Jessi Halligan
  • Associate Professor
  • Center for the Study of the First Americans, Endowed Professorship
  • Associate Director, Center for the Study of the First Americans
  • Archaeology Program Coordinator
Research Areas
  • Archaeology

Biography

Courses Taught

  • ANTH 202- Introduction to Archaeology 
  • ANTH 302- Archaeology of North America
  • ANTH 330/660- Field Research in Anthropology
  • ANTH 412/602- Archaeological Theory
  • ANTH 447/647- Lithic Analysis
  • ANTH 451/652- First Americans Archaeology
  • ANTH 624- Geoarchaeology
  • ANTH 653- Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology
  • Introduction to Underwater Archaeology
  • Fundamentals of Archaeology

Research Interests

  • Geoarchaeology: landscape reconstruction, sediment analysis, site context analysis
  • Submerged landscapes and site preservation
  • Site chronologies and dating techniques
  • Karst geomorphology 
  • Late Pleistocene cultures and the peopling of the New World
  • Early Holocene culture change
  • Lithic analysis
  • Resilience theory and Human behavioral ecology
  • Underwater archaeology techniques, remote sensing and artifact conservation
  • Spatial analysis and GIS in archaeology
  • Digital data management and digital artifact analysis

Current Research Projects

  • Late Pleistocene Landscapes and People of Florida 
  • Submerged Landscapes of Lake Erie Project
  • Reevaluating BOEM’s Guidelines for Identifying Submerged Pre-Contact Archaeological Sites in the Gulf of Mexico: an Extensive Geoarchaeological Approach

Educational Background

  • Ph.D. Anthropology, Texas A&M University
  • AB, Anthropology, Harvard University

Selected Publications

  • Book

    Ford, Benjamin, Jessi J. Halligan, and Alexis Catsambis; 2020 Our Blue Planet: An Introduction to Maritime and Underwater Archaeology. Oxford University Press. 

     

    Journal Articles 

    Halligan, Jessi J., David K. Thulman, Adam Burke, and Morgan Smith 2023     The Early Holocene Archaeology of Florida: Geospatial Approaches to Understanding Bolen Mobility. Southeastern Archaeology 42(1):31-45.

    Mahan, C. M., Allaun, S. A., Surovell, T. A., & Halligan, J. J. 2023 The Weathering and Scavenging of Keratin. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 47, 1-6.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103807.

    Halligan, Jessi J. 2023 Geoarchaeology Underwater: Preparing Students to Manage Cultural Resources on Submerged Landscapes. Proceedings of the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology. 

    Halligan, Jessi J. 2022 Submerged Inland Landscapes of the Aucilla Basin, Northwest Florida, USA: Populating the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Landscape. World Archaeology 54(1):122-141. 

    Halligan, Jessi J. 2021 Geoarchaeological framework of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene sites in the Aucilla River Basin, Northwest Florida, USA. Geoarchaeology 36(2): 213-237. 

    Halligan, Jessi J. 2020  Crossing the Waterline: Integrating Terrestrial and Submerged Site Investigations in the Aucilla River, Florida. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 16(1): 46-63. 

    Edited Book Chapters

    Halligan, Jessi J. and Grayal E. Farr 2022 The Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Archaeology of Florida. In The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age, Edited by D. Shane Miller, Ashley Smallwood, and Jesse Tune. University of Alabama Press.

    Smith, Morgan F., Shawn A. Joy, Jessi J. Halligan, Michael R. Waters, David K. Thulman, M. K. Faught, Angelina Perrotti, Brendan Fenerty, Adam M. Burke, and Ryan M Duggins 2022 Contributions of Submerged Archaeological Research to the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Record of the Southeast. In The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age, edited by D. S. Miller, A. Smallwood and J. Tune. University of Alabama Press.