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Part-time, Emeritus, Associated Faculty and Teaching Fellows:  C.
Melvin Aikens (B.A., 1960,
Utah; M.A., 1962, Ph.D., 1966, Chicago) is an
emeritus
professor at UO, originally hired in 1968. C. Melvin Aikens’
research
focuses on the archaeology of the Great Basin of North America and of
Japan,
with collateral interests in the archaeology of their encompassing
regions.
Recently published book chapters are “Adaptive Strategies and
Environmental
Change in the Great Basin and Its Peripheries as Determinants in the
Migrations
of Numic-Speaking Peoples,” “First in the World: The Jomon Pottery of
Early
Japan,” and (co-authored with Takeru Akazawa) “The Pleistocene/Holocene
Transition in Japan and Adjacent Northeast Asia: Climatic and Biotic
Change,
Broad-Spectrum Diet, Pottery and Sedentism.” He is author or editor of
15 books and many book chapters and journal articles. After nine
years of service, Aikens recently retired as director of the Museum of
Natural and Cultural History and the Oregon State Museum of
Anthropology. Please send questions or comments to the Web Master: Dr. Phil Young |