F.1. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

JEFFREY S. DEAN

Professional Preparation

University of Arizona		Anthropology		B.A.,  1961
University of Arizona		Anthropology		Ph.D., 1967

Appointments (since 1977)

2006-present	Agnese and Emil W. Haury Professor of Archaeological Dendrochronology, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona.

2000-2006	Professor of Dendrochronology, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona.

1998-2000	Professor of Dendrochronology, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, and Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona.

1997-1998	Professor of Dendrochronology, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, and Research Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona.

1996		Clements Endowed Professor, SMU-IN-TAOS, Fort Burgwin, New Mexico (summer).

1985-1986	Senior Scientist, Center for Archaeological Investigations, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (on leave from The University of Arizona).

1977-1997	Professor of Dendrochronology, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona.

Five Most Relevant Publications

Dean, J. S. 1978. Independent Dating in Archaeological Analysis. In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Vol. 1, M. B. Schiffer, ed., pp. 223-255. Academic Press, New York.

Dean, J. S. 1996. Behavioral Sources of Error in Archaeological Tree-Ring Dating: Navajo and Pueblo Wood Use. In Tree Rings, Environment and Humanity, J. S. Dean, D. M. Meko, and T. W. Swetnam, eds., pp. 497-503. Radiocarbon, Tucson.

Dean, J. S. 1997. Dendrochronology. In "Chronometric Dating in Archaeology," R. E. Taylor and M. J. Aitken, eds., pp. 31-64. Advances in Archaeological and Museum Science, Vol. 2. Plenum Press, New York.

Dean J. S. 2000. Complexity Theory and Sociocultural Change in the American Southwest.  In The Way the Wind Blows: Climate, History, and Human Action, R. J. McIntosh, J. A. Tainter, and S. K. McIntosh, eds., pp. 89-118.  Columbia University Press, New York.

Dean, J. S., M. C. Slaughter, and D. O. Bowden III. 1996. Desert Dendrochronology: Tree-Ring Dating Prehistoric Sites in the Tucson Basin.  Kiva 62:7-26.

Five Other Significant Publications

Dean, J. S. 1996. Demography, Environment, and Subsistence Stress. In "Evolving Complexity and Environmental Risk in the Prehistoric Southwest," J. A. Tainter and B. B. Tainter, eds., pp. 25-56. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Proceedings Volume 24. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading.

Dean, J.S. 2006. Subsistence Stress and Food Storage at Kiet Siel, Northeastern Arizona. In Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient American Southwest, D.E. Doyel and J.S. Dean eds., pp. 160-179. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Dean, J. S., and S. C. Russell. 2002. Ethnoarchaeology of a Navajo Mountaintop Way Site on Black Mesa, Northeastern Arizona. In Culture and Environment in the American Southwest: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Euler, D. A. Phillips, Jr., and J. A. Ware, eds., pp. 147-168. SWCA Anthropological Research Paper No. 8. Phoenix.

Force, E. R., R. G. Vivian, T. C. Windes, and J. S. Dean. 2002. Relation of "Bonito" Paleo-Channels and Base-Level Variations to Anasazi Occupation, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series 194. The University of Arizona, Tucson.

Reynolds, A.C., J.L. Betancourt, J. Quade, P.J. Patchett, J.S. Dean, and J. Stein. 2005. 87Sr/86SR Sourcing of Ponderosa Pine Used in Anasazi Great House Construction at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science 32:1061-1075.

Synergistic Activities

Helped develop and teach Geosciences 220, "Environmental History of the Southwest," an undergraduate Tier II General Education science course at the University of Arizona.
Helped develop an agent-based computer modeling program to simulate Anasazi settlement.
Co-PI for an NSF IGERT Program grant (DGE-0221594) for interdisciplinary training in archaeological sciences (chronometry, paleoecology, and technology) at the University of Arizona.

Collaborators and Co-Editors

D.R. Abbott (ASU); R.L. Axtell (Brookings Inst); S.G. Baker (Centuries Research); V.R. Baker (U Arizona); J. Bayman (U Hawai'i);  J.L. Betancourt (USGS); W.E. Doelle (Desert Archaeology); D.E. Doyel (Estrella Cultural Research); A.I. Duff (WSU); M.D. Elson (Desert Archaeology); N.B. English (UA); J.M. Epstein (Brookings Inst); P.R. Fish (Arizona State Museum); S.K. Fish (ASM); E.R. Force (UA); M. Green (Archaeological Consulting Services); G.J. Gumerman (School of American Research); M. Hegmon (ASU); K.W. Kintigh (ASU); T.A. Kohler (WSU); B.A. Nelson (ASU); M.C. Nelson (ASU); J. Olsen (UA); I. Panyushkina (UA); J. Quade (UA); C.L. Redman (ASU), J. Ruiz (UA); S.C. Russell (Chandler AZ); A.W. Simon (ASU); K.A. Spielmann (ASU); A.C. Swedlund (U Mass); S. van der Leeuw (ASU); C.R. Van West (Statistical Research); R.G. Vivian (ASM); T.C. Windes (Albuquerque NM).

Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors

B. Bannister (UA); R.H. Thompson (UA)

Graduate and Postgraduate Advisees (10 Graduate Advisees; 2 Postdoctoral Scholars)

Graduate Advisees: L.N. Ababneh (Bishop CA); R.V.N. Ahlstrom (HRA, Inc.); B.T. Burns (Native Seed Search); B.G. Harrill (BIA); M.F. Kemrer (Consulting Archaeologist); E.J. Miksa (Desert Archaeology); T.A. Muranaka (State of California); S.E. Nash (Field Museum of Natural History); M.W. Salzer (UA); C.A. Shaw (SWCA). Postgraduate Advisees: M. Newton (Cornell U.); D.J. Street (Bristol UK).