CURRICULUM VITAE
DONALD J. BLAKESLEE
January, 2009
Department of Anthropology 1638 Park Place
Wichita State University Wichita, Kansas 67203
Wichita, Kansas 67260-0052 (316)-263-2973
(316)-978-7199
[email protected]
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
1975 Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1971 M.A. in Anthropology, University of Nebraska
1969 B.A. with distinction in Anthropology, University of Nebraska
1961-63 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
ACADEMIC DEGREES AND HONORS
2011 Ferguson Prize for the best book on Kansas History
2010 listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in America.
2008 Featured in a museum exhibit, “The Medieval Southwest:
Manifestations of the Old World in the New. Southwest Collections,
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
2008 Included in a video on the Medieval Southwest aired on PBS.
Produced by Texas Tech University.
1999 President’s Award for Distinguished Service, Wichita State
University
1997 Deolece Parmelee Award for Historic Preservation, Texas Historical
Foundation
1996 Distinguished Lecturer, Kansas Academy of Sciences
1996 Wichita State University Excellence in Research Award
1980 Full Member, Sigma Xi
1970-71 NSF Traineeship in Anthropology, U. of Nebraska
1969 Certificate of Superior Scholarship, U. of Nebraska
1969 Associate Member, Sigma Xi
1961-63 Thorndike Scholarship, Wesleyan University
POSITIONS HELD
2004-2007 Coordinator of General Education, Wichita State University
1997- Professor, Department of Anthropology, Wichita State University
1990-93 Chair, Department of Anthropology, Wichita State University
1988-91 Coordinator of General Education, Wichita State University
1982-96 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Wichita State
University
1982-84 Interim Chair, Department of Anthropology, Wichita State
University
1976-82 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Wichita State University
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Monographs
2011 Holy Ground, Healing Water: A Deep History of Cultural
Landscapes in the Central Plains. Texas A & M University Press. (This is
a deeply revised version of the contract report listed below under 2008.)
1999 Waconda Lake: Prehistoric Swidden-Foragers in the Central Plains.
Central Plains Archaeology, 7(1).
1995 Along Ancient Trails: The Mallet Expedition of 1739. University
Press of Colorado.
1988 (editor) The St. Helena Phase: New Data, Fresh Interpretations.
J&L Reprint, Lincoln.
1987 John Ludwickson, Donald Blakeslee and John O'Shea. Missouri
National Recreational River: Native American Cultural Resources.
Wichita State University Publications in Anthropology, No. 3.
1979 Donald J. Blakeslee and Warren W. Caldwell. The Nebraska
Phase: An Appraisal J&L Reprint Co. Lincoln, NE.
1978 (editor) The Central Plains Tradition: Internal Dynamics and
External Relationships. Office of the State Archaeologist, Report 12.
Iowa City, IA.
1975 The Plains Interband Trade System: An Ethnohistoric and
Archaeological Investigation.
University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. (Ph.D. dissertation)
Book-length Contract Reports
2008 Holy Ground, Sacred Water: Cultural Landscapes at Waconda
Lake, Kansas. Report to the Bureau of Reclamation, Grand Island,
Nebraska.
1987 Donald J. Blakeslee and Arthur H. Rohn. Man and Environment in
Northeastern Kansas: The Hillsdale Lake Project. U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Kansas City District, 6 Vols.
1987 John Ludwickson, Donald Blakeslee and John O'Shea. Missouri
National Recreational River: Native American Cultural Resources.
Wichita State University Publications in Anthropology, No. 3. (originally
published by the National Park Service; reprinted with their permission in
this form)
1986 Donald J. Blakeslee, R. Blasing and H. Garcia. Along the Pawnee
Trail: Cultural Resource Survey and Testing, Wilson Lake, Kansas.
Wichita, Kansas.
1983 Donald J. Blakeslee and John O’Shea. The Gorge of the Missouri:
An Archaeological Survey of Lewis and Clark Lake, Nebraska and South
Dakota. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District.
1983 Alex Barker, Donald J. Blakeslee and Michael Finnegan. Analysis
of Human Osteological Remains from Knox County, Nebraska. U.S.
Corps of Engineers, Omaha District.
1982 Walden Padgett and Donald Blakeslee. El Dorado Prehistory:
Investigations of Some Early Campsites in Butler County, Kansas. Dept.
of Anthropology, Wichita State U.
Chapters in books
in press Ysopete’s Fit, or New Light on Coronado’s Route on the Great
Plains. Accepted for a volume being edited by Richard and Shirley Flint,
the third in a series on the Coronado Expedition.
in press Caves and related sites in the Great Plains of North America In
Sacred Darkness: A Global Perspective on the Ritual Use of Caves,
edited by Holley Moyes. University Press of Colorado.
2006 Donald J. Blakeslee and Marlin Hawley. Great Bend Aspect. In
Handbook of Kansas Archaeology, edited by Robert Hoard and Will
Banks, pp. 165-179. University Press of Kansas.
2005 Central Plains Earthlodges as the Products of Craft Specialists. In
Earthlodges: Architecture and Symbolism, edited by Donna C. Roper and
Elizabeth P. Pauls, pp. 83-110. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
2004 Die Einheimische Geographie des Llano Estacado. In Karl May im
Llano Estacado, edited by Meredith McClain and Reinhold Wolff,
pp. 73-87. Hansa Verlag, Husum.
2003 Blakeslee, Donald J. and Jay C. Blaine The Jimmy Owens Site:
New Perspectives on the Coronado Expedition. In From the Distance of
460 Years, edited by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint, pp.203-218.
University of New Mexico Press.
2003 Blakeslee, Donald J., Douglas K. Boyd, Richard Flint, Judith
Habicht-Mauche, Nancy P. Hickerson, Jack T. Hughes, and
Carroll L. Riley. Bison Hunters of the Llano in 1541, their Identity
and Territory. In From the Distance of 460 Years: Contemporary
Vantage on the Coronado Expedition, edited by Richard Flint and
Shirley Cushing Flint, pp. 164-186. University of New Mexico
Press.
2002 Fractal Archaeology: Intra-generational Cycles and the Matter of
Scale, an Example from the Central Plains. In The Archaeology of Tribal
Societies, edited by William Parkinson, pp. 173-199. Monographs in
World Prehistory, Ann Arbor, MI..
2002 What Do You Mean, Upper Republican? Medicine Creek: Seventy
Years of Archaeological Investigations, edited by Donna Roper, pp.
163-178. University of Alabama Press.
1997 Blakeslee, Donald J., Richard Flint and Jack Hughes Una Barranca
Grande, Recent Archaeological Evidence and a Discussion of its place in
the Coronado Route. In The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva: The
1540-1542 Route Across the Southwest, edited by Richard Flint and
Shirley Cushing Flint, pp. 302-319. U. Press of Colorado.
1997 Which Barrancas: Narrowing the Possibilities. In The Coronado
Expedition to Tierra Nueva: The 1540-1542 Route Across the Southwest,
edited by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint, pp. 302-319. U. Press
of Colorado.
1995 Problems Encountered in Implementing NAGPRA in a University
Setting. Native American Graves and Repatriation Act of 1990
(NAGPRA) Compliance Workshop Proceedings, edited by Myra Giesen:
83-86. Lawrence, KS: Haskell Indian Nations University.
1994 The Archaeological Context of Human Skeletal Populations in the
Central and Northern Plains. In Human Skeletal Biology on the Great
Plains, edited by D. Owsley and R. Jantz. Smithsonian Institution Press.
1988 The Saint Helena Archaeological Research Project. In The St.
Helena Phase: New Data, Fresh Interpretations, edited by D. J.
Blakeslee. J & L Reprint, Lincoln..
1988 Kari Manz and Donald J. Blakeslee. The Faunal Remains from
Annie's Site and the Limitations of Subsistence Analysis. In The St.
Helena Phase: New Data, Fresh Interpretations, edited by Donald J.
Blakeslee. J&L Reprint, Lincoln.
1988 Donald J. Blakeslee and Richard Dunn. Identification of Subsoil
Inclusions in Pomona Ceramics. In Scanning Electron Microscopy in
Archaeology, ed. by S. L. Olsen. British Archaeological Reports,
International Series, 452: 79-100.
1978 Assessing the Central Plains Tradition in Eastern Nebraska: Content
and Outcome. Office of the State Archaeologist, Report 12:134-143. Iowa
city.
Articles
in press The Florence pipe: A Chaîne Opératoire Analysis. Plains
Anthropologist.
in press The Douglass Complex and Table Rock Points: New Light on
Old Problems. Midcontinental Journal of archaeology.
2007 The D. Heasty Cache Revisited. Current Archaeology in Kansas
6:1-4.
2004 New Light on the Bluff Creek Complex. Current Archaeology in
Kansas 5:1-6.
2004 The Stauffer-Allison Collection. Current Archaeology in Kansas
5:52.
2004 Indian Trails. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, edited by David J.
Wishart.
2004 Mallet Brothers. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, edited by David
J. Wishart.
2003 Marlin Hawley and Donald J. Blakeslee. An Annotated
Bibliography of Great Bend Archaeology. The Kansas
Anthropologist 24:107-145.
2003 A Meteor, A Mirror, A Metaphor. In Deep-Time Perspective
Studies in Symbols, Meaning, and the Archaeological Record, edited by
J. D. Reynolds and M. L. Fowler. The Wisconsin Archaeologist 84(1-2).
2002 Donald J. Blakeslee and David T. Hughes. Empty Quarter
Archaeology. Current Archaeology in Kansas, 3:1-4.
2001 Donald J. Blakeslee, Michelle Peck and Ronald A. Dorsey. Glen
Elder: a Western Oneota Bison Hunting Camp. Midcontinent Journal of
Archaeology 20(1):79-104.
2000 Mussels, Bison Kills, and Pots: Clarity in the Archaeological
Record. Central Plains Archeology 8(1):5-11.
1999 Donald J. Blakeslee and David T. Hughes. Southern Plains
Archaeology, 1955-1995. Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, 70: 5-35.
1998 The Marine Shell Artifacts of Kansas. Central Plains Archaeology 5
(1): 3-9.
1998 Donald J. Blakeslee and Frank Gagné. Unearthing Evidence of the
Coronado Expedition. Texas Heritage Magazine, Fall 1998: 16-19.
1997 Assessing Sets of Radiocarbon Dates: An Example from the Central
Plains. North American Archaeologist 18(4): 303-326.
1996 Continuity and Persistence in the Natural and Cultural Landscapes
of the Central Plains. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences,
99(3/4):86-94.
1994 Reassessment of Some Radiocarbon Dates from the Central Plains.
Plains Anthropologist, 39 (148): 203-208.
1993 Modeling the Abandonment of the Central Plains. Plains
Anthropologist, Memoir 27: 199-214.
1991 The Original Santa Fe Trail: The Mallet Expedition of 1739, Parts 1
and 2. Wagon Tracks, 5 (1): 15-18, 5 (2): 14-17.
1990 Kim N. Schneider and Donald J. Blakeslee. Evaluating Residence
Patterns among Prehistoric Populations: Clues from Dental Enamel
Composition. Human Biology, 62 (1): 71-83.
1990 A Model for the Nebraska Phase. In Central Plains Archaeology,
July, 1990.
1990 Using General Land Office Notes and Maps to Relocate Trailrelated Features. Overland Journal, 8 (3): 30-31.
1989 On Estimating Household Populations in the Central Plains. Plains
Anthropologist, Memoir 23: 3-16.
1988 The Rattlesnake Creek and Walnut Creek Crossings of the
Arkansas. Wagon Tracks, 3(1): 4-5.
1988 Donald J. Blakeslee and Robert Blasing. Indian Trails in the Central
Plains. Plains Anthropologist, 33-119: 17-26.
1988 "Nebraska Phase" and "St. Helena Phase" in Historical Dictionary
of North American Archaeology, edited by Edward Jelks. Greenwood
Press, Westport, CT.
1987 John Rowzee Peyton and the Myth of the Mound Builders.
American Antiquity, 52 (4).
1986 Making Slides from Computer Screens. Archaeonet, 1 (1): 25-31.
1986 William G. Eckert, Leo R. Willey and Donald J. Blakeslee.
Identification by Identi-Kit Composite from Skull Appearance. The
American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, 7 (3):213-215.
1983 Kinks in the Calibration Curve: Reassessing Radiocarbon Dates.
Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, XI:29-36.
1983 Further Remarks on the Apparent and Actual Relationship between
Climatic and Cultural Changes. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of
Sciences, XI: 61-64.
1982 Donald J. Blakeslee, John Hotopp, Kerry Lippincott, John
Ludwickson and Thomas Witty. Setting the Record Straight: Some
Replies to Krause. Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 27, No. 95:83-90.
1981 The Origin and Spread of the Calumet Ceremony. American
Antiquity, Vol. 46, No. 4.
1981 Toward a Cultural Understanding of Human Microevolution on the
Plains. Plains Anthropologist, 26-94, Memoir 17: 93-106.
1981 Comment on “Stone Age Science in Britain?” by Alvar Allegard.
Current Anthropology, Vol. 22, No. 2:115. 1979 Mapping with an
Electronic Calculator. Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 6
1979 Site Mapping with Aerial Photographs. AASCK Journal, Vol. II.
1979 Who Were the Plains Indians Berdaches? Lambda Alpha Journal of
Man, Vol. 11, No. 1: 41-65.
1977 The Calumet Ceremony and the Origin of Fur Trade Rituals.
Western Canadian Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 7, No. 2.
1977 Comment on “The Cult of the Serpent” by Balaji Mundkur. Current
Anthropology, 18 (1): 116.
1975 C-14 at the Mounds. The Cahokian: Newsletter of the Cahokia
Mounds Museum, Dec., 1975
1971 A Bibliography of Nebraska Archaeology. Nebraska
Anthropologist, Vol. I. Lincoln, NE.
Book Reviews, Comments and other Minor Publications
2009 Review of Plains Village Archaeology: Bison-hunting Farmers in
the Central and Northern Plains edited by Stanley A. Ahler and Marvin
Kay. Journal of Field Archaeology
2008 Prehistoric Use of the Waconda Lake Area. Brochure distributed at
the visitor center, Waconda Lake. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, NebraskaKansas Office.
1998 Review of “Bog Bodies,” by Janet Buell. Science Books and Films,
34(5): 145.
1998 Review of Chronometric Dating in Archaeology, edited by R.E.
Taylor and M. J. Aitken. American Antiquity 63 (4): 706-707.
1998 Review of “Holocene Human Adaptations in the Missouri PrairieTimberlands,” by W.R. Wood, M. J. O'Brien, K. A. Murray and J. C.
Rose. Plains Anthropologist, 43 (166): 425-426.
1998 Review of “An Archaeology of the Soul,” by Robert L. Hall. Plains
Anthropologist 43 (166): 426.
1997 Review of "The Story of Gold," by Hal Hellman. Science Books
and Films, 33(1): 20.
1997 Review of “The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age
Mammals Disappeared,” by Peter D. Ward. Science Books and Films,
33(8): 237.
1995 Review of "Coming of Age: Traditions and Rituals around the
World," by Karen Liptak. Science Books and Films.
1994 Review of "Always Getting Ready, Upterrlainarluta: Yup'ik Eskimo
Subsistence in Southwest Alaska, by James H. Barker. Science Books and
Films.
1994 Review of "The Osage: An Ethnohistorical Study of Hegemony on
the Prairie-Plains”, by Willard H. Rollings. Plains Anthropologist.
1994 Review of "Aboriginal Cultural Adaptations in the Midwestern
Prairies," by James Brown. American Indian Quarterly, 17:423- 424.
1993 Review of "Kwakiutl String Figures," by. Julia Averkieva and Mark
A. Sherman. Science Books and Films, 29 (5): 141.
1993 Review of "Aboriginal Cultural Adaptations in the Midwestern
Prairies," by James Brown. American Indian Quarterly, 17:423-424.
1991 Review of "The Paiute," by R. J. Franklin and P. A. Bunte. Science
Books and Films, 27(1): 13.
1990 Review of "Before the Bulldozer: The Nambiquara Indians and the
World Bank. Science Books and Films, 25(5): 296.
1990 Review of "Three Roads to Chihuahua, the Great Wagon Roads
that Opened the Southwest, 1823-1883", by Roy L. Swift and Leavitt
Corning, Jr. Southwestern Historical Quarterly, April, 1990: 552-553.
1990 Review of "Sadie Brower Neakok: An Iñupiaq Woman," by
Margaret B. Blackman. Science Books and Films, 26(2): 122.
1989 Review of “King Herod’s Dream: Caesarea on the Sea”, by K.G.
Holum, R.L. Hohfelder, R.J. Bull and A. Raban. Science Books and
Films, May/June, 1989.
1989 Review of “The Cheyenne Nation”, by John Moore. The Historian
51 (3): 523.
1988 Review of “Trails South: The Wagon Road Economy in the Dodge
City-Panhandle Region”, by C. Robert Haywood. The Historian, 50 (3):
454-455.
1988 Review of “Cult Archaeology and Creationism: Understanding
Pseudoscientific Beliefs about the Past”, edited by F.B. Harrold and R.A.
Eve. Science Books and Films, Nov/Dec, 1988.
1988 Review of “The Great Journey: Peopling of Ancient America”, by
Bryan M. Fagan. Science Books and Films, 23 (5): 289.
1987 Review of “Lindow Man: The Body in the Bog”, edited by Books
and Films, Mar/Apr, 1967: 227.
1987 Review of “The Prehistoric Native American Art of Mud Glyph
Cave”, edited by Charles H. Faulkner. Science Books and Films, Nov/
Dec, 1987.
1987 Review of “Native American Folklore in Nineteenth Century
Periodicals”, by William M. Clements. Kansas History, 10 (2): 163.
1986 Review of “Anthropology” by Carol R. And Melvin Ember.
Science Books and Films, Mar/Apr, 1986.
1985 Review of “Evolution: New Perspectives” edited by Joanna
Abrams. Science Books and Films, Jan/Feb., 1985.
1985 Review of “Human Evolution” edited by Joanna Abrams. Science
Books and Films, Jan/Feb, 1985.
1985 Review of “The Order of Man: A biomathematical Anatomy of the
Primates” by Charles E. Oxnard. Science Books and Films, Jan/Feb,
1985.
1985 Review of “When the Stars Came Down to Earth: Cosmology of
the Pawnee Indians of North America” by Von Del Chamberlain. Plains
Anthropologist, 30-107: 77-79.
1982 Review of “Handbook of North American Indians. Volume 6:
Subarctic” edited by June Helm. Science Books and Films, Vol. 18, No.
1: 6.
1981 Review of “Culture: The Anthropological Perspective” by Marc J.
Swartz and David K. Jordan. Science Books and Films, Vol. 16, No. 3:
123.
1980 Review of “The Great Plains: Environment and Culture” edited by
Brian W. Blouet and Frederick C. Luebke. Plains Anthropologist, 90:
364-366.
1979 Review of “The Plains Indians: A Critical Bibliography” by E.A.
Hoebel. Plains Anthropologist, 24 (86): 347-348.
1977 Review of “The Gull Lake Site: A Prehistoric Bison Drive Site in
Southwestern Saskatchewan” by Thomas Kehoe. Lore, 27 (3): 43-44.
1977 Review of “The Notion of Tribe” by Morton Fried. Plains
Anthropologist, 22 (77): 251- 252.
Exhibits curated
1992 The Wichita Tribe: A Proud Tradition. Mid-America All-Indian
Center, Wichita.
Newspaper articles
A series of seven articles on archaeology for the Nebraska
Journal-Leader, Ponca, Nebraska
2004 Indian Trails in Kansas. Carried by a variety of Kansas weekly
papers.
Unpublished Contract Reports
2008 Phase II Archaeological Survey for a cell tower in Elk County, Ks.
2008 Phase II Archaeological Survey for a water treatment plant, Jetmore,
Ks.
2007 Archaeological Assessment for Two Cell Towers in Stanton and
Hamilton Counties, Kansas
2007 Archaeological Assessment for a Water Treatment Facility in Clay
County, Kansas
2007 Archaeological Assessment for a Water Treatment Facility at Rose
Hill, Butler County, Kansas
2006 Blakeslee, Donald J. and Frank Gagné. Phase III Testing of Site
14CO1310, Cowley County, Kansas. Appendix D in Phase III-IV
Archaeological Data Recovery Investigations at Site 14CO1310, Cowley
County, Kansas. Marion, IA: Louis Berger Group, Inc.
2006 Archaeological Assessment of a cell tower site in Cowley County,
Kansas.
2006 Phase II Archaeological Survey for a pipeline for Rural Water
District No. 11, Greenwood County, Kansas
2005 Phase II Archaeological Survey in Chautauqua County, Kansas.
2005 Phase II Archaeological Survey of a Stream Crossing near Leon,
Butler County, Kansas.
2005 Phase II Archaeological Survey of Four Road Maintenance Projects
in Cowley County, Kansas.
2005 Phase II Archaeological Survey of a Seage Treatment Facility
Expansion at El Dorado, Kansas.
2005 Phase II Archaeological Survey of two cell tower sites in Elk
County, Kansas.
2004 Archaeological Survey for a Sewage Line in Sumner County, KS.
2003 Phase III Testing at 14CO1310. Kansas Department of
Transportation.
2002 Phase I Archaeological Survey of the Iola Water Treatment Plant,
Allen county, Kansas.
2000 Phase I Archaeological Survey of a Sewage Treatment Plant at
Independence, Kansas.
2000 Phase I Archaeological Survey for a Riverbank Stabilization Project,
Marion County, KS
2000 Phase I Archaeological Survey for a Highway Relocation Project,
Saline County, Kansas.
2000 Phase I Archaeological Survey for a Floodwater Diversion Project,
Kinsley, Kansas.
1999 Archaeological Testing at Augusta, Kansas.
1999 Archaeological Survey at Belle Plaine, Kansas.
1995 Archaeological Survey at Ford County Lake, Kansas.
1994 Survey of a Proposed Pipeline in Coffey County, Kansas.
1993 Donald J. Blakeslee and John Gries. Survey of a Waste Water
Treatment Facility near Sedan, Kansas.
1993 Donald J. Blakeslee. An Intensive Archaeological Survey of an
Existing Landfill and Future Lateral Expansion in Seward County,
Kansas.
1989 Donald J. Blakeslee and Clayton Robarchek. Intensive
Archaeological Survey and Testing for a Pipeline Relocation Project in
Cowley County, Kansas.
1989 Cultural Resource Testing at 14ML303, Glen Elder State Park,
Kansas.
1988 Archaeological Survey for a Proposed Sewage Lagoon and Force
Main, Ness City, Kansas.
1988 Intensive Cultural Resource Survey for some Seismic Survey
Shotholes in Rooks County, Kansas.
1988 Cultural Resource Survey of a Proposed Gas Pipeline in Kearny
County, Kansas.
1988 Hector Garcia and Donald J. Blakeslee. An Intensive
Archaeological Survey of a Proposed Sewage Lagoon in Waubunsee
County, Kansas.
1987 Donald J. Blakeslee and Sandra L. Olsen. An Intensive
Archaeological Survey of a Proposed Reservoir near Yates Center,
Woodson County, Kansas
1986 Archaeological Survey of Dixon County, Nebraska. For the
Nebraska State Historical Society.
1986 Background Information for Cultural Resource Management,
Wilson Lake, Kansas.
1984 Archaeological Survey of a Proposed Oil Well in Finney County,
Kansas.
1983 The Saint Helena Archaeological Research Project, 1983. Report to
the Nebraska State Historical Society.
1983 David Hill and Donald J. Blakeslee. Archaeological Assessment of
Some Great Bend Aspect Sites in Cowley County, Kansas.
1980 Dale R. Wedel and Donald J. Blakeslee. Intensive Archaeological
Survey of a Proposed Pipeline Relocation on the Ninnescah River in
Cheney Reservoir State Game Management Area, Reno County, Kansas.
1980 Intensive Archaeological Cultural Resources Survey of the Route of
a Pipeline Platte, Buchanan and Clinton Counties, Missouri (with Roger
A. Boydston).
1980 Donald J. Blakeslee, Roger Boydston, Dale Maul and Hector
Garcia. Intensive Cultural Resource Survey of the Bushton, KS, to
Plattsburgh, MO, 10" Liquids Pipeline.
1980 Mark S. Davis, Dale Maul and Donald J. Blakeslee. Intensive
Archaeological Survey of a Proposed Sewage and Irrigation Project in
Ulysses, Kansas.
1979 Donald J. Blakeslee and Roger A. Boydston. Cultural Resource
Survey of a Proposed Well Location Near Kanopolis, Kansas.
1979 Phase II Archaeological Tests for a Planned Sewage Treatment
Facility, El Dorado, Kansas.
1979 Donald J. Blakeslee and Roger A. Boydston. Interim Report,
Bushton-KC 10 Inch Pipeline Archaeological Survey.
1978 Donald J. Blakeslee, William Unrau and Marsha K. King. Cultural
Resources Inventory, Air Force Plant 13, Wichita, Kansas.
1978 Donald J. Blakeslee and Marsha K. King. Survey and Evaluation of
Archaeological Resources, DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, Iowa and
Nebraska.
1978 Phase II Archaeological Test of Site 14KY501.
1978 Cultural Resource Inventory of Three Gas Well Locations in Finney
and Haskell Counties, Kansas.
1978 Phase I Archaeological Survey of a Sewage Treatment Facility and
Pipeline at El Dorado, Kansas.
1977 David M. Hovde and Donald J. Blakeslee. Archaeological Survey
of Wichita Mid- Continent Airport: Tyler Road Relocation
1977 David M. Hovde and Donald J. Blakeslee. Archaeological Survey
of Wichita Mid- Continent Airport: Phase II of Runway IL-19R
Extension.
1977 Stephen Johns and Donald J. Blakeslee. Archaeological Phase II
Tests at Site 14SG517: A Probable Hide-Working Station in Sedgwick
County, Kansas.
1977 David M. Hovde and Donald J. Blakeslee. Archaeological Phase II
Tests at Site 14SG516: A Suspected Cody Complex Campsite in
Sedgwick County, Kansas.
1975 Archaeological Survey of the Sterling (Illinois) Sewage Treatment
Facility, Department of Anthropology, University of WisconsinMilwaukee.
1975 Archaeological Survey of the Lakehead Pipeline Company Tank
Farm, Pipeline and Retention Pond, Superior, Wisconsin. Department of
Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
1975 Archaeological Survey of the Moline (Illinois) Flood Protection
Project. Department of Anthropology, University of WisconsinMilwaukee.
Conference Presentations
2008 Recent Archaeology on the Santa Fe Trail and its Tributaries.
Society for Historic Archaeology, Albuquerque
2008 On the Trail(s) with Lewis and Clark. Ablah Library.
2008 An Old-Fashioned Pot from a Late Woodland Site. Flint Hills
Conference, Lawrence, Kansas.
2008 (Re-)Do the Math: Tracking Change in Woodland Ceramics. Flint
Hills Conference, Lawrence, Kansas.
2008 Native Roots of the Northernmost Camino Real. CARTA. IX
Congreso International de Caminería Hispanica, Cadiz, Spain.
2008 Chronology of the Nebraska Phase Occupation of the Glenwood
Locality.
Glenwood Symposium, Glenwood, Iowa. (Invitation-only event
sponsored by the University of Iowa).
2008 The Coronado Route: An Update. 66th Plains Anthropological
Conference, Laramie, WY
2008 New Light on the Coronado Expedition. Texas Medievalist
Association, 18th annual conference. Southwest Collections, Texas Tech
University, Lubbock, TX.
2007 A Coronado Campsite in Texas: Content and Structure. Plains
Anthropological Conference, Rapid City, South Dakota.
2007 Using Handheld Computers for Spatial Data Entry in the Field.
Center for Advanced Spatial Tech, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
2005 Flint Hills Conference, Council Grove
2005 63rd Plains Conference
2005 Donald J. Blakeslee and Brent W. Weeks. Use of Arcpad and
PDAs to record field observations. Yellowstone Cultural Resource
Center, YNP
2004 Using GIS/GPS Technology to Enhance Field Research in
Archaeology and Environmental Disciplines. Information Technology
Conference, Wichita, KS
2004 Thieves in the Night: New Light on the Bluff Creek Complex.
Plains Anthropological Conference, Billings, MT.
2004 Jennifer Scriven and Donald J. Blakeslee The Horn Collection from
14MP1. Flint Hills Conference, St. Joseph
2003 Discussant on a panel, “Reflections on 25 Years of Flint Hills
Conferences” 25th Flint Hills Conference, Topeka, KS
2003 Central Plains Earthlodges as the Products of Craft Specialists.
Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, WI.
2002 James Gundersen and Donald Blakeslee. Great Bend Pipes and
Pipestones. Plains Anthropological Conference, Oklahoma City.
2002 Donald Blakeslee and Marlin Hawley. Toward a Reclassification of
the Divisions of the Great Bend Aspect: New Perspectives from
Old Collections. Plains Anthropological Conference, Oklahoma
City.
2002 Donald J. Blakeslee and Mack Shortt. Osprey Beach and the
Prospects for PaleoIndian Archaeology in Yellowstone Park. Society for
American Archaeology, Denver, CO.
2002 Defining of the Lindsborg subdivision of the Great Bend Aspect.
24th Flint Hills Conference, Manhattan, KS.
2001 The Great Bend Aspect. 59th Plains Anthropological Conference,
Lincoln, NE.
2001 Preserving the Ancient Past. Kansas Preservation Conference,
Wichita, KS.
2000 Waconda Lake: A Final View. 23rd Flint Hills Conference,
Wichita, KS.
2000 Donald J. Blakeslee and Michelle Peck. Glen Elder, A White Rock
Phase Bison Hunting Base Camp. 22nd Flint Hills Conference, Wichita,
KS
2000 A Meteor, a Mirror, a Metaphor. Society for American
Archaeology, Philadelphia.
2000 The Jimmy Owens Site: Content and Context. Contemporary
Vantage on the Coronado Expedition,, Las Vegas, NM, and Floydada,
TX.
2000 Donald J. Blakeslee, Judith Habicht-Mauche, Nancy P. Hickerson,
Jack T. Hughes, and Carroll L. Riley. “Bison Hunters of the Llano in
1541, their Identity and Territory.” Contemporary Vantage on the
Coronado Expedition, Las Vegas,NM, and Floydada, TX.
2000 Native American Geography of the Llano Estacado. Karl May
Symposium, Lubbock, TX
1999 Archaeology of the Coronado Expedition. In “Our Hidden Hispanic
Heritage, Southwestern Collections, Texas Tech University, Lubbock,
TX
1999 Sample Size in Ceramic Frequency Seriation. 22nd Flint Hills
Conference, Lawrence, KS
1998 A Coronado Campsite in Texas. Society for American
Archaeology, Seattle, WA.
1998 Mussels, Bison Kills, and Pots: Clarity in the Archaeological
Record. 56th Plains Anthropological Conference. Bismark, ND.
1998 Could it be Coronado? Archaeology of the Jimmy Owens Site.
Texas Archaeology Society, Waco, TX.
1998 The Jimmy Owens Site: New Perspectives on the Coronado
Expedition. Symposium entitled “The Transition from Prehistory to
History in the Southwest”, Albuquerque, NM.
1997 A Coronado Campsite in Texas. Plenary Session, Society for
Historical Archaeology. Corpus Christi, TX.
1997 Archaeology of a Coronado Campsite, Santa Fe Archaeological
Society.
1997 Coronado's Route in New Mexico. Museum of New Mexico, Santa
Fe.
1997 What Do You Mean, Upper Republican? Medicine Creek
Conference, Cambridge, NE.
1997 Nailing It Down: A Coronado Campsite in Texas. Plains
Anthropological Conference, Boulder.
1996 Rocks from Heaven: Meteorites in Prehistoric North American
Religion. Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.
1996 A Coronado Campsite in Texas. Flint Hills Conference, Saint
Joseph, Missouri.
1996 Tracking Coronado in Texas. Keynote Address, Kansas
Anthropological Association, Topeka.
1996 Donald J. Blakeslee and Mark A. Latham. Beyond Ceramics:
Detecting Cultural Groupings with Architectural Variation. Plains
Conference, Iowa City.
1995 Rocks from Heaven: Native American Use of Meteorites and
Meteoric Iron. Archaeological Society of South Dakota, Chamberlain,
S.D.
1995 Implementing Reburial and Repatriation: A University Perspective.
NAGPRA Compliance Workshop, Haskell Indian Nations University,
Lawrence, KS.
1995 The Invasion of South Dakota. Archaeological Society of South
Dakota, Chamberlain, S.D.
1995 Projectile Point Types and Varieties: A View from the Solomon
River. 53rd Plains Anthropological Conference, Laramie, WY.
1995 Utilization of Marine Shell in Kansas Prehistory. 53rd Plains
Anthropological Conference, Laramie, WY. ,
1995 Peer H. Moore-Jansen and Donald J. Blakeslee. Craniometric
Variation in Historic Native American Indian Samples from the Northern
Plains. 53rd Plains Anthropological Conference, Laramie, WY.
1994 Indian Traders and Traders to the Indians. Santa Fe Trial
Rendezvous, Larned, KS. 1994 A Radiocarbon Chronology for the
Central Plains?. Plains Anthropological Conference, Lubbock, TX.
1994 Reconsideration of Coronado’s Route Across Texas. Plains
Anthropological Conference, Lubbock, TX.
1994 Sacred Symbols, Sacred Places: An Investigation of Hopewellian
Symbolism. Chacmool Conference, Calgary, Alberta.
1993 Site and Community at Waconda Lake. 15th Flint Hills Conference,
Wichita, KS.
1993 Geophysical Investigations of Kansas Intaglios. 15th Flint Hills
Conference, Wichita, KS.
1993 Chronological and Stylistic Analysis of Cahokian Influences in the
Central Great Plains, Midwest Conference, Milwaukee, WI.
1992 Radiocarbon Dating and the Solomon River Debate. Plains
Anthropological Conference, Lawrence, KS.
1992 Tracing Coronado’s Route through Texas. In “Where did the
Encuentro Happen”? Conference of the Coronado Trail Association, Las
Vegas, New Mexico.
1992 Deconstructing the Solomon River Sequence. Flint Hills
Conference, Manhattan, KS.
1991 An Integrated Across-the-Curriculum Program at Wichita State
University. Association of American Colleges, Washington, D.C.
1991 Sacred Waters: the Waconda Lake Project. 13th Flint Hills
Conference, Lincoln, NE.
1991 Mysteries of the Coronado Expedition. Keynote Lecture at the
Symposium, “On the Trail of Coronado”. Lyons KS.
1991 The Waconda Lake Sequence. Plains Anthropological Conference,
Lawrence, KS.
1990 Modeling the Abandonment of the Central Plains. 12th Flint Hills
Anthropological Conference, Kansas City.
1989 Cultural, Temporal and Geographic Frames of Reference for
Analysis of the Over Museum Skeletal Collections. In a symposium
entitled “Skeletal Biology in the Great Plains”, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.
1989 Donald J. Blakeslee and Kim N. Schneider. Prehistoric Residence
Patterns from Dental Enamel. Society for American Archaeology,
Atlanta, GA.
1989 Donald J. Blakeslee and Kim N. Schneider. You Are Where You
Ate. 11th Flint Hills Conference, Lawrence, KS.
1989 Kim N. Schneider and Donald J. Blakeslee. Evaluating Residence
Patterns among Prehistoric Populations: Clues from Dental Enamel
Composition. American Association of Physical Anthropologists. San
Diego.
1988 Kansas Archaeology: Retrospect and Prospect. 10th Flint Hills
Conference, Topeka, KS. 1988 The Radiocarbon Dates from Cahokia: A
Microcomputer Simulation. Central States Anthropological Conference/
American Ethnological Society joint meeting, St. Louis. 1988 The Route
of the Mallet Brothers, 1739. American Association for the Advancement
of Science, SW Meeting, Wichita, KS.
1988 Tools, Trails and Territories. Society for American Archaeology,
Phoenix, AZ.
1988 Cultural, Temporal and Geographic Frames of Reference for
Analysis of the Over Museum Skeletal Collections. 46th Plains
Anthropological Conference, Wichita, KS. 1988 The Original Santa Fe
Trail: The Mallet Route of 1739. 46th Plains Anthropological Conference,
Wichita, KS. (1995)
1988 Owsley, Douglas W. and Donald J. Blakeslee. Femoral Cortical
Bone Thickness in Central and Northern Plains Indian Populations. 46th
Plains Anthropological Conference, Wichita, KS.
1987 Geologic and Cultural Clues to Early Kansas History. Ninth Flint
Hills Conference. Kansas Academy of Sciences, Wichita, KS.
1987 Swidden Horticulture on the Great Plains: Explaining Plains Village
Settlement Patterns. 45th Plains Conference, Columbia, MO. .
1986 The Route of the Mallet Brothers, 1739. Eighth Flint Hills
Archaeological Conference, Lincoln, NE.
1986 The Revisionist Account of the Origins of the Santa Fe Trail. Santa
Fe Trail Rendezvous, Larned, KS.
1986 Assessment of Radiocarbon Dates by Microcomputer Simulation.
Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.
1985 The St. Helena Phase: An Introduction. 43rd Plains Conference,
Iowa City.
1985 St. Helena Archaeoastronomy. 43rd Plains Conference, Iowa City.
1985 Simulating Radiocarbon Dating with a Microcomputer. American
Institute of Archaeology, Washington, D.C.
1984 Donald J. Blakeslee and Arthus H. Rohn. Great Bend Aspect Sites
of the Marion Kansas Area. 5th Flint Hills Archaeological
Conference, Manhattan, KS.
1984 The Saint Helena Archaeological Research Project, 1983. Central
States Anthropological Society, Lincoln, NE.
1984 Backs Against the Wall: Estimating Archaeological Household
Populations in the Central Plains. 42nd Plains Conference, Lincoln, NE.
1983 Radiocarbon and Reality Revisited. 41st Plains Conference, Rapid
City,
1983 What Part of the Elephant Did You Get? Pomona Focus
Manifestations at Hillsdale Lake. 5th Flint Hills Archaeological
Conference, Topeka, KS.
1982 Implications of Short Term High Amplitude 14 C Variations. 11th
Radiocarbon Conference, Seattle.
1982 Assemblage Formation Analysis and the Interpretation of Small
Sites. 4th Flint Hills Archaeological Conference, Tulsa, OK.
1982 Marion Blades: Age, Distribution, Significance. Nebraska Academy
of Sciences. Lincoln
1981 Kansas Pipestone and the Origins of the Calumet. Midwest
Archaeological Conference, Madison, WI.
1981 The Cultural Sequence at Hillsdale Lake. 3rd Flint Hills
Archaeological Conference, Wichita, KS.
1980 Archaeological Fact and Radiocarbon Theory: Comments on
Chronology. Symposium, “Man and Changing Environments in the Great
Plains”. Center for Great Plains Studies, Lincoln, NE.
1980 The Third Radiocarbon Revolution: Comments on Climatology.
Symposium, “Man and Changing Environments in the Great Plains”.
Center for Great Plains Studies, Lincoln, NE.
1979 The Nebraska Phase. Kansas Anthropological Society, Lawrence,
KS.
1979 Hillsdale Lake Archaeology: New Information from Northeast
Kansas. 37th Plains Conference, Kansas City, MO.
1979 Eastern Kansas Archaeology: A Reflection of the Midwest.
Midwest Archaeological Conference, Milwaukee, WI.
1978 Race, Language and Culture Writ Small. 36th Plains Conference,
Denver, CO.
1978 The Pawnee Meet the New Archaeology, or Yet Another Criticism
of Deetz’s “Arikara Ceramics”. Kansas Anthropological Society, Topeka,
KS.
1977 Toward an Operational Design for a Differential Proton
Magnetometer (with John H. Blakeslee). 35th Plains Conference, Lincoln,
NE.
1976 Reassessing the Central Plains Tradition in Eastern Nebraska:
Content and Outcome. 34th Plains Conference and 21st Midwest
Conference, Minneapolis.
1975 Cultural Context of Microevolution on the Northern Plains:
1400-1850. 44th Annual Meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists, Denver.
1975 The Archaeological Evaluation of Radiocarbon: Fractionization.
33rd Plains Conference, Lincoln, NE.
1974 Shell Implements from the Central Plains. 32nd Plains Conference,
Laramie, WY.
1973 The Adult Amateur Field School at Cahokia, 1973. 31st Plains
Conference, Columbia, MO.
1973 Recent Radiocarbon Dates and a Ceramic Seriation for the
Nebraska Phase. 31st Plains Conference, Columbia, MO.
1972 Holocene Climatic Episodes and Cultural Responses: Evidence
from Two Regions of North America. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1971 Aspects of the History of Physical Anthropology. Nebraska
Academy of Sciences, Lincoln.
1971 Plains Woodland in its Ecological Setting. Nebraska Academy of
Sciences, Lincoln.
1970 Variation and Development within the Nebraska Phase. 28th Plains
Conference, Tulsa, OK.
1970 The Central Plains Tradition in Eastern Nebraska. Nebraska
Academy of Sciences, Lincoln.
1970 The Role of Paper as a Status Symbol in a University Community.
Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Lincoln.
1969 The Kunkel Site, Cass County, Nebraska. Nebraska Academy of
Sciences, Lincoln, NE.
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
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2009 CDM engineering Project Director 1,000 Arch Survey
2009 CDM Engineering Project Director 10,000 Arch Survey
2008 Wichita State University Project Director 4,000 Research
2008 survey for a cell tower in Elk County, Ks. 800 Arch Survey
2008 Jetmore, KS. Project Director 1,000 Arch Survey
2007 Stanton /Hamilton Co. Project Director 1,000 Arch Survey
2007 Concordia, KS Project Director 800 Arch Survey
2007 Rose Hill, KS Project Director 1,000 Arch Survey
2006 KDOT Project Director 5,000 Arch Survey
2006 Miller Environmental Project Director 800 Arch Survey
2006 Greenwood County RWD Project Director 1,000 Arch Survey
2005 Leon, KS Project Director 1,000 Arch Survey
2005 Cowley County, KS Project Director 1,500 Arch Survey
2005 El Dorado, KS Project Director 1,000 Arch Survey
2005 Elk County cell towers Project Director 800 Arch Survey
2005 Chautauqua County Project Director 10,000 Arch Survey
2005 Wichita State University Project Director 5,000 development
2004 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 4,600 Museum Curation
2004 City of Wellington Project Director 1,200 Arch Survey
2003 City of Caldwell Project Director 1,000 Arch Survey
2003 City of Peabody Project Director 1,000 Arch Survey
2003 City of Fall River Project Director 1,000 Arch Survey
2003 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 20,000 Arch Survey
2003 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 10,000 Arch Survey
2003 KS Dept of Transportation Project Director 15,000 Test Excavation
2002 City of Cheney, Kansas Project Director 1,200 Arch Survey
2002 City of Peabody, Kansas Project Director 1,200 Arch Survey
2002 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 23,200 Arch Survey
2002 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 5,000 Arch Survey
2001 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 20,000 Arch Survey
2000 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 20,000 Arch Survey
1999 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 18,000 Arch Survey
1998 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 18,000 Arch Survey
1998 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 15,000 Museum Curation
1998 RMT Project Director 9,200 Arch Survey
1997 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 20,000 Arch Survey
1997 Summerlee Foundation Project Director 10,000 Site Excavation
1996 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 18,000 Arch Survey
1996 Summerlee foundation Project Director 10,000 Site Excavation
1995 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 20,000 Arch Survey
1995 Wichita State University Project Director 3,600 Site Excavation
1994 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 10,000 Arch Survey
1994 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 15,000 Arch Survey
1994 RWD 2, Coffey County Project Director 1,000 Arch Survey
1993 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 20,000 Arch Survey
1993 City of Leon Project Director 1,008 Arch Survey
1993 Range Oil Co. Project Director 1,000 Arch Survey
1993 HWS Consulting Group Project Director 1,000 Arch Survey
1992 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 18,000 Arch Survey
1992 Farmers Home Admin. Project Director 1,325 Arch Survey
1991 KS Comm for Humanities Project Co-Director 8,450 Coronado
Symposium
1991 Bureau of Reclamation Project Director 20,000 Arch. Survey
1991 Herrington Foundation Principal Investigator 13,000 Historic
Research
1990 Williams Natural Gas Project Director 1,400 Arch Survey
1990 Gund Engineering Project Director 3,000 Arch Survey
1989 Williams Gas Pipeline Project Director 1,000 Arch Survey
1989 Woodward-Clyde Project Director 17,972 Arch Survey
1988 Ness City, Kansas Project Director 500 Arch Survey
1988 Thunderbird Drilling Project Director 800 Arch Survey
1988 KN Energy Project Director 400 Arch Survey
1987 City of Yates Center Project Director 729 Arch Survey
1987 Nat. Science Foundation Project Director 4,390 Skeletal Analysis
1987 City of Marion Project Director 500 Arch Survey
1986 Wichita State University Project Director 3,990 Historic Research
1985 KS State Historical Soc. Project Director 10,000 Arch Survey
1985 Corps of Engineers Project Director 60,000 Arch Survey
1985 Corps of Engineers Project Director 10,000 Arch Survey
1985 Nat. Science Foundation Team Member 10,344 Skeletal Analysis
1984 Center Field Research Project Director 5,380 Arch Excavation
1984 Helmerich & Payne Project Director 550 Arch Survey
1984 KS State Historical Soc. Project Director 10,000 Arch Survey
1983 City of Wichita Project Director 3,600 Historic Preservation
1983 Corps of Engineers Project Director 1,471 Arch Survey
1983 Center Field Research Project Director 4,250 Arch Excavation
1983 Sunflower Electric Project Director 1,367 Arch Survey
1983 NE State Historical So. Project Director 9,404 Arch Survey
1982 KS State Historical Soc. Project Director 4,000 Historic
Preservation
1982 Internorth Project Director 1,000 Equipment
1982 Corps of Engineers Project Director 40,345 Arch Excavation
1981 NE State Historical Soc. Project Director 10,800 Historic
Preservation
1981 Northern Natural Gas Project Director 500 Arch Survey
1981 Quinque Oil Co. Project Director 573 Arch Survey
1981 Helmerich & Payne Project Director 537 Arch Survey
1981 EPA Project Director 67,118 Arch Excavation
1980 Wichita State University Project Director 1,984 Historic Research
1980 Nat. Science Fnd Committee member 244,500 Computers in classes
1979 KS State Historical Soc Project Director 4,000 Historic Preservation
1979 Northern Natural Gas Project Director 4,182 Arch Survey
1978 Interagency Arch. Serv. Project Director 3,404 Arch Survey
1978 Corps of Engineers Project Director 44,536 Site Excavation
1978 Nat. Endowment Human. Project Director 9,496 Museum Planning
1978 Northern Natural Gas Project Director 1,500 Arch Survey
1978 Department of Defense Project Director 1,177 Arch Survey
1978 Helmerich & Payne Project Director 390 Arch Survey
1978 Helmerich & Payne Project Director 1,200 Arch Testing
1977 KS Com. Humanities Committee Member 10,000 Obscenity Panels
1977 KS State Historical Society Project Director 4,000 Historic
Preservation
1977 Corps of Engineers Principal Investigator340,750 Site Excavation
1977 Prof. Eng. Consult. Project Director 999 Arch Survey
1977 Prof. Eng. Consult. Project Director 3,879 Site Excavation
1976 City of McPherson Project Director 490 Arch Survey
1976 Corps of Engineers Principal Investigator 10,000 Site Excavation
1976 Corps of Engineers Principal Investigator 10,000 Site Excavation
COURSES TAUGHT
General Anthropology Popular Archaeology
Introductory Cultural Anthro Introduction to Archaeology
Anthropology of Modern Life World Archaeology
North American Indians North American Archaeology
Indians of the Great Plains Archaeology of the Great Plains
Race and Racism Early Man in the New World
Wilderness Workshop Archaeoastronomy
Methods Seminar Archaeological Seminar
Medicine in Cross-Cultural Perspective Field Methods in
Archaeology
Introductory Physical Anthro Research Design
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2008- Created and currently maintain ksartifacts.info a web page for
adults and students interested in Kansas archaeology. Currently has had
over 700,000 hits.
2004- Chair, Action Committee, Professional Archaeologists of Kansas
2000-2003 President, Professional Archaeologists of Kansas
2002 Symposium co-organizer and chair, Plains Anthropological
Conference
2000 Host, Flint Hills Conference
1998-2004 President, Archaeological Association of South-Central
Kansas
1996- Board of Directors, Professional Archaeologists of Kansas
1996-2004 Member, Kansas Historic Sites Review Board
1993 Host, Flint Hills Conference
1992-95 Board of Directors, Indian Alcohol Treatment Services
1992 Guest Curator, Mid-America All-Indian Center.
1991-93 Editorial Advisory Board, Overland Journal
1991-93 President, Coronado Trail Association
1990-93 Board of Directors, Indian Alcoholism Treatment Service
1990-91 Member, Kansas Columbus Quincentennial Commission
1988- Speakers Bureau, Kansas Committee for Humanities
1988 Host, 46th Plains Anthropological Conference
1988 Symposium Chair, Amer. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science,
SW meeting
1987 Chair, Anthropology Section, Kansas Academy of Sciences
1987 Host, Flint Hills Conference
1986 Symposium Chair, Plains Anthropological Conference
1981 Host, Flint Hills Conference
1976-81 Member, Wichita Historical Landmarks Committee
1976 Symposium Chair, Plains Anthropological Conference
1976- Member, Kansas Archaeological Commission
1970-71 Co-editor, Nebraska Anthropologist
1970 Symposium discussant, Plains Anthropological Conference
Article reviews Proposal reviews
American Antiquity Canadian Social Science Research
Council
Current Anthropology Earthwatch
Plains Anthropologist, NEH
American Anthropologist NSF
Journal of Field Archaeology
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Wichita State University
Academic Standards and Practices Committee (chair)
Faculty Support Committee
President's Commission on the Liberal Arts & Sciences
Presidential Task Force on the Undergraduate Experience
Assessment Coordinating Committee
Safety Committee
Member, University Senate
Senate Agenda Committee
Task Force on Issues and Perspectives Courses
Academic Affairs Committee (chair)
Co-ordinator of General Education (twice)
Fairmount College
Curriculum and Academic Planning
Long Range Planning
Teaching Improvement Committee (chair)
Deans' Executive Advisory Committee
Barrier Teaching Award Committee
Ad Hoc Tenure and Promotion Committees for Gerontology,
Library/MRC, Sociology, Elliott School
Graduate School
Graduate School Thesis Handbook Committee
Graduate School Program Review Committees (Political Science,
3 programs in the College of Education)
thesis competition committee
Department of Anthropology
Graduate Coordinator
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Course Scheduling
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Curator of North American Archaeology, Lowell D. Holmes
Museum of Anthropology