James Strawn

James ‘Jim’ Strawn completed his undergraduate studies in Anthropology (2015) and his M.A. in Applied Anthropology (2019) at Mississippi State University. His Master’s thesis titled A Geoarchaeological Analysis of the 2017 Excavations at the Hester Site (22MO569) evaluated the degree to which post-depositional processes affected the cultural deposits at the site. Jim is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia, where his doctoral work will focus on the social organization and structure of early Holocene hunter-gatherers across the Southeastern United States. Jim is a Co-PI for the ongoing Cobb-affiliated excavations at the Hester site investigating late Pleistocene/early Holocene hunter-gatherer lifeways in the Tombigbee River Valley. The results of the most recent investigations at Hester (2017 – 2019) potentially situate the site as a focal point for understanding the long-term social histories of Archaic period hunter-gatherers at both the local and regional scale and will be integrated into his doctoral research at the University of Georgia. Jim’s research interests and experience includes hunter-gatherers, geoarchaeology, site formation, lithic technology, and geographic information systems (GIS). He looks forward to the continued collaboration with AMEC and Cobb Institute colleagues on current research endeavors and is excited about the opportunities that the research program will provide for himself and students in the future.