Okay, I'll bite.
I grew up with an historian in Taos, New Mexico, and had little choice but to go into some profession that studies the past. I used to say that in jest, until I realized that my parents were happy, long long ago, to pay my way through school if I would study history or archaeology but not if I studied art, my preference at the time. My first paying job as an erstwhile archaeology involved analyzing Euroamerican artifacts from 19th- and 20th-century Navajo sites, for which I volunteered because I had minimal schooling, particularly in comparison to other project staff, who had neither training nor interest. Back in the `80s, I was curator of anthropology and director of the contract archaeology program for an historic preservation and museum institution in north-central New Mexico. Since 1987, I have been a supervisory archaeologist/project director with the Museum of New Mexico’s Office of Archaeological Studies in Santa Fe.
My analytical interests lie in Euroamerican artifacts (I helped refine the OAS function-based analysis format and co-authored both versions of the OAS analytical manual), earthen building materials (somehow my interest in Euroamerican sites in New Mexico got me involved in analyzing adobe, as if New Mexico's Puebloan peoples didn't use adobe), and soils, sediments, and site geomorphology. My research interests are wide ranging but focus, at least for the moment, on early Pueblo community development and organization in the Northern Rio Grande (yes, I know that's outside the general realm of Euroamerican archaeology), ritual form and organization, Pueblo and Euroamerican frontiers, and comparative archaeological manifestations of Puebloan and Euroamerican worldviews. I am also fortunate to co-direct a project research examining the effects of naturally-occuring ionizing radiation on the health and lifestyles of Native American and Euroamerican occupants of earthen structures in north-central New Mexico.
Jeff
Jeffrey L. Boyer, RPA
Supervisory Archaeologist/Project Director
Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico
* 407 Galisteo Street, Suite B-100
* Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
* tel: 505.827.6387 fax: 505.827.3904
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The biggest problem with the past is that it reads better in reverse. Life is far messier in real time.
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Subject: Introductions
With so many new and old friends signing on to HISTARCH in the last few
weeks, I think introductions are needed. I'll start:
I am Anita Cohen-Williams, your friendly list owner and bouncer of
Histarch. I have a BA in Anthropology and a Masters in Library Science. I
have been running Histarch since 1994 as a discussion list on historical
archaeology. I also run ArchaeoSeek (http://www.archaeoseek.com), an
archaeological network, SUB-ARCH (a discussion list for underwater
archaeology), and an archaeology blog, Archaeology Online (
http://archaeology.blogspot.com).
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