Recent Publications

Hermes, O.D., Luedke, B.E., and Ritchie, D., 2001, Melrose green rhyolite: Its geologic setting and petrographic and geochemical characteristics: Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 28, p. 913-928.

Hermes, O.D., and Pollock, S.G., 2001, Compositional characterization of the Mt. Jasper lithic source, New Hampshire: Its significance to Paleoindian archaeological sites: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, v. 33, p. A-13.

Hermes, O.D., 2000, What is this stuff anyway? Characterizing lithics in southeastern New England: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, v. 32, p. 416.

Freedman, J.F., and J.C. Boothroyd, 1999, Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene paleoclimate of southern Rhode Island: Geological Society of America Abs. with Program, v. 31, No. 1, p. 17.

Boothroyd, J.C., 1999, Surficial geologic mapping in Rhode island: New England Intercollegiate Geology Conference Symposium on surficial mapping, sponsored by the the U.S. Geological Survey and the Vermont Geological Survey, Sept. 30, 1999.

Luedtke, B.E., Hermes, O.D., and Ritchie, D., 1998, Rediscovery of the Wyoming quarry site, Melrose, Massachusetts: Bulletin of the the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, v. 59, p.25-30.

Ritchie, D. and Hermes, O.D., 1998, The geoarchaeology of selected locales in southeastern New England, p, B8-1 to B8-10: in Murray, D.P., editor, Guidebook to field trips in Rhode Island and adjacent regions of Connecticut and Massachusetts, 1998 New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, University of Rhode Island, Kingston.

Boothroyd, J.C., Freedman, J.H., Brenner, H.A., Stone, J.R., 1998, The glacial geology of southern Rhode Island: in Murrray, D.P., ed., Guidebook to field trips in Rhode Island and adjacent regions of Connecticut and Massachusetts, New England Intercollegiate Conference Guidebook, p. C5-1-C5-25.

Freedman, J. F., 1998, Reconstruction of late Pleistocene to Early Holocene environments and paleoclimates of the Great Swamp area, South Kingstown, RI [M.S. Thesis]: Kingston, University of Rhode Island, 98 p.

Hermes, O.D., and Ritchie, D., 1997, Non-destructive trace element analysis of archaeological felsite by energy-dispersive x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy: Geoarchaeology, V. 12, P. 31-40.

Hermes, O.D., and Ritchie, D., 1997, Application of petrographic and geochemical methods to sourcing felsitic archaeological materials in southeastern New England: Geoarchaeology, V. 12, P. 1-30.

Strauss, A.E., and Hermes, O.D., 1996, Anatomy of a rhyolite quarry: Archaeology of Eastern North America, v. 24, p. 159-171.