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

Description:

I'm an anthropological archaeologist whose interests are global. Much of my research has focused on the prehistory of the Northwest Mexico and U.S. Southwest (the "NWSW" to those who work on both sides of the border). I have growing experience/interest in Mayan archaeology in Belize, and I maintain research interests in the peopling of the Americas and the Amazon Basin of Brazil. Topical interests include regional systems and exchange, method and theory, quantitative and computer methods, settlement systems, ceramic analysis, and lithic technology.

Office Hours:

Monday, Wednesday,10:10-11:00 and Thursday 9:40-11

Courses:

ANTY 101     Anthropology and the Human Experience (summers only)

ANTY 250     Introduction to Archaeology

ANTY 351     Archaeology of North America

ANTY 354     Mesoamerican Prehistory

ANTY 357     Archaeology of the Southwestern United States

ANTY 455     Artifact Analysis

ANTY 467     ANTY 467 Archaeology Field School (Belize winter session)

ANTY 550     Seminar in Archaeology

Hobbies:

Running

Hiking

Camping

Folk/Bluegrass mandolin

 

 

Education:

University of Arizona, Tucson 1990 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 1982 M.A. in Anthropology

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

Selected Publications:

2012 (A.C. Roosevelt, J. Douglas, and others) “Mounds and Monumental Art in Ancient Amazonia: History, Scale, Function, and Social Ecology.” In Early New World Monumentality, Edited by R.L. Burger and R.M. Rosenswig, p. 255-288, University of Florida Press, Gainesville.

2010 “Autonomy and Regional Systems in the Late Prehistoric Southern Southwest.” Reprinted in Tribal Social Formations: Selections from AQ and LQ, edited by Michelle Hegmon. SAA Press: Washington, D.C.

2009 (A.C. Roosevelt, J. Douglas, and others) “Early Hunter-Gatherers in the Terra Firme Rainforests: Stemmed Projectile Points from the Curuá Goldmines.” Amazônica 1(2):442-483.

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. 

2003 (C. Quijada and J. Douglas) “El Valle Bavíspe, 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:

·       Belize (University of Belize, Belize City), as exchange professor and supervising archaeological excavation/field school in San Igancio, Cayo District

·        Mexico (Sonora), as co-Principle Investigator archaeological survey and excavation

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

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

·        Central African Republic (Sangha) archaeology specialist/consultant