Research
I began doing archaeology on the Canadian Plains and in the Canadian Rockies with forays into Alaska and the Yukon Territory. My first research focus was on the archaeology of the Northern Andes and the development of ceramic and agricultural technologies of the Valdivia culture of coastal Ecuador. I learned a lot studying agricultural systems in a Polynesian chiefdom while working at Bishop Museum in Hawaii. Since 1995 I have been engaged in the archaeology of the American Southwest, especially the Zuni area of west-central New Mexico. There I studied early irrigation systems and prehistoric community development in a variety of regions and timeframes. My current focus is a multi-year study of the geoarchaeology of Grand Canyon in Arizona.
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