January 15, 2015

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, environmental archaeology, 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

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

Peking University) Publications Articles

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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. 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

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Field Archaeology 24: 39-45. 1998 Coles Creek Culture. In Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia, edited by G. Gibbon, pp.

171-173. Garland Publishing, New York. 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, 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

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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 29: 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. 2012 Poverty Point. In Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology, edited by T. Pauketat, pp. 460-470.

Oxford University Press, New York. 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.

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Kidder, Tristram R. 2014 Poverty Point: Archaeology of. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by C. Smith, pp. 6099-6105.

Springer, New York. Kidder, Tristram R. and Haiwang Liu 2014 Bridging Theoretical Gaps in Geoarchaeology: Archaeology, Geoarchaeology and History in the Yellow

River Valley, China. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 6. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-014-0184-5. Zhuang, Yijie, and Tristram R. Kidder 2014 Archaeology of the Anthropocene in the Yellow River, China, 8000-2000 cal. BP. The Holocene 24:1602-

1623. DOI: 10.1177/0959683614544058. Li, Tuoyu, Duowen Mo, Tristram R. Kidder, Yifei Zhang, Haibin Wang, and Yongqiu Wu 2014 Holocene environmental change and its influence on the prehistoric culture evolution and the formation

of the Taosi site in Linfen Basin, Shanxi Province, China. Quaternary International. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.07.054

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 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,

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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. 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

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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)

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

Kidder, Tristram R., and Stephen Williams 1984 Archaeological Survey in the Northern Boeuf Basin, Louisiana: A Preliminary Report. Paper presented at the

10th annual meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Lafayette. Kidder, Tristram R. 1985 Poverty Point Culture in Northeast Louisiana. Paper presented at the 11th annual meeting of the Louisiana

Archaeological Society, Monroe. 1985 Jordan: A Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric Site in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. Paper presented at the 42nd

annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Birmingham. 1986 Late Marksville Culture in Northeast Louisiana: the Johnson and Hegwood Bayou Phases. Paper presented at

the 12th annual meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Covington. 1986 Lower Mississippi Survey Test Excavations in the Central Boeuf Basin, Louisiana, 1985. Paper presented at the

12th annual meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Covington. 1987 Prehistory and Early History of the Lower Ouachita River Basin. Paper presented at the 44th annual meeting of

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the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charleston. 1987 Protohistoric and Early Historic Ceramics From Bayou Bartholomew and Ouachita River, Louisiana: A

Reevaluation of the Glendora Phase. Paper presented at the 29th Caddo Conference, Bossier City, Louisiana. 1988 Coles Creek Culture in the Tensas Basin: A View From the Heartland. Invited paper presented at the

symposium “Coles Creek and Their Neighbors,” 45th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, New Orleans.

1989 The Lower Mississippi Survey in the 1980s: An Overview. Invited paper presented at the symposium “The Lower Mississippi Survey and Its Contributions to Southeastern Archaeology,” 46th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Tampa.

1989 Archaeology in the Tensas Basin, Louisiana: Troyville and Coles Creek. Paper presented at the 15th annual meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Alexandria.

Kidder, Tristram R., and Gayle J. Fritz 1990 Late Woodland Settlement and Subsistence: Excavations at the Reno Brake and Osceola Sites, Tensas Parish,

Louisiana. Paper presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Mobile.

Kidder, Tristram R. 1990 The Timing and Consequences of the Introduction of Maize Agriculture in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Paper

presented at the 55th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Las Vegas. 1991 Current Research in Troyville and Coles Creek Cultures in the Mississippi Valley. Invited paper presented at the

symposium “Research in the Mississippi Valley: The State of the Art,” 56th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

1992 Historic Indians in Northeast Louisiana. Paper presented at the 13th Midsouth Conference, Moundville, Alabama.

1992 Caddoan-Lower Valley Interaction in the Southern Red and Ouachita River Valleys. Invited paper presented at the symposium “The Native History of the Caddo Indians,” 49th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock.

Kidder, Tristram R., and Douglas C. Wells 1992 Baytown Period Settlement Organization in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Paper presented at the 49th annual

meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock. Fritz, Gayle J., Christopher J. Smith, and Tristram R. Kidder 1992 Plaquemine Plant Use in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Paper presented at the 49th annual meeting of the

Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock. Jones, Kenneth R., and Tristram R. Kidder 1992 Test Excavations at a Late Marksville/Baytown Site on a Deteriorating Delta Lobe East of New Orleans. Paper

presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock. Jones, Kenneth R., Tristram R. Kidder, and Maria Tavaszi 1993 Excavations at a Late Marksville/Baytown Site in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Paper presented at the 19th

annual meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Lafayette. Kidder, Tristram R. 1993 Lower Mississippi Valley and Western Gulf Coast Prehistory: A Summary. Invited paper presented at the 3rd

Avery Island Conference on Southeastern Archaeology, Avery Island, Louisiana. 1994 Excavations at the Blackwater Site (16TE101), Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Paper presented at the 20th annual

meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Kenner. 1994 Bayous, Levees, and the Terre Trembler: Historical Ecology in the Mississippi River Delta. Invited paper

presented at the Miniconference on Historical Ecology, Tulane University, New Orleans. 1994 Alluvial Geoarchaeology from a Mississippi Valley Perspective. Invited paper presented at the conference

“Geology in the Lower Mississippi Valley, Implications for Engineering: The Half Century Since Fisk, 1944.”

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Waterways Experiment Station, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg. 1994 Changes in the Landscape: The Southern Lower Mississippi Valley. Invited paper presented at the symposium

“Changes in the Landscape: The Lower Valley and Elsewhere—A.D. 1000 to Present,” 51st annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington.

Wells, Douglas C., Patrick Jones, and Tristram R. Kidder 1994 The Bayou Des Familles Site: Site Structure and Settlement in the Barataria Basin, Louisiana. Paper presented

at the 51st annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington. Kidder, Tristram R. 1995 Prehistory to History in the Ouachita River Valley. Invited paper presented at the Clarence H. Webb Memorial

Conference, Louisiana State Museum, Shreveport. 1995 History, Narrative, and the Structure of Archaeological Inquiry. Paper presented at the 60th annual meeting of

the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis. Kidder, Tristram R., and Patrick Jones 1995 Social and Technological Context of Protohistoric Lithic Tool Production in the Lower Mississippi Valley.

Invited paper presented at the symposium “Lithic Analysis and Behavioral Implications,” 52nd annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Knoxville.

Kidder, Tristram R. 1996 Recent Radiocarbon Dates from the Tensas Basin and their Implications for the Chronology of the Coles Creek

and Early Mississippi Periods. Paper presented at the 22nd annual meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Shreveport.

1996 The Development of Late Woodland Mound Communities in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Ancient Monuments of the Lower Mississippi Valley,” 61st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

1996 The Conceptual Structure of Lower Mississippi Valley Archaeology, ca. A.D. 800-1543. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Current Research in Native American Archaeology in Louisiana,” 61st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

1996 Is There Evidence for Significant Cultural Change on the Northern Gulf Coast and Lower Mississippi Valley ca. A.D. 536 and Immediately After?. Invited paper presented at the symposium “A.D. 536 and Its Aftermath,” 53rd annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Birmingham.

1997 Mississippian in the Mississippi River Delta: Bayou Petre Revisited. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Archaeology of the Northern Gulf Coast,” annual meeting of Mississippi Archaeological Association, Biloxi.

1997 Archaeology and Paleoecology in the Mississippi River Delta. Invited paper presented at the “Workshop on Mississippi River Delta Paleoecology,” NASA Earth Systems Science Office, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi.

1997 Discussion. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Protohistory and Archaeology,” 54th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge.

1998 The Use of Fish Otoliths to Assess Pre-Contact Settlement Organization Along the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Paper presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle.

1998 Sea Level, Delta Formation, and Human History in the Mississippi River Delta. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Centuries of Change: Human Transformation of the Lower Mississippi,” Randall L. Gibson Tulane University-U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Conference on the Mississippi River, New Orleans.

Törnqvist, Torbjörn E., Tristram R. Kidder, and Whitney J. Autin 1998 A Revised Chronology for Mississippi River Subdeltas —Implications for Sequence Stratigraphy. Invited paper

presented at the symposium “Sequence Stratigraphy in the Northern Gulf of Mexico,” annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Austin.

Kidder, Tristram R. and Jon L. Gibson 1998 The Woodland Period in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Invited paper presented at the symposium “The

Woodland in the Southeast,” 55th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Greenville,

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S.C. Kidder, Tristram R. 1999 Archaeological Investigations at Raffman, Madison Parish, Louisiana. Paper presented at the 25th annual

meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Shreveport. 1999 Archaeology at Raffman, Madison Parish, Louisiana. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Changing

Paradigms and New Horizons in Mid-South Archaeology,” 20th Midsouth Conference, Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Area, Pinson, Tennessee.

1999 The Discovery Site in Regional Context. Invited paper presented at the symposium “The Discovery Site, 16LF66,” 56th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Pensacola, FL.

Kidder, Tristram R., and Lori Roe 1999 Archaeology at the Raffman site, Madison Parish, Louisiana. Paper presented at the 56th annual meeting of

the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Pensacola, FL. Kidder, Tristram R., and Conard C. Hamilton 1999 Mapping Poverty Point. Paper presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological

Conference, Pensacola, FL. Kidder, Tristram R. 2000 New Data on Early Woodland Settlement in Northeast Louisiana. Paper presented at the 57th annual meeting

of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Macon, GA. 2000 Geomorphic Context of Late Holocene Human Settlement in Northeast Louisiana. Invited paper presented at

the symposium " Geology and Geophysics of the Lower Mississippi Valley: In Memory of Roger Saucier," Geological Society of America, Reno, NV.

2001 Geomorphology of the Raffman Locality, Northeast Louisiana. Paper presented at the 27th annual meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Nachitoches.

2001 Variation in Mound Engineering in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Geoarchaeology of Mounds and Earthworks,” 66th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

Ortmann, Anthony and Tristram R. Kidder 2001 Petrographic Thin-Section Analysis of Poverty Point Ceramics. Invited paper presented at the symposium

“Early Pottery in the Lower Southeast: Stylistic and Technological Approaches to Function and Interaction,” 66th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

Kidder, Tristram R. 2001 Mound Building in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Invited paper presented at the symposium “The

Mississippian Emergence,” 22nd Midsouth Conference, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. 2002 The Panther Lake Phase: Early Woodland in the Upper Tensas Basin. Paper presented at the 28th annual

meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Leesville. Kidder, Tristram R., Anthony Ortmann, and Thurman Allen 2003 Testing Mounds E and B at Poverty Point: Implications for Understanding Site Structure. Paper presented

at the 67th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver. Kidder, Tristram R. 2003 Climate Change and the Late Archaic to Early Woodland Transition in the Mississippi River Basin. Invited

keynote presentation at the 47th Annual Workshop on Illinois Archaeology, Illinois Archaeological Survey, Carbondale.

2003 Discussion. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Plaquemine Problems,” 60th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charlotte.

2004 Where Did Everyone Go?: Climate Change and the Late Archaic to Early Woodland Transition in the Mississippi River Basin. Illinois State Museum Seminar Series, Illinois State Museum, Springfield.

2004 Climate Change and the Late Archaic to Early Woodland Transition in the Mississippi River Basin. Invited paper

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presented at the 1st annual meeting of the Archaeological Sciences of the Americas Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson.

2004 Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Human Settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 5500-2400 BP. Paper presented at the 61st annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, St. Louis.

Kidder, Tristram R. and Kenneth E. Sassaman 2004 View from the Southeast. Invited paper presented at the Conference on the Archaic of the Midwest. ITARP,

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois. Adelsberger, Katie A., and Tristram R. Kidder 2002 Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Human Settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 5500-2400 Cal

BP. Paper presented at DIG 2005, St. Johns, New Brunswick, Canada Ortmann, Anthony L., and Tristram R. Kidder 2005 Recent Excavations at Poverty Point’s Mound A: The “Tail” of Two Mounds. Paper presented at the 61st

annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Columbia. Kidder, Tristram R. 2003 Discussion. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Revealing Mound A, Shiloh, Tennessee: Research

Results of the 1999-2004 Field Program,” 61st annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Columbia.

2006 Inferring Complexity from Very Rapid Construction of Mound A at Poverty Point, NE Louisiana. Paper presented at the 71st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan.

2006 Climate Change, Flooding, and Long-term History in the Mississippi Valley. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Lessons from Deep History,” International Conference on Rivers and Civilization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Major River Basins, La Cross, WI.

2006 How Complex Can Hunter-Gatherers Get? Evidence from Poverty Point, NE Louisiana. Invited paper presented at the Center for American Archaeology, Kampsville, IL.

2006 Geoarchaeology of Mound A at Poverty Point. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Geoarchaeology of Prehistoric Earthworks,” 2006 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.

2006 Landscape, Historical Ecology, and Archaeology at Poverty Point. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Historical Ecology in the Southeast,” 62nd annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock.

2007 A New History of Poverty Point. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Confounding Categories and Conceptualizing Complexities,” 72nd annual meeting of the Society for America Archaeology, Austin.

2007 The DaVinci's of Dirt: Indian Mound Architecture and Engineering in the Mississippi Valley. University of Louisiana-Monroe, Monroe, LA.

Thompson, Victor and Tristram R. Kidder 2007 Archaeologies of Transformation. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Complexity and

Transformation in World Archaeology,” 72nd annual meeting of the Society for America Archaeology, Austin.

Kidder, Tristram R. 2008 The Archaeology of Climate Change. Henan Provincial Geographic Research Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan

Province, China. 2008 American Archaeology in the 21st Century; Problems and Prospects. Department of History and

Archaeology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China. 2008 6000 Years in the Mississippi Valley. Keynote presentation at the symposium “Changing Climates:

Evidence of Long term Trends and their Social Consequences.” Center for Delta Studies Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

2008 Is the Whole More than the Sum of the Parts? Late Archaic Hunter-Gatherer Complexity and History at

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Poverty Point. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 2008 What is a Hunter-Gatherer? Reflections from the Southeast. Invited paper presented at the symposium

“Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Hunting and Gathering in North America,” 73rd annual meeting of the Society for America Archaeology, Vancouver.

2008 Is the Whole More than the Sum of the Parts? Late Archaic Hunter-Gatherer Complexity and History at Poverty Point. Invited paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe.

2008 Explaining the End of the Archaic: Elements of an Autocritique of the Climate Hypothesis. Invited paper presented at the the 3rd Caldwell Conference, American Museum of Natural History, St. Catherines Island, GA.

Arco, Lee J., Tristram R. Kidder, Katherine A. Adelsberger, Anthony L. Ortmann, and Timothy M. Schilling 2008 Prehistoric Human-Landscape Interactions (ca. 6000-2500 Cal B.P.) in the Lower Mississippi Valley, U.S.A.

Paper presented at the Conference on Landscape Evolution and Geoarchaeology, Porto Heli, Greece. Kidder, Tristram R. 2008 Transforming Hunter-Gatherer History at Poverty Point. Invited paper presented at the symposium

“Transforming Hunter-Gatherer History,” Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona. 2008 Climate Change and Cultural Response: A Mississippi Valley Perspective. Invited paper presented at the

symposium “Climate Crises in Human History,” University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

2008 Anthropological Perspectives on Maritime Civilizations. Invited paper presented at the “Marine Eco-Civilization Forum 2008,” Wenzhou, China.

2009 Discussion. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Footprints on the Landscape: the Historical Ecology of Hunter-Gatherers,” 74th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta.

2009 China's Sorrow: 3500 Years of Floods, Droughts and Culture Change in the Yellow River Floodplain, Henan Province, China. Visiting Lecture presentation, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

2009 A New History of Poverty Point. Invited paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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

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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.

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

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

Kidder, Tristram R. and Zhuang Yijie 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.

Kidder, Tristram R., and Yijie Zhuang 2014 Anthropocene Archaeology in the Yellow River, China, 8000-2000 cal. BP. Invited paper presented at the

symposium “Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment: Evolution of the Early Anthroposphere,” Eberhardt Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany.

Courses Taught at Washington University Anthropology 168: Hurricane Katrina (January Program) (2006F, 2007F) Anthropology 372: Geoarchaeology (2004F, 2005F, 2008S, 2010F, 2013S) Anthropology 379: Meltdown: Archaeology and Climate Change (2004S, 2005S, 2006S, 2008F, 2009F, 2011S, 2012F) Anthropology 3792: Mississippi River: Past, Present and Future (2005S, 2007Su) Anthropology 479: Climate, Culture, and Human History (2003F, 2005F) Anthropology 4561: Ceramic Analysis (2004S) Anthropology 4655: New Advances in Archaeology (2011S, 2013F, 2014F) Anthropology 4791: The Archaeology of Social Complexity (2004F, 2009S) Anthropology 4892: Hunter-gatherer Socio-economic Variation (2011S) Anthropology 5053: Archaeological Theory (2006S, 2008S, 2010S, 2011F) Anthropology 490: Anthropological Research (various topics in archaeology) (2005 F, S, 2006S, 2006F, 2009 F, 2010S) Anthropology 500: Independent Study (every semester) AMCS 330: Hurricane Katrina: Case Study in Disaster and Reconstruction (2006S)

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University Committee Service (Washington University) University Committees 2004 Ad Hoc Committee on Geographic Information Systems 2005-09 GIS Advisory Committee (co-chair w/ Dennis Martin) 2005-07 Environmental Education and Research Working Group 2006-07 Task-Force on GLBTQIA Issues (Chair) 2006-08 A&S Advisory Committee on Tenure, Promotion, & Personnel 2006-09 Digital Project Steering Committee 2007-08 Environmental Studies Curriculum Review Committee 2008-10 Environmental Studies Program Executive Committee 2008-09 Co-Chair, A&S ICARES Search Committee 2010-13 Review Committee on Faculty Personnel Procedures (chair 2011-2013) 2012 University Diversity Committee 2012 Committee on Faculty Leadership 2012- A&S Academic Planning Committee Departmental Service 2008- Department Chair 2004-08 Graduate Program Committee 2004 Co-Chair, Old World Archaeology Search Committee 2012 Co-Chair, Archaeology Search Committee Graduate & Undergraduate Advising Washington University Ph.D. in progress (Chair): M. Storozum, E. Henry, S.M. Spivey, Z. Qin, M-A. Vicari, J. Winter Washington University Anthropology Department Ph.D. completed (chair): , L-y Hung, T. Schilling; (committee): E. Hildebrand; J. Hamlin, K. Roberts, S. Walshaw, A. Gordon, K. Hanson-Speer, D. Dale, B. Carter, M. Bruno, C. Adams, E. Horton, L. Weisbrod, J. Capriles, K. Grillo, R. Spengler, P. Doumani Washington University External Department Ph.D. completed (committee): K. Seelos (EPSc, 2006); K. Adelsberger (EPSc, 2008) 2003- Undergraduate major advisor (15-25 advisees per year) Washington University BA Theses completed (committee): M. Knisley (2005), R. D’Avignon (2006), C. Boeke (2008), R. Arriga (2008-History), A. Nick (2012) External committee member (E. Downs, MA, U. Alabama (2004)) 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 Archaeology. Award $17,099. Stephen Williams, Principal Investigator.

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

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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 Grant 6270-98. 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. Kidder, Tristram R. 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

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2002 Archaeological Research at Raffman. Anderson-Tully Corporation. Award $2000 2003 Tulane College Summer Transition Program. Mellon Foundation. Award $208,125 2003 Tulane College Visiting Scholar Program. Lupin Foundation. Award $29,000 Arco, Lee J., and Tristram R. Kidder 2008 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. Research Support from University Sources 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). 1995 Committee on Research Grant, “Radiocarbon Dating the Origins of Agriculture in the Lower Mississippi Valley”

(Award $4000). 1998 Newcomb Foundation Award, “Ceramic Variability in the Lower Mississippi Valley: A Technological Study” (Award

$662). 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" (Award $6232) 2004 Faculty Research Grant, WU Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Award $6000 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 2011 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) 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

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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- Editorial Board, Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 2012- Organizing Committee, Shanghai Archaeological Forum. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 2012-15 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 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 1993 Randolph Read Award for Excellence in Teaching ($5000 Award)

1996-97 Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching

1998-99 Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching

1999-00 Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching 2002 2002 President’s Recognition Award, Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (Interdisciplinary Team-

Teaching Award) 2003 Tulane College Senate Award for Distinguished Service 2006 Recognition for Excellence in Mentoring, 2005-2006. Graduate Student Senate, Washington University

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in St. Louis Graduate School. 2014 Washington University Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award