R. G. Matson

CP LUHNA Author: The Spread of Maize on the Colorado Plateau

The University of British Columbia
Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology
6303 N.W. Marine Dr.
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1
Canada
Telephone: Office - (604) 822-2545

E-Mail: mesa@interchange.ubc.ca

Current Academic Positions:

Professor, Archaeology

 

Education:

 

Research Interests:

Archaeology, quantitative methods, ecological anthropology, Pacific Northwest, Southwest.

 

Recent Grants and Awards:

 

Publications:

Matson, R.G., W.D. Lipe and Wm. Haase. 1988. Adaptational Continuities and Occupational Discontinuities: The Cedar Mesa Anasazi. Journal of Field Archaeology 15(3), p. 245.

Matson, R. G. 1991. The Origins of Southwestern Agriculture. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.

Matson, R. G. 1991. Subsistence: Carbon isotopes and other dietary indicators from Cedar. American Antiquity 56(3), p. 444.

Matson, R. G. 1994. Anomalous Basketmaker II Sites on Cedar Mesa: Not so Anomalous After All. Kiva 60, p. 219.

Matson, R. G., and K. M. Dohm. 1994. Introduction: Anasazi Origins: Recent Research on The Basketmaker II. Kiva 60, p.159.

Matson, R.G. 1996. Households as Economic Organization: A Comparison between Large Houses on the Northwest Coast and in the Southwest, In People Who Lived in Big Houses: Archaeological Perspectives on Large Domestic Structures. Edited by Gary Coupland and E.B. Banning, Prehistory Press, Madison, Wisconsin, pp. 107-20.