Southwest Studies Program

Jeffrey Dean
	Office: LTRR 228		Phone: 520-621-2320
	Office: LTRR 228		Phone: 520-621-2320
	Email:	jdean@ltrr.arizona.edu
	Degree:	Ph.D. University of Arizona, 1967
	Affiliation:	Agnese and Emil W. Haury Professor of Archaeological Dendrochronology, Laboratory of Tree Ring Research; Professor, Department of Anthropology; Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State Museum
	Interests:	General approaches to archaeological chronometry with emphasis on dendrochronology, Southwest prehistory, quantitative dendroclimatic reconstruction of Southwestern paleoenvironmental variability and the effects of past environmental fluctuations on prehistoric human populations of the region, computer modeling human subsistence settlement behavior.
	Classes:	ANTH 447/547 Anasazi Archaeology (with E. Charles Adams)
	Current Research:	NSF funded Southwestern Archaeological Tree-Ring Dating Project; Mesa Verde Archaeological Tree-Ring Dating; Navajo Archaeological Tree-Ring Dating; Calibration of ¹⁴C and Tree-Ring Dates from Old Wood

Recent Major Publications:

2007	Zuni-Area Paleoenvironment. In Zuni Origins: Toward a New Synthesis of Southwestern Archaeology, edited by David A. Gregory and David R. Wilcox, pp. 77-94. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2006	(as second editor with David E. Doyel) Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient American Southwest. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
2006	Subsistence Stress and Food Storage at Kiet Siel, Northeastern Arizona. In Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient American Southwest, edited by David E. Doyel and Jeffrey S. Dean, pp. 160-179. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
2005	(as second author with Stephen E. Nash) Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions and Archaeology: Uniting the Social and Natural Sciences in the American Southwest and Beyond. In Southwest Archaeology in the Twentieth Century, edited by Linda S. Cordell and Don D. Fowler, pp. 125-141. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
2003	(as third author, with George J. Gummerman, Alan C. Swedlund, and Joshua M. Epstein) The Evolution of Social Behavior in the Prehistoric American Southwest. Artificial Life 9:435-444.
2002	(as first author with Scott C. Russell) 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, edited by David A. Phillips, Jr., and John A. Ware, pp. 147-168. SWCA Anthropological Research Paper Number 8. SWCA Environmental Consultants, Phoenix.
2002	(with Carla van West) Environment-behavior relationships in Southwestern Colorado. In Seeking the Center Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region, edited by Mark D. Varien and Richard H. Wilshusen, pp. 81-99. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
2002	Late Pueblo II and Pueblo III in Kayenta Branch Prehistory. In Prehistoric Culture Change on the Colorado Plateau: Ten Thousand Years on Black Mesa, edited by S. Powell and F. E. Smiley, pp. 121-157. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2002	(as fourth author, with Eric R. Force, R. Gwinn Vivian, and Thomas C. Windes) Relation of "Bonito" paleo-channels and base-level variations to Anasazi occupation, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series No 194. University of Arizona, Tucson.
2001	(as third author, with Nathan B. English, Julio L. Betancourt, and Jay Quade) Strontium isotopes reveal distant sources of architectural timber in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 98:11891-11896.
2000	(Editor) Salado. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
2000	Complexity Theory and Sociocultural Change in the American Southwest. In The Way the Wind Blows: Climate, History, and Human Action, edited by Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, and Susan Keech McIntosh, pp. 89-118. Columbia University Press, New York.
2000	(as first author with George J. Gumerman, Joshua M. Epstein, Robert Axtell, Alan C. Swedlund, Miles T. Parker, and Steven McCarroll) Understanding Anasazi Culture Change Through Agent-Based Modeling. In Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes, edited by Timothy A. Kohler and George J. Gumerman, pp. 179-205. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

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