E-mail: judson.finley@usu.edu
EDUCATION:
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2008, Ph.D. in Anthropology from Washington State
University
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2001, M.A. in
Anthropology from Washington State University
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1996, B.A. in Anthropology from University of
Wyoming
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr.
Finley's research focuses on the Central Rocky Mountains and Greater
Yellowstone Ecosystems in northwestern Wyoming and southern Montana where he
studies rockshelter formation processes, human response to environmental change,
and the effects of culture contact and colonialism on the Native Tribes of
Wyoming and Montana. Dr. Finley’s rockshelter studies are in the Bighorn and
Pryor Mountains where he is characterizing variability in Late Quaternary
formation processes. He is also working with Marcel Kornfeld and Bob Kelly
(University of Wyoming), to understand the role of rockshelters in Early
Paleoindian (i.e., Clovis and Folsom) settlement
strategies.
Dr. Finley is interested in Late Paleoindian
(i.e., the Foothills-Mountain Tradition) and Archaic lifeways, particularly the
effects of climate change on human foraging patterns. He examines the
relationships between rockshelter formation processes, Late Quaternary
environmental change, and human foraging behavior expressed in the
archaeofaunal record. Dr. Finley’s rockshelter studies use geochronology
techniques, such as AMS and OSL (optically stimulated luminescence),
macrostratigraphy, and geomorphic processes to link rockshelter formation to
environmental change. He plans to add micromorphology to many of the
rockshelters he has already characterized and will use stable isotope
geochemistry as an additional line of evidence for Late Quaternary
environmental change.
Currently, Dr. Finley is conducting a multi-year
archaeological training program in Bighorn Canyon National recreation Area in
collaboration with Dr. Kelly Branam (St. Cloud State University), Matt Rowe
(Indiana University), and the Crow and Northern Cheyenne tribes of southern
Montana. Dr. Finley plans to develop a source analysis program in collaboration
with Geology faculty at Utah State University that focuses on obsidian and
ceramic artifacts in the Central Rocky Mountains, eastern Great Basin, and
northern Colorado Plateau.
Photo courtesy of:
Dan Baney,
Northwest College, Powell, Wyoming
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Geoarchaeology; Archaeometry; Paleoecology;
Environmental Change; Human-Environmental Interactions; Hunter-Gatherer
Archaeology; Cultural Resources Management; High Plains and Rocky
Mountains
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Finley, Judson Byrd
, Kelly Branam, Laura
Scheiber, Chris Finley, and Burdick Two Leggins (2012). The Two Eagles Site
(24CB2069): A Tipi Encampment in Bighorn Canyon Montana.
Archaeology in Montana.
In Review.
Finley, Judson Byrd
(2012).
Southsider Rockshelter
(48BH364) as a Case Study of Formation Processes in Sandstone Rockshelters.
In
Medicine Lodge Creek:
Holocene Archaeology of the Eastern Big Horn Basin, Wyoming, vol.
2, edited by G.C. Frison and D.N. Walker.
Clovis Press, Avondale,
Colorado. In Review.
Scheiber, Laura L., and
Judson Byrd
Finley (2011).
Obsidian Source Use in the Greater
Yellowstone Area, Wyoming Basin, and Central Rocky
Mountains.
American Antiquity
76:372-394.
Scheiber, Laura L., Kelly
M. Branam,
Judson Byrd Finley, Rebecca A. Nathan, Katherine L.
Burnett, Maureen P. Boyle, Dawn M. Rutecki, Aaron E. Erickson, Chris Finley,
and Alda Good Luck (2011). "Crow
Rediscover a Piece of Their Homeland.”
Archaeological
Practice: A Journal of the Society for American Archaeology 1:29-34.
Scheiber, Laura L., and
Judson Byrd Finley (2011). Mobility as Resistance: Colonialism Among
Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers In The American West.
In
Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process,
edited by Kenneth E. Sassaman and Donald H. Jr. Holly pp. 167-186. University
of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Eckerle, William, Eric Ingbar, Sasha Taddie,
Judson Byrd
Finley, Michael Drews, and Mary Hopkins (2011). Forecasting
Landscape Settings Conducive to Site Burial. I
n
Archaeology in 3D:
Deciphering Buried Sites in the Western U.S., edited by M. Seddon,
H. Roberts, and R.V.N. Ahlstrom, pp. 99-113.
The SAA Press, Washington DC.
Eckerle,
William,
Judson
Byrd Finley, and Rebecca Hanna (2011).
Data
Collection Strategies for Assessing Artifact Zone Spatial and Associational
Integrity in Sand Occupational Substrates.
In
Archaeology in 3D:
Deciphering Buried Sites in the Western U.S., edited by M. Seddon,
H. Roberts, and R.V.N. Ahlstrom, pp. 167-182.
The SAA Press, Washington DC.
Scheiber, Laura L., and
Judson Byrd
Finley (2010).
Mountain Shoshone
Technological Transitions Across the Great Divide.
In
Across the Great
Divide: Culture Contact and Culture Change in North America at AD
1500, edited by L.L, Scheiber and M. Mitchell, pp. 128-148.
University of
Arizona Press, Tucson.
Scheiber, Laura L., and
Judson Byrd
Finley (2010).
Cyber Landscapes and Domestic Landscapes in the
Rocky Mountains.
Antiquity 84:114-130.
Surovell, Todd A,
Judson Byrd Finley, Geoff Smith, Robert
Kelly, and P. Jeffrey Brantingham (2009).
Correcting Temporal
Frequency Distributions for Taphonomic Bias.
Journal of
Archaeological Science 36:1715-1724.
Scheiber, Laura L.,
Judson Byrd
Finley, and Maureen P. Boyle (2008). Bad
Pass Archaeology.
The American Surveyor
April/May:12-22.
Finley, Judson
Byrd
(2007).
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Geomorphology.
In
Medicine Lodge Creek:
Holocene Archaeology of the Eastern Big Horn Basin, Wyoming,
edited by G.C. Frison and D.N. Walker, pp. 133-153.
Clovis Press, Avondale,
Colorado.
Finley, Judson
Byrd
(2007).
The Geologic and Geomorphic Context of Rockshelters
in the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming.
In
On the Shelter’s Ledge: Histories, Theories, and
Methods of Rockshelter Research, edited by M. Kornfeld, L. Miotti,
and S. Vasil’ev, pp. 173-180.
Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP, Lisbon,
Portugal.
British
Archaeological Reports S1655.
Archaeopress, Oxford,
England.
Finley, Judson
Byrd
, Marcel Kornfeld, Chris C. Finley, Brian Andrews,
George C. Frison, and Michael T. Bies (2005).
Rockshelter Archaeology and Geoarchaeology in the
Bighorn Mountains.
Plains Anthropologist
50:227-248.
COURSES TAUGHT:
ANTH 3300
Archaeology of North America, ANTH
5300/6300
Archaeology Field School, ANTH 5330/6330
Geoarchaeology, ANTH 6390
Cultural Resource
Management Policy, ANTH 6420
Lithic
Analysis
DR. FINLEY'S CV