Courses taught:
HUM 254 Around the World
ESCI 233 The Environment
ESCI 271 Archaeology and the Ancient World
ESCI 270 Environmental Science Online Module
Publications:
2018. Mitchell, J. Analysis of Mollusks from the Pruitt Shelter Archaeological Sites (3NW1308 & 3NW1309), Buffalo National River, Arkansas. Prepared for: Panamerican Consultants, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee.
2018. Hoffman, C. and J. Mitchell. Stone Rods from the Middleborough Little League Site. Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society 79(2)74-84.
2017. Mitchell, J. Prehistoric Molluscan Faunas of the Yazoo River, Mississippi, USA: Archaeological Perspectives for Modern Conservation. Environmental Archaeology http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2017.1288886.
2017. Peacock, E., Mitchell, J., and C.A. Buchner. Applied Zooarchaeology of Freshwater Mussel (Bivalvia: Unionidae) Shell from Golson (22HU508), a Deasonville-Period Site on the Yazoo River, Mississippi. Environmental Archaeology http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2017.1279841.
2016. Peaock, E., Kirkland, B., and J. Mitchell. Investigating Freshwater Mussel (Unionidae) Shell Diagenesis at an Archaeological Site on the Tombigbee River, Mississippi, Southeastern U.S.A.: Report on Analysis Conducted on Shell from the Vaughn Mound Site, 22LO538. Report submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, Mobile, Alabama.
2016. Peacock, E., Mitchell, J., and C. Jenkins. Pre-Columbian Freshwater Mussel Assemblages from the Tallahatchie River in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Basin, USA. American Malacological Bulletin 34(2):121-132.
2016. Mitchell, J., Peacock, E., and S. Myatt. Sampling to Redundancy in an Applied Zooarchaeology: a Case Study from a Freshwater Shell Ring in the Mississippi Delta, Southeastern USA. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 5:499-508.
2015. Peacock, E. and J. Mitchell. Analysis of Mollusk Shell. Pp. 123-130. In: Buchner et al., Data Recovery at the Golson Site (22HU508) Humphreys County, Mississippi. Panamerican Consultants, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee.
2014. Mitchell, J. and E. Peacock. A Prehistoric Freshwater Mussel Assemblage from the Big Sunflower River, Sunflower County, Mississippi. Southeastern Naturalist 13(3):626-638.
Hobbies
Dr. Mitchell enjoys trying new foods while traveling with his family, cooking, gardening, and watching classic films and college football.