Emeritus Professor
Fields of Interest
Biography
Curriculum Vitae
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My prime interests lie in understanding the interrelationships between people and the biotic landscapes with which they interact. My technical specialization in zooarchaeology provides me with one means of addressing this general area, while theory drawn from both biogeography and evolutionary ecology provides the conceptual tools I have used to understand those interrelationships. Although my research is driven more by questions than by time periods or geography, the bulk of my work has involved the latest Pleistocene and Holocene of the Great Basin (western United States) and Pleistocene southwestern France.
Awards and Honors
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2016
University Faculty Lecturer Award, University of Washington, 2015-2016
Great Basin Anthropological Conference Lifetime Achievement Award, 2012
National Academy of Sciences, 2011
Washington State Academy of Sciences, 2011
Desert Research Institute Nevada Medal, 2005
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002
Distinguished Alumni Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, 1990
Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Research, Society for American Archaeology 1986
Research
Research Advised
- Louderback, Lisbeth A. The Ecology of Human Diets during the Holocene at North Creek Shelter, Utah. Diss. U of Washington, 2014.
- Giovas, Christina Marguerite. Foraging Variability in the Prehistoric Caribbean: Multiple Foraging Optima, Resource Use, and Anthropogenic Impacts on Carriacou, Grenada. Diss. U of Washington, 2013.
- Fisher, Jacob Levi. Costly Signaling and Changing Faunal Abundances at Five Finger Ridge, Utah. Diss. U of Washington, 2010.
- Daniels, Phoebe S. A Gendered Model of Prehistoric Resource Depression: A Case Study on the Northwest Coast of North America. Diss. U of Washington, 2009.
- West, Catherine Foster. Human Dietary Response to Resource Abundance and Climate Change. Diss. U of Washington, 2009.
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