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• Environmental archaeology • Human responses to climate change • Archaeometry
Bio
In addition to his work at INSTAAR, Dr. Lee has worked for federal and state agencies and entities, including the Bureau of Land Management, the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science as well as a private consultant. He has directed field projects in Alaska, Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming and published articles in several respected journals, including Antiquity, American Antiquity, Arctic, and The Holocene as well as numerous reports, proceedings and book reviews. He advocates for the nascent field of ice patch archaeology through dozens of professional papers at international, national and regional conferences. Heis a member of the Glacier National Park Cultural Resources Management Group (GCRMG) with the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes and the Blackfeet Nation as well as University of Wyoming and University of Arizona. Dr. Lee is on the Board of Directors of the Lamb Spring Archaeological Preserve in Colorado as well as the Board of Directors for the Montana Archaeological Society.
He is featured in Visionlearning .
Education
- PhD: University of Colorado, 2007
- MA: University of Wyoming, 2001
- BS: Montana State University, 1996
Awards
- Camp Monaco Prize, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 2016
Research
Dr. Lee researches the human ecology and landscape archaeology of alpine and high latitude environments with an emphasis on sharing the process and results with numerous audiences, including the professional scientific community, Native American communities, and the interested public.
His specialties include environmental archaeology (landscapes, icescapes, seascapes); human responses to climate change; archaeometry (isotopic analyses); and historical ecology.
Ice patch archaeology
The Glacier National Park Ice Patch Archeology and Paleoecology Project is a collaborative research effort between Glacier National Park, CU Boulder, University of Wyoming, University of Arizona, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, the Blackfeet Nation, and units of the National Park Service. Melting ice poses a risk to previously preserved cultural and natural resources. The project partnership conducted cutting-edge, culturally informed fieldwork to survey, map, and sample stable ice patches in the park in 2010 and 2011. The research will be used to establish a National Park Service-wide protocol for the collection, documentation, analysis and curation of artifacts recovered from melting ice patches.
The project won a Department of the Interior in 2012 and the prestigious in 2016.
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Publications
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Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2021-04-01
Type: Journal Article
High Elevation North America: Ice bound histories from Yukon, Alberta and the Greater Yellowstone Area.
Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2020-10-01
Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2020-06-23
Type: Journal Article
Охота на снежниках Большого устона, Скалистые горы, США: деревянные древки, каменные наконечники и толстороги (ovis canadensi)
Type: Chapter
Taylor W; Clark JK; Reichhardt B; Hodgins GWL; Bayarsaikhan J; Batchuluun O; Whitworth J; Nansalmaa M; Lee CM; Dixon EJ...
- Taylor W
- Clark JK
- Reichhardt B
- Hodgins GWL
- Bayarsaikhan J
- Batchuluun O
- Whitworth J
- Nansalmaa M
- Lee CM
- Dixon EJ
Publication Date: 2019-11-20
Type: Journal Article
Archaeology’s Search for History Hidden in Ice
Publication Date: 2018-05-10
Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2017-04-01
Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2016-04-02
Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2016-01-02
Type: Journal Article
WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM: THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT AND THE NORTHERN PLAINS
Type: Chapter
Withering Snow and Ice in the Mid-latitudes: A New Archaeological and Paleobiological Record for the Rocky Mountain Region
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2011-08-01
Type: Journal Article
Withering: ancient export or seasonal transhumance? A role for Snake River Plain obsidian in the lives of the ancient peoples of northwest Colorado and southwest Wyoming
Type: Journal Article
Ice patch archaeology in Yellowstone's northern ranges
Type: Chapter
Global warming reveals wooden artefact frozen over 10,000 years ago in the Rocky Mountains
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2008-11-01
Type: Journal Article
The frozen past of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Type: Journal Article
Ice-patches and remnant glaciers: Paleontological discoveries and archeological possibilities in the Colorado High Country
Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Type: Journal Article
Pages
Teaching
Past courses
- ANTH 101D: Anthropology and the Human Experience
- Montana State University
- ANTH 351: North American Archaeology
- Montana State University
- ANTH 4020/5020: Paleoindian Archaeology