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Al Luckenbach
Al Luckenbach received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Anthropology/Archaeology from the University of Kentucky. Lucken- bach has taught at the University of Kentucky and the University of Texas at Dallas. He was employed at the Maryland Historical Trust from 1980–82 and 1986–88 reviewing both archaeological and architectural projects. Luckenbach held the position of County Archaeol- ogist for Anne Arundel County, Maryland for 28 years before retiring. He has published on a wide range of research interests, including such diverse topics as prehistoric soapstone bowls, Aztec languages, ancient Greek coins, and the uniforms of the Republic of Texas. As Director of the county’s Lost Towns Project, Luckenbach conducted research and excavations at three seventeenth-century towns — Providence (1649), Herrington (ca 1650), and London Town (1683). He has produced numerous publications as a result of this work. In 2009 Lost Towns Project turned its attention to the excavation of the prehistoric Pig Point Site — a deeply stratified site spanning over 10,000 years of human occupation.
Michael T. Lucas
Michael Lucas is Curator of Historical Archaeology at the New York State Museum. Lucas worked as an archaeologist in the Middle Atlantic region for 25 years before moving on to the museum in 2014. He received a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland in 2008 focusing on town development and settlement in Maryland between 1680 and 1720. He broadly studies transitions in rural production, labor, and community formation during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His current research program focuses on the historical archaeology of slavery in the Hudson River valley, with an empha- sis on the period from 1750 to 1820. He is co-editor of the book Archaeology of the War of 1812.
Scott M. Strickland
Scott M. Strickland is a Project Archaeologist, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Manager, and Adjunct Instructor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Strickland has a B.A. from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in Anthropology, and earned a Master’s Degree in Archaeological Computing — Spatial Technologies from the University of Southampton in 2012. Mr. Strickland currently teaches courses on computational anthropology and GIS. Research specialties include spatial patterning and modeling, colonial records research, and researching the history of Anglo-Native interaction in the seventeenth century in Maryland and Virginia.
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