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Overview
William D. Lipe is an archaeologist with expertise in the North American Southwest, archaeological method and theory, and cultural resource management. His Ph.D. (Yale 1966) was based on fieldwork in the Glen Canyon area of southeastern Utah. Subsequent major field projects have included work in the Cedar Mesa region of Utah and the Dolores region of southwestern Colorado. Since the 1980s, he has collaborated with archaeologists at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, Colorado on studies of Pueblo settlement patterns, community organization, and socio-cultural change in the Northern San Juan region of Colorado and Utah. Prior to joining the WSU faculty in 1976, Dr. Lipe was Assistant Director of the Museum of Northern Arizona, and Assistant and Associate Professor at Binghamton University in New York. From 1995 to 1997, he was President of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). He regularly taught a graduate course titled Introduction to Archaeological Method and Theory (ANTH 530) for many years. He was recognized with the WSU College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 1997, the John F. Seiberling Award from the Society of Professional Archaeologists in 1998, the SAA Distinguished Service Award in 2000, and the A.V. Kidder Award from the American Anthropological Association in 2010.
Recent Submissions
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Too Many Turkeys??
(3/15/2016 )This PowerPoint presentation was delivered March 15, 2016, at Verde Valley Archaeology Center in Camp Verde, AZ. It poses the question "Did raising extra corn for turkeys put too much stress on Pueblo farming in the AD 1200s?" -
Too Many Turkeys??
(3/1/2016 0)This PowerPoint presentation was delivered in March 2016 at the Society of Ethnobiology meetings in Tucson, AZ. The presentation has various goals, including: Describe increase in turkeys and decrease in artioodactyls in ... -
Leaving Mesa Verde: The Great Pueblo Migrations of the 13th Century
(11/3/2015 )This presentation was given November 3, 2015, at Southern Methodist University. The presentation deals with questions about where the former inhabitants of the Cedar Mesa region in the American Southwest migrated to in the ... -
A 2,500-Year Neolithic Revolution in the American Southwest
(11/3/2015 )This presentation briefly reviews diverse early agricultural site complexes in both the southern and northern parts of the American Southwest and questions the usefulness of a single concept of how the elements of a ... -
Leaving Mesa Verde: The Great Pueblo Migrations of the 13th Century
(9/10/2015 )This presentation was given in May 2014 at the Spokane chapter meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). The presentation deals with questions about where the former inhabitants of the Cedar Mesa region in ... -
Woodrats Rule! Climbing and Coring in Southeast Utah Cliff Dwellings
(4/1/2015 0)William (Bill) Lipe and RG Matson made this presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in San Francisco, April, 2015, in honor of archaeologist Tom Windes. Windes contributed to the archaeology ... -
No bones about it: aDNA sequencing of dietary remains from human paleofeces.
(International Council for Archaeozoology, 2014)The Basketmaker II (BMII) period remains from Turkey Pen Ruin, Utah (ca. 100BC – AD 500) show strong evidence for early, autochthonous turkey domestication in the Southwestern United States. However, isotopic research on ... -
Don Fowler and the Glen Canyon Project: Formative Experiences
(University of Utah Press, 2014)In this book chapter, William Lipe reflects on the work of Don D. Fowler and his role in archaeological excavations at Glen Canyon, Utah. -
Why Did We Do It That Way: The University of Utah Glen Canyon Project in Retrospect
(Archaeological Society of New Mexico, 2012)Carol Condie AND I both worked on the University of Utah portion of the Glen Canyon Archeological Project--she as de facto editor of the University of Utah Anthropological Papers (though her actual title was Associate ... -
Comments on the cultural resources of Area 6, San Juan County, Utah
(5/26/2010 )Prepared for meeting organized by Senator Robert Bennett. -
Origins of southwestern domestic turkey
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Genetic analysis of human coprolites from southeastern Utah
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Dynamics of the thirteenth century depopulation of the northern San Juan: the view from Cedar Mesa.
(4/15/2010 )Included here is a presentation made by the authors at the Society for American Archaeology meeting in St. Louis, MO, April 15, 2010. -
Two Presentations Regarding Cultural Resource Management Issues on Public Lands in Southeastern Utah
(1/1/2010 0)These two presentations were made at meetings organized by Senator Robert Bennett of Utah to obtain input from interested parties regarding public lands management issues in southeastern Utah. The first presentation, made ... -
Archaeological Values and Resource Management
(School for Advanced Research Press, 2009)In what follows, I begin with a general discussion of archaeological resource value and the role of authenticity. Next is a brief section on the contexts in which archaeological resource values are formed and accessed. In ... -
Perspectives from the Advanced Seminar
(School for Advanced Research Press, 2009)Cultural resource management (CRM) archaeology emerged in the mid-1970s in response to laws and public policies focused on resource management and planning, rather than on the "salvage" of sites that were "in the way of ...