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

Erina Gruner
Desert Archaeology, Inc.; 2010 Lab Intern

Carol Patterson
Archaeologist

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.