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Sarah C. Sherwood, Research Assistant Professor
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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 Interests:
 
Geoarchaeology, Environmental Reconstruction, Cave Archaeology, Site Formation Processes, Site Structure, Soil Micromorphology, Southeastern Archaeology
Selected Publications:
Goldberg, P. and S.C. Sherwood
2006
Deciphering Human Prehistory through the Geoarchaeological Study of Cave Sediments. Evolutionary Anthropology. 15:
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.