Daniel A. LaDu
I earned my undergraduate degree in anthropology with a minor in archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) in May of 2007. In December of 2009, I received my Master’s Degree from the University of Alabama. My thesis examined the Mazique site (22Ad502), an important mound center located in the Natchez Bluffs region of the Lower Mississippi Valley, to determine whether mound construction here was primarily a result of Coles Creek or Plaquemine activity.
I have been involved in a variety of archaeological projects, from UNC’s Catawba Indian Project in South Carolina to a UA collaboration in the mountainous Holguin province of Cuba. Most of my research has been conducted in the Natchez Bluffs region of Mississippi. The rich prehistory and history of the Lower Mississippi Valley (LMV) makes this area a tremendous cultural resource. My interests in the region include the emergence of complex societies, exchange, cultural transmission of ideas, the Coles Creek/ Plaquemine tradition, monumental and domestic architecture, ceramics, iconography, and settlement patterns (just to name a few)
I am a second year PhD student here at the University of Alabama. My graduate advisor is Dr. Ian W. Brown.
Contact Mr. LaDu at: daladu@crimson.ua.edu
Office: 416 Mary Harmon Bryant