1997 - 1999 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology, MSU.
1994 - 1999 District Archaeologist, Acting Planning Team Leader (1998), Tombigbee Ranger District, US Forest Service
1993 - 1994 Consulting Archaeologist, Panamerican Consultants, Inc., Tuscaloosa, Alabama
1992 - 1993 Zone Archaeologist, Tombigbee and Holly Springs Ranger Districts, US Forest Service
1991 - 1992 Staff Archaeologist, Panamerican Consultants, Inc., Tuscaloosa, Alabama
HONORS, AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
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MSU College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Research Award in Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2016
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MSU Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award Nominee 2015
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MSU Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award Finalist 2013
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MSU College of Arts & Sciences Researcher of the Month, September 2012
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MSU StatePride Faculty Award, 2010
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Keynote Speaker, Mid-South Archaeological Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, 2010
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MSU College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Research Award in Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2008
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Book Mississippi Archaeology Q & A nominated for Society for American Archaeology public education book award, 2007
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Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom Overseas Research Student Award, 1995-98
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University of Sheffield Research Student Bursary, 1995-98
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US Forest Service Certificate of Merit, 1993, 1998, 1999; Certificate of Appreciation 1995, 1999
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M.Sc. With Distinction, Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield, 1990
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Member, National Lambda Alpha Anthropological Honors Society
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National Lambda Alpha 13th Annual Charles R. Jenkins National Scholarship Award, 1988
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summa cum laude graduate, MSU 1988
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E. B. McCool Scholarship, 1986-88
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MSU Academic Scholarship, 1985-88
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MSU Society of Scholars
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MSU Honors Program, 1986-88
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Phi Kappa Phi Scholastic Honorary Society
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Sigma Xi Scientific Research Association
PUBLICATIONS
In press. Peacock, Evan, Sarah K. Gilleland, Mary Madden, and Richard A. Weinstein
Different Methods, Different Results: Analysis of a Gastropod Assemblage from Site 41HM61, Hamilton County, Texas. Plains Anthropologist.
In press. Peacock, Evan. The Lyon’s Bluff Site. Entry for
The Mississippi Encyclopedia. University Press of Mississippi.
In press. Peacock, Evan. Mussel Shell Analysis from the 1990-1991 Salvage. In
The Oliver Site (22-Co-503), Coahoma County, Mississippi: Collected Papers, edited by John M. Connaway, Jay K. Johnson, and Patricia Galloway. Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Publications (cont.)
2017 Peacock, Evan, Joseph Mitchell, and Cliff Jenkins. Pre-Columbian Freshwater Mussel Assemblages from the Tallahatchie River in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Basin, USA. American Malacological Bulletin. In press.
2016 Mitchell, Joseph, Evan Peacock, and Shon Myatt. Sampling to Redundancy in an Applied Zooarchaeology: A Case Study from a Freshwater Shell Ring in the Mississippi Delta, Southeastern USA.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 5:499-508
2016 Peacock, Evan. Development and Applications of a Minimally Destructive Method of Sourcing Shell via LA-ICP-MS. In
20 Year Retrospective of National Center for Preservation Technology and Training Sponsored Archeology, edited by Tad Britt, pp. 61-71. National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. In press.
2016 Peacock, Evan, and Irvy R. Quitmyer. Pre-Columbian Foraging in Stable, Inland Environments: An Archaeological Example from the Tombigbee River Drainage, Mississippi and Alabama.
Journal of Ethnobiology 36(2):294-311.
2016 Peacock, Evan. Prehistoric Molluscan Faunas of the Mississippi Black Prairie. In
Southeastern Grasslands: Natural History, Conservation, and Management, edited by JoVonn Hill and John Barone. University of Alabama Press. In press.
2016 Seltzer, Jennifer, and Evan Peacock. Reconstructing Prehistoric Prairie Habitat Types using Archaeological Data. In
Southeastern Grasslands: Natural History, Conservation, and Management, edited by JoVonn Hill and John Barone. University of Alabama Press. In press.
2016 Peacock, Evan, Rinat Gabitov, Jonathan R. Frisch, Carla S. Hadden, Bradley Carlock, and Kate L. Henderson. LA-ICP-MS Chemical Analysis of Archaeological Otoliths as a Tool for Seasonality and Site Catchment Studies.
Journal of Archaeological Science 65:11-19.
2015 Galloway, Patricia, and Evan Peacock (eds.).
Exploring Southeastern Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Samuel O. Brookes. University Press of Mississippi.
2015 Peacock, Evan. Archaeology on the National Forests of North Mississippi: A Brief Retrospective. In
Exploring Southeastern Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Samuel O. Brookes, edited by Patricia Galloway and Evan Peacock, pp. 9-22.University Press of Mississippi.
2015 Peacock, Evan. Artifact Assemblages from Two Early Middle Woodland Tchula Period Sites on the Holly Springs National Forest, North Mississippi. In
Exploring Southeastern Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Samuel O. Brookes, edited by Patricia Galloway and Evan Peacock, pp.119-145. University Press of Mississippi.
2015 Peacock, Evan, and Patricia Galloway. Introductory Remarks. In
Exploring Southeastern Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Samuel O. Brookes, edited by Patricia Galloway and Evan Peacock, pp. 3-6. University Press of Mississippi.
2014 Mitchell, Joseph, and Evan Peacock. A Prehistoric Freshwater Mussel Assemblage from the Big Sunflower River, Sunflower County, Mississippi.
Southeastern Naturalist 13(3):626-638.
2014 Peacock, Evan. “Boning Up” on Archaeological Significance.
Anthropology 2(2):e121.
Publications (cont.)
2014 Peacock, Evan, Stuart W. McGregor, and Ashley A. Dumas. Behavioral, Environmental, and Applied Aspects of Molluscan Assemblages from the Lower Tombigbee River, Alabama., U.S.A. In
Trends and Traditions in Southeastern Zooarchaeology, edited by Tanya M. Peres, pp. 186-211. University Press of Florida.
2014 Obituary for Richard Arling Marshall.
Anthropology News, March/April 2014.
2013 Peacock, Evan, Amy Moe-Hoffman, Robert Scott, and Marvin D. Jeter. Prehistoric Freshwater Mussel Faunas from Bayou Bartholomew, Southeast Arkansas.
Southeastern Archaeology 32(1):1-13.
2013 Peacock, Evan, and Janet Rafferty. The Bet-Hedging Model as an Explanatory Framework for the Evolution of Mound Building in the Southeastern United States. In
Beyond Barrows: Current Research on the Structuration and Perception of the Prehistoric Landscape through Monuments, edited by David R. Fontijn, Arjan Louwen, and Karsten Wentink, pp. 253-278. Sidestone Press.
2012 Peacock, Evan. Archaeological Freshwater Mussel Remains and Their Use in the Conservation of an Imperiled Fauna. In
Conservation Biology and Applied Zooarchaeology, edited by Steve Wolverton and R. Lee Lyman, pp. 42-67. University of Arizona Press.
2012 Peacock, Evan, Charles R. Randklev, Steve Wolverton, Ronald A. Palmer, and Sarah Zaleski. The “Cultural Filter,” Human Transport of Mussel Shell, and the Applied Potential of Zooarchaeological Data.
Ecological Applications 22(5):1446-1459.
2011 Peacock, Evan, Cliff Jenkins, Paul F. Jacobs, and Joseph Greenleaf.
Archaeology and Biogeography of Prehistoric Freshwater Mussel Shell in Mississippi. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 2297. Archaeopress.
2011 Seltzer, Jennifer L., and Evan Peacock. Determining the Season of Mississippian House Construction from Plant Impressions in Daub.
Southeastern Archaeology 30(1):123-133.
2010 Peacock, Evan, Philip J. Carr, Sarah E. Price, John Underwood, William L. Kingery, and Michael Lilly. Confirmation of an Archaic-Period Mound in Southwest Mississippi.
Southeastern Archaeology 29(2):355-369.
2010 Parkinson, William A., Evan Peacock, Ronald A. Palmer, Yunju Xia, Bradley Carlock, Attila Gyucha, Richard W. Yerkes, and Michael L. Galaty. LA-ICP-MS on Ceramic Incrustation Indicates Long-Term Cultural Continuity in the Prehistoric Carpathian Basin.
Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia 38(2):64-70.
2010 Peacock, Evan
, and Cliff Jenkins. The Distribution and Research Value of Archaeological Mussel Shell: An Overview from Mississippi.
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 35(1):91-116.
2010 Peacock, Evan, Ronald A. Palmer, Yunju Xia, Weston Bacon-Schulte, Bradley Carlock, and Jennifer Smith. Chemical Sourcing of a Prehistoric Freshwater Shell Artifact Using Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry.
Archaeology of Eastern North America 38:91-99.
2009 Jacobs, Paul, Evan Peacock, and Joseph Greenleaf. An Extensible Freshwater Mussel Biogeography Database for Mississippi using Archaeological Data. Abstracts of the National Shellfisheries Association 101
st Annual Meeting, March 22-26, Savannah, Georgia.
Journal of Shellfish Research 28(3):705.
Publications (cont.)
2009 Peacock, Evan. Freshwater Mussel Biogeography in the Tombigbee River Drainage as Revealed by Archaeological Shell. Abstracts of the National Shellfisheries Association 101
st Annual Meeting, March 22-26, Savannah, Georgia.
Journal of Shellfish Research 28(3):719.
2009 Peacock, Evan. Review of
An Investigation of the Common Cockle (Cerastoderma edule (L)): Collection Practices at the Kitchen Midden Sites of Norsminde and Krabbesholm, Denmark, by Eva M. Laurie.
Journal of Archaeological Science 36(4):1100-1101.
2009 Peacock, Evan. Review of
Zooarchaeology, 2
nd ed., by Elizabeth J. Reitz and Elizabeth S. Wing.
Journal of Archaeological Science 36(1):186.
2009 Peacock, Evan, and James K. Feathers. AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Temper in Shell-Tempered Ceramics: Test Cases from Mississippi, Southeastern U.S.A.
American Antiquity 74(2):351-369.
2009 Peacock, Evan, and Jennifer L. Seltzer. Corrigendum to “A Comparison of Multiple Proxy Data Sets for Paleoenvironmental Conditions as Derived from Freshwater Bivalve (Unionid) Shell.”
Journal of Archaeological Science 36(1):187.
2009 Rafferty, Janet, and Evan Peacock. Frequency Seriation and Settlement Patterning: A Response to McNutt.
Southeastern Archaeology 28(2):271-274.
2008 Feathers, James, and Evan Peacock. The Origins and Spread of Shell-Tempered Ceramics in the Eastern Woodlands: Conceptual and Methodological Frameworks for Analysis.
Southeastern Archaeology 27(2):286-293.
2008 Peacock, Evan. Paleoenvironmental Modeling in the Lower Mississippi River Valley: Past and Future Approaches. In
Time’s River: Archaeological Syntheses in the Lower Mississippi River Valley, edited by Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock, pp. 69-98. University of Alabama Press.
2008 Peacock, Evan. Review of
Hunting for Hides: Deerskins, Status, and Cultural Change in the Protohistoric Appalachians, by Heather A. Lapham.
Journal of Alabama Archaeology 54(1 and 2):61-63.
2008 Peacock, Evan. Review of
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 6: Ethnicity, edited by Celeste Ray.
Journal of Mississippi History 70(1):112-113.
2008 Peacock, Evan, Stephen Michael Davis, and Timothy M. Ryan. Microdebitage Analysis at a Prehistoric Site in Grenada County, Mississippi. Pp. 49-66 in
Mississippi Archaeology 43(1), whole volume, “Archaeological Investigations at the Pinnix Site (22GR795): A Prehistoric “Lithic Scatter” in the North Central Hills of Mississippi,” compiled by Evan Peacock.
2008 Peacock, Evan, James K. Feathers, Jeffrey Alvey, and Keith Baca. Space, Time and Form at the Pinnix Site (22GR795): A “Lithic Scatter” in the North Central Hills of Mississippi. Pp. 67-106 in
Mississippi Archaeology 43(1), whole volume, “Archaeological Investigations at the Pinnix Site (22GR795): A Prehistoric “Lithic Scatter” in the North Central Hills of Mississippi,” compiled by Evan Peacock.
2008 Peacock, Evan, and Jochen Gerber. Using Land Snails and Freshwater Mussels to Chart Human Transformation of the Landscape: An Example from Northeast Mississippi, U.S.A. In
Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology, 2
nd edition, edited by Elizabeth J. Reitz, C. Margaret Scarry, and Sylvia J. Scudder, pp. 123-141. Springer Science Business Media.
Publications (cont.)
2008 Peacock, Evan, and S. Homes Hogue. A Qualification Concerning Beck et al.’s (2006) Mention of a Possible Soto-Era Artifact from the Lyon’s Bluff Site (22OK520), Mississippi.
Southeastern Archaeology 27(1):144.
2008 Peacock, Evan, and Katy M. Manning. Analysis of Chert and Sandstone at the Pinnix Site (22GR795), Grenada County, Mississippi. Pp. 1-34 in
Mississippi Archaeology 43(1), whole volume, “Archaeological Investigations at the Pinnix Site (22GR795): A Prehistoric “Lithic Scatter” in the North Central Hills of Mississippi,” compiled by Evan Peacock.
2008 Peacock, Evan, and Sarah Mistak. Freshwater Mussel (Unionidae) Remains from the Bilbo Basin Site, Mississippi, U.S.A.: Archaeological Considerations and Resource Management Implications.
Archaeofauna: International Journal of Zooarchaeology 17:9-20.
2008 Peacock, Evan, John Rodgers, Kevin Bruce, and Jessica Gray. Assessing the Pre-modern Tree Cover of the Ackerman Unit, Tombigbee National Forest, North Central Hills, MS, Using GLO Survey Notes and Archaeological Data.
Southeastern Naturalist 7(2):245-266.
2008 Peacock, Evan, and Jennifer Seltzer. A Comparison of Multiple Proxy Data Sets for
Paleoenvironmental Conditions as Derived from Freshwater Bivalve (Unionid) Shell. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(9):2557-2565.
2008 Manning, Katy M., and Evan Peacock. Minimum Nodule Analysis, Lithic Refits, and Occupation Analysis at the Pinnix Site (22GR795), North Mississippi. Pp. 35-48 in
Mississippi Archaeology 43(1), whole volume, “Archaeological Investigations at the Pinnix Site (22GR795): A Prehistoric “Lithic Scatter” in the North Central Hills of Mississippi,” compiled by Evan Peacock.
2008 Rafferty, Janet, and Evan Peacock. The Spread of Shell Tempering in the Mississippi Black Prairie.
Southeastern Archaeology 27(2):253-264.
2008 Rafferty, Janet, and Evan Peacock (eds.).
Time’s River: Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi River Valley. University of Alabama Press.
2008 Rafferty, Janet, and Evan Peacock. Introduction: Reconsidering the Archaeology of the Lower Mississippi River Valley. In
Time’s River: Archaeological Syntheses in the Lower Mississippi River Valley, edited by Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock, pp. 1-7. University of Alabama Press.
2008 Rafferty, Janet, and Evan Peacock. Fording the River: Concluding Comments. In
Time’s River: Archaeological Syntheses in the Lower Mississippi River Valley, edited by Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock, pp. 426-432. University of Alabama Press.
2007 Peacock, Evan. Review of
This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain, by Mikko Saikku.
Mississippi Quarterly 60(1):228-229.
2007 Peacock, Evan. Review of
The Native American World Beyond Apalachee, by John H. Hann.
Florida Historical Quarterly 85(1):112-114.
2007 Peacock, Evan, Lauren Lowrey, S. Homes Hogue, James Barnett, and Janet Rafferty. Vertebrate and Invertebrate Remains from Early Nineteenth Century, Historic Indian Occupations in Central Mississippi: The Loper (22NE548) and Jackson’s Well (22AT512) Sites.
Mississippi Archaeology 42(1):67-102.