Tennessee Archaeology Network

Kevin E. Smith

Professor and Director of Anthropology
Middle Tennessee State University

Major on-going current research includes:

• Analysis of artifacts from the Old First Presbyterian Church site (40RD271), Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee (see also the On-Line Exhibit Catalog
• Analysis of artifacts from slave residences at Wynnewood State Historic Area, Sumner County, Tennessee
• analysis and writeup of the Pinson Mounds Archaeological Field School
• analysis of artifacts from several late prehistoric Native American sites in the Nashville region
• Research on the Peabody Museum expeditions to Middle Tennessee. during the late 1800s
• Bledsoe's Station (an early frontier settlement in Middle Tennessee), and
• an archaeological survey of Cordell Hull Reservoir.

Smith began teaching classes as an adjunct at MTSU in 1988 and has been a full-time faculty member since 1994.

He currently serves as Vice President/Editor for the Middle Cumberland Archaeological Society, and as MTSU representative on the Governor's Archaeological Advisory Council.

• 2003 in press. Prehistoric Native American Arts and Artisans of Tennessee. Invited chapter in Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons: 200 Years of the Arts in Tennessee.
• 2001. Human Figurines as Messengers: Communicating with Past, Present and Future Cultures. Concluding chapter and discussion in The New World Figurine Project, Volume 2, edited by Terry Stocker and Cynthia Otis-Charleton. Research Press, Provo.
• 2000. Bledsoe Station: Archaeology, History and the Interpretation of the Middle Tennessee Frontier, 1770-1820. Tennessee Historical Quarterly LIX(3):174-187.
• 2000. Tennessee's History through Archaeology: A Special Issue of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly. Tennessee Historical Quarterly LIX(3):136-137.
• 1999 [with M.C. Moore]. Through Many Mississippian Hands: Late Prehistoric Exchange in the Cumberland Valley. In Proceedings of the 17th Mid-South Archaeological Conference. Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
• 1998 Gordontown in Historical Perspective. In Gordontown: Salvage Archaeology at a Mississippian Town in Middle Tennessee edited by M.C. Moore and E. Breitburg. Tennessee Division of Archaeology, Research Series 11.
• 1998 [with M.B. Trubitt] The Gordontown Ceramic Assemblage from a Regional Perspective. In Gordontown: Salvage Archaeology at a Mississippian Town in Middle Tennessee edited by M.C. Moore and E. Breitburg. Tennessee Division of Archaeology, Research Series 11.
• 1996 [with Michael C. Moore] The Hooper Site (40Dv234): A Mississippian Village in Davidson County, Tennessee. Tennessee Division of Archaeology, Department of Environment and Conservation, Miscellaneous Publications No. 3.
• 1996 [with M.C. Moore] Mississippian Settlement and Community Patterns on the Cumberland River, Tennessee: Recent Investigations of Small Mississippian Settlements. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Mid-South Archaeological Conference, edited by Richard Walling, Camille Wharey and Camille Stanley. Panamerican Consultants, Inc., Special Publications 1, Memphis.
• 1995 [with S.D. Hoyal] Site File Management in the Electronic Age: Future Directions in Tennessee. In Archaeological Site File Management: A Southeastern Perspective, edited by David G. Anderson and Virginia Horak, pp. 88-94. Readings in Archeological Resource Protection Series No. 3, Interagency Archaeological Services Division, National Park Service, Atlanta.
• 1995 [with M.C. Moore]. Borrow Pits and Archaeological Sites: Case Studies and A Report on the Armes Site (40Dv444). Tennessee Anthropologist XX(1):1- 17.
• 1994 Potash from Pyramids: Reconstructing DeGraffenreid [40Wm4]: A Mississippian Mound-Village Center in Williamson County, Tennessee. Tennessee Anthropologist XIX(2).
• 1994 [with M.C. Moore] Excavation of a Mississippian Farmstead at the Brandywine Pointe Site (40Dv247), Cumberland River Valley, Tennessee. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Volume 19(2):198-222.
• 1993 [with C.P. Stripling and M.C. Moore]. The Brick Church Business Park Site (40Dv301): Salvage Excavations at a Mississippian Hamlet. Tennessee Anthropologist XVIII(2):94-116.
• 1993 Archaeology at Old Town [40Wm2]: A Mississippian Mound-Village Center in Williamson County, Tennessee. Tennessee Anthropologist XVIII(1):27- 44.
• 1993 [with S.D. Ruple] Prehistoric Artifacts from the Fort Southwest Point Site: 1984-1986 Excavations. In Fort Southwest Point Archaeological Site, Kingston Tennessee: A Multidisciplinary Interpretation, edited by Samuel D. Smith. Tennessee Division of Archaeology, Research Series No. 9. Nashville.
• 1993 [with M.C. Moore] A Report of the 1992 Archaeological Investigations at the Brandywine Pointe Site (40Dv247), Davidson County, Tennessee. Tennessee Division of Archaeology, Department of Environment and Conservation, Report of Investigations No. 9. Nashville.
• 1992 [with M.C. Moore and M.R. Norton] Upland Archaeology in the Central Basin: Results of Limited Test Excavations at Site 40DV256, Davidson County, Tennessee. Tennessee Anthropologist XVII(2):131-155.
• 1991 Mississippian Figurines and Symbolic Systems of the Southeastern United States. In The New World Figurine Project Volume 1, edited by Terry Stocker. Research Press, Provo.