Join us for our 2010 Fall Program during which Dr. Sheldon will give a talk about Native Americans in the Wetumpka area during the early 1800's. This event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30.
Craig Turner Sheldon, Jr., Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Auburn-Montgomery is an archaeologist with research interests in the late prehistoric and early historic periods of the southeastern United States. Born in Fairhope, Alabama, he attended the University of Alabama where he received his BA. At the University of Oregon where he earned his MA and PhD, he was a National Defense Education Act Fellow. He is a member of Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi honor societies.
Dr. Sheldon served as the first NPS Ranger Archaeologist at Russell Cave National Monument in NE Alabama. After teaching at the University of West Georgia for six years, he taught at Auburn-Montgomery for 33 years.
He has conducted archaeological investigations in Alabama, Georgia, Oregon, on the island of Mindanao in the Republic of the Philippines and in Yucatan, Mexico. Dr. Sheldon has been appointed to the Alabama Historical Commission by three different governors; he currently serves as its Vice Chair.
His most recent publications are “Where Bartram Sat: Historic Creek Indian Architecture in the Eighteenth Century” (2010), “The Present State of Archaeological Survey” in The Search for Mabila (2009), "French Habitations at the Alabama Post, ca.1720-1763" (co-authors Ned J. Jenkins and Gregory A. Waselkov) in Archeologiques Collections Hors-Series (2008) and an introduction to The Southern and Central Alabama Expeditions of Clarence Broomfield Moore (2001).
