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David Byers
Asst.
Professor,
Anthropology-Archaeology/Zooarchaeology
Utah State
University
CONTACT INFO:
USU Logan Campus,
OM 245C
0730 Old Main Hill
Logan UT
84322-0730
Phone: (435) 797-1178
E-mail: david.byers@usu.edu
EDUCATION:
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2006,
Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Utah
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2001, M.A. in Anthropology,
University of Wyoming
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1997-98, Coursework in
Anthropology, Montana State University
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1988, B.S. in Industrial
Supervision, Purdue University
BIOGRAPHY:
David Byers has a Ph.D. in Anthropology
from the University of Utah and an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of
Wyoming. He has been previously employed as adjunct faculty at the University
of Utah and as a senior archaeologist at several archaeological consulting
firms. He has formal training as a zooarchaeologist – a specialist in animal
remains from archaeological contexts, but is also knowledgeable in lithic
analysis, geoarchaeology, Quaternary paleontology, and paleoecology.
Current and recent projects include a stable isotope study
of human subsistence in the Aleutian Islands, taphonomic investigations of
Great Basin faunal assemblages, and research into the role of extinct elephants
in the diets of ancient foragers. David has also been investigating the impact
of Holocene climate change on large game population histories and the ways that
trends in prey availability condition the strategies used by ancient foragers
to butcher and process animal prey. David is also currently conducting
fieldwork at the Dawson Site in central Utah. This site contains the largest
single collection of early Paleoindian artifacts in the state of Utah and
likely represents several late Pleistocene occupations at an ancient spring and
associated wetland.
RESEARCH
INTERESTS:
Zooarchaeology, site formation, stable isotope analysis,
upland/alpine archaeology of Western U.S., coastal foragers of Jamaica,
Paleoecology, Paleoindian studies, and Human/Proboscidean
interaction.
COURSES
TAUGHT:
ANTH 2330
Principles of
Archaeology, ANTH 5320
Zooarchaeology, ANTH
6350
Archaeological Theory
DR.
BYERS' CV
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