Nathan Lawres

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Title
Assistant Professor; Director, Antonio J. Waring, Jr. Archaeological Laboratory
Department
Department of Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology
Institution
University of West Georgia
Email
nlawres@westga.edu

Education

  • PhD, Anthropology, University of Florida
  • MA, Anthropology, University of Central Florida
  • BA (Honors in the Major), Anthropology, University of Central Florida

Research Interests

Decolonization Theory   Monumentality   Southeastern Archaeology  

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Biography

I am an archaeological anthropologist focused primarily on the Precolumbian Southeastern United States. The primary focus of my research is in South Florida, specifically in the northern Everglades. It is here that the Mayaimi and Serrope, associated with the Belle Glade archaeological culture, lived, dwelling in a largely aqueous landscape. My research on the Belle Glade archaeological culture addresses multiple anthropological concerns. On a broader scale, I am interested in the ways that people interact with and live within their environment, which is related to numerous facets of human culture. My most recent research delves into how the ways people understand their lived world or reality (i.e., ontologies) affects the ways they live within and interact with that world. This, in turn, leads to specific cultural practices that are visible in the material record. Additionally, my research interests involve the intersections of archaeological practice and planning and development. I am currently involved in a project with colleagues aimed at evaluating ways we can shift the priorities afforded to archaeological and other cultural resources to increase the preservation of those resources for future generations.

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  1601 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30118

  678-839-6451

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List of Publications (12)
In 2022
12

Garland , Casey J. , Victor D. Thompson , Matt Sanger , Karen Smith , Fred T. Andrus , Nathan R. Lawres , Katherine Napora , Carol Caloninno-Meeks , Matt Compton , Sharyn Jones , Carla Hadden , Alex Cherkinsky , Thomas Maddox , Yi-Ting Deng , Isabelle Lulewicz , and Lindsey Parsons. A Multi-proxy Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change on Estuarine Resources for Late Holocene (ca. 4500 to 3800 BP) Native American Villages of the Georgia Coast, USA. PLoS ONE 17(3):e0258979, 2022.

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11

Lawres, Nathan R. and Matthew C. Sanger. Recentering the Turn: Bringing Native Philosophy into Ontological Studies. General Anthropology Bulletin 29(2):7-10, 2022.

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In 2021
10

Lawres , Nathan R. and Matthew H. Colvin. Variability in Belle Glade II Period (AD 200-1000) Monumental Construction: Big Gopher Mound, Architectural Morphology, and the Timing of Construction. The Florida Anthropologist 74(1):27-46, 2021.

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Lawres , Nathan R. Book Review: The Archaeology of Southeastern Native American Landscapes of the Colonial Era. Charles R. Cobb. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019, 286 pp., $90.00, cloth. ISBN: 9780813066196. Journal of Anthropological Research 77(1):146-148, 2021.

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In 2020
8

Thompson , Victor D., William H. Marquardt , Michael Savarese, Karen J. Walker, Lee A. Newsom, Isabelle Lulewicz, Nathan R. Lawres, Amanda D. Roberts Thompson, A. R. Bacon, Christoph A. Walser. Ancient Engineering of Fish Capture and Storage in Southwest Florida. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(15):8374-8381, 2020.

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In 2019
7

Lawres, Nathan R. and Matthew H. Colvin. Evidence for Large-Scale Rapid Construction in a Belle Glade Monument: Big Mound City Revisited. The Florida Anthropologist 72(4):215-243, 2019.

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6

Lawres, Nathan R., Andrew Carter, Timothy Murtha, and Madeline Brown. Back to the Front: Archaeological Resources and the Planning Process. Environmental Practice 21(4):189- 200, 2019.

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5

Murtha, Timothy M., Nathan R. Lawres, Tara Mazurczyk, and Madeline Brown. Investigating the Role of Archaeological Information and Practice in Landscape Conservation Design and Planning in North America. Advances in Archaeological Practice 7(4):382-394, 2019.

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In 2017
4

Lawres, Nathan R. and Matthew H. Colvin. Presenting the First Chronometric Dates from Big Mound City, Florida. The Florida Anthropologist 70(1- 2):59-69, 2017.

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3

Lawres, Nathan R. Materializing Ontology in Monumental Form: Engaging the Ontological in the Okeechobee Basin, Florida. Journal of Anthropological Research 73(4):647-694, 2017.

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In 2014
2

Lawres, Nathan R. Reconceptualizing the Landscape: Changing Patterns of Land-Use Among a Coalescent Culture. Journal of Anthropological Research 70(4):543-572, 2014.

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1

Butler, David S. B. and Nathan R. Lawres. Modeling Belle Glade Lithic Use Behaviors: A Case Study from Highlands County. The Florida Anthropologist 67(3):113-135, 2014.

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