I. GENERAL INFORMATION:
Jane McManus Eastman
61 Pecan Dr.
Sylva, NC 28779
(828) 631-0583 jeastman@email.wcu.edu
II. EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Anthropology December 1999
MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Anthropology May 1990
BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Anthropology, with highest honors May 1986
III. HONORS:
C.B. Moore Award, excellence in archaeology for a young scholar in Southeastern studies,
Southeastern Archaeological Conference, 2002
Manning Prize, Anthropology Department dissertation award, UNC-CH, 2000
Timothy P. Mooney Fellowship, dissertation improvement grant, UNC-CH, 1997
John J. Honigman Award, undergraduate honor’s thesis prize, UNC-CH, 1986
Lambda Alpha (Anthropology Honorary)
IV. TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Sociology Department, Western Carolina University, July
2008 to present
Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Sociology Department, Western Carolina University, Fall
2002 – July 2008
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Western Carolina
University, Fall 2001 through Summer 2002
Lecturer and Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University,
Spring 1999 through Spring 2001
V. EMPLOYMENT:
Associate Professor, Director of Cherokee Studies, and Director of the Archaeology Lab –
Anthropology and Sociology Department, Western Carolina University, July 2011 to present
Associate Professor, Department Head, Director of Cherokee Studies and Director of the
Archaeology Lab – Anthropology and Sociology Department, Western Carolina University,
July 2009 – July 2011

Associate Professor, Interim Department Head, Director of Cherokee Studies and Director of the
Archaeology Lab – Anthropology and Sociology Department, Western Carolina University,
July 2008 – June 2009
Assistant Professor, Director of Cherokee Studies, and Director of the Archaeology Lab –
Anthropology and Sociology Department, Western Carolina University, Fall 2002 to July 2008
Visiting Assistant Professor – Anthropology and Sociology Department, Western Carolina
University, August 2001 to July 2002
Principal Investigator, Etheridge House Archaeological Project, Manteo, North Carolina, May
2001 to Feb. 2003
Lecturer and Visiting Assistant Professor - Anthropology Department, East Carolina University,
January 1999-May 2001
Course Instructor, Department of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill, Fall 1990, Fall 1993, Spring
1994, Summer 1995
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring 1989,
Spring 1990, Spring 1991, Spring 1992
Laboratory Supervisor and Field Director - Coastal Carolina Research, Inc., Cultural Resources
Management firm, Tarboro, May 1990-December 1998
Research Assistant - Research Laboratories of Archaeology, UNC-Chapel Hill, Fall 1987-Fall
1989, Spring 1993, Spring 1995, Fall 1995, Spring 1997-Spring 1998
Primary Consultant - North Carolina Radiocarbon Study, sponsored by the North Carolina
Department of Cultural Resources, July 1991-1994
Field Supervisor - Supervised test excavations of late prehistoric and historic sites in Orange
County, Stokes County, and Alamance County. Research Laboratories of Anthropology, UNC-
Chapel Hill, May-July 1989, 1988, and 1987.
Field Supervisor - Supervised test excavations of late prehistoric and historic sites in Chatham
County. Research Laboratories of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill, September-November
1986.
Field Supervisor - Supervised survey project in Alamance County. Research Laboratories of
Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill, January-August 1986.
Courses taught: Introduction to General Anthropology, World Prehistory, Origins of Civilization,
Archaeology of Southeastern U.S., Southeastern Mounds Tour, Introduction to Archaeology and Bioanthropology, North American Indians, Archaeology of Death, Experimental and
Replicative Archaeology, Field School in Prehistoric Archaeology, Neolithic Ireland and UK
Tour, Freshman Seminar (Cherokee World), Field School in Historic Archaeology,
Archaeological Problems and Analyses, and Graduate Methods, Theory, and Critique in
Cherokee Studies

VI. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND OFFICES HELD:
Southeastern Archaeological Conference, (executive officer; former associate editor, newsletter)
North Carolina Archaeological Council, (former vice president)
North Carolina Archaeological Society, (former executive board member)
RE-ARC Reconstructive and Experimental Archaeology Conference, Board of Directors
Jackson County Historical Commission, Vice President
National Register Advisory Committee for North Carolina (2003 – 2009)
North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, Public Advisory Committee
VII. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Eastman, Jane M.
2011 Traditions of the Earth: Introduction. In Cherokee Pottery: From the Hands of Our
Elders , by M. Anno Fariello, pp.13-26. The History Press, Charleston, S.C.
2002 Mortuary Analysis and Gender: The Response of Siouan Peoples to European
Contact. In The Archaeology of Native North Carolina , edited by Jane M. Eastman,
Christopher B. Rodning, and Edmond A. Boudreaux III, pp. 46-56. SEAC Special
Publication 7, Southeastern Archeological Conference.
2001 Life Courses and Gender among Late Prehistoric Siouan Communities. In
Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States , edited by Jane
M. Eastman and Christopher B. Rodning, pp. 57-76. Ripley Bullen Series, The
University Press of Florida, Gainesville, and the Florida Museum of Natural
History.
1999 The Sara and Dan River Peoples: Siouan Communities in North Carolina’s Interior
Piedmont from A.D. 1000 to A.D. 1700.
Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
1994 The North Carolina Radiocarbon Date Study (Part 2). Southern Indian Studies vol. 43.
1994
1993
The North Carolina Radiocarbon Date Study (Part 1). Southern Indian Studies vol. 42.
Seventeenth Century Lithic Technologies of the North Carolina Piedmont. In Indian
Communities on the North Carolina Piedmont, AD 1000 to 1700 , edited by H.
Trawick Ward and R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr., pp. 439-454. Monograph Series No. 2,
Research Laboratories of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
1990 Seventeenth Century Lithic Technologies of the Piedmont Siouans . Unpublished
Masters thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill.
Eastman, Jane M. (editor) n.d. The Dan River Culture in Virginia and North Carolina: Contributions of Richard P.
Gravely, Jr . Manuscript under review by the Archaeological Society of Virginia.
Eastman, Jane M. and Christopher B. Rodning (editors)

2001 Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States . Ripley Bullen
Series, The University Press of Florida, Gainesville, and the Florida Museum of
Natural History.
Eastman, Jane M., Christopher B. Rodning, and Edmond A. Boudreaux III (editors)
2002 The Archaeology of Native North Carolina . SEAC Special Publication 7,
Southeastern Archeological Conference.
Vanderwarker, Amber M., C. Margaret Scarry, and Jane M. Eastman
2007 Menus for Families and Feasts: Household and Community Consumption of Plants at
Upper Saratown, North Carolina. In We Were What We Ate: The Archaeology of
Food and Identity, edited by Katheryn C. Twiss, pp.16-49. Occasional Paper No.
34, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale.
Seramur, Keith C., Ellen A. Cowan, Loretta Lautzenheiser, and Jane M. Eastman
2007 Distribution and Preservation of Archaeological Sites Along Piedmont Streams: A
Model Developed from a Geoarchaeolgy Survey on the Deep River in North
Carolina. In Southeastern Archaeology 26(1): 32-46.
McManus, Jane M.
1985 An analysis of the Lithic Artifact Assemblage From the Forbush Creek Site (31Yd1),
Yadkin County, North Carolina. Southern Indian Studies vol. 34.
Eastman, Jane M., Loretta Lautzenheiser, Mary Ann Holm, and Thomas J. Padgett
1998 31DH614: A Prehistoric Lithic Workshop in Durham County, North Carolina.
North Carolina Archaeology 47:83-108.
Davis, R.P. Stephen, Jr., Jane Eastman, Thomas O. Maher, and Richard P. Gravely, Jr.
1997a Archaeological Investigations at the Box Plant Site, Henry County, Virginia.
Research
Report 13. Research Laboratories of Anthropology, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.
1997b Archaeological Investigations at the Stockton Site, Henry County, Virginia.
Research
Report 14. Research Laboratories of Anthropology, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.
1997c Archaeological Investigations at the Belmont Site, Henry County, Virginia.
Research
Report 15. Research Laboratories of Anthropology, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.
1997d Archaeological Investigations at the Wells Site, Henry County, Virginia.
Research
Report 16. Research Laboratories of Anthropology, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.
1997e Archaeological Investigations at the Gravely Site, Henry County, Virginia.
Research
Report 17. Research Laboratories of Anthropology, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.

1998a Archaeological Investigations at the Dallas Hylton Site, Henry County, Virginia.
Research Report 18. Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
1998b Archaeological Investigations at the Philpott Site, Henry County, Virginia . Research
Report 19. Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.
VIII. PROFESSIONAL REPORTS:
Eastman, Jane M.
2013 Pottery Typological and Functional Analysis. Report prepared for Louis Berger
Group, Inc., Raleigh, NC.
Eastman, Jane M., Paul R. Graham, and Deborah Adams Tiger
2006 Comprehensive Archaeological Survey of the Area Affected by the Proposed Eblen
Center for Social Enterprise, Buncombe County, North Carolina. Report prepared for
Eblen Charities, Asheville, North Carolina.
Eastman, Jane M. and Patricia M. Samford
2003 Archaeological and Geophysical Testing of the Etheridge House. Report prepared for
Outer Banks Conservationists, Inc., Manteo, North Carolina.
Eastman, Jane McManus, Loretta Lautzenheiser, and Mary Ann Holm
1995 Archaeological Data Recovery: Site 31DH614, Bridge Replacement Project B-2134,
South Fork Little River, Durham County, North Carolina . Report prepared for the
North Carolina Department of Transportation, Division of Highways, Planning and
Environmental Branch, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Eastman, Jane M., Victoria Saxe, Keith Seramur, Loretta Lautzenheiser, and Mary Ann Holm
1997 Archaeological Salvage Recovery: Site 31SK15, Stokes County, North Carolina,
NCDOT B-2634 and B-2635 . Report prepared for the North Carolina Department of
Transportation, Division of Highways, Planning and Environmental Branch, Raleigh,
North Carolina.
Jane M. McManus
1986 Alamance County Archaeological Survey Project . ms. on file, Research Laboratories of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
IV. PAPERS PRESENTED:
Eastman, Jane M.
2014 Recent Work at Quanassee by Western Carolina University’s Summer Field
School . Paper presented at the Cherokee Archaeological Symposium, September
26, 2014, Cherokee, NC.
2014 Exploring the Use of Middle Woodland Crematory Basin: Results of Preliminary
Experimentation.
Paper presented at the 2014 Reconstructive and Experimental

Archaeology Conference, October 19, 2014, Gastonia, NC.
2013 Invited symposium discussant: Gender in Southeastern Archaeology and Beyond. 70 th
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Tampa, Florida.
2013 Exploring Middle Woodland Pottery: An Introduction to Student Experiments with
Micaceous Clays and Middle Woodland Tempers 2006-2013.
Paper resented at the
Cherokee Archaeological Symposium, Cherokee, NC.
2013 Exploring Middle Woodland Pottery: An Introduction to Student Experiments with
Micaceous Clays and Middle Woodland Tempers 2006-2013.
Paper resented at the 4 th
Annual Meeting of the Reconstructive and Experimental Archaeology Conference,
Gastonia, North Carolina.
2012 Of Pots and Pits: Exploring Cherokee Foodways.
Paper presented at the 69 th Annual
Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
2011 Archaeology and the Small Town: An Example of a Meaningful Collaboration.
Paper presented at the 68 th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference,
Jacksonville, Florida.
2010 An Update on the Dan River Phase . Paper presented at the Piedmont Archaeological
Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
2010 Reconstructing Early Cherokee Foodways . Paper presented at the 1 st Annual Meeting of the Reconstructive and Experimental Archaeology Conference, Gastonia, North
Carolina
2009 A Reconsideration of Early Qualla Foodways . Paper presented at the 66 th Annual
Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Mobile, Alabama.
2009 Cherokee Foodways: An Early Qualla Phase Perspective . Paper presented at North
Carolina Appalachian Summit Archaeology: New Visions of Ancient Times, Boone,
North Carolina.
2008 Evidence for Foodways at Spikebuck Town.
Paper presented at the 65 th Annual
Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina.
2007 An Early Qualla Phase Settlement at Quanassee Town.
Paper presented at the 64 th
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Knoxville,
Tennessee.
2007 Spikebuck Town (31CY3) Excavation: Life Across the Creek from the Mound.
Revised
Paper presented at the 42 nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
Annual Meeting, Oxford, Mississippi.
2006 Spikebuck Town (31CY3) Excavation: Life Across the Creek from the Mound.
Paper presented at the 63 rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference,
Little Rock, Arkansas.

2005 Pottery from the Cullowhee Mound site (31Jk2), WCU Stadium site (31Jk139), and
Ela (31Sw5) in Jackson and Swain Counties . Paper presented at the Qualla Ceramic
Workshop, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
2005 The Cullowhee Mound and a Late Qualla Homestead on Western Carolina
University's Campus . Paper presented at the 40 th Annual Meeting of the Southern
Anthropological Society, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2003 The Cullowhee Mound and a Late Qualla Homestead on Western Carolina
University's Campus . Paper presented at the 60 th Annual Meeting of the
Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina.
2000 Glass Beads and Long Distance Exchange in North Carolina’s Interior . Paper
Presented at the 2000 SHA Conference on Historical and Underwater Archeology,
Québec City, Canada.
2000 Growing Up and Growing Old: Gender and Life Cycles from an Archaeological
Perspective . Paper presented at the 57 th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern
Archaeological Conference, Macon, Georgia.
1997 Long-Distance Exchange: A View from the Periphery . Paper presented at the 54 th
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana.
1996 Searching for Ritual: A Contextual Study of Roasting Pits at Upper Saratown.
Paper presented at the 53 rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference,
Birmingham, Alabama.
1994 The Upper Saratown Site Complex: Exploring Site Structure . Paper presented at the
51st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington,
Kentucky.
1993 The Upper Saratown Site: Site Structure and Chronology . Paper presented at the 50 th
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Raleigh, North
Carolina.
1990 Lithic Technologies of the 17th-Century Siouans . Paper presented at the 47 th Annual
Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Mobile, Alabama.
C. Margaret Scarry, Amber M. VanDerwarker, and Jane M. Eastman
2004 Menus for Families and Feasts: Household and Community Consumption for Plants at
Upper Saratown, NC. Paper presented for We Are What We Eat: Archaeology, Food and Identity . Visiting Scholar Conference, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Seramur, Keith and Jane M. Eastman
1999 Deep Testing As a Means of Identifying and Evaluating Archaeological Sites in
Piedmont Floodplains: An Example from the Deep River . Paper presented at the
Uwharries Lithic Conference, Asheboro, North Carolina.