Dr. William D. Lipe
Ph.D., Yale University
Professor Emeritus
Archaeology
William D. Lipe is an archaeologist with expertise in the North American Southwest, archaeological method and theory, and cultural resource management. His Ph.D. (Yale 1966) was based on fieldwork in the Glen Canyon area of southeastern Utah. Subsequent major field projects have included work in the Cedar Mesa region of Utah and the Dolores region of southwestern Colorado. Since the 1980s, he has collaborated with archaeologists at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, Colorado on studies of Pueblo settlement patterns, community organization, and socio-cultural change in the Northern San Juan region of Colorado and Utah. Prior to joining the WSU faculty in 1976, Dr. Lipe was Assistant Director of the Museum of Northern Arizona, and Assistant and Associate Professor at Binghamton University in New York. From 1995 to 1997, he was President of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). He regularly teaches a graduate course titled Introduction to Archaeological Method and Theory (ANTH 530). He was recognized with the WSU College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 1997, the John F. Seiberling Award from the Society of Professional Archaeologists in 1998, the SAA Distinguished Service Award in 2000, and the Byron Cummings Award from the Pecos Archaeological Conference in 2002.
Representative Publications
2002 (edited by Mark Varien and Richard Wilshusen) Social Power in the Central Mesa Verde Region, A.D. 1150-1290. In Seeking the Center Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region . University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
2002 (edited by Barbara Little) Public Benefits of Archaeological Research. In Public Benefits of Archaeology, pp. 20-28. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
2000 (first author, with Scott G. Ortman) Spatial Patterning in Northern San Juan Villages, A.D. 1050-1300. Kiva 66(1):91-122.
1999 (senior editor, with Mark Varien and Richard Wilshusen) Prehistoric Archaeological Contexts of Colorado: The Southern Colorado Basin. Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, Denver.
1995 The Depopulation of the Northern San Juan: Conditions in the Turbulent 1200s. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 14:143-169.
1992 (editor) The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: A Progress Report. Occasional Paper No. 2. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, CO.
1989 (co-editor, with Michelle Hegmon) The Architecture of Social Integration in Prehistoric Pueblos. Occasional Paper No. 1. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, CO.
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