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Office: ASM 202N |
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Phone: 520-621-6276 |
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Email:
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plyons@email.arizona.edu |
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Degree:
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Ph.D. University of Arizona, 2001 |
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Affiliation:
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Head of Collections and Associate Curator of Anthropology,
Arizona State Museum;
Assistant Professor, Anthropology;
Chair,
Governor's Archaeology Advisory Commission; Research Associate,
Center for Desert Archaeology
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Interests:
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Late prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology of
the southwest US and northwest Mexico, Ceramics, Migration, Identity, Oral tradition in
archaeological research, Hopi ethnography, Museum-collections-based research.
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Classes:
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ANTH/ARL/LAS 418/518, ANTH 447/547, ANTH 552, ANTH 696
The Greater Southwest at Contact |
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Current Research:
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The Coalescent Communities Project (modeling Hohokam
collapse with Center for Desert Archaeology), The Davis Ranch Site Report (completing and
publishing Rex Gerald's 1958 excavation report on a Kayenta enclave in the San Pedro Valley of
Southeastern Arizona), Salado Archaeology of Tonto National Monument (reexamining the chronology
of the Tonto Cliff Dwellings and the origins of their builders), Feasting in Diaspora
(investigating the development of a Salado feasting tradition among groups maintaining Kayenta
identity in diaspora), Ceramics of Kinishba (placing the previously unpublished whole vessel
collection in a regional context). |
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| 2008 |
(with Jeffery J. Clark) Interaction, Enculturation, Social Distance, and Ancient Ethnic
Identities. In Archaeology without Borders: Contact, Commerce, and Change in the U.S.
Southwest and Northwestern Mexico, edited by Laurie D. Webster and Maxine E. McBrinn, pp.
185-207. University Press of Colorado, Boulder, and INAH, Chihuahua, Mexico. |
| 2006 |
(with Alexander J. Lindsay, Jr.) Perforated Plates and the Salado Phenomenon.
Kiva 72:5-54. |
| 2004 |
José Solas Ruin. Kiva 70:143-181. |
| 2004 |
Cliff Polychrome. Kiva 69:361-400. |
| 2003 |
Ancestral Hopi Migrations. Anthropological Papers of the University of
Arizona No. 68. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. |