Curriculum Vitae

• Education
• Grants and Awards
• Publications
  • Peer-Reviewed Articles
  • Edited Books and Volumes
  • Book Chapters
  • Digital Publications
  • Non-refereed Articles, Contributions, and Notes
  • Laboratory and Technical Reports
    • Lithic Analysis
    • Ceramic Analysis
    • Miscellanea
    • Cultural Resource Management
    • Research and Collections Reports
• Professional Presentations
  • Symposia Organized
  • Museum Exhibits Designed
  • Invited Discussant
  • Invited Presentations
  • Presentations and Posters
• Professional and Public Service

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Education

Graduate Education

Ph.D. (2015), Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri
Dissertation: “Phylogenetic and Morphometric Analyses of Eastern Fluted-Point Forms”

Master of Arts (2009), Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri
Thesis: “Pottery Production at Fort Hill (27CH85), A Seventeenth-Century Refugee Community”

Graduate Certificate (2009), Geographic Information Science, University of Missouri

Undergraduate Education

Bachelor of Arts (1999), Department of Anthropology, Luther College

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Grants & Awards

Grants

2023

Summerlee Foundation: “X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry to Aid in Archaeological and Historical Research.” [20,000$]

2022

Institute for the Study of Earth and Man (ISEM), Southern Methodist University: funds for digital salvage and preservation of radiocarbon-laboratory data. [2500$]

2021

Institute for the Study of Earth and Man (ISEM), Southern Methodist University: support for 4 undergraduate student researchers. [7680$]

Hamilton Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, Southern Methodist University: support for 3 undergraduate student research opportunities. With K. Hollenback and M. Adler [9600$]

Center for Teaching Excellence, Southern Methodist University, Just-in-Time Teaching and Technology Grant [500$}

2014

National Science Foundation: “Support for the Archaeometry Laboratory at MURR (NSF1415403).” Co-PI with J. Ferguson and M.D. Glascock [231,817$]

Jacob L. Grimm C-14 Award, Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology [300$]

Archaeological Society of New Jersey Research Grant for AMS dating of Pleistocene megafauna remains from the New Jersey State Museum [575$]

2013

Lyent Russell Grant from the Archaeological Society of Connecticut. Grant to obtain AMS radiocarbon date on Mammut americanum from New Britain, CT [600$]

Friends of the Office of State Archaeology Radiocarbon Award. Grant to obtain AMS radiocarbon date on the Farmington/Pope/Hill-Stead mastodon. [600$]

Research grant from the W. Raymond Wood Opportunities for Excellence in Archaeology Fund, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri. Grant to obtain AMS radiocarbon dates on Cervalces scotti (Scott’s Stag Moose) specimen curated at the New Jersey State Museum. [525$]

2011

Research grant from Digital Antiquity, Arizona State University: “Digitization and Dissemination of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Archaeometric and Archaeological Database.” [10,000$]

2010

Travel grant from the University of Missouri Organizational Resource Group to attend the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. [150$]

2008

Research grant from the W. Raymond Wood Opportunities for Excellence in Archaeology Fund, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri. Grant to prepare and analyze petrographic thin sections of Native American pottery from New England. [500$]

2007

Travel grant from the University of Missouri Organizational Resource Group to attend the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. [100$]

Awards

2018

Extra Mile Award—Students for New Learning, Southern Methodist University. In recognition of excellent teaching and support of those who learn differently.

2008

Honorable Mention—R.E. Taylor Student Poster Competition (Society for Archaeological Sciences). 2008 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. (with C. Rosania and M.D. Glascock)

Honorable Mention—R.E. Taylor Student Poster Competition (Society for Archaeological Sciences). 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry. (with C. Rosania and M.D. Glascock)

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Publications

Refereed Articles

* papers coauthored with undergraduate/graduate students

Submitted/Under Review/Accepted

Eren, M.I., M.R. Bebber, B.G. Redmond, P. Kasten, G.L. Miller, B. Buchanan, and M.T. Boulanger. Description, microwear, and morphometrics of Clovis and possible-Clovis artifacts from the Kasten site, Erie County, Ohio, U.S.A. Lithic Technology (Accepted: March 2024)

Mukusha, L., G.L. Miller, A. Smith, M.R. Bebber, L. Spurlock, J.A. Gerrath, J. Ortiz, M. Wilson, B. Buchanan, M.T. Boulanger, M.I. Eren, and D.J. Meltzer. Hit or miss: Do microscopic linear impact traces (MLITs) form on Clovis stone tips launched via atlatl into foliage and sediment?  Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (Accepted April 2024).

Smith, A., C. Stephens, D. Mielke, A. Wilson, T. Debolt, F. Groseclose, P. Hothem, M.T. Boulanger, B. Buchanan, G.L. Miller, M. Bebber, and M.I. Eren. Newly reported Clovis points and possible preforms from or near the Welling, Mielke, and Debolt Farm sites, Ohio. Northeast Anthropology (Accepted January 2024).

2023

Boulanger, M.T., M. Adler, J.L. Boyer, and M. Henderson. 2023. ‘Our Work Will Continue’: Geochemical Sourcing by XRF of Obsidian in the Collections of Helen Greene Blumenschein. Kiva 89(1): 51–77.

* Mukusha, L., G.L. Miller, B. Buchanan, M.T. Boulanger, R. Marvin, R. Kunst, M. Bebber, and M.I. Eren. 2023. Clovis and possible-Clovis artifacts from the Wyandot County and Portage County Historical Societies, Ohio. Northeast Anthropology (In Press)

2022

* Boulanger, M.T., M. Adler, E. Sommer, and I. Jorgeson. Dynamics of obsidian procurement at Pot Creek Pueblo (LA 260), northern New Mexico. 2022. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14.

Boulanger, M.T., D. Mielke, R. Mielke, B. Buchanan, G.L. Miller, B. Christy, M. Bebber, and M.I. Eren. 2022. Geochemical sourcing, technological descriptions, artifact morphometrics, and microwear of the Mielke Clovis site (33SH26), western Ohio, U.S.A. Journal of Midcontinental Archaeology 47(1).

Burger, R.L., E. Tsurumi, M.T. Boulanger, and M.D. Glascock. 2022. Sayrosa, a minor obsidian source in the Puna of Arequipa. Ñawpa Pacha 42(2): 185-204.

Kelly, R.L., M.E. Mackie, E. Robinson, J. Meyer, M. Berry, M.T. Boulanger, J. Freeman, C.J. Garland, J. Gingerich, R. Hard, J. Haug, A. Martindale, S. Meeks, M. Miller, S. Miller, T. Perttula, J. Railey, K. Reid, I. Fraser-Shapiro, J. Spangler, D.H. Thomas, V. Thompson, and A. White. 2022. A new radiocarbon database for the lower 48 states. American Antiquity 87(3): 581-590.

2021

Boulanger, M.T., G.L. Miller, and P. Fisher. 2021. A collection of early Holocene flaked-stone crescents from the northern Great Basin. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 37: 103005.

* Boulanger, M.T., R.J. Patten, B.N. Andrews, M.R. Bebber, B. Buchanan, I. Jorgeson, G.L. Miller, M.I. Eren, and D.J. Meltzer. 2021. Antelope Springs: a Folsom site in South Park, Colorado. Paleoamerica 7(2):114-132.

De Lucia, K., M.T. Boulanger, and M.D. Glascock. 2021. Small-scale ceramic production: neutron activation analysis of plain and decorated ceramics from pre-Aztec Xaltocan, Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 32(2): 316-314.

* Eren, M.I., M.R. Bebber, A. Mika, K. Flood, L. Maguire, D. Norris, A. Perrone, D.A. Mullen, S. Centea, C. Centea, B. Christy, R. Daud, J. Jackson, R.J. Patten, B.G. Redmond, B. Buchanan, R. Haythorn, G.L. Miller, M.A. Conway, R.E.B. Gürbüz, S.J. Lycett, J.D. Kilby, B. Andrews, B. MacDonald, M.T. Boulanger, and D.J. Meltzer. 2021. The Nelson stone tool cache, north-central Ohio, U.S.A.: Assessing its cultural affiliation. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 37: 102972.

Eren, M.I., F. Diez-Martin, G.L. Miller, B. Buchanan, R. Haythorn, M.T. Boulanger, A. Rutkoski, J. Bush, J.D. Norris, C.O. Lovejoy, R.S. Meindl, and M.R. Bebber. 2021. Current evidence supports Welling as an outcrop-related base camp. American Antiquity 86(4):867-870.

2020

Boulanger, M.T. 2020. Mexican obsidian on Maui: Hawaiian connection, harmonic convergence, or hokum? Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 34(B), 102662.

* Perrone, A., M.R. Bebber, M.T. Boulanger, B. Buchanan, G.L. Miller, B.G. Redmond, and M.I. Eren. 2020. Description, geometric morphometrics, and microwear of five Clovis fluted projectile points from Lucas and Wood Counties, northwest Ohio, U.S.A.  Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 3: 1034-1047.

2019

Eren, M.I., G.L. Miller, B. Buchanan, M.T. Boulanger, M.R. Bebber, B.G. Redmond, C. Stephens, L. Coates, P. Boser, P. Barans, G. Summers, R. Nilsson, M. Williams, M. Troyer, S. Kish, J. Grimm, J. Schwarze, D. Deyling, B. Sponseller, C. Barnes, M. Saibern, and M. Slicker. 2019. The Black Diamond site, northeast Ohio: a new Clovis occupation in a proposed secondary staging area. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 2:211-233.

Miller, G.L., M.R. Bebber, A. Rutkoski, R. Haythorn, M.T. Boulanger, B. Buchanan, J. Bush, C.O. Lovejoy, and M.I. Eren. 2019. Hunter-gatherer gatherings: stone-tool microwear from the Welling site (33-Co-2), Ohio, U.S.A. supports Clovis use of outcrop-related base camps during the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas. World Archaeology 51:47-51.

Murakami, T., M.T. Boulanger, and M.D. Glascock. 2019. Petrographic and XRF analysis of andesitic cut stone blocks at Teotihuacan, Mexico: implications for the organization of urban construction. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11:1491-1518.

Williams, J., D. Simone, B,. Buchanan, M.T. Boulanger, M.R. Bebber, and M.I. Eren. 2019. A nine-thousand-year record of continuous optimal toolstone selection through the North American Holocene. Antiquity 93:313-324.

2018

* Breslawski, R. P., B.L. Etter, I. Jorgeson, and M.T. Boulanger. 2018. The Atlatl to Bow Transition: What can We Learn from Modern Recreational Competitions? Lithic Technology 43:26-37.

Eren, M.I., M.R. Bebber, G.L. Miller, B. Buchanan, M.T. Boulanger, and R.J. Patten. 2018. Description, morphometrics, and microwear of Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene artifacts from southwestern Kentucky, U.S.A. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 20:516-523.

* Maguire, L., B. Buchanan, M.T. Boulanger, B.G. Redmond, and M.I. Eren. 2018. On the late Paleoindian temporal assignment for the Honey Run site (33-Co-3), Coshocton County, Ohio: a morphometric assessment of flaked stone stemmed lanceolate projectile points. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 20:588-595.

2017

Bebber, M.R., G.L. Miller, M.T. Boulanger, B.N. Andrews, B.G. Redmond, D. Jackson, and M.I. Eren. 2017. Description and microwear analysis of Clovis artifacts on a glacially deposited secondary chert source near the Hartley Mastodon discovery, Columbiana County, northeastern Ohio, U.S.A. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 12:543–552.

* Boulanger, M.T., G.D. Lattanzi, C.C. Roush, and M.D. Glascock. 2017. Geochemical analysis of mica source specimens and artifacts from the Abbott Farm National Historic Landmark (28-ME-1). American Antiquity 82(2): 374–396.

Werner, A., K. Jones, G.L. Miller, B. Buchanan, M.T. Boulanger, A.K.M. Key, C. Reedy, M.R. Bebber, and M.I. Eren. 2017. The morphometrics and microwear of a small Clovis assemblage from Guernsey County, southeastern Ohio, U.S.A. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 15:318–329.

2016

Anderson, S.L.R., M.T. Boulanger, M.D. Glascock, and B. Perkins. 2016. Geochemical investigation of late Pre-Contact ceramic production patterns in northwest Alaska. Journal of Archaeological Science 6: 200–210.

Eren, M.I., A. Chao, C.-H. Chiu, R.K. Colwell, B. Buchanan, M.T. Boulanger, J. Darwent, and M.J. O’Brien. 2016. Statistical analysis of paradigmatic class richness supports greater Paleoindian projectile-point diversity in the Southeast. American Antiquity 81(1): 174–192.

Eren, M.I., B. Redmond, G.L. Miller, B. Buchanan, M.T. Boulanger, A. Hall, A. and L. Hall. 2016. The Wauseon Clovis fluted point preform, Northwest Ohio, U.S.A.: observations, geometric morphometrics, microwear, and toolstone procurement distance. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 10: 147–154.

Karacic, S., M.T. Boulanger, and M.D. Glascock. 2016. Geochemical analysis of the Hittite-period pottery from Tarsus-Gözlükule, Turkey. Archaeometry 58(S1): 23–38.

O’Brien, M.J., M.T. Boulanger, B. Buchanan, R.A. Bentley, R.L. Lyman, C.P. Lipo, M.E. Madsen, and M.I. Eren. 2016. Design space and cultural transmission: Case studies from Paleoindian eastern North America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 23(2): 692–740.

2015

Boulanger M.T., B. Buchanan, M.J. O’Brien, B. Redmond, M.D. Glascock, and M.I. Eren. 2015. Neutron activation analysis of 12,900-year-old stone artifacts confirms 450-510+ kilometer Clovis tool-stone acquisition at Paleo Crossing (33ME274), Ohio. Journal of Archaeological Science 53: 550–558.

Boulanger, M.T. and M.I. Eren. 2015. On the inferred age and origin of lithic bi-points from the Eastern Seaboard and their relevance to the Pleistocene peopling of North America. American Antiquity 80(1): 134–145.

Boulanger, M.T. and M.D. Glascock. 2015. Elemental variation in prehistoric Unionoida shell: implications for ceramic provenance. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 1(1): 2–7.

Boulanger, M.T. and D.V. Hill. 2015. Petrographic analysis of Contact Period Native American pottery from Fort Hill (27CH85), Hinsdale, New Hampshire, USA. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 7(4): 514–532.

Boulanger, M.T., G.D. Lattanzi, D.C. Parris, M.J. O’Brien, and R.L. Lyman. 2015. AMS radiocarbon dates for Pleistocene fauna from the American Northeast. Radiocarbon 57(1): 189–192.

Buchanan, B., M.I. Eren, M.T. Boulanger, and M.J. O’Brien. 2015. Size, shape, scars, and spatial patterning: A quantitative assessment of late Pleistocene (Clovis) point resharpening. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 3: 11-21.

Eren, M.I, M.T. Boulanger, and M.J. O’Brien. 2015. The Cinmar discovery and the proposed pre-Late Glacial Maximum occupation of North America. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 2: 708-713.

Perreault, C., M.T. Boulanger, A.M. Hudson, D. Rhode, D.B. Madsen, J.W. Olsen, M.L. Steffen, J. Quade, M.D. Glascock, and P.J. Brantingham. 2015. Characterization of obsidian from the Tibetan Plateau by XRF and NAA. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 5: 392–399.

2014

Boulanger, M.T. and R.L. Lyman. 2014. Northeastern North American Pleistocene mammals chronologically overlapped minimally with Paleoindians. Quaternary Science Reviews 85(1): 35–46.

Lyman, R.L., M.T. Boulanger, and D.N. Schmitt. 2014. Stone rings in the Umatilla National Forest, southeastern Washington. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 48(2): 159–187.

O’Brien, M.J., M.T. Boulanger, M. Collard, B. Buchanan, L. Tarle, L.G. Straus, and M.I. Eren. 2014. On thin ice: problems with Stanford and Bradley’s proposed Solutrean colonisation of North America. Antiquity 88(340): 606–613.

O’Brien, M.J., M.T. Boulanger, M. Collard, B. Buchanan, L. Tarle, L.G. Straus, and M.I. Eren. 2014. Solutreanism. Antiquity 88(340): 622–624.

O’Brien, M.J., M.T. Boulanger, B. Buchanan, M. Collard, R.L. Lyman, and J. Darwent. 2014. Innovation and cultural transmission in the American Paleolithic: phylogenetic analysis of eastern Paleoindian projectile-point classes. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 34: 100–119.

2013

Boulanger, M.T., S.S. Fehrenbach, and M.D. Glascock. 2013. Experimental evaluation of sample-extraction methods and the potential for contamination in ceramic specimens. Archaeometry 55(5): 880–892.

O’Brien, M.J., M. Collard, B. Buchanan, and M.T. Boulanger. 2013. Trees, thickets, or something in between? Recent theoretical and empirical work in cultural phylogeny.Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution 59(2): 45–61.

2012

Boulanger, M.T., R.S. Davis, and M.D. Glascock. 2012. Preliminary characterization and regional comparison of the Dasht-i-Nawur obsidian source near Ghazni, Afghanistan. Journal of Archaeological Science 39(7): 2320–2328.

Boulanger, M.T. and C.M. Hudson. 2012. Assessment of the gripability of textured ceramic surfaces. American Antiquity 77(2): 293–302.

Lyman, R.L., C.N. Rosania, and M.T. Boulanger. 2012. Comparison of fluoride and direct AMS radiocarbon dating of Black Bear bone from Lawson Cave, Missouri. Journal of Field Archaeology 37(3): 226–237.

2011

Anderson, S.L., M.T. Boulanger, and M.D. Glascock. 2011. A new perspective on Late Holocene social interaction in northwest Alaska: results of a preliminary ceramic sourcing study. Journal of Archaeological Science 38(5): 943–955.

Huckell, B.B., J.D. Kilby, M.T. Boulanger, and M.D. Glascock. 2011. Sentinel Butte: neutron activation analysis of White River Group chert from a primary source and artifacts from a Clovis cache in North Dakota, USA. Journal of Archaeological Science 38(5): 965–976.

Quigg, J.M., M.T. Boulanger, and M.D. Glascock. 2011. Geochemical characterization of Tecovas and Alibates source samples. Plains Anthropologist 56(219): 121–141.

2010

Wallis, N.J., M.T. Boulanger, J.R. Ferguson, and M.D. Glascock. 2010. Woodland Period ceramic provenance and the exchange of Swift Creek Complicated Stamped vessels in the southeastern United States. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 2598–2611.

2007

Boulanger, M.T., T.R. Jamison, C. Skinner, and M.D. Glascock. 2007. Analysis of an obsidian biface reportedly found in the Connecticut River valley of Vermont. Archaeology of Eastern North America 35: 81–92.

2006

Boulanger, M.T., R.J. Speakman, and M.D. Glascock. 2006. Characterization of New England chert sources by neutron activation. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society 95:477–478.

2005

Boulanger, M.T., A.D. Hathaway, R.J. Speakman, and M.D. Glascock. 2005. A preliminary study on the suitability of instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) for identifying Hathaway Formation chert from the northern Champlain Valley of Vermont. Archaeology of Eastern North America 33: 105–126.

Books and Edited Volumes

2010

Calado, D., M.O. Baldia, and M.T. Boulanger (eds.) 2010. Monumental Questions: Prehistoric Megaliths, Mounds, and Enclosures (Part I); Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) /Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006), Vol.7. BAR International Series S2122. Archaeopress: Oxford.

Calado, D., M.O. Baldia, and M.T. Boulanger (eds.). 2010. Monumental Questions: Prehistoric Megaliths,Mounds, and Enclosures (Session C68, Parts II); Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4–9, September 2006) /Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006), Vol.8. BAR International Series S2123. Archaeopress: Oxford.

2008

Boulanger, M.T. (ed.). 2008. Analytical Applications in the Archaeology of Eastern North America: Papers from a session at the 2007 Eastern States Archaeological Federation Meeting, Burlington, Vermont. North American Archaeologist 29(3–4).

Descantes, C., R.J. Speakman, M.D. Glascock, and M.T. Boulanger (eds.). 2008. An Exploratory Study into the Chemical Characterization of Caribbean Ceramics. Journal of Caribbean Archaeology Special Publication 2.

Book Chapters

* papers coauthored with undergraduate/graduate students

2023

Yellin, J., M.T. Boulanger, and M.D. Glascock. 2023 “Provenience of LBA II pottery from the cultic repository of Tel Qashish.” In: Salvage Excavations at Tel Qashish (Tel Qasis) and Tell el-Wa’er (2010–2013), van den Brink, E.C.M. and Adams, M.J. (eds.), pp. 407–416. Jezreel Valley Regional Project Studies vol. 1. Lockwood Press, Columbus, Georgia.

2022

* Boulanger, M.T., R. Breslawski, and I. Jorgeson. 2022. “Quantifying evenness of Paleoindian projectile point forms within geographic regions of eastern North America.” In: Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology, Eren, M.I. and Buchanan, B. (eds.), pp. 213–247. Berghahn Books, New York.

2019

2018

Eren, M.I., B. Redmond, G. Miller, B. Buchanan, M.T. Boulanger, B. Morgan, and M.J. O’Brien. 2018. Paleo Crossing (33ME274): a Clovis site in northeastern Ohio. In: In the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition, Vol. 2, pp. 187-212, J. Gingerich (ed.). University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Glascock, M.D. and M.T. Boulanger. 2018. Análisis por activación Neutrónica. In: Arqueometría: Estudios Analíticos de Materiales Arqueológicos, R. Chapoulie, M. Sepúlveda, N. del Solar, and V. Wright (eds.). Institut Français d’Êtudes Andines, University of Tarapacá and University of Bordeaux Montaigne.

2017

Boulanger, M.T. 2017. Recycling data: Working with published and unpublished ceramic-compositional data. In: The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis, A. Hunt (ed.). Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 73–84.

2016

Boulanger, M.T. and M.D. Glascock. 2016. Compositional analysis of two ceramic specimens. In: Gleanings from the Caves: Dead Sea Scrolls and Artefacts from the Schøyen Collection, T. Elgvin, K. Davis, and M. Langlois (eds.). T&T Clark, London, pp. 367–376.

Boulanger, M.T. and M.D. Glascock. 2016. Compositional analysis by neutron activation analysis (NAA) of six Iron Age ceramic architectural models. In: H. Katz, Portable Shrine Models: Ancient Architectural Clay Models from the Levant. BAR International Series 2791. British Archaeological Reports: Oxford, pp. 62–73.

2015

O’Brien, M.J., B. Buchanan, M.T. Boulanger, A. Mesoudi, M. Collard, M.I. Eren, R.A. Bentley, and R.L. Lyman. 2015. Transmission of cultural variants in the North American Paleolithic. In: Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Paleolithic, K. Aoki and A. Mesoudi (eds.). Springer: New York, pp. 121-143.

O’Brien, M.J., M.T. Boulanger, R.L. Lyman, and B. Buchanan. 2015. Phylogenetic systematics. In: Mathematics and Archaeology, J.A. Barceló and I. Bogdanovic (eds.). CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, pp. 232–246.

2014

Boulanger, M.T., M.D. Glascock, M.S. Shackley, C. Skinner, and J.J. Thatcher. “Likely source attribution for a possible Paleoindian obsidian tool from northwest Louisiana.” In: Twenty-Five Years on the Cutting Edge of Obsidian Studies: Selected Readings from the IAOS Bulletin, C.D. Dillian (ed.), pp 127–132. International Association for Obsidian Studies.

2013

Boulanger, M.T. 2013. Cultural geography in the context of climatic and environmental change in the late Neolithic and Eneolithic of the Morava Valley. In: Comparative Archaeology and Paleoclimatology: Socio-Cultural Responses to a Changing World, M.O. Baldia, T.K. Perttula, and D.S. Frink (eds.), pp. 241–252. BAR International Series 2456. Archaeopress, Oxford.

2012

M.J. O’Brien, B. Buchanan, M. Collard, and M.T. Boulanger. 2012. Cultural cladistics and the early prehistory of North America. In: Evolutionary Biology: Mechanisms and Trends, P. Pontarotti (ed.), pp. 23–42. Springer-Verlag: Berlin.

2010

Boulanger, M.T. and M.D. Glascock. 2010. Archaeometric analyses of pottery from TRB barrows and hilltop enclosures. 2010. In: Monumental Questions: Prehistoric Megaliths, Mounds, and Enclosures (Session C68, Part II); Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4–9, September 2006), D. Calado, M.O. Baldia, and M.T. Boulanger (eds.), pp. 169–178. BAR International Series 2123. Archaeopress: Oxford.

2008

Baldia, M.O., M.T. Boulanger, and D.S. Frink. 2008. The earthen long-barrow of Džbán, Moravia, Czech Republic, and its implications for the interaction between the Nordic Funnel Beaker and the southern Baden Culture. In: The Baden Complex and the Outside World [Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of the EAA, 2006, Cracow], M. Furholt, M. Szmyt, and A. Zastawny (eds.), pp. 263–287. Studien zur Archäologie in Ostmitteleuropa/Studia nad Pradziejami Europy Šrodkowej 4. Hablelt: Bonn.

Baldia, M.O., D.S. Frink, and M.T. Boulanger. 2008. Problems in the archaeological legacy: the TRB/Lengyel-Baden conundrum. In: The Baden Complex and the Outside World [Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of the EAA, 2006, Cracow], M. Furholt, M. Szmyt, and A. Zastawny (eds.), pp. 25–48. Studien zur Archäologie in Ostmitteleuropa/Studia nad Pradziejami Europy Šrodkowej 4. Hablelt: Bonn.

Digital Publications

2015 (2011)

Boulanger, M.T. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Nuclear Archaeology Program Archives.  Comprehensive digitization and transcription of archival material from the neutron activation program for archaeological and geological materials at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1969–1989).  23 datasets, 17 documents, 134 images, 24 projects.  Available through the Digital Archaeological Record: https://core.tdar.org/collection/7901/lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-lbnl-nuclear-archaeology-program-archives

Non-refereed Articles, Contributions, and Notes

* papers coauthored with undergraduate/graduate students

2023

Erwin, C. and M.T. Boulanger. Central Mexican origin for an obsidian prismatic blade from the Texas Panhandle. Submitted to Journal of North Texas Archaeology 2: 1–11

2018

Boulanger, M.T. and G.D. Lattanzi. AMS radiocarbon date for the Mount Hermon stag moose (Cervalces scotti). The Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey 71:3-8.

2017

* Graves, A. and M.T. Boulanger. Inventory and analysis of some obsidian artifacts in the James M. Collins Collection. Bulletin of the International Association for Obsidian Studies 58: 24-38.

2015

Boulanger, M.T. and B. Jones.  Radiocarbon date of the Farmington/Pope mastodon, Connecticut. Friends of the Office of State Archaeology Member Newsletter Fall: 3-6.

2014

Boulanger, M.T. AMS radiocarbon date for the New Britain YWCA mastodon (Mammut americanum). Newsletter of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut 236: 5-6.

Boulanger, M.T.  AMS radiocarbon dating of the Marshalls Creek mastodon. The Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology Newsletter Fall: 11.

Boulanger, M.T., M.D. Glascock, M.S. Shackley, C. Skinner, and J. Thatcher. Likely source attribution for a possible Paleoindian obsidian tool from northwest Louisiana. Louisiana Archaeology 37: 87-94.

2013

Boulanger, M.T., M.D. Glascock, M.S. Shackley, and C. Skinner. Likely source attribution for a Paleoindian obsidian graver from northwest Louisiana. Bulletin of the International Association for Obsidian Studies 49: 4-7.

Boulanger, M.T. Salvage archaeometry: lessons learned from the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory archaeometric archives. The SAA Archaeological Record 13(1): 14-19.

2012

Boulanger, M.T. Digitization of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory archaeometric archives: status update and availability announcement. Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin 35(2): 4-7.

2008

Boulanger, M.T. Introduction: analytical applications in the archaeology of eastern North America: papers from a session at the 2007 Eastern States Archaeological Federation Meeting, Burlington, Vermont. North American Archaeologist 29(3–4): 199–202.

Boulanger, M.T. and M.D. Glascock. Geographic and compositional variability of ceramic resources in northern New England. North American Archaeologist 29(3–4): 269–285.

Boulanger, M.T. and T.R. Jamison. Obsidian in Vermont: analysis of a projectile point in the Gerald Coane Collection. Putney Historical Society News Winter: 1, 3–4.

Descantes, C., R.J. Speakman, M.D. Glascock, and M.T. Boulanger. An exploratory study into the chemical characterization of Caribbean ceramics: an introduction to a special volume of the Journal of Caribbean Archaeology in memory of James B. Petersen. Journal of Caribbean Archaeology Special Publication 2: i–iv.

Pevarnik, G.L., M.T. Boulanger, and M.D. Glascock. Instrumental neutron activation analysis of Middle Woodland pottery from the Delaware Valley. North American Archaeologist 29(3–4): 239–268.

Rosania, C.N., M.T. Boulanger, K.T. Biró, S. Ryzhov, G. Trnka, and M.D. Glascock. Revisiting Carpathian obsidian. Antiquity 82(318).

2007

Boulanger, M.T. Database of published radiocarbon dates for Vermont with a brief discussion of the method. Journal of Vermont Archaeology 8: 1–25.

Boulanger, M.T. and T.R. Jamison. Obsidian in Vermont: analysis of a projectile point in the Gerald Coane Collection. Vermont Archaeological Society Newsletter 106: 9–11.

2006

Boulanger, M.T. and A.D. Hathaway. The effects of heat on some common Vermont lithic materials. Journal of Vermont Archaeology 7: 54–60.

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Laboratory Reports

Lithic Analysis

Miscellaneous

Analysis of Kushan Coins in the Collections of the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri. 2013. Prepared for J.A. Scaevola. Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Missouri Research Reactor. (M.T. Boulanger and M.D. Glascock)

Analysis by Neutron Activation and X-ray Fluorescence of Historic Slag found near Bennington, Vermont. 2013. Prepared for S. Costello. Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Missouri Research Reactor. (M.T. Boulanger and M.D. Glascock)

Fluorine Analysis of 20 Additional Human (Homo sapiens) Victims from the AD 79 Mount Vesuvius Eruption at Herculaneum, Italy. 2009. Prepared for P.P. Petrone. Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Missouri Research Reactor. (C.N. Rosania and M.T. Boulanger)

Fluorine Analysis of North American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) Bones from Lawson Cave, Boone County, Missouri. 2009. Prepared for C. Hudson. Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Missouri Research Reactor. (C.N. Rosania and M.T. Boulanger)

X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of Historic Slags Found Near Thompsonville, Benzie County, Michigan. 2007. Prepared for P. Shinn. Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Missouri Research Reactor. (M.T. Boulanger)

ICP-MS Analysis of Soil Samples from a Modern Chicha-brewing Context, Peru. 2006. Prepared for: F.M. Hayashida. Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Missouri Research Reactor. (M.T. Boulanger and M.D. Glascock)

Cultural Resource Management

Phase I Archaeological Site Identification Study of the Proposed Verizon Wireless Communication Facility in Leicester, Addison County, Vermont. 2005. Submitted to DuBois & King, Inc., Williston, Vermont. Archaeology Consulting Team, Inc. (A.D. Hathaway, M.T. Boulanger, and D.S. Frink) 

2004 Annual Report of the Cultural Resources Management Plan for the Vergennes Hydroelectric Project (FERC No. 2674) in the Towns of Weybridge, New Haven, Addison, Waltham, and Panton, and the City of Vergennes, Addison County, Vermont. 2004. Submitted to Green Mountain Power Corporation, Colchester, Vermont. Archaeology Consulting Team, Inc. (D.S. Frink, D. Tall, M.T. Boulanger, A.D. Hathaway, and C. Baker)

Phase I Archaeological Site Identification Study of Phase II of the proposed G.W. Tatro Gravel Pit Project, Town of Belvidere, Lamoille County, Vermont. 2004. Submitted to G.W. Tatro Construction, Inc., Jeffersonville, Vermont. Archaeology Consulting Team, Inc. (M. T. Boulanger and D. S. Frink)

Phase I Archaeological Site Identification Study of the Proposed Expansion of the Leduc and Many Sand/Gravel Pit in the Town of Highgate, Franklin County, Vermont. 2004. Submitted to Cross Consulting Engineers, P.C., St. Albans, Vermont. Archaeology Consulting Team, Inc. (M.T. Boulanger and D.S. Frink) 

Short Report for the Archaeological Site Identification Study of the proposed Sheldon Heights Extension near the Village of Sheldon Junction, Town of Sheldon, Franklin County, Vermont. 2004. Submitted to Cross Consulting Engineers, Inc., St. Albans, Vermont. Archaeology Consulting Team, Inc. (D.S. Frink and M.T. Boulanger)

2003 Annual Report of the Cultural Resource Management Plan for Archaeological and Historic Resources within the Pierce Mills, Arnold Falls, Gage, and Passumpsic Hydroelectric Stations; St. Johnsbury, Waterford, and Barnet in Caledonia County, Vermont (FERC Nos. 2396, 2399, 2397, and 2400). 2003. Submitted to Central Vermont Public Service Corporation, Rutland, Vermont. Archaeology Consulting Team, Inc. (D.S. Frink, M.T. Boulanger, D. Tall, and C. Baker) 

Archaeological Assessment Study of the Proposed VELCO High Voltage Transmission System Upgrade Northwest Vermont Reliability Project between Barre Substation in Barre, Washington County, Vermont and Granite Substation in Williamstown, Orange County, Vermont. 2003. Submitted to Vermont Electric Power Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont. Archaeology Consulting Team, Inc. (D.S. Frink and M.T. Boulanger) 

Draft Phase IA Archaeological Investigation of the Proposed VELCO High Voltage Transmission System Upgrade Northwest Vermont Reliability Project. 2003. Submitted to Vermont Electric Power Company, Inc. (VELCO), Rutland, Vermont. Archaeology Consulting Team, Inc. (D.S. Frink, A.D. Hathaway, C. Baker, and M.T. Boulanger)

Phase I Archaeological Site Identification Study for the Proposed Shelburne Cliffs Housing Development, Shelburne, Chittenden County, Vermont. 2003. Submitted to Neagley Construction, South Burlington, Vermont. Archaeology Consulting Team, Inc. (M.T. Boulanger and D.S. Frink) 

Cultural Resource Management Studies within Lands Managed by Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife. 2002. Archaeology Consulting Team, Inc. Submitted to Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, Agency of Natural Resources. Archaeology Consulting Team, Inc. (D.S. Frink and M.T. Boulanger) 

Phase I Archaeological Site Identification Study: St. Michael’s College Hoehl Welcome Center Improvements, Colchester, Vermont. 2002. Submitted to St. Michael’s College, Winooski, Vermont. Archaeology Consulting Team, Inc. (M.T. Boulanger and D.S. Frink) 

Cultural Resource Management Studies within Lands Managed by Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife and Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation: 2000 Annual Report. 2001. Submitted to Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife and Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, Agency of Natural Resources. Archaeology Consulting Team, Inc. (D.S. Frink and M.T. Boulanger)

Research & Collections Reports

Native American Artifacts from the State of New York in the James M. Collins Collection. 2016. Submitted to the Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University. (M.T. Boulanger)

Archaeological Reconnaissance of Selected Areas in the Umatilla National Forest and Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness of Southeastern Washington State. 2013. Submitted to the Umatilla National Forest, Pomeroy Ranger District, Pomeroy, Washington. (R.L. Lyman, M.T. Boulanger, and D.N. Schmitt)

Inventory and Catalogue of the Harold Root Collection Maintained by the Charlotte Historical Society at the Charlotte Memorial Museum. 2005. Submitted to the Charlotte Memorial Museum, Vermont. Vermont Archaeological Society. (M.T. Boulanger, B. Helzer, and G. Little)

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Professional Presentations

Symposia Organized

Analytical Applications in the Archaeology of Eastern North America. 2007. Session organized for the 74th Annual Meeting of the Eastern States Archaeological Federation. Sponsored by the Archaeometry Laboratory of the University of Missouri Research Reactor.

Archaeometric Methods, Archaeological Applications, I & II. Poster sessions for the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sponsored by the Society for Archaeological Sciences and the Archaeometry Laboratory of the University of Missouri Research Reactor. (with L. Cecil, and R. Popelka-Filcoff).

Invited Presentations

10,000 years of lithic procurement in the Taos Valley of northern New Mexico. 2023. North Texas Archaeological Society. Fort Worth, Texas.

Education, archaeology, and VR @ SMU. 2022. Virtual Reality and Being Human. Sponsored by the Future of Narrative: Virtual Reality Cluster, Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute, Southern Methodist University.

Current research determining the sources of obsidian in the Northern Rio Grande and beyond. 2022. Panhandle Archaeological Society. Amarillo, Texas (teleconference).

A systematic approach to quantifying diversity in the morphology and spatial distribution of eastern Paleoindian projectile points. 2019. 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (with R. Breslawski and I. Jorgeson).

Neutron activation analysis of lithic sources in the Middle Atlantic. 2018. 48th Annual Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference. Virginia Beach, Virginia (with R. Michael Stewart).

Revisiting and integrating compositional ceramic datasets on the northern North American Great Plains. 2017. 75th annual Plains Anthropological Conference. Bismarck, North Dakota (with Hollenback, K.L. and Swenson, F.).

The atlatl to bow-and-arrow transition: what can we learn from modern recreational competition data? 2017. 75th annual Plains Anthropological Conference. Bismarck, North Dakota (with Breslawski, R., Etter, B., and Jorgeson, I.).

Phylogenetic Analysis of Paleoindian Projectile Points from Eastern North America. 2015. 27th Annual Conference of the Human Behavior & Evolution Society. Columbia, Missouri (with M.J. O’Brien).

Paleoindian cultural transmission in eastern North America. 27th Annual Conference of the Human Behavior & Evolution Society. Columbia, Missouri (with M.J. O’Brien).

The afterlife of archaeometry; the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory database project. 2015. 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. San Francisco, California. (with M.D. Glascock)

Evaluation of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Tel Ashdod ceramic data. 2013. Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. November, Baltimore, Maryland.

The Lawrence Berkeley archaeometry archives: resources for the study of Levantine ceramics. 2013. Second Workshop on Levantine Ceramic Production and Distribution. February, Athens, Greece.

Cultural transmission among Eastern fluted-point cultures. 2012. 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. April, Memphis, Tennessee. (with M.J. O’Brien)

Variation and innovation in the American Paleolithic: morphometric analysis of Eastern paleoindian projectile points. 2011. 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, March 2011, Sacramento, California. (with M.J. O’Brien)

Compositional analysis of prehistoric shell from eastern North America. 2011. 13th Modern Trends in Activation Analysis Conference, March 2011, College Station, Texas.

Salvage archaeometry: rescue, preservation, and dissemination of geochemical data. 2009. 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 2009, Atlanta, Georgia. (with M.D. Glascock)

Ceramic production in Central Lydia from the Early Bronze Age through the Late Lydian Period: preliminary results from instrumental neutron activation analysis. 2008.73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia. (with M.D. Glascock, C. Luke, D. Pullen, and C.H. Roosevelt)

Bridging the gap: characterizing Champlain Valley chert. 2006. 26th Annual Conference on New England Archaeology: Through the Kaleidoscope: Refocusing the Lens, May, 2006, Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA.

Discussant

“Research in the Field: What to Do and What Not to Do in Running an Archaeology Project.” 2012. Chaired by M.M. Stoll and D.H. Dye. Sponsored by the SAA Student Affairs Committee. 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, Tennessee.

“Using the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) for Management, Research, and Education.” 2012. Chaired by K.W. Kintigh. 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, Tennessee.

Museum Exhibits

“Mount Independence Chert: An Ancient and Revolutionary Stone.” 2005. Annual exhibit prepared by for the Mount Independence National Historic Landmark. (M. T. Boulanger, A. D. Hathaway, and E. Gilbertson)

Papers and Posters

A technological study of North America’s earliest ceramic technology: firing analysis of Poverty Point objects. 2022. 78th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference. (with C.K. Hollis, K.L. Hollenback, and D. Greenlee)

Digitization and preservation of legacy datasets: continued adventures in salvage archaeometry. 2021. International Obsidian Conference. (with N. Tripcevich and R. Burger)

Cultural Transmission in the Paleoindian of Eastern North America: Incorporating Outline-Based Geometric Morphometrics with Cladistic Reconstructions. 2018. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.

Geochemical analysis of mica source specimens and artifacts from the Abbott Farm National Historic Landmark (28-Me-1). 2016. 83rd Annual meeting of the Eastern States Archeological Federation. November, Langhorne, Pennsylvania. (with G.D. Lattanzi, C.C. Roush, and M.D. Glascock)

Technological variability in Woodland and Plains Village Period ceramics from central and eastern North Dakota. 2015. 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. April, San Francisco, California. (with W. Goodwin, K.L. Hollenback, F. Swenson, and M.D. Glascock)

Evaluating linguistic endangerment worldwide from a biocultural approach. 2014. 99th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. August, Sacramento, California. (with B.D. Castro Escobar and R. Walker)

The Late Bronze IIA Pottery from Goldman’s excavations at Tarsus-Gözlükule, Turkey: The Results of Archaeometric Analysis. 2014. Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. November, San Diego, California. (with S. Karacic and M.D. Glascock)

Phylogenetic analysis of Eastern Paleoindian fluted-point forms. 2014. 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Austin, Texas. (with M.J. O’Brien)

pXRF Analysis of Middle Woodland mica artifacts from the Abbott Farm National Historic Landmark. 2013. 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. April, Honolulu, Hawaii. (with G.D. Lattanzi)

Preservation and analysis of the Perlman/Asaro archaeometry archives. 2013. 7th World Archaeological Congress. January, Dead Sea, Jordan. (with M.D. Glascock)

Pigments on polychrome pottery from the 76 Draw Site, New Mexico. 2011. 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. March, Sacramento, California. (with C.A. Sall)

Seventeenth-Century Native-American social dynamics on the fringe of colonial empires: analysis of the ceramic assemblage from Fort Hill, Hinsdale, New Hampshire. 2010. 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April, St. Louis, Missouri. (with P.A. Thomas)

Native american ceramics and society in 17th-Century New England. 2010. 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November, New Orleans, Louisiana. (with E.S. Chilton and J. Woods)

Giving voice to choice: integrating scientific, ethnographic, and historical analysis to understand 17th Century Native pottery from western New England. 2010. 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. April, St. Louis, Missouri. (with J.A. Woods, E.S. Chilton, D.V. Hill, and M.D. Glascock)

Geochemical characterization of Tecovas and Alibates source samples. 67th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, October 14-17, Norman, Oklahoma. (with M. Quigg and M.D. Glascock)

16th and 17th Century Sokwakik. 2009. Presented en absentia at the Vermont Quadricentennial Indigenous Conference, May, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, Vermont.

Chemical variation in Edwards chert from the Callahan Divide, Texas. 2009. 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April, Atlanta, Georgia. (with K. Caffrey, M.D. Glascock, and M.R. Bever)

1500 years of pottery production on the south coast of Peru: neutron activation on pottery from the site of La Tiza. 2009. 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April, Atlanta, Georgia. (with C. Conlee and M.D. Glascock)

Nuclear science and prehistoric pottery: chemical variability of ceramic resources in northern New England. 2008. Research and Creative Arts Forum, University of Missouri–Columbia.

Assessing the ‘grip-ability’ of ceramic surface treatments in the American Northeast. 2008. 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April, Vancouver, British Columbia. (with C.M. Hudson)

Geochemical analysis of Central and Eastern European obsidian. 2008. 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia. (with C.N. Rosania and M.D. Glascock)

Geochemical analysis of Central and Eastern European obsidian. 2008. 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, May 12–16, Siena, Italy. (with C.N. Rosania and M.D. Glascock)

Geochemical analysis of Central and Eastern European obsidian. 2008. Archaeometriai Mûhely (Archaeometry Workshop), November 3, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest. (with C.N. Rosania and M.D. Glascock)

Geographic and compositional variability of ceramic resources in northern New England. 2007. Annual Meeting of the Eastern States Archaeological Federation, November, Burlington, Vermont.

Petrographic and geochemical analyses of Copper Age pottery from Central Europe. 2007. 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Session:Archaeometric Methods, Archaeological Applications II. April, Austin, Texas. (with M.D. Glascock)

Instrumental neutron activation analysis of Middle Woodland pottery from the Delaware Valley. 2007. Annual Meeting of the Eastern States Archaeological Federation, November, Burlington, Vermont. (with G.L. Pevarnik and M.D. Glascock)

The trace element chemistry of Virginia jasper sources. 2007. 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Session: Archaeometric Methods, Archaeological Applications I. April, Austin, Texas. (with C. Stevenson)

Preserving a legacy: mapping the Log Providence Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery. 2006. Annual Meeting of the Missouri Archaeological Society, Joplin, Missouri. (with M. Anderson and D. Miller)

Problems in the archaeological Legacy: the TRB/Lengyel-Baden conundrum. 2006. 12th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. September, Krakow, Poland. (with M.O. Baldia and D.S. Frink)

Petrographic and geochemical characterization of pottery from Eneolithic barrows and hillforts in Moravia. 2006. Presented en absentia at the 15th Congress of the Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP), Lisbon, Portugal. Colloquium C68: Monumental Questions: Prehistoric Megalithics, Mounds, and Enclosures.

Examination of the suitability of geochemical analysis in characterizing Native American chert quarries in Vermont. 2006. 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Session: Lithics: Material Procurement, Production, and Use. April, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (with A.D. Hathaway, R.J. Speakman, and M.D. Glascock)

Characterization of New England chert sources by neutron activation. 2006. American Nuclear Society 2006 Winter Meeting & Nuclear Technology Expo, Session: 6H Nuclear Archaeometry. November, Albuquerque, New Mexico. (with R.J. Speakman, and M.D. Glascock)

Thinking outside the rocks: using high-tech methods to understand lithic scatters and groundstone tools. 2005. Vermont Archaeological Society Annual Spring Meeting, Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, Vermont.

Unique methods, unique results? The 2002 excavation of Džbán Long-Mound 1, Namest na Hane, Olomouc District, Czech Republic. 2003. Ninth Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Session: Archaeology of Burial Mounds. St. Petersburg, Russia. (with M.O. Baldia and D.S. Frink)

GIS study of settlement structure in response to climatic change during the TRB: Moravia, Czech Republic. 2003. Fifth World Archaeological Congress, Theme: Past Human Environments in Modern Contexts, Session: Comparative Archaeology and Paleoclimatology: Sociocultural Responses to a Changing World. Washington D.C.

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Professional & Public Service

Media Coverage

• Coverage of: Critical thinking teaching
  • Whistleblower tells Congress a stunning tale of crashed alien spacecraft and dead pilots. The Dallas Morning News. August 16, 2023.
• Coverage of: Mexican obsidian on Maui: Hawaiian connection, harmonic convergence, or hokum? Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
  • Sourcing and pseudo-archaeology. Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin Online. May 5, 2021.
• Coverage of: Neutron activation analysis of 12,900-year-old stone artifacts confirms 450-510+ kilometer Clovis tool-stone acquisition at Paleo Crossing (33ME274), Ohio.  Journal of Archaeological Science.
  • The first people who populated North America. BBC – Earth. March 30, 2017.
  • Clovis, masters of organized transport. 2017. Mammoth Trumpet 32(1): 1–5.
• Coverage of: The Cinmar discovery and the proposed pre-Late Glacial Maximum occupation of North America. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
  • Weekend reads: Publication pollution, irreproducible research crisis, and broken funding models. Retraction Watch. April 4, 2015.
• Coverage of: Northeastern North American Pleistocene mammals chronologically overlapped minimally with Paleoindians.
  • Balter, M. “What Killed the Great Beasts of North America?” ScienceNOW. January 28, 2014.
  • “What killed the great beasts of North America? A new study points to environmental causes.” The Washington Post. February 10, 2014.
  • “Was it climate change or the ‘Overkill hypothesis’?” Archaeology Magazine News. January 29, 2014.
  • Neely, P. “Study questions megafauna Overkill theory; results suggest extinctions in the Northeast weren’t due to humans.” 2014. American Archaeology 18(1): 8.

Teaching Experience

Southern Methodist University

Graduate-Student Committee Service

Bonnie Etter (Ph.D. candidate)
Ian Jorgeson (Ph.D. candidate)
Samantha Lagos (Ph.D. candidate)
Anne Parfitt (Ph.D. candidate)

Undergraduate-Student Mentorship

Faculty co-mentor for 3 Hamilton Undergraduate Research Scholars (2021)

Courses Taught

Anthropology: A Four-Field Approach (ANTH 1321)
People of the Earth (ANTH 2302)
North American Archaeology (ANTH 3302)
Lithic Artifact Analysis (ANTH 3304/6304)
Fantastic Archaeology (ANTH 3334)

University of Missouri

Courses Taught

Fundamentals of Archaeology: Laboratory Methods (ANTH 2020)

Professional Service

Referee

National Science Foundation, Oxford University Press, University of Utah Press, American Antiquity, Archaeometry, Geoarchaeology, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology, Lithic Technology

Professional Memberships

• Register of Professional Archaeologists (since 2010)
• Society for American Archaeology (since 2005)
• American Anthropological Association
• Society for Archaeological Sciences

Outreach and Public Service

• Occasional blogger for the Society for Archaeological Sciences
• Archaeology Exhibit. 2009 Blue Ridge Elementary Spring Carnival, Columbia, Missouri.
• Volcanoes, Arrowheads, and X-rays. 2007 University of Missouri Graduate Education Week “Adventures in Education Fair.”
• An Archaeological View of Thompsons Point. Brochure prepared for the 2006 Vermont Archaeology Month.