Experienced Field Tech with Zooarchaeological experience looking for work at Museum or in the Field
andrew.brown1234




Andrew D. Brown
201 Walnut Drive Cell:
(205) 335-4529
Franklin, Tennessee 37064 andrew.brown1234@gmail.com
EDUCATION
December 2011 Middle Tennessee
State University Murfreesboro,
Tennessee
Bachelor
of Science in Anthropology/Archaeology. Minor in Music.
Senior thesis: An Exploration of
Turtle Shell Rattle Manufacture in the Mississippian Period. Thesis
Director: Dr. Tanya M. Peres.
May 2008 Freed-Hardeman University Henderson, Tennessee
Bachelor
of Science in Mathematics and Natural Sciences
May 2008 Freed-Hardeman University Henderson, Tennessee
Bachelor
of Arts in Biblical Studies
August 2005 Wallace State Community College Hanceville, Alabama
Associate
of Arts in Pre-Engineering
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
Area
Specialization: Prehistoric
Southeastern United States; Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Levant;
Paleo-American
Topical
Interests: Modified and
un-modified uses of animals (included intentional/non-intentional and
subsistence/non-subsistence use); subsistence; paleoecology/paleoenvironment;
isotope analysis; taphonomy; environmental archaeology; ethnoarchaeology;
experimental archaeology; chiefdoms; ethnozoology;
archaeomusicology/zooarchaeomusicology
Analytical Skills: Zooarchaeological
analyses of vertebrate and invertebrate faunal remains. Lithic
analysis.
Other
Interests: International study
and travel abroad; public archaeology and anthropology; public site tours;
public outreach; community service
FUNDED RESEARCH
2011 Zooarchaeological Evidence
for Turtle Shell Rattle Production, Undergraduate Research and Creative
Activity Grant, MTSU, $3500.
PUBLICATIONS
2013 Deter-Wolf,
Aaron, Benjamin A. Steere, and Andrew D.
Brown
Pit Features. In The
Fernvale Site (40WM51): Late Archaic and Multicomponent Occupations Along the
South Harpeth River in Williamson County, Tennessee. Edited by A. Deter-Wolf. Tennessee
Department of Environment and Conservation, Division of Archaeology Research
Series No. 19, Nashville.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
in prep Shake,
Rattle, and Dance: Turtle Shell Rattles in the Mississippian Period.
for submission Tennessee Archaeology.
2013
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Single
Author, unless otherwise noted)
2013 Shaking
Things Up in the Tennessee: Turtle Shell Rattles in the Mississippian Period.
Paper presented at the Current Research in Tennessee Archaeology Conference,
January 25-26, 2013, Nashville, Tennessee.
2012 Shaking Things Up in the Southeast: Turtle
Shell Rattles in the Mississippian Period. Paper presented at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, November
7-10, 2012, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
2012 An Exploration of Turtle Shell
Rattle Manufacture in the Mississippian Period. Paper presented at the
Society of Ethnobiology Conference, April 11-14, 2012, Denver, Colorado.
2012 An Exploration of Turtle Shell
Rattle Manufacture in the Mississippian Period. Paper presented at the
Southern Anthropological Society Conference, March 14-17, 2012, Birmingham,
Alabama.
2012 An Exploration of Turtle Shell
Rattle Use in the Mississippian Period. Poster presented at the Current
Research in Tennessee Archaeology Conference, January 27-28, 2012, Nashville,
Tennessee. (with
Tanya M. Peres)
2011 An Exploration of Turtle Shell
Rattle Use in the Mississippian Period. Poster presented at the Southeastern
Archaeological Conference, November 3-5, 2011, Jacksonville, Florida. (with Tanya
M. Peres)
2011 Drilling
the Carapace: Experimental Archaeology and Turtle Shell Rattles. Paper
presented at the Tennessee Undergraduate Social Science Symposium, October
31-November 1, 2011, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
2009 A
Modern Refuse Investigation of the Lower and Upper Socioeconomic Status Groups,
East Main and South Hancock Streets, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Paper
presented at the Tennessee Undergraduate Social Science Symposium. October
30-31, 2009, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. (with Lauren Hughes)
FIELD EXPERIENCE
August
2012 to September 2012
Michael Baker Jr., Inc.
Cultural Resources Associate I -
Archaeological Field Technician, Phase I Archaeology for the TDOT SR-30
Improvement Project, Rhea County, TN
Duties: Excavation shovel test,
walkover survey, screening, use of handheld GPS (Trimble), filling out shovel
probe forms, setting up transects, use of compass, bagging and tagging
artifacts, probing around historic structure, troweling, photography, mapping, surveying
historic and prehistoric sites, use of a munsell and describing soil sediments.
Field Director: Ryan Robinson
June
2012 to August 2012
Texas
A&M University, Center for the Study of the First Americans
Archaeologist
Field Technician, Excavations at Coats-Hines, Franklin, Tennessee
Duties:
Photographing units by level and profile views; water screening; screening soil
matrix; collecting samples; completing field forms, drawing sketch
maps, preparing profile and plan view
field drawings; completing field inventory and
artifact inventory forms, cataloguing of artifacts, use of munsell; testing
designated areas; using a variety of tools
(shoveling, patishing, troweling, margin troweling), digging in steep and rough
terrain.
Project
directed by Dr. Michael Waters (Texas A&M)
May
2012 (1 day)
Middle Tennessee State University
Field crew volunteer, Excavations at
Middle Cumberland Archaeology Project, Davidson County, Tennessee.
Duties: Record data on forms,
munsell soil samples, auguring about four meters below surface for survey
Directed by Dr. Tanya Peres (MTSU)
June 2011 (3 days)
Middle
Tennessee State University
Field
crew volunteer, Excavations at Castalian Springs (40SU14), Sumner County,
Tennessee
Directed
by Dr. Kevin Smith (MTSU)
June
2010 to July 2010
Middle
Tennessee State University
Field
crew and student, Excavations at Castalian Springs (40SU14), Archaeological
Field School, Sumner County, Tennessee
Directed
by Dr. Kevin Smith (MTSU)
June
2008 to July 2008
Tel-Aviv
University
Field
crew, Tel Beth-Shemesh Site, Beth-Shemesh, Israel
Directed
by Dr. Zvi Lederman (graduate of Harvard University)
LABORATORY EXPERIENCE
Zooarchaeological Analysis,
catalogue descriptions, and categorization of modified turtle specimens from various Mississippian sites at the McClung
Museum. Analysis included counting, measuring, weighing, NISP, MNI, MNI of
turtle rattles, photography of specimens, examining site files (such as burial,
field specimen forms, and feature forms).
Cataloguing and Analysis of lithics,
cermaics, carbon-14 materials, and faunal remains from
the County, Kentucky (Moss site), 2012, Tennessee Division of Archaeology,
under the supervision of Aaron Deter-Wolf.
Zooarchaeological Analysis of
faunal remains from Sumner County, Tennessee (Castalian Springs site - 2008
remains), 2012, under the supervision of Dr. Tanya Peres.
Zooarchaeological Analysis
of turtle remains from Williamson County, Tennessee (Fewkes site) and Sumner
County, Tennessee (Castalian Springs site), 2011, under the supervision of Dr.
Tanya Peres.
Zooarchaeological Analysis
of a Mississippian village in Williamson County, Tennessee (Fewkes site), Fall
2010, under the supervision of Dr. Tanya Peres.
OTHER ZOOARCHAEOLOGY EXPERIENCE
Processing and preparation of
specimens for comparative collection and experimental research. Methods
including burying and uncovering specimens after decomposition, boiling
specimens, placing specimens in controlled environment above ground, and soaking/rinsing
specimens with solutions.
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Tennessee State Division of
Archaeology. Duties include artifact analysis
and cataloging, assisting with site inspections, and contributing to reporting
and technical reports, February 2012 to June 2012. Under the Supervision of
Aaron Deter-Wolf.
RELATED COURSEWORK
Archaeological Field School
(Castalian Springs, Tennessee)
Zooarchaeology with lab
Environmental Archaeology
Archaeological Methods with lab
Independent Research with lab work
Senior Thesis: Worked with site maps and older site
documents. Library research on ethnographical record and historical record.
Including experimental archaeology and lab analysis.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
English: native fluency
French: intermediate reading and
writing skills
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Southeastern Archaeological
Conference ( member)
Middle Tennessee State
Anthropological Society (member)
Southern Anthropological Society
(student member)
Tennessee Council for Professional
Archaeology (member)
Society of Ethnobiology (student
member)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
August 2008 – May 2009
Lexington High School
Substitute instructor in Math,
Chemistry, Art, English, Physics and Engineering, and History.
STUDY ABROAD
August
2007 - December 2007
Citerna, Italy
Subjects: Art, History, and
Archaeology
Tour Experience
August
2006 – May 2007
Campus Delegate Team which led
campus tours to prospective students and gave detailed information about the
university throughout the tour.
Freed-Hardeman University
REFERENCES
Several references upon request (Not available to post on public site)
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