John Douglas

Professor

Office Location: Social Science 233 Office Telephone: 406 243-4246 E-mail: john.douglas@umontana.edu

Description

I'm an anthropological archaeologist whose interests are global but with research focused mainly on the prehistory of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. I also maintain research interests in the peopling of the Americas and the Amazon Basin of Brazil. My topical interests include regional systems and exchange, method and theory, quantitative and computer methods, settlement systems, ceramic analysis, and lithic technology.

Courses

Anthro 250      Introduction to Archaeology

Anthro 351      Archaeology of North America

Anthro 354      Mesoamerican Prehistory

Anthro 357      Archaeology of the Southwestern United States

Anthro 455      Artifact Analysis

Anthro 550      Seminar in Archaeology

Anthro 552      Power, Prestige, and Things 

Education

University of Arizona, Tucson  n 1990 n Ph.D. in Anthropology

Dissertation: “Regional Interaction in the Northern Sierra: An Analysis Based on the Late Prehistoric Occupation of the San Bernardino Valley, Southeastern Arizona”  Major and minor fields: archaeology and cultural anthropology.

University of Arizona, Tucson  n 1982 n M.A. in Anthropology

California State University, Fullerton n 1978 n B.A. in Anthropology, with Honors

Selected Publications

 2007 “Making and Breaking Boundaries in the Hinterlands: The Social and Settlement Dynamics of Far Southeastern Arizona and Southwestern New Mexico.” In Hinterlands and Regional Dynamics in the Ancient Southwest, edited by Alan P. Sullivan III and James M. Bayman, pp. 97-108. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

2005  (J. Douglas and C. Quijada) “Di Peso’s Concept of the Northern Sierra: Evidence from the Upper Bavispe Valley, Sonora, Mexico.” Latin American Antiquity 16(3) 275-291. 

2004 “A Reinterpretation of the Occupational History of the Pendleton Ruin, New Mexico.” Journal of Field Archaeology 29 (3-4):425-436. 

2004 (J. Douglas and C. Quijada)”Not so Plain After all: First Millennium A.D. Textured Ceramics in Northeastern Sonora.”  Kiva 70(1)29-50.  

2004 (J. Douglas and C. Quijada) “Between the Casas Grandes and the Río: Chronology and Settlement in the Upper Bavispe Drainage.”  In Surveying the Archaeology of Northwest Mexico, edited by G. E. Newell and E. Gallaga. Sonora Valleys University of Utah Press, Salt Lake.  

2003 (C. Quijada and J. Douglas) “El Valle Bavispe, entre las culturas del Río Sonora y Casas Grandes.” Noroeste de México 14:17-26.

2002 (A. Roosevelt, J. Douglas, and L. Brown) “The Migrations and Adaptations of the First Americans: Clovis and Pre-Clovis Views from South America.” In The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World, edited by N. G. Jablonski, pp. 159-223. Wattis Symposium Volume 4, Memoirs of the California of Sciences, No. 27. Academy

Specialized Skills

Archaeology; Northern Mexico and U.S. Southwest prehistory; Trade and Exchange

International Experience

International Archaeological Experiences:

·        Belize (Belize City), as exchange professor

·        Mexico (Sonora), as co-Principle Investigator

·        Brazil (Pará), as Fulbright supported instructor and specialist/consultant

·        France (Charente) as Excavation Director / Computer Mapping Specialist

·        Central African Republic (Sangha) specialist/consultant