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Jon
M. Erlandson (B.A., 1980;
M.A.,
1983, Ph.D., 1988, UC-Santa Barbara) has been a
professor
at UO since 1990. Jon Erlandson is an archaeologist who
specializes in western North America, with a focus on the archaeology
of maritime societies of the Pacific Coast of North America, the
Pacific Rim region, and the world. Actively engaged in fieldwork in
coastal California, Oregon, Alaska, and Iceland, he has written or
edited nine books and published over 100 scholarly articles. Research
and teaching interests include the development of maritime
societies, historical ecology in coastal environments, human evolution
and migrations, the peopling of the Americas, the history of seafaring,
traditional technologies, dating methods in archaeology,
geoarchaeology, cultural resource management, and collaborative
research with indigenous communities. In 2005, Erlandson was appointed
director of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History and the Oregon
State Museum of Anthropology at the UO. He also serves as co-editor of
the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, published by
Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
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