Madonna Moss


Madonna Moss has been doing zooarchaeological research on the Northwest Coast for 15 years. She has analyzed faunal remains from several sites in southeast Alaska. She is currently studying the Cape Addington Rockshelter, Alaska, faunal an assemblage containing both cultural and non-cultural material.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jon Erlandson


Jon Erlandson has been doing archaeological research on the Pacific Coast for over 20 years. He is currently analyzing marine invertebrate and vertebrate faunal remains from Daisy Cave on San Miguel Island, California. He is also involved in a number of projects on the coasts of Oregon and Alaska.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Ayres


William Ayres has been doing archaeology in Oceania and Southeast Asia for over 25 years. He is involved in a variety of projects revolving around subsistence and settlement systems, and cultural conservation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C. Melvin Aikens


C. Melvin Aikens supervises research in the Great Basin, examining relationships between people and environments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rob Losey


Rob Losey completed his M.S. research, Fishing on the Lower Coquille River: A Zooarchaeological Perspective, in 1996. He is currently working with faunal collections excavated in 1997 from Cape Addington, Alaska.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

René Vellanoweth


René Vellanoweth works on the archaeology of the California coast. His paper, Earliest Island Fox Remains on the Southern Channel Islands: Evidence from San Nicolas Island, California recently published in the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (1998), indicates his integrative approach using biological, zoological, and archaeological data.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Torrey Rick


Torrey Rick is currently studying the relationship of fishing with broader human subsistence and settlement systems on the California Coast. His Master's research (completed in 1999) focused on fishing during the Early Holocene of Coastal California. His paper, Middle Holocene Fisheries of the Central Santa Barbara Channel, California: Investigations at CA-SBA-53 with co-author Michael A. Glassow will be published by the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scott Byram


Scott Byram studies aboriginal fishing on the Oregon Coast, through the study of weir and trap technologies. His paper, Fishing Weirs in Oregon Coast Estuaries was recently published in Hidden Dimensions: the Cultural Significance of Wetland Archaeology (1998).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Tveskov


Mark Tveskov is conducting faunal analysis from a series of sites in the Coos Bay/Coquille River region of Oregon. These have been presented in his Ph.D. dissertation (2000), The Coos and the Coquille: a Northwest Coast Historical Anthropology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pat O'Grady


Pat O'Grady is currently analyzing vertebrate faunal remains from a number of sites in eastern Oregon for his Master's research.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heather McInnis


Heather McInnis is an advanced Ph.D. student studying Middle Holocene sites on the south coast of Peru. She studies South American zooarchaeological materials.