Lara K. Homsey, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

Anthony L. Ortmann, Assistant Professor

Department of Geosciences

337 Blackburn Science Building

Murray State University

email: [e-mail], phone: [phone]

Education

2007 Ph.D. Archaeology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

Dissertation title: The Poverty Point Mounds: Analysis of the Chronology, Construction History, and Function of North America’s Largest Hunter-Gatherer Monuments.

2004 M.A. Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

1995 B.A. Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.

Professional Experience

2007-present Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky. Served as principal investigator and co-principal investigator on numerous archaeological excavations and geophysical surveys in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Kentucky.

1997-2007 Graduate student, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. Directed or co-directed archaeological excavations and mapping at several sites in Louisiana and Mississippi.

2004-2005 Archaeology student trainee. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District. Student Career Experience Program, Environmental Planning and Compliance Branch, Natural and Cultural Resources Analysis Section. Evaluated potential impacts of Corps projects on cultural resources in the Lower Mississippi River Valley and adjacent Gulf Coast. Also ensured compliance with NAGPRA and Section 106 regulations.

2002-2003 Assistant director of the Center for Archaeology, Tulane University.

& 2000-2001 Operated, maintained, and trained faculty and students in the use of computer and laboratory equipment.

1991-2000 Cultural Resource Management field and laboratory assistant and consultant for numerous prehistoric and historic archaeological survey, testing, and mitigation projects in Louisiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri. Coastal Environments, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA; Earth Search, Inc., New Orleans, LA; and American Resources Group, Carbondale, IL.

Publications

Articles, book chapters, and abstracts

2013 Ortmann, Anthony L., and Tristram R. Kidder

Building Mound A at Poverty Point: Implications for Hunter-Gatherer Social Organization. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 28:66-86.

2012 Homsey, Lara K., Anthony L. Ortmann, and Kit W. Wesler

Integrating Community Service Learning into the Murray State University Archaeology Program. Journal of Kentucky Archaeology 1(2):39-51.

2010 Ortmann, Anthony L.

Placing the Poverty Point Mounds in Their Temporal Context. American Antiquity 75(3):657-678.

2010 Ortmann, Anthony L., and Lee J. Arco

The Paleo-Landscape at Jaketown and its Implications for Understanding the Occupational History of the Site. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 42(5):152.

2008 Kidder, Tristram R., Anthony L. Ortmann, and Lee J. Arco

Poverty Point and the Archaeology of Singularity. The SAA Archaeological Record 8(5):9-12.

2004 Kidder, Tristram R., Anthony L. Ortmann, and E. Thurman Allen

Testing Mounds B and E at Poverty Point. Southeastern Archaeology 23(1):98-113.

2004 Ortmann, Anthony L., and Tristram R. Kidder

Petrographic Thin-Section Analysis of Poverty Point Ceramics. In Early Pottery: Technology, Function, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast, edited by Rebecca Saunders and Chris Hays, pp. 193-209. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

Recent Research Reports

2012 Ortmann, Anthony L.

Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of a Portion of the Riverside Cemetery, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Report prepared for Dr. William Meacham, Center of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, and the Kentucky Veterans Affairs Department. Report on file with the Murray State University Archaeology Lab.

2011 Ortmann, Anthony L.

Project 2/11 Summary of Fieldwork: 2011 Mound C Excavations at Poverty Point. Report submitted to the Louisiana Division of Archaeology and the Louisiana Archaeological Survey and Antiquities Commission, Baton Rouge.

2010 Ortmann, Anthony L.

Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of a Portion of East End Cemetery, Cadiz, Kentucky. Report submitted to the Cadiz Renaissance on Main program, Cadiz, KY.

2009 Kidder, Tristram R., Lee J. Arco, Anthony L. Ortmann, Timothy M. Schilling, Caroline Boeke, Rachel Bielitz, and Katherine A. Adelsberger

Poverty Point Mound A: Final Report of the 2005 and 2006 Field Seasons. Report submitted to the Louisiana Division of Archaeology and the Louisiana Archaeological Survey and Antiquities Commission, Baton Rouge.

2009 Ortmann, Anthony L.

Magnetic Gradiometer Survey at Columbus-Belmont State Park, Hickman County, Kentucky. Report submitted to Columbus-Belmont State Park, Columbus, KY.

2009 Ortmann, Anthony L.

Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of a Small Tract of Land in the Murray City Cemetery, Murray, Kentucky. Report submitted to the City of Murray, Kentucky.

Recent Professional Presentations (* invited papers)

2013 Ortmann, Anthony L., and Lara K. Homsey (co-chairs and co-organizers)

Symposium: “Microartifact Analysis: Recent Applications and Methods.” Symposium for the 78^th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawaii.

2013 Ortmann, Anthony L., and Caroline Schmidt

”Investigating Archaic Period Ritual Practice Through Microartifact Analysis.” Paper presented in the symposium Microartifact Analysis: Recent Applications and Methods at the 78^th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawaii.

2013 Roe, Lori M., Anthony L. Ortmann, Lara K. Homsey, and Kit W. Wesler

“Incorporating Microartifact Research in Experimental Archaeology Education.” Paper presented in the symposium Microartifact Analysis: Recent Applications and Methods at the 78^th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawaii.

2012 Ortmann, Anthony L., and Lee J. Arco

“Recent Excavations on Poverty Point’s Mound C.” Paper presented at the 77^th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, Tennessee.

2012 Nichols, Caitlin, Caroline Schmidt, and Anthony L. Ortmann

“Microartifact Analysis of Mound C at Poverty Point: Exploring the Function of a Late Archaic Mound.” Poster presented at the 77^th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, Tennessee.

2011 Ortmann, Anthony L., and Lee J. Arco

“28 Years Later: Re-excavation of Poverty Point’s Mound C.” Paper presented at the 68^th annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jacksonville, Florida.

2011* Arco, Lee J., S. Margaret Spivey, Anthony L. Ortmann, and T. R. Kidder

“Places of Pilgrimage? Jaketown and Poverty Point as Ritual-Religious Events.” Invited paper presented in the symposium The Enigma of the Event: Moments of Consequence in the Ancient Southeast at the 68^th annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jacksonville, Florida.

2011 Arco, Lee J., and Anthony L. Ortmann

“The Paleolandscape of Jaketown: Geoarchaeological Research at a Poverty Point Settlement in the Yazoo Basin, Mississippi.” Paper presented at the 5^th Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee.

2010* Ortmann, Anthony L., and Lee J. Arco

“The Paleo-Landscape at Jaketown and its Implications for Understanding the Occupational History of the Site.” Invited paper presented in the session Sediments and Settlements at the 2010 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado.

2010* Ortmann, Anthony L.

“Comparative Analysis of Chipped Stone Assemblages from the Poverty Point and Jaketown Sites.” Invited paper presented in the symposium Current Research on the Poverty Point Culture at the 75^th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri.

2010* Arco, Lee J., and Anthony L. Ortmann

”Jaketown’s Buried Landscape: Recent Research at a Poverty Point Settlement in the Yazoo Basin, Mississippi.” Invited paper presented in the symposium Current Research on the Poverty Point Culture at the 75^th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri.

2010 Ortmann, Anthony L.

“Cultural Ecology of the Lower Mississippi Valley in the 2^nd Millennium B.C.” Paper presented at the 8^th University of Tennessee, Martin – Murray State University Sigma Xi Symposium, Murray, Kentucky.

Professional Service

2011-present Reviewer, Louisiana Archaeology.

2010-present Reviewer, American Antiquity.

2010-present Associate editor of the Journal of Kentucky Archaeology.

2008-present Reviewer, Southeastern Archaeology.

Curriculum Vita

Lara K. Homsey, Ph.D.

Department of Geosciences Tel (W): [phone]

357 Blackburn Science Bldg. Tel (H): [phone]

Murray State University Fax: [phone]

Murray, KY 42071 [e-mail]

Current Position:

2011 – Present Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, Murray State University

Education

Ph.D. – Anthropology, 2004. University of Pittsburgh

M.S. – Geology, 2003. University of Pittsburgh

B.A. – History/Anthropology, summa cum laude, 1997. Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

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