Gerald F. Schroedl

Who is Gerald F. Schroedl?

Dr. Gerald F. Schroedl is a professor of anthropology at the University of Tennessee. He specializes in Southeastern United States and Caribbean prehistoric and historic archaeological sites. He is an authority on Cherokee Prehistory and the archaeology of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina.

Schroedl was born in Portland, Oregon on July 20, 1945. He grew up in Vancouver, Washington where he attended primary and secondary school. He started off his college career in Vancouver, Clark Junior College before transferring to the University of Washington, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1967. He then went to Washington State University in Pullman to complete his Ph. D in Anthropology in 1972.

As a youth, he was fascinated by natural history and science, and was always interested in American Indian cultures. In high school, he began reading anthropology and popular books on archaeology, and was initially interested in cultural anthropology. After attending an archaeological field school his senior year in college he decided to focus on archaeology in graduate school.

Schroedl has conducted excavations in Washington, South Carolina, Tennessee, and St. Kitts.