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Jay K. Johnson is a Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Center for Archaeological Research. He received his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and has been working in Southeastern archaeology since he was an undergraduate at Florida State University in the late 1960s. A long-time interest in lithic analysis led to the coediting of The Organization of Core Technology (1987), a collection of essays on stone tools. He received the Award for Excellence in Lithic Studies from the Society for American Archaeology in 1996. A symposium organized for the American Association for the Advancement of Science resulted in The Development of Southeastern Archaeology (1993), an edited volume in which specialists chronicle changes in the way that archaeology has been done in their subdisciplines since the mid 19th century. He is currently the general editor for the Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association (AP3A) series. For the past three years he has run the Ole Miss archaeological field school, emphasizing large, late prehistoric sites in northwestern Mississippi and the application of remote sensing techniques. The National Aeronautics and Space Agency has supplied support for these experiments in remote sensing and archaeology. He and Robbie Ethridge, along with anthropologists from three other universities, have undertaken the analysis of a large collection of 18th century Chickasaw artifacts with funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
Professor of Anthropology and Director of Center for Archaeological Research
Lithic Analysis, Remote Sensing, GIS, Ethnohistory
Phone: 662-915-7339
Office: Leavel 211
E-mail: sajay@olemiss.edu