Madonna L. Moss - Curriculum Vitae
Professor, Anthropology

Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1218

Academic Preparation

Ph.D.

1989

University of California, Santa Barbara

Committee: M. Glassow, Michael Jochim, Albert Spaulding, Barbara Voorhies

Dissertation: Archaeology and Cultural Ecology of the Prehistoric Angoon Tlingit 

M.A.

1982

University of California, Santa Barbara

Teaching Assistant to: Brian Fagan, Barbara Voorhies, Donald Symons

B.A.

1976

College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Advisor: Theodore Reinhart

 

Research Interests

Northwest Coast Archaeology

Northwest Coast First Nations Culture & History

Tlingit & Haida Ethnography & Ethnohistory

Relationships between Human and Animals in Coastal Societies

North American Archaeology

Archaeological Theory

Zooarchaeology

Cultural Resource Management

 

Academic Employment

1990 to present

Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon
Professor (9/04), Associate Professor (9/97), Assistant Professor (9/94), previously Visiting Assistant Professor

Curator of Zooarchaeology, University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History

1990-1993

Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Affiliate Assistant Professor

1989-1990

Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Visiting Assistant Professor

 

Research Publications - Peer Reviewed

Moss, Madonna L.

2012  Understanding Variability in Northwest Coast Faunal Assemblages: Beyond Economic Intensification and Cultural Complexity.  Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 7(1):1-22.

 

Moss, Madonna L.

2012  Rifts in the Theoretical Landscape of Archaeology in the United States: a Comment on Hegmon and Watkins.  American Antiquity 70(3):581-587. Reprinted in Readings in American Antiquity Archaeological Theory Selections from American Antiquity, 1962–2011, edited by Christine S. VanPool and Todd L. VanPool, pp. 247-253.  SAA Press, Washington, D.C.

 

Crockford, Susan, Madonna L. Moss, and James F. Baichtal

2011  Pre-Contact Dogs from the Prince of Wales Archipelago, Alaska.  Alaska Journal of Anthropology 9(1):49-64.


 

Moss, Madonna L. and Aubrey Cannon

2011 The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks. Order from www.uapress.alaska.edu  


 

Moss, Madonna L.

2011  Pacific Cod in Southeast Alaska, the "Cousin" of the Fish that Changed the World.  In The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries, edited by Madonna L. Moss and Aubrey Cannon, pp. 149-169.  University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks.

 

Moss, Madonna L.

2011  Cod and Salmon: A Tale of Two Assemblages from Coffman Cove, Alaska.   In The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries, edited by Madonna L. Moss and Aubrey Cannon, 219-233.  University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks.

 

Moss, Madonna L. and Aubrey Cannon

2011  The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries – An Introduction. In The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries, edited by Madonna L. Moss and Aubrey Cannon, pp. 1-15.  University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks.

 

Moss, Madonna L., Virginia Butler, and J. Tait Elder

2011  Herring Bones in Southeast Alaska Archaeological Sites: the Record of Tlingit Use of Yaaw (Pacific Herring, Clupea pallasii). In The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries, edited by Madonna L. Moss and Aubrey Cannon, pp. 281-291.  University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks.

Cannon, Aubrey and Madonna L. Moss

2011  Conclusion: The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries. In The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries, edited by Madonna L. Moss and Aubrey Cannon, pp. 293-300.  University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks.

 

Moss, Madonna L.

2011  Northwest Coast: Archaeology as Deep History.  SAA Press, Washington, D.C. Order from the Society for American Archaeology, www.saa.org or call 202 789-8200.


 


Moss, Madonna L. and Robert J. Losey

2011  Native American Use of Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters in Estuaries of Northern Oregon and Southern Washington.  In Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters: Integrating Archaeology and Ecology in the Northeast Pacific, edited by Todd J. Braje and Torben C. Rick, pp 167-195.  University of California Press, Berkeley.

 

Erlandson, Jon M., Torben C. Rick, Todd J. Braje, Molly Casperson, Brendan Culleton, Brian Fulfrost, Tracy Garcia, Daniel A. Guthrie, Nicholas Jew, Douglas J. Kennett, Madonna L. Moss, Leslie Reeder, Craig Skinner, Jack Watts, and Lauren Willis

2011  Paleoindian Seafaring, Maritime Technologies, and Coastal Foraging on California’s Channel Islands. Science 331:1181-1185.

 

Thornton, Thomas F., Madonna L. Moss, Virginia Butler, Jamie Hebert, and Fritz Funk

2010  Local and Traditional Knowledge and the Historical Ecology of Pacific Herring in Alaska.  Journal of Ecological Anthropology 14(1):81-88. 

 

Moss, Madonna L.

2010 Re-Thinking Subsistence in Southeast Alaska: the Potential of Zooarchaeology. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 8(1):121-135.

 

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson

2010  Diversity in North Pacific Shellfish Assemblages: the Barnacles of Kit’n’Kaboodle Cave, Alaska. Journal of Archaeological Science 37:3359-3369.

 

Moss, Madonna L. (2010) Re-Thinking Subsistence on the Northwest Coast: the Value of Zooarchaeology in Contemporary Struggles over Fish and Wildlife in Alaska. In La Excepción y la Norma: Las Sociedades Indígenas de la Costa Noroeste de Norte América desde la Arqueología, edited by Assumpcio Vila and Jordi Estévez. Treballs d'Etnoarqueologia 8, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid. Spain.

 

Moss, M. L. (2008) Outer Coast Maritime Adaptations in Southern Southeast Alaska: Tlingit or Haida? Arctic Anthropology 45(1):41-60.

Erlandson, Jon M., Madonna L. Moss, and Mathew Des Lauriers (2008) Life on the Edge: Early Maritime Cultures of the Pacific Coast of North America. Quaternary Science Reviews 27:2232-2245.

Moss, Madonna L. (2008) Islands Coming out of Concealment: Traveling to Haida Gwaii on the Northwest Coast of North America. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 3(1)35-53.

Moss, Madonna L., and Jon M. Erlandson (2008) Native American Archaeological Sites of the Oregon Coast: The Historic Context for the Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. In Dunes, Headlands, Estuaries, and Rivers: Current Archaeological Research on the Oregon Coast, edited by Guy L. Tasa and Brian L. O'Neill, pp. 1-36. Association of Oregon Archaeologists Occasional Papers No. 8. Eugene, Oregon.

Bundy, Barbara E. and Madonna L. Moss (2007) Quantifying Dimensions of the Looting Problem at Archaeological Sites in Alaska. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 5(2):133-149.

Moss, M. L., D. M. Peteet, and C. Whitlock (2007) Mid-Holocene Culture and Climate on the Northwest Coast of North America. In: Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics: a Global Perspective on Mid-Holocene Transitions, edited by D. G. Anderson, K. A. Maasch, and D. H. Sandweiss, pp. 491-529. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Moss, Madonna L. (2007) Haida and Tlingit Use of Seabirds from the Forrester Islands, Southeast Alaska. Journal of Ethnobiology 27(1):28-45.

Moss, Madonna L. and Peter M. Bowers (2007) Migratory Bird Harvest in Northwestern Alaska: a Zooarchaeological Analysis of Ipiutak and Thule Occupations from the Deering Archaeological District. Arctic Anthropology 44(1):37-50.

Moss, Madonna L. (2007) The Killisnoo Picnicground Midden (49-SIT-124) Revisited: Assessing Archaeological Recovery of Vertebrate Faunal Remains from Northwest Coast Shell Middens. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 41(1):1-17.

Bowers, Peter M. and Madonna L. Moss (2006) A Giant in the Rainforest: Frederica de Laguna's Contributions to the Anthropology of Southeast Alaska. Arctic Anthropology 43(2)63-77.

Moss, M. L., Yang, D. Y., Newsome, S. D., Speller, C. F., McKechnie, I., McMillan, A. D., Losey, R. J., and Koch, P. L. (2006). Historical Ecology and Biogeography of North Pacific Pinnipeds: Isotopes and Ancient DNA from Three Archaeological Assemblages. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 1(2):165-190.

Moss, Madonna L., Thomas J. Connolly, Jon M. Erlandson, and Guy L. Tasa (2006) An Early Holocene/Late Pleistocene Archaeological Site on the Oregon Coast? Comments on Hall et al. 2005. Radiocarbon 48(2):237-240.

Moss, Madonna L. (2005) Tlingit Horticulture: an Indigenous or Introduced Development? In: Keeping it Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America, edited by Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner, pp. 274-295. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Moss, Madonna L. (2005) Rifts in the Theoretical Landscape of Archaeology in the United States: a Comment on Hegmon and Watkins. American Antiquity 70(3):581-587.

Newton, Richard G. and Madonna L. Moss (2005) Haa Atxaayi Haa Kusteeyix Sitee, Our Food is our Tlingit Way of Life: Excerpts of Oral Interviews. USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region, R10-MR-30, March 2005. Juneau, AK.

Moss, Madonna L. (2004) The Status of Archaeology and Archaeological Practice in Southeast Alaska in Relation to the Larger Northwest Coast. Arctic Anthropology 41(2):177-196.

Moss, Madonna L. (2004) Island societies are not always insular: Tlingit territories in the Alexander Archipelago and the adjacent Alaskan mainland. In Voyages of Discovery: the Archaeology of Islands, edited by Scott M. Fitzpatrick, pp. 165-183. Greenwood Press, Westport, CN.

Moss, Madonna L. (2004) Archaeological Investigation of Cape Addington Rockshelter: Human Occupation of the Rugged Seacoast on the Outer Prince of Wales Archipelago, Alaska. University of Oregon Anthropological Paper No. 63. University of Oregon, Eugene. For order information, see http://natural-history.uoregon.edu/Pages/anthro_pubs.html

Moss, Madonna L. (2003) Comment on Huna Tlingit Traditional Environmental Knowledge, Conservation, and the Management of a "Wilderness" Park. Current Anthropology 44(4):96-97.

Lepofsky, Dana, Natasha Lyons, and Madonna L. Moss 2003 The Use of Driftwood on the North Pacific Coast: an Example from Southeast Alaska. Journal of Ethnobiology 23(1):125-141.

Moss, Madonna L. and Robert J. Losey 2003 Resource Use on the Northwest Coast: Case Studies from Southeast Alaska and Oregon. Proceedings of the 17th International Abashiri Symposium: People and Culture in the North Pacific from the Viewpoint of the Use of Biological Resources, pp. 39-46. Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples, Abashiri, Japan.

Byock, J., P. Walker, J. Erlandson, P. Holck, J. Eng, M. Tveskov, M. Sigurgeirsson, P. Lambert, M. Moss, K. Prizer, M. Reid, D. Zori , A. Byock, and H. Fyllingen (2003) A Viking Age Farm, Church, and Cemetery at Hrisbru, Mosfell Valley, Iceland. Antiquity 77(297):1-3.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 2002 Animal Agency and Coastal Archaeology. American Antiquity 67(2):367-369.

Erlandson, Jon M., Robert Losey, Madonna L. Moss and Mark A. Tveskov 2002 A Radiocarbon Chronology for the Bullards Beach Site (35-CS-2/3), A Lower Coquille Village in Coos County, Southern Oregon Coast. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 36(1):113-124.

Rick, Torben C., Jon M. Erlandson, Michael A. Glassow, and Madonna L. Moss 2002 Evaluating the Economic Significance of Sharks, Skates, and Rays (Elasmobranchs) in Prehistoric Economies. Journal of Archaeological Science 29:111-122.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 2001 The Archaeology of Obsidian Cove, Suemez Island, Southeast Alaska. Arctic Anthropology 38(1):27-47.

Lepofsky, Dana, Madonna L. Moss, and Natasha Lyons 2001 The Unrealized Potential of Paleoethnobotany in the Archaeology of Northwestern North America: Perspectives from Cape Addington Rockshelter, Southeast Alaska. Arctic Anthropology 38(1):48-59.

Erlandson, Jon M. and Madonna L. Moss 2001 Shellfish Feeders, Carrion Eaters, and the Archaeology of Aquatic Adaptations. American Antiquity 66(3):413-432.

Bowers, Peter M. and Madonna L. Moss 2001 The North Point Wet Site and the Subsistence Importance of Pacific Cod on the Northern Northwest Coast. In People and Wildlife in Northern North America: Essays in Honor of R. Dale Guthrie, edited by S. Craig Gerlach and Maribeth S. Murray, pp. 159-177. BAR- British Archaeological Report International Series 944.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 2000 Wolf's Lair: Middle and Late Holocene Wooden Artifacts from a Sea Cave on Baker Island, Alaska. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 24:107-128.

Moss, Madonna L. 2000 Changes in Tlingit Food Production after Contact. In: Culture Contact and Change in Arctic and Subarctic Areas of Asia and North America. Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 25(1):39-47.

Moss, Madonna L. 1999 Engendering Archaeology in the Pacific Northwest. Northwest Anthropological Research Notes 33(2):245-262.

Erlandson, Jon M. and Madonna L. Moss 1999 The Systematic Use of Radiocarbon Dating in Archaeological Surveys in Coastal and Other Erosional Environments. American Antiquity 64(3):431-443.

Moss, Madonna L. 1999 George Catlin among the Nayas: Understanding the Practice of Labret Wearing on the Northwest Coast. Ethnohistory 46(1):31-65.

Moss, Madonna L. 1998 Northern Northwest Coast Regional Overview. In: North Pacific and Bering Sea Maritime Societies: the Archaeology of Prehistoric and Early Historic Coastal Peoples. Arctic Anthropology 35(1):88-111.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1998 Early Holocene Adaptations of the Southern Northwest Coast. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 20(1):13-25.

Moss, Madonna L. and George B. Wasson, Jr. 1998 Intimate Relations with the Past: the Story of an Athapaskan Village on the Southern Northwest Coast of North America. World Archaeology 29(3):317-332.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1998 A Comparative Chronology of Northwest Coast Fishing Features. In Hidden Dimensions: the Cultural Significance of Wetland Archaeology, edited by Kathryn Bernick, pp. 180-198. University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver.

Erlandson, Jon M., Mark A. Tveskov and Madonna L. Moss 1997 Return to Chetlessenten: the Antiquity and Architecture of an Athapaskan Village on the Southern Northwest Coast. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 19(2):226-240.

Moss, Madonna L., Jon M. Erlandson, R. Scott Byram, and Richard E. Hughes 1996 The Irish Creek Site: Evidence for a Mid-Holocene Microblade Component on the Northern Northwest Coast. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 20:75-92.

Erlandson, Jon M. and Madonna L. Moss 1996 The Pleistocene - Holocene Transition along the Pacific Coast of North America. In Humans at the End of the Ice Age: the Archaeology of the Pleistocene - Holocene Transition, edited by Lawrence Straus, B. Eriksen, J.M. Erlandson, and D.R. Yesner, pp. 277-301. Plenum Press, New York.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1996 A Terminal Pleistocene Paleoshoreline Feature on Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska. Current Research in the Pleistocene 13:123-125.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1995 Reflections on North American Pacific Coast Prehistory. Journal of World Prehistory 9(1):1-45.

Erlandson, Jon M. and Madonna L. Moss 1995 Chronology and Subsistence Change at the Oceanside Site (35-TI-47), Tillamook County, Oregon. Northwest Anthropological Research Notes 29(2):221-227.

Moss, Madonna L. 1993 Shellfish, Gender, and Status on the Northwest Coast of North America: Reconciling Archeological, Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Records of the Tlingit. American Anthropologist 95(3):631-652.

Erlandson, Jon M., Madonna L. Moss, and Richard Hughes 1992 Archaeological Distribution and Trace Element Geochemistry of Volcanic Glass from Obsidian Cove, Suemez Island, Southeast Alaska. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 16:89-95.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson (editors) 1992 Maritime Cultures of Southern Alaska: Papers in Honor of Richard H. Jordan. Arctic Anthropology 29(2).

Moss, Madonna L. 1992 Relationships Between Maritime Cultures of Southern Alaska: Re-thinking Culture Area Boundaries. In: Maritime Cultures of Southern Alaska: Papers in Honor of Richard H. Jordan. Arctic Anthropology 29(2):5-17.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1992 Forts, Refuge Rocks, and Defensive Sites: the Antiquity of Warfare along the North Pacific Coast of North America. In: Maritime Cultures of Southern Alaska: Papers in Honor of Richard H. Jordan. Arctic Anthropology 29(2):73-90.

Moss, Madonna L., Jon M. Erlandson, and Robert Stuckenrath 1990 Wood Stake Weirs and Salmon Fishing on the Northwest Coast: Evidence from Southeast Alaska. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 14:143-158.

Moss, Madonna L., Jon M. Erlandson, and Robert Stuckenrath 1989 The Antiquity of Tlingit Settlement on Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska. American Antiquity 54(3):534-543.

Moss, Madonna L. 1986 Native American Religious Use in the Pacific Northwest: a Case Study from the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. Northwest Anthropological Research Notes 20(2):191-201.

Moss, Madonna L. 1985 Phosphate Analysis of Archaeological Sites, Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska. Syesis 17:95-100.

Additional Publications

 

Moss, Madonna L.

2011  Book Review of: These Mysterious People: Shaping History and Archaeology in a Northwest Coast Community by Susan Roy.  The Public Historian 33(4):125-127.

 

Moss, Madonna L.

n.d.  Book Review of: Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process by Kenneth Sassaman and Donald Holly (eds.).  Journal of Anthropological Research 67:618-619.

 

Moss, Madonna L.

2008  Book Review of The Archaeology of Islands, by  Paul Rainbird.  Canadian Journal of Archaeology 32(1):164-167.

 

Moss, Madonna L., Miriam T. Stark, Christopher D. Dore, Sarah H. Schlanger, Emily McClung de Tapia, and Joe E. Watkins (2006)  Diversity and the Society for American Archaeology.  The SAA Archaeological Record 6(3):60.

Moss, Madonna L. (2006) Book Review of The Hoko River Archaeological Site Complex: The Rockshelter (45CA21), 1,000-100 B.P., by Dale R. Croes. Journal of Anthropological Research 62:278-279.

Moss, Madonna L. (2004) Book review of Emerging from the Mist: Studies in Northwest Coast Culture History, edited by R. G. Matson, Gary Coupland, and Quentin Mackie. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 28(2):392-396.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson (2003) The Oregon Coast Archaeological Survey and the National Register of Historic Places: An Update. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 28(1/2):5-9.

Moss, Madonna L. 2003 Book Review of Hope III, Andrew & Thomas F. Thornton (eds). Will the Time Ever Come? A Tlingit Source Book. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 9(1):175-176.

Erlandson, Jon M., Mark Tveskov, Madonna L. Moss, and George B. Wasson, Jr. 2000 Riverine Erosion and Oregon Coast Archaeology: a Pistol River Case Study. In Changing Landscapes: the Coquille Indian Tribe's Culture Conference, edited by Robert Losey, pp. 3-18. Coquille Indian Tribe, North Bend, OR.

Losey, Robert, Jon M. Erlandson, and Madonna L. Moss 2000 Assessing the Impacts of Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes on the People and Landscapes of the Northwest Coast. In Changing Landscapes: the Coquille Indian Tribe's Culture Conference, edited by Robert Losey, pp. 124-142. Coquille Indian Tribe, North Bend, OR.

Moss, Madonna L. 1999 Review of Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America by Richard Nelson. American Anthropologist 101(3):684-685.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1999 Radiocarbon Dates from Native American Archaeological Sites on the Oregon Coast. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 24(3):20-24.

Moss, Madonna L. Whale Hunt Honors Makah Way of Life. Guest Column, The Register-Guard, May 28, 1999, Eugene, Oregon. Reprinted in Indian Country Today, June 14-21, 1999.

Moss, Madonna L. 1998 Review of Women and Human Evolution by Lori Hager. American Antiquity 63(2):349-351.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1998 Seacaves Research in Southeast Alaska. Alaska Anthropological Association Newsletter 24(2):11-12.

Moss, Madonna L. 1998. Southeast Alaskan Sequence. In Archaeology of Prehistoric North America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Guy Gibbon, pp. 777-779. Garland, New York.

Moss, Madonna L. 1998 Frederica de Laguna. In Archaeology of Prehistoric North America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Guy Gibbon, pp. 439-440. Garland, New York.

Moss, Madonna L. 1997 Kennewick Man Portrait Doubted. Guest Column, The Register Guard, December 1, 1997. Eugene, OR.

Moss, Madonna L. 1997 Challenge to NAGPRA. Anthropology Newsletter 38(5):6 (May).

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1997 Eighty-Nine Oregon Coast Archaeological Sites Added to the National Register. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 22(4):3-4.

Erlandson, Jon M. and Madonna L. Moss 1997 Breaking Down the Border: Towards a More Integrated Archaeology of the Southern Northwest Coast. In Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology vol. 10, edited by Judyth Reed, Greg Greenway, and Kevin McCormick, pp. 169-176. Society for California Archaeology, San Diego, CA.

Moss, Madonna L. 1996 Gender, Social Inequality, and Cultural Complexity: Northwest Coast Women in Prehistory. In Debating Complexity - Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, edited by D.A. Meyer, P.C. Dawson, and D.T. Hanna, pp. 81-88. University of Calgary Archaeological Association.

Moss, Madonna L. 1996 Incorporating New Archaeological Research on Gender into the Teaching of Native American History. Newberry Library Occasional Papers in the Curriculum Series, No. 20:131-137. D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, Chicago.

Moss, Madonna L. 1995 Repatriation and the Smithsonian Institution. American Anthropologist 97(3):566-567.

Moss, Madonna L. 1995 Ancient Tlingit Fishing Sites. Raven's Bones Journal: News of the Native Community: 4(1):4-5. Juneau, AK.

Moss, Madonna L. 1994 Review of Prehistory of the Oregon Coast, by R. Lee Lyman. North American Archaeologist 15(2):182-191.

Moss, Madonna L. 1994 Luther Cressman and the Coastal Prehistory Program. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 19(4):4-8.

Wooley, Christopher and Madonna L. Moss 1993 10,000 Years of Human History in Southeast. Alaska Geographic, 20(2):22-27.

Moss, Madonna L. 1992 Engendering Native America Before Columbus: An Archaeological Perspective on Women of the Northwest Coast. CSWS Review, pp. 10-13. Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon.

Moss, Madonna L 1992 Report of the 1991 Conference on Artifact Looting and Cultural Resource Management. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 17(2):2-5.

Erlandson, J.M., R.E. Hughes, C.E. Skinner, M.L. Moss and J. Boughton 1991 Trace Element Composition of Obsidian Artifacts from the Beaverdam Creek Site (35CR29), Central Oregon. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 16(2):9-11.

Moss, Madonna L. 1990 Review of The Duwamish No. 1 Site: 1986 Data Recovery. Archaeology in Washington, 2:77-81.

Moss, Madonna L. 1989 Analysis of the Vertebrate Assemblage. In The Hidden Falls Site, Baranof Island, Alaska, edited by S.D. Davis, pp. 126-150. Aurora Alaska Anthropological Association Monograph Series V.

Moss, Madonna L. 1989 Late Prehistoric Subsistence and Settlement: the Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Records of the Angoon Tlingit. In Developments of Hunting-Fishing-Gathering Maritime Societies on the Pacific. Circum-Pacific Prehistory Proceedings IIIb. Washington State University Press, Pullman.

Moss, Madonna L. 1989 Archaeology and Cultural Ecology of the Prehistoric Angoon Tlingit. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.

Newton, Richard G. and Madonna L. Moss 1984 The Subsistence Lifeway of the Tlingit People: Excerpts of Oral Interviews. USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region Administrative Document No. 131.

Erlandson, Jon M. and Madonna L. Moss 1984 Investigations at Beaverdam Creek. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 9(4):5-6. 

Technical Reports

Thornton, Thomas F., Madonna L. Moss, Virginia L. Butler, Fritz Funk, and J. Tait Elder (2009) Herring Synthesis: Documenting and Modeling Herring Spawning Areas within Socio-ecological Systems Over Time in the Southeastern Gulf of Alaska. Draft Report Submitted to the North Pacific Research Board, September, 2009.

Moss, Madonna L. (2009)  Avian Faunal Remains.  In The Archaeology of Deering, Alaska: Final Report on the Village Safe Water Archaeological Program, edited and compiled by Peter M. Bowers, pp. 175-186.  Prepared for the Native Village of Deering, the City of Deering, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation -Village Safe Water Office, and the Alaska State Historic Preservation Office.  Northern Land Use Research, Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska.

Moss, Madonna L., Peter M. Bowers, Douglas R. Reger, and Justin M. Hays (2008) Coffman Cove Community Archaeology Project, 49-PET-067: 2006 Excavations. Northern Land Use Research, Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska. Preliminary Report Submitted to the USDA Forest Service, March, 2008.

Reger, D. R., Madonna L. Moss, Peter M. Bowers and Justin M. Hays (2007) Recovery of Archaeological Data from the Ferry Terminal Site (49-PET-556), Coffman Cove, Alaska. Northern Land Use Research, Fairbanks, AK. Preliminary Report Submitted to the USDA Forest Service, December, 2007.

Moss, Madonna L. 2006 Archaeological Study of Forrester Island, Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. Report submitted in fulfillment of Memorandum of Agreement 70181-5-K525 between the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Anchorage, and the author.

Moss, Madonna L. 2004 Archaeological Study of Lowrie Island, Forrester Island Complex, Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. Report submitted to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Alaska Department of Fish & Game, Anchorage. December 17, 2004.

Moss, Madonna L. 2002 Fish Remains from 45-KI-501, the Renton High School Indian Site. Submitted to Larson Anthropological/Archaeological Services, Gig Harbor, WA.

Moss, Madonna L. 2002 Final Report to National Marine Fisheries Service: Marine Mammal Specimens obtained under Permit No. 1022, Now Curated at the University of Oregon. June 30, 2002.

Moss, Madonna L. 1997 1997 Progress Report: Archaeological Investigation of Cape Addington Rockshelter (49-CRG-188): Human Occupation of the Rugged Seacoast of the Outer Prince of Wales Archipelago, Alaska. Report submitted to the Craig Ranger District of the Tongass National Forest, Craig, AK.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1997 Native American Archaeological Sites of the Oregon Coast, National Register of Historic Places, Multiple Property Submission. (600+ pages, submitted to the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and Oregon State Historic Sites Advisory Committee 8/31/96, revision submitted 5/6/97, listed on the National Register 9/10/97).

Bowers, Peter M., Catherine M. Williams, Robert C. Betts, Owen K. Mason, Russell T. Gould, and Madonna L. Moss 1996 The North Point Site: Archaeological Investigations of a Prehistoric Wet Site at Port Houghton, Alaska. Prepared for USDA Forest Service, Sitka, AK, and Parametrix, Inc, Kirkland, WA, by Northern Land Use Research, Fairbanks, AK.

Tveskov, Mark, Jon M. Erlandson, and Madonna L. Moss 1996 Archaeological Investigations at the Coquille Point Site (35CS136), Coos County, Oregon. Coastal Prehistory Program, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon. Report submitted to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, OR, and the Coquille Indian Tribe, Coos Bay, OR.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1995 Heceta Island SEACAVES Survey - 1995 Archaeological Investigations. Report prepared for the Tongass National Forest, Ketchikan Area, Ketchikan, AK.

Moss, Madonna, Mark Tveskov, and Jon Erlandson 1995 Report of Emergency Field Investigations and Data Recovery Plan for Archaeological Site 35CS136, Coquille Point, Bandon, Oregon. Report submitted to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, OR.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1995 An Evaluation, Survey, and Dating Program for Archaeological Sites on State Lands of the Northern Oregon Coast, with reports on Archaeological Surveys of South Slough (Coos Bay) and of Intertidal Fishing Sites. Report submitted under Historic Preservation Grant-in-Aid #9404 to the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, Salem.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1994 An Evaluation, Survey, and Dating Program for Archaeological Sites on State Lands of the Southern Oregon Coast. Report submitted under Historic Preservation Grant-in-Aid #9301 to the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, Salem.

Erlandson, Jon M. and Madonna L. Moss 1994 Archaeological and Paleoecological Studies of some Southeast Alaskan Caves on Baker, Dall, Suemez, and Noyes Islands, Ketchikan Area, Tongass National Forest. Report prepared for the Tongass National Forest, Ketchkian Area, Ketchikan, AK.

Erlandson, Jon and Madonna L. Moss 1993 An Evaluation, Survey, and Dating Program for Archaeological Sites on State Lands of the Central Oregon Coast. Report submitted under Historic Preservation Grant-in-Aid #9202 to the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, Salem.

Moss, Madonna L. 1987 Program Assessment. In A Cultural Resource Overview: Prehistory, Ethnography and History, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest by Jan L. Hollenbeck. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, Seattle.

Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson 1985 Preliminary Results of Archaeological Investigations on Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska: 1985 Field Season. Ms. on file, Smithsonian Institution.

Erlandson, Jon M. and Madonna L. Moss 1985 Archaeological Investigations at Beaverdam Creek, Central Oregon. The Thunderbird 5(6):2-3. Washington Archaeological Research Center, Pullman.

Moss, Madonna L. 1983 Cultural Resource Overview for Alaska Lumber & Pulp 1986-90 Operating Period Environmental Impact Statement, Hoonah and Sitka Ranger Districts, Chatham Area, Tongass National Forest. USDA Forest Service, Sitka, Alaska.

Moss, Madonna L. 1983 Faunal Analysis: Fish Remains. In Archaeological Investigations at CA-SBA-1731, Final Report, edited by J. Moore and R. Luce, pp. 77-107. Office of Public Archaeology, Social Process Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Moss, Madonna L. 1980 Auke Village. Cultural Resource Notes No. 1, USDA Forest Service, Juneau, AK.

Moss, Madonna L. 1979 The Ethnographic Background. In Cultural Resource Overview for the Chugach National Forest by John Matson. USDA Forest Service, Anchorage, AK.

Presentations at Professional Meetings

 

2012  Tlingit Salmon Use at Coffman Cove, Alaska: Determining Salmon Species using Morphometric vs. Ancient DNA Methods. Paper presented at the 39th annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, March 3, 2012, Seattle, WA (with Kathleen Judd and Brian M. Kemp).

 

2012  Northwest Coast: Archaeology as Deep History.  Colloquium in the Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. January 12, 2012.

 

2011  Documenting Ancient Herring Use. Paper presented at “The Herring School Workshop: Bringing Together Culture, Ecology, and Governance to Support Sustainability.”  Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. August 31-September 2, 2011. (with Dana Lepofsky as lead author, then Moss, then Iain McKechnie, Trevor Orchard, Aubrey Cannon, Virginia Butler, Megan Caldwell, and Fred Foster).

 

2011  4000 Years of Tlingit Salmon Use at Coffman Cove, Alaska, and the Question of Resource Depression.  Paper presented at the 76th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, March 30-April 3, 2011, Sacramento, CA.

 

2010  Pre-Contact Tlingit Warfare: what do we really know?  Sealaska Heritage Institute Native American Heritage Month Lecture Series.  Juneau, AK, November 5, 2010.

 

2010  Perspectives on Tlingit Warfare.  Paper presented at the International Seminar on Indigenous Societies of the American Northwest Coast: Historical, Archaeological, and Ethnographic Models, Maritime Museum of Barcelona, October 14-16, 2010.

 

2010  Visualizing Domestic Dog Distribution Along the Coast of Western North America. Poster presented at the 11th International Council on Archaeozoology Conference, Paris, August 23-28, 2010. (with Iain McKechnie and Susan J. Crockford as lead authors).

2010 External Discussant at Baikal Archaeology Project: 2010 Workshop – Roundtable Discussions, May 19-20, 2010, University of Alberta, Edmonton. 

2010  Herring Synthesis: Integrating Archaeology, Local Traditional Knowledge, and History in Southeast Alaska.  Paper presented at the 33rd annual meeting of the Society of Ethnobiology, Victoria, B.C., May 5-8, 2010. (with Virginia L. Butler, Thomas F. Thornton, Fritz Funk, and Jamie Hebert)  

2010  Diversity in North Pacific Shell Middens – the Case of Kit’n’Kaboodle Cave, Alaska.  Paper presented at the 75th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, MO, April 14-18, 2010.

2010  Indigenous Dogs from Prince of Wales Island, Alaska.  Paper presented at the 2010 meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, March 24-27, Anchorage. (with Susan J. Crockford as lead author and James F. Baichtal).

2009 Herring Bones in Archaeological Sites: the Record of Tlingit use of Yaaw (Clupea pallasii). Paper presented at Sharing our Knowledge: A Conference of Tlingit Tribes and Clans, Juneau, Alaska, March 25-28, 2009. Co-authored with Virginia Butler and J. Tait Elder.

 

2009 Re-Thinking Subsistence in Southeast Alaska. Luncheon Address, annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Juneau, Alaska, March 14, 2009.

2009 Excavations of Two Sites at Coffman Cove, Prince of Wales Island: Implications for Northwest Coast Prehistory. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Juneau, Alaska, March 11-14, 2009. Co-authored with Peter M. Bowers, Justin Hays, and Douglas Reger.

2008 Contact, Conflict, and Accommodation: Entangled Identities in Colonial Settings. I was the discussant for this session at the 2008 American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, Eugene. November 15, 2008.

2008 From Tidewater to High Country: Traditional Cultural Places in Northwestern Oregon. I was the discussant for this session at the 2008 American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, Eugene. November 13, 2008.

2008 Organizer of 15 Paper Symposium (with Aubrey Cannon, McMaster University), Red Fish (salmon), White fish (cod), Big Fish (halibut), Small Fish (herring): the Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries. Society for American Archaeology 73rd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. March 26-30, 2008.

2008 Pacific Cod, the “Cousin” of the Fish that Changed the World, with New Data from Coffman Cove, Alaska. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 73rd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. March 26-30, 2008.

2008 Coffman Cove Community Archaeology: Research Questions and Results. Paper prepared for Working Group Session, Pacific North Coastal Archaeology: a Discussion of New Holocene Data, organized by Andrew Martindale, University of British Columbia. 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, B.C, March 30, 2008.

2008 Beyond Subsistence: the Social and Symbolic Meaning of Shellfish in Northwest Coast Societies. International Workshop on Shell Middens, sponsored by the Museum of African Art. Dakar, Senegal, April 8-11, 2008.

2007 Islands Coming out of Concealment: Traveling Across Dixon Entrance between Canada and the United States. Paper presented at the presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. April 25-29, Austin, Texas.

2007 Haida and Tlingit Use of Seabirds from the Forrester Islands, Southeast Alaska. Paper presented at the Sharing our Knowledge: a Conference of Tsimshian, Haida, and Tlingit Tribes and Clans. March 21-25, 2007. Sitka, AK.

2006 Migratory Bird Harvest in Northwestern Alaska: a Zooarchaeological Analysis of Ipiutak and Thule Occupations from the Deering Archaeological District. Paper presented at the 14th annual Arctic Conference, University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene, OR, Oct. 20-21, 2006.

2006 The Alaska Rock Art Database (ARAD): A Tool for Data Management of Rock Art Sites in Alaska Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Alaskan Anthropological Association, March 1-4, 2006. Kodiak, AK. (with Melissa Baird as first author and Jeanne Schaaf as third author).

2006 Haida and Tlingit Use of Seabirds from the Forrester Islands, Southeast Alaska. Paper presented at the Northwest Anthropological Conference, March 29-April 1, 2006. Seattle, WA.

2005 Outer Coast Maritime Adaptations in Southern Southeast Alaska: Tlingit or Haida? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, May 11-14, 2005. Nanaimo, B.C.

2005 "Our Food is out Tlingit Way of Life:" What Archaeology Can Contribute to an Understanding of Tlingit Foods. Invited Lecture to celebrate the publication of Haa Kusteeyix Sitee, Our Food is our Tlingit Way of Life. Goldbelt Urban Native Corporation and Tongass National Forest, March 21, 2005. Juneau, AK.

2005 A Giant in the Rainforest: Frederica de Laguna's Contributions to the Anthropology of Southeast Alaska. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Alaskan Anthropological Association, March 10-12, 2005. Anchorage, AK. (with Peter M. Bowers as first author).

2004 Organizer of 25-paper symposium, Recent Research on the Northwest Coast, for the 57th annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Eugene, OR, March 24-27, 2004.

2004 Highlights of Research at Cape Addington Rockshelter, Prince of Wales Archipelago, Alaska. Paper presented at the 57th annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Eugene, OR, March 24-27, 2004.

2004 Archaeological Investigations at Kit'n'kaboodle Cave (49-CRG-46), Dall Island, Southeast Alaska. Paper presented at the 57th annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Eugene, OR, March 24-27, 2004 (with Jon M. Erlandson as first author).

2003 Introduction to Archaeology, History, and Tribes: Building Bridges in North America. Presented at the symposium, Dialogues Between the Disciplines: History and Anthropology, The Center for Critcal Theory and Transnational Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, April 3-5, 2003.

2002 The Oregon Coast Archaeological Survey and the National Register of Historic Places: An Update. Paper Presented at the Fall Meeting of the Association of Oregon Archaeologists, Salem, OR, November 8, 2002 (with J. Erlandson as second author).

2002 Resource Use on the Northwest Coast: Case Studies from Southeast Alaska and Oregon. Paper presented at the 17th International Abashiri Symposium on Peoples and Cultures of the North: The Use of Biological Resources in the Northern Pacific Area. Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples, Abashiri, Japan, October 19-20, 2002.

2002 Two Pictograph Sites in Lake Clark National Park: Preliminary Results from 49-KEN-229 and 49-SEL-006. Paper presented at the 29th annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, April 4-6, 2002 (with Melissa Baird as first author).

2002 Clam Cove and Tuxedni Bay Pictographs, Lake Clark National Park: Research and Preservation. Poster presented at the 2002 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, March 20-24, 2002 (with Melissa Baird as first author).

2001 Visual Representations of Gender Ideologies on the Northwest Coast of North America: Insiders' and Outsiders' Views. Paper presented at the 2001 annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Tucson, Arizona, Oct. 17-21, 2001.

2001 Interaction Spheres on the Northwest Coast of North America: Perspectives from two Late Holocene Villages on the Northern Oregon Coast. Paper presented at the 2001 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, April 17-22, 2001 (with Robert Losey as first author).

2000 Organizer and Moderator of Panel Presentation, Crisis on the Coast, Coquille Indian Tribe 4th Annual Cultural Preservation Conference: Telling Our Stories, North Bend, OR, May 14-16, 2000.

2000 Invited Panelist, Environment, Species Maintenance, and Culture: Whale Perspectives at Changing Thought: Lessons in Environmental Solutions, at the Environmental Philosophy Conference, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon, May 1-2, 2000.

2000 National Traditions in Archaeology - the Northern Northwest Coast, seen from the United States. Paper presented, 27th annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, AK, March 23-25, 2000.

2000 American Indians as Professional Archaeologists: Mentoring and Practice. Presentation, Arizona Archaeology Expo, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, March 18-19, 2000. With David G. Lewis.

1999 Historical Changes in Oregon's Pistol River Mouth: Riverine Dynamics and the Archaeology of the Southern Northwest Coast. Paper presented at the Coquille Indian Tribe Cultural Preservation Conference: Changing Landscapes, May 10-12, 1999. (with Jon Erlandson and Mark Tveskov as first and second authors). 

1999 Recent Archaeological Research on the Oregon Coast. Invited Seminar, Oregon Institutue of Marine Biology, Charleston, OR, April 23, 1999. 

1999 Bone Modification at Cape Addington Rockshelter, a Late Holocene Shell Midden in Southeast Alaska. Paper presented at the 52nd annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Newport, OR, April 8-10, 1999 (with Robert Losey as first author). 

1999 A Feminist Confronts the Ethnohistorical Record of Warfare and Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America. Oregon Humanities Center Work-in-Progress Series, February 19, 1999.

1998 Recent Archaeological Research in Southeast Alaska. Invited Lecture, Portland State University, Portland, OR, December 3, 1998.

1998 The Possibility of the Onset of El Niño at 5000 BP on the Northwest Coast of North America: a Preliminary Consideration. Paper presented at the Fall meeting of the Association of Oregon Archaeologists, Eugene, OR, November 7, 1998.

1998 Mid-Holocene Cultural Dynamics on the Northwest Coast of North America. Paper presented at the FERCO International Conference on Climate and Culture at 3,000 B.C., organized by Dan Sandweiss and Kirk Maasch, University of Maine, Orono, October 7-11, 1998.

1998 Social Relations on the Southern Oregon Coast: the Athapaskan Heritage. Paper presented at the Tribal Cultural Preservation Conference, North Bend, OR, May 18-20, 1998. Hosted by the Coquille Indian Tribe and Mill Casino.

1998 A Methodological Review of Shell Midden Archaeology on the Northwest Coast of North America. Paper presented in the symposium, Problems in Reconstructing Prehistoric Subsistence around the Pacific Rim, Society for California Archaeology, San Diego, April 8-12, 1998.

1998 Cape Addington Rockshelter: Occupation of the Rugged Seacoast of the Outer Prince of Wales Archipelago, Alaska. Paper presented at the 1998 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, WA, March 25-29, 1998.

1997 Engendering Fishing on the Northwest Coast of North America. Paper presented in Archaeology Division Invited Session at the 1997 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 19-23, 1997.

1997 Challenge to the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act: the Case of Kennewick Man. Invited presentation, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, B.C., March 6, 1997. Dean's Distinguished Speakers Series, co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology and First Nations Studies.

1997 Feminism, Science, and Post-Processualism in Archaeology. Invited presentation, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, B.C., March 5, 1997. Dean's Distinguished Speakers Series, co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology and Women's Studies.

1996 George Catlin among the Nayas: Understanding the Practice of Labret Wearing on the Northwest Coast. Paper presented at the 1996 American Society for Ethnohistory annual meeting, Portland, OR, November 7-9, 1996.

1996 Perspectives on Northern Northwest Coast Prehistory, 1966-1996. Invited Discussant for full day Symposium. Canadian Archaeological Association annual meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 1-5, 1996.

1996 Constructions of Gender in Northwest Coast Societies. Paper presented at the 61st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana , April 10-14, 1996.

1996 Faunal Diversity on the Northern Northwest Coast: a View from the North Point Site, Port Houghton, Alaska. Paper presented at the 23rd annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropology Association, Fairbanks, April 4-6, 1996 (with Peter Bowers as first author).

1996 Science, Fiction, or Science Fiction(s)? Using Ethnography to Interpret Prehistory on the Northwest Coast. Simon Fraser University Department of Archaeology Graduate Seminar, Burnaby, B.C., January 18, 1996.

1995 The Pacific Coast of North America during the Pleistocene - Holocene Transition. Paper presented at the Archaeology of the Pleistocene - Holocene Transition symposium at the XIV INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Congress, Berlin, Germany, August 3-10, 1995 (with J. Erlandson as first author).

1995 Organizer and Chair of Symposium: Fishing for the Past: Traps, Weirs, and Other Submerged Sites, presented at Hidden Dimensions: the Cultural Significance of Wetland Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 27-30, 1995.

1995 A Comparative Chronology of Northwest Coast Fishing Features. Paper presented at Hidden Dimensions: the Cultural Significance of Wetland Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 27-30, 1995 (with J. Erlandson as second author).

1995 Reflections on the Archaeology of the Southern Northwest Coast. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for California Archaeology, Eureka, April 5-9, 1995 (with J. Erlandson as first author).

1995 35-CU-67, An 8600 Year Old Site on the Southern Oregon Coast. Paper presented at the 48th annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Portland, OR, March 23-25, 1995 (with J. Erlandson as second author).

1995 Some Unusual Wooden Artifacts from Southeast Alaskan Sea Caves. Paper presented at the 22nd annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, AK, March 23-25, 1995 and the 48th annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Portland, OR, March 23-25, 1995 (with J. Erlandson as first author).

1994 Cultures and Environments of the Pacific Coast of North America from 11,500 to 8000 years ago. Paper presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, CA, April 20-24, 1994 (with J. Erlandson as first author).

1994 Radiocarbon Dating as an Archaeological Survey Tool in Coastal Environments. Paper presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, CA, April 20-24, 1994 (with J. Erlandson as second author).

1993 Gender, Social Inequality, and Cultural Complexity: Northwest Coast Women in Prehistory. Paper presented at the 26th annual Chacmool Conference: Debating Complexity. University of Calgary, November 11-14, 1993.

1993 Native American Women of the Northwest Coast. Presentation on Panel: Spotlight on Research on Women in the Northwest. At the Epicenter: Women, Research & Communities, 10th Anniversary of Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, October 15-16, 1993.

1993 Northern Northwest Coast Regional Overview. Paper presented at the joint United States-Japan International Seminar on the Origins, Development, and Spread of Prehistoric North Pacific - Bering Sea Maritime Cultures, Honolulu, HI, June 2-8, 1993. (Invited participant).

1992 Organizer and Chair of symposium: Collaboration with Native American Communities in Archaeological and Collections Research. 45th annual meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Burnaby, British Columbia, April 16-19, 1992.

1992 Moving Beyond Consultation: Collaboration with Native Americans in Archaeological and Collections Research. Paper presented at the 45th annual meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Burnaby, British Columbia, April 16-19, 1992.

1991 Moderator of Panel Discussion at Artifact Looting and Cultural Resource Management, a joint conference of the Oregon Museums Association and the Association of Oregon Archaeologists, December 2, 1991.

1991 Organizer and Chair of full-day symposium: Beyond Culture Areas: Relationships between Maritime Cultures of Southern Alaska. 18th annual meeting of Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, AK, March 21-23, 1991.

1990 The Role of Shellfish in the Tlingit Economy: Evidence from Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Oral History. 1990 Canadian Archaeological Association annual meeting, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, May 9-12, 1990.

1990 Changes in Tlingit Food Production after Contact. 17th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Fairbanks, AK, April 8-10, 1990.

1990 Radiocarbon Dates from a Tlingit Fort in Sitka Sound, Southeast Alaska. 17th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Fairbanks, AK, April 8-10, 1990 (with J. Erlandson as first author and R. Stuckenrath as third author).

1989 Late Prehistoric Subsistence and Settlement: the Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Records of the Angoon Tlingit. Circum-Pacific Prehistory Conference, Seattle, WA, August 3-6, 1989.

1989 Settlement and Subsistence of the Angoon Tlingit: the Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Records. 16th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, AK, March 2-4, 1989.

1988 Favorite Bay Fish Weir: A 3000 Year Old Wood Stake Fish Trap from Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska. 41st Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Tacoma, WA, March 10-12, 1988 (with J. Erlandson as first author).

1988 Uncovering Evidence of the Earliest Residents of Southeast Alaska. Invited Paper, Alaska Environmental Assembly Conference, Juneau, AK, February 12-14, 1988.

1987 Land and Resource Use of the Angoon Tlingit, an Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Investigation. American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA, November 5-7, 1987.

1987 The Rest of the Story of a Tlingit Community: New Data from Daax Haat Kanadaa and Yaay Shanoow. 14th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, AK, March 12-14, 1987.

1984 The Hidden Falls Fauna: 10,000 Years of Maritime Adaptation in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (with J. Erlandson as second author).

1983 Preliminary Report of Phosphate Analysis of Archaeological Sites, Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska. 10th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, AK.

1980 Cultural Resources of Admiralty Island National Monument. Northwest Anthropological Conference, Bellingham, WA, and 7th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Fairbanks, AK.

Grants, Support, and Awards

2007-2012 Fund for Faculty Excellence (November 30, 2007)

2006 Transborder Relationships: Haida History Across the International Boundary between Canada and the United States. Canadian Studies Research Grant ($4000).

2005 Coffman Cove Community Archaeology Project: Data Recovery (Excavation) Component. USDA Forest Service Solicitation AG-0109-S-05-0021-01. Co-Principal Investigator with Peter M. Bowers and Douglas Reger. Northern Land Use Research, Inc., Fairbanks, AK ($165,000).

2005 Tlingit and Haida Use of the Forrester Islands, Alaska Maritime Wildlife Refuge: Implications for Managing Marine Mammal Habitat. Challenge Cost Share Program Proposal, submitted with Debra Corbett to the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Anchorage ($8720).

2004 Middle Holocene Culture and Climate on the South Coast of Peru. National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant awarded to Heather McInnis ($11,710).

2004 Preventing Looting and Vandalism of Archaeological Sites in Alaska. National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant awarded to Barbara Bundy ($ 11,134).

2003 Center for Teaching Writing Development Grant, Department of English, University of Oregon ($1000).

2001 Analysis and Preservation of the Clam Cove and Tuxedni Bay Pictographs. Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Anchorage, AK ($59,741).

2001 Richard A. Bray Faculty Fellowship

2000 Williams Fellowship for Outstanding Teaching, University of Oregon.

2000 Thomas F. Herman Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of Oregon.

2000 Induction into the Fayetteville-Manlius High School Hall of Distinction, Manlius, New York. (This is the high school from which I graduated in 1972).

2000 Travel Support from a Canadian Studies Grant awarded to W. Workman, University of Alaska, and J. Hunston, Heritage Branch, Government of Yukon, to take part in the National Traditions in Archaeology symposium, 27th annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, AK, March 23-25, 2000.

1999 Archaeology of the Cascadia Subduction Zone: Cultural Responses to Coseismic Subsidence, Tsunamis, and Earthquakes on the Southern Northwest Coast. National Science Foundation. Dissertation Improvement Grant awarded to Robert Losey ($11,399).

1999 Participatory Learning Experiences in Archaeology. Proposal approved by the "Process for Change - Upper Division/Majors Implementation Team," University of Oregon (co-authored with Jon Erlandson, $9000 over two years for course releases).

1999 Building a Comparative Collection of Faunal Material to Improve Archaeological Analysis of North Pacific and Pacific Island Archaeological Sites. Department of Anthropology, Target of Opportunity Funds ($2900).

1998 FERCO, the Foundation for Exploration and Research on Cultural Origins (established by Thor Heyerdahl). Travel support for participating in the conference, Climate and Culture at 3,000 B.C., University of Maine ($1000).

1998 Richard A. Bray Faculty Fellowship.

1998 City of Coffman Cove, Alaska. Travel support for planning a community archaeology program for the Coffman Cove site ($1500).

1998 Building a Comparative Collection of Faunal Material to Improve Archaeological Analysis of North Pacific and Pacific Island Archaeological Sites. Department of Anthropology, Target of Opportunity Funds ($3400).

1998 Humanities Center Research Fellowship, University of Oregon, Looking to the Past: The Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Differentiation on the Northwest Coast.

1997 Archaeological Investigations at Cape Addington Rockshelter: Human Use of the Rugged Seacoast of the Outer Prince of Wales Archipelago, Alaska. National Science Foundation - High-Risk Exploratory Research ($19,613).

1997 USDA Forest Service, Craig Ranger District of the Tongass National Forest, Travel support for investigations at Cape Addington, Southeast Alaska ($6300).

1997 NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Auke Bay Laboratory, Juneau, Alaska. Laboratory Analysis of Marine Shell and funds for radiocarbon dating, Cape Addington investigations ($4000).

1997 Summer Research Award, University of Oregon ($4000)

1996 USDA Forest Service, Ketchikan Area of the Tongass National Forest, Travel support for investigations on Dall and Noyes Islands, Southeast Alaska.

1996 Canadian Studies Committee Travel Grant ($300) to attend Canadian Archaeological Association annual meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May, 1996.

1996 Junior Professorship Development Award. Building a Comparative Faunal Collection to Improve Archaeological Analyses of North Pacific Archaeological Sites. University of Oregon ($1000).

1995 USDA Forest Service, Ketchikan Area of the Tongass National Forest, Travel support for investigations on Suemez and Heceta Islands, Southeast Alaska.

1995 New Faculty Award, University of Oregon, ($6000).

1995 Historic Preservation Fund, Oregon State Historic Preservation Office. A Survey, Dating, and Multiple Property National Register Nomination Program for Coastal Archaeological Sites on Oregon State Lands ($25,777).

1995 Emergency Data Recovery Investigations at Coquille Point. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ($22,496).

1995 Canadian Studies Committee Travel Grant ($350) - (for Moss and Graduate Students Scott Byram and Mark Tveskov to attend Hidden Dimensions: the Cultural Significance of Wetlands Archaeology conference, Vancouver, B.C., April 1995).

1995 Invited participant in the week-long seminar, The Construction of Gender and the Experience of Women in American Indian Societies, Indian Voices in the Academy Program of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, the Newberry Library, Chicago.

1995 Stanley B Greenfield Faculty Grant Award for the purchase of James G. Swan Papers for Knight Library (with Ann Simonds as lead nominator).

1994 Historic Preservation Fund, Oregon State Historic Preservation Office. An Evaluation and Dating Program for Oregon Coast Archaeological Sites ($28,384).

1994 Summer Fellowship, Indian Voices in the Academy Program of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, the Newberry Library, Chicago.

1993 Center for the Study of Women in Society Travel Grant ($300).

1993 Historic Preservation Fund, Oregon State Historic Preservation Office. An Evaluation and Dating Program for Oregon Coast Archaeological Sites ($23,687).

1993 USDA Forest Service, Stikine Area of the Tongass National Forest. Study of the Microlithic Assemblage from the Irish Creek Site, Kupreanof Island, AK ($2000).

1993 Research Initiative on Women in the Northwest, Center for the Study of Women and Society, University of Oregon. Native American Women of the Northwest Coast: Gender and the Development of Social Inequality ($6000).

1992 Historic Preservation Fund, Oregon State Historic Preservation Office. An Evaluation and Dating Program for Oregon Coast Archaeological Sites ($19,895).

1992 Exxon, USA. Funds to support publication of special issue of Arctic Anthropology ($6000).

1991 Center for the Study of Women in Society. Curriculum Development Grant for new course, Women and Men in Prehistory ($1000).

1991 USDA Forest Service, Admiralty Island National Monument. Travel and logistical support for archaeological survey and funding of 10 radiocarbon dates. ($4500).

1990 USDA Forest Service, Admiralty Island National Monument. Logistical support for archaeological survey and funding of 10 radiocarbon dates (with Jon Erlandson) ($3000).

1989-1987 University of Pittsburgh Radiocarbon Laboratory Dating Support ($2400).

1987 University of California Riverside Radiocarbon Laboratory Dating Support. National Science Foundation ($2000).

1986 Smithsonian Institution Radiocarbon Laboratory Dating Support ($400).

1985 University of California Research Expeditions, UC, Berkeley, Support of 6 weeks fieldwork, Admiralty Island ($9000).

1982 Graduate Student Humanities Research Grant. University of California, Santa Barbara. Phosphate analysis of archaeological sites on Admiralty Island ($1500).

 Teaching Experience

Courses Taught:

Introduction to Archaeology

North American Archaeology

Zooarchaeology

Cultural Resource Management

Northwest Coast Ethnography

Gender in Native North America

Northwest Coast Archaeology

Gender and Archaeology

Anthropological Archaeology

Ancient Civilizations

Feminist Methods in Anthropology

Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology

 

Supervised Internships with:

Willamette National Forest

Siuslaw National Forest

Umpqua National Forest

Smithsonian Institution Department of Anthropology

Portland Art Museum

Alaska State Historic Preservation Office

Yurok Indian Tribe

Heritage Research Associates

Yurok Indian Tribe

 

Field and Classroom Training for:

Admiralty Island National Monument

Coquille Indian Tribe

Klamath Indian Tribe

University Research Expeditions - University of California

Master's and Ph.D. Committees

Completed:

Ames, Christopher 2009 (M.A.) From Chipped to Ground: the Spatio-Temporal Systematics of 9000 Years of Archaeological Change in Southwest British Columbia, McGill University, Montreal.  (External Examiner.)

 

Baird, Melissa (Ph.D. 2009) - The Politics of Place: UNESCO, Heritage Discourse, and the Epistemologies of Cultural Landscapes (Chair).

 

Baird, Melissa F. (M.S. 2003) Clam Cove and Tuxedni Bay Pictographs, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska: Research and Preservation (Chair).

 

Benedict, Hope (Ph.D. 1996 - History) Place and Community in the Mining West: Lemhi County, Idaho, 1866-1929. (external member).

 

Bowden, Brad (M.S. 1995) A New Look at Late Archaic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Willamette Valley (Chair).

 

Braje, Todd (Ph.D. 2007) - Archaeology, Human Impacts, and Historical Ecology on San Miguel Island, California.

 

Bundy, Barbara (Ph.D. 2005) Preventing Looting and Vandalism at Archaeological Sites in the Pacific Northwest (Chair).

 

Byram, R. Scott (Ph.D. 2002) Brush Fences and Basket Traps: the Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Tidewater Weir Fishing on the Oregon Coast.

 

Calede, Jonathan (M.S. Geological Sciences, 2010) Systematics and Paleoecology of Northern Great Basin Mylagaulidae (Mammalia: Rodentia). (committee member).

 

Casperson, Molly (M.S. 2009) – Bird Remains from the Lower Midden (6700-4900 cal BP) of the Mink Island Site (49-XMK-030), Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska (Chair).

 

Culleton, Brendan (Ph.D. 2012) Human Ecology, Agricultural Intensification, and Landscape Transformation in the Ancient Maya Polity of Uxbenká, Southern Belize.

 

Erickson, Jared (M.S. 1999) The Geoarchaeology of Multiroom Houses at 49-NAK-8 in Southwest Alaska. (2nd reader).

 

Fentress, Jeffrey (Ph.D. 2002) The Archaeology of Butte Valley, Siskiyou County, California. (Chair).

 

Fitzpatrick, Scott (Ph.D. 2003) "Stones of the Butterfly": An Archaeological Investigation of Yapese Stone Money Quarries in Palau, Western Caroline Islands, Micronesia.

 

Fitzpatrick, Scott (M.S. 2003 - Historic Preservation) Geographic Information System Development in American Samoa: Implications for Archaeological Data Collection.

 

Fulton, Kathryn (Ph.D. 2008) Personhood, Discourse, Emotion, and Environment in a Tlingit Village.

 

Garcia, Tracy (M.S., June 2010) Colonial Encounters with the Past: Paul Schumacher, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Origins of Pacific Coast Archaeology. (2nd reader).

 

Griffin, Dennis (Ph.D. 1999) Portrait of Nash Harbor: Prehistory, History, and Lifeways of an Alaskan Community.

 

Jones, Jennifer (M.S. 1995) Analysis of the Faunal Remains from the Twin Rocks (35CU183) Archaeological Site, Curry County, Oregon (Chair).

 

Knox, Margaret (M.S. 2000 - Geography) Ecological Change in the Willamette Valley at the Time of Euro-American Contact ca. 1800-1850. (external member).

 

Kramer, Stephenie (M.S. 2000) - Camas, Intensification, and Gender: a Case Study of the Kalapuya and their Predecessors, Willamette Valley, Oregon (Chair).

 

Landreau, Christopher (M.S. 1995) The Twin Rocks Archaeological Site (35CU183): Implications for the Understanding of Inland Coastal Settlement in Southern Oregon (Chair).

 

Largaespada, Leah (M.S. 2001) From Sand and Sea: Marine Shell Artifacts from Archaeological Sites in the Fort Rock Valley, Northern Great Basin (Chair).

 

Lewis, David (M.A. 2000) - Tolowa Deeni Fish Camp - a Traditional Cultural and Archaeological Property Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places (Chair).

 

Losey, Robert (M.S. 1996) Fishing on the Lower Coquille River: a Zooarchaeological Perspective (Chair).

 

Losey, Robert (Ph.D. 2002) Communities and Catastrophe: Tillamook Response to the AD 1700 Earthquake and Tsunami, Northern Oregon Coast. (Chair).

 

McInnis, Heather (Ph.D. 2006) Middle Holocene Climate and Culture on the South Coast of Peru (Chair).

 

McLaren, Duncan (Ph.D. 2008, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Victoria) Sea Level Change and Archaeological Site Locations on the Dundas Island Archipelago of North Coastal British Columbia (External Examiner).

 

McMillan, Alan (Ph.D. 1996, Archaeology, Simon Fraser University) Since Kwatyat Lived on Earth: An Examination of Nuu-chah-nulth Culture History (External Examiner).

 

Marr, Gerald (Ph.D. 1998) Conversations with Richard G. Newton: the Life Story of Klgak'eesh, a Tlingit Elder.

 

Martinez, Elena (M.A. 1996) Theory and Application of Cultural Representation in Museum Exhibits: a Case Study (Chair).

 

Marucci, Gina (M.A. 2000 - Gender/Women's Studies, University of Northern British Columbia) Lake Babine Women's Rites of Passage: an Archaeological Inquiry (External Examiner).

 

Mitchell, Denise (M.A. 1999) "Singing the Warp, Singing the Weft:" an Inventory and Analysis of Baskets at the Coos Historical Society Museum (Chair).

 

Norris, Nicole - (M.A. 2005) - An Engendered Analysis of Ground Stone Artifacts from the Mill Creek Prehistoric Site Complex, Salem, Oregon (Chair).

 

Patton, A. Katherine (Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Toronto, September, 2010) Reconstructing Houses: Early Village Social Organization in Prince Rupert Harbour, British Columbia. (External Appraiser).

 

Rick, Torben (M.S. 1999) From Sandy Beaches to Rocky Shores: Early Holocene Fishers of the California Coast (2nd reader).

 

Rick, Torben C. (Ph.D. 2004) Daily Activities, Community Dynamics, and Historical Ecology on California's Northern Channel Islands.

 

Rorrer, Kathryn (M.S. 1997) Subsistence Evidence from Inland and Coastal Cave Sites on Easter Island (2nd reader).

 

Russell, Chris Caskey (Ph.D. - 2001 - English) Tools of Self-Definition: Colonization and Tlingit Intellectual Tradition (external member).

 

Seaton, Anne (M.A. 1996 - Historic Preservation) Historic Structures Report: Lone Pine Indian Shaker Village, The Dalles, Oregon (external member).

 

Souders, Paul (M.S., 1997) Ellikarrmiut Economy: Animal Resource Use at Nash Harbor (49-NI-003) Nunivak Island, Alaska (Chair).

 

Smith, Carley (M.S. 2010) Diversifying Shellfish Collecting Strategies from La Zanja, a Formative Period Fishing-Farming Community on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. (2nd reader)

 

Supernant, Kisha Marie (Ph.D. 2011) Inscribing Identities on the Landscape: a Spatial Exploration of Rock Features in the Lower Fraser River Canyon. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia. (External Examiner).

 

Teeman, Diane (M.S. 2003) The NAGPRA, the "Numics" and the "Spirit Cave Man": Determining "Cultural Affiliation" in the Great Basin (Chair).

 

Teoh, Melissa – (M.S. 2011) Craft Specialization and Production Scale: Understanding Figulina Ware in Neolithic Dalmatia (Co-Chair).

 

Tveskov, Mark (Ph.D. 2000) The Coos and Coquille: a Northwest Coast Historical Anthropology.

 

Ulrich, Heather (M.S. 2009) Analysis of Bird Remains from the Dunes Site (35-CLT-27), Northern Oregon Coast (Chair).

 

Vellanoweth, René (Ph.D. 2001) Coastal Archaeology of Southern California: Accounts from the Holocene.

 

Viksne, Jennifer (M.S. 2006) - The New Lake Midden, Coos County, Oregon: a Case of Landscape Change (Chair).

 

Walsh, Rory (M.A., 2010) Millet Domestication and Use in the Yiluo River Valley, North China, Mid-Neolithic to Early State Period. (2nd reader)

 

Wasson, George B. (M.A. 1994) The Coquille Indians and the Cultural Black Hole of the Southwest Oregon Coast (2nd reader).

 

Wasson, George B. (Ph.D. 2001) Growing Up Indian: an Emic Perspective.

 

Whaley, Gray (Ph.D. 2002 - History) Creating Oregon from Illahee: Race, Settler-Colonialism, and Native Sovereignty in Western Oregon, 1792-1856. (external member)

 

Wozniak, Joan (Ph.D. 2003) Exploring Landscapes on Easter Island (Rapanui) with Geoarchaeological Studies: Settlement, Subsistence, and Environmental Change.

 

Younker, Jason (Ph.D. 2003) Coquille/Ko'kwel, A Southern Oregon Coast Indian Tribe: Revisiting History, Ingenuity, and Identity.

In Progress:

Casperson, Molly (Ph.D.) – Early and Middle Holocene Bird Use in the Western Gulf of Alaska: the Mink Island (49-XMK-030) and Rice Ridge (49-KOD-363) Avifaunal Assemblages (Chair)

Dexter, Jaime (Ph.D.) Topic: Paleobotany in the Northern Great Basin.

Jew, Nicholas (Ph.D.) Trans-Holocene Resource Procurement Strategies on the Northern Channel Islands.

Levin, Maureece (Ph.D.) Evolution and Sustainability of Food Production in the Tropical Pacific: Evidence for Prehistoric Cultivation Strategies in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia.

Sloan, Anna – (M.S. & Ph.D.) An Iñupiaq Language Perspective on the Animal Bones from an Archaeological Site at Deering, Alaska

Smith, Carley – (PhD.) TBA (Chair)

Walsh, Rory (Ph.D.) - Topic: Paleoethnobotany of East Asian Cultigens

Willis, Lauren (Ph.D.) – Topic: Santa Rosa Island Archaeology

 

Robert D. Clark Honors College Theses Committees

 

Completed:

 

Bouknight, Aletheia (2012) Analysis of Bird Remains from the Bergen Site (35-LK-3175) in the Fort Rock Basin, Oregon. (co-advisor). 

 

Damon, Katherine (2012) Theory and Interpretation in Rock Art: an Examination of the Birthing Figure Panels of Tsaagaan Salaa/Baga Oigor. (advisor).

 

Kobel, Christina (2001) The Pistol River Archaeological Site: Analysis of a Private Collection. (advisor).

 

Ringle, Molly J. (1996) The Domesticated Dog among Prehistoric and Historic Plains Indians. (advisor).  

 

Professional Service Presentations


Public Lecture. Pre-Contact Tlingit Warfare: what do we really know?  Sealaska Heritage Institute Native American Heritage Month Lecture Series.  Juneau, AK, November 5, 2010.

Public Lecture. Islands Coming out of Concealment: Traveling to Haida Gwaii on the Northwest Coast of North America. Canada Week Presentation, November 2, 2007. Sponsored by University of Oregon Canadian Studies, Eugene.

Public Lecture, The Coffman Cove Community Archaeology Project. Presented in Coffman Cove, AK, on June 29, 2006.

Public Lecture, The Interrelationships between People and Animals at Cape Addington Rockshelter, Alaska. Presented as part of Archaeology of the Pacific Rim, University of Oregon Museum of Natural History, a lecture series held to mark Oregon Archaeology Month, October 5, 2001.

Public lecture, The Subsistence Lifeway of the Tlingit People: New Archaeological Evidence, sponsored by the Wrangell Museum and Wrangell Community Services, Wrangell, AK, July 29, 1998.

Invited Panelist, Surviving Graduate School, a workshop sponsored by the Student Affairs Committee, Society for American Archaeology 1998 annual meeting, March 26, 1998.

Presentation to the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, Archaeological Sites on State Parks Lands along the Oregon Coast. Confederated Tribes Tribal Hall, Coos Bay, Oregon, July 25, 1997.

University of Oregon Alumni Association Luncheon Lecture Series, The Archaeological Record of the Oregon Coast - A Vanishing Legacy. Multnomah Athletic Club, Portland, Oregon, May 22, 1997.

Presentation to the Oregon State Parks Commission and State Parks Area Managers, Native American Archaeological Sites of the Oregon Coast, a Management Challenge for Oregon State Parks, Portland, Oregon, March 11, 1997 (at the request of the State Historic Preservation Office).

Presentation to the State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation, Native American Archaeological Sites of the Oregon Coast, National Register Nomination, Salem, OR, February 13, 1997. Committee approved nomination of 89 archaeological sites to be forwarded to the Keeper of the National Register.

Moderator of Panel Discussion, "Promoting the Engagement of Theory, Research, and Activism" at the Center for the Study of Women in Society conference, Engaging Feminisms, University of Oregon, February 7, 1997.

Invited Presentation, Coastal Archaeological Sites and Shell Middens, Coquille Cultural Preservation Conference, North Bend, OR, November 2-3, 1996.

Presentation to the State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation, Native American Archaeological Sites of the Oregon Coast, National Register Nomination, Salem, OR, October 10, 1996.

Invited Presentation, Cultural Resource Management, University of Oregon Workshop for the Coquille Tribe, North Bend, OR, March 22, 1996.

Invited Presentation, Overview of 1994-95 Archaeology, Coquille Indian Tribe Mid-winter Gathering, Coos Bay, OR, January 13, 1996.

Oregon Coast Prehistory: A Vanishing Legacy, public lecture sponsored by the University Women's Club, November 8, 1995.

Themes in Northwest Coast Ethnography, discussant in Harry Wolcott's seminar, Anthropology and Education, April 4, 1995.

Luther Cressman and the Coastal Prehistory Program, public lecture during Oregon Archaeology Week, Museum of Natural History, September 29, 1994.

The Status of Women on the Northwest Coast of North America: Diversity in Gender Systems expressed in Puberty Ceremonies and Body Modification, guest lecture to Carol Silverman's class, Women and Culture II, April 19, 1994.

Recent Research on the Central Oregon Coast: an Evaluation and Dating Program for Archaeological Sites in Oregon State Parks, public lecture during Oregon Archaeology Week, sponsored by the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology and WISTEC, September 14, 1993.

The Origins of Agriculture in Southwest Asia, guest lecture to W. Ayres Introduction to Archaeology class, August 4, 1993.

Native American Uses of Pacific Shellfish, University of Oregon Museum of Natural History Sea Speakers lecture series, April 29, 1993.

Invited Lecture, Coquille Indian Tribe Mid-winter Gathering, Coos Bay: Archaeological Investigations at the Twin Rocks Site, January 23, 1993.

Women in Prehistory, invited lecture to Carol Silverman's Women and Culture I class, January 12, 1993.

Cultural Resource Management training of Klamath Tribal Members, March 24, 1992.

Teaching Women and Prehistory, Center for the Study of Women in Society, Luncheon Talk, March 8, 1992.

3000 Years of Tlingit Land and Resource Use: Results of Recent Archaeological Research on Admiralty Island. Public Lecture, Centennial Hall, Juneau, AK, July 8, 1991.

A Story of the Xutsnoowoo Kwaan: the Archaeology of the Angoon Area. Public Lecture, Angoon Senior Center, Angoon AK, July 9, 1991.

The Use and Abuse of Ethnographic Data in Understanding Prehistory: a Northwest Coast Example. UO Anthropology Department Colloquium, May 17, 1991.

Other Professional Employment

1989 FIELD ARCHAEOLOGIST: Exxon, USA. Archaeological survey and site evaluations after 1989 oil spill. Prince William Sound & Kodiak Island, Alaska.

1987-1985 FOREST ARCHAEOLOGIST: Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Seattle, WA. Managed CRM program on 1.7 million acres, supervised/trained technical personnel, determined effects of undertakings on prehistoric & historic sites. Administered data recovery and HABS contracts. Consulted with Washington SHPO and Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Consulted with 15 Indian tribes regarding religious use of Forest.

1985 PROJECT LEADER: Origins of the Maritime Tlingit Project, Alaska. University Research Expeditions Program, University of California, Berkeley. Support from Smithsonian Institution and University of California, Riverside.

1984-1983 FOREST ARCHAEOLOGIST: Ochoco National Forest, Prineville, OR. Managed CRM program on Forest with extremely high site density. Supervised/trained technical personnel, resource evaluations, determinations of effect, data recovery. Consulted with Oregon SHPO and Advisory Council. Co-instructor of 1984 Beaverdam Creek field school sponsored by University of Oregon and Central Oregon Community College.

1984 FIELD ASSISTANT: Field/collections research at Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar (Middle and Upper Paleolithic) with Jon Erlandson.

1983 OUTDOOR RECREATION PLANNER: Admiralty Island National Monument, Juneau, AK. Directed oral history project involving 20 Tlingit elders in 5 Native communities. Supervised translation, transcription, and archiving taped interviews and wrote publication. Directed archaeological survey and monitoring of Tlingit subsistence use.

1983-1982 ARCHAEOLOGIST: Tongass National Forest, Sitka, AK. Prepared environmental documents to protect cultural resources. Lab analysis and reporting of Hidden Falls faunal remains using comparative collections from British Columbia Provincial Museum, Victoria.

1982 RESEARCH ARCHAEOLOGIST: Office of Public Archaeology, University of California, Santa Barbara. Analysis/technical reporting of large assemblage of fish bones using collections at Los Angeles County Museum and UCSB. Field survey of human skeletal remains on San Miguel Island.

1981-1980 MONUMENT ARCHAEOLOGIST: Admiralty Island National Monument, AK. Archaeological survey, oral history, impact assessment on the 1.1 million acre Admiralty Island. Coordinated with Alaska SHPO, City of Angoon, and Kootznoowoo Native Corporation. Educational programs for general public and Angoon schools.

1980-1978 ARCHAEOLOGIST: Tongass National Forest, Juneau. Assisted Regional Archaeologist for Alaska. Field research, evaluation of sites in Tongass and Chugach National Forests. Set up system for managing large archival and faunal reference collections. Trained agency personnel; educational programs for general public.

Undergraduate Field Experience: Ozette, Washington (1974); Paleo-Indian and Woodland sites in Virginia, (1973-1976), historical sites in Virginia and North Carolina (1975-1977).

Society for American Archaeology

  • Executive Board (2003-2006)
  • Liaison to Committee on the Status of Women in Archaeology
  • Liaison to the Committee on Native American Relations
  • Liaison to Women in Archaeology Research Interest Group

Editorial Board Member:

  • University of Oregon Anthropological Papers
  • Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska
  • Arctic Anthropology

Memberships

  • Alaska Anthropological Association
  • Alutiiq Museum
  • American Anthropological Association
  • American Society for Ethnohistory
  • Association of Oregon Archaeologists
  • Canadian Archaeological Association
  • International Council for Archaeozoology
  • Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History
  • Register of Professional Archaeologists
  • Society for American Archaeology