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People
P.I
Dr. Victor D. Thompson, is the Director of the Center for Archaeological Sciences and faculty in the department of Anthropology at UGA. He is an anthropological archaeologist who specializes in the study of socio-political complexity and the historical ecology of wetland and coastal environments in the American Southeast. The majority of his work has taken place in Florida and along the Georgia Coast.
Co-P.I
Co-P.I
Amanda D. Roberts Thompson, M.A., is the Manager of the UGA Laboratory of Archaeology. She has been involved in projects in the Caribbean, Fiji, Florida, Georgia, Michigan and Mexico. She specializes in historical archaeology,
ethnohistory, as well as collections and curation management.
Graduate Students
Matt Colvin, is a UGA graduate student who is interested in monumental landscape manipulation in respect to ceremonialism of the American Southeast. Other interests includes archaeology of ritual, persistent place, historical ecology, iconography of the Southeast, and visual representations of climatic events.
Brandon Ritchison, is a UGA gradute student whose interests comprise of historical and political ecology; archaeogeophysics; monumentality and community organization.
Andrew Wardner, is a UGA graduate student who interested in colonial entanglement along the Florida and Georgia coasts. He studies how Spanish and Native American groups intermingled, exchanging cultural practices and ideas to maintain existing and form new cultural identities. How can archaeology identify Spanish influences in the daily practices of Native Americans, and how did Spanish settlers and missionaries adapt to the New World and adopt Native practices?
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