NATIVE AMERICANS

Joe Watkins (jwatkins@telepath.com) Joe Watkins, 1/2 Choctaw Indian, has been involved in archaeology for more than thirty years, receiving a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma and his Master's of Arts and Doctor of
Philosophy degrees in Anthropology from Southern Methodist University. His doctorate examined archaeologists' responses to questionnaire scenarios concerning their perceptions of American Indian issues. Currently employed as the Anadarko Agency Archeologist for the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs in southwest Oklahoma, he is
also a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology and the William Hammond Mathers Museum at Indiana University at Bloomington, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He recently has accepted a faculty position in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he will begin teaching January 2003.

Joe Watkins

He currently is chair of the Committee on Ethics of the American Anthropological Association and a member of the Ethics Committee of the Society for American Archaeology, and has served as past chairman of the Native American Scholarships Committee of the SAA, past chairman of the Committee on Native American Relations of the SAA, chairman of the Committee on Native American Issues of the Register of Professional Archaeologists, and as an advisor to the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records. He also serves as a Scientific Advisor to the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center in Flagstaff, Arizona. His book, Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Practice was released by AltaMira Press in December of 2000.

Archaeological Atlas of Kentucky

Reports in Archaeology and Anthropology Volume II

Archaeological Survey of Kentucky

Webb and Funkhouser - 1923

Published by the University of Kentucky, this work is a comprehensive listing of over 1,200 archaeological sites of the Bluegrass state encompassing mounds, villages, burials, shell heaps, etc.

This survey locates and briefly describes a total of one thousand, two hundred and fifty-five individual prehistoric sites in Kentucky. In some cases several types of individual remains are to be found on a single site. For the purpose of this summary, each type of individual remains has been counted separately. Thus if a site contained a village, a mound and a cemetery, these have been listed under separate heads.
The various types of archaeological remains and the number of each which have been located are as follows:

Mounds (earth) Mounds (shell) Earthworks and fortifications Camp and village sites Cemeteries Rock shelters Caves (inhabited) Springs and licks Workshops and quarry sites Caches Pictographs Miscellaneous	667 21 39 162 170 108 57 7 7 9 3 5
Total	1,255

POVERTY POINT LA. INDIAN SITE