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I was born in Quito Ecuador; obtained a Licenciatura in Archaeology at the Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral. In 1985 entered the PhD program in Anthropology at SMU. As a graduate student worked as Laboratory Instructor at the Grasshoper Archaeological Field School in Arizona. Upon graduation I worked in Egypt and Argentina and then immigrated to the United States where I was hired in BARA-UA.
At BARA I have worked with Native American tribes in the Southwest, Great Basin, Great Lakes, Great Plains, and Columbia Plateau. My projects integrate archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography in an effort to support cultural preservation and revitalization. My projects are collaborative with tribal members as partners in research, outreach, and publication of scholarly research.Show Less
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Courses
- ADCArchaeology and Descendant Communities
- FAIFoundations of Archaeological Interpretation
- AENAArchaeology of Eastern North America
- CCCCulture Contact and Colonialism
- ENAEthnology North America
- ENAEthnology of North America
Grants
- People, Plants, and Land in Long-Term Interactions: Composing Southern Je Complexities in the Upper Itajai Valley (Santa Catarina - Brazil)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2023
$19.9K
Active - ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE ST. PIUS X MISSION SCHOOL SITE, SKAGWAY, ALASKA
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$111.5K
Active - MT DAK Western Montana Cultural Landscapes: Interactive Mapping and Virtual Reality Educational Resource
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$79.9K
Active - Integrating Archaeological and Indigenous Data Sources to Explore the Peopling of the North American Continent Along the Ice-Free Corridor
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$1.2M
Active - Integrating Archaeological and Indigenous Data Sources to Explore the Peopling of the North American Continent Along the Ice-Free Corridor
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$309.4K
Active - Four Horns Dam Mitigation Tests
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$24.2K
- Four Horns Lake Archaeological and Historical Assessment
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$25.0K
- Highway 89 West & Kiowa East On & Off-Site Mitigation Plan
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$119.9K
- Piikani Aboriginal Territory - Archaeological Research
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$28.7K
- Highway 89 West & Kiowa East Off-Site Mitigation Project
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$109.9K
News
- UA Downtown Lecture Series to Focus on Humans' Relationships with Animals
2019
- Native Bison Hunters Amplified Climate Impacts on Prairie Fires
2018
Publications (84)
Recent
- Glacial kettles as archives of early human settlement along the Northern Rocky Mountain Front
2022
- Oral tradition as emplacement: Ancestral Blackfoot memories of the Rocky Mountain Front
2021
- McKean in the northern Rocky Mountain Front: economic landscape and ethnogenesis
2020
- Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet
2020
- Integrating Archaeological and Indigenous Data Sources to Explore the Peopling of the North American Continent Along the Ice-Free Corridor
2019
- McKean in the Northern Rocky Mountain Front: economic outlook and ethnogenesis
2019
- Complementary approaches to the identification of bison processing for storage at the Kutoyis complex, Montana
2018
- Territory formation among ancestral Blackfoot bison hunters of the Northwestern Plains
2018
- Indigenous impacts on North American Great Plains fire regimes of the past millennium
2018
- Power at the crossroads of politics and religion: A commentary
2017
- Rethinking the impact of abundance on the rhythm of Bison hunter societies
2017
- Art as the Road to Perfection: The Blackfoot Painted Tipi
2017
- Bison Huntings and the Rocky Mountains: An Evolving Partnership
2017
- Bison hunters and the Rocky Mountains: An evolving partnership
2017
- The Winged: An Upper Missouri River Ethno-ornithology
2016
- The archaeology of territory
2016
- Complementary Approaches to the identification of bison processing for storage. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
2016
- Engineering mountain landscapes: An anthropology of social investment
2015
- People and mountains
2015
- Dating stone alignments by luminescence
2015
- Landscape engineering and organizational complexity among late prehistoric bison hunters of the Northwestern Plains
2014
- Journeys of rediscovery: Archaeology, territory, and legitimacy in contemporary native Nevada
2014
- Methodological and analytical challenges in relational archaeologies: a view from the hunting ground
2014
- Chaco: More on Indian Identity and The Cant of Re-conquest
2013
- Hatata (The Backbone of the River): American Indian Ethnographic Studies Regarding the Hoover Dam Bypass Project
2013
- Pipestone: A Modified Traditional Landscape
2013
- Ojibway Natural Resource Use In the Western Great Lakes
2013
- To become a mountain hunter: flexible core values and subsistence hunting among reservation-era Blackfeet
2013
- The remaking of Lake Sakakawea: Locating cultural viability in negative heritage on the Missouri River
2011
- Agency and politics in hunter-gatherer territory formation
2010
- The archaeology of meaningful places
2009
- Animating by association: index objects and relational taxonomies
2009
- From path to myth: journeys and the naturalization of nation along the Missouri River
2009
- TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, RITUAL BEHAVIOR
2008
- When Is a Site Culturally Viable? Landscape Evolution and Ojibwa Heritage Building on the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, Minnesota and Wisconsin
2008
- Bundled worlds: the roles and interactions of complex objects from the North American Plains
2008
- Cultural Affiliation Statement Buffalo National River, Arkansas
2008
- Traditional knowledge, ritual behavior, and contemporary interpretations of the archaeological record–an Ojibwa perspective
2008
- Blackfeet landscape knowledge and the Badger-Two Medicine traditional cultural district
2007
- Ancient voices, storied places: themes in contemporary Indian history
2006
- Cultural Affiliation Statement and Ethnographic Resource Assessment Study for Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site …
2006
- Dá Me Na-Nu-Wu-Tsi:“Our Relations All of Mother Earth” Timber Mountain Ethnographic Report
2006
- Searching for analytical alternatives to the characterization of copper minerals
2005
- Chemical Characterization of Ceramic Pastes
2005
- Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota Native American Cultural Affiliation and Traditional Association Study
2004
- Landscapes of the ghost dance: a cartography of Numic ritual
2004
- The Political Geography and Territoriality of 14th-Century Settlements in the Mogollon Highlands of East-Central Arizona
2004
- Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri: Cultural Affiliation Study Final Report
2003
- Compositional analysis in American archaeology
2003
- The St Croix Riverway in ethnohistorical perspective
2003
- Tracking the role of pathways in the evolution of a human landscape: the St Croix riverway in ethnohistorical perspective
2003
- Landscape, nature, and culture: a diachronic model of human-nature adaptations
2003
- Artifact design, composition, and context: Updating the analysis of ceramic circulation at Point of Pines, Arizona
2002
- Neolithic ceramic production in the Eastern Sahara of Egypt
2002
- East of Nellis: Cultural Landscapes of the Sheep and Pahranagat Mountain Ranges: an Ethnographic Assessment of American Indian Places and Resources in the Desert National …
2002
- Holocene settlement of the Egyptian Sahara. Volume 2: the pottery of Nabta Playa
2002
- Traditional Ojibway Resources in the Western Great Lakes
2001
- American Indians and the Nevada test site: A model of research and consultation
2001
- Historical memory and ethnographic perspectives on the Southern Paiute homeland
2001
- Overview and inventory of ethnographic resources for Petrified Forest National Park, El Malpais National Monument and National Conservation Area, and El Morro National Monument
2001
- Shifting risks: Hoover Dam bridge impacts on American Indian sacred landscapes
2001
- The Land Still Speaks: Traditional Cultural Property Eligibility Statements for Gold Strike Canyon, Nevada and Sugarloaf Mountain, Arizona
2000
- Vanishing River: Landscapes and Lives of the Lower Verde Valley-The Lower Verde Valley Archaeological Project edited by Stephanie M. Whittlesey, Richard Ciolek-Torrello, and …
2000
- On what people make of places: A behavioral cartography
2000
- Ceramic evidence for community reorganization and change in east-central Arizona
2000
- Storied Rocks: American Indian Inventory and Interpretation of Rock Art on the Nevada Test Site
1999
- Preface: BAE Anthropology, Its Roots and Legacy
1999
- BAE Scholars as Documenters of Diversity and Change at Hopi, 1870-1895
1999
- Defining material correlates for ceramic circulation in the prehistoric Puebloan Southwest
1998
- The Social Dynamics of Pottery Style in the Early Puebloan Southwest. Michelle Hegmon 1995. Occasional Paper No. 5, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. Distributed by University …
1997
- Landmark and landscape: A contextual approach to the management of American Indian resources
1997
- Landscapes, land use, and the history of territory formation: An example from the Puebloan Southwest
1997
- Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Consultation and the Nevada Test Site Collection
1996
- A demographic overview of the late Pueblo III period in the mountains of east-central Arizona
1996
- Hohokam, Salado, and Sinagua Consultation Meeting, Tucson, July 18-19, 1995: Meeting Summary; Final Report
1996
- The role of population movement and technology transfer in the manufacture of prehistoric Southwestern ceramics
1995
- Refinements in Dating Late Cibola White Ware
1995
- Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Foundations for Cultural Affiliation
1995
- American Indians and Fajada Butte: Ethnographic Overview and Assessment for Fajada Butte and Traditional (Ethnobotanical) Use Study for Chaco Culture National Historical Park …
1994
- Saint versus the Hummingbird
1994
- Sourcing Prehistoric Ceramics at Chodistaas Pueblo, Arizona
1994
- Interpretation of ceramic artifacts
1993
- Refining inferences of ceramic circulation: a stylistic, technological, and compositional analysis of whole vessels from Chodistaas, Arizona
1991