PhD Placements 2009

Aaron Woods

Aaron Woods has been accepted into the Doctoral programs at UNLV and Washington State University. He will attend UNLV starting in the Fall of 2009. Aaron will be working closely with Dr. Barbara Roth studying prehistoric transitions from foraging to farming and the evidence of these transitions in the archaeological record. Specifically, he will be examining the impact farming had on community organization and socio-economics in the Mimbres-Mogollon region of southwestern New Mexico, as well as the Fremont Culture in Utah. Aaron's other research interests include Archaeology of hunter-gatherers, the transition from foraging to farming, lithic technology, Community Organization, Experimental Archaeology, American Southwest, southern Great Basin.

Brad Newbold

Brad has been accepted for Phd studies at Arizona State University, University of Utah, and Washington State University. He will attend Washington State University starting in the Fall of 2009 working with Drs. Tim Kohler and Brian Kemp. He was accpeted into the IGERT Program for Evolutionary Modeling to study Southwestern demographics and cultural collapse through ancient DNA research. Brad's other research interests include bioarchaeology and human osteology, zooarchaeology, Paleo-American lifeways, and ancient texts and languages.

Masters Degree Completions for 2009

Mark Bodily

Residential Mobility of Paleoarchaic and Early Archaic Occupants of North Creek Shelter (42GA65863): An Analysis of Chipped Stone Artifacts

Deborah Harris

Fremont Distribution in the Upper Escalante Drainage

Bradley Newbold

Paleoindian Lifeways of Paleoarchaic Peoples: A Faunal Analysis of Early Occupations at North Creek Shelter, Utah

Aaron Woods

Variability in Chipped Stone Assemblages in Three Fremont Villages in Parowan Valley, Utah