Madonna L. Moss (B.A., 1976, William and Mary; M.A., 1982, Ph.D., 1989, University of California Santa Barbara) studies the Northwest Coast of North America.  She recently completed the monograph, "Archaeological Investigation of Cape Addington Rockshelter: Human Occupation of the Rugged Seacoast on the Outer Prince of Wales Archipelago" (University of Oregon Anthropological Paper No. 63).  A review of the status of archaeology in southeast Alaska has appeared (Arctic Anthropology 2004), and other work on southeast Alaskan caves and rockshelters has been published in the Journal of Ethnobiology (2003), American Antiquity (2001), Arctic Anthropology (2001), and Canadian Journal of Archaeology (2000).  Work on the Oregon Coast has appeared in American Antiquity (1999), World Archaeology (1998), Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (1998) and publications of the Coquille Indan Tribe. To illuminate anthropological problems, Professor Moss tries  to incorporate ecological, ethnographic, and ethnohistorical sources to bear on archaeological questions as illustrated in articles in Ethnohistory (1999) and American Anthropologist (1993).  She and other archaeologists in  the department are strongly committed to training Native American scholars.  Some of her work with Tlingit community scholars is now available in "Haa Atxaayí Haa Kusteeyíx Sitee, Our Food is Our Tlingit Way of Life," published by the USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region.  For more about Professor Moss' work with the Tlingit community, click here. She serves on the Executive Board of the Society for American Archaeology.

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