Sarah C. Sherwood, Research Assistant Professor
(865) 974-9645

Education:
Ph.D. - University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2001)
Dissertation: The Geoarchaeology of Dust Cave: A Late Paleoindian through Middle Archaic Site in the Middle Tennessee River Valley
M.A. - University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1991)
Thesis: Microartifact Analysis of a Mississippian Dallas Phase House Floor
B.S. - James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia (1985)

 

Research Interest:
Geoarchaeology, Environmental Reconstruction, Cave Archaeology, Site Formation Processes, Mounds and Earthworks, Soil Micromorphology, Southeastern Archaeology, Eastern Europe.

 

Selected Publications:
Goldberg, P. and S.C. Sherwood
2006   Deciphering Human Prehistory through the Geoarchaeological Study of Cave Sediments. Evolutionary Anthropology. 15: 20-36.

Sherwood, S.C. and J. Chapman
2005   The Identification and Potential Significance of Early Holocene Prepared Clay Surfaces: Examples from Dust Cave and Icehouse Bottom. Southeastern Archaeology. 24:70-82.

Sherwood, S.C., B. Driskell, A. Randall, and Scott Meeks
2004   Chronology and Stratigraphy at Dust Cave, Alabama. American Antiquity. 69(3):533-554.

Sherwood, S.C.
2001   Microartifacts. In Earth Sciences and Archaeology. edited by P. Goldberg, V.T. Holliday, and C.R. Ferring. pp. 327-351. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.

Sherwood, S.C. and P. Goldberg
2001   A Geoarchaeological Framework for the Study of Karstic Cave Sites in the Eastern Woodlands. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology. 26(2): 145-167.

 

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