Samples of Possible Graduate Student Research 2014-Current

With Dr. David Byers

(david.byers@usu.edu)

• Artiodactyls, stable isotopes and climate change on the Snake River Plain

• Hunter gatherer subsistence in the Great Basin, Wyoming Basin, and southern Idaho

• Large game processing intensity

• Prehistoric Aleut stable isotope chemistry and subsistence change

With Dr. Jacob Freeman

(jacob.freeman@usu.edu)

With Dr. Judson Finley

(judson.finley@usu.edu)

• Archaeological site documentation and condition assessment at Dinosaur National Monument

• Tree-ring analysis and paleoenvironmental reconstruction, Uinta Basin and northeastern Colorado Plateau

• Alluvial geoarchaeology and stream valley histories, Uinta Basin

• Archaeological overview and assessment, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park

• Late Prehistoric artifact sourcing (obsidian, ceramics, and chert) and social networks, northeastern Great Basin and Central Rocky Mountains

With Dr. Steven Simms

(s.simms@usu.edu)

• Prehistoric Native American irrigation in Utah

• Site structure and wickiups of the Great Basin and Rocky Mountains

• Hogup Cave ceramics and logistic mobility of Wasatch Front Fremont

• The energetics of limber pine collecting and processing Hunter?gatherer firewood use and Pinyon?Juniper forest structure

• Wooden Pronghorn traps and wickiups as proxy measures of wildland fire history

• Rock art and Fremont-Puebloan integration