Publications

2024 Negotiating Interaction during the Late Woodland-Mississippian Transition in Southern Appalachia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Matthew LoBiondo

• Reveals how interregional interactions facilitated the spread of Mississippian practices in Southern Appalachia as well as the functional and stylistic analysis of pottery from the Etowah site.

• Multivariate statistics to identify homelands of disparate populations that engaged in monumental construction at Etowah.

• Disparate regional practices are maintained despite engaging in large-scale communal activities.

2023 Bead Color Symbolism and Colonialism in the Mohawk Valley during the Late 17th Century. BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers 35.

Matthew LoBiondo

• In the Mohawk Valley of eastern New York state, bead types and colors have been useful temporal markers, but their social and spiritual significance has received less attention.

• This paper addresses the metaphysical significance of glass beads from the Veeder (Fda-2) site, a late 17th-century Mohawk village in eastern New York state.

• Through the interpretation of color symbolism, the Veeder bead assemblage can be contextualized alongside multi-scalar phenomena such as colonialism, disease, warfare, and the largescale emigration of Catholic Mohawks. 

2018 A Problematic Mississippian Pipe from the William Vaux Collection. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 43(1):35-61. 

Richard Veit, Matthew LoBiondo

• This article examines the Mississippian effigy pipe in its cultural, historical, and religious contexts.

• It explores the larger question of the pipe’s authenticity and we argue that the pipe is almost certainly an original Mississippian pipe.