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 John H. Blitz (Ph.D., City University of New
York, 1991) is an anthropological archaeologist whose research
interests include the origins and development of complex societies, the
formation and decline of nonstate political organizations, the cultural dynamics
of frontiers, and the political economy of ancient households. Most of his
research has focused on Precolumbian Mississippian (Native American) societies
in the American Southeast. He has taught anthropology at the University of
Southern Mississippi, Bowdoin College, Columbia University, and Queens College.
Together with Dr. Karl G. Lorenz (Shippensburg University), Dr. Blitz is writing
a book on regional political integration and change in intermediate-level
societies based on investigations of Mississippian mound centers in the lower
Chattahoochee River valley of Alabama and Georgia. In addition to the American
Southeast, Dr. Blitz has been involved in archaeological investigations in
Mexico and Ecuador. Currently, he directs the Early Moundville Archaeological Project at the prehistoric site of Moundville, Alabama.
Dr. Blitz participates in excavations at
Actuncan, an Early Classic period Maya political center in Belize, Central
America, a project headed by Dr. Lisa J. LeCount, also of the University of
Alabama.
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Selected Publications
2004 Sociopolitical Implications of Mississippian Mound Volume (with P. Livingood). American Antiquity 69:291-301.
2002 The Early Mississippian Frontier in the Lower Chattahoochee-Apalachicola River Valley (with K. G. Lorenz). Southeastern Archaeology 21(2):117-135.
2000 Changes in Long Bone Diaphyseal Strength with Horticultural
Intensification in West-Central Illinois (with P.S. Bridges and M.C. Solano). American Journal of Physical Anthropology,
112:217-238.
2000 Fisherfolk, Farmers, and Frenchmen:
Archaeological Explorations on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (with C.B. Mann),
with contributions by C.M. Scarry, J.D. Jewell, and J.A. Giliberti. Archaeological Report
Series No. 30, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson.
1999 Mississippian Chiefdoms and the Fission-Fusion Process.
American Antiquity 64:577-592.
1997 Higher Ground: The Archaeology of North American
Platform Mounds (with O. Lindauer). Journal of Archaeological
Research 5(2):169-207.
1993 Big Pots for Big Shots: Feasting and Storage in a
Mississippian Community. American Antiquity 58(1):80-96.
1993
Ancient Chiefdoms of the Tombigbee. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa
and London.
1991 Ceremonial Centers of the Chachi (with W.R.
DeBoer). Expedition 33(1):53-62.
1988 Adoption of the Bow in Prehistoric North America.
North American Archaeologist 9(2):123-145.
1988 Archaeological Investigations in the Choctaw Homeland.
American Antiquity 53(1):125-145.
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