Other Writing

Blogs from 2030, referred to in By 2030: A Survival Story

The Official Website for the Freedom League in 2030, referred to in the book: By 2030: A Survival Story.

Suitable for book clubs and classroom discussions

Published in the Proceedings of the Southwestern Anthropological Association (2016)

Abstract: The recent prediction by climate scientists that life as we know it may be nearing an end has generated numerous debates about causality of the Anthropocene and what happens next. As our industrialized societies begin to learn that we can no longer rely upon fossil fuels, we will either fall into chaos or begin to transition as responsible stewards of the planet to achieve a more sustainable future....

Published in People, Plants and Landscapes (1997), edited by Kris Gremillion, pp. 195-216. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

The landscape of North American archaeology has been dominated by regional perspectives, chronologies, and cultural and environmental reconstructions. Lack of interregional comparisons has hampered our understanding of pan-North American developments and events. By comparing land-use strategies across regional boundaries, several broad patterns emerge. They...

Published as Southern Indian Studies (NoCar E 78.S55 S6), Vol. 41 Issue , Oct 1992, p1-50.

Abstract: Problems with past attempts at historical and archaeological reconstructions of the environment are discussed, and two key concepts--patches and disturbance--are proposed to aid in more dynamic reconstructions of landscape and land use by human groups of the past. The study region is defined as Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and northern Georgia. The time period of the study is set...

Published in Landscape Ecology vol. 7 no. 2 pp 121-135 (1992).

Abstract: Native inhabitants of the Southeastern United States traditionally practiced land management strategies, including burning and clearing, that created ‘anthropogenic landscapes’. From the viewpoint of landscape ecology, analysis of historic documents including drawings and deerskin maps from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries depicted the Native Southeastern landscape as a series of circular patches...