Elizabeth S. Chilton

University of Massachusetts

Department of Anthropology
Amherst MA 01003
(413) 545-2867
echilton@anthro.umass.edu

Further Information: http://people.umass.edu/echilton/

Research Specialties

North American Indians, North American archaeology, hunter-gatherers, the origins of agriculture, origins of social complexity, technological organization, ceramic ecology, geoarchaeology, historical ecology, and cultural resource management.

Education

1996    Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1991    Master of Arts, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1985    Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, with departmental honors in Anthropology, minor in Mathematics, State University of New York at Albany

Academic Positions

7/04-present   Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
9/01-6/04   Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
9/01-present   Research Associate, Anthropology, Harvard University.
7/96-6/01   Associate Professor (7/00-6/01), Assistant Professor (7/96-6/00), Anthropology, Harvard University.
7/96-6/01   Associate Curator for the Archaeology of Northeastern North America, Peabody Museum, Harvard University.
1/96-6/96   Lecturer, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.
8/95-1/96   Lecturer, State University of New York, Oneonta.

Grants and Awards (since 1996)

Submitted 7/04   Web-Accessible Collections Database Project, National Endowment for the Humanities, Preservation and Access Program, (under review).
12/03   Proposal Preparation Grant, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Massachusetts.
7/03-6/04   Community Service Learning Faculty Fellow 2003-2004, Office of Community Service Learning, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
7/03-6/04   Faculty Participant, Community Service Learning Departmental Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, awarded to the Department of Anthropology to be shared among eight faculty members.
2/03   Faculty Research Grant, University of Massachusetts, "National Endowment for the Humanities Pilot Project."
2/03   Dean's Fund Grant, University of Massachusetts, "National Endowment for the Humanities Pilot Project."
7/03   Faculty Grant for Teaching, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, $1494.
5/03   Faculty Research Grant, Conference/Performance Travel, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
8/02   Certificate of Appreciation for Demonstrating Excellence in Teaching, awarded by the University of Massachusetts Division of Continuing Education, for Anthropology 577, Archaeological Field School.
7/02   Member of Senior Personnel for "Agrarian Landscapes in Transition: a cross-scale approach," submitted by Charles Redman (Arizona State University) et al. to NSF as part of their Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) project.
7/02   Faculty Grant for Teaching, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
6/02   Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, Principal Investigator for Native American Public Interpretation Program. Funded through Historic Deerfield.
5/02-4/03   Faculty Research Grant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, for investigating Native American farming in New England, (5/02-4/03).
5/02   Faculty Research Grant, Conference/Performance Travel, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
7/00-6/01   Junior Faculty Research Assistantship Program Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.
1/01   Clarke Fund for Faculty Research, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.
2001   Northeast Regional Young Investigator Award, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.
1/99   William F. Milton Fund Grant for analysis of archaeological remains from the Lucy Vincent Beach site, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, $24,000.
1997   Clarke Fund for Faculty Research, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.
1996-99   Junior Faculty Research Assistantship Program, Harvard University, Department of Anthropology.
1996   New York Archaeological Council Research Award.

Select Publications

Books and Monographs:

In prep. Tides of Change in Native New England: 10,000 B C. to A.D. 1700. University of Nebraska Press. Under contract. Projected manuscript completion: May 2005.

2002 Cultural Continuity in Native New England (second editor; with Holly Herbster). Peer-reviewed, edited volume submitted for publication as special issue of the journal Northeast Anthropology, Vol. 64. Ten chapters by invited authors.

1999 Material Meanings: Critical Approaches to the Interpretation of Material Culture. Peer reviewed edited volume. Nine chapters by invited contributors. Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry Series, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

1994 The Goat Island Rockshelter: New Light from Old Legacies. Monograph: Research Report No. 29, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Book Chapters and Journal Articles:

2004a From the Ground Up: The Effects of Consultation on Archaeological Methods. In Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Native Peoples and Archaeology in the Northeastern United States, edited by Jordan Kerber. University of Nebraska Press. In press.

2004b Beyond 'Big': Gender, Age, and Subsistence Diversity in Paleo-Indian Societies. In The Settlement of the American Continents: a Multidisciplinary Approach to Human Biogeography, edited by C. M. Barton and G. A. Clark, D. Yesner, and G. Pearson, pp. 162-172. University of Arizona Press.

2004c Social Complexity in New England: AD 1000-1600. In North America Archaeology, edited by Timothy Pauketat and Diana Loren, pp. 138-160. Blackwell Press, Studies in Global Archaeology Series.

2002a The Archaeology of Coastal New England: The View from Martha's Vineyard (first author; with Dianna L. Doucette). Northeast Anthropology 64:55-66.

2002b Lucy Vincent Beach: Another look at the Prehistoric Exploitation of Piscine Resources off the Coast of Massachusetts, U.S.A. (third author; with Tonya Largy, Peter Burns, and Dianna Doucette). Northeast Anthropology 64:67-73.

2002c "Towns They Have None": Diverse Subsistence and Settlement Strategies in Native New England. In Northeast Subsistence-Settlement Change: A.D. 700 - A.D. 1300, edited by J. Hart and C. Reith, pp. 289-300. New York State Museum Bulletin, No. 496.

2002d Archaeological Investigations at the Lucy Vincent Beach Site (19-DK-148): Preliminary Results and Interpretations (first author; with Dianna Doucette). In A Lasting Impression: Coastal, Lithic, and Ceramic Research in New England Archaeology, edited by Jordan Kerber, pp. 41-70. Praeger Publishers.

2001 The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Contact Period in the Northeastern United States. Reviews in Anthropology 29:337-360.

2000 Evidence for Prehistoric Maize Horticulture at the Pine Hill Site, Deerfield, Massachusetts (first author; with Tonya B. Largy and Kathryn Curran). Northeast Anthropology 59:23-46.

1999a Mobile Farmers of Pre-Contact Southern New England: The Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Evidence. In Current Northeast Paleoethnobotany, edited by John P. Hart, pp. 157-176. New York State Museum Bulletin 494.

1998 The Cultural Origins of Technical Choice: Unraveling Algonquian and Iroquoian Ceramic Traditions in the Northeast. In The Archaeology of Social Boundaries, edited by Miriam Stark. pp. 132-160. Smithsonian Institution Press.