BIO of Christopher S. Turner:
1976-1978 Attended Louisiana State University at New Orleans
1978-1980 Attended Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
I was a student worker in the physics department for the astronomer Howard Bond
2003-2005 attended / received Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from SIUC 2005
Presently in graduate program for Master's Degree, SIUC Anthropology Department
Studying since 1980 archaeoastronomy, especially as concerns the Middle Woodland Hopewell and Adena earthworks in southern Ohio.
Ongoing Master Thesis research and fieldwork involves the collection of oral traditions along the Natchez Trace in Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee.
Received Rice Award from Anthropology Department for paper written in fall 2004 at SIUC:
“Three Examples of Archaeoastronomy at Ft. Ancient”
Turner, Christopher S. --- CONFERENCES ( papers / posters )
1999 Calendrical Sightlines at the Hopeton Earthworks (and)
A Chronology of Hopewell Geometric Earthwork Construction.
Both papers presented at the Eastern States Archaeological Federation 66th annual
meeting, Kings Island, OH.
2000 Toward a Model of Hopewell Subsistence Scheduling: the Geometrical Earthworks of Ohio as Calendrical Devices. Poster presented / paper distributed at the Perspectives on the Middle Woodland at the Millennium conference, Center for American Archaeology, Pere Marquette State Park, Grafton, IL.
2001 Archaeoastronomy and Landscape at the Hopeton Earthworks. Paper presented at the 66th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA.
2001 Prehistoric Native American Calendrical / Monumental Architecture in
Ohio: Chronology, Form, and Motive. Poster presented at the Fifth Biennial History
of Astronomy workshop, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.
see text online at :
http://www.nd.edu/~histast4/exhibits/papers/turner.html
2001 Maps, Landscapes, and Sunrises: Archaeoastronomy at High Bank, Ross County, Ohio. Paper presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Society, La Crosse, WI.
2002 A Probabilistic Analysis of Calendrical Sightlines at the Hopeton Earthworks, Ross County, Ohio. Paper presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Society, Columbus, OH.
2003 A Report on Archaeoastronomical Research at the Hopeton Earthworks, Ross Co.,OH. Paper presented at the Sixth Biennial History of Astronomy workshop, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.
2004 Middle Woodland Archaeoastronomy in Ohio. Paper presented at the 7th Oxford International Conference on Archaeoastronomy, Flagstaff, AZ.
2004 Three Cases of Archaeoastronomy at Ft.Ancient. Paper presented at the combined 50th Midwest Archaeological Conference and the 61st Southeastern Archaeological Conference, St. Louis, MO.
2004 Statistical Analysis of Hively and Horn's Archaeoastronomical Claims at the Newark Octagon. Poster presented at the combined 50th Midwest Archaeological Conference and the 61st Southeastern Archaeological Conference, St. Louis, MO.
2005 Wovoka's Vision: Total Solar Eclipse Iconography as Found in Plains Ghost Dance Imagery. Paper presented at the Seventh Biennial History of Astronomy workshop, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.
Publication:
Turner, Christopher S.
1982 Hopewell Archaeoastronomy. In Archaeoastronomy 5(3):9.
Archived:
Turner, Christopher S.
1983 An Astronomical Interpretation of the Hopeton Earthworks.
Available at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, Chillicothe, OH., and
at
Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH.
Assistanceship:
Turner, Christopher S.
fall 2008
Creation of thematic and reference maps using GIS. Plotting of Formative Period
Mixteca archaeological sites in Oaxaca, Mexico for Dr. Andrew Balkansky, SIUC.