Eric S. Johnson

Research Interests

Archaeology, Eastern North America, cultural resource management, ethnohistory, Native Americans, technology, historical archaeology, political anthropology, museum studies

Education

1993 Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Dissertation: "Some by Flatteries and Others by Threatenings": Political Strategies Among Native Americans of Seventeenth-Century Southern New England.

198 M.A. Anthropology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

1978 B.A. Anthropology, magna cum laude, Duke University, Durham, NC

Professional Employment

1997-2003 Archaeologist/Preservation Planner, Massachusetts Historical Commission.

1986-1997 Instructor, Adjunct Assistant Professor, and Visiting Lecturer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst,

Division of Continuing Education and Department of Anthropology,

1993 Visiting Lecturer, Williams College, Department of Anthropology and Sociology

1989, 1991 Co-director, Archaeological Field School, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Department of Anthropology

1986-1994 Project Archaeologist, Editor, Lithic Analyst, Laboratory Supervisor, UMass Archaeological Services

Some Recent Publications

2000 Interpretations of Native North American Life: Material Contributions to Ethnohistory. Co-edited with

Michael S. Nassaney. University Press of Florida and the Society for Historical Archaeology, Gainesville.

2000 The Politics of Pottery: Material Culture and Political Process Among Algonquians of Seventeenth-

Century Southern New England. In Interpretations of Native North American Life, pp. 118-145.

2000 Contributions of Material Objects to Ethnohistory in Native North America. In Interpretations of Native North American, pp. 1-30. [co-authored with Michael S. Nassaney]

1999 Community and Confederation: A Political Geography of Contact-Period Southern New England. In The

Archaeological Northeast, edited by Mary Ann Levine, Michael S. Nassaney, and Kenneth E. Sassaman, pp.155-168. Bergin and Garvey, Westport, Connecticut.

1997 Archeological Overview and Assessment of the Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site, Saugus, Massachusetts. New England System Support Office, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.

1998 "Released From Thraldom By the Stroke of War": Coercion and Warfare in Native Politics of Seventeenth-Century Southern New England. Northeast Anthropology 55:1-13.

1996 Uncas and the Politics of Contact. In Northeastern Indian Lives, 1632-1816, edited by Robert S. Grumet, pp. 29-47. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst.

1993 Bifurcate Base Projectile Points in Eastern and Central Massachusetts: Distribution and Raw Materials. Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society 54(2):46-55.

1992 Amateur Collections Research in Massachusetts: Problems and Prospects. Man in the Northeast 43:61-73.

1984 Guide to Prehistoric Site Files and Artifact Classification System. Massachusetts Historical Commission, Boston. 281 pp. [co-authored with Thomas F. Mahlstedt]