About me

About me

Gallery of lithic design

Gallery of lithic design

Academia.edu

Academia.edu

Field School: Indigenous Collaboration, First Foods, and Cultural Resource Management at Indian Creek

This summer of 2023 I will be one of the instructors/project team in the field school that is developed in partnership with the Kalispel Tribe of Indians, the Washington State University Department of Anthropology, and Far Western Anthropological Research Group. It is located in the Kalispel homelands in Pend Oreille County, Washington State. The Kalispel’s…Read More

Symposium on Fire-Cracked Rock: Research in Cooking and Noncooking Contexts

I am organizing a symposium on fire-cracked rock research at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). The meeting will take place in Portland, Oregon, from March 29-April 2, 2023. The session includes 13 presentations and 29 authors/coauthors with expertise on FCR and who are conducting research across time and space. Fire-Cracked…Read More

My new article in American Antiquity

My peer-reviewed article Use-Alteration Analysis of Fire-Cracked Rocks was just published in American Antiquity. This paper is part of my doctoral research and was awarded first place at the Midwest Archaeological Conference Student Paper Competition Award in 2016. Supplementary materials can be downloaded here. Because use-alteration analyses of fire-cracked rocks (FCR) are so scarce, I describe…Read More