CAT People

Elizabeth Ragan - Committee Chairperson

Elizabeth Ragan is the Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Salisbury University and the Vice-President of the Archeological Society of Maryland. Getting a trowel in the ground right out of high school, she worked with the Lower Shore Regional Archaeology Center, based at what was then Salisbury State College, while pursuing a BA in Anthropology from the University of Maryland: College Park. After working on excavations at Mount Clare and the Benjamin Bannaker site near Baltimore, Beth abandoned rusty nails and broken wine bottles for Iron Age and Early Medieval European archaeology. She received a Master of Philosophy degree in Celtic Archaeology from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and directed a survey of the coast of South Argyll for her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. Having returned to the Eastern Shore, her current research focuses on the late 17th-early 18th-century Thornton site in Somerset County, Maryland, the home of one of the founders of the county and, later, a member of the Royal Council of Maryland who was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She can be reached at the History Department, Salisbury University, 1101 Camden Avenue, Salisbury, MD 21801or by phone at 410-548-4502.

E-Mail Beth at earagan@salisbury.edu.

Annetta Schott - Committee Member

Annetta grew up near the Perry Hall area of Baltimore County, Maryland. Archaeology, anthropology and the natural sciences have been life-long interests. Several years ago she came across an ad promoting a lecture sponsored by the local archaeological chapter (ASNC-Archaeological Society of the Northern Chesapeake) She joined the chapter and since that night, she has been an active member of the ASNC. She credits Bill McIntyre of this chapter, along with archaeologists Jim Gibb, Stephen Israel, Bob Wall and others, with providing her the necessary archaeological opportunities to work at such sites as Garrett Island on the Susquehanna River, the Morris Meadows rock shelter in Freeland Maryland, the Hollingsworth House at Elk Landing in Elkton Maryland, the O'Neil House (Concord Point lighthouse keepers house) in Havre de Grace Maryland, the Barton Site in Cumberland Maryland, etc. Through the C.A.T. program (Certified Archaeological Technician program), she has gained the knowledge, procedural skills and ethics to pursue and complete her certification. On October 18, 2003, Annetta became the FIRST Certified Archaeological Technician in Maryland. Annetta is a board member of the ASNC, an active member of the Archeological Society of Maryland (ASM), serves on the the Native American Laison Committee (NALC), is a member of the Certified Archaeological Technician committee (C.A.T.) and actively participates in the promotion of Maryland archaeology. Annetta is currently a CRM sub-contractor and is pursuing a degree in Anthropology.

E-Mail Annetta at annettaschott@comcast.net

Stephen Israel - Committee Member

Stephen S. Israel is a retired Archeologist. Mr. Israel was an Archeologist with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, Planning Division, Baltimore, Maryland, from 1976 through 2003. He received his M.A. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma in 1969. Mr. Israel began his career as a Consulting Archeologist in the Middle Atlantic Region prior to joining the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His research interests include the applications prehistoric settlement patterns and subsistence systems, ecology and geoarcheology to interpreting industrial archaeology history. Mr. Israel is the current Chairperson of Central Chapter affiliated with the Archeological Society of Maryland, Inc. His mailing address is 403 Old Orchard Road, Baltimore, MD 21229, or you may reach him by e-mail at ssisrael@abs.net, or by telephone at (410) 945-5514 at home.

Mike Lucas - Committee Member

Belinda Urquiza - Committee Member

Kate Dinnel - Committee Member

Bob Wall - Committee Member