--------------------------------- --- - --- ----------- -- Summer 2001 KENTUCKYARCHAEOLOGY !The Newsletter of the Kentucky Organization of Professional Archaeologists Donald W. Linebaugh, Newsletter Editor, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, I 020A Export St., Lexington, KY 40506 PRESIDENT'S CORNER serve for voting purposes. Improved Hank McKelway communication among Kentucky archaeologists was a goal we set at the last Once again the distinguished ( or KyOP A meeting. I think all expectations have extinguished!) Dr. Linebaugh has produced a been surpassed with the newsletter, web page, great newsletter that promotes communication and list serve - many thanks to those among those interested _inKentucky archae­ involved. ology. These past months have provided other avenues of communication between KyOP A I would like to shift the focus over the archaeologists. Andrew Bradbury has excelled next few months to public education, and the in establishing a critical network for integration of KyOP A into statewide efforts. communicating among archaeologists across I will be working with Phil Logsdon and our state via the futemet. He has also updated Gwynn Henderson towards this end. One the KyOP A web page with essential effort we all seem to agree on is the expansion information and links, and established a of KyOPA's role in statewide archaeology KyOPA list serve. There are nearly forty education. The manner in which this may be individuals enrolled in the list serve, sparking done will no doubt provide fodder for future excellent discussions on important and timely list serve discussions! topics. Examples include the recent commentary on the new Kentucky Heritage I am also planning on convening a Council specifications for the conduct of meeting of the Officers and Board members in fieldwork in Kentucky, a lively discussion on July. I would like to discuss future KyOPA subsurface testing, and excellent exchanges on goals and develbp plans. I think meetings of the value and relevance of RP A to Kentucky the Board and Officers have been too archaeology. The list serve is quickly proving infrequent in the past, and I would like to to be an important tool for disseminating remedy that situation and foster more announcements and gathering feedback and communication between us. Please feel free to opinions. If you are not enrolled, I strongly forward your comments on KyOPA directly to encourage you to do so. Andrew is also me via email or on the list serve. We can use working on the possibility of utilizing the list all the help we can get! Thanks and have a great summer! Volume 8, No. 1 (Summer 2001) Kentucky Archaeology Page 1 NEW MEMBERS history, and architecture, she has a keen interest in historic archaeology. Employing The KyOP A membership has her expertise in architecture and folklore, Dr. approved the following individuals as full Hudson assists historic archaeologists at members ofKyOPA: BrianM. Butler, JoEllen CRAI with site reconstruction and Burkholder, Michael Striker, and Karen interpretation. Hudson. Please make a point of welcoming these new KyOP A members. RICHARDS. "SCOTTY" MACNEISH DIES AT 82 Brian M. Butler (sponsored by Berle Dr. James Bradley, Director of the Robert S. Clay) is the Director and Senior Scientist at Peabody Museum of Archaeology the center for Archaeological Investigations at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Richard Stockton "Scotty" MacNeish, Dr. Butler received his Ph.D. in Anthropology renowned archaeologist and long time resident from SIU at Carbondale. He has been of Andover, MA, died from automobile interested in and involved with the accident injuries on January 16th in Belize. He archaeology of the lower Ohio Valley and the was 82 years old. Known for his excavations Midsouth for many years, doing both contract throughout the Americas and China, and grant funded research. Recent work has MacNeish was elected to the British Academy included excavations at the Millstone Bluff in 1973 and the National Academy of site, Rose Hotel site, Hayes Creek site, and the Sciences in 1974. Last April, he received the Cave Creek Rockshelter. prestigious Fryxell Award from the Society for American Archaeology in JoEllen Burkholder (sponsored by acknowledgment of his pioneering work in Barbara Thiel) is an assistant professor of interdisciplinary research. Anthropology at Northern Kentucky University. Dr. Burkholder received her Ph.D. Born in Harlem and raised in in Anthropology from Binghamton Eastchester, NY, Scotty was educated at University, New York. She has become Colgate and the University of Chicago from involved in the archaeology of Kentucky in whichhereceivedaB.A. (1940),M.A. (1944) contract and academic capacities. and Ph.D. (1949). A dedicated field archaeologist, Scotty interspersed his Michael Striker ( sponsored by Gwynn schooling with excavation experience in Henderson) is a Principal Investigator for central New York, Monument Valley ASC Group Inc. Mr. Striker received his M.A. (Arizona), and northeast Mexico as well as in Anthropology from the University ofldaho. numerous sites in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Since 1999, he has been Director of the ASC' s Kentucky. In 1949, Scotty became Senior Cincinnati Office. Prior to this he was with 3D Archaeologist at the National Museum of Environmental and BHE Environmental in Canada and over the next dozen years directed Cincinnati. He has conducted or directed fieldwork from the Maritimes to the Yukon. contract projects in Kentucky, Indiana, and He also served as Chairman of the newly Ohio. established Department of Archaeology at the University of Calgary from 1964 to 1968. Karen Hudson ( sponsored by Steve Creasman) is a Principal Investigator for Much of Scotty's most famous work Architectural History and Folklore with was conducted through the Robert S. Peabody Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. Dr. Hudson Museum of Archaeology at Phillips Ac~demy received her Ph.D. in Folklore from the in Andover MA where he served as drrector University of Pennsylvania and her M.A. in from 1969 'to 1980. In 1960, Scotty joined Historic Preservation from the University of with director Doug Byers ~d curat?r Fred Georgia. In addition to her training in folklore, Johnson to explore the origms of agriculture Volume 8, No. I (Summer 2001) Kentucky Archaeology Page2 and complex societies in the Americas. Initial THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL work focused on the Tehuacan Valley in LEGACY INSTITUTE AND THE Mexico. Five seasons of fieldwork ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL documented not only 12,000 years of cultural development but also the process by which (www .archaeologychannel.org) maize (com) was domesticated. The Tehuacan Gwynn Henderson Project is still considered one of the most significant interdisciplinary programs Dr. Rick Pettigrew, President and undertaken in 20th-century American Executive Director of the Archaeological archaeology. During the 1970s, MacNeish Legacy Institute (ALI) has accepted the first focused similar research efforts in the three episodes of the Heritage Council's Ayacucho Valley of Peru and in Belize. Kentucky Archaeology Series for their streaming video website, After retiring from the Robert S. www.archaeologychannel.org. P~abody Museum in 1982, Scotty taught bnefly at Boston University and then Naturally, ALI would like some continued his research through the Andover fmancial support from the Kentucky Foundation for Archaeological Research archaeological community, since they do not (AFAR). In 1993, MacNeish along with charge for broadcasting the episodes. That's colleagues from Beijing University and the where KyOP A and its members come in. Here Jian~i ~stitu~e of A:chaeology, investigated is a summary description of ALI and the the ongms of nee agnculture along the middle financial support options. reaches of the Yangtze River. Three seasons of fieldwork have added substantial new The Archaeological Legacy Institute information to our understanding of this was re~istered as a 501c3 non-profit in subject. Oregon m 1999. It began full-scale streaming video on its website, The Archaeology Scotty was known as much for his Channel (TAC), in January 2001. Its mission personal style as for his science. A man of is to develop ways to make archaeology more str~:mgand often controversial opinions, he effective in gathering important information relished the sharp give and take of scholarly about past human lifeways and delivering that debate. Perhaps this pugnacious approach is information to the public and the profession. explained by the fact that he was a Golden Rick Pettigrew, President and Executive Gloves boxing champion as an Director of ALI, acknowledges that undergraduate. Life was seldom dull around archaeology is popular and :frequently in the Scotty and his gruff exterior hid a generous news, but that a serious gap exists between the teacher and loyal friend. promise of archaeology on the one hand and the real_itiesof its performance and popular In many ways, Scotty was the real percept10n on the other. Thus, the critical Indiana Jones, a man passionate about issues ALI was founded to address include the knowledge rather than treasure, a consummate problem . of _increasing damage to storyteller with the life experiences to back it archaeological sites, the poor availability of up. His work has challenged and inspired "grey literature" that inhibits research progress others for more than a half century, and will ~d P?pular support for archaeology, continue to do so for some time msuffic1ent collaboration with indigenous