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Personal Summary

Doug MacDonald studies Native American pre-contact history of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. His research project in Yellowstone National Park has been ongoing since 2007. More than 15 Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ have completed M.A. or Ph.D. degrees on Yellowstone archaeology in the last decade or so. MacDonald has published five books, including three on Yellowstone. The most recent, published in 2018 by the University of Washington Press, is entitled, Before Yellowstone: Native American Archaeology in the National Park. He also recently published an article with former student Matt Nelson on Paleoindian archaeology at Yellowstone Lake (Plains Anthropology 2018), as well as an article on Cougar Creek obsidian in American Antiquity. His research focus is lithic analysis, including study of the procurement, production, use, and discard of stone tools by Native American hunter-gatherers in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

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

Courses Taught

Fall Semester

Archaeology of Yellowstone (ANTY 150)

Archaeological Theory (ANTY 450)

Cultural Resource Management (ANTY 451)

Spring Semester

Archaeology of Montana (ANTY 352)

Cultural Resource Policy and Practice (ANTY 602)

Paleoindian Archaeology (ANTY 353)

Field of Study

North American Prehistoric Archaeology

Cultural Resource Management

Paleoindians

Yellowstone National Park

Selected Publications

2013 Understanding the Role of Yellowstone Lake in Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence and Settlement Systems. North American Archaeologist.

2012 Yellowstone Archaeology: Southern Yellowstone. (editor with E. Hale). Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ Contributions to Anthropology 13(2). In preparation.

2012 Montana Before History: 11,000 Years of Hunter-Gatherers in the Rockies and Plains. Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula. 

2012 Early and Middle Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, U.S.A. (1^st author with J. Gish). Chapter in Yellowstone Archaeology: Southern Yellowstone, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ Contributions to Anthropology 13(2).

2012 Hunter-Gatherer Use of America’s Highest, Largest Lake: Comparative Analysis of Data from 26 Prehistoric Archaeological Features around Yellowstone Lake. Chapter in Yellowstone Archaeology: Southern Yellowstone, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ Contributions to Anthropology 13(2).

2012, Differential Selection of Lithic Raw Materials by Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in the Upper Yellowstone River Valley, Montana/Wyoming. Submitted for inclusion in edited volume on High Elevation Archaeology in the West, edited by Terry Ozbun and Ron Adams, Simon Fraser University Press.

2012, Fishing Bridge Point (48YE381): A Stratified Prehistoric Site at Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming. In Review, Plains Anthropologist.

2012 Late Paleoindian versus Early Archaic Occupation of Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming (1^st author with Gish and Hughes). Current Research in the Pleistocene: in press.

2011, Total Field Magnetics and Exploration for Paleoindian to Plains-Culture Targets; Yellowstone National Park, USA. Submitted for publication Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection. DEU Center for Near Surface Geophysics and Archaeological Prospection, Izmur, Turkey (2^nd author w/ Steve Sheriff)

2011 Yellowstone Archaeology, Northern Yellowstone, Editor (with E. Hale). Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ Contributions to Anthropology Volume 13(1).

2011 Late Archaic Lithic Technology and Land Use within the Gardiner Basin, Upper Yellowstone River, Montana/Wyoming. Yellowstone Archaeology: Northern Yellowstone. UM Contributions to Anthropology 13(1): 56-71.

 2011 Prehistoric Lithic Raw Material Use in the Gardiner Basin, Montana (second author with J. Adams). Yellowstone Archaeology: Northern Yellowstone. UM Contributions to Anthropology 13(1): 98-106.

2011 Prehistoric/Historic Ecology and Land Restoration within the Gardiner Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Montana (1^st author with Yu, Hale, Hektner, &  Dick). Proceedings of the 2010 Yellowstone Science Conference: in press. Also in Yellowstone Archaeology: Northern Yellowstone. UM Contributions to Anthropology 13(1): 2-10.

2011 Steatite on the Juniata: Early Woodland Pottery at the Hopewell Site, Central Pennsylvania. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology: 7-27.

2011 Fort Ancient Mortuary Practices at Clark Rockshelter Kentucky (with B. Manzano and B. Shreckengost). In review for publication, Proceedings of the 26^th Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Archaeology Conference.

2010 Total Field Magnetic, Radar, and Archaeological Studies on the Shores of Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, USA. ISAP News: 2-3.

2010 The Evolution of Folsom Fluting. Plains Anthropologist 54 (210): 39-54.

2010 The Yellowstone Bank Cache Site (24YE355): A Late Archaic Pelican Lake Occupation on the Upper Yellowstone River. Archaeology in Montana: 1-24.

2010 Decorrugation, Edge Detection, and Modeling of Total Field Magnetic Observations from a Historic Town Site, Yellowstone National Park, USA (2^nd author with S. Sheriff). Archaeological Prospection 16.

2009  With Mica we Mourn: Ft. Ancient Mortuary Practices at Clark Rockshelter, Kentucky (first author with Manzano, Lothrop, Cremeens, Parker and Shreckengost). Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 34: 249-277.

2009 The Montana-Yellowstone Archeological Project. Rethinking Protected Areas in a Changing World: Proceedings of the 2009 George Wright Conference: 270-276.

2009 Understanding Decision-Making among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers via the Study of Lithic Technological Organization. Lithic Technology 34(2): 71-92.

2008, The Evolution of Folsom Fluting. Submitted to American Antiquity (in review).

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

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.

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.

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.

1999 Reproductive Interests and Forager Mobility(first author with Barry S. Hewlett). Current Anthropology 40(4): 501-524.

Publications

2019 Cougar Creek: Quantitative Assessment of Obsidian Use in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. American Antiquity: in press. (1st author w/ B.Horton and T. Surovell).

2018 Before Yellowstone: Native American Archaeology in the National Park ()

2018 Paleoindians of Yellowstone Lake: Interpreting Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Land-Use in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Plains Anthropologist 63:1-28. (1st author with M.Nelson).

2018 Archeological Significance of Yellowstone Lake. Yellowstone Science 26(1): 53-62.

2017 11,000 Years of Native American Obsidian Use in Yellowstone. In Tracking the Human Footprint, pp. 69-71. Proceedings of the 14th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Big Sky, Montana.
2016 A GIS Predictive Model for Paleoindian Sites in Yellowstone. Archaeology in Montana: 45-68 (2nd author with M. Nelson)
2015, Differential Selection of Lithic Raw Materials by Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in the Upper Yellowstone River Valley, Montana/Wyoming. In Toolstone Geography of the Pacific Northwest, edited by Terry Ozbun and Ron Adams, Simon Fraser University Press: 208-217. (Second author with J. Adams)
2014 Archaeology of the Little Trail Creek Site (24PA1081), Gardiner, Montana. Archaeology in Montana 55(2): 1-34.

Affiliations

Society for American Archaeology

Register of Professional Archaeologists

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. Professor, Department of Anthropology. Ñý¼§Ö±²¥.

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.