- Institute of Environmental Sustainability
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Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, IL 60660
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- Loyola University Chicago, Anthropology, Faculty Memberadd
- Environmental Anthropology, Refugee Studies, Lithic Technology, Paleoecology, Forced Migration, Applied, engaged, and public anthropology, and 12 moreCivic Engagement, Service Learning, Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology, Paleoindians, Archaeological Site Formation Processes, Refugee Resettlement, Refugee Camps, Ontario Archaeology, Archaeology, Migration, Historical Archaeology, and The peopling of the Americasedit
- Trained as a processual archaeologist, I have devoted most of my professional career to hunter-gatherer archaeology t... moreTrained as a processual archaeologist, I have devoted most of my professional career to hunter-gatherer archaeology throughout the interior US with a focus on understanding past human behavior through lithic technology. I have particular interests in ecological perspectives on human beings, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, archaeological site formation processes, and methodological contributions to lithic analysis through controlled experimentation. In addition to these scientific pursuits, I have recently developed service-learning pedogogy and community engagement programs in the areas of refugee resettlement and contemporary waste disposal. I enjoy teaching and continuously seek to find ways to develop meaningful experiential learning programs for undergraduate students and to share those lessons with other engaged scholars. Likewise, I enjoy designing cost-benefit experiments on sustainable living practices in connection with my participation in the environmental sciences program at Loyola. My most recent field and lab research in archaeology is focused on the cultural and environmental transformation of the American Midwest during the 19th century.
Education
Ph.D. 1994 University of New Mexico
M.A. 1984 University of Tennessee
B.A. 1979 University of Tennessee
2011 Certificate in Forced Migration Studies, Northwestern University
Awards of Distinction
2000 Loyola Faculty Scholar
2003 Sujack Award for Excellence in Teaching
2009 Loyola Engaged Scholar
2011 Elected Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology
2012 Loyola Engaged Learning Faculty
Fellow
2013 Award of Merit for Outstanding Community and Volunteer Service (Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago)
2014 Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching Freshmen
2015 Student Organization Advisor of the Year (Loyola Refugee Outreach)edit
The Lone Butte site represents a substantial lithic assemblage from a Folsom hunting camp and overlook locality in the central Tularosa Basin of south-central New Mexico. It appears to be similar to the Rio Rancho site in the Central Rio... more
The Lone Butte site represents a substantial lithic assemblage from a Folsom hunting camp and overlook locality in the central Tularosa Basin of south-central New Mexico. It appears to be similar to the Rio Rancho site in the Central Rio Grande Valley in terms of its landscape position and assemblage signature. Lone Butte represents the largest and most comprehensive lithic assemblage from any Paleoindian site in the Tularosa Basin, strongly documented to have a substantial history of Folsom occupation. Interestingly, the Lone Butte assemblage is distinguished from the overall regional pattern in having relatively high proportions of preforms and channel flakes, which are made predominantly from Rancheria chert located at a distance of 40–100 km west of the site. This assemblage clearly reflects the anticipated mobility which seems partly characteristic of Folsom technological and settlement organization.
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Page 1. LATE ARCHAIC FORT PAYNE BIFACE MANUFACTURE AT THE TOPSY SITE (40WY204), BUFFALO RIVER BASIN, TENNESSEE Daniel S. Amick Analysis of debitage and bifaces from the Topsy site sug-gests that ...
