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My Background and Research Interests: • 30 years experience in archaeology of the western United States in contract, academic, and volunteer settings. • Research Associate/Assistant professor of dendrochronology at Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research for past 17 years. • Courses taught: Introduction to Dendrochronology, Archaeological Dendrochronology, Prehistory of the Southwest, Environmental History of the Southwest, Culture Climate and Catastrophe • My major research interests include expanding dendrochronology and dendroarchaeology beyond the US Southwest, Navajo archaeology and ethnogenesis, conflict during the Protohistoric and Historic Periods in the US Southwest, 20th century migration in the West, and social and behavioral consequences of the transition to pastoralismShow Less
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Courses
- SLSSouthwest Land and Society
- EHSEnvironmental History of the Southwest
- CCASClovis to Coronado: Archaeology of the Southwest
- CCCCultures, Catastrophe and Climate
- RRADRace, Racism, and the American Dream
- HAHistorical Archaeology
- WAWorld Archaeology
- MLASMigrations and Landscapes of the Ancient Southwest
Grants
- High Resolution Dating of the Hawley-Bell Collection
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$216.1K
Active - Tree Ring Dating in Western North America
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$244.3K
- NM Understanding the Taos Frontier: Cultural and Historical Agrarian Landscapes in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$19.9K
- Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Sampling at Montezuma Castle Cliff Dwelling and Tuzigoot Pueb
Co-Investigator (COI)
2018
$34.2K
- Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Visible Markers of Group Affiliation and Social Position
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$25.6K
- Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Dating at Montezuma Castle
Co-Investigator (COI)
2017
$25.0K
- Dendrochronology Study for Wupatki Residence 1 Viga Preservation
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$14.3K
- Support for the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$244.4K
- BLM-New Mexico Tree-Ring Studies in New Mexico - Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU) Challenge Cost Share (CCS)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$14.5K
- Sourcing Construction Timbers at Aztec Ruins NM
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$7.4K
News
- Prop. 301 to Fund Water Research at UA
2003
Publications (23)
Recent
- Culturally Modified Trees: Peeled and Scarred Ponderosa Pine Trees in the Zuni Mountains, New Mexico, USA
2022
- Dateless Dendroarchaeology
2022
- The Curious Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menseisii) trees in Schulman Grove, Mesa Verde National Park, Southwestern Colorado, USA
2021
- The Old Wood Calibration Project and Colorado's Ute History: A Progress Report
2016
- Slash and Trash: Dendroarchaeological and Ecological Inferences from a 20th Century Logging Camp in Western New Mexico
2016
- Herb Dick's Gallina: Tree-Ring Dating in the Llaves Valley
2015
- Collecting and Preparing Dendroarchaeological Samples
2015
- Cambium-peeled Trees in the Zuni Mountains, New Mexico USA.
2013
- Historical Perspective: Reflections on the Foundation, Persistence, and Growth of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Circa 1930-1960.
2012
- Historical dendroarchaeology in the El Malpais area: Lessons from the Savage homestead
2010
- Depopulation, not Abandonment: New Tree-Ring Dates from Dinetah.
2010
- Dendroarchaeology of the Savage Homestead.
2010
- Assessing the importance of past human behavior in dendroarchaeological research: Examples from range creek canyon, Utah, U.S.A.
2009
- Assessing the Importance of Past Human Behavior in Dendroarchaeological Research: Examples from Range Creek Canyon, Utah USA.
2009
- Understanding dating applications: Reply to Espenshade
2005
- Archeological Dendrochronology in the Southwestern United States
2002