Catherine Cameron (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1991)
I work in the northern part of the prehistoric American Southwest focusing especially on the Chaco and post-Chaco eras (A.D. 900-1300). My research interests include prehistoric population movement, the evolution of complex societies as understood through the study of regional social and political systems, methodology of social boundaries in the past, and prehistoric architecture. Since 1995, I have worked at the Bluff Great House, a Chacoan site and in nearby Comb Wash in southeastern Utah. I have recently begun a new project investigating captives in pre-state societies and their role in cultural transmission. |
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Selected Publications:
- Cameron, Catherine M. Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan: Excavations at the Bluff Great House. University of Arizona Press. (expected 2009)
- Catherine M. Cameron, editor. Invisible Citizens: Captives and their Consequences. University of Utah Press. (expected 2008).
- 2008: Cameron, Catherine M. and Andrew Duff. History and Process in Village Formation: Context and Contrasts from the Northern Southwest. American Antiquity 73(1).
- 2008: Cameron, Catherine M. Comparing Great House Architecture: Perspectives from the Bluff Great House. In Salmon Ruins: Chacoan Outlier and Thirteenth-Century Pueblo in the Middle San Juan Region, edited by Paul Reed, pp. 251-272. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake.
- 2007: Cameron, Catherine M. and Phil Geib. Earthen Architecture at a Chacoan Great House. Journal of Field Archaeology 32:1-14.
- 2005: Cameron, Catherine M. Exploring Archaeological Cultures in the Northern Southwest: What were Chaco and Mesa Verde? Kiva 70(3):227-254.
- 2002: Cameron, Catherine M. Sacred Earthern Architecture in the Northern Southwest: The Bluff Great House Berm. American Antiquity 67(4).
- 2001: Cameron, Catherine M. Pink Chert, Projectile Points, and the Chacoan Regional System. American Antiquity Volume 66(1):79-102.
- 2001: Cameron, Catherine M. and H. Wolcott Toll Deciphering the Organization of Production in Chaco Canyon. American Antiquity Volume 66(1):5-13.