In Memorium
Ph.D., Anthropology, Univ. of Florida, 2009
M.A., Anthropology, Univ. of West Florida, 2018
B.A., Anthropology, Univ. of Central Florida, 2010
Background and Research Interests
Although Jamie was born on Staten Island, New York, he spent most of his life and archaeological career in Georgia. While an undergraduate at Middle Georgia College (now Georgia College and State University) Jamie received credit for taking anthropology and archaeology classes at the University of Georgia, where he participated in his first archaeological field school in 1996. After a couple of years doing Cultural Resource Management archaeology for Southern Research, Inc., Jamie enrolled in graduate studies at Florida State University, where he earned an M.A. in Anthropology in 2002. That same year Jamie matriculated in the Ph.D. program in Anthropology at the University of Florida. He graduated with a Ph.D. in August 2009, a little more than a month before his body succumbed to the cancer he fought with great courage since the summer of 2008. In addition to dissertation fieldwork along the Chickasawhatchee and Ichawaynochaway Creeks of southwestern Georgia, Jamie participated in field projects in central Georgia, northeastern Georgia, Florida, and Mexico.
Jamie’s passion for and commitment to archaeology will never be forgotten.
Publications
- Waggoner, James C., Jr. 2009. Fiber-Tempered Pottery, Soapstone Vessels, and Shifting Alliances in the Interior Coastal Plain of the Late Archaic Southeast. Southeastern Archaeology 28:137-147.
- Waggoner, James C., Jr. 2009. Footprints on the Landscape: The Historical Ecology of Hunter-Gatherers in the Archaic Southeast. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville.
- Waggoner, James C., Jr. 2006. A Techno-Functional Analysis of Fiber-Tempered Pottery from the Squeaking Tree Site (9TF5), Telfair County, Georgia. Early Georgia 34.
- Waggoner, James C., Jr. 2005. Ridgeway Road: An Archaeological Survey in West-Central Georgia. Early Georgia 33.