Dane presented two research papers at conference meetings in 2003, and is scheduled to present a third later this year. The first, “Bioarchaeology in the Virginia Coastal Plain: An Examination of Diet, Disease, and Demography from the Bennett Ossuary (44KQ128) Skeletal Materials”, was authored by Dane Magoon (lead author), Scott Aubry, and Kyle Adams, and presented at the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The second, “Primary Burial, Secondary Burial, and Late Woodland Mortuary Variability in the Coastal Plain of Virginia”, was a sole-authored effort presented at the annual Society for American Archaeology meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dane is also scheduled to present the “Late Woodland and Protohistoric Mortuary Patterning in the Virginia Coastal Plain: Form, Function, Status, and Change”, at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina this November.

Dane is a Project Archaeologist with Coastal Carolina Research, Inc. stationed in their Petersburg, Virginia office. He has been with the company since March of 2003. Dane is also an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He has co-authored nine cultural resource management reports thus far this year, and has also compiled a number of sole-authored technical reports.