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Heather A. Lapham
Curator, Center for Archaeological Investigations;
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Faner 3479 - Mail Code 4527
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale IL 62901
Phone (618) 453-5031; Fax (618) 453-8467
Email hlapham@siu.edu

CAI Zooarchaeology Laboratory

International Council for Archaeozoology

Research interests	Courses

My interests lie in understanding early historic cultural changes in Native North American societies and the motivations behind these changes. In my research I examine change and continuity in Native American economic organization and sociopolitical institutions during the initial decades following European settlement in eastern North America. My current project investigates the exploitation of white-tailed deer and the production and exchange of deerskins by Native Americans in the southern Middle Atlantic and Southeast. Merging two often distinct artifact categories, faunal remains and nonlocal trade good assemblages, I explore how some Native American groups altered their economic strategies in order to produce deerskins for commercial trade and how, in certain instances, sociopolitical systems were transformed in the process.	Anth 441D: Laboratory Analysis in Archaeology-Introduction to Zooarchaeology Anth 484: Internship-Curation of Archaeological Collections


Selected publications

2006 Southeast Animals. In Environment, Origins, and Population, edited by D.H. Ubelaker, pp. 396-404. Handbook of North American Indians Vol. 3. W.C. Sturtevant, general editor. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 2005 Hunting for Hides: Deerskins, Status, and Cultural Change in the Protohistoric Appalachians. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2004 “Their complement of deer-skins and furs”: Changing patterns of white-tailed deer exploitation in the seventeenth-century southern Chesapeake and Virginia hinterlands. In Indian and European Contact in Context: The Mid-Atlantic Region, D.B. Blanton and J.A. King (eds.), pp. 172-192. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2004 Zooarchaeological evidence for changing socioeconomic status within early historic Native American communities in Mid-Atlantic North America. In Behaviour Behind Bones: The Zooarchaeology of Ritual, Religion, Status and Identity, S.J. O’Day, W. Van Neer, and A. Ervynck (eds.), pp. 293-303. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 2003 Material culture of the Contact period in the upper Potomac Valley: chronological and cultural implications (second author with R.D. Wall). Archaeology of Eastern North America 31:149-175. 2002 Protohistoric Monongahela trade relations: evidence from the Foley Farm phase glass beads (first author with W.C. Johnson). Archaeology of Eastern North America 30:97-120. 2000 More than "a few blew beads": The glass and stone beads from Jamestown Rediscovery's 1994-1997 excavations. The Journal of the Jamestown Rediscovery Center 1.