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Graduate Students

2009 COHORT:


Ben Fowler: (b.fowler@aggiemail.usu.edu)

Research Interests: Paleoindian studies in southeastern Idaho and the Intermountain West, geochemical sourcing of obsidian and forager mobility.


Tod W. Hildebrandt: (tod.hilde@aggiemail.usu.edu)

Research Interests: Determinants of high altitude villages: a comparison of Alta Toquima and a hypothetical "Alta Toiyabe.”

Thesis Title: Intensification, Storage and the Use of Alpine Habitats in the Central Great Basin: Prehistoric Subsistence Strategies in the Toquima and Toiyabe Ranges.

Jon Peart: (jbpeart@yahoo.com)

Research Interests: Late Prehistoric organization of technology, lithic procurement in the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado


Dayna Reale: (dayna.reale@aggiemail.usu.edu)

Research Interests: Site structure, Wyoming

Thesis Title: Houses, Groundstone and Large Game abundance:  A study of Archaic Land Use Patterns in the Wyoming Basin

2010 COHORT:


Ryan Breslawski: ( r.p.b@aggiemail.usu.edu)

Research Interests: Zooarchaeology, evolutionary ecology and study of bison bone, Idaho.

Jessica Dougherty: (j.dougherty09@gmail.com)

Research Interests: Ceramics and forager mobility, Idaho.

Ashley Losey: (aklosey@gmail.com)

Research Interests: Risk and Climate at High Elevation, a Z-score Model Case Study from Wyoming's Wind River Range.

Thesis Title: Climate, Variability and Diet: Using the Z-score Model to Predict Climate-Driven Subsistence Change at High Rise Village, Wyoming.

Ashley chaired a session and presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference in Stateline, NV, October 2012. Title: Risk and Climate at High Altitude, a Z-score Model Case Study from Wyoming's Wind River Range.

Britt McNamara: (b.mcnamara@aggiemail.usu.edu)

Research Interests: Public archaeology, education and museums.

Thesis Title: Structure and Agency in Archaeological Site Stewardship Programs.

Elizabeth Seymour: (elizabeth.seymour@aggiemail.usu.edu)

Research Interests: Fremont architecture and social complexity.

2011 COHORT:

Candice Cravins: (ccravins@hotmail.com)

Research Interests: Teaching with Archaeology: Effective Museum Education Programming and Curriculum Development for Utah Public Schools.


Cody Dalpra: (cldalpra@msn.com)

Research Interests: Petrographic analysis of Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado quartzites.

Cody presented (with Bonnie Pitblado and Carol Dehler) at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference in Stateline, NV, October 2012. Title: Preliminary Results of Petrographic Analysis of Quartzite Sources in the Gunnison Basin, Colorado.


Chimalis Kuehn: (chimaliskuehn@hotmail.com)

Research Interests: Agricultural economics of Fremont irrigation.

Chimalis presented (with Nancy Kay Harrison and Steven Simms) at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference in Stateline, NV, October 2012. Title: The Archaeology of Ancient Fremont Irrigation.



Reed McDonald
: (patrick.mcdonald@aggiemail.usu.edu)

Research Interests:
Landscape archaeology and archaeological survey methodology using GPS.

Reed presented at the Idaho Archaeological Society Conference in Moscow, Id, October 2012. Title: Bounded Sites and Landscape Survey at the City of Rocks, Idaho.

2012 COHORT:

Diana Azevedo: (diana.m.azevedo@gmail.com

Research Interests: Zooarchaeology, evolutionary ecology, Jamaican shell middens and paleoecology.

Carlie Ideker: (carlieideker@hotmail.com)

Research Interests: Ceramics, geochemical sourcing and forager mobility, Wyoming.

2013 COHORT:

TBA

 

 
 
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