Lindsey Cochran is an anthropological archaeologist specializing in historical archaeology and spatial archaeology. Her current research in historical archaeology focuses on antebellum culture in the Georgia lowcountry using geospatial methods to understand past people’s interaction with natural and cultural landscapes. She is also creates predictive models of which cultural heritage sites on the East Coast, USA, will be impacted by various effects of climate change, along with estimates of when those changes are expected to occur. Cochran earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Tennessee and completed a Postdoctoral Research Associateship from the University of Georgia. 

Dr. Cochran teaches undergraduate archaeology courses, oversees Archaeology labs on-campus and at the Valleybrook facility, and conducts contract archaeological projects. She directs an archaeological field school annually on the Georgia coast. 

Please feel free to contact Dr. Cochran with questions about the archaeology track at ETSU.

Course Level	Course Name
Undergraduate	Introduction to Archaeology
Undergraduate	Southeastern Archaeology
Undergraduate	Cultural Resource Management
Undergraduate	Archaeological Field Methods

 

Current Research

Ongoing research projects include :

(1) assessments of spatial statistical methods to create suitability models for estimating the location of cultural resources in various environmental and cultural contexts

(2) creating machine learning algorithms to consider historical maps as sources of Big Data

(3) assess the type and rate of shoreline change to estimate when cultural resources will be impacted by climate change

(4) an investigation of low-footprint living spaces of people that were enslaved on the Georgia coastal islands

Publications

Predictive Models of Georgia’s Coastal Paleo-Environmental Landscapes," in Palaeolandscapes in Archaeology: Lessons for the Past and Future, edited by Michael Carson. Routledge. 

Cocharn, Lindsey. 2021 Rival Landscapes of Georgia’s Coastal Plantations. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 61:101270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101270

Cochran, Lindsey and Nicholas Honerkamp. 2017. Reconciling Historic Maps with the Archaeological Record on Coastal Plantations: A Cautionary Tale. Early Georgia 45(1&2).