Turner Hunt

Biographic Data

ID4894801
NAMETurner Hunt
GIVEN NAMESTurner
FAMILY NAMEHunt
SIGNATUREHUNT T
AFFILIATIONSCollege of the Muscogee Nation
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Collaborative Archaeology, Public Parks, and the Importance of Chronology at Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

    Open AccessV D Thompson, Jasmine Birch et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2026References: 33

    Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, located in Macon, Georgia, is one of the most iconic cultural sites in the Southeast and is a Traditional Cultural Place (TCP) of the Muscogee Nation and other federally recognized Tribal Nations. Early work (1933–1941) revealed a network of earthen monuments and other features. Prior to our work, there were only two radiocarbon dates from the primary Native American occupation of Ocmulgee. Both were run …

  • The NAGPRA Nexus, Institutional Integrity, and the Evolving Role of Archaeological Laboratories

    Open AccessAmanda D Roberts Thompson, V D Thompson et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Archaeological Practice2023Cited by: 1References: 13

    In November 1995, the Laboratory of Archaeology at the University of Georgia submitted inventories and summaries of Indigenous ancestors and funerary objects in its holdings to comply with the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). However, after this submission, the Laboratory attempts at consultation with federally recognized descendant Tribal communities who have cultural ties in the state of Georgia we…

  • The role of radiocarbon dating in advancing Indigenous-led archaeological research agendas

    Open AccessJasmine Birch, Turner W Hunt et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2022

    Archaeology is an inherently colonial discipline. The field has its roots in Western knowledge systems, social and racial hierarchies, colonisation, and the dispossession of Indigenous pasts from contemporary descendant and traditionally affiliated communities (Gosden, 2012 ; McNiven and Russell, 2005 ; Trigger, 1984 ). Calls for and efforts towards decolonising the production of archaeological knowledge have been reverberating in the discipline …

  • The Early Materialization of Democratic Institutions among the Ancestral Muskogean of the American Southeast

    Open AccessV D Thompson, Jacob Holland‐lulewicz et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2022Cited by: 6References: 30

    Democratic cooperation is a particularly complex type of arrangement that requires attendant institutions to ensure that the problems inherent in collective action do not subvert the public good. It is perhaps due to this complexity that historians, political scientists, and others generally associate the birth of democracy with the emergence of so-called states and center it geographically in the 'West,' where it then diffused to the rest of the…