I am an archaeologist working in the American Southwest and have focused especially on the Chaco Phenomenon. I have worked in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, in northeastern Arizona and currently work in SE Utah. I conducted excavations at the Bluff Great House site in Bluff, Utah as part of the University of Colorado field school.听Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan: Excavations at the Bluff Great House听was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2009. I have also overseen projects in the Comb Wash area of SE Utah undertaken by the Bureau of Land Management. I have long-term interests in prehistoric population dynamics and especially processes of abandonment and migration and have published books and articles on these processes in the Southwest and elsewhere (see publications). Currently I study a particular type of migrant - captives. An edited volume听Invisible Citizens: Captives and Their Consequences听was published by the University of Utah Press in 2008 and an article "Captives and Culture Change: Implications for Archaeologists" was published by听Current Anthropology听in 2011. During my sabbatical (2010-2011) I was a Weatherhead Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe writing a book on captives in prehistory.
Selected Publications:
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2022.听 Cameron, Catherine M.听 Captives:听 The Invisible Migrant.听 In Homo Migrans: Modeling Mobility and Migration in Human History, edited by Megan Daniels.听 IEMA Proceedings, State University of New York Press.听
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2022.听 Gutierrez, Gerardo and Catherine M. Cameron. Not Just Disease:听 Ideology of Risk and Indigenous Population Decline in North America.听 Economic Anthropology (The Symposium) 9:155-157.
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2019.听 Cameron, Catherine M.听 Beyond Trade and Exchange: A New Look at Diffusion.听 In Interaction and Connectivity in the Greater Southwest, edited by Karen Harry and Barbara Roth, University Press of Colorado, Boulder
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2019.听 Ellyson, Laura, Timothy Kohler, and Catherine M. Cameron How Far from Chaco to Oraibi? Quantifying Inequality among Pueblo Households.听 Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 55:1 鈥� 14.听
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2018.听 Lenski, Noel and Catherine M.听 Cameron, editors.听听 What is a Slave Society: The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective.听听 Cambridge University Press.
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2018 - CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
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2016.听 Cameron, Catherine M.听 Captives:听 How Stolen People Changed the World.听 University of Nebraska Press.听
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2015.听 Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan Swedlund, editors.听 Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
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2016 - CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
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2016 - Winner听Gordon R. Willey Prize, American Anthropological Association
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2013.听 Cameron, Catherine M. How People Moved Among Ancient Societies: Broadening the View.American Anthropologist 115 (2):218-231.听
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2011.听 Cameron, Catherine M. Captives and Culture Change:听 Implications for Archaeologists.听 Current 听Anthropology 52(2):169-209.
- 2011. Ortman, Scott G. and Catherine M. Cameron. A Framework for Controlled Comparisons of Ancient Southwestern Movement. In听Movement, Connectivity, and Landscape Change in the Ancient Southwest,听edited by Margaret Nelson and Colleen Strawhacker,pp. 233-252. University Press of Colorado.
- 2010.听听Advances in Understanding the Thirteenth Century Depopulation of the Northern Southwest. In听Leaving Mesa Verde: Peril and Change in the Thirteenth Century Southwest,听edited by Timothy A. Kohler, Mark D. Varien, and Aaron M. Wright,pp. 346-364. University of Arizona Press.
- 2009.听Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan: Excavations at the Bluff Great House.听University of Arizona Press.
- 2008 .Catherine M. Cameron, editor.听听Invisible Citizens: Captives and their Consequences.听 University of Utah Press.
- 2008. Cameron, Catherine M. and Andrew Duff.听 History and Process in Village Formation: Context and听听Contrasts from the Northern Southwest.听American Antiquity听73(1).听
- 2008. Comparing Great House Architecture: Perspectives from the Bluff Great House.听 In听Salmon Ruins: Chacoan Outlier and Thirteenth-Century Pueblo in the Middle San Juan Region, edited by Paul Reed,pp. 251-272. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake.
- 2007. Cameron, Catherine M. and Phil Geib. Earthen Architecture at a Chacoan Great House.听Journal of Field Archaeology听32:1-14.