About L Moore



email:  Trowellove at gmail.com


I have worked in the historic preservation field since the mid 1980s, with a brief interlude in the financial services industry. Residing in Wagoner County, OK, I am an archeologist for a federal agency. Below are some publications.

MA Anthropology, U Montana, 1986
BA Economics, UC Irvine, 1983
BA Comparative Culture, UC Irvine, 1981

The Sociology of Archaeology

Moore, L. E.
2013   Trowel Love: Essays on the Sociology of American Archaeology. Trowel Love Enterprises: Broken Arrow, 0K

2009   Nomads and Commanders: Welcoming Generation X. The SAA Archaeological Record 9(5): 33-36.

2007   Archaeology’s High Society Blues: Reply to McGimsey. The SAA Archaeological Record 7(4): 11-14, 32.

2007   The End of Prehistory. Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter 40(1): 26-28.

2006   Toward a Still and Quiet Conscience: A Study in Reflexive Archaeology. North American Archaeologist 27(2): 149-174.

2006   Going Public: Customization and American Archaeology. The SAA Archaeological Record 6(3): 16-19.

2006   CRM: Beyond its Peak. The SAA Archaeological Record 6(1): 30-33.

2005   Book review of Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice: Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations edited by Matt Edgeworth. European Journal of Archaeology 8(3): 306-308.

2005   Social Change and Oklahoma Public Archaeology. North American Archaeologist 26(4): 389-397.

2005   A Forecast for American Archaeology. The SAA Archaeological Record 5(4): 13-16.

2001   The Misplaced Trowel. North American Archaeologist 22(4): 387-402.

1994   The Ironies of Self-Reflection in Archaeology. In Archaeological Theory: Progress or Posture? Edited by Ian Mackenzie, pp. 43-56. Worldwide Archaeology Series #11, Avebury/Ashgate Publishing Co., Brookfield, VT.

1994   Getting Back to Work: Reply to Mackenzie. In Archaeological Theory: Progress or Posture? Edited by Ian Mackenzie, pp. 61-65. Worldwide Archaeology Series #11, Avebury/Ashgate Publishing Co., Brookfield, VT.

1986   Patterns without Rhythm: Social Structure Ambiguity in an Archaeological Field Camp. Masters Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Montana, Missoula.

Archaeological Research

Moore, L. E. and Gwen J. Hurst
2005   Medicine for the Troops: Glass from a Civil War Encampment in Centreville, Virginia. Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 60(3): 150-176.

Moore, L. E. and Richard Busch
2003   The Hogback Valley and Its Relation to Denver Area Prehistory. Southwestern Lore 69(3): 1-25.

Moore, L. E.
2002   Prehistoric Sites and Settlement Patterns in the Ken-Caryl Valley, Jefferson County, Colorado. Southwestern Lore 68(1): 1-22.

1995    A Glimpse of Centreville's Past. Fairfax Chronicles 18(1): 1, 3-4.

1995   Studying the Modern Period: Expanding the Perspective of Historical Archaeology. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 11:119-124.

Moore, L. E., Douglas W. Owsley, and Karin L. Sandness.
1995   Military and Civilian Burials from Centreville, Virginia. Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 50(4): 27-45.

Moore, L. E.
1994   Notes on the Prehistory of Dunn Loring, Virginia. Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 49(1): 25-31.

1994   Digging in Dunn Loring. Fairfax Chronicles 17:1, 10-11.

1993   Piscataway, Doeg, and the Potomac Creek Complex. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 9:117-138.

1992   Down in the Uplands. Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 47(3): 129-139.

1991   A Little History of the Doeg. Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 46(2): 7785.

1989   Archaeology and the Dogue. Fairfax Chronicles 12(5): 1, 6-8.