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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 colleagues Todd Surovell and Marcel Kornfeld, 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)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Waguespack, N. M.
2007 Why we're still arguing about the Pleistocene occupation of the Americas. Evolutionary Anthropology 16:63-74 [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]

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]

TECHNICAL REPORTS
Surovell, T. A., N. M. Waguespack, M. Kornfeld and G. C. Frison
2003 The First Five Field Seasons at Barger Gulch, Locality B, Middle Park, Colorado.
Technical Report No. 26, George C. Frison Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology,
University of Wyoming, Laramie.

Waguespack, N. M., T. A. Surovell, M. Kornfeld and G. C. Frison
2002 The 2001 Field Season at Barger Gulch, Locality B, Middle Park, Colorado. Technical
Report No. 20, George C. Frison Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of
Wyoming, Laramie.

Surovell, T. A., N. M. Waguespack, M. Kornfeld and G. C. Frison
2001 The 2000 Field Season at Barger Gulch, Locality B, Middle Park, Colorado. Technical
Report No. 19c, George C. Frison Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University
of Wyoming, Laramie.

COURSES TAUGHT
ANTH 1300 Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH 3400 Hunters & Gatherers
ANTH 4110/5110 Zooarchaeology I
ANTH 4111/5111 Zooarchaeology II
ANTH 4150/5150  Seminar: Colonization of the Americas
ANTH 4020/5005 Seminar: Ethnoarchaeology
 

LINKS: University of Wyoming · Department of Anthropology · Anthropology Faculty · George C. Frison Institute