Rachel V. Briggs is teaching assistant professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Michaelyn S. Harle is an archaeologist at the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Lynne P. Sullivan, curator emerita of archaeology at the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Tennessee, is coeditor of Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States.

Contributors: Shelia Bird Rachel V. Briggs Michaelyn S. Harle Ramie A. Gougeon Maureen Meyers Robert B. Sharpe Tracy K. Betsinger Jennifer Bengtson Christopher B. Rodning Robin A. Beck Gayle J. Fritz Lynne P. Sullivan Nancy Marie White Toni Alexander Heather A. Lapham David G. Moore