Mark
G. Plew
Mark Plew holds a Ph.D. in
anthropology from Indiana University. His research
interests focus on the behavioral ecology of
hunter-gatherers. He has conducted more than 150
archaeological and ethnographic projects throughout
North and South America and in Australia. He has
authored more than 300 books, monographs, journal
articles, and technical reports. During the past 25
years he has had primary responsibility for numerous
cultural resource management projects in Idaho and
surrounding states. Dr. Plew is a Professor
and Chair of the Department of
Anthropology at Boise State University. Since 1986,
he has served as Coordinator of the Center of
Applied Archaeological Science.
Christopher Hill
Chris Hill holds a Ph D. from Southern Methodist
University. The main geographic areas of his
research have been in the Sahara Desert, Nile
Valley, eastern Mediterranean, Turkey, the Great
Lakes Plains, and the Rocky Mountains area of North
America. His interests range from Quaternary Paleoenvironments, Paleobiology, Ice
Age mammals,
and his research focus is on Pleistocene
environmental change and its linkage with human
adaptation and biotic communities.
Christopher A.
Willson
Chris Willson holds an M.A. in anthropology from the
University of Idaho. His interests include GIS
applications and hunter-gatherer studies in
southwestern Idaho, southeastern Oregon, and the Northern Great Basin. His
primary research interest is in the use of X-Ray
Fluorescence (XRF) analysis to describe mobility
patterns during the Archaic Period. He is an adjunct
faculty member in the Department of Anthropology and serves as the
GIS Station Manager, Projects Director, and Laboratory
Supervisor for the Center of Applied Archaeological
Science. Chris has extensive field
experience in Idaho and Oregon and is the
author/co-author of a number of publications
including
The Archaeology of Antelope Creek
Overhang, Southeastern Oregon and
Archaeological Investigation at 10-CN-6, Middle
Snake River, Idaho.
Margaret Streeter
Margaret holds a Ph D. from the University of
Missouri-Columbia. As a physical anthropologist her
focus is on bone biology as applied to forensics and
bioarchaeology. Her research addresses questions
pertaining to growth and development, health status,
and estimation of age at death through the analysis
of one microstructure.
Faith Brigham
Faith Brigham has been the Administrative
Assistant for the department of anthropology at
Boise State University for 20 years. She has a B.A.
in English and in addition to all administrative
duties she serves as the copy editor for the various departmental publications.
Barbara Valdez
Barbara Valdez holds an M.A. in English from the
University of Oregon. She has experience in
proofreading legal transcripts and has published a
medical center newsletter. More recently, Barbara
has been developing courses in technical writing and
is the copyeditor for the Department of Anthropology
at Boise State University.
