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Christopher B. Rodning, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Tulane University
101 Dinwiddie Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
crodning@tulane.edu
http://www.tulane.edu/~crodning/
office 504.862.3067
department office 504.865.5336
department fax 504.865.5338
mobile 504.606.3788
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LINK | for archaeology graduate students
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INTERESTS
archaeology
architecture
culture contact and colonialism
mortuary practices
gender
chiefdoms
southeastern North America
western North Carolina
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COURSES
Introduction to Archaeology
Proseminar in Anthropology
Archaeology of Cultural Landscapes
Roots of Western Civilization
Archaeology of Colonialism
Archaeology of Gender
North American Prehistory
Southeastern U.S. Prehistory
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PROJECTS
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NEWS
2013
- "Resilience, Persistence of Place, and the Native American Settlement at the Sims Site, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana," by Christopher B. Rodning, Jayur M. Mehta, and Bryan S. Haley, Visiting Scholars Conference, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1 March 2013 (Brochure and Schedule) (Program and Abstracts)
- "Reconsidering the Sims Site, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana," by Christopher B. Rodning, Jayur M. Mehta, and Bryan S. Haley, Louisiana Archaeological Society, Lafayette, 23 February 2013
- "Revisiting the Lac St. Agnes Site, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana," by Christopher B. Rodning, Jayur M. Mehta, Bryan S. Haley, David M. Chatelain, and Erlend M. Johnson, Louisiana Archaeological Society, Lafayette, 23 February 2013
- "The Berry Site: The First, Lost Colony in North Carolina," David G. Moore, Executive Archaeologist, Exploring Joara Foundation, winner of the Third Annual Excavation Outreach Contest, Archaeological Institute of America, 19 February 2013
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Vote for EJF in the AIA Excavation Outreach Contest, 17 February 2013
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Entry by EJF in the AIA Excavation Outreach Contest, 14 February 2013
2012
- Exploring Joara Foundation News, 27 November 2012
- "Household Archaeology at the Catawba Meadows Site, North Carolina," by Brian S. Geiger, Christopher B. Rodning, Emma R. Richardson, and David G. Moore, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge, 10 November 2012
- "Spanish Entradas and the Burke Phase," by Christopher B. Rodning, David G. Moore, and Robin A. Beck, Jr., Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge, 9 November 2012
- Exploring Joara Foundation News, 31 October 2012
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Annual Meeting | Lecture by George Stuart (National Geographic Society), about the Maya calendar, 27 October 2012
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Pat Berry, 19 October 2012
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: October Events, 8 October 2012
- "Revisiting the Lac St. Agnes Site, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana," by Christopher B. Rodning, Jayur M. Mehta, Bryan S. Haley, David M. Chatelain, and Erlend M. Johnson, Archaeological Sciences in the Americas Symposium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 6 October 2012
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: John Krebs (Staff Archaeologist), 29 August 2012
- Published: Rodning, Christopher B. (2012) Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric Shell Gorgets from Southwestern North Carolina. Southeastern Archaeology 31:33–56, August 2012
- Hickory Daily Record article about annual field day at the Berry site, 24 June 2012
- Morganton News-Herald video about field day at the Berry site, 24 June 2012
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Annual Field Day at the Berry Site, 23 June 2012
- Hickory Daily Record article about installation of historic marker for Fort San Juan at the Berry site by the Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century, 19 June 2012
- Morganton News-Herald video about installation of Fort San Juan historical marker, 18 June 2012
- Morganton News-Herald article about installation of historic marker for Fort San Juan at the Berry site by the Colonial Dames Seventeeth Century, 18 June 2012
- Morganton News-Herald article about groundbreaking ceremony for the Catawba Meadows Interpretive Center, 26 May 2012
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Groundbreaking at the Catawba Meadows Interpretive Center, 23 June 2012
- Charlotte Observer article about the Catawba Meadows site and plans for Catawba Meadows Interpretive Center, May 2012
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Third Annual Pottery Festival
- Louisiana Board of Regents (BOR) Research Competitiveness Subprogram (RCS) Grant to the Lower Mississippi Valley Landscape Archaeology Project, April 2012
- New Orleans Rock'nRoll Marathon, 4 March 2012, photos, finish
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Field Trip to Hayesville, Lab Nights, Pottery Festival in May
- "Spanish Visions of the New World," talk by David Moore at the New Voyages to Carolina Conference, East Carolina University, Greenville
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Field Trip, Lab Nights, Mars Hill College Talk
2011
- New Orleans Track Club Ole Man River Half Marathon, 18 December 2011, race, results
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Documentary, Conference, Membership, 17 November 2011
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Volunteer Day, 7 November 2011
- New Orleans Jazz Half Marathon, 29 October 2011, photos, finish
- The Birth of a Colony: North Carolina, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, documentary broadcast on UNC-TV, 24 October 2011
- The Birth of a Colony: North Carolina, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, premiere broadcast on UNC-TV, 19 October 2011
- "Understanding Identity: Archaeological Insights from Colonial and Postcolonial North America and the Caribbean," by Kathryn E. Sampeck, SAA Archaeological Record, 30 September 2011
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Volunteer Day, 3 October 2011
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Volunteer Day, 4 September 2011
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Emma Richardson (Staff Archaeologist), 21 July 2011
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Annual Meeting | Lecture by Brett Riggs (Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), about the archaeology of historic Catawba settlements in South Carolina, 21 July 2011
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Annual Field Day at the Berry Site, 25 June 2011
- Morganton News-Herald article about field school at the Berry site, June 2011
- Published: Rodning, Christopher B. (2011) Mortuary Practices, Gender Ideology, and the Cherokee Town at the Coweta Creek Site. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 30:145–173, June 2011
- Spotted at Tulane University Commencement, Superdome, New Orleans, May 2010
- Published: Rodning, Christopher B. (2011) Cherokee Townhouses: Architectural Adaptation to European Contact in the Southern Appalachians. North American Archaeologist 32:131–190, Spring 2011
- Enduring Conquests: Rethinking the Archaeology of Resistance to Spanish Colonialism in the Americas, edited by Matthew Liebmann and Melissa Murphy, including chapter by Rob Beck, Chris Rodning, and David Moore, forthcoming from the School of Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Spring 2011
- Southeastern Archaeological Conference Resolution, read at the 2010 annual meeting of SEAC and published in the Southeastern Archaeological Conference Newsletter, April 2011
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Native American Pottery of the Catawba Valley (exhibit at the Jailhouse Gallery in Morganton), 29 April 2011
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Cherokee Pottery Workshop by Tamara Beane (supported by Burke Arts Council Grassroots Grant), 14 April 2011
- Exploring Joara Foundation Newsletter, Winter 2011
2010
- Joara and Fort San Juan: Colonialism and Household Practice at the Berry Site, North Carolina, report to the National Science Foundation, by Rob Beck, David Moore, and Chris Rodning, November 2010
- Morganton News-Herald article about the recent book by Larry Clark about Spanish contact in the Southeast, November 2010
- Symposium, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, organized by Rob Beck, David Moore, and Chris Rodning, October 2010
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Sportscar Tour, 23 October 2010
- Morganton News-Herald article about plans for Catawba Meadows Interpretive Center at Catawba Meadows Park, October 2010
- Durham Herald Sun article about Home School History Hunters fieldwork at the Berry site, September 2010
- North Carolina Piedmont Archaeology Symposium, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, September 2010
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Annual Meeting | Lecture: "The Iceman Cometh," by Edward Hill (Wake Forest University), about the Copper Age mummy found in the Alps in 1991, 21 July 2010
- Morganton News-Herald article about excavations at the Berry site, 23 June 2010
- Morganton News-Herald article about the Joara lily by Millstone Meadows Farm, 19 June 2010
- Archaeology Field Day at the Berry Site, Morganton, North Carolina, June 26, 2010, 10:00AM - 2:00PM
- Archaeological Field School at the Berry Site, Morganton, North Carolina, June 1-26, 2010
- Our State magazine article about the Berry site and Fort San Juan, June 2010 | PDF
- Morganton News-Herald article about the North Carolina Pottery Festival at Western Piedmont Community College, 20 May 2010
- Whodat? They Dat! (Tulane Commencement), Tulanian magazine article, Spring 2010
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Caroline Ketron (Executive Archaeologist), 11 May 2010
- Tulane University, School of Liberal Arts Newsletter, "From the Field," May 2010
- David Moore and Colleagues Receive Daughters of the American Revolution Medal, Warren Wilson College Owl and Spade magazine article, Spring 2010
- Asheville Citizen-Times article about DAR award to WWC professor and colleagues, 25 April 2010
- Symposium, Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, organized by Rob Beck, David Moore, and Chris Rodning, April 2010
- Tulane University, School of Liberal Arts Newsletter, "News and Accolades," April 2010
- National History Medal, given by the North Carolina Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to David Moore, Rob Beck, and Chris Rodning, April 2010
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Upcoming Events, April 2010
- Lecture to the South Florida Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, Boca Raton, March 2010: "Native American Towns and Spanish Colonists in Western North Carolina, 1540-1568"
2009
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Upcoming Events, December 2009
- Asheville Citizen-Times article (without pictures) about David Moore and the Berry site, 9 December 2009
- Black Mountain News article (with pictures) about David Moore and the Berry site, 9 December 2009
- PDF version of Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States, edited by Jane M. Eastman and Christopher B. Rodning (University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 2001) now available through the Orange Grove Press and the Florida Digital Repository
- Advanced Seminar on Spanish Contact with Native Peoples of the American Southwest and the Southeast at the Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona, October 2009 | Group Picture
- North Carolina Mountain Archaeology Symposium, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, October 2009
- Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2009
- Exploring Joara Project Workshop at the School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 2009 | Group Picture
- Lecture to the New Mexico Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, Santa Fe, September 2009: "Native American Towns and Spanish Colonists in Western North Carolina, 1540-1568"
- Morganton News-Herald article about the Wall Center for Archaeological Research, September 2009
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Wall Center Dedication, September 2009
- Morganton News-Herald article about Fort San Juan historical marker in Morganton, August 2009
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Fort San Juan State Historic Marker Unveiling, [sign photo] [group photo], August 2009
- Exploring Joara Foundation News: Activity Schedule, Summer 2009
- Asheville Citizen-Times article on archaeology in western North Carolina, June 2009
- Morganton News-Herald article on annual public field day at the Berry site, 28 June 2009
- Annual public field day at the Berry site, 27 June 2009
- WMNC 92.1FM interview (MP3 file, 5:16) about archaeology at the Berry site, 26 June 2009
- Hickory Daily Record article on archaeology at the Berry site, 24 June 2009
- Morganton News-Herald article on the Joara lily, by Millstone Meadows Farm, named for the Native American town at the Berry site, 23 June 2009
- Charlotte Observer article in the Catawba Valley Neighbors section on annual Exploring Joara Foundation public field day at the Berry site near Morganton, June 2009
- Archaeology magazine article on the archaeology of Fort San Juan, the Berry site, and Spanish colonial outposts in western North Carolina, July/August 2009 | PDF abstract | PDF article
2008
- Exploring Joara Foundation Newsletter, Winter 2008
- Historical Marker for Fort San Juan, Burke County, North Carolina, North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Winter 2008
- Community College Times article about field schools at the Berry site, August 2008
- Annual public field day at the Berry site, 12 July 2008
- American Archaeology article on the Berry site and Fort San Juan, Spring 2008
- Exploring Joara Foundation Newsletter, Spring 2008
- Charlotte Observer article in the Catawba Valley Neighbors section about the Exploring Joara Foundation, March 2008
- Chapel Hill News editorial, February 2008
- Raleigh News and Observer article on the Spanish colony at Fort San Juan, February 2008
- Exploring North Carolina documentary: The First, Lost Colony, episode 405, broadcast on UNC-TV, 31 January 31 2008
- Exploring North Carolina premiere: The First, Lost Colony, at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, 30 January 2008
- Warren Wilson College News, announcement of Exploring NC documentary and NC Museum premiere, January 2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
- Our State magazine article about the Berry site and Fort San Juan, March 2003 | PDF
2002
- Structure 3 at the Berry site
2001
- Structure 1 at the Berry site
2000
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