Rate My Professor Patrick Livingood

Patrick Livingood serves as Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2006. His research specializes in archaeology, with particular emphasis on the archaeology of Spiro and Caddo archaeology, Mississippian regional interactions, computer and quantitative methods, complex societies, sociopolitical complexity, and digital image analysis of ceramic temper. Livingood's work centers on the native peoples of the southeastern United States, including Mississippian culture, the emergence of complex societies worldwide, ceramics analysis, and computational techniques in archaeology, notably Caddo archaeology in eastern Oklahoma. He directs the Southwestern Archaeology Laboratory and has led the University of Oklahoma Summer Archaeological Field School at Spiro Mounds in collaboration with colleagues Amanda Regnier and Scott Hammerstedt.

Livingood has made significant contributions through authorship and editorship of key publications. He co-edited Plaquemine Archaeology (University of Alabama Press, 2007) and authored Mississippian Polity and Politics on the Gulf Coastal Plain: A View from the Pearl River, Mississippi (University of Alabama Press, 2010). Notable peer-reviewed articles include 'Sociopolitical Implications of Mississippian Mound Volume' co-authored with John H. Blitz (American Antiquity, 2004), 'No Crows Made Mounds' (2012), and 'Point/Counter Point: The Accuracy and Feasibility of Digital Image Techniques in the Analysis of Ceramic Thin-Sections' with Ann S. Cordell (Journal of Archaeological Science, 2009). Recent chapters cover Caddo ceramics in the Red River Basin (2021), Spiro and surrounding sites (2020), multisensor remote sensing at Spiro (2017), and the many dimensions of Hally circles (2015). Livingood participates in the NAGPRA Oversight Committee, Faculty Senate committees, and public outreach, including lectures on pseudoscience in archaeology and archaeological methods. His research employs geophysical surveys and excavations, such as at the Clement Site, a Caddo mound complex in southeastern Oklahoma.