May 9, 2014

Curriculum Vitae

Tristram R. Kidder

Edward S. and Tedi Macias Professor and Chair

Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis

trkidder@wustl.edu

Lab URL: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/archy/geoarkindex.html

Education

1982 Tulane University: B.A., Anthropology

1987 Harvard University: M.A., Anthropology

1988 Harvard University: Ph.D., Anthropology

Major Field/Research Interests: Anthropological archaeology; geoarchaeology and the

archaeological study of climate change; Indian cultures of North America; the formation of

hierarchical social systems, the emergence of social complexity, complex hunter-gatherer history,

historical ecology, and the relationship between climate, landscape evolution, and human social

change.

Teaching and Professional Experience:

2008- Chair, Department of Anthropology, Washington University

2003- Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

2003 Professor of Anthropology, Tulane University

2002-2003 Interim Dean, Tulane College

1989-2003 Director, Center for Archaeology, Tulane University

1995-2003 Associate Professor of Anthropology, Tulane University

1989-1995 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Tulane University

1988-89 Lecturer on Anthropology, Harvard University

1987-88 Instructor in Anthropology, Harvard University

1983-87 Teaching Fellow in Anthropology, Harvard University

Field and Research Experience:

1983-1986 Field Director, Archaeological research in the Northern Boeuf Basin, Louisiana. Stephen

Williams, Principal Investigator.

1988-1998 Director, Archaeological in the Osceola Site Vicinity, Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Stephen

Williams, Principal Investigator.

1994 Principal Investigator, Archaeological Data Recovery at the Bayou Des Familles Site, 16JE218,

Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.

1998-2004 Principal Investigator, Archaeological Investigations at the Raffman Site, Madison Parish,

Louisiana

1999-2006 Principal Investigator, Archaeological Research at Poverty Point

2006 Archaeological and geological field investigations in the Mississippi alluvial valley

2009 Principal Investigator, Excavations at the Jaketown Site, Humphries County, Mississippi

2009- Co- Principal Investigator, Geoarchaeological Investigations at Sanyangzhuang, Henan

Province, China (with Liu Haiwang, Henan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology)

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2011 Co-Principal Investigator, The Erlitou Paleochannel Project, Henan Province, China (with Mo

Duowen, Peking University)

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

Kidder, Tristram R., and David A. Barondess

1981 A Proposed Bone Tool Classification: a Case Study from Southeast Louisiana. Louisiana Archaeology

8: 89-108.

Davis, Dave D., Tristram R. Kidder, and David A. Barondess

1983 Reduction Analysis of Simple Bone Industries: An Example From the Louisiana Coastal Zone.

Archaeology of Eastern North America 11: 98-108.

Kidder, Tristram R.

1985 Artifacts. In A Consideration of the Early Classic Period in the Maya Lowlands, edited by G.R.

Willey and P. Mathews, pp. 95-110. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, State University of New York

at Albany, Publication 10, Albany.

1988 The Koroa Indians of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Mississippi Archaeology 23(2): 1-42.

1990 The Ouachita Indians of Louisiana: An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Investigation. Louisiana

Archaeology 12: 179-202.

1990 Ceramic Chronology and Culture History of the Southern Ouachita River Basin: Coles Creek to the

Early Historic Period. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 15: 51-99.

1991 New Directions in Poverty Point Settlement Archaeology: An Example from Northeast Louisiana. In

Poverty Point Culture: Its Local Manifestations, Subsistence Practices, and Trade Networks, edited by

K. Byrd. Geoscience and Man 29: 27-53. School of Geoscience, Louisiana State University, Baton

Rouge.

Kidder, Tristram R., and Roger T. Saucier

1991 Archaeological and Geological Evidence for Protohistoric Water Management in Northeast Louisiana.

Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 6: 307-335.

Kidder, Tristram R.

1992 Timing and Consequences of the Introduction of Maize Agriculture in the Lower Mississippi Valley.

North American Archaeologist 13: 15-41.

1992 Coles Creek Period Social Organization and Evolution in Northeast Louisiana. In Lords of the

Southeast: Social Inequality and the Native Elites of Southeastern North America, edited by A. Barker

and T. Pauketat, pp. 145-162. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association,

No. 3, Washington, D.C.

1992 Excavations at the Jordan Site (16MO1), Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. Southeastern Archaeology 11:

109-131.

1993 The Glendora Phase: Protohistoric-Early Historic Culture Dynamics on the Lower Ouachita River. In

Archaeology of Eastern North America: Papers in Honor of Stephen Williams, edited by J. Stoltman,

pp. 231-260. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archaeological Reports 26, Jackson.

Fritz, Gayle J., and Tristram R. Kidder

1993 Recent Investigations into Prehistoric Agriculture in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Southeastern

Archaeology 12: 1-14.

Kidder, Tristram R., and Gayle J. Fritz

1993 Subsistence and Social Change in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Excavations at the Reno Brake and

Osceola Sites, Louisiana. Journal of Field Archaeology 20: 281-297.

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Kidder, Tristram R.

1994 Matheny: A Multicomponent Site on Bayou Bartholomew, Northeast Louisiana. Midcontinental

Journal of Archaeology 19: 137-169.

Törnqvist, Torbjörn E., Tristram R. Kidder, Whitney J. Autin, Klaas van der Borg, Arie F. M. de Jong,

Cornelius J. W. Klerks, Els M. A. Snijders, Joep E. A. Storms, Remke L. van Dam, and Michael C. Wieman

1996 A Revised Chronology for Mississippi River Subdeltas. Science 273: 1693-1696.

Kidder, Tristram R.

1996 Perspectives on the Geoarchaeology in the Lower Mississippi Valley. In The Geology of the Lower

Mississippi Valley: The Half Century Since Fisk, 1944, edited by R. Saucier, W. Autin, and L. Smith.

Engineering Geology: An International Journal 45: 305-323.

1997 Sugar Reflotation: An Alternative Method for Sorting Flotation Derived Heavy Fraction Samples.

Journal of Field Archaeology 24: 39-45.

1998 The Rat that Ate Louisiana: Aspects of Historical Ecology in the Mississippi River Delta. In Advances

in Historical Ecology, edited by W. Balée, pp. 141-168. Columbia University Press, New York.

Kidder, Tristram R., and William Balée

1998 Epilogue. In Advances in Historical Ecology, edited by W. Balée, pp. 405-410. Columbia University

Press, New York.

Kidder, Tristram R.

1998 Sugar Reflotation and Curation: A Response to Baker and Shaffer. Journal of Field Archaeology 25:

371.

1998 Mississippi Period Mound Groups and Communities in the Lower Mississippi Valley. In Mississippian

Towns and Sacred Spaces: Searching for an Architectural Grammar, edited by R. B. Lewis and C.

Stout, pp.123-150. University of Alabama Press.

1998 Rethinking Caddoan-Lower Valley Interaction. In The Native History of the Caddo: Their Place in

Southeastern Archaeology and Ethnohistory, edited by T. Pertulla and J. Bruseth, pp. 129-143. Studies

in Archeology 30. Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin.

2000 Making the City Inevitable: Native Americans and the Geography of New Orleans. In Transforming

New Orleans and Its Environs: Centuries of Change, edited by C. Colten, pp. 9-21. University of

Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh.

2002 The Lower Mississippi Valley. In The Woodland Southeast, edited by D. Anderson and R.C. Mainfort,

Jr., pp. 65-91. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

2002 Mapping Poverty Point. American Antiquity 67: 89-101.

2003 Late Woodland and Mississippian in the Lower Mississippi Valley. In Woodland-Mississippian

Transition in the Mid-South: Proceedings of the 22nd

Mid-South Archaeological Conference, edited by

C.H. McNutt, S. Williams, and M. Jeter, pp. 125-133. Occasional Paper 25. University of Memphis

Anthropological Research Center, Memphis.

2004 Plazas as Architecture: An Example from the Raffman Site in Northeast Louisiana. American

Antiquity 69:513-532.

2004 Prehistory of the Lower Mississippi Valley After 800 B.C. In Handbook of North American

Indians, Volume 14, Southeast, edited by R. D. Fogelson, pp. 545-559, W. Sturtevant, general

editor. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

Kidder, Tristram R., Anthony Ortmann, and Thurman Allen

2004 Testing Mounds B and E at Poverty Point. Southeastern Archaeology 23:98-113.

Ortmann, Anthony, and Tristram R. Kidder

2004 Petrographic Thin-Section Analysis of Poverty Point Ceramics. In Early Pottery: Technology,

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Function, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast, edited by R. Saunders and C. Hayes, pp. 193-

209. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

Kidder, Tristram R.

2006 Climate Change and the Archaic to Woodland Transition (3000-2600 cal B.P.) in the Mississippi River

Basin. American Antiquity 71:195-231.

2006 Contemplating Plaquemine Culture. In Plaquemine Archaeology, edited by M. Reese and P.

Livingood, pp. 196-205. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

Arco, Lee J., Katherine Adelsberger, Ling-yu Hung, and Tristram R. Kidder

2006 Alluvial Geoarchaeology of a Middle Archaic Mound Complex in the Lower Mississippi Valley,

U.S.A. Geoarchaeology 21: 591-614.

Adelsberger, Katherine A., and Tristram R. Kidder

2007 Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Human Settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley,

5500-2400 Cal B.P. In Reconstructing Human-Landscape Interactions, edited by L. Wilson, P.

Dickinson and J. Jeandron, pp. 84-108. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Kidder, Tristram R., Katherine A. Adelsberger, Lee J. Arco, and Timothy M. Schilling

2008 Basin-Scale Reconstruction of the Geological Context of Human Settlement: An Example from the

Lower Mississippi Valley, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 1255-1270.

Tristram R. Kidder, Anthony L. Ortmann, and Lee J. Arco

2008 Poverty Point and the Archaeology of Singularity. SAA Archaeological Record 8(5):9-12.

Kidder, Tristram R. and Kenneth Sassaman

2009 The View from the Southeast. In Archaic Societies: Diversity and Complexity Across the

Midcontinent, edited by T. Emerson, D. McElrath, and A. Fortier, pp. 667-694. State University of

New York Press, Albany.

Kidder, Tristram R., Lori M. Roe, and Timothy M. Schilling

2010 Early Woodland Settlement and Mound Building in the Upper Tensas Basin, Northeast Louisiana.

Southeastern Archaeology 26: 121-145.

Kidder, Tristram R.

2010 Trend, Tradition and Transition at the End of the Archaic. In Trend, Tradition, and Turmoil: What

Happened to the Southeastern Archaic? edited by D. H. Thomas and M. Sanger, pp. 23-32.

Anthropological Papers. American Museum of Natural History Vol. 89, pt. 2, New York.

2010 Hunter-Gatherer Ritual and Complexity: New Evidence from Poverty Point, Louisiana. In Ancient

Complexities: New Perspectives in Precolumbian North America, edited by S. Alt, pp. 32-51.

University of Utah Press, Salt Lake.

2011 Transforming Hunter-Gatherer History at Poverty Point. In Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as

Historical Process, edited by K. E. Sassaman and D. H. Holley, Jr., pp. 95-119. University of Arizona

Press, Tucson.

Sherwood, Sarah C. and Tristram R. Kidder

2011 The DaVincis of Dirt: Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Native American Mound Building in the

Mississippi River Basin. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 30:69-87.

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2010.11.001.

Kidder, Tristram R., Haiwang Liu, and Minglin Li

2012 Sanyangzhuang: early farming and a Han settlement preserved beneath Yellow River flood

deposits. Antiquity 86 (331):30-47.

Kidder, Tristram R. and Minglin Li

2012 三杨庄汉代遗址地学考古和古环境研究 [Geoarchaeological and Environmental Context of the Han

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Dynasty Sanyangzhuang site]. In International Symposium on the Urban and Settlement

Archaeology of the Han Dynasty and Han Culture, edited by Hong Shi, pp. 123-136 (in Chinese).

Science Press, Beijing.

Kidder, Tristram R., Haiwang Liu, Qinghai Xu, and Minglin Li

2012 The Alluvial Geoarchaeology of the Sanyangzhuang Site on the Yellow River Floodplain, Henan

Province, China. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 27:324-343. doi: 10.1002/gea.21411.

Kidder, Tristram R.

2013 Observations about the Historical Ecology of Small-Scale Societies. In The Archaeology and

Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies, edited by V. Thompson and J. Waggoner, pp. 176-

183. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.

Ortmann, Anthony L., and Tristram R. Kidder

2013 Building Mound A at Poverty Point: Monumental Public Architecture, Ritual Practice, and

Implications for Hunter-Gatherer Complexity. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 28:66-

86. DOI: 10.1002/gea.21430

Liu Yaoliang, Xu Qinghai, Li Manyue, Zhang Shengrui, Liu Haiwang, Zhu Jianjia, and Tristram R.

Kidder

2013 河南省内黄县三杨庄全新世以来的孢粉学记录 [Holocene Pollen Record of the Sanyangzhuang Site in

Neihuang County, Henan Province]. Quaternary Sciences 33(3):536-544 (in Chinese with English

abstract). DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-7410.2013.03.14.

Kidder, Tristram R. and Haiwang Liu

2014 Bridging Theoretical Gaps in Geoarchaeology: Archaeology, Geoarchaeology and History in the

Yellow River Valley, China. Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 6. DOI:

10.1007/s12520-014-0184-5.

Kidder, Tristram R., Haiwang Liu,

Michael J. Storozum, and

Zhen Qin

In press New Perspectives on the Collapse and Regeneration of the Han Dynasty. In Beyond Collapse:

Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation in Complex

Societies, edited by Ronald K. Faulseit, pp. xx-xx. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Visiting

Scholar Conference, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University in

Carbondale.

Spivey, S. Margaret, Tristram R. Kidder, Anthony L. Ortmann, and Lee Arco

In Press Pilgrimage to Poverty Point? In The Enigma of the Event: Moments of Consequence in the

Ancient Southeast edited by Zackary I. Gilmore and Jason M. O’Donoughue, pp. xx-xx. University

of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

Monographs and Research Reports

Kidder, Tristram R.

1982 Faunal Analysis. In Archaeological Survey of Grand Bayou, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, by David

D. Davis, Marco Giardino, Vicki Carpenter, and Ken Jones, pp. 101-105 and Appendix A. Louisiana

Division of Archaeology, Baton Rouge.

1983 Management Summary: Archaeological Survey in the Northern Boeuf Basin, Louisiana, 1983. Report

submitted to the Office of the State Archaeologist, Baton Rouge (26 pages).

1986 Final Report on Archaeological Test Excavations in the Central Boeuf Basin, Louisiana, 1985. Lower

Mississippi Survey Bulletin 10. Lower Mississippi Survey, Peabody Museum, Harvard University,

Cambridge (409 pages, 13 maps, 23 figures, 42 tables, 32 plates).

Kidder, Tristram R., and Diane M. Ring

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1986 Stevenson, 16RI14 (22-J-2). In Final Report on Archaeological Test Excavations in the Central Boeuf

Basin, Louisiana, 1985, by T.R. Kidder, pp. 85-165. Lower Mississippi Survey Bulletin 10, Lower

Mississippi Survey, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge.

Saucier, Roger T., and Tristram R. Kidder

1986 Physical Environmental Setting. In Final Report on Archaeological Test Excavations in the Central

Boeuf Basin, Louisiana, 1985, by T.R. Kidder, pp. 8-33. Lower Mississippi Survey Bulletin 10. Lower

Mississippi Survey, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge.

Kidder, Tristram R.

1987 Final Report on Archaeological and Geomorphic Testing in the Jordan Site Area, Morehouse Parish,

Louisiana: 1986. Report submitted to the Office of the State Archaeologist, Baton Rouge (30 pages,

10 figures, 2 tables).

1989 Management Summary: Archaeological Investigations at the Osceola and Reno Brake Sites, Tensas

Parish, Louisiana. Report submitted to the Office of the State Archaeologist, Baton Rouge (7 pages).

1990 Final Report on the 1989 Archaeological Investigations at the Osceola (16TE2) and Reno Brake

(16TE93) Sites, Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Archaeological Report 1. Center for Archaeology, Tulane

University. Report submitted to the Office of the State Archaeologist, Baton Rouge (107 pages, 14

figures, 7 tables, 1 appendix).

1993 1992 Archaeological Test Excavations in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Archaeological Report 2. Center

for Archaeology, Tulane University. Report submitted to the Office of the State Archaeologist, Baton

Rouge (181 pages, 27 figures, 12 tables, 3 appendices).

Jones, Kenneth, Herschel A. Franks, Tristram R. Kidder, Jill-Karen Yakubick, and Benjamin Maygarden

1993 Cultural Resources Survey of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet Dredged Material Disposal Areas, St.

Bernard Parish, Louisiana. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cultural Resources Series Report No.

COELMN/PD-93/08, New Orleans (259 pages, 52 figures, 21 tables).

Jones, Kenneth, Herschel A. Franks, and Tristram R. Kidder

1994 Cultural Resources Survey and Testing for Davis Pond Freshwater Diversion, St. Charles Parish,

Louisiana. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cultural Resources Series Report No. COELMN/PD-93/01,

New Orleans (two volumes, 622 pages, 105 figures, 93 tables).

Jones, Patrick J., and Tristram R. Kidder

1994 Results of the 1993 Historic Taensa Survey, Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Tulane University, Center for

Archaeology, Archaeological Report 3. Report submitted to the Office of the State Archaeologist,

Baton Rouge (38 pages, 7 figures, 26 tables, 2 appendices).

Earnest, Howard Jr., and Tristram R. Kidder

1994 Prehistoric Sites. In Cultural Resources Survey of Mississippi River Levee and Revetment Projects,

M270.2 to 246.0-R, edited and compiled by J-K. Yakubik, pp. 237-265. U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers, Cultural Resources Series Report No. COELMN/PD-93/09, New Orleans (two volumes).

Kidder, Tristram R.

1995 Archaeological Data Recovery at 16JE218, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers, Cultural Resources Series Report No. COELMN/PD-95/03, New Orleans (431 pages, 107

figures, 55 tables, 9 plates).

Dawdy, Shannon L., Kenneth Jones, Larry Santeford, and Tristram R. Kidder

1995 Cultural Resource Survey and Testing of Natural Resources Conservation Service Project BA-2

Supplement No. 2. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cultural Resources Series Report No.

COELMN/PD-95/05, New Orleans (110 pages, 17 figures, 7 tables, 5 plates).

Yakubik, Jill-Karen, Benjamin Maygarden, Tristram R. Kidder, Shannon Dawdy, Kenneth Jones, Roger T.

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Saucier, Gayle Fritz, Allen Saltus, and Charlene Keck

1996 Archaeological Data Recovery of the Camino Site (16JE223), A Spanish Colonial Site Near New

Orleans, Louisiana. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cultural Resources Series Report No.

COELMN/PD-96/01, New Orleans (360 pages, 51 figures, 63 tables, 12 plates).

Lee, Aubra L., Rhonda L. Smith, Jill-Karen Yakubik, Tristram R. Kidder, Ruben Saenz, II, Benjamin

Maygarden, Gayle J. Fritz, and Roger T. Saucier

1997 Archaeological Data Recovery at the Birds Creek Site (16CT416), Catahoula Parish, Louisiana.

Earth Search, Inc., New Orleans (236 pages, 47 figures, 34 tables).

Kidder, Tristram R.

1999 The 1999 Poverty Point Mapping Project. Report submitted to the Louisiana Division of

Archaeology, Baton Rouge (17 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables).

Miller, Cinder G., R. Christopher Goodwin, Glen Walter, Tristram R. Kidder, Marie Danforth, Roger

T. Saucier, John Jones, William Hayden, Allen Green, Angele Montana, Nathanael Heller, Charlene

Keck, Michele Williams, and Dave D. Davis

2000 Phase III Data Recovery Excavations at Site 16LF66, the Discovery Site in Lafourche Parish,

Louisiana. R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc., New Orleans (three volumes, 540 pages,

53 figures, 42 tables).

Kidder, Tristram R.

2000 Geomorphic Context of Late Holocene Human Settlement in NE Louisiana. GSA Abstracts with

Programs 32(7): A-55.

2001 Preliminary Report on an Archaeological Reconnaissance of Bayou Trepagnier, St. Charles Parish,

Louisiana. Report submitted to the Motiva Corporation, Norco, LA (26 pages, 2 figures, 1 table)

Steponaitis, Vincas P., Stephen Williams, R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr., Ian W. Brown, Tristram R. Kidder,

and Melissa Salvanish (eds.)

2001 LMS Archives On-Line <http://rla.unc.edu/archives/lms1>.

Anderson, David G., Tristram R. Kidder, and Signa Larralde

2006 Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway Archeological Peer Review. National Park Service,

Washington and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis (19 pages, 2 figures, 7 appendices).

Kidder, Tristram R., Lee J. Arco, Anthony L. Ortmann, Timothy M. Schilling, Caroline Boeke, Rachel

Bielitz and Katherine A. Adelsberger

2009 Poverty Point Mound A: Final Report of the 2005 and 2006 Field Seasons. Louisiana Division of

Archaeology and the Louisiana Archaeological Survey and Antiquities Commission, Baton Rouge.

(242 pages, 77 figures, 12 tables, 2 appendices).

Kidder, Tristram R.

2010 Geoarchaeology at Sanyangzhuang: A Preliminary Report on the 2009 Field Season. Henan

Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Zhengzhou.

(http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/archy/projchina.html)

Encyclopedia Entries

1998 Coles Creek Culture. In Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia, edited by G.

Gibbon, pp. 171-173. Garland Publishing, New York.

2012 Poverty Point. In Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology, edited by T. Pauketat, pp.

460-470. Oxford University Press, New York.

2014 Poverty Point: Archaeology of. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by C. Smith, pp.

6099-6105. Springer, New York.

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Book Reviews

1987 Review of Hemmings, E.T., and J. House, editors, The Alexander Site, Conway County, Arkansas.

Southeastern Archaeology 6(1): 75-76

1988 Review of Kniffen, F.B., H.F. Gregory, and G. Stokes, The Historic Indians of Louisiana: From 1542

to the Present. Man 23: 576-577.

1990 Review of Jenkins, N., and R. Krause, The Tombigbee Watershed in Southeastern Prehistory.

American Anthropologist 92: 545-546.

1991 Review of Schambach, F., editor, Coles Creek and Mississippi Period Foragers in the Felsenthal

Region of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Mississippi Archaeology 26 (2): 78-85.

1994 Review of Sabo, G. Paths of Our Children. Ethnohistory 41: 168-169.

1997 Review of Saucier, R. Geomorphology and Quaternary Geologic History of the Lower Mississippi

Valley. Mississippi Archaeology 31(2): 64-69.

2013 Review of Foster, W. Climate and Culture Change in North America, AD 900-1600. Midcontinental

Journal of Archaeology 38 [online] URL: http://www.midwestarchaeology.org/storage/2013-BR12-

Foster.pdf

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings (last four years)

Kelly, John E., Timothy M. Schilling, Neal Lopinot, and Tristram R. Kidder

2009 New Perspectives on an Old Monument. Illinois Archaeological Society, Springfield, IL.

Liu, Haiwang, Song, Yuqin, Hung, Ling-yu, and Tristram R. Kidder

2010 Excavations at Sanyangzhuang: A Deeply Buried Han Dynasty Site in Henan Province. Paper

presented at the 75th

annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis.

Spivey, S. Margaret and Tristram R. Kidder

2010 The Origins of Poverty Point. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Current Research on the

Poverty Point Culture,” 75th

annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis.

Kidder, Tristram R.

2010 Discussion. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Trajectories to Complexity in Woodland

Environments: Eastern North America and Temperate Europe Compared,” 75th

annual meeting of

the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis.

2010 The Enigma of Poverty Point. Wisconsin Archaeological Society, Milwaukee.

2010 The Geoarchaeology of Sanyangzhuang. Invited paper presented at the “International Symposium

on the Urban and Settlement Archaeology of the Han Dynasty and Han Culture,” Chinese

Academy of Social Sciences, Neihuang, Henan Province.

2010 Excavating China’s Pompeii: Recent Research at Sanyangzhuang, Henan Province. Invited paper

presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 2010 Discussion. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Exploring Middle Archaic Preconditions of

Southeastern Social Complexity: Multiregional Approaches to a Complex Problem,” 67th annual

meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington.

2011 Culture, Climate, and Environment at Sanyangzhuang, Henan Province, China. Invited paper

presented at the Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans.

2011 Geological and Environmental Archaeology of the Sanyangzhuang Site. Invited paper presented at

the Henan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Zhengzhou.

2011 Culture, Climate, and Environment at Sanyangzhuang, Henan Province, China. Invited paper

presented at the College of Urban Planning and Environmental Studies, Peking University, Beijing.

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Kidder, Tristram R., and Minglin Li

2011 Geoarchaeology of China's Pompeii: The Sanyangzhuang Site, Henan Province. Paper presented at

the 76th

annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento.

Lee J. Arco, S. Margaret Spivey, Tristram R. Kidder and Anthony L. Ortmann

2011 Places of Pilgrimage? Jaketown and Poverty Point as Ritual-Religious Events. Invited paper

presented at the symposium “The Enigma of the Event: Moments of Consequence in the Ancient

Southeast,” 68th

annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jacksonville.

Kidder, Tristram R.

2011 “The Answer Lies in Climate Events”: Sam Brookes on Climate and Culture in the Middle

Archaic. Invited paper presented at the symposium “The Forest and the Trees: Honoring the

Archaeological Career of Samuel O. Brookes,” 68th

annual meeting of the Southeastern

Archaeological Conference, Jacksonville.

2011 From Soils and Sediments to Society. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Student Affairs

Workshop: Getting to Know Soils,” 68th

annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological

Conference, Jacksonville.

2011 China’s Pompeii: Archaeology at Sanyangzhuang, Henan Province, and what it tells us about

history. Invited paper presented at the Institute of Historical Geography, Fudan University,

Shanghai (also presented separately as part of the fall 2011 “Anthropology Day” lecture series).

2012 Beyond Hunter-Gatherer Complexity: The Paradoxes of Poverty Point, a Late Archaic site in the

Mississippi River Valley. The Parsons Lecture, Department of Anthropology, University of

Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Kidder, Tristram R. and Sarah Sherwood

2012 Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Mound Building and Earthwork Construction in the Life

History of Sacred Landscapes. Invited paper presented at the symposium “The Geoarchaeology of

Ritual behavior and Sacred Spaces,” 77th

annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology

Conference, Memphis.

Qin, Zhen, and Tristram R. Kidder

2012 Geoarchaeological Investigations at Sanyangzhuang, Henan Province, China. Poster presented at

the 77th

annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology Conference, Memphis.

Storozum, Michael, and Tristram R. Kidder

2012 Micromorphological Features of Ancient Agriculture in China. Poster presented at the 77th

annual

meeting of the Society for American Archaeology Conference, Memphis.

Kidder, Tristram R.

2012 Environmental Change and the Politics of Empire: Geoarchaeology of the Yellow River and the

History of Han China from Wu Di to Wang Mang (156 B.C.E.-C.E.26). Invited paper presented at

the symposium “Bridging Gaps: Integrating Geosciences within Archaeological Research,”

Eberhardt Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany.

Kidder, Tristram R.

2012 Does Hunter-Gatherer Complexity Encompass Religion too? Poverty Point as Pilgrimage Center.

Visiting Lecture presentation, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Kidder, Tristram R.

2012 Lessons from a Flood:The Roles of Environment, Religion, and Economy in the Collapse of

Western Han Dynasty China. Visiting Lecture presentation, Department of Anthropology,

University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Kidder, Tristram R. and Zhuang Yijie

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2013 Environment and the Anthropocene in Ancient China. Invited paper presented at the symposium

“New Developments in Chinese Archaeology,” 78th

annual meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology Conference, Honolulu.

Kidder, Tristram R.

2013 An Archaeology of the Anthropocene: The Yellow River, China, 5000-2000 BP. Keynote talk

presented at the International Conference on Archaeological Micromorphology, University of

Cambridge.

Kidder, Tristram R., Haiwang Liu, Michael Storozum, and Zhen Qin

2013 New Perspectives on the Collapse and Regeneration of the Han Dynasty. Invited paper presented at

the symposium “Beyond Collapse: Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization &

Reorganization in Complex Societies,” Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Kidder, Tristram R.

2013 Archaeological Perspectives on the Decline and Fall of the Western Han Dynasty. Invited paper

presented at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford.

2013 The Paradoxes of Poverty Point: The World's Largest Hunter-Gatherer Monumental Site. Invited

paper presented at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of

Oxford.

2013 Greater than All of the Forces of Nature? Humans as Agents of China’s Environmental Change

5000-2000 Years Ago and Its Relevance for the Modern World. Invited paper presented at the

Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies “Environment in Asia” seminar. Harvard University,

Cambridge. [also presented at the University of Georgia in January, 2014]

2013 The Paradoxes of Poverty Point: Investigating Exceptional Hunter-Gatherer Complexity in the

Mississippi Valley. Invited paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, Harvard

University, Cambridge.

2013 A River of Sorrow flows through the Land of Famine: Environment and Health in Ancient China.

Invited paper presented at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University,

New York.

2014 An Archaeology of the Anthropocene: The Yellow River, China, 5000-2000 BP. Invited paper

presented at the Conference on The Anthropocene in the Longue durée, University of Texas,

Austin.

Research Support from Non-University Sources

1983 Archaeological Survey of the Northern Boeuf Basin, Louisiana. Louisiana Department of Culture,

Recreation and Tourism, Division of Archaeology. Award $25,000. Stephen Williams, Principal

Investigator.

1985 Archaeological Test Excavations in the Central Boeuf Basin, Louisiana. Louisiana Department of

Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Division of Archaeology. Award $25,000. Stephen Williams,

Principal Investigator.

1985 Protohistoric Population Dynamics in the Central Boeuf Basin, Louisiana. National Geographic

Society. Award $11,163. Stephen Williams, Principal Investigator.

1986 Archaeological Testing in the Jordan Site Locality, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. Louisiana

Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Division of Archaeology. Award $3,718. Stephen

Williams, Principal Investigator.

1989 The Significance of Archaeological Resources at the Osceola (16TE2) and Reno Brake (16TE93)

Sites, Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Division of

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Archaeology. Award $17,099. Stephen Williams, Principal Investigator.

1989 Coles Creek Subsistence in the Tensas Basin, Louisiana: A Preliminary Investigation. National

Geographic Society. Award $11,676. Stephen Williams, Principal Investigator.

1992 Excavations at Baytown, Coles Creek, and Mississippi Period “Hamlets” and “Villages” in Tensas

Parish, Louisiana. Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Division of Archaeology.

Award $9,750.

Kidder, Tristram R., and E. Wyllys Andrews, V

1992 Recruitment of Superior Graduate Students in Louisiana Anthropology, 1993-1997. Louisiana

Education Quality Support Fund, Board of Regents. Award $76,000.

Kidder, Tristram R., and Patrick Jones

1993 Archaeological Reconnaissance to Locate the Historic Taensa Villages. Louisiana Department of

Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Division of Archaeology. Award $1,243.

Kidder, Tristram R., and Douglas C. Wells

1993 Archaeological Survey of Cypress Bayou, Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Louisiana Archaeological

Conservancy. Award $750.

Rudelson, Justin J., Judith M. Maxwell, and Tristram R. Kidder

1994 Establishment of the Video Methods Project in Anthropology. Louisiana Education Quality Support

Fund, Enhancement Program. Award $126,667.

Wells, Douglas C., and Tristram R. Kidder

1995 Ideology and the Evolution of Inequality: The Cypress Bayou Archaeological Survey. National

Science Foundation Grant SBR-9510509. Award $11,996.

Devine, Joel, A., Tristram R. Kidder, Barbara Moely, and Raymond Swan

1996 Recruitment of Superior Graduate Students in the Social Sciences. Louisiana Education Quality

Support Fund, Board of Regents. Award $240,000.

Jones, Patrick, and Tristram R. Kidder

1996 Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS to Prehistoric Settlement Studies in the Mississippi River

Delta. Savannah River Archaeological Research Program (DOE), South Carolina Institute of

Archaeology and Anthropology. Award $5000. (Awarded but not funded by agency.)

Kidder, Tristram R.

1996 Evaluation of Image Processing and GIS Software. Louisiana Educational Quality Support Fund, R

& D Program. Award $6716.

Kidder, Tristram R., E. Wyllys Andrews, V, Harvey M. Bricker, and Dan M. Healan

1997 Enhancement of Archaeological Technical Analysis Capabilities in the Center for Archaeology,

Department of Anthropology. Louisiana Educational Quality Support Fund, Enhancement Program.

Award $135,000.

Kidder, Tristram R.

1997 Proposal to Supply Image Processing, GIS, and Ground Truthing Services to the Earth Systems

Science Office. NASA ESSO, Stennis Space Center. Award $6015.

1997 Proposal to Supply Support Services to the Earth Systems Science Office. NASA ESSO, Stennis

Space Center. Award $15,174.

1998 Archaeological Investigations at the Raffman Site, Madison Parish, Louisiana. National Geographic

Society. Award $14,922.

Morgan, David, and Tristram R. Kidder

1998 An Assessment of Terminal Woodland Subsistence and Settlement in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta,

Alabama. National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9809613. Award $12,000.

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1999 Poverty Point Mapping Project. Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism

Contract DRT-OCD-99-06; CFMS 540042. Award $20,820.

2000 Further Archaeological mapping of the Poverty Point Site (16WC5). Louisiana Department of

Culture, Recreation, and Tourism Contract DCRT-OCD-00-19. Award $10,029.

2001 Archaeological Research in the Panther Lake Woods. Anderson-Tully Corporation. Award $2000

2002 Archaeological Research at Raffman. Anderson-Tully Corporation. Award $2000

Arco, Lee J., and Tristram R. Kidder

2007 Geoarchaeological Investigation of the Jaketown Site: A Late Archaic Poverty Point Settlement in

the Lower Mississippi Valley. National Science Foundation Grant BCS-0827097. Award $11,228

Bennett, Gwen and Tristram R. Kidder

2008-11 Chengdu Plains Archaeological Survey Project. Luce Foundation Grant. Award $300,000.

Professional Service

1991 Local Arrangements Chairman, 56th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

1992-96 Member, Advisory Committee for Grants, Louisiana Archaeological Conservancy.

1993-96 Editorial Board, Mississippi Archaeology

1995-2003 Editor, Louisiana Archaeology

1995-98 Crabtree Award Committee, Society for American Archaeology (Chair 1996-1998)

1995-2010 Director, Lower Mississippi Survey

1998-2001 Southeastern Archaeological Society Publications Committee

1998-2002 Appointed member, Louisiana Archaeological Survey and Antiquities Commission. Office of the

Governor, State of Louisiana

2005- Adjunct Research Associate, Landscape History Program, Illinois State Museum, Springfield

2006-2008 Co-Editor (w/ Gayle J. Fritz), Southeastern Archaeology (automatic board appointment)

2006-2011 Kellogg Fund Award Selection committee, Geoarchaeology Interest Group, Society for American

Archaeology (chair, 2009-2011)

2008 Member, Organizing Committee, Marine Eco-Civilization Center (Wenzhou, China). China

Sustainable Development Research Center of Peking University, Zhejiang Association of Science

and Technology, and Zhejiang Mariculture Research Institute.

2009 External Review Committee, Dept. Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Mid-cycle

review consultant 2014)

2014 External Review Consultant, Dept. Anthropology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

2010-14 President-elect/President, Southeastern Archaeological Conference.

2012- Organizing Committee, Shanghai Archaeological Forum. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

2012- Editorial Board, Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology

2012-14 Reviewer, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Program

2012-13 Reviewer, American Philosophical Society, Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field

Research

Peer Review (Grant, manuscript, and submitted article reviews)

Southeastern Archaeology

National Geographic Society

American Antiquity

Ethnohistory

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Mississippi Archaeology

Louisiana Archaeology

National Science Foundation, Archaeology Subprogram

AAAS Research Competitiveness Program

Journal of Field Archaeology

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Journal of Ethnobiology

Quaternary Science Reviews

Geomorphology

The Holocene

Catena

Quaternary Research

Quaternary International

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Journal of Archaeological Research

New Frontiers in Earth Science

Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology

Reviews in Anthropology

Columbia University Press

University of Alabama Press

Oxford University Press

AltaMira Press

University of Nebraska Press

Honors & Awards

1989-2003 Newcomb Fellow.

1990 Newcomb Foundation Award, “Women and Men in Prehistory: The Archaeology of Gender”

(Award $3,810).

1991 Newcomb Foundation Award, “Traiteurs: A Study of Cajun Healers” (Award $1093).

1992 Newcomb Foundation Award, “Writing Houma History” (Award $ 1470).

1993 Randolph Read Award for Excellence in Teaching ($5000 Award)

1995 Committee on Research Grant, “Radiocarbon Dating the Origins of Agriculture in the Lower

Mississippi Valley” (Award $4000).

1996-97 Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching

1998 Newcomb Foundation Award, “Ceramic Variability in the Lower Mississippi Valley: A

Technological Study” (Award $662).

1998-99 Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching

1999-00 Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching

2000 Newcomb Foundation Award, “Archaeological Research at the St. Mary and Raffman Sites,

Madison Parish, Louisiana” (Award $2720).

2001 Newcomb Foundation Award, “Archaeological Investigations in Northeast Louisiana" (Award

$4002)

2001 Georges Lurcy Faculty Research Fund, "Radiocarbon Dating Archaeological Sites in Northeast

Louisiana." (Award $2385)

2002 Newcomb Foundation Award, “Archaeological Investigations in Northeast Louisiana, Year 3"

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(Award $6232)

2002 2002 President’s Recognition Award, Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (Interdisciplinary

Team-Teaching Award)

2003 Tulane College Senate Award for Distinguished Service

2003 Tulane College Summer Transition Program. Mellon Foundation. Award $208,125

2003 Tulane College Visiting Scholar Program. Lupin Foundation. Award $29,000

2004 Faculty Research Grant, WU Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Award $6000

2006 Recognition for Excellence in Mentoring, 2005-2006. Graduate Student Senate, Washington

University in St. Louis Graduate School.

2007 McDonnell Academy Global Energy and Environmental Partnership, “Exploratory Research on

Holocene Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Human Response in the Lower Yellow

River Floodplain, Henan Province, China.” (Award $34,180)

2009 Faculty Research Grant, WU Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Award $7000

2012 Holocene Climate Evolution, Environmental Change, and Human Resilience in the Middle and

Lower Reaches of the Yellow River, Henan Province, China. ICARES Grant (Award $40,000)

2014 Edward S. and Tedi Macias Professor, Washington University in St. Louis