LINKS: University of Wyoming · Department of Anthropology · Anthropology Faculty · George C. Frison Institute
I joined the faculty of the Department
of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming during the Fall semester of 2003. I
specialize in the archaeology and zooarchaeology of hunting and gathering
populations. The geographic focus of my work has been the western Great Plains
and Rocky Mountains, and although most of my work has focused on the Paleoindian
period, generally speaking, I am interested in all things hunter-gatherer.
With colleague Todd Surovell, I am currently excavating the
Barger Gulch site, a 10,500 year old Folsom campsite in Middle Park, Colorado.
Additional recent research includes studies of hunter-gatherer food sharing,
Paleoindian subsistence and labor organization, and human demographics and
disease in New World colonization.
EDUCATION
1996 Colorado State
University, B.A. (Anthropology)
1999 University of Wyoming, M.A. (Anthropology)
2003 University of Arizona, Ph.D. (Anthropology)
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ELECTED PUBLICATIONSSurovell, T. A. and N. M. Waguespack
2009 Human prey choice in the late Pleistocene and its relation to megafaunal
extinctions. In American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the
Pleistocene, edited by G. Haynes, pp. 77-105. Springer. [pdf]
Surovell, T. A. and N. M. Waguespack
2008 How many elephant kills are 14? Clovis mammoth and mastodon kills in
context. Quaternary International 191:82-97. [pdf]
Waguespack, N. M.
2007 Why we're still arguing about the Pleistocene occupation of the
Americas. Evolutionary Anthropology 16:63-74. [pdf]
Mayer, J. H., N. M. Waguespack, T. A. Surovell and J. M. Daniels
2007 Paleoindian geoarchaeology of the Barger Gulch area, Middle Park, Colorado.
In Roaming the Rocky Mountains and Environs: Geological Field Trips,
edited by R. G. Raynolds, pp. p.79-99. Geological Society of America Field Guide
10, Geological Society of America. [pdf]
Brantingham, P. J., T. A. Surovell and N. M. Waguespack
2007 Modeling post-depositional mixing of archaeological deposits. Journal of
Anthropological Archaeology 26:517-540. [pdf]
Haynes, G., D. G. Anderson, C. R. Ferring, S. J. Fiedel, D. K. Grayson, C. V.
Haynes, Jr., V. T. Holliday, B. B. Huckell, M. Kornfeld, D. J. Meltzer, J.
Morrow, T. Surovell, N. M. Waguespack, P. Wigand and R. M. Yohe, II
2007 Comment on "Redefining the age of Clovis: Implications for the Peopling of
the Americas". Science 317:320b. [pdf]
Waguespack, N. M.
2005 The organization of male and female labor in foraging societies:
Implications for early Paleoindian archaeology. American Anthropologist
107(4):666-676. [pdf]
Surovell, T. A., N. M.
Waguespack, and P. J. Brantingham
2005 Global Archaeological Evidence for Proboscidean Overkill. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences 102:6231-6236.
[pdf]
(link
to PNAS)
Waguespack, N. M.
and T. A. Surovell
2003 Clovis hunting strategies, or how to make out on plentiful resources.
American Antiquity 68:333-352.
[pdf]
Waguespack, N. M.
2002 Caribou sharing and storage: Refitting the Palangana site. Journal of
Anthropological Archaeology 21:396-417.
[pdf]
Waguespack, N. M.
2002 Colonization of the Americas: Disease ecology and the Paleoindian
lifestyle.
Human Ecology 30:227-243. [pdf]
Surovell, T. A., N. M. Waguespack, M. Kornfeld
and G. C. Frison
2001 Barger Gulch Locality B: A Folsom site in Middle Park, Colorado. Current
Research in the Pleistocene 18:58-60.
[pdf]
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