The University of Montana Department of Anthropology
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Douglas MacDonald
Assistant Professor
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Office Location: Social Science Building Room 216 Office Telephone: 406-243-5814 E-mail: douglas.macdonald@mso.umt.edu Curriculum Vitae: Click here |
Description
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Dr. MacDonald’s research involves identification of prehistoric forager settlement and mobility patterns by tracing sources of lithic raw materials for stone tools recovered at archaeological sites. Recent fieldwork was conducted as part of an archaeological and cultural resource management field school in Yellowstone National Park. Evolutionary theory, including evolutionary ecology and dual inheritance theories, are important theoretical frameworks in MacDonald’s work (see articles below and in his vita). In addition, he worked for several years in cultural resource management and now studies the comparative application of cultural resource laws across the country. |
Office Hours
Fall Semester 2007: M thru F, 11-12
Field of Study
North American Prehistoric Archaeology
Cultural Resource Management
Paleoindians
Yellowstone National Park
Courses
Fall Semester
Archaeological Theory (Anth 450)
Cultural Resource Management (Anth 451)
Winter Session
Paleoindian Archaeology (Anth 395)--syllabus: www.cas.umt.edu/facultydatabase/FILES_Faculty/514/PaleoindianArch-Anth395-syllabus.pdf
Spring Semester
Archaeology of Montana (Anth 352)
Cultural Resource Policy and Practice (Anth 602)
Summer Session
Introduction to Anthropology (Anth 101)
Yellowstone National Park Archaeological & Cultural Resource Management Field School (Anth 495)myap-archaeology.spaces.live.com/
Education
1987-1991 B.A., Anthropology, Honors, Brown University, Providence RI
1992-1994 M.A., Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman
1995-1998 Ph.D., Anthropology. Washington State University, Pullman
Selected Publications
§ 2008, The Evolution of Folsom Fluting. Submitted to American Antiquity (in review).www.cas.umt.edu/facultydatabase/FILES_Faculty/514/Folsom fluting paper all oct 30 07.pdf
§ 2007, In press, The Role of Lithic Raw Material Availability and Quality in Determining Tool Kit Size, Tool Function, and Degree of Retouch: A Case Study from Skink Rockshelter (46NI445), West Virginia. In Lithic Technologies: Life-Cycles of Production and Retouch, edited by William Andrefsky, Jr., Cambridge University Press www.cas.umt.edu/facultydatabase/FILES_Faculty/514/MacDonald-Retouch-Final May 07.pdf
§ 2007 Book Review of Folsom by David Meltzer. American Antiquity 72 (4)
§ 2007, In press, A Clovis Occupation along Swift Run Gap, Virginia. Current Research in the Pleistocene Volume 24.
§ 2006 Holocene Land-Use, Settlement Patterns, and Lithic Raw Material Use in Central West Virginia. Archaeology of Eastern North America 34: 121-140.
§ 2004 Early Paleoindians as Estate Settlers: Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Evolutionary Insights into the Peopling of the New World. The Settlement of the American Continents, edited by C. Michael Barton and Geoffrey Clark, University of Arizona Press.
§ 2001 Grief and Burial in Prehistory: Reinterpreting Hohokam and Salado Burials via Kin Selection Theory. American Antiquity 66(4): 704-714. www.cas.umt.edu/facultydatabase/FILES_Faculty/514/MacDonald-grief-Hohokam.pdf
§ 1999 Modeling Folsom Mobility, Mating Strategies, and Technological Organization in the Northern Plains. Plains Anthropologist 44(168): 141-161.
§ 1998 Subsistence, Sex and Cultural Transmission in Folsom Culture. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 17(3): 217-239. www.cas.umt.edu/facultydatabase/FILES_Faculty/514/macdonald folsom subsistence.pdf
§ 1999 Reproductive Interests and Forager Mobility(first author with Barry S. Hewlett). Current Anthropology 40(4): 501-524.
Affiliations
Society for American Archaeology
Register of Professional Archaeologists
Sigma Xi
Montana Archaeological Society
Plains Anthropological Society
Montana Historical Society
Specialized Skills
Lithic Analyst; Cultural Resource Management; Archaeology; Prehistoric Archaeology; Cultural Resource Management
Professional Experience
§ 2006-present. Asst. Professor, Department of Anthropology. University of Montana.
§ 1999-2006. Archaeology Manager/Principal Investigator. GAI Consultants, Inc. Pittsburgh
§ 1997-1998 Faculty Lecturer. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University
§ 1996-1997. Museum Assistant. Columbia River Basin NAGPRA Project, CNA/WSU
§ 1995-1996. Advanced Lithic Analyst. Lake Ilo Project, North Dakota. WSU/CNA
§ 1995. Co-Field Director. Hanford Reservation Survey. CNA/WSU
§ 1993-1994, Crew Chief . Lake Ilo Archaeological Project, North Dakota. WSU
§ 1991-1992. Archaeologist. University of Delaware Center for Archaeological Research.
§ 1990. Archaeologist. Opuntia Meadows Site (46PA1028), Cody, Wy. CSU, Ft. Collins.