Archaeology at the University of Georgia

UGA's Department of Anthropology faculty includes five archaeologists: Ervan Garrison, David Hally, Steve Kowalewski, Elizabeth Reitz, and Mark Williams. Our teaching and research covers a variety of geographical regions including the American Southeast and Southwest, Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, coastal Peru, and Europe. Our substantive interests range from site prospecting, site formation processes, underwater archaeology, ceramic analysis, and paleoecology to regional analysis and complex societies. We are all actively engaged in field and laboratory research and are interested in involving students, whether at the undergraduate or graduate level, in various aspects of it. Research projects currently underway include the search for submerged Early Man sites off the coast of Georgia, reconstruction of community social and political organization at an early historic aboriginal town in northwestern Georgia, regional landscape and household archaeology of Oaxaca, Mexico, Woodland Period ceremonial centers in the American Southeast, paleoenvironmental and zooarchaeological studies of Coastal Peru and the American Southeast, and Chiefdom-level social structure and human ecology in the Georgia Piedmont.