Jonathan Dubois

California State University San Bernardino

Jonathan J. Dubois (Ph.D. UC Riverside 2017), adjunct professor at California State University San Bernardino, is a landscape archaeologist and iconographer whose work lies at the intersection between symbolism, landscape, and social organization in past societies of Northwestern South America and Belize. He has conducted field work on the Central Coast, the Central Andes, and the Northwestern Amazon of Peru, as well as in the Rio Frio region of Belize. He documented rock art at more than 20 sites in the Central Andes, resulting in the dissertation Transformational Refractions of Social Messages in the Rock Art of Huánuco, Peru. He is co-director of Proyecto Arqueologico del Noroeste de America del Sur (PANOAS), which is focused on uncovering the interactions amongst peoples of Northwest South America and longer-distance relationships between them and past peoples of Mesoamerica as evidenced through shared material practices and expressions of cosmological symbols in multiple archaeological media. This project is part of a larger, international cooperative effort, with Jon Spenard of CSU San Marcos, focused on better understanding the interregional interactions of pre-Columbian peoples of the Americas. He has an article in Cambridge Archaeology Journal titled Singa Transitional: Saywas and other expressions of yanantin in the rock art of Huánuco, Peru.