(Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1998)

Mark Groover’s research and teaching focuses upon the historical archaeology of eastern North America from the 1700s to the middle 1900s. His main research interest is the historical archaeology of rural life.

He is the author of a new book, The Archaeology of North American Farmsteads (University Press of Florida, 2008). His latest book is an invited volume in a new historical archaeology series called The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective.

His first book, An Archaeological Study of Rural Capitalism and Material Life: The Gibbs Farmstead in Southern Appalachia, 1790-1920 (Kluwer), was published in 2003. He has also written numerous journal articles and excavation reports.

Recent Publications

Books

Groover, Mark D. 2008 The Archaeology of North American Farmsteads. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

2003 An Archaeological Study of Rural Capitalism and Material Life: The Gibbs Farmstead in Southern Appalachia, 1790-1920. Kluwer, New York.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Cabak, Melanie A. and Mark D. Groover 2006 Bush Hill: Material Life at a Working Plantation. Historical Archaeology 40(4):51-83.

Groover, Mark D. 2005 The Gibbs Farmstead: Household Archaeology in an Internal Periphery. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 9(4):229-289.

2004 Household Succession as a Catalyst of Landscape Change. Historical Archaeology 38(4):25-42.

Groover, Mark D. and Richard D. Brooks 2003 The Catherine Brown Cowpen and Thomas Howell Site: Material Characteristics of Cattle Raisers in the South Carolina Backcountry. Southeastern Archaeology 22(1):92-111.