Chris Johnston is Operations Director and a Project Archaeologist for Paleocultural Research Group. Chris began his career as a PCRG undergraduate work-study employee while at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Chris earned his MA from Colorado State University in 2016, where his thesis research was on communal bison hunting at the Roberts Ranch Buffalo Jump (5LR100). He has worked for the USDA Forest Service, in cultural resource management, and as a researcher with PCRG and the Center for Mountain and Plains Archaeology at CSU. Chris served as the Assistant State Archaeologist of Colorado from 2016-2018 where he was the lead instructor for the Program for Avocational Archaeological Certification and managed the statewide archaeological and paleontological permitting system. Chris has research interests in the lithic technology of hunter-gatherers in the Plains and Rocky Mountains, landscape archaeology, and Plains Village archaeology, authoring numerous technical reports, journal articles, and conference presentations.