Regular Faculty  | William Ayres (B.A. 1966 Wyoming, PhD Tulane 1973) has been a professor at UO since 1976. His research interests include the development of chiefdoms and early food production, especially in the Pacific Islands (Micronesia, Polynesia) and in Southeast
Asia. He is continuing archaeological investigations at Pohnpei’s Nan Madol site, known for its massive stone architecture. Ayres uses computer graphics to facilitate architectural reconstruction and is engaged in provenance
studies of archaeological materials, especially stone building resources and ceramics through geochemical analysis. Contact information: (541) 34541-346-5119 | Curriculum vitae
Web Site |  | Jon Erlandson (B.A., 1980;M.A.,1983, Ph.D., 1988, UC-Santa Barbara) has been a professor at UO since 1990. Jon Erlandson is an archaeologist who specializes in western North America, with a focus on the archaeology of maritime societies of the Pacific Coast of North America, the Pacific Rim region, and the world. Actively engaged in fieldwork in coastal California, Oregon, Alaska, and Iceland, he has written or edited nine books and published over 100 scholarly articles. Research and teaching interests include the development of maritime societies, historical ecology in coastal environments, human evolution and migrations, the peopling of the Americas, the history of seafaring, traditional technologies, dating methods in archaeology, geoarchaeology, cultural resource management, and collaborative research with indigenous communities. In 2005, Erlandson was appointed director of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History and the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology at the UO. He also serves as co-editor of the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, published by
Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Contact information: Office: (541) 34541-346-5115 Lab: (541) 34541-346-0662 | Curriculum Vitae |  | Doug Kennett (B.A., 1990; M.A., 1994: Ph.D. 1998, University of California at Santa Barbara) has been a professor at UO since 2001. Douglas J. Kennett is an archaeologist studying prehistoric maritime societies of the Pacific and Pacific Rim. He has done field research in California, Mexico, Oceania, and Peru and currently has active field projects in Chiapas, Mexico and Rapa, French Polynesia. Theoretical interests include evolutionary and ecological approaches to hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists, particularly the behavioral ecology of prehistoric coastal foragers and farmers. Methodological specializations include archaeometry, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and quantitative analysis. He has authored or co-authored 20 peer-reviewed papers and has received grants from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society and the National Park Service to conduct his research. A revised version of his dissertation "Behavioral Ecology and the Evolution of Hunter-Gatherer Societies on the Northern Channel Islands, California" is currently under consideration by UC Press and he is in the process of editing a volume entitled "Foraging Theory and the Transition to Agriculture" with Bruce Winterhalder from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Contact Information: (541) 34541-346-5237. | Web Site
Curriculum Vitae |  | Gyoung-Ah Lee (B.A. 1992, Seoul National University; M.S. 1997, Ph.D. 2003, University of Toronto) became an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon in fall, 2007. Her topical interests are paleoethnobotany, paleoenvironment, social complexity in early states, transition from foraging to food production, traditional farming technologies, phylogenetics of crops, labor organization, ideology of food, gendered archaeology, and quantitative archaeology. Her chronological and geographic interests include Neolithic, Bronze, and early historical periods in Korea; the Neolithic to Shang periods in China; Jomon-Yayoi periods and Ainu history in Hokkaido; and Late Woodland & Iroquoian tradition in the eastern North America. Her recent publications include "Contextual analysis of plant remains at the Erlitou-period Huizui site, Henan, China" (with S. Bestel), Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (BIPPA) 27:49-60 (2007);
"Plants and People from the Early Neolithic to Shang periods in North China" (with G. W. Crawford, L. Liu, and X. Chen.). PNAS 104(3):1087-1092 (2007); and "Review of new data on rice domestication in China" (in Korean with the English abstract). Journal of the Korean Archaeological Society 61:42-69 (2006). | Curriculum Vitae
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Arch. Of East Asia (399) |  | Sarah B. McClure (B.A., 1997, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet (Freiburg, Germany); M.A., 1999, Ph.D. 2004, UC Santa Barbara) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department and Assistant Director of Public Programs at the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Her research interests include historical and evolutionary ecology, political economy, origins of agriculture and animal husbandry, transition to sedentism, faunal and ceramic analysis, transmission of technology, hunter-gatherers, European prehistory, and Western Mediterranean prehistory. | Web Page |  | Madonna Moss (B.A., 1976, William and Mary; M.A., 1982, Ph.D., 1989, University of California Santa Barbara) studies the Northwest Coast of North America. She recently completed the monograph, "Archaeological Investigation of Cape Addington Rockshelter: Human Occupation of the Rugged Seacoast on the Outer Prince of Wales Archipelago" (University of Oregon Anthropological Paper No. 63). A review of the status of archaeology in southeast Alaska has appeared (Arctic Anthropology 2004), and other work on southeast Alaskan caves and rockshelters has been published in the Journal of Ethnobiology (2003), American Antiquity (2001), Arctic Anthropology (2001), and Canadian Journal of Archaeology (2000). Work on the Oregon Coast has appeared in American Antiquity (1999), World Archaeology (1998), Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (1998) and publications of the Coquille Indan Tribe. To illuminate anthropological problems, Professor Moss tries to incorporate ecological, ethnographic, and ethnohistorical sources to bear on archaeological questions as illustrated in articles in Ethnohistory (1999) and American Anthropologist (1993). She and other archaeologists in the department are strongly committed to training Native American scholars. Some of her work with Tlingit community scholars is now available in "Haa Atxaayí Haa Kusteeyíx Sitee, Our Food is Our Tlingit Way of Life," published by the USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region. For more about Professor Moss' work with the Tlingit community, click here. She serves on the Executive Board of the Society for American Archaeology. | Curriculum Vitae
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Associated, Part Time or Emeritus (Retired) Faculty  | C. Melvin Aikens (B.A., 1960, Utah; M.A., 1962, Ph.D., 1966, Chicago) is an emeritus professor at UO, originally hired in 1968. C. Melvin Aikens' research focuses on the archaeology of the Great Basin of North America and of Japan, with collateral interests in the archaeology of their encompassing regions. Recently published book chapters are "Adaptive Strategies and Environmental Change in the Great Basin and Its Peripheries as Determinants in the Migrations of Numic-Speaking Peoples," "First in the World: The Jomon Pottery of Early Japan," and (co-authored with Takeru Akazawa) "The Pleistocene/Holocene Transition in Japan and Adjacent Northeast Asia: Climatic and Biotic Change, Broad-Spectrum Diet, Pottery and Sedentism." He is author or editor of 15 books and many book chapters and journal articles. After nine years of service, Aikens recently retired as director of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History and the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology. | Curriculum Vitae |  | Tom Connolly (Museum of Natural History, UO) is Director of Research for the State Museum of Anthropology, an administrative division of the Museum of Natural History at the University of Oregon. The research division conducts archaeological research throughout the state of Oregon, much of it in the context of a long-standing cultural resource management program operated in cooperation with the Oregon Department of Transportation and other state agencies. This program offers lab and fieldwork opportunities to students in the Department of Anthropology. Relating to Oregon's unique geographic position, Connolly's research reaches into all major cultural areas of the North American Far West, including the Pacific Coast, mesic interior valleys, the Great Basin, and the Columbia Plateau. Topical research areas include complex hunter-gatherers, basketry technologies of the Pacific Northwest, paleoenvironmental studies, and cultural resource management. | |  | Don Dumond (B.A. 1949, New Mexico; M.A. 1957, Mexico City College; Ph.D. 1962, Oregon) is a Professor Emeritus who was hired in 1962. His interests are in New World archaeology. | | | Pamela Endzweig (Museum of Natural History, UO) is collections manager and research archaeologist at the Museum of Natural History. Her research focuses on the interior Plateau section of the state of Oregon. | | | Tom Evans (courtesy appointment) | |  | Dennis Jenkins (B.A., 1979, M.A., 1981, Nevada; Ph.D., 1991, Oregon) is an Archaeologist/Field School Supervisor for the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology/Museum of Natural History, UO. He focuses on Early and Middle Holocene hunter-gatherer foraging strategies; archaeology of the arid and semi-arid western United States with particular emphasis on Great Basin settlement-subsistence patterns, uses of obsidian sourcing and hydration, and prehistoric bead type and distribution analyses. Contact information (541) 34541-346-3026. | Web Site
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Paisley Cave Research | | Brian L. O'Neill (B.S. 1972, M.A. 1978 Kansas State; Ph.D. 1989, Oregon) (Museum of Natural History, UO) is senior research associate for the State Museum of Anthropology. While his work for the Museum takes him statewide, his research focus is the western interior valleys of Oregon. Topical interests include complex hunter-fisher-gatherers, obsidian and residue studies, and the use of GIS in predictive modeling. Contact information (541) 34541-346-3033. | | | Ronald Spores (courtesy appointment) is involved with Lynn Stephen in a long term archaeological research project in San Pedro y San Pablo Teposcolula, Oaxaca. He is a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History. | |
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