Bruce B. Huckell
Professor of Anthropology
At UNM since Fall 1994
Anthropology Courses taught at UNM
Anth 373/573 Quaternary Paleoenvironments and Archaeology
Anth 373/573 Zooarchaeology
Anth 450/570 Paleoindians
Anth 482L/582L Geoarchaeology
Anth 570 Lithic Analysis
Education
BA, Anthropology, University of Arizona (1972)
MA, Anthropology, University of Arizona (1976)
PhD, Arid Lands Resource Sciences, University of Arizona (1990)
Dissertation Title: Late Preceramic Farmer-Foragers in Southeastern Arizona:
A Cultural and Ecological Consideration of the Spread of Agriculture into the
Arid Southwestern United States
Fieldwork
Recent field work centers on late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers and on the arrival
and incorporation of agriculture into arid lands forager economies; in terms
of geographic locations, my work has been in the Southwestern United States;
projects in the last 2 years have been centered in north-central New Mexico and
east-central Arizona
Selected Publications
2007 Haynes, C. Vance, Jr. and Bruce B. Huckell
Murray Springs, A Clovis Site with Multiple Activity Areas in the San Pedro Valley, Arizona.
Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona No. 71, University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 308 pages.
2006 Holliday, Vance T., Bruce B. Huckell, James H. Mayer, Steven L. Forman, and Leslie D. McFadden
Geoarchaeology of the Boca Negra Wash Area, Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico, USA. Geoarchaeology
21: 765802.
2003 Huckell, Bruce B. and C. Vance Haynes, Jr.
The Ventana Complex: New Dates and New Ideas on Its Place in Early Holocene
Western Prehistory. American Antiquity 68: 353-371.
2003 Huckell, Bruce B. and J. David Kilby
Folsom Point Production at the Rio Rancho Site, New Mexico. In Folsom Technology
and Lifeways, edited by John E. Clark and Michael B. Collins, pp. 11-29.
Special Publication 4, Lithic Technology, Department of Anthropology, University
of Tulsa, Tulsa.
2002 Huckell, Bruce B., Lisa W. Huckell, and Karl K. Benedict
Maize Agriculture and the Rise of Mixed Farming-Foraging Economies during the
Second Millennium B.C. In Traditions, Transitions, and Technologies:
Themes in Southwestern Archaeology, edited by Sarah H. Schlanger, pp.136-159. University
Press of Colorado, Boulder.
1998 Huckell, Bruce B.
A San Dieguito Site on the Lower Gila River, Southwestern Arizona. Kiva 64(2):
145-174.
1998 Huckell, Bruce B.
Alluvial Stratigraphy of the Santa Cruz Bend Reach. In Archaeological Investigations
of Early Village Sites in the Middle Santa Cruz Valley: Analyses and Synthesis,
edited by Jonathan B. Mabry, pp. 31-56. Center for Desert Archaeology Anthropological
Papers No. 19, Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson.
1996 Huckell, Bruce B.
The Archaic Prehistory of the North American Southwest. Journal of World
Prehistory 10(3): 305-373.
1996 Huckell, Bruce B.
Middle to Late Holocene Stream Behavior and the Transition to Agriculture in
Southeastern Arizona. In Early Formative Adaptations in the Southern
Southwest,
edited by Barbara J. Roth, pp. 27-36. Prehistory Press Monographs in World
Archaeology No. 25, Prehistory Press, Madison.
1995 Huckell, Bruce B.
Of Marshes and Maize, Preceramic Agricultural Settlements in the Cienega
Valley,
Southeastern Arizona. Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona
No. 59. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 166 pages.
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