Bossio, Laura
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Publications & Presentations
Articles:
Chenoweth, J. M., Bossio, L. M., & Salvatore, M. (2021). Modeling Colonial Paternalism: GIS and Multispectral Satellite Imagery at Kingstown, British Virgin Islands. American Antiquity, 86(4), 734-751.
Presentations:
Evaluating the Role of Warfare in the Upper Mississippian Transition of the Western Lake Erie Region of the Lower Great Lakes by Laura M. Bossio and Drosos N. Kardulias. Paper presented at the SAA Conference, Denver, CO. April 2025.
The Maumee Archaeological Landscape Project: A Report on the 2023-2024 Field Season at the Buttonwood Site (33-WO-7b) in Perrysburg, Ohio by Laura M. Bossio and Drosos N. Kardulias. Poster presented at the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Milwaukee, WI. October 2024.
A comparative approach to wetland archaeology: Case studies from Northwestern Ohio and Southern Carpathian Basin by Laura M. Bossio and Iride Tomažič. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) in Rome, Italy. August 2024.
Introduction: Wetlands, Cultural Heritage, and the Power of Archaeology by Laura M. Bossio. Paper presented at the SAA Conference, New Orleans, LA. April 2024.
A Multifaceted Approach to Understand the Late Prehistoric Transition in the Maumee River Valley of Northwestern Ohio by Laura M. Bossio. Poster presented at the SAA Conference, Portland, OR. March 2023.
Survey at the Williams Site (33-WO-7a) of Northwestern Ohio: Transitional Archaic and Late Prehistoric Perspectives by Laura M. Bossio. Poster presented at the SAA Conference, Chicago, IL. April 2022.
At the Edge of the Interaction Sphere: Understanding Meadowood in Michigan by Laura M. Bossio. Presentation given for the Michigan Archaeological Society – River Raisin Chapter, Monroe, MI. March 2020.
Assessment of Mortuary Data at the Williams Cemetery (33-WO-7A) by Laura M. Bossio. Poster presented at the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Mankato, MN. October 2019.
Investigating Late Archaic Trade and Exchange in Southeast Michigan by Laura M. Bossio. Poster presented at the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Notre Dame, IN. October 2018.
The Woodland Ohio Monumentality Project (W.O.M.P.): Report from the 2017 field campaign at the Steel Group Site in Ross County, Ohio by Timothy D. Everhart, Laura M. Bossio, and James P. Torpy. Poster presented at the 2017 Midwest Archaeological Conference, Indianapolis, IN. October 2017.
Caribbean Colonialism and Space Archaeology by John M. Chenoweth, Mark Salvatore, and Laura Bossio. Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Detroit, MI. January 2017.
British Peasant Ideologies and Technological Approaches to Marginal Caribbean Landscapes by John M. Chenoweth, Mark Salvatore, and Laura Bossio. Paper presented at the 2017 SAA Conference, Vancouver, BC. April 2017.
Determining Membership of Historic Free Church by Laura Bossio. Poster presented at 2016 Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference, Detroit, MI. September 2016.
Chipped stone at the Hell Gap Site: informal tools, debitage, and heat treatment at Hell Gap by Laura Bossio and Mary Lou Larson. Poster presented at the Plains Anthro. Conference, Iowa City, IA, 2015.
Invited Presentations:
UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series | October 2024
The Upper Mississippian Transition on the Lower Great Lakes: A Case Study from the “Foot of the Rapids” of the Maumee River, Ohio.
Harrison Society Event at Fort Meigs Historic Site in Perrysburg, OH | November 2023
The Archaeology of the Late Precontact Period at the Foot of the Maumee Rapids.
Michigan Archaeological Society – Huron River Valley Chapter | September 2023
Investigations at the Williams #2 Site: Understanding an Emergent “Upper Mississippian” Village in Northwestern Ohio.
Education
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2025
M.A., Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2021
B.S., Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2016