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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 as well as one volunteer supervisor, Lotte Govaerts. 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:
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.
Andrea Glenn is a Senior Sociology/ Anthropology major at WWC. This is Andrea's sixth semester on the crew and she is our GIS/mapping expert. She participated in the Summer 2005, 2006, and 2007 Field Schools at the Berry Site as a student and a staff member.
Emma Richardson is a Senior Sociology/ Anthropology major at WWC. This is Emma's fourth semester on the crew, and she is a valuable member of the Archaeology crew. As a bonus, Emma brings craft and poster-making skills to the archaeology crew. She participated in the Summer 2006 and 2007 Field School at the Berry site. Emma studied in Nepal during the spring 2007 semester.
Lotte Govaerts is our lab supervisor. She loves archaeology and she knows everything. Lotte likes to do field work and wear bandannas and pink jumpsuits.
Laurel Sanders joined the crew in 2007 after she spent her summer at the Berry site.
Niels Nugent studied in Thialand in the spring 2007 semester.