Janet Ford
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
P.O. Box 1848
University, MS  38677-1848

Phone: 662-915-7340
Office: Leavell 111
E-mail:

Biography
Born and raised in Vicksburg, Ms., I received my B.A. from Ole Miss and my Ph.D. from Tulane.

Research
My research has mainly involved prehistoric Southeastern United States cultures.  My main emphasis has been on ceramics of the Woodland and Mississippian periods.

Publications

Monographs

1980    Exploitative Floral Potential of the Yellow Creek Power Plant Area.  Appendix (pp. 291-339) to Lithic Procurement and Utilization Trajectories: Archaeological Survey and Excavations, Yellow Creek Nuclear Power Plant Site, Tishomingo County, Mississippi. Archaeological Papers of the Center for Archaeological Research No. 7  by Robert M. Thorne, Bettye J. Broyles, and Jay K. Johnson.

1972    Investigation of Destruction to Prehistoric Sites Due to Agricultural Practices in Southeast Arkansas 1970-1971 with M. A. Rolingson, in Site Destruction Due to Agricultural Practices, Arkansas Archeological Survey, Publications on Archeology, Research Series No. 3.

Articles

1996    Preliminary Impressions from the Batesville Mound Group.  Mississippi Archaeology 31(1):56-67.

1992    Introduction to re-issue of Archeology of Mississippi by Calvin S. Brown.  University Press of Mississippi.

1991    The Tchula Connection: Early Woodland Culture and Burial Mounds in North Mississippi. Southeastern Archaeology 9(2):103-115.

1989    Time and Temper Meets Trend and Tradition. Mississippi Archaeology 24(1):1-16.

1988    Alexander Mound Ceremonialism?  Southeastern Archaeology 7(1):49-52. .

1988    An Examination of the Twin Lakes Phase. In Middle Woodland Settlement and Ceremonialism in the Midsouth, ed. by R. C. Mainfort, Jr.  Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archaeological Report 22:61-67.

1987    Calvin Brown and the Archeology of Mississippi. Mississippi Archaeology 22(2):63-70..

1981    Time and Temper in the North Central Hills of Mississippi. Journal of Alabama Archaeology 27(1):57-71.

1980    Floral Exploitation and Location of Winter Sites in the Yocona Basin.  Southeastern Archaeological Conference Bulletin 23:41-44.

1980    Alas, Poor Womack.  Mississippi Archaeology  XV(2):26-32.

Teaching
Indians of Mississippi and the South (Anth 309) 
Studies of prehistoric and historic societies in the area

Peoples of the Pacific (Anth 310) 
Ethnographic sketches of the native groups of  Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia

Indians of North America (Anth 323) 
Descriptions of example groups of  the various culture areas as close to the time of contact as possible.

Indians of South America (Anth 327)
Sketches of the aboriginal lifestyles of  the indigines.

Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries (Anth 341) 
Introduction of the scientific method and it's application to critical thinking about pseudoscientific explanations of archaeological frauds,  myths, and "mysteries." around the world.