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Vitae JACK HEWSON RAY HOME ADDRESS WORK ADDRESS 3321 S. Barrington Ave Center for Archaeological Research Springfield, MO 65807 Missouri State University (phone: 417–889–2554) Springfield, MO 65897 (phone: 417–836–4888) EDUCATION B.A. Degree in Anthropology, Western Kentucky University (May 1978) M.A. Degree in Anthropology, University of Missouri (May 1981) CURRENT POSITION Assistant Research Professor & Assistant Director, Center for Archaeological Research, Missouri State University TEACHING/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Assistantship: University of Missouri-Columbia (August 1978-May 1979) (August 1979-May 1980), Truman Reservoir mitigation project (flint knapping/replication; heat treatment of cherts; chert resource availability and utilization study) Teaching Assistantship: (August 1980-May 1981) University of Missouri-Columbia Teaching Assistantship: archaeological field school (summer l981) at Arnold Research Cave (23CY64), University of Missouri-Columbia Continuing Education Course: Identifying and dating Ozark Indian artifacts, Missouri State University (1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2015) Continuing Education Course: Archaeological survey in Hercules Glades Wilderness Area, Taney County, Missouri, MSU in conjunction with Mark Twain National Forest (Fall 1991) Instructor: Archaeological Field School, ANT 351/451/453. Missouri State University (Summer 1990, 1992, 1995, 2002, 2012-2016) Instructor: Principles in Anthropology (ANT 125), Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Southwest Missouri State University (Spring 1992) 1 FIELD/CONTRACT EXPERIENCE Supervising Archaeologist, Center for Archaeological Research, MSU, Fall 1982 – present. Phase I surveys: 32,000 acres of Mark Twain National Forest lands, Projects 562, 676, 720, 729, 745, 753, 778, 824, 840; sewer line surveys, Projects 583, 588, 589, 606, 615, 616, 618, 622, 637, 641, 644, 703, 726, 728, 750, 771, 910, 1087; 1395 waterline surveys, Projects 585, 646; parcel surveys, Projects 582, 587, 634, 636, 642, 654, 679, 682, 699, 781, 831, 852, 854, 948, 953, 971, 1020, 1023, 1111, 1395, 1461, 1504, 1528, 1537, 1544; soil conservation survey, Project 723; power line survey, Project 692; bridge replacement surveys, Projects 697, 712, 811, 823, 832, 845, 853, 855, 1458, 1483, 1530, 1546; shoreline surveys, Projects 680, 707, 1425, 1429; cave and rockshelter survey, Project 744; river valley survey, Projects 861, 1044, 1051, 1149; Paleoindian point survey, Project 1209; Trinidad, West Indies survey, Project 1474; airport survey, Project 1503; quarry surveys, Projects 1485, 1493. Phase II testing: Projects 600, 655, 662, 707, 711, 731, 734, 805, 813, 833, 838, 857, 860, 886, 887, 894, 923, 965, 977, 979, 988, 1020, 1022, 1207, 1263, 1378, 1404, 1405, 1416, 1445, 1463, 1472. 1492, 1498, 1500, 1507, 1511, 1518, 1532, 1539. Phase III mitigation: Projects 740, 780, 888, 932, 952, 1037, 1101, 1170, 1210, 1211, 1216, 1244, 1272, 1300, 1313, 1342, 1352. Background/Overview Projects: 1400, 1434, 1520 Consulting archaeologist, identification of chipped stone resources for Environmental Systems Analysis, Kansas City, 1985; and Archeological Assessments, Inc., Nashville, AR, 1989 and 1990. Supervising archaeologist, Midwest Archeological Center, Fall 1983. Phase I survey of tree removal zones; Phase II excavations at the Ray House, Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, Greene County, Missouri. Supervising archaeologist, American Resources Group, Ltd., Fall 1981-Fall 1982. Phase II testing of sites within Consolidated Coal Company strip mines, Randolph and Perry Counties, Illinois; Phase I survey of residual lands at Union Electric Company's Nuclear Power Plant, Callaway County, Missouri. Teaching Assistant, Archaeological Field School, University of Missouri-Columbia, summer 1981. Surveyor, Commonwealth Associates, Jackson, Michigan, Truman Reservoir 10-Year Flood Pool Survey, summer 1980 Crew Chief, Truman Reservoir Mitigation Project, University of Missouri-Columbia, summer 1979. Crew Member, Truman Reservoir Mitigation Project, University of Missouri-Columbia, summer 1978. 2 PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Society for American Archaeology Southeastern Archaeological Conference Missouri Archaeological Society RESEARCH INTERESTS Chipped stone resource availability, procurement, and utilization; lithic technology; replication of prehistoric stone tools; human ecology; geoarchaeology and geomorphology; early prehistoric cultures. M.A. RESEARCH PAPER 1981 A Study of Chert Resources in the Truman Reservoir: Availability, Procurement, and Utilization. Unpublished M.A. Research Paper presented to Dr. W. Raymond Wood, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia. AWARDS AND HONORS 1999 Temporal, Spatial, and Technological Variability at Big Eddy. Society for American Archaeology Poster Award, 1st Place, Professional Division (with Neal H. Lopinot) 2005 Missouri Archaeological Society, Public Archaeology Award 2015 Missouri Archaeological Society, Hamilton Distinguished Service Award PUBLICATIONS Ray, Jack H. 1981 A Method for Replicating Chipped Stone Artifacts. Missouri Archaeological Society Newsletter 349:1-9. Reprinted in Tennessee Archaeological Society Newsletter 26(3/4):1–9 (1981). 1982 A Test for the Quality and Quantity of Chert Nodules in Stream Deposited Chert Sources. Lithic Technology 11(1):5–12. 1982 The Effects of Heat Treatment on Cherts from the Truman Reservoir. The Missouri Archaeologist 43:67–85. 1983 A Study of Ordovician and Mississippian Chert Resources in Southwest-Central Missouri. The Missouri Archaeologist 44:109–31. 3 1983 Excello Chert: A Previously Undescribed Chert Resource in North-Central Missouri. Missouri Archaeological Society Newsletter 375–376:9–14. Reprinted in Iowa Archaeological Society Newsletter 110:8–12 (1984). 1984 An Overview of Chipped Stone Resources in Southern Missouri. In Lithic Resource Procurement: Proceedings from the Second Conference on Prehistoric Chert Exploitation, edited by Susan C. Vehik, pp. 225–250. Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No. 4. 1984 Two Unusual Early Projectile Points from Callaway County, Missouri. Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly 1(1):10–11. 1985 A Comment on Chipped Stone Artifacts Identified as Chouteau Chert from the Loftin Site. Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly 2(1):8–9. 1985 Modification of a Chert Artifact by Floralturbation. Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly 2(2):18. 1986 A Preliminary Survey of Pitkin Chert Artifacts in Southern Missouri. Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly 3(4):17–19, 22–23. Reprinted in The Arkansas Archeologist 27/28:63–69 (1989). 1988 Salvage of a Late Woodland Hearth. Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly 5(4):4–7, 22. 1990 Test Excavations at an Upland Mound Group in Southwest Missouri. Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly 7(3):12–17. 1992 Chipped Stone Resource Availability and Exploitation at 3CR238 in the Upper White River Valley, Carroll County, Arkansas. The Arkansas Archeologist 31:73–87. 1993 Chert Resource Availability and Utilization. In: Prehistoric Occupations at Cobb Cave in the Western Ozarks. The Missouri Archaeologist 54:62–65. 1994 Displacement and Redeposition of Prehistoric Artifacts in Ozark Streams. Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly 11(3):12–19. 1994 The Casa Blanca Site: An Early Archaic Upland Base Camp in Southwest Missouri. The Missouri Archaeologist 55:1–40. 1995 Cultural Traditions and Social Relations in Underground Coal Mines in Northern Appalachia (with R. Glenn Ray). Tennessee Anthropologist 20(1):18–32. 1995 Woodland and Mississippian Occupations at the Hayti Bypass Site, Pemiscot County, Missouri. Center for Archaeological Research Special Publication No. 1 (with Michael D. Conner and Neal H. Lopinot). 4 1996 The Prospect Spring Site and the Problem of the Late Woodland/Mississippian Transition in the Western Ozarks (with David W. Benn). Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 21(1):49–71. 1996 Preservation Measures and Limited Test Excavations at the Pineville Site. Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly 13(3):12–19. 1998 The Big Eddy Site: A Multicomponent Paleoindian Site on the Ozark Border, Southwest Missouri (with Neal H. Lopinot, Edwin R. Hajic, and Rolfe D. Mandel). Plains Anthropologist 43(163):73–81. 1998 Stratified Paleoindian Deposits at the Big Eddy Site, Southwest Missouri (with Neal H. Lopinot, Edwin R. Hajic, and Rolfe Mandel). Current Research in the Pleistocene 15:39–42. 1998 The 1997 Excavations at the Big Eddy Site (23CE426) in Southwest Missouri. Center for Archaeological Research, Southwest Missouri State University. Special Publication No. 2 (with Neal Lopinot and Michael Conner, editors). 1998 Discovery of Early Americans at the Big Eddy Site (with Neal H. Lopinot). Ozarks Watch: Indians of the Ozarks 11(1):14-15. 1999 Neosho Tradition Occupation in Lawrence County, Missouri (with Michael D. Conner, Neal H. Lopinot, and Jeffrey K. Yelton). The Missouri Archaeologist 60:1-106. 2000 Chert Resource Availability, Procurement, and Use in the Upper Rolling Fork River Valley, Marion County, Kentucky. In Current Archaeological Research in Kentucky: Volume Six, edited by David Pollack and Kristen J. Gremillion, pp. 94–119. Kentucky Heritage Council, Frankfort, Kentucky. 2000 Possible Pre-Clovis-Age Artifacts from the Big Eddy Site (with Neal H. Lopinot, Edwin R. Hajic, and Rolfe D. Mandel). Current Research in the Pleistocene 17:68–71. 2000 The
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