The Archaeology Crew

The Archaeology/Collections Crew at Warren Wilson is one of the many work crews on campus (for more information about WWC's Work Program, click here). The crew currently has five student workers. During the school year the crew works mainly in the Archaeology lab at WWC processing materials from the field. Main tasks include washing, sorting, cataloguing, and numbering artifacts; GIS/map work; maintaining the website; and cataloguing photographs and slides; as well as helping with David Moore's Archaeology classes and Archaeology/Appalachian Studies events around campus.

David Moore, our fearless leader and crew supervisor is also the director of the field school and the archaeology professor at WWC. About Dave:
Dave Moore

David Moore (Ph.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 1999) has been actively involved in the archaeology of North Carolina’s mountain and western Piedmont regions for over 25 years. He served for 18 years with the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology and has been teaching full-time at Warren Wilson College since 2000. He has directed major excavations at numerous sites in North Carolina including Hardaway, Warren Wilson, and Berry. His work in the upper Catawba Valley began in 1986 with excavations at the Berry site as part of his dissertation research. He returned to the Berry site in 1997 with Robin Beck and Thomas Hargrove for a preliminary proton-magnetometer survey. The University of Alabama Press recently published a revised version of his dissertation, Catawba Valley Mississippian: Ceramics, Chronology, and Catawba Indians (2002). He is also the author or co-author of several articles on the archaeology of western North Carolina, including a recent article co-authored with Robin Beck on the late prehistory of the Upper Catawba Valley. In 2000, Moore formed the Upper Catawba Archaeology Project with Robin Beck and Christopher Rodning.

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