and Jessica Jenkins (2024) – Resituating the Deep History of the Chesapeake. North American Archaeologist. 45(3-4):75-77. https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931241275070. PDF
John Henshaw, Martin Gallivan, and Kayleigh Pollack (2024) – Climate-conscious Archaeology: Contextualizing Drought and History in the Chesapeake. North American Archaeologist. . 45(3-4):78-102. https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931241267751. PDF
Martin Gallivan, Jessica Jenkins, and Emily Han (2023) – Roast ‘Em, Shuck ‘Em, Stick ‘Em in a Stew: Oyster Harvesting and Processing Practices at a Woodland and Protohistoric Village Site (44YO687) in the Chesapeake. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology (39):102-120.PDF
Martin Gallivan, John Henshaw, and Matt Borden (2023) – Chronology Construction in the Borderlands: Bayesian Modeling of Potomac Valley Settlement Histories. North American Archaeologist 44(2-3):77-102. https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931231193051. PDF
Martin Gallivan and Jessica Jenkins (2019) – Shell on Earth: Oyster Harvesting, Consumption, and Deposition Practices in the Powhatan Chesapeake. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. 15:384-406 https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2019.1643430.PDF
Recent Graduate Theses
Courtney Senna Roark (2024) – “Patterns In The Clay: X-Ray And Gamma-Ray Geochemical Sourcing Of Middle And Late Woodland Ceramics From Mulberry Island, Virginia” (M.A)
Matthew Anthony Borden (2023) – “An Unsettled History: Measuring Settlement Population And Sedentism In The Late Woodland Potomac River Valley”(M.A)
Mary Lawrence Young (2023) – “Sustaining The Shell Middens: A Coastal Vulnerability Assessment Of Shell Midden Sites Within The Nansemond River Tributary”(M.A)
Taylor Callaway (2021) – “Social Memory, Persistent Place, And Depositional Practice At The Hand Site (44Sn22) In Southeastern Virginia” (M.A)
Gail Williams Wertz (2021) – “Dwelling “Where The Waters Rise And Fall:” The Historical Ecology Of Archaic Period Settlement In The Rappahannock River Valley” (M.A)
Douglas Makin (2019) – “Zone-Decorated Pots at the Hatch Site (44Pg51): a Late Woodland Manifestation of an Ancient Tradition (M.A)
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