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Elizabeth A. Bagwell
E-mail: bagwell@unm.edu
Web address:  www.unm.edu/~bagwell
Dissertation Committee: Patricia Crown, Ann Ramenofsky, Bruce Huckell, Elisa
Villalpando, and John Douglas
Areas of interest: Northern Mexico, Southwest United States, architecture, dendroarchaeology, middle-range societies, specialized craft production, Marxist theory
Dissertation Topic: What was the role of specialized labor in the construction of pre-Hispanic cliff-dwellings in the northern Sierra Madre Occidental, Sonora, Mexico – and what can this role tell us about the nature of social organization in middle-range societies? This study explores theoretical questions concerning the relationship between standardization, specialization and social organization – using architecture as a new source of information about prehistoric power relationships in societies that are widely believed to have had little social differentiation. Furthermore, it aims to provide some of the first detailed knowledge of the sites in this region and establish the beginnings of a regional chronology through extensive tree-ring dating.
Awards: 2002 Senior NSF Grant - Expanding Dendroarchaeology into Northern Mexico, Ronald Towner, Jeffrey Dean and Elizabeth A. Bagwell; 2001 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant; 2000 Latin American and Iberian Institute Title VI Grant; 2000 Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award
Publications:

2004 Architectural Patterns Along the Rio Taraises. Kiva 70 (1): 7-30.

2002 Ceramic Form and Skill: Attempting to Identify Child Producers at Pecos Pueblo, New Mexico. In Children in the Prehistoric Puebloan Southwest, edited by Katherine Kamp, pp. 90-107. University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City.

Ruscavage-Barz, Samantha and Elizabeth A. Bagwell In Press Gathering Spaces and Bounded Places: The Religious Significance of Plaza-Oriented Communities in the Northern Rio Grande, New Mexico. Altamira Press.

In press Specialization, Social Complexity and Vernacular Architecture: A Cross-Cultural Study of Space Construction. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Chacmool Conference: An Odyssey of Space. Submitted in February of 2003.

Conferences:

Bagwell, Elizabeth A., Júpiter Martinez Ramírez, and Cristina Garcia Moreno 2003 Recent Dendroarchaeological Research in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Sonora, Mexico. A paper presented at the 76th Annual Pecos Conference, Viejo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico. August 14-16, 2003.

Windes, Thomas and Elizabeth A. Bagwell 2004 A Village on the Edge: San Miguel del Vado, New Mexico. A paper presented at the 69th Annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Canada. March 31 – April 3, 2004.

2003 Organizer. Interviewing, Negotiating, and Getting the Job that You Want. A workshop organized for the meetings of the American Anthropological Association and sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology (COSWA), Chicago, Illinois. November 19-23, 2003.


2001 Co-Organizer and Co-Chair (with Marcel Harmon). Architectural Analysis as Archaeological Method. A symposium organized for the Society for American Archaeology Meetings, 66th Annual Meeting, New Orleans. April 18–22, 2001.

1998 Chair and Co-Organizer (with Marit Munson). Ritual, Symbolism, and Ideology in the Prehistoric American Southwest. A symposium organized for the Society of American Archaeology, 63rd Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington. March 25-29, 1998.

Oskar Burger
E-mail: oskar@unm.edu
Dissertation Committee: Jim Boone, Ozzie Pearson
Areas of interest:

North American Great Plains and Southwest

Dissertation Topic:

Using life history theory and allometry to investigate the human role in large-scale ecosystem change.

Awards/

Honors:

NSF Fellowship in Ecological Complexity (2004-2006),Binford Fellow (2002-2004), SRAC travel grant (2003), Technology Grant ( 2001)

Publications:

Burger, O., M. Hamilton, and R. Walker. (in press) The preyas patch model: optimal handling of resources with diminishing returns. Journal of Archaeological Science.
 
Walker, R., K. Hill, O. Burger, and M. Hurtado. (in press) Life in the Slow Lane Revisited: Ontogenetic Separation between Chimpanzees and Humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Burger, O., L. Todd, T. Stohlgren, P. Burnett, and D. Stephens. (2004) Multi-Scale and Nested-Intensity Sampling Techniques for Archaeological Survey. Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 29, pp. 409 – 423.

Burger, O. and L. Todd. (in limbo) Pattern, Process, and Scale in Archaeological Survey. In Confronting Scale in Archaeology: Issues in Theory and Practice, edited by J. Lock and B. Molyneaux. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.

Conferences:

from 25 total:
Burger, 0., M. Hamilton, M. Moses, J. Brown. (2005) Using Allometry to Investigate Energetic Constraints on Human Demography. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City.

Burger, O. (2005) Prehistoric Ecological Footprints and Community Metabolism: the Case Study of El Polvorón. Paper presented at the 1st meeting of the Society for Anthropological Sciences, Santa Fe.

Burger, O., L. Todd, and P. Burnett. (2004) A Compliment to Discovery: Evaluating the Properties of Surface Samples with Multi-Scale Methods. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal.

Todd, L.C., O. Burger, P. Burnett, K. Derr, W. Reitze, B. Schoville, A. Mueller, and C. Hurst. (2004) Landscape Taphonomy and Archaeological Ecology: Integrative approaches for linking cultural, biological, and physical systems research. Poster presented at the 170th Annual AAAS Meetings, Seattle.

Burger, O. L. Todd, T. Stohlgren, P.C. Burnett, D. Rapson. (2001) Scale, Context, Sampling Design, and Archaeological Survey: Seeking Conceptual and Methodological Concordance. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

Stacey Chambliss
E-mail: schamb@unm.edu
Dissertation Committee: James Boone, Lawrence Straus, Patricia Crown, Jane Selverstone
Areas of interest: Northwest Spain
Dissertation Topic:

Colonial Interaction and Indigenous Responses: Pre-Roman and Roman Comun Ceramics in Northwest Spain

Awards/

Honors:

Hibben Fellowship (2004-2005), SRAC (2003), SAA Best Student Poster (2003), Binford Fellowship (2001-2004), ICSCS Award (1996-1997)

Publications: 1999 Augustus Saint-Gaudens: 1848-1907 A Master of American Sculpture. Italy, Musee des Augustins and Editions Somogy. (Assistant writer and researcher)
Conferences:

2004 "Ethnogenesis and the Archaeological Record" Joint paper with Kari Schleher presented at the Anthropology Graduate Student Union Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, March 26-27.

 

2003 "Firelogic" Poster Presentation at Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Milwaukee, WI, April 9-13.

 

2003 "The Goddess: A Vehicle for Domestication" Anthropology Graduate Student Union Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, March 28-29.

Michael Church
E-mail: mkchurch@unm.edu
Dissertation Committee: Jim Boone
Areas of interest: The Spanish contact period in New Mexico, social and technological interactions between complex and middle-range societies, archaeological theory, the philosophy of science
Matt Dawson
E-mail: mdawson@salud.unm.edu (or) warcelt27@hotmail.com
Dissertation Committee: Hopefully Drs. Jim Boone and Lawrence Straus as co-heads, and Dr. Manuel R.G. Morales, University of Cantabria (Cantabria, Spain)
Areas of interest: Northern Spain (Cantabrian Regions), Scotland, Ireland, Isle of Mann
Dissertation Topic:

Comparative study of q-Celtic mainland (Cantabrian) Europe and island regions through technological (metallurgical), linguistic, and ideological transitions, and analyses of material traditions. The focus will be on the periods of the Bronze Age during and immediately following the earlier parts of the Neolithic, through the Iron Age until the appearance of the Roman Empire.

Marcus J. Hamilton
E-mail: marcusj@unm.edu
Homepage: http://www.unm.edu/~marcusj/home.htm
Dissertation Committee: Bruce Huckell, Jim Boone, Ozzie Pearson, and Vance Holliday (University of Arizona)
Areas of interest:

1) Hunter-gatherer archaeology, particularly early Paleoindians in the Southwest US and Northern Mexico, and issues of colonization.

2) Human biocomplexity and macroecology: using allometric scaling relationships to understand the energetic principles (metabolism) behind hunter-gatherer population variables and ecological constraints.

3) Mechanisms of human biological and cultural evolution.

4) Mathematical and statistical modeling.

 
Dissertation Topic: Clovis Foragers in the Southern Basin and Range: A Test of Clovis Land Use Models at Three Geographic Scales.

Awards/

Honors:

NSF Fellowship in Ecological Complexity (2005-2006)

Hibben Foundation Senior Fellowship (2004-2005)

Binford Fellowship (2000-2003)

Brolio-Basehart (2001, 2004)

LAII Tinker Foundation (2002)

SRAC (2004, 2005)

Publications:

In Prep. Hamilton, M.J.  Modeling stochastic processes in hunter-gatherer population dynamics through time and space.  For Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

 

Submitted.  Kilby, J.D., B.W. Buchanan, and M.J. Hamilton (eds.). The Clovis-Age Continent: Early Paleoindian Foragers in North America.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

 

2005a. Burger, O., M.J. Hamilton, and R.S. Walker.  The prey as patch model:  Optimal handling of resources with diminishing returns.  Journal of Archaeological Science 32(8): 1147-1158

 

2005b. Hamilton, M.J., R. Holdaway, and S. Litvin.  Statistical self-similarity in the structural organization of human hunter-gatherer populations.  Proceedings of the 2005 Santa Fe Institute CCCS.

 

In Press. Huckell, B.B., M.J. Hamilton, and S. Ruth.  2004 excavations at Boca Negra Folsom site, New Mexico.  Current Research in the Pleistocene 22.

 

2004. Huckell, B.B., J.D. Kilby, and M.J. Hamilton.  2003 excavations at Boca Negra Folsom site, New Mexico.  Current Research in the Pleistocene 21.

 

2003. Huckell, B.B., J.D. Kilby, and M.J. Hamilton. 2002 excavations at Boca Negra Folsom site, New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 20.

 

2002. Huckell, B.B., J.D. Kilby, B.B.Buchanan, M.J. Hamilton, and S. Ruth. 2001. Excavations at Boca Negra Folsom site, New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 19.

Conferences:

2005a. Hamilton, M.J.  Cultural Innovations and Phenotypic Adaptations in Stochastic Environments: Some Quantitative Insights into the Evolutionary Dynamics of Foraging Societies. Paper presented at the 1st annual meeting of the Society for Anthropological Sciences (SASci) in Santa Fe, NM.

2005b. Hamilton, M.J. and J.L. Boone.  Epidemiological Approaches to Cultural Change: Evolutionary Models of Transmission, Fitness, and Demography.  Paper presented at the 70th annual meetings of the SAA in Salt Lake City, UT.

 

2005c. Burger, O., M.J. Hamilton, M.E. Moses, and J.H. Brown.  Using Allometry to Investigate Energetic Constraints on Human Demography.  Paper presented at the 70th annual meetings of the SAA in Salt Lake City, UT.

 

2005d. Hamilton, M.J., R. Holdaway, and S. Litvin.  Statistical Self-Similarity in the Structural Organization of Human Hunter-Gatherer Populations. Paper presented at the SFI Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe, NM.

 

2004a. Hamilton, M.J., B.B. Buchanan, and J.D. Kilby.  A Neutral Model of Technological Variation in the North American Late Pleistocene.  Paper presented at the 69th annual meetings of the SAA in Montreal, QC.

 

2004b. Kilby, J.D., B.B. Buchanan, and M.J. Hamilton.  Deconstructing Clovis: The Independence of Critical Issues.  Paper presented at the 69th annual meetings of the SAA in Montreal, QC.

 

2003a. Hamilton, M.J. Paleoindian Cultural Transmission: The Evolutionary Processes of Cultural Change.  Paper presented at the 68th annual meetings of the SAA in Milwaukee, WI.

 

2003b. Buchanan, B., R. Walker and M.J. Hamilton.  Patterns of Carcass Use Among the Ache.  Poster presentation at the 75th Anniversary of the Department of Anthropology at UNM, Hibben Center/Maxwell Museum, UNM.

 

2001. Buchanan, B., R. Walker and M.J. Hamilton.  Patterns of Carcass Use Among the Ache.  Poster presentation at the 66th annual meetings of the SAA in New Orleans, LA.

 

1995. Buchanan, B., L. Litwinionek, J.K. Hicks and M.J. Hamilton. Renewed Investigations of the Milnesand and Ted Williamson Paleoindian Sites.  Paper presented at the 53rd Plains Anthropological Conference.

 

1994. Hamilton, M.J.  One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure: Results of the Lamb County Survey. Paper presented at the 52nd Plains Anthropological Conference, Lubbock, TX.

Marcel J. Harmon
E-mail: mmharmon@mindspring.com
Dissertation Committee:

Robert D. Leonard (Chair), Robert D. Santley, James L. Boone, Laura A. Salter, and Flora Clancy

Areas of interest:

Northern Mexico, Southern US Southwest, China; Architecture; Sport, Combat, and Warfare (particularly Mesoamerican Ballgame); Engineering Applications in Archaeology; Phylogenetics Applied to Cultural Transmission; Photogrammetry; Below-Ground Remote Sensing; Digital Imaging; and the general intersection of Science, Technology, and Culture.

Dissertation Topic:

Ballcourts, Regional Interaction, and Cultural Transmission within Northern Mexico: Determining the nature of the Casas Grandes regional organization indicated by the regional transmission and resulting distribution of ballcourt characteristics. Dissertation proposal available at

http://www.unm.edu/~mharmon/proposal/Table%20of%20Contents.htm.

Awards/

Honors:

Maxwell Center for Anthropological Research Student Fellowship (2003), University of New Mexico Graduate and Professional Student Association Graduate Research Development (GRD) Fund (2003), SRAC (2003)

Publications:

Harmon, M. J. In Press. Religion and the Mesoamerican Ballgame within the Casas Grandes Region of Northern Mexico. In Religion in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest, edited by C. S. VanPool, T. L. VanPool, and D. A. Phillips, Jr. Accepted for publication by AltaMira Press. Expected publication, Spring 2005.

 

Harmon, M. J., T. L. VanPool, R. D. Leonard, C. S. VanPool, and L. A. Salter. In Press. Reconstructing the Flow of Information Across Time and Space: A Phylogenetic Analysis of Ceramic Traditions from Prehispanic Western and Northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States. In Mapping Our Ancestors: Phylogenetic Methods in Anthropology and Prehistory, edited by C. P. Lipo, M. J. O'Brien, S. Shennan, and M. Collard. Aldine de Gruyter, New York, Berlin. Expected publication, Spring 2005.

 

Harmon, M. J. In Press. Lighting Across Cultures. Lighting Design + Application. Expected Publication, January 2005. Cruz Antillón, R., T. D. Maxwell, R. D. Leonard, T. L. VanPool, M. J. 

 

Harmon, C. S. VanPool, D. A. Hyndman, and S. S. Brandwein. 2004. Galeana, Villa Ahumada, and Casa Chica: Diverse Sites in the Casas Grandes Region. In Surveying the Archaeology of Northwest Mexico, edited by G. E. Newell and E. Gallaga Murrieta, pp. 149-176. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

 

Harmon, M. J. 2004. An Alien Concept. Albuquerque Tribune, August 19, 2004.

http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/opinions04/081904_opinions_roswell.shtml

 

Harmon, M. J. 2004. Pew with a View. Albuquerque Tribune, July 22, 2004.

http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/opinions04/072204_opinions_paseo.shtml

 

Harmon, M. J. 2004. Marriage Metamorphosis: Same-Sex and Other Changes in Matrimony are not so Nontraditional. Albuquerque Tribune, April 8, 2004.

http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/opinions04/040804_opinions_samesex.shtml

 

Harmon, M. J., and R. D. Leonard. 2003. Interim Report for the Proposed SAA Digital Image Series. Prepared for and on file with the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC.

Conferences:

Harmon, M. J. 2004. Phylogenetics and the "Game of Life and Death" within Northern Mexico. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Canada, during the symposium "From Evolutionary Theory to Archaeological Record: Models, Methods, and Explanation," organized by J. Coltrain, K. Lupo, and M. Collard.

 

Harmon, M. J., T. L. VanPool, R. D. Leonard, C. S. VanPool, and L. A. Salter. 2003. Maximum Parsimony vs. Maximum Likelihood: A Comparison in the Reconstruction of Cultural Phylogenies. Paper presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, WI, during the symposium "Theoretical and Methodological Fundamentals of Applying Phylogenetics to the Archaeological Record: Part I," organized by C. Lipo and M. J. O'Brien.

 

VanPool, T. L., C. S. VanPool, M. J. Harmon, D. A. Phillips, Jr., and R. D. Leonard. 2003. The Origin and Evolution of Oasis America's Horned Serpent. Paper presented at the 76th Annual Pecos Conference, Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, during the symposium "Progress in the Casas Grandes Culture and the State of Chihuahua Archaeology."

 

Harmon, M. J. 2002. Religion and the Mesoamerican Ballgame within the Casas Grandes Region of Northern Mexico. Paper presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, CO, during the symposium "Religious Movements in the Greater Southwest," organized by C. S. VanPool, T. L. VanPool, and D. A. Phillips.

 

Harmon, M. J. 2001. The Interplay of Light With Architecture at the Site of Paquime, Northern Mexico. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, during the symposium "Architectural Analysis as Archaeological Method," organized by M. J. Harmon and E. A. Bagwell.

 

Harmon, M. J. 2000. Tracing the Styles of Electric Lighting: An "Illuminating" Look at the Cultural Transmission Versus Independent Innovation Associated with Electric Lighting. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary, Canada, during the symposium "Art, Evolution, and Stylistic Change: Tracing Intellectual Lineages in the Archaeological Record," organized by T. L. VanPool and M. J. Harmon.

 

Harmon, M. J. 2000. Architecture, Close-Range Photogrammetry, and 3D Modeling in Northern Mexico. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Conference on the Archaeology of Northern Mexico, Casas Grandes, Chihuahua.

 

Harmon, M. J. 1998. The Potential Role of Daylight in Determining the Location of Multiple Mealing Bins Within Prehistoric Southwest Architecture. Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Seattle, WA, in the symposium "Interdisciplinary Approaches in Archaeology: Tradition and Prospects," organized by J. E. Baxter and G. F. M. Rakita.

Roberto A. Herrera
E-mail: boruca@unm.edu 
Dissertation Committee: Robert Santley chair, Garth Bawden, Jim Boone, Louis Scuderi (E&PS)
Areas of interest: Costa Rica
Dissertation Topic: El Cholo: A case study evaluating site variability and social organization in the Upper General Valley, Costa Rica

Awards/

Honors:

Office of Graduate Studies, Research, Project and Travel (RPT) Grant. Fall 2004

Graduate and Professional Student Association Graduate and Research Development Fund (GRD).
Fall 2004 

Latin American and Iberian Institute Field Research Grant (FRG). Fall 2004, Spring 2004

Graduate and Professional Student Association Student Research Allocations Committee (SRAC) Grant. Fall 2004, Spring 2004

Office of Graduate Studies, Minority Graduate Fellowship. 2001-2004

Edward A. Jolie
E-mail: edjolie@yahoo.com
Homepage: https://www.perishabletechnology.org
Areas of interest: perishable technologies world-wide, anthropological ethics, Native American-Anthropologist relations, the archaeology and ethnography of North America, the archaeology of ethnicity, prehistoric population movements
Dissertation Topic: Chacoan basketry (possibly).
Publications:

Adovasio, J. M., D. P. Hermenau, E. A. Jolie, and J. S. Illingworth n.d. Perishable Fiber Artifacts and Impressions. In The Archaeology of the Orton Quarry. Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, Erie, Pennsylvania, in press.

 

Fowler, D. D., E. A. Jolie, and M. W. Salter 2005 Archaeological Ethics in Context and Practice. In Handbook of Archaeological Theories, edited by H. Maschner and R. A. Bentley. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California, in press.

 

Jolie, E. A. 2004 The Technomechanics of Plains Indian Coiled Gambling Baskets. Ms. accepted for publication in Plains Anthropologist.

 

Adovasio, J. M., E. A. Jolie, N. R. Wilson, and J. S. Illingworth. 2001 Perishable Fiber Artifacts from 12–GR–1564, Greene County, Indiana. Report prepared for Archaeological Resources Management Services, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, Erie, Pennsylvania.

 

Burgett, R. B., C. S. Fowler, E. M. Hattori, E. A. Jolie, and D. R. Tuohy 2002 Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Perishables from Pyramid Lake, Nevada. Paper presented at the 28th Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Elko, Nevada.

 

Burgett, R. B., and E. A. Jolie 2004 Finely Coiled and Decorated Prehistoric Basketry from Western Nevada. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Canada.

 

Jolie, E. A. 2004 Additional Archaeological Material from Charlie Brown Cave, Western Nevada.

 

2004 Coiled Basketry from Charlie Brown Cave, Western Nevada. Unpublished Master’s thesis, University of Nevada, Reno.

Conferences:

2002 An Ethnohistorical Perspective on Plains Indian Textile Arts. Paper presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver.

 

2001 Two Ethnographic Sioux Twined Gambling Baskets. Prepared for J. Landmann, South Dakota State Historical Society Cultural Heritage Museum, Pierre, South Dakota. Ms. on file at the R. L. Andrews Center for Perishables Analysis, Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, Erie, Pennsylvania.

 

2000 Two Ethnographic Cheyenne Gambling Baskets. Prepared for D. G. Harding, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ms. on file at the R. L. Andrews Center for Perishables Analysis, Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, Erie, Pennsylvania.

 

Jolie, E. A., and R. B. Burgett 2003 Report on an Amateur Artifact Collection from Catlow Cave, Oregon. Prepared for W. J. Cannon, U. S. D. I. Bureau of Land Management, Lakeview District, Oregon.

 

2002 Perishable Artifacts from Bonneville Estates Rockshelter, Elko County, Nevada. Paper presented at the 28th Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Elko, Nevada.

 

Jolie, E. A., and S. McCabe 2004 Perishable Perspectives in Great Basin Anthropology. To be chaired for the 29th Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Sparks, Nevada.

 

Jolie, E. A., and R. B. Burgett 2002 Current Research on Great Basin Perishable Industries. Organized and chaired for the 28th Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Elko, Nevada.

David Kilby
E-mail: kilby@unm.edu
Dissertation Committee: Bruce Huckell, Lawrence Straus, Chip Wills (UNM), David Meltzer (SMU)
Areas of interest: North American Southwest and Plains, Paleoindians, lithic technological organization, geoarchaeology, hunter-gatherers
Dissertation Topic: Clovis Technological Organization: Understanding Technological Strategies Through Cached Assemblages. My research is an investigation of Clovis tool caches and their relationship to other types of Clovis sites. Cached artifacts can be systemically linked to depleted artifacts from kills and campsites, providing a comprehensive understanding of Clovis technological strategies. Additionally, my research investigates caching as a behavior, and evaluates possible roles that it played in Clovis economies.

Awards/

Honors:

Hibben Senior Fellowship, UNM (2004-5)

e2M Distinguished Achievement Award, engineering-environmental Management (2005)

 Smithsonian Institution Short-Term Visitor
Fellowship (2004) 

Broilo-Basehart Student Paper Award, UNM (2004); Ruth Kennedy Award, UNM (2003)

National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, NSF (2002)

George C. Frison Institute Paleoindian Fellowship, U. Wyoming (2002)

Three Percent Scholarship, UNM (2000)

Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Research Fellowship, UNM (1999).

Publications: in prep. An Investigation of Cultural and Natural Processes in the Filling of Pit Structures in the North American Southwest. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, accepted with revisions.

in press Demolition Road: A New Clovis Site in the Middle Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico. Accepted for Current Research in the Pleistocene Vol. 22. Co-authors James D. Gallison, Roberto Herrera, David Wilcox and Valerie Butler.

in prep. 130 Centuries on the Yadkin: The Prehistory of Wilkes County. In The History of Wilkes County, North Carolina, edited by Richard Underwood.

2004 Readings in Late Pleistocene North America and Early Paleoindians: Selections from American Antiquity. SAA Reader Series No. 2. Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. Co-Compiler Bruce B. Huckell.

2004 Late Pleistocene North America and Early Paleoindians. In Readings in Late Pleistocene North America and Early Paleoindians: Selections from American Antiquity, compiled by Bruce B. Huckell and J. David Kilby, pp. v-x. SAA Reader Series No. 2. Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. Co-author Bruce B. Huckell.

2003 Folsom Point Production at the Rio Rancho Site, New Mexico. In Folsom Technology and Lifeways, edited by John Clark and Michael Collins, pp. 11-29. Lithic Technology Special Publication No. 4, University of Tulsa. Co-author Bruce B. Huckell.

2002 An Archaeological Survey in the El Malpais National Conservation Area, Cibola County, West Central New Mexico. National Park Service, Intermountain Support Office, Santa Fe. Co-authors Janet L. McVickar, Theodore Neff, and Jan Orcutt.

2002 Lithics. In From Folsom to Fogelson: The Archaeology of Pecos National Historic Park (Volume 1), edited by Genevieve Head and Janet L. Orcutt . National Park Service, Santa Fe. Co-author Joseph Vasquez Cunningham.

2002 2001 Excavations at the Boca Negra Wash Folsom Site, North-Central New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 19:39-40. Co-authors Bruce B. Huckell, Briggs Buchanan, Marcus J. Hamilton, and Susan Ruth.

2000 Boca Negra Wash, a New Folsom Site in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 17:45-47. Co-author Bruce B. Huckell.
Conferences: 2004a Deconstructing Clovis: On the Independence of Critical Issues. 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal. Co-authors Briggs Buchanan and Marcus Hamilton.

2004b A Neutral Model of Early Paleoindian Technological Variation in the North American Late Pleistocene. 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal. Co-authors Briggs Buchanan and Marcus Hamilton.

2003 A Comparison of Caches: An Initial Look at Regional Variation in Clovis Caching. Paper presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee. Co-author Bruce B. Huckell.

2002 Bifaces to Go: An Experiment in the Genesis of Transport Wear. 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver. Co-authors Bruce Huckell, Briggs Buchanan, and Lisa Huckell.

2001 Lithics and Lithic Resources of El Malpais National Monument. 2001 Pecos Conference, Flagstaff, AZ.

2001 Ecological Diversification Across the Paleoindian-Archaic Transition in New Mexico. 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

2000 Folsom Point Production at the Rio Rancho Site, New Mexico. 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia. Co-author Bruce B. Huckell.

1999 Paleoindian and Early Archaic Land Use Patterns in Southeastern New Mexico. 57th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Sioux Falls, SD.

1998 Understanding the Cultural and Natural Filling of Kiva Depressions: A Geoarchaeological Approach. 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle.


1998 Diet Breadth and the Numic Expansion: An Empirical Test of the Bettinger and Baumhoff Model. The Transition from Prehistory to History in the Southwest, Albuquerque.

1998 Exploring Patterns in Kiva Fill: An Analysis of Ten Pueblo III Kivas in Southwestern Colorado. Paper presented at the UNM Graduate Anthropology Symposium, Albuquerque.

1995 A Summary and Evaluation of the 1994 Blackwater Draw Stabilization Project. 52nd Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Lubbock, Texas. Co-author Elizabeth McNally.
Lucas C. Kellett
E-mail: lkellett@unm.edu
Dissertation Committee: Garth Bawden, Jim Boone, Brian Bauer, Louis Scuderi
Areas of interest: Andean Highlands, Landscape/Settlement Archaeology, GIS
Dissertation Topic: This dissertation focuses on the settlement ecology of pre-Inca hilltop sites in the south central Andean highlands. This Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000-1400) hilltop settlement pattern is been commonly treated as a defensive response to rising political tensions among local ethnic groups after the collapse of the Wari empire. This research project will examine other factors that may have contributed to changing settlement including local ecology, climate and organization of subsistence. The Chanka ethic group will serve as a case study to evaluate conflict and ecological models for understanding settlement decisions between Wari and Inca imperial control. Survey, excavation and GIS analysis will provide new data and new models towards comprehending shifting settlement patterns in the late prehistoric Andean highlands.

Awards/

Honors:

3% Scholarship 2002-2003
Publications:

Ahler, Stanley A., Lucas Kellett and George T. Crawford  2003 Stone Artifacts Analysis: Stone Tools and Flaking Debris. In Archaeology at Menoken Village, A Fortified Late Plains Woodland Community in Central North Dakota, edited by Ahler, Stanley A., pp.357-450. PaleoCultural Research Group, Flagstaff, AZ. Submitted to the State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck.

 

Bauer, Brian S. and Lucas C. Kellett  2002 The Sites and Ceramics of Prehistoric Andahuaylas. Report of the 2002 Field Season of the Chanka Archaeological Project. Submitted to the Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Lima.

 

Bauer, Brian S, Miriam Aráoz Silva and Lucas C. Kellett 2004 Report of the 2004 Field Season of the Chanka Archaeological Project. Submitted to the Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Lima.

Gregory D. Lockard
E-mail: glockard@unm.edu
Homepage: www.unm.edu/~glockard/galindo.html
Dissertation Committee: Garth Bawden (Chair), Jane Buikstra, Robert Santley, Luis Jaime Castillo (Peruvian)
Areas of interest: political power, complex societies, Moche and Chimu cultures on the North Coast of Peru
Dissertation Topic: "The political power of Galindo Elites"
Yuichi Nakazawa
E-mail: ynaka29@unm.edu
Dissertation Committee: Lawrence Straus
Areas of interest: prehistoric hunter-gatherer studies, paleoanthropology, site formation processes, lithic technology, morphology and experiments, quantitative methods, obsidian, fire ecology
Dissertation Topic: I am interested in intrasite spatial organization of activities and archaeological site formation processes in prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies. I focus on hearth-centered lithic concentrations to understand how artifact scatters were structured in terms of the relationships between behavioral & organizational variables and consequent archaeological patterns, as well as the effect of post-depositional disturbances in Upper Paleolithic sites.
Heather M Richards
E-mail: heathmr@unm.edu
Areas of interest: Mesoamerica, Maya, Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Dissertation Topic: Socio-Semiotics and Space: Exploring Social Dynamics and Political Power at the Ancient Maya Center of Copan
Sue Ruth
E-mail: sueruth@unm.edu
Homepage:

http://www.unm.edu/~sueruth/curriculum%20vitae.htm

Dissertation Committee: Bruce Huckell
Areas of interest: Paleoindian Lithic Technology, Hideworking, Sexual division of labor
Dissertation Topic: My dissertation examines the strategies used by Folsom and Cody Populations to supply themselves with raw materials for weapons and endscrapers. I am especially interested in how the organization of hideworking versus hunting may have affected these strategies.
Awards/ Honors:

2005-6 Hibben Research Fellowship 

2004-5 Hibben Senior Fellowship 

2002-03 Teaching Assistantship, English Department, UNM 

2001-02 Sophie D. Aberle Fellowship

Publications:

K. Schleher, and S. Ruth submitted Migration or Local Development? A Technological Analysis of Corrugated Wares at the Pinnacle Ruin, Southwest, New Mexico. Pottery Southwest. 

 

Susan Ruth, and Bruce Huckell accepted Raramuri Rijibara: Individual Variation in Flaked Stone Gaming Pieces The Kiva. Bruce Huckell, and Susan Ruth 2004 Test Excavations at Deann's Folsom Site, North-Central New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 21:48-50. B. 

 

Huckell, J. Kilby, B. Buchannon, M. Hamilton, S. Ruth 2001 Excavations at the Boca Negra Wash Folsom Site, North-Central New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 19:39-40. 

 

Ruth, Susan 1999 Comparison of On?site and Off?site Artifact Analysis. In Occupation of a Regional Landscape: Part II of the McGregor Range Withdrawal EIS Archaeological Survey. Lone Mountain Archaeological Services Report No. 502. Fort Bliss, TX. 

 

Ruth, Susan 1999 Synthesis of Regional Ceramics. In Integrity, Eligibility, and Boundaries: The Examination of Red Zones 8, 9, 10, and 14, Otero County, New Mexico. Lone Mountain Archaeological Services Report No. 509. Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

 

Sechrist, Mark, and Susan Ruth 1998 Exploring Paleoindian Scraper Technology in the Southern Tularosa Basin. Proceedings of the Jornada Conference. 

 

Hegmon, Michelle, Margaret Nelson, and Susan Ruth 1997 Mimbres Regional Reorganization: Ceramic and Architectural Evidence of Changing Social Relations. American Anthropologist. 100(1):148-162. 

 

O'Leary, B., T. Kludt, R. Mauldin, and S. Ruth 1997 Theoretical Background. In The Archaeology of Landscape. (Vols. I and II) Ms. on file, Anthropology Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso. 

 

Ruth, Susan 1996 Social and Stylistic Change in the Cliff and Mimbres Valleys, New Mexico: A Study of Mimbres Black?on?white Pottery. Unpublished master's thesis, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.

Conferences:

Ruth, Susan 2005 Paleoindian Hideworking and Sexual Division of Labor. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Meeting for the Society of American Archaeology, Salt Lake City. 

 

Ruth, Susan, and Kari Schleher 2003 Testing Migration through Utility Wares at the Pinnacle Ruin. Poster presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee. 

 

Hegmon, Michelle, Margaret Nelson, and Susan Ruth 1995 Mimbres Regional Reorganization: Ceramic and Architectural Evidence of Changing Social Relations. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis. 

 

Ruth, Susan, and Mark Sechrist 1997 Paleoindian Scraper Technology in South-central New Mexico. Poster presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville. 

 

Ruth, Susan, Jeff Leach, and Raymond Mauldin 1996 Stylistic Differences in Mimbres Black-on-white Pottery from the Cliff and Mimbres Valleys, New Mexico. Paper presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Kari L. Schleher
E-mail: kschlehe@unm.edu
CV: Curriculum Vita
Dissertation Committee: Patricia Crown (Chair), Ann Ramenofsky, Richard Chapman, Judith Habicht-Mauche (UC Santa Cruz)
Areas of interest: Southwest, Northern Rio Grande, ceramic technology & production, ceramic ethnoarchaeology, Peru, Moche & Chimu ceramics.
Dissertation Topic:

For my dissertation research, I am examining the glaze-painted ceramics from San Marcos Pueblo, NM. San Marcos Pueblo, a ceramic production center, was occupied from the prehistoric into the early historic period and glaze-paint ceramics were produced for most of this occupation. Specifically, I am interested in the changes in standardization of ceramic assemblages at the site with changes in the intensity of production.

Awards/

Honors:

Center for Southwest Research Pictorial Collections Fellowship, 2005-2006

National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant ($11,800), 2005-2006

Frank Hibben Dissertation Scholarship ($10,000; $10,000), University of New Mexico, 2005-2006, 2004-2005

Graduate Research Development grant ($3,000; $2,500), University of New Mexico, 2005, 2004

Anthropology Department Nomination for Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, spring 2003

SRAC award, spring 2005, spring 2003 & spring 2002

Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society scholarship, spring 1999

Thomas A. Bogard memorial scholarship, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, fall 1996

Publications:

Schleher, Kari L. and Susan M. Ruth
In press    Migration or Local Development? Technological Analysis of        Corrugated Wares at the Pinnacle Ruin, Southwest New Mexico. Pottery Southwest.

Schleher, Kari L. and Jennifer E. Boyd
2005        Petrographic Analysis of Glaze-Painted Ceramics. In Across the Caja del Rio Plateau III: Hunters and Farmers in the Northern Rio Grande. Edited by Peggy A Gerow and Patrick Hogan. Office of Contract Archaeology, University of New Mexico. pp. 153-165. 

Conferences:

Schleher, Kari L.
2005      Sandardization in Pottery: An Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Comparison. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 70th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.

Chambliss, Stacey and Kari L. Schleher
2004       Ethnogenesis and the Archaeological Record. Paper presented at the University of New Mexico Anthropology Graduate Student Union Spring Symposium, Albuquerque.

Ruth, Susan and Kari L. Schleher
2003      Testing Migration and Interaction: Technological Analysis of Utility Wares at the Pinnacle Ruin, Southwest-Central New Mexico. Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Milwaukee.

Schleher, Kari L. and Gregory D. Lockard
2003      Ceramics and the Late Moche-Chimu Transition at the Site of Galindo, North Coast, Peru. Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Milwaukee.

Schleher, Kari L., Ann F. Ramenofsky, and Judith A. Habicht-Mauche
2002      Local or Non-local Production?: A Comparison of Clay Sources and Sherds from San Marcos Pueblo. Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Denver. 

Van Hoose, Jonathan and Kari L. Schleher
2002      Boundaries of Learning Networks Reflected in Technological Style in Nondecorated Ceramics at San Marcos Pueblo. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Denver.

Schleher, Kari L.
2002      Paint Composition Recipes: Glaze Painted Archaeological Ceramics from San Marcos Pueblo, Galisteo Basin, New Mexico. Paper presented at the University of New Mexico Anthropology Graduate Student Union Spring Symposium, Albuquerque.

Kari Schmidt
E-mail: kmschmid@unm.edu
Dissertation Committee: Bruce Huckell and Bob Leonard (Co-Chairs)
Areas of interest: I work primarily in northern Mexico and the southern southwest, but have dabbled recently in northern New Mexico, zooarchaeology, complex hunter-gatherers, conservation biology
Dissertation Topic: Dissertation is examining San Pedro phase (1200-800BC) settlement and subsistence in the Tucson basin and at Cerro de Trincheras sites (specifically Cerro Juanaquena) in northern Chihuahua.
Rebecca H. Schwendler, Ph.D.
E-mail: rebeccas@unm.edu
Dissertation Committee: Lawrence G. Straus (Chair), Wirt H. Wills, James L. Boone, Polly Wiessner (University of Utah)
Areas of interest: prehistoric hunter-gatherers, trade and exchange, art and ornamentation, Upper Paleolithic, Western Europe
Dissertation Topic: "Hunter-Gatherer Social Interactions in Magdalenian Western Europe" My dissertation uses the circulation of lithic raw materials, items of personal ornamentation, and portable decorated objects to discuss differences in social organization and patterns of interaction by hunter-gatherers in Western Europe from ~17-11,000 years ago. My focus is on the potential relationships among population density, resource structure, individual social motivation, and active use of personal ornamentation and object decoration for individual identity signaling and group boundary maintenance.
Publications:

in press Schwendler, Rebecca H. "Magdalenian Perforated Disks in Geographic and Social Contexts". Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française. 

 

1995 Kirkland, S.D., R.H. Schwendler, and S. Howard Phase IIA Cultural Resource Testing for the Proposed Shoal Creek Reservoir,Henry County, GA. Garrow & Assoc., Inc., Atlanta, GA.

 

1995 Stanyard, W.F., R.H. Schwendler, S. Howard, and J. Enslin Phase IIA Cultural Resource Investigations within the Proposed Beach Creek and Tallapoosa Water Supply System, Haralson Co, GA. Garrow & Assoc.

Conferences:

2002 Hunter-Gatherer Social Dynamics in Cantabrian Spain and the Greater Magdalenian World. 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado, March 20-24.

 

2001 Modeling Hunter-Gatherer Interactions in Magdalenian Western Europe. 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 18-22, in

symposium "Addressing Archaeological Problems Using GIS", co-organized by D. Kilby and R. Schwendler

 

2000 An Evaluation of Siberian Archaeological Evidence for the Timing of New World Colonizations. UNM Graduate Student Spring Symposium.

Christina B. Sinkovec
E-mail: lithichunter@yahoo.com 
Dissertation Committee: Bruce Huckell
Areas of interest: Southwestern paleoindian archaeology...primarily interested in lithic analysis and geoarchaeology.

Awards/

Honors:

Hibben scholarship, 2005

Elizabeth Brett Stewart
E-mail: Elizabeth_Stewart@comcast.net
Dissertation Committee: Lawrence Straus, Ozzie Pearson, Keith Hunley
Areas of interest: Southwest France and Spain, simple societies, Paleolithic peoples, middle to upper Paleolithic transition in Europe, and paleontology of Neanderthals and early anatomically modern humans in Europe
Dissertation Topic:

The possibility in support of or against the hybridization of anatomically modern humans with Neanderthals during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition of Western Europe through the investigation of the archaeological and ecological records of Europe (with special focus on Iberia and the Caucuses regions) and the comparative analysis of pelvic morphology.

Awards/ Honors:

2005-06  Teaching Assistantship, Biology Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

2004-06  AGSU President

Conferences:

March 24 - 25, 2005. Organizer. AGSU Symposium. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

2005. The RAM Method. AGSU Symposium. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Elisabeth Stone
E-mail: eastone@unm.edu
Dissertation Committee: Lawrence Straus
Areas of interest: Upper Paleolithic, fiber technologies, bone tools
Dissertation Topic: I am developing a dissertation focusing on bone tools from the Upper Paleolithic of Western Europe. I plan to examine usewear and other morphological characteristics of bone needles and awls in order to investigate the types of materials that were being worked with these needles.

Awards/

Honors:

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Fall 2005 -- Spring 2008; Binford Fellowship Fall 2003-Spring 2005
Jonathan E. Van Hoose
E-mail: jevh@unm.edu
Dissertation Committee: Ann F. Ramenofsky (chair), Patricia L. Crown, James L. Boone, Hector Neff (University of California at Long Beach)
Areas of interest:

Navajo archaeology; Contact-period archaeology in the Southwest; Ceramic technology; Cultural transmission theory; archaeological unit issues; evolutionary theory

Dissertation Topic:

Title: "Learning Lineages as Reflected in Ceramic Production in Early Historic Northwest New Mexico."

My dissertation examines the dynamics of interaction and changing social boundaries in northern New Mexico during the tumultuous period between AD 1550-1750, by studying the flow of information about pottery technology within and between indigenous communities. My focus is on the relationships between Navajo populations in the Dinetah (the traditional Navajo homeland in the San Juan basin) and Pueblo groups, particularly those of the Jemez region. To this end, I've developed a concrete model of how artifactual variation reflects different learning modes,

and, by extension, forms of interaction. This study involves intensive technological examination of sherd collections from more than 25 sites in the Dinetah and the Northern Rio Grande.

Awards:

Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, 2003; Bureau of Land Management Research Fellowship at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture / Museum of New Mexico, 2004; Broilo-Basehart Award, 2004; SRAC grant, 2001; Binford Fellowship, 1994-1997.

Selected

Publications:

2000 Chipped Stone Artifacts. In A Highway Through Time: Archaeological Investigations Along NM 90, in Grant and Hidalgo Counties, New Mexico (U.S. Forest Service Report 03-06-98-005b), edited by Christopher A. Turnbow, pp. 357-417. New Mexico State Highway and Transportation Department Cultural Resource Technical Series 2000-3, TRC, Albuquerque.

 

2000 Ground Stone and Miscellaneous Stone Artifacts. In A Highway Through Time: Archaeological Investigations Along NM 90, in Grant and Hidalgo Counties, New Mexico (U.S. Forest Service Report 03-06-98-005b), edited by Christopher A. Turnbow, pp. 418-479. New Mexico State Highway and Transportation Department Cultural Resource Technical Series 2000-3, TRC, Albuquerque.  

 

Van Hoose, Jonathan E., and Lance Lundquist 2002 Prehistoric Lithic Artifacts. In Across the Desert Floor: Cultural Resources Along U.S. 54, Otero County, New Mexico, edited by Jim A. Railey, pp 577-631. New Mexico State Highway and Transportation Department Technical Report 2002-1. TRC, Albuquerque.

Conferences:

Van Hoose, Jonathan E. 2004 Ceramic Technology in the Dinétah: Navajo Pottery, Learning Lineages, and Prospects for Understanding Population Interaction in Early Historic New Mexico. Museum of Indian Arts and Culture / Laboratory of Anthropology Brown Bag Lecture Series, Santa Fe, July 23.

 

2004 A Ceramic Perspective on Navajo-Pueblo Contacts in Early Historic New Mexico. Paper presented in the symposium "Historical Archaeology, Southwest Style" at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, April 2.

 

2000 Late Archaic Lithic Technology in the Big Burro Mountains: The NM 90 Assemblages. Paper presented at the XI Mogollon Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico, October 14.

 

2000 Information Transmission in Pottery-Producing Systems: Memes, Artifacts, and Learning Lineages. Paper presented in the symposium "Archaeology and Evolution" at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, April 9. 

 

Van Hoose, Jonathan E. and Kari L. Schleher 2002 Boundaries of Learning Networks Reflected in Technological Style in Nondecorated Ceramics at San Marcos Pueblo, New Mexico. Paper presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, March 22.

David Vaughan
E-mail: dvaughan@unm.edu
Homepage: http://www.unm.edu./~anthro/abstracts.htm#David%20Vaughan
Dissertation Committee: Ann Ramenofsky (Chair), Lawrence Straus, Adrian Brearley (Mineralogy), Susan Barger (Materials Science), David Killick (University of Arizona)
Areas of interest: mining archaeology, archaeometallurgy, Southwestern history, evolutionary and anthropological theory, petrography, electron microscopy, Spanish, French, statistics, database (Access) design, law and legal analysis
Dissertation Topic: Rescuing History: The archaeology and materials science of Spanish mining and metallurgy in Colonial New Mexico
Gretchen Ward
E-mail: gward@unm.edu
Dissertation Committee: Ann Ramenofsky
Areas of interest: Southwest United States, Spanish Contact period, GIS, surface investigation, and cultural landscapes.  Public archaeology and CRM.
Dissertation Topic: The technological style of Post-Contact iconography within Petroglyph National Monument.  Potential points of comparison exist for other areas in New Mexico where similar Rio Grande style petroglyphs have been recorded.  I propose to look at process and change withi