Flora Church

Director of Operations - Ohio

Project Archaeologist

Principal Investigator

Lithics Analysis Specialist

Zooarchaeology Specialist

fjchurch@crai-ky.com

Flora Church has twenty-six years’ experience in the archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands. With a Ph.D. in Anthropology (emphasis Eastern Woodlands archaeology), she has worked in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts on projects ranging from phase I surveys to phase III excavations. Her areas of interest include Late Woodland/Late Prehistoric settlement and subsistence, faunal analysis, and high-power lithic analysis. She has produced numerous reports for all phases of survey, technical reports for faunal and high-power lithic analyses, and public presentations at a variety of informal local venues and at regional, national, and international conferences. In addition, she has published research papers in professional journals and contributed chapters to other scholarly publications.

Dr. Church recently joined CRAI’s West Virginia office (November 2005), where she is a principal investigator for prehistoric archaeology. She also serves as a faunal analyst and directs the high-power lithic laboratory.

Her greatest joys are her nephews—especially the two youngest. When not hiking, biking, playing baseball, Monopoly, hangman, reading, writing stories, and drawing with the boys, she enjoys gardening, walking, reading, writing, and quilting.

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