Diane examines the role that ritual may have played in pottery specialization and distribution during a critical period in Pueblo history.

Alyson uses geochemical techniques to address archaeological questions in the Southwestern United States, Mexico, and Belize.

Sam studies the processes of coalescence that accompanied the formation of Tewa pueblos after A.D. 1150 in the Rio Grande drainage.

Ben is an archaeologist with a keen interest in how textiles, textile imagery, tree-rings, and pottery reveal clues about social identities.

Matt’s research interests include developing economic and mathematical models that quantify the interactions between humans and their environment and that identify the emergent properties of the resulting interactions.

Ronald is interested in early historic period Navajo sites in the “Dinetah” homeland in northwestern New Mexico.

Wes’s research focuses on how inferences of human behavior are based on estimates of the scale of that behavior, including specifying the number of people and the amount of labor involved in particular activities.

Katie’s research centers on the social and political organization of the Fremont people and the relationship between the Fremont and Pueblo cultures.

Kelsey studies prehistoric uses of both natural and constructed landscapes and the multiscalar nature of social and ritual practice.

Donna is an anthropological archaeologist studying transformation, disruption, and resiliency in Southwestern societies.

David studies Hohokam social organization based on patterns of ceramics exchange. Applications of the methodology show that hydraulic management had a pervasive influence on the organization of Hohokam social networks.

Erin’s research interests include the interpretation of architecture, artifact, and mortuary data and how these analyses shed light on the development of social and political organization, with a focus on reconstructing the deep history of Pueblo society.

John is interested in the interplay of cooperation and competition in human society, especially the role of these behaviors in the development of sociopolitical complexity and economic inequality, and in the application of neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory to these problems.