Meghan Cook

B.A. Cultural and Historic Preservation, Salve Regina University, 2006

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Moore 1027
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Research interests: Historical archaeology of the New World, Ethnoconchology of Native American culture, Archaeology of personal adornment, French colonialism, Landscape archaeology, and the issues of gender, power, and identity.

Regional focus: North America

A closer look: Meghan Cook is an historical archaeologist who is currently working on the site of Fort St. Joseph in Niles, MI, a 17th-18th century French mission, garrison, and trading post. When not in the field she has worked as a laboratory assistant, inventorying, cataloging, and analyzing artifacts and flotation samples from the 2006 field season. Her current research focuses on the changing functions and symbolic meanings of wampum, and its spatial and temporal distribution across the Eastern United States and Midwest.