Title: Professor, Anthropology
Institution: University of Montana
Address: 32 Campus Drive, Social Scienc, Missoula, Montana 59812
Email: douglas.macdonald@umontana.edu
Phone: (406) 243-5809
Visit Douglas’s Research Website
Research Interests: 1) cultural resource management
2) archaeology
3) Native American history
4) Native American stone tool technology
5) Migration of First Peoples
Biographical Sketch:
Doug MacDonald studies Native American pre-contact history of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. His research project in Yellowstone National Park has been ongoing since 2007. More than 15 students have completed M.A. or Ph.D. degrees on Yellowstone archaeology in the last decade or so. MacDonald has published six books, including three on Yellowstone. The most popular, published in 2018 by the University of Washington Press, is entitled, Before Yellowstone: Native American Archaeology in the National Park. He also published an article with former student Matt Nelson on Paleoindian archaeology at Yellowstone Lake (Plains Anthropologist), as well as an article on Cougar Creek obsidian in American Antiquity. His research focus is cultural resource management and Native American prehistory, including analysis of stone tools by Native American hunter-gatherers in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. MacDonald's most recent book, Land of Beginnings: the Archaeology of Montana's First Peoples, was published by the Montana Historical Society Press
Education:
Ph.D., Anthropology, Washington State University (Pullman, Wa) granted in 1998
Professional Certifications:
Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA)
Ongoing and Recent CESU Projects:
Other Research:
- High Elevation Archaeology Survey Project (Glacier and Yellowstone NP)