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This community contains research materials by students and faculty members in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University. Included here are theses and dissertations, conference presentations and posters, reports, addenda, articles, and more. Members of the anthropology department conduct research in the Biocultural Lab, Geoarchaeology Lab, Lithic Analysis Lab, Paleoethnobotany Lab, Physical Anthropology Lab, Stable Isotope Lab, and the Zooarchaeology Lab. The department also maintains ethnographic and archaeological research collections, and study collections of floral, faunal, palynological, lithic, soil/sediment and ceramic materials. The Museum of Anthropology and the Plateau Center are additional resources for students.
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Cedar Mesa Project
This collection contains theses, dissertations and other publications related to the Cedar Mesa Project. -
Dolores Archaeological Program
This community contains materials documenting the Dolores Archaeological Program conducted 1978-1983. -
Faculty - Anthropology
This community features scholarly work by faculty members in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University.
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Electronic Dissertations and Theses - Anthropology
This collection contains dissertations and theses by students in the Department of Anthropology at WSU. -
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This collection contains newsletters for the Department of Anthropology at WSU.
Recent Submissions
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How Many Turkeys Did It Take to Make a Blanket?
(4/27/2019)This talk was presented at the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument Visitor Center in Dolores, Colorado. -
Setting the Stage: The Landscape Archaeology of the Cedar Mesa Basketmaker II
(2019-04-13)This paper was presented at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Albuquerque, New Mexico. -
Tale of a Test Pit: The research history of a midden column from the Turkey Pen site, Utah
(2019)Presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting. In 1972 R.G. Matson and a small crew excavated a dry, stratified midden at a Pueblo Cliff Dwelling site in Grand Gulch, as part of the Cedar Mesa Project. ... -
Archaeology and Politics ofthe Bears Ears National Monument in Utah
(11/29/2018)This talk was presented at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, on late November, 29, 2018. -
Bears Ears Controversy: Some Monumental Issues
(Archaeology Southwest, 1/8/2018)This blog post was published in January 2018 by WSU professor emeritus Bill Lipe in response to the Trump administration's announcement in December 2017 that it will radically shrink federally protected lands in Utah, ... -
Position on H.R. 4532, Shash Jáa National Monument and Indian Creek National Monument Act
(2018-01)The National Parks Conservation Association submitted the following position to the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources Federal Lands Subcommittee ahead of a hearing scheduled for January 9, 2018. -
Anthro News, Winter 2018
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Presidential Authority to Revoke or Reduce National Monument Designations
(2018)The Antiquities Act of 1906 grants the president the power to designate national monuments in order to protect historic landmarks and structures. Pursuant to this power, a president has the corresponding power to revoke ... -
Turkey Pen Excavation
(2018)The Cedar Mesa Project was an archaeological project on Cedar Mesa in SE Utah, funded by the National Science Foundation and co-directed by William (Bill) Lipe and R.G. Matson. This report provides background information ... -
ETHNOBIOLOGICAL COLLABORATION WITH TWO SOCIETIES OF THE LATIN AMERICAN TROPICS
(2018)Ethnobiology, defined as the scientific study of dynamic relationships among peoples, biota, and environments (SoE, 2017), is a field that combines different approaches from other disciplines while also including issues ... -
STRANGERS IN A STRANGER LAND: LIVING HISTORY AND TRADITION IN THE LIVES OF ARAB-AMERICANS
(2018)Immigrants have been a part of the American story since the founding of the US state. However, while these experiences have undergone a transformation in the last forty years due to technological shifts and transformations, ... -
Lithics and the Late Prehistoric: Interaction on the Southern Columbia Plateau
(2018)The people of the Columbia Plateau have been frequently characterized as a homogenous culture despite a 2,500-year depth of history and large spatial extent. Moreover, differences in artifact form, assemblage composition, ... -
Understanding Culture History Using Topographic Morphometrics of Lithic Projectile Points: Paleoindian Case Studies from the Great Plains and Northern Alaska
(2018)The classification of projectile points into types has long been used by archaeologists to develop regional chronologies and serves as a basis by which to explain cultural continuity or change over time. This study ... -
‘TIS THE SEASON: AN EXPERIMENTAL EXAMINATION OF TOOLKIT VARIABILITY, LATE PLEISTOCENE- EARLY HOLOCENE INTERIOR ALASKA
(2018)Simultaneous use of two distinct projectile technologies in interior Alaska, during the end of the Pleistocene and early Holocene, is a study domain that has generated many diverse hypotheses. Some researchers view the ... -
Bears Ears Controversy: Presidential Proclamation Modifying the Bears Ears National Monument
(12/4/2017)This proclamation by President Donald J. Trump details a significant reduction to the size of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante--previously federally protected lands in Utah. This reduction of ... -
H.R. 4532: Shash Jaa National Monument and Indian Creek National Monument Act
(2017-12)This bill, introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. John Curtis (R-UT), builds on President Trump’s reduction of Bears Ears National Monument (BENM) and creates a tribally co-managed national monument in Utah. -
The Archaeology of Bears Ears
(SAA Archaeological Record, 2017-11)This report recounts the history of archaeology in the Bears Ears region of Utah (USA), including the Cedar Mesa Project. -
Grand Gulch: First Encounters and Lasting Impressions
(Blue Mountain Shadows: The Magazine of San Juan History, 2017-11)R.E. Burrillo hails from New York and, as an archaeologist, has an intense interest in the cultures of the Southwest. One of those cultures that he is particularly drawn to is that of the Ancestral Puebloans or Anasazi. ... -
Modeling Archaeological Sites and Forest History on Cedar Mesa, SE Utah
(9/12/2017)Producing a model that successfully predicts archaeological site densities over a large area of more than 1,000,00 acres which had diverse prehistoric adaptations and diverse environments is an extremely difficult task. ... -
The President Has No Power Unilaterally to Abolish or Materially Change a National Monument Designation Under the Antiquities Act of 1906
(5/3/2017)We (Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer) have been asked by our client, National Parks Conservation Association, whether a sitting President may unilaterally abolish or materially change a national monument that was established ...