Crow Canyon People

Our people make us who we are.

Erina Gruner

Desert Archaeology, Inc.; 2010 Lab Intern

Carol Patterson

Archaeologist

Carol is a cultural anthropologist, archaeologist, and principal investigator for Urraca Archaeological Services in Montrose, Colorado.

Melissa Greene-Blye

University of Kansas

Melissa Greene-Blye, Ph.D., is an enrolled citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.

Ryan Spittler

Woods Canyon Archaeological Consultants

Laura Brumbaugh

2018 Field Intern

Laura is interested in the material evidence of intercultural interaction and integration, as well as material and social inequality.

Austin Coochyamptewa

Program Scholar

Austin Coochyamptewa is an artist, tour guide and cultural educator from the Hopi village of Mishungnovi, on Hopi’s Second Mesa in Arizona.

Jeremy A. (Jerry) Sabloff

Research Institute Advisor

External Professor and Past President of the Santa Fe Institute and Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.

Laura Harris

Americans for Indian Opportunity

Laura Harris, an enrolled citizen of the Comanche Nation, has led the national nonprofit advocacy organization, Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO), for 25 years.

Ray Naranjo

Steve Nash

Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Steve Nash is an archaeologist, columnist, historian of science, and stand-up comedian.

Mariana Lujan Sanders

2019 Lab Intern

Mariana studies indigenous cultural continuity and change in former Spanish colonies.

M. Steven Shackley

University of California, Berkeley

M. Steven Shackley is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley and Director of the Geoarchaeological XRF Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico.