DAVID D. RIGTRUP

EDUCATION INFO:
BA Anthropology, University of Oregon 2006

SUBFIELD:
Archaeology

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Lithic Technology, Settlement Patterns, Foraging Societies

DISSERTATION TITLE:
Technology and Settlement in the Southeastern United States: Linking Technological Activity to Landuse in the Early Archaic

DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Dr. Joanna Casey
Dr. Mark Brooks
Dr. Gail Wagner
Dr. Tom Leatherman

DISSERTATION PROJECT:
My thesis will discuss how tool producing activities during the Early Archaic period (10,00-9000 bp) are organized along the Upper Coastal Plain of South Carolina. While significant work has been done in the upper coastal plain related to settlement and technological organization of Early Archaic groups, much of this work has focused on large sites located along riverine terraces adjacent to the Savannah River. Upland sites, characterized by their small assemblages of lithic debris, have not been examined in much detail. In all, a sample of 20 such upland scatters will be examined in order to more fully understand the nature of tool producing activities at the site level, the functional variation exhibited across these sites, and finally what such scatters say about regional settlement during the Early Archaic.

ADVISOR:
Dr. Joanna Casey

PAPER PRESENTED:
2006-Winterhoff, E., Ayres, W.S., Rigtrup, D.
"Recent Insights into Prehistoric Stone Tool Production within Tutuila, American Samoa". 2006 18th Annual Indo-Pacific Prehistoric Association Conference, Manila, Phillippines.

CONFERENCES ATTENDED:
2008- SAA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC

PUBLICATIONS:
Winterhoff, E., and Rigtrup, D.
      2008 - "A Tale of Two Quarries: Investigating Prehistoric Adze Manufacture on Tutuila Island,       American Samoa." Journal of Samoan Studies pp 24-36.

Winterhoff, E., Ayres, W., Rigtrup, D.
      2006 - "Recent Archaeological Investigations in Malaeloa, Afao, and Asili: American Samoa."       Pacific Island Archaeological Laboratory: Report 06-1, American Samoa Historic Preservation       Office, June 2006.

PROFESSIONAL AFFLILIATIONS:
Society for American Archaeology: Fall 2005- Present


E-MAIL:
drigtrup@yahoo.com