1945
Margaret
2006
Margaret Snow Houston
January 1, 1945 — February 9, 2006
Dr. Margaret Snow Houston
Laurinburg
Dr. Margaret Snow Houston, age 61, died Thursday, February 9, at her home after a brief illness.
A memorial service to celebrate her life will be 5 p.m. Sunday, February 19, at the Belk Student Center, St. Andrews Presbyterian College. Friends, guests, and family are asked to dress casually for the event.
Interment will be at the family plot in Rosendale, WI.
Dr. Houston was the director of the Indian Museum of the Carolinas in Laurinburg, a lecturer in the Departments of Sociology and American Indian Studies of UNC-Pembroke, and assistant professor if the department of anthropology at St. Andrews Presbyterian College.
Dr. Houston received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MA and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her studies and interests took her to China as a teacher and to Oaxaca, Mexico as a researcher in paleoethnobotany and a student of pre-Columbian culture. She also lent her expertise to archaeology projects in Laurinburg and preservation of the Mill Prong House in Hoke County.
Author of numerous distinguished papers on China and Mexico, her continuing research interests included prehistoric subsistence and recovery methods, tropical agricultural systems, theory and method of ceramic analysis, modern Mesoamerican pottery making techniques, Mesoamerican ethnohistory and market systems, origin of the state, Chinese archaeology, and climate change.
She was a member of the Society for American Archaeology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, North Carolina Archaelogical Council which she served as secretary-treasurer (1990-92), the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Instituto Welte de Estudios Oaxaquenos and the Society for Ethnobotany.
Dr. Houston was also an active member of the Dames of St. Andrews, the Scotland County Democratic Women, and a supporter of the American Red Cross of Scotland County. Her life was also defined by an abiding interest - nurtured by her father, Walter Scott Houston a
Laurinburg
Dr. Margaret Snow Houston, age 61, died Thursday, February 9, at her home after a brief illness.
A memorial service to celebrate her life will be 5 p.m. Sunday, February 19, at the Belk Student Center, St. Andrews Presbyterian College. Friends, guests, and family are asked to dress casually for the event.
Interment will be at the family plot in Rosendale, WI.
Dr. Houston was the director of the Indian Museum of the Carolinas in Laurinburg, a lecturer in the Departments of Sociology and American Indian Studies of UNC-Pembroke, and assistant professor if the department of anthropology at St. Andrews Presbyterian College.
Dr. Houston received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MA and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her studies and interests took her to China as a teacher and to Oaxaca, Mexico as a researcher in paleoethnobotany and a student of pre-Columbian culture. She also lent her expertise to archaeology projects in Laurinburg and preservation of the Mill Prong House in Hoke County.
Author of numerous distinguished papers on China and Mexico, her continuing research interests included prehistoric subsistence and recovery methods, tropical agricultural systems, theory and method of ceramic analysis, modern Mesoamerican pottery making techniques, Mesoamerican ethnohistory and market systems, origin of the state, Chinese archaeology, and climate change.
She was a member of the Society for American Archaeology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, North Carolina Archaelogical Council which she served as secretary-treasurer (1990-92), the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Instituto Welte de Estudios Oaxaquenos and the Society for Ethnobotany.
Dr. Houston was also an active member of the Dames of St. Andrews, the Scotland County Democratic Women, and a supporter of the American Red Cross of Scotland County. Her life was also defined by an abiding interest - nurtured by her father, Walter Scott Houston a
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