Anna M . Semon
American Museum of Natural History, Anthropology, Director of Nels Nelson North American Archaeology Laboratory
Interests include: Late Mississippian pottery production, Irene filfot designs, chemical sourcing, experimental pottery making, 3D models, digital curation, and museum legacy collections.
Education:
- Northeastern University, BS in History, 2001
- University of Chicago, MA in Social Sciences with a concentration in Archaeology, 2002.
- University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, PhD in Anthropology, 2019.
Selected Publications
Book chapters:
2021 Tracking Design Variation within Late Mississippian Complicated Stamped Pottery Assemblages from the Georgia Coast. In New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery. Edited by Bretton T. Giles and Shawn P. Lambert. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.
Articles:
2024 The dynamics of fishing villages along the South Atlantic Coast of North America (ca. 5000-3000 years BP). Nature, Scientific Reports 14 (1): 4691. Co-authored with Victor D. Thompson, Karen Y. Smith, Matthew C. Sanger, Carey J. Garland, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Katherine Napora, Jennifer Dodd Bedell, Carla Hadden, Alex Cherkinsky, Rachel Cajigas, Elliot H. Blair, and David Hurst Thomas.
2023 Air and sound: Indigenous wind instruments mad of bone in the Southeast United States. Southeastern Archaeology 42(4), 311-321. Co-authored with Matthew C. Sanger, Rachel Cajigas, Elliot H. Blair.
2020 Ecosystem stability and Native American oyster harvesting along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Science Advances; 6: eaba9652. Co-authored with Victor D. Thompson, Torben Rick, Carey J. Garland, David Hurst Thomas, Karen Y. Smith, Sarah Bergh, Matthew Sanger, Bryan Tucker, Isabelle Lulewicz, John Schalles, Christine Hladik, Clark Alexander, and Brandon T. Ritchison.
Recent Conference Presentations:
2023 Geophysical investigations of a ~4500 year old Native American shell ring. AGU. Co-authored with Alain Plattner, Elliot Blair, Rachel Cajigas, Thomas Blaber, Mathew Sanger, and David Hurst Thomas.
2023 Geophysics and Excavations at the Musgrove Shell Ring on St. Catherines Island, GA. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, TN. Co-authored with Rachel Cajigas, Elliot Blair, Mathew Sanger, Alain Plattner, Thomas Blaber, Caitria O'Shaughnessy, and David Hurst Thomas.
2019 Research Resources: Southeastern Archaeology Collections at the American Museum of Natural History. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jackson, MS.
2018 ’77 to ’17: Re-investigating the perimeter of St. Catherines Island after four decades. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Augusta, GA. Co-authored with Thomas O. Blaber.
2018 Tracking Design Variation within Late Mississippian Complicated Stamped Pottery Assemblages from the Georgia Coast. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Augusta, GA
Recent Conference Posters:
2024 Recent investigations at the Musgrove Shell Ring (9LI2169) on St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA. Co-authored with Rachel Cajigas, Elliot Blair, Mathew Sanger, Alain Plattner, Thomas Blaber, Caitria O'Shaughnessy, and David Hurst Thomas.
2023 Sequencing the Three Shell Rings on St. Catherines Island, GA: Contextualizing the Timing of the Musgrove Shell Ring. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, TN. Co-authored with Rachel Cajigas, Victor Thompson, Carey Garland, Matthew Sanger, Elliot Blair, David Hurst Thomas.
2023 Documenting miniature ceramic vessels in the Chaco Collection at the American Museum of Natural History. Society for American Archaeology, Portland, OR.
2022 Digital Imaging Analysis of Pre-Contact Ceramics from the Georgia Coast. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock, AR.
2021 Surveying New York City Collections at the American Museum of Natural History. Society for American Archaeology, virtual conference.
2021 Unprecedented time Lead to New Internship Strategies. Society for American Archaeology, virtual conference. Co-authored with Abigail M. Musch.
2021 From Backburner to Top Priority: How Working from Home Inspired the Creation of a Remote Micro-internship. Society of American Archivists. Virtual Conference. Co-authored with Diana Rosenthal Roberson, Abigail M. Musch, and Thomas O. Blaber.
2019 Regional Comparison of Complicated Stamped Pottery Designs from Coastal Georgia. Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM.
Phone: 212-769-5437
Address: Division of Anthropology
American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West
New York, New York, 10024
Education:
- Northeastern University, BS in History, 2001
- University of Chicago, MA in Social Sciences with a concentration in Archaeology, 2002.
- University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, PhD in Anthropology, 2019.
Selected Publications
Book chapters:
2021 Tracking Design Variation within Late Mississippian Complicated Stamped Pottery Assemblages from the Georgia Coast. In New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery. Edited by Bretton T. Giles and Shawn P. Lambert. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.
Articles:
2024 The dynamics of fishing villages along the South Atlantic Coast of North America (ca. 5000-3000 years BP). Nature, Scientific Reports 14 (1): 4691. Co-authored with Victor D. Thompson, Karen Y. Smith, Matthew C. Sanger, Carey J. Garland, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Katherine Napora, Jennifer Dodd Bedell, Carla Hadden, Alex Cherkinsky, Rachel Cajigas, Elliot H. Blair, and David Hurst Thomas.
2023 Air and sound: Indigenous wind instruments mad of bone in the Southeast United States. Southeastern Archaeology 42(4), 311-321. Co-authored with Matthew C. Sanger, Rachel Cajigas, Elliot H. Blair.
2020 Ecosystem stability and Native American oyster harvesting along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Science Advances; 6: eaba9652. Co-authored with Victor D. Thompson, Torben Rick, Carey J. Garland, David Hurst Thomas, Karen Y. Smith, Sarah Bergh, Matthew Sanger, Bryan Tucker, Isabelle Lulewicz, John Schalles, Christine Hladik, Clark Alexander, and Brandon T. Ritchison.
Recent Conference Presentations:
2023 Geophysical investigations of a ~4500 year old Native American shell ring. AGU. Co-authored with Alain Plattner, Elliot Blair, Rachel Cajigas, Thomas Blaber, Mathew Sanger, and David Hurst Thomas.
2023 Geophysics and Excavations at the Musgrove Shell Ring on St. Catherines Island, GA. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, TN. Co-authored with Rachel Cajigas, Elliot Blair, Mathew Sanger, Alain Plattner, Thomas Blaber, Caitria O'Shaughnessy, and David Hurst Thomas.
2019 Research Resources: Southeastern Archaeology Collections at the American Museum of Natural History. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jackson, MS.
2018 ’77 to ’17: Re-investigating the perimeter of St. Catherines Island after four decades. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Augusta, GA. Co-authored with Thomas O. Blaber.
2018 Tracking Design Variation within Late Mississippian Complicated Stamped Pottery Assemblages from the Georgia Coast. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Augusta, GA
Recent Conference Posters:
2024 Recent investigations at the Musgrove Shell Ring (9LI2169) on St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA. Co-authored with Rachel Cajigas, Elliot Blair, Mathew Sanger, Alain Plattner, Thomas Blaber, Caitria O'Shaughnessy, and David Hurst Thomas.
2023 Sequencing the Three Shell Rings on St. Catherines Island, GA: Contextualizing the Timing of the Musgrove Shell Ring. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, TN. Co-authored with Rachel Cajigas, Victor Thompson, Carey Garland, Matthew Sanger, Elliot Blair, David Hurst Thomas.
2023 Documenting miniature ceramic vessels in the Chaco Collection at the American Museum of Natural History. Society for American Archaeology, Portland, OR.
2022 Digital Imaging Analysis of Pre-Contact Ceramics from the Georgia Coast. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock, AR.
2021 Surveying New York City Collections at the American Museum of Natural History. Society for American Archaeology, virtual conference.
2021 Unprecedented time Lead to New Internship Strategies. Society for American Archaeology, virtual conference. Co-authored with Abigail M. Musch.
2021 From Backburner to Top Priority: How Working from Home Inspired the Creation of a Remote Micro-internship. Society of American Archivists. Virtual Conference. Co-authored with Diana Rosenthal Roberson, Abigail M. Musch, and Thomas O. Blaber.
2019 Regional Comparison of Complicated Stamped Pottery Designs from Coastal Georgia. Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM.
Phone: 212-769-5437
Address: Division of Anthropology
American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West
New York, New York, 10024
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