Archaeologist, Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research, Division of Historical Resources
Ph.D., Anthropology, Univ. of Florida, 2015
M.A., Anthropology, Univ. of Tennessee, 2008
B.A., Anthropology, Univ. of Florida, 2004
Background and Research Interests
After receiving a B.A. degree from the University of Florida, O’Donoughue enrolled in the graduate program at the University of Tennessee, where he conducted collaborative research on Paleoindian settlement, early container technologies (fiber-tempered pottery and soapstone vessels), and Archaic Period culture history, exchange, and social identity in the Tennessee River Valley and greater American Southeast. His thesis research utilized GIS to develop models of archaeological site location in the lower Coastal Plain of South Carolina. Jason returned to Gainesville in 2008 to pursue a Ph.D., with an emphasis on Archaic communities and freshwater springs in the St. Johns River valley.
Current Research Projects
Jason currently works in the Public Lands Archaeology program at the Florida Bureau of Archaeological research in Tallahassee. He continues his research on Florida’s freshwater springs with the aim of reconstructing their landscape histories, understanding their significance, and exploring the ways that archaeological and contemporary engagements with these places can be mutually revealing.
Recent Publications
- O’Donoughue, Jason M. 2017. Water from Stone: Archaeology and Conservation at Florida’s Springs. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.
- O’Donoughue, Jason M. 2015. Beyond the Event Horizon: Moments of Consequence (?) in the St. Johns River Valley. In The Archaeology of Events: Cultural Change and Continuity in the Pre-Columbian Southeast, edited by Zackary I. Gilmore and Jason M. O’Donoughue. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
- Gilmore, Zackary I., and Jason M. O’Donoughue (editors). 2015. The Archaeology of Events: Cultural Change and Continuity in the Pre-Columbian Southeast. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
- Randall, Asa R., Kenneth E. Sassaman, Zackary I. Gilmore, Meggan E. Blessing, and Jason M. O’Donoughue. 2014. Archaic Histories Beyond the Shell “Heap” on the St. Johns River. In New Histories of Precolumbian Florida, edited by Neill J. Wallis and Asa R. Randall, pp. 18-37. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Technical Reports
- O’Donoughue, Jason M., and Kenneth E. Sassaman. 2013. Phase I Archaeological Survey of Weeki Wachee Springs State Park, Hernando County, Florida. Technical Report 18. Laboratory of Southeastern Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville.
- O’Donoughue, Jason M., Kenneth E. Sassaman, Meggan E. Blessing, Johanna B. Talcott, and Julie C. Byrd. 2011. Archaeological Investigations at Salt Springs (8MR2322), Marion County, Florida. Technical Report 11. Laboratory of Southeastern Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville.