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J. G. Crock C.V. 1 JOHN GORDON CROCK, PH.D. University of Vermont Department of Anthropology Delehanty Hall, Room 111 180 Colchester Ave. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (802) 656-4310 [email protected] EDUCATION: 2000 Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh 1989 B.A. University of Vermont Major in Anthropology, Minor in Religion RESEARCH INTERESTS: Archaeology of New England and northeastern North America; Archaeology and ethnohistory of the Caribbean Region; World Heritage; Cultural Resource Management; Trade and exchange; Maritime adaptations; Development of inequality; Human colonization of islands; Lithic analysis TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 2005-present Assistant Professor, University of Vermont Department of Anthropology. Courses include Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology; Indians of the Northeast: Vermont; Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean; Field Work in Archaeology; Archaeological Laboratory Methods. 2000-2005 Research Assistant Professor, University of Vermont Department of Anthropology 1999; 1997 Teaching Assistant, University of Vermont Field Work in Archaeology, Anguilla B.W.I. •Testing and excavation at the Shoal Bay site 1999; 1996 Teaching Assistant, University of Pittsburgh Cultures of the Pacific; Introduction to Archaeology •Prehistoric colonization; ethnography; contemporary issues 1998 Fall Instructor, University of Pittsburgh Introduction to Archaeology •Archaeological method and theory; survey of world prehistory CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE: 2000-present Director Consulting Archaeology Program, Department of Anthropology, University of Vermont. Principal investigator and chief administrator. 1999 Principal Investigator Phase IB Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Beef Island Airport Expansion Project, Tortola, British Virgin Islands. 1998 Fall Project Facilitator, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh J. G. Crock C.V. 2 Closing of the Center for Cultural Resource Research (CCRR), the University’s Cultural Resource Management Program. •Responsibilities included acting as liaison between CCRR, the Anthropology Dept. and the Administrative Dean; transferring collections and equipment; resolving artifact and record curation issues. 1995-1998 Principal Investigator, Dissertation Field Work in Archaeology, Anguilla, B.W.I. “Elite Control and Chiefdom Development in the Eastern Caribbean.” James B. Richardson III, Co-PI and Dissertation Advisor. •Designed and directed testing and excavation at five prehistoric village sites; supervised laboratory processing, analysis and curation; constructed collection space; supervised volunteers. 1996 Principal Investigator, Phase II testing and Phase III mitigation of the Barnes Bay site, a late prehistoric village in Anguilla, B.W.I., for the proposed Cocoloba Hotel/Meta-Resort expansion project. 1992-1993 Project Director, University of Maine at Farmington Archaeology Research Center (UMF ARC) Anguilla Archaeology Project, Anguilla, B.W.I. Funded by a grant from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). •Responsibilities included negotiations with Government and NGO officials; processing, analysis, and curation of more than 60,000 artifacts from forty prehistoric Amerindian sites; direction of one to six person field crews in the archaeological testing of two sites; creation of a computer database; report preparation; public education. 1990-1993 Research Supervisor, UMF ARC, Supervised twenty-three phase I reconnaissance survey and phase II testing projects in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. •Field responsibilities included direction of four to fifteen person crews in the identification and excavation of prehistoric and historic Euroamerican archaeological sites; aerial photograph analysis; budget management; landowner negotiation; topographic and schematic map preparation; photographic documentation; boat operation and maintenance; public relations. •Laboratory responsibilities included preparation of scopes-of-work and project proposals; supervision of laboratory, drafting, and data entry personnel; report preparation and production; database management; lithic analysis; ceramic analysis; artifact curation; and document research. 1990-1991 Lithic Analyst Co-directed attribute and quantitative analysis of the lithic assemblage from the Trants site, Montserrat, West Indies. 1990 Volunteer Archaeological Testing of the Trants Site, Montserrat, West Indies. Carnegie Museum of Natural History and UMF ARC. J. G. Crock C.V. 3 1989-1990 Assistant Research Supervisor, UMF ARC, Assisted in the supervision of eleven phase I reconnaissance survey, phase II testing and phase III mitigation projects in Maine and Vermont. 1988 Summer Field Assistant, UMF ARC, Participated in three phase I reconnaissance survey and phase II testing projects in Maine and New Hampshire. 1987 Summer Laboratory Research Assistant, University of Vermont. Student Field Work in Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Vermont. Archaeological mitigation for the Highgate Falls Hydroelectric Project, Highgate, Vermont. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (staff and student collaborators in bold): 2009 Jackson-Gore: An Early-Paleoamerican Occupation in the Green Mountains of Vermont. John G. Crock and Francis Robinson, IV. Current Research in the Pleistocene 26:40-42. 2008 Collapse among Amerindian Complex Societies in Amazonia and the Insular Caribbean: Endogenous and/or Exogenous Factors? James B. Petersen†, Michael Heckenberger, Eduardo Goes Neves, John G. Crock, and Robert N. Bartone In Global Perspectives on the Collapse of Complex Systems edited by R.M. Reycraft and J.A. Railey, pp. 129-146. University of New Mexico Press. 2008 Preliminary Interpretations of Ceramic Compositional Analysis from Late Ceramic Age Sites in Anguilla and the Salt River Site in St. Croix (JGC, Birgit F..Morse, James B. Petersen†, Christophe Descantes, and Michael D. Glascock). Journal of Caribbean Archaeology. 2007 Fish Populations and Communities during the Late Post-Saladoid (AD 600/800-1500) on Anguilla, Northern Lesser Antilles (Nanny Carder, Elizabeth Reitz and JGC). Journal of Archaeological Science 34(4):588-599. 2007 “Handsome Death:” The Taking, Veneration, and Consumption of Human Remains in the Insular Caribbean and Greater Amazonia. (James B. Petersen† and JGC) In The Taking and Displaying of Human Trophies, edited by R. Chacon and D. Dye, pp. 543-570. Springer Press, New York. 2004 Inter-island Exchange, Settlement Hierarchy and a Taíno-Related Chiefdom on the Anguilla Bank, Northern Lesser Antilles. (JGC and James B. Petersen) In Late Ceramic Age Societies in the Eastern Caribbean, pp. 139- 156, edited by André Delpuech and Corinne L. Hofman. BAR International Series, Paris Monographs in American Archaeology. Archaeopress, Oxford, 14. 2003 St. Lawrence Iroquoians in Northern New England: Pendergast was "Right" and More (James B. Petersen, JGC, Ellen R. Cowie, Richard Boisvert, Joshua Toney, and Geoffrey Mandel). In A Passion for the Past: Papers in Honour of James F. Pendergast, edited by James V. Wright and Jean-Luc Pilon, pp. 107-153. Archaeological Survey of Canada Mercury Series Paper 164. Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau. J. G. Crock C.V. 4 1998 Archaeology of Trants, Montserrat. Part 4. Flaked Stone and Stone Bead Industries. (JGC and Robert N. Bartone). Annals of the Carnegie Museum 67(3):197-224. 1993 Scalloping for Artifacts: A Biface and Plummet from Eastern Blue Hill Bay, Maine. (JGC, James B. Petersen, and Ross M. Anderson). Archaeology of Eastern North America 22:179-192. OTHER PUBLICATIONS (staff and student collaborators bolded): n.d. A Comparison of the Relative Proportions of Invertebrate Species Recovered from the Sandy Ground and Rendezvous Bay Sites on Anguilla. Alexandra D. Clark and John G. Crock. In Proceedings of the 24th International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, edited by Reg Murphy and Samantha Rebovich. St. Johns, Antigua. In press. 2009 Indians on the Lake. William A. Haviland and John G. Crock. Chapter 3 in Lake Champlain: An Illustrated History, edited by Julie Stillman and Mike McCaskey, pp 86-105. Adirondack Press. 2008 Fountain Cavern, Anguilla: An exceptional rock art site in the northern Lesser Antilles. John G. Crock. In Rock Art in the Caribbean: Towards a Serial Transnational Nomination to the World Heritage List, edited by N. Sanz, pp. 264-269. UNESCO World Heritage Papers 24. World Heritage Centre, Paris. 2008 The “Fairfax Sandblows” Site (VT-FR-64): New Evidence about a Michaud/Niponset Paleoindian Site in the Champlain Basin. Francis Robinson and John G. Crock. Journal of Vermont Archaeology 9:13-28. 2008 Anthropology Applied: Cultural Resource Management. In Anthropology, the Human Challenge, Twelfth Edition, edited by W. Haviland, H. Prins, D Walrath, and B. Mcbride, p. 90. Thomson Wadsworth, Belmont, Ca. 2007 Vertebrate Remains from Anguilla. N. Carder and JGC. In Proceedings of the 21st International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology , edited by Basil Reid. Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, pp. 362-271. 2006 Rock Art of Anguilla, British Dependent Territory. In Rock Art of Latin American and the Caribbean: Thematic Study, pp. 65-66. International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), World Heritage Convention, Paris. 2006 The Arbor Gardens Site: A Probable Early Holocene Site in Northwestern Vermont. Joshua Toney and JGC. The Journal of Vermont Archaeology 7:1-19. 2006 From Choppers to Tabular Knives: The Morphologies, Functions and Implications of an Early Holocene Tool Class. Francis W. Robinson, IV,