PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR / SENIOR ARCHAEOLOGIST
GEORGIA OFFICE
PHONE: (770) 498-4155 EXT. 123
EMAIL: MMEYERS@NEWSOUTHASSOC.COM
Maureen Meyers has been with New South Associates since 2021 and serves the company as Senior Archaeologist. She has a B.S. in Anthropology from Radford University in Virginia, an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Georgia and received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Kentucky. Her areas of expertise include Southeastern archaeology, Mississippian settlement patterns and ceramics, frontier chiefdoms in southwestern Virginia, ceramic analyses, and Contact-period Native groups in Virginia and South Carolina. She is known for her work documenting and combatting sexual harassment in archaeology, disability in archaeology, and field safety, especially with nineteenth century arsenic embalming. Dr. Meyers has also worked with museum collections, including at the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Calvin Brown collections at the University of Mississippi. She has extensive experience in Section 106 in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions and has conducted projects on behalf of numerous state and federal agencies, including Virginia Department of Transportation, various military installations, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the National Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Savannah River Site, and Dominion Power. She has worked in Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virgina. She is the author of two edited volumes and multiple articles in regional and national journals. She is the President of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, as serves as an Advisor to the NSF-funded study on sexual harassment in archaeology.