Robert L Thunen

Areas of Expertise

Archaeology, Southeastern U.S. Prehistory, Anthropology of Religion

Education

Ph.D., Anthropology, 1990, Northwestern University
M.A., Anthropology, 1983, Northwestern University
B.A., Anthropology, 1979, University of California, Santa Cruz Granted with Honors

Biography

Publications & Presentations

Scholarship—Chapters
“Defining Space: An Overview of the Pinson Mounds Enclosure.” In Ancient Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands, Robert C. Mainfort and Lynne P. Sullivan, editors. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1998.

"Geometric Enclosures in the Mid South: An Architectural Analysis of Enclosure Form." In The Middle Woodland Period in the Mid South. edited by Robert C. Mainfort, Department of Archives and History State of Mississippi Archaeological Report, No. 22. 1989.

Scholarship—Articles
Keith Ashley and Robert L. Thunen, “Reexamining an Archaeological Survey of Big
Talbot Island.” Florida Anthropologist. Vol. 61, Number 3-4 September- December 2008.

“Grants Mound: Past and Present,” Florida Anthropologist. Vol. 58, No. 3-4 September-
December 2005.

Robert L. Thunen and Keith H. Ashley
“Mortuary Behavior Along The Lower St. Johns: An Overview,” Florida Anthropologist. Vol. 48, No. 1 March 1995.