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Department of Anthropology

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Paul Lasley
Chair
Department of Anthropology

Department Office
324 Curtiss
Ames, Iowa 50011-1050

Hsain Ilahiane
Director of Graduate Education
hsain@iastate.edu

David J. Rapson

Dr. Rapson is an adjunct Assistant Professor (Affiliate) of Anthropology, specializing in North American Archaeology. He lives in Laramie, Wyoming. His research involves hunter-gatherers, site structure, taphonomy, subsistence, and mobility on the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. Currently, he is collaborating with Dr. Matt Hill on the Clary Ranch Paleoindian Project in western Nebraska. Several of his recent publications include: "Research and Public Visitation at Hudson-Meng (1991-1996): Integrating Observations and Interpretation" (in press, with L.C. Todd. In Being There: The Onsite Public Exhibition of Prehistoric Plains Bison Kills, edited by L.B. Davis. Museum of the Rockies Occasional Paper No. 3); "Linking Trajectories of Intra-site Faunal Use With Food Management Strategies at the Bugas-Holding Site: Attribute-based Spatial Analysis of a High Altitude Winter Habitation, Wyoming, U.S.A." (1999, with L.C. Todd. In Le Bison: Gibier et Moyen de Subsistance des Hommes du Paleolithique des Grandes Plaines, edited by Jean-Philip Brugal et al. Editions APDCA, Antibes, France); "Formational Analysis of Bison Bonebeds and Interpretation of Paleoindian Subsistence," (1999, with L.C. Todd. In Le Bison: Gibier et Moyen de Subsistance des Hommes du Paleolithique des Grandes Plaines, edited by Jean-Philip Brugal et al. Editions APDCA, Antibes, France), "Cutmarks, Impacts, and Carnivores at the Casper Site Bison Bonebed," (1997, with L.C. Todd, M.G. Hill, and G.C. Frison. In Proceedings of the 1993 Bone Modification Conference Hot Springs, South Dakota, edited by L.A. Hannus et al. Occasional Publication No. 1, Archaeology Laboratory, Augustana College, Sioux Falls); "Dentition Studies of the Mill Iron and Other Early Paleoindian Bison Bonebed Sites," (1996, with L.C. Todd and J.L. Hofman. In The Mill Iron Site, edited by George C. Frison. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque); "Conjoins, Contemporaneity, and Site Structure: Distributional Analyses of the Bugas-Holding Site," (1992, with L.C. Todd. In Piecing Together The Past: Applications of Refitting Studies in Archaeology, edited by Jack L. Hofman and James G. Enloe. BAR International Series, No. 578. Oxford); "Long Bone Fragmentation and Interpretation of Faunal Assemblages: Approaches to Comparative Analysis," (1988, with L.C. Todd. Journal of Archaeological Science 15:307-325).

David J. Rapson

Office Phone: 515-294-7522
Fax: 515-294-1708
drapson@iastate.edu
324 Curtiss

Ph.D. 1990, University of New Mexico, Adjunct Assistant Professor (Affiliate), Department of Anthropology, Archaeology. Hunter-gatherer paleoecology, site structural and spatial analysis, zooarchaeology, archaeological method and theory, Great Plains.