James B. Stoltman entered graduate school at the University of Minnesota in 1960. His Master's thesis was on Laurel ceramics of Northern Minnesota. Elden Johnson, a prominent figure at the University of Minnesota, was Stoltman's advisor during these studies.
In February of 1964, James B. Stoltman began conducting fieldwork at the Groton Plantation in South Carolina for his doctoral dissertation. Twenty-one sites were unearthed at this locality, providing information about the Savannah River Archaic peoples. Radiocarbon dates of Stallings Plain pottery dated the site to about 2,500 years ago. Radiocarbon dates on charcoal confirm this. Other evidence indicates that the site was probably reoccupied around 1450 CE. Stoltman earned his doctorate from Harvard University in 1967.
James B. Stoltman currently serves as the Director of the Laboratory of Archeology at the University of Wisconsin Madison. His research interests include North American archeology, archaeological methods and theory, environmental archeology, ceramics and petrographic analysis.
Professor James B. Stoltman can be contacted by email at: stoltman@facstaff.wisc.edu
Stoltman, James. Groton Plantation: An Archaeological Study of a South Carolina Locality. Harvard, 1974.
Stoltman, James. "New Radiocarbon Dates for SE Fiber-Tempered Pottery." American Antiquity. Vol. 31, No. 6, 1966.
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Written by students in an Introduction to Anthropology course at MSU-Mankato
Edited by Amy Landin, 2007