In 2012, the Southeastern Archaeological Conference established the Patty Jo Watson Award for best article or book chapter on Southeastern Archaeology. This award honors Patty Jo Watson, one of America’s best regarded scientists, for her vast contributions to Southeastern archaeology.

Eligibility

Any articles or book chapters in edited volumes on Southeastern archaeology are eligible. The award will be given to articles and chapters with copyright dates from the preceding calendar year. Thus, all nominations for the 2023 award must have a 2022 copyright date. All articles published in Southeastern Archaeology during 2022 are automatically nominated. Reports published in the journal during 2022 can also be nominated (see below).

Nominations

Nominations can be made by authors, journal editors, volume editors, and publishers and editors of edited volumes, and other sources. The nominating committee contact information for the Patty Jo Watson Award can be found on the Standing Committees page. Please send nominations to the chair by June 15.

Award

The award will be presented at the annual meeting of SEAC during the Business Meeting when other awards are also presented.

Past Recipients

2024

• Maureen S. Meyers, Economy of production: A theory of household labor organization and material reuse, in Economic Anthropology, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12320
  

2023

• Maria Franklin, Samuel M. Wilson & Hugh B. Matternes

2022

• Jessie L. Johanson and Andrew Agha, Old Ways in New Places? Experimenting with Plants in the Early Plantation Setting, in Southeastern Archaeology 40(3):159-173, https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1945745

2021

• Anna F. Graham, Fuelwood Collection as Daily Practice: A Wood Charcoal Study for the Colonial Period North Carolina Piedmont, in Southeastern Archaeology 39(3):166-182, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2020.1781457

2020

• Beau Carroll, Alan Cressler, Tom Belt, Julie Reed, and Jan F. Simek, Talking Stones: Cherokee Syllabary in Manitou Cave, Alabama, Antiquity 93(368):519-536, 2019, https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.15

2019

• Karen Y. Smith and Keith Stephenson, The Spatial Dimension of the Woodland Period, in Southeastern Archaeology 37(2):112-128, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2017.1416887

2018

• Marvin T. Smith, Jon Marcoux, Erin Gredell and Gregory Waselkov, A Seventeenth-Century Trade Gun and Associated Collection from Pine Island, Alabama, in Southeastern Archaeology 36(1):62-74, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2016.1257237

• Penelope B. Drooker, Fabric Fragments from Pine Island, Alabama: Indicator of an Evolving Male Costume Item, in Southeastern Archaeology 36(1):75-84, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2016.1247633

2017

• Natalie Mueller and Gayle Fritz, Women as Symbols and Actors in the Mississippi Valley: Evidence from Female Flint-clay Figurines and Effigy Vessels, in Native American Landscapes: An Engendered Perspective, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville

2016

• Christopher B. Rodning, Mortuary Patterns and Community History at the Chauga Mound and Village Site, Oconee County, South Carolina, in Southeastern Archaeology 34(3):169-195, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1179/2168472315Y.0000000003

2015

• William H. Marquardt, Tracking the Calusa: A Retrospective, in Southeastern Archaeology 33(1):1-24, 2014, https://doi.org/10.1179/sea.2014.33.1.001

2014

• Jan F. Simek, Alan Cressler, and Nicholas P. Herrmann, Prehistoric Rock Art from Painted Bluff and the Landscape of North Alabama Rock Art, in Southeastern Archaeology 32(2):218-234, 2013, https://doi.org/10.1179/sea.2013.32.2.004