“An Interview with Leland Ferguson” by Kelly Goldberg, Ph.D.
An interview by Dr. Kelly Goldberg about my career in archaeology has been published this week in the journal Historical Archaeology (Springer Press). Click on this link to read.
Colonoware Posters
Corey Ames Heyward and Jon Bernard Marcoux of the College of Charleston, SC have created two informative posters on Colonoware designed for a general audience. The posters were originally used for the February, 2020 International Gullah Geechee and African Diaspora Conference at Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina. The posters may be viewed at the…
A Near Death Experience?
4/25/2020 My first summer (1969) at Town Creek Indian Mound in North Carolina was an exciting beginning of responsibility for me as an archaeologist. We had completed the UNC Cherokee Project the year before; and my mentor, Dr. Joffre Coe, had promoted me from crew member, to field director, with an unexpected new responsibility: Before our crew…
Gaston Site, Roanoke River, NC
4/2020: Stanley South, my mentor in historical archaeology, at work at the Gaston Site, Roanoke River, northeastern NC. Stan wrote his master’s thesis at UNC-Chapel Hill on this prehistoric project. Archaeologist Lewis Binford helped Stan in the field and ended up writing his dissertation at University of Michigan on another aspect of the project—Nottoway and Meherrin…
Astonishing “Arrowheads”*
Posted March 1, 2020 Thinking about Culture Change: Frontiersman Daniel Boone once lived in the Yadkin River Valley of North Carolina not far from my boyhood home, and I began reading Boone biographies in middle school. At the time, I was also finding Native American “arrowheads” and “spearheads.” And, I imagined them having been left…