The 28th Annual Armadillo Roast

The 28th Annual Armadillo Roast was Saturday April 3, 1999.

The winners of the annual pie contest are: Kathy Weedman (tempered), Joella Walz (untempered), and Jennifer Canon(decorated).

This year's recipients of the Charles H. Fairbanks Award are: John Arthur, Betsy Carlson, Theresa Shober, Corbett Torrence, and Kathryn Weedman. Each will receive $800 to be used in the furtherance of their graduate careers (and to help bring those careers to a close).

John Arthur's dissertation research focuses on the links between ceramic use and socio-economic structure. His ethnoarchaeological study was carried out among the Gamo people of southwestern Ethiopia.

Betsy Carlson's work reexamines the relationships between humans and their environment in the early stages of island colonization. Her data includes faunal collections from the Coralie site, believed to be the earliest human settlement on Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos.

Theresa Shober's dissertation uses bioarchaeology to examine the impact of colonization on the indigenous people of Baja California Sur. Isotopic analysis is used to compare patterns of diet, nutrition, and disease among the colonial period Pericú people and the precolumbian La Palmas and El Conchalito populations of the same region.

Corbett Torrence's southwest Florida fieldwork investigates the relationships among mound complex sites and power, authority, and ideology. Sites being used in the analysis are associated with the Caloosahatchee culture believed to be the precolumbian manifestation of the colonial Calusa Indians.

Kathy Weedman's doctoral research focuses on the relationships among artifact style, artifact function, and intra-ethnic divisions. Her data is derived from the Gamo people of Ethiopia who today still make and use stone tools for hide processing.