Bonnie Pitblado

Associate Professor, Anthropology- Archaeology

Utah State University

Dr. Pitblado serves as an associate professor of anthropology, director of the Anthropology Program and of the USU Museum of Anthropology. She teaches courses in archaeology and museum studies and serves as the advisor for USU's "Museum Studies" certification program. Dr. Pitblado specializes in the earliest human occupations of the Rocky Mountains, and she has an active research program aimed at trying to better understand how people used the mountains and adjacent landscapes, 10,000-7,500 years ago.

 

Currently, Dr. Pitblado has grants from the National Science Foundation and the Bureau of Land Management to conduct field research in the Gunnison Basin of southwest Colorado, and she is initiating a new, long-term research program based in northern Utah and southeast Idaho. In 2003, Dr. Pitblado published a book with University Press of Colorado, Paleoindian Occupation of the Southern Rocky Mountains. In October 2007, the same press released a volume co-edited by Dr. Pitblado, Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology. Dr. Pitblado teaches archaeological field school in odd-numbered years, and she offers many opportunities for her students to gain hands-on experience in both archaeology and museum studies.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Paleoindian archaeology, lithic analysis, hunter-gatherer adaptations; Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, Plains.

 

SUBJECTS TAUGHT: World Archaeology, Archaeology in North America, Introduction to Museum Studies, Museum Development, Peopling of the New World, Archaeology Lab Techniques, Writing for Archaeologists

DR. PITBLADO'S CV

 

DR. PITBLADO'S PALEOINDIAN RESEARCH WEBSITE

 

CONTACT INFORMATION:

USU Logan Campus, OM 245A

0730 Old Main Hill

Logan UT 84322-0730

Phone: (435) 797-1496

E-mail: bonnie.pitblado@usu.edu

USU’s S.E. Idaho & N. Utah Paleoindian Research Program Newsletters