"Is This A Thing?": Opportunities and Results of the Rock Art Ranch NSF-REU Program

Summary

From 2011-2016 Dr. E. Charles Adams and Richard Lange have organized and directed the Rock Art Ranch field school, a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF-REU) Program from 2013-2016. Rock Art Ranch, located just southeast of Winslow, Arizona contains evidence of use/occupation from Paleoindian to Pueblo periods, and yielded a wealth of data that has inspired dissertations, masters theses, senior theses, and student projects. As a participant of the NSF-REU at Rock Art Ranch, this paper highlights the opportunities this specific project with Chuck and Rich has provided, in terms of undergraduate student training in field and lab methods as well as academic research. Beginning as a participant in this program, I chose to further my academic career as a graduate student at the University of Arizona, continuing to work with data from Rock Art Ranch. My paper will conclude with a brief summary of the results of my continued participation in this project through my master’s thesis on hunter-gatherer landscapes and land-uses inspired Chuck and Rich’s training through the NSF-REU Program.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 20138