Dr. Matthew Hill

Dr. Hill is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology, specializing in North American archaeology. His research interests revolve around the study of hunter-gatherer diet and subsistence behavior, mobility strategies, and site structure using archaeological data and methods. Most of his research has centered on the behavior of late Ice Age Paleoindian hunter-gatherers on the northwestern Great Plains and in the western Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi River Valley. For the next several years, his research will revolve around the Clary Ranch project in southwestern Nebraska. This interdisciplinary project is designed to track organizational responses of Paleoindian hunter-gatherers to changes in food resource availability, distribution, and predictability across the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary.

Selected Publications

Hawley, Marlin F., Matthew G. Hill, and Christopher C. Widga
2007 Recent Research on the Interstate Park Bison Site, Polk County, Northwestern Wisconsin. Current Research in the Pleistocene 24:93-95.

Hensel, Kenneth C., Daniel S. Amick, Thomas J. Loebel, and Matthew G. Hill
1999 Morrow-Hensel: A New Fluted Point Site in Far Western Wisconsin. Current Research in the Pleistocene 16:25-27.

Hill, Matthew E., Jr., and Matthew G. Hill
2002 Season of Bison Mortality at the Jurgens Site, Weld County, Colorado. Current Research in the Pleistocene 19:104-106.

Hill, Matthew E., Jr., Matthew G. Hill, and Christopher C. Widga
2008 Late Quaternary Bison Diminution on the Great Plains of North America: Evaluating the Role of Human Hunting Versus Climate Change. Quaternary Science Reviews 27(17-18):1752-1771.

Hill, Matthew G.
1994 Paleoindian Projectile Points from the Vicinity of Silver Mound (47JA21), Jackson County, Wisconsin. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 19(2):223-259.

1996 Size Comparison of the Mill Iron Site Bison Calcanea. In The Mill Iron Site, edited by George C. Frison, pp. 231-237. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

1998 Silver Mound. In Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Guy E. Gibbon, pp. 769-770. Garland, New York.

2005 Late Paleoindian (Allen/Frederick Complex) Subsistence Activities at the Clary Ranch Site, Ash Hollow, Garden County, Nebraska. Plains Anthropologist 50(195):249-263.

2008 Paleoindian Subsistence Dynamics on the Northwestern Great Plains: Zooarchaeology of the Clary Ranch and Agate Basin Sites. BAR International Series 1756. Archaeopress, Oxford.

Hill, Matthew G., Daniel S. Amick, and Thomas J. Loebel
1998 An Inventory of Wisconsin Paleoindian Projectile Points at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Current Research in the Pleistocene 15:18-20.

Hill, Matthew G., Robert F. Boszhardt, Daniel S. Amick, and Thomas J. Loebel
1999 Preliminary Report on the Gail Stone Fluted Point Site (47TR351), Trempealeau County, Western Wisconsin. Current Research in the Pleistocene 16:33-35.

Hill, Matthew G., Matthew E. Hill, Jr., David W. May, Thomas P. Myers, David J. Rapson, Frédéric Sellet, James L. Theler, and Lawrence C. Todd
2002 Palaeoindian Subsistence Behavior at the Clary Ranch Site, Nebraska, USA. Antiquity 76(292):311-312.

2002 2001 Investigations at the Clary Ranch Site, Nebraska. Current Research in the Pleistocene 19:32-34.

Hill, Matthew G., Matthew E. Hill, Jr., Thomas P. Myers, David C. Jones, and Nicole M. Waguespack
1997 Preliminary Observations on Late Paleoindian Bison Butchery at the Clary Ranch Site (25GD106), Western Nebraska. Current Research in the Pleistocene 14:34-37.

Hill, Matthew G., Vance T. Holliday, and Dennis J. Stanford
1995 A Further Evaluation of the San Jon Site, New Mexico. Plains Anthropologist 40(154):369-390.

Hill, Matthew G., David W. May, and David J. Rapson
2006 A New Stratified Late-Paleoindian Locality on the Clary Ranch, Ash Hollow, Garden County, Nebraska. Current Research in the Pleistocene 23:110-112.

Hill, Matthew G., David W. May, David J. Rapson, Andrew R. Boehm, and Erik Otárola-Castillo
2008 Faunal Exploitation by Early Holocene Hunter/Gatherers on the Great Plains of North America: Evidence from the Clary Ranch Sites. Quaternary International 191(1):115-130.

Hill, Matthew G., David W. May, David J. Rapson, Thomas J. Loebel, and James L. Theler
2007 2006 Investigations at the O. V. Clary Site, Ash Hollow, Garden County, Nebraska. Current Research in the Pleistocene 24:100-102.

2008 2007 Investigations at the O. V. Clary Site, Ash Hollow, Garden County, Nebraska. Current Research in the Pleistocene 25:93-95.

Hill, Matthew G., and Larry Van Gorden
2005 A Knife River Flint Clovis Point from St. Charles County, Missouri. Central States Archaeological Journal 52:114-115.

Knell, Edward J., Matthew G. Hill, Andres Izeta, Marcel Kornfeld, C. Vance Haynes, Jr., and George C. Frison
2002 The Cody-Complex Component at Locality V of the Hell Gap Site, Wyoming. Current Research in the Pleistocene 19:49-52.

Knell, Edward J., Matthew G. Hill, and Andrés D. Izeta
2009 The Locality IIIs/V Eden Complex Component. In Hell Gap: A Stratified Paleoindian Campsite at the Edge of the Rockies, edited by Mary Lou Larson, Marcel Kornfeld and George C. Frison, pp. 157-179. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Loebel, Thomas J., and Matthew G. Hill
2010 The DeWulf Site (11Hy296): A New Late-Paleoindian Site in Northwest Illinois. Current Research in the Pleistocene 27:118-120.

May, David W., Matthew G. Hill, Adam C. Holven, Thomas J. Loebel, David J. Rapson, Holmes A. Semken, Jr., and James L. Theler
2008 Geoarchaeology of the Clary Ranch Paleoindian Sites, Western Nebraska. In Roaming the Rocky Mountains and Environs: Geological Field Trips, edited by Robert G. Raynolds, pp. 265-293. Geological Society of America Field Guide No. 10. Geological Society of America, Boulder.

Niven, Laura B., and Matthew G. Hill
1998 Season of Bison Mortality at Three Plains Archaic Kill Sites in Wyoming. Plains Anthropologist 43(163):5-26.

Rapson, David J., Matthew G. Hill, and George W. Beran
2007 Archaeology of an Early 20th Century Carcass Disposal Pit, Division of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State College. Plains Anthropologist Memoir 39, Lincoln.

Sellet, Frédéric, James Donohue, and Matthew G. Hill
2008 An Antler Tool from the Goshen Level of the Jim Pitts Site, South Dakota. Current Research in the Pleistocene 25:142-144.

2009 The Jim Pitts Site: A Stratified Paleoindian Site in the Black Hills of South Dakota. American Antiquity 74(4):735-758.

Theler, James L., Robert F. Boszhardt, Matthew G. Hill, and Dean G. Wilder
1994 The Rud Bison Site: A Bison Bison Occidentalis Locality in Western Wisconsin. Current Research in the Pleistocene 11:98-99.

Todd, Lawrence C., Matthew G. Hill, David J. Rapson, and George C. Frison
1997 Cutmarks, Impacts, and Carnivores at the Casper Site Bison Bonebed. In Proceedings of the 1993 Bone Modification Conference, Hot Springs, South Dakota, edited by L. Adrian Hannus, Lynette Rossum and R. Peter Winham, pp. 136-157. Occasional Publication No. 1, Archeology Laboratory, Augustana College, Sioux Falls.

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