Jodi Barnes, PhD, is an archaeologist and Principal Investigator at the Diachronic Research Foundation. For the past eight years she was an Associate Research Professor and Station Head at the Arkansas Archaeological Survey, and in 2004-2005 she was an intern at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. She received her PhD in Anthropology from American University in 2008, and is the author of several articles detailing the history of the Brown Mountain Creek Community, including “An Archaeology of Community Life: Appalachia, 1865-1920,” in the International Journal of Historical Anthropology (2011).