Archaeology
Archaeology is the study of people and their cultures in the past. Archaeologists gather clues left behind by collecting artifacts and systematically digging where people used to
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live. We use these clues to understand how people made a living, where they lived, what their belief systems may have been and many other aspects of their cultures. Several of our faculty work in North America including Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, the Great Basin and the Southwest. We also work across the globe in such places as India, East Africa, Mesoamerica, the Andes and Siberia.
Archaeology Faculty
Dr. Robert Ackerman
Interests: Arctic and Subarctic North America and Asia; Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic; earliest evidence for hunter-gatherer movement into Asia and Alaska; late Pleisstocene, early Holocene cultural adaptation; definition of cultural phases of Arctic and subarctic prehistory
Email: ackermanr@wsu.edu
Dr. William Andrefsky
Interests: Columbia Plateau, Arctic, and the NorthernGreat Basin; hunter-gatherer human organization; lithic analysis; Neolithic transition.
Email: and@wsu.edu
Dr. Mary Collins
Interests: Plateau; cultural resource management, museum studies.
Email: collinsm@wsu.edu
Dr. Andrew Duff
Interests: American Southwest; community formation; organizational transitions associated with increasing population consolidation; social and ethnic identity and migration.
Email: duff@wsu.edu
Dr. Melissa Goodman Elgar
Interests: Andean prehistory; geoarchaeology; archaeological theory; agriculture; and human impact on landscapes.
Email: mage@wsu.edu
Dr. Colin Grier
Interests: Pacific Northwest Coast, complex hunter-gatherers, faunal analysis
Email: cgrier@wsu.edu
Dr. John Jones
Interests: Mesoamerica and the New World tropics; palynology; origins of agriculture; historical archaeology (e.g. Montpelier, the home of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello.
Email: jonesjg@wsu.edu
Dr. Tim A. Kohler
Interests: American Southwest including Bandelier National Monument and southwestern Colorado; modeling and quantitative analysis; cooperative behavior; reciprocity; and other evolutionary processes in Neolithic societies.
Email: tako@wsu.edu
Dr. Karen Lupo
Interests: Great Basin and Sub-Saharan Africa; evolutionary ecology; hunter-gatherer studies; human evolution; faunal analysis and taphonomy; prehistoric subsistence patterns and ethnoarchaeology.
Email: klupo@mail.wsu.edu
Dr. Steven Weber
Interests: India and South Asia; the adoption of new subsistence strategies; links between subsistence, material culture and settlement systems; ethnobiology; paleoethnobotany; and field archaeology (on Vancouver campus)
Email: weber@vancouver.wsu.edu
CONTACT INFORMATION Graduate Coordinator (509) 335-7828 Student Representative |
Learn more about the WSU Archaeology Gradaute Program (PDF)
One-page pdf admission checklist
Main Office Information:College Hall 150 |
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