M. Steven Shackley
Michael Steven Shackley (* 1949 ) is an American archaeologist . His research focuses on the archeology of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, geoarchaeology , the analysis of archaeological obsidian finds , the study of social processes in hunter-gatherer cultures, and museum anthropology .
Life
Sahckley attended Grossmont College in La Mesa , California , where he received an Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts in 1977 . He then studied anthropology and geology at San Diego State University , where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1979 . In 1981 he received a Master of Arts in anthropology there. In 1989, at the Arizona State University 's promotion to Ph.D. in anthropology with the dissertation Early Hunter-Gatherer Procurement Ranges in the Southwest: Evidence from Obsidian Geochemistry and Lithic Technology .
From 1989 to 1990 Shackley was the Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at San Diego State University. He then moved to the University of California, Berkeley . At the Department of Anthropology there he was Adjunct Assistant Professor from 1990 to 1994 , Adjunct Associate Professor from 1994 to 1999, Adjunct Professor from 1999 to 2004 and Professor from 2004 to 2011. In addition, he was director of the university's Geoarchaeological X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry Laboratory from 1990 to 2012 and in 2008 served as interim chairman of the Department of Anthropology . Since 2011 Shackley has been Professor Emeritus of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico .
Sahckley was an Invited Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno in 2002 and in the Department of Anthropological Science at Stanford University in 2004 . In 2005 he was Visiting Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico.
From 1991 to 1993 he was Associate Editor of the International Association for Obsidian Studies Newsletter and served as Vice President from 1992 to 1993 and President of the International Association for Obsidian Studies from 1993 to 1994 . In addition, he was Editor Emeritus of the journal Archaeometry from 2000 to 2006 and Associate Editor of the journal Geoarchaeology from 2005 to 2013 .
He is a member of the Arizona Archaeological Council , the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society , the Geoarchaeological Division of the Geological Society of America , the International Association for Obsidian Studies , the New Mexico Archaeological Council , the New Mexico Geological Society , the Society for American Archeology, and the Society for Archaeological Sciences . For the Society for Archaeological Sciences , he served intermittently as Vice President.
In 2011 he received the Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis from the Society for American Archeology in the “ lithic studies ” category .
Publications (selection)
- Archaeological Investigations in the Western Colorado Desert: A Socioecological Approach. (1984)
- with Frank E. Bayham, Donald H. Morris: Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South Central Arizona: The Picacho Reservoir Archaic Project. (1986, Anthropological Field Studies 13th Arizona State University, Tempe)
- (Ed.): Archaeological Obsidian Studies: Method and Theory. (1998, Advances in Archaeological and Museum Sciences 3, Springer / Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York)
- (Eds.): The Early Ethnography of the Kumeyaay: EW Gifford, Leslie Spier, and TT Waterman. (2004, Classics in California Anthropology, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology. University of California Press)
- Obsidian. Geology and Archeology in the North American Southwest. (2005, University of Arizona Press, Tucson)
- (Ed.): X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (XRF) in Geoarchaeology. (2011, Springer, New York)
Web links
- Biography on the website of the Geoarchaeological X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry Laboratory
Individual evidence
- ^ Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis , Society for American Archeology website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shackley, M. Steven |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shackley, Michael Steven (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |