CURRICULUM VITAE
María Nieves Zedeño
Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology
School of Anthropology
Haury Building 316
1009 E. South Campus Dr.
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0030
520.621.9607
EDUCATION
Southern Methodist University (SMU), Ph.D. in Anthropology, 1991
University of Arizona (UA), Visiting Student Scholar, 1988-1991
Southern Methodist University, M. A. in Anthropology, 1987M. A., 1987 Major: Anthropology
Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), B.S. in Archaeology, 1985
RESEARCH INTERESTS
North America: indigenous archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography, hunter-gatherers.Landscape theory, cultural revitalization, heritage management.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
2009-Associate Professor, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology and Archaeology Division,School of Anthropology, University of Arizona
2005-2009Associate Research Anthropologist, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona
2005-2009Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
2001-2004Assistant Research Anthropologist, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona
2001-2004Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
1994-2000Research Associate, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona
1994-1996Instructor, Anthropology Department, Pima Community College
1994Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona (fall)
1993Archaeological Consultant
1991-1992Research Specialist, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
1988-1991Lab Director, Archaeological Field School, University of Arizona (summers)
HONORS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
2010-2014US Forest Service, “Kootenai Falls Traditional Cultural District Boundary Assessment and Nomination” ($56,516, PI)
2009-2011National Science Foundation, “The Complex Organization of Communal Bison Hunters: Revisiting the Late Prehistory of the Northern Plains” ($193,500, PI)
2009-2011National Park Service, “NAGPRA Technical Assistance for Agate Fossil Bed National Monument, NE, Badlands National Park, SD, and Buffalo National River, AR “ ($147,000, PI with R. Stoffle, PI)
2009-2010 National Park Service, “Native American Ornithology along the Missouri River” ($50,000, PI)
2009-2010National Park Service, “A Survey, an Assessment of National Park Service Libraries and Archives: Knife River National Historic Site, North Dakota” ($10,000, PI with K. L. Hollenback, co-PI)
2009University of Arizona, Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, “To Become A Mountain Hunter: An Archaeological and Historical Survey of Blackfeet Campsites and Associated Places in the Lewis & Clark National Forest, Montana” ($1500, PI)
2008-2013Bureau of Land Management, “Clarks Fork River Canyon Ethnographic Study” ($15,000, PI)
2008-2011National Park Service, “Supplement to Ethnographic Overview of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan” ($45,500, PI)
2008-2010National Park Service, “Ethnographic Overview and Assessment for Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan” ($90,176, PI)
2008-2009National Park Service, “The Gods Above Have Come: A Contemporary Analysis of the Eagle as a Cultural Resource in the Northern Plains” ($8000, PI with W. F. Murray, co-PI)
2008-2009National Park Service, “A Survey, an Assessment of National Park Service Libraries and Archives: Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site and Knife River National Historic Site, North Dakota” ($7000, PI with K. L. Hollenback, co-PI)
2007-2008National Park Service, “Supplement to the Ethnobotanical Survey of the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, North Dakota” ($40,000, PI)
2007-2008National Park Service, “Supplement to Prehistory and Archaeology, Buffalo National River, Arkansas” ($15,000, PI)
2007-2008Montana Alberta Tie, Ltd., “Cultural Resource and Traditional Land Use Assessment of Blackfeet Sites along the Montana Alberta Transmission Line, Montana” ($49,720, PI)
2007-2008National Park Service, “Oral Traditions of Ft. Union Trading Post National Historic Site” ($60,000, co-PI with R. S. Toupal, PI)
2007University of Arizona, Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, “Agaming: Mapping an Ojibwa Heritage Site, St. Croix River, Minnesota” ($1500, PI)
2006-2008National Park Service, “Botanical Survey of the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site (KNRI), North Dakota” ($80,000, lead PI with R. S. Toupal)
2006-2007National Park Service, “Blackfeet Traditional Resource Survey, Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, and National Elk Refuge” ($11,457, PI)
2006-2007National Park Service, “Botanical Study, Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, North Dakota” ($120,000, PI)
2005-2007National Park Service, “Cultural Affiliation, Buffalo National Riverway, Arkansas” ($20,000, PI)
2005National Park Service, “Supplement to Cultural Affiliation, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio” ($40,000, PI)
2004National Park Service, “Cultural Affiliation, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio” ($40,000, PI)
2004SAIC, Inc.with funds from USForest Service and US Army Corps of Engineers, “Badger-Two Medicine, Traditional Cultural District Boundary Modification” ($50,000, PI)
2003National Park Service, “Cultural Affiliation and Ethnographic Overview, Theodore Roosevelt NP, Fort Union NHS, and Knife River Indian Villages NHS, North Dakota” ($90,000, PI with R. W. Stoffle, co-PI)
2003National Park Service,“Ethnographic Resource Inventory, St. Croix River National Scenic Riverways, Minnesota” ($49,700, PI)
2003US Combat Command for Nellis Air Force Base, “Special Research Topics- Belted Range and Black Mountain, Nevada Test and Training Range” ($182,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
2003US Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, Native American Consultation Program, multi-year and multi-task ($80,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
2002National Park Service, “Cultural Affiliation and Ethnographic Resource Inventory for Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota” ($110,000,co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
2002US Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, Native American Consultation Program, multi-year and multi-task ($120,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
2001National Park Service,“Cultural Affiliation Study, Ozark National Scenic Riverways” ($88,000, PI with R. W. Stoffle, co-PI)
2001US Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, Native American Consultation Program, multi-year and multi-task ($75,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
2000US Combat Command for Nellis Air Force Base,“Indian History Project” ($51,000, PI with R. W. Stoffle, co-PI)
2000Federal Highway Administration, “Supplement to Rapid Impact Assessment of Proposed Bridge Construction, Hoover Dam, Nevada/Arizona” ($45,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
2000US Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, Native American Consultation Program, multi-year and multi-task ($50,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
1999US Combat Command for Nellis Air Force Base, Native American Consultation Program, multi-year and multi-task ($40,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
1999National Park Service, “Supplement to Ethnographic Resource Overview for the St. Croix River National Scenic Riverway” ($35,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
1999National Park Service, “Supplement to Ethnographic Resource Overview, Three Parks, Arizona and New Mexico” ($44,000,PI with R. W. Stoffle, co-PI)
1999US Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, Native American Consultation Program, multi-year and multi-task ($150,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
1998Federal Highway Administration, “Rapid Impact Assessment of Proposed Bridge Construction, Hoover Dam, Nevada/Arizona” ($45,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
1998US Combat Command for Nellis Air Force Base, Native American Consultation Program, multi-year and multi-task ($29,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
1998National Park Service, “Ethnographic Resource Overview for the St. Croix River National Scenic Riverway” ($35,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
1998Federal Highway Administration, “Rapid Impact Assessment of Proposed Highway Expansion, Big Springs, Nevada” ($45,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
1998US Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, Native American Consultation Program, multi-year and multi-task ($90,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
1998National Park Service, “Supplement to Ethnographic Resource Overview, Three Parks, Arizona and New Mexico” ($18,000, PI with R. W. Stoffle)
1997National Park Service, “Ethnographic Resource Overview, Three Parks, Arizona and New Mexico” ($14,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
1997National Park Service, “Cultural Resource Overview for Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Apostle Islands National Park, and Voyageurs National Park” ($96,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
1997US Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, Native American Consultation Program, multi-year and multi-task ($183,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
1996National Park Service, “Cultural Resource Overview for Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Apostle Islands National Park, and Voyageurs National Park” ($81,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI, and R. S. Toupal, co-PI)
1996US Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, Native American Consultation Program, multi-year and multi-task ($120,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
1995US Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, Native American Consultation Program, multi-year and multi-task ($350,000, co-PI with R. W. Stoffle, PI)
1995National Science Foundation, “Refining Evidence of Ethnic Coresidence at Point of Pines, Arizona” ($24,000, PI)
1995State of Missouri, Missouri University Research Reactor,“Refining Evidence of Ethnic Coresidence at Point of Pines, Arizona” (equivalent to$22,000 in neutron radiation analysis, PI)
1988National Science Foundation, doctoral dissertation improvement grant ($7000)
1987Southern Methodist University, Graduate Student Assembly, doctoral dissertation improvement grant ($750)
1987Agnese Lindley Foundation, doctoral dissertation improvement grant ($4800)
1987Southern Methodist University, Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, doctoral dissertation improvement grant ($1200)
1987Sigma Chi Society, doctoral dissertation improvement grant ($500)
OTHER AWARDS
2009University of Arizona, School of Anthropology, Honorable Mention in field research photography for submission “After the Ice Storm I”
2007University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, Second prize in field research photography for submission “Sundance Lodge, Blood Reserve, Alberta”
1993American Anthropological Association, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, Anthropological Fiction Award, co-winner of the short story category
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Bowser, B. J., and M. N. Zedeño, editors
2009The Archaeology of Meaningful Places. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Stoffle, R. W., M. N. Zedeño, and D. B. Halmo, editors
2001American Indians and the Nevada Test Site: A Model of Research and Consultation. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
Zedeño, M. N., guest editor
1999Scholars of the Bureau of American Ethnology: Exploring the Roots of American Anthropology. Special Issue of the Journal of the Southwest 41(3).
Zedeño, M. N.
1994Sourcing Prehistoric Ceramics at Chodistaas Pueblo, Arizona: The Circulation of People and Pots in the Grasshopper Region. Anthropological Papers 58. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Mills, B. J., C. E. Goetze, and M. N. Zedeño
1993Across the Colorado Plateau: Anthropological Studies Along the Transwestern Pipeline Route, Volume XVI, Interpretation of Ceramic Artifacts. Office of Contract Archaeology and Maxwell Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS
2009From Path to Myth: Journeys and the Naturalization of Nation along the Upper Missouri River (with K. L. Hollenback and C. Grinnell). In The Anthropology of Paths and Trails, edited by J. Snead, A. Darling, and C. Erickson, pp. 106-133. Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
2009The Archaeology of Meaningful Places (with B. J. Bowser). In The Archaeology of Meaningful Places, edited by B. J. Bowser and M. N. Zedeño, pp. 1-14. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
2008The Archaeology of Territory and Territoriality. In The Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, edited by B. David and J. Thomas, pp. 210-217. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, California.
2008Traditional Knowledge, Ritual Behavior, and Contemporary Interpretations of the Archaeological Record – an Ojibwa Perspective. In Belief in the Past: Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Religion, edited by D. S. Whitley and K. Hays-Gilpin, pp. 259-274. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, California.
2005Searching for Analytical Alternatives to the Characterization of Copper Minerals (with H. Neff and A. Nielsen). In Laser Ablation ICP-MS in Archaeological Research, edited by R. J. Speakman and H. Neff, pp. 77-84. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
2005A Preliminary Analysis of Pigments used in Redware Pottery Production at Point of Pines, Arizona (second authorwith C.Sall and R. J. Speakman). In Laser Ablation ICP-MS in Archaeological Research, edited by R. J. Speakman and H. Neff, pp. 155-166. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
2004The Political Geography and Territoriality of 14th Century Settlements in the Mogollon Highlands of East-central Arizona (second author with D. Triadan). In The Protohistoric Pueblo World: A.D. 1275-1600, edited by E. C. Adams and A. I. Duff, pp. 95-107. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2004Shifting Risks: Hoover Dam Impacts on American Indian Sacred Landscapes (second author with R. W. Stoffle, A. Eisenberg, R. S. Toupal, and A. K. Carroll). In Facility Siting: Risk, Power and Identity in Land Use Planning, edited by A. Boholm and R. E. Löfstedt, pp. 127-144. Earthscan, London.
2003Tracking the Role of Pathways in the Evolution of a Human Landscape: the St. Croix Riverway in Ethnohistorical Perspective (with R. W. Stoffle). In Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes: The Archaeology of Human Adaptation, edited by M. Rockman and J. Steele, pp. 59-80. Routledge, London.
2003Compositional Analysis in American Archaeology (with D. Triadan and R. Bishop). In Patterns and Process: Essays in Honor of Edward V. Sayre, edited by L. Van Zelst, pp. 27-56. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C.
2003Landscape, Nature, and Culture: A Diachronic Model of Human-Nature Adaptations (third author with R. W. Stoffle and R. S. Toupal). In Nature Across Cultures, edited by H. Selin, pp. 97-114. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
2002Artifact Design, Composition, and Context: Updating the Analysis of Ceramic Circulation at Point of Pines, Arizona. In Ceramic Production and Circulation in the Greater Southwest, edited by D. Glowacki and H. Neff, pp. 74-84. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Los Angeles.
2002Neolithic Ceramic Production in the Eastern Sahara of Egypt. In Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara, vol. 2, edited by K. Nelson, pp. 51-64. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
2001Introduction (third author with R. W. Stoffle and D. B. Halmo). In American Indians and the Nevada Test Site, edited by R. W. Stoffle, M. N. Zedeño, and D. B. Halmo, pp.3-9 . U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
2001American Indian Worldviews I: The Concept “Power” and Its Connection to People, Places, and Resources (second author with R. W. Stoffle). In American Indians and the Nevada Test Site, edited by R. W. Stoffle, M. N. Zedeño, and D. B. Halmo, pp.58-76 . U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
2001The Ethnoarchaeology of Pahute and Rainier Mesas (with K. Hamm). In American Indians and the Nevada Test Site, edited by R. W. Stoffle, M. N. Zedeño, and D. B. Halmo, pp.77-97 . U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
2001Ethnobiology on Pahute and Rainier Mesas (with K. Hamm). In American Indians and the Nevada Test Site, edited by R. W. Stoffle, M. N. Zedeño, and D. B. Halmo, pp. 98-121. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
2001Storied Rocks: American Indian Inventory and Assessment of Rock Art Sites (with R. W. Stoffle and D. L. Shaul). In American Indians and the Nevada Test Site, edited by R. W. Stoffle, M. N. Zedeño, and D. B. Halmo, pp. 122-138. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
2001American Indian Worldviews II: Power and Cultural Landscapes (second author with R. W. Stoffle). In American Indians and the Nevada Test Site, edited by R. W. Stoffle, M. N. Zedeño, and D. B. Halmo, pp.139-152. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
2001Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Consultations (second author with R. W. Stoffle and D. B. Halmo). In American Indians and the Nevada Test Site, edited by R. W. Stoffle, M. N. Zedeño, and D. B. Halmo, pp. 190-202. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
2001Conclusions (second author with R. W. Stoffle and D. B. Halmo). In American Indians and the Nevada Test Site, edited by R. W. Stoffle, M. N. Zedeño, and D. B. Halmo, pp. 203-210. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
2001Site E-92-9: A Possible Late Neolithic Solar Calendar (second author with A. Applegate). In Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara, vol. 1, edited by F. Wendorf and R. Schild, pp. 463-467. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
2001Site E-92-8: A Late Prehistoric C-Group Component at Nabta Playa (second author with A. Applegate). In Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara, vol. 1, edited by F. Wendorf and R. Schild, pp. 529-533. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
2000On What People Make of Places -- A Behavioral Cartography. In Explorations in Social Theory, edited by M. B. Schiffer, pp. 97-111. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
1996Overview of the Late Pueblo III Period Settlement Patterns in the Mountains of East-central Arizona (fourth author with J. J. Reid, J. Welch, and B. Montgomery). In The Prehistoric Pueblo World, 1150-1350, edited by M. Adler, pp. 73-85. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
1995The Role of Population Movement and Technology Transfer in the Manufacture of Southwestern Ceramics. In Evolution of Ceramic Production in the American Southwest, edited by P. Crown and B. J. Mills, pp. 115-141. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
1992The Origin of Roosevelt Red Ware (third author with J. J. Reid, B. K. Montgomery, and M. A. Neupert). In Proceedings of the Second Salado Conference, edited by R. C. Lange and S. Germick, pp. 212-215. Arizona Archaeological Society, Phoenix.
PUBLICATIONS: JOURNAL ARTICLES
2009Animating by Association: Index Objects and Relational Taxonomies. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19(3):407-417.
2008Bundled Worlds: The Roles and Interactions of Complex Objects from the North American Plains. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 15(4):362-378.
2008When Is a Site Culturally Viable? (with N. C. Laluk) Heritage Management 1(1):71-98.
2004Landscapes of the Ghost Dance: A Cartography of Numic Ritual (second authorwith A. K. Carroll and R. W. Stoffle). Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 11(2):127-156.
2001Historic Memory and Ethnographic Perspectives on the Southern Paiute Homeland (second author with R. W. Stoffle). Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 23(2):229-248.
2001Cultural Landscapes and Ethnographic Cartographies: Scandinavian-American and American Indian Knowledge of the Land (second author with R. S. Toupal, R. W. Stoffle, and P. Barabe). Environmental Science and Policy 4(4-5):171-184.
2000Ceramic Evidence for Community Reorganization and Change in East-central Arizona (with D. Triadan). Kiva 65:215-233.
1999BAE Anthropology: Its Roots and Legacy. Journal of the Southwest 41(3):273-281.
1999BAE Scholars as Documenters of Diversity and Change at Hopi, 1870-1895 (second author with E. C. Adams). Journal of the Southwest 41(3):311-334.
1998Identifying Material Correlates for Ceramics Circulation in the Prehistoric Puebloan Southwest. Journal of Anthropological Research 54(4):461-476.
1997Landscapes, Land Use, and the History of Territory Formation: an example from the Puebloan Southwest. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 4(1):67-103.
1997Landmark and Landscape: A Contextual Approach to the Management of American Indian Resources (with D. E. Austin and R. W. Stoffle). Culture and Agriculture 19(3):123-129.
1995Refinements in Dating Late Cibola White Ware (third author with J. J. Reid and B. Montgomery). Kiva 61(1):31-44.
1985La Relación Forma-contenido en la Clasificación Cerámica [Form-substance Relationships in Ceramic Classification]. Boletín de Antropología Americana 11:16-26.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS
2000Book Review, Vanishing River: Landscapes and Lives of the Lower Verde Valley. S. Whittlesey, R. Ciolek-Torello, and J. Altschul, eds. Journal of Field Archaeology 27(2):233-235.
1997Book Review, The Social Dynamics of Pottery Style in the Early Puebloan Southwest, by M. Hegmon. American Antiquity 62(4):766-767.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Books:
n.d.The Forest, the River, and Us: Ojibwa Cultural Resources on the St. Croix River Watershed, Wisconsin and Minnesota (with J. Smith). Submitted to the Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul. Manuscript in review.
n.d.Ethnobotany Field Guide for the Missouri River Trench and Environs (with S. Miller, W. F. Murray, and K. L. Hollenback). Submitted to the University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Manuscript in review.
n.d.To Become a Mountain Hunter: The Archaeology and Ethnography of Blackfeet Treaty Rights.Based on 2008 sabbatical research. Manuscript in preparation.
n.d.Ancient Voices, Storied Places: Themes in Contemporary Indian History (editor; with A. K. Carroll and R. W. Stoffle, co-editors). Accepted for publication by Malki Press, Carson City, Nevada. Delayed for lack of funding.
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:
n.d.Flexible Core Values And Subsistence Hunting Among Reservation-Era Blackfeet. In Footprints on the Landscape: The Historical Ecology of Hunter-gatherers, edited by V. Thompson. Completed manuscript to be submitted for review to the University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
n.d.The Making of Lake Sakakawea, or How to Turn Negative Heritage into Viable Cultural Property (second author with W. F. Murray, C. Grinnell, and E. Crows Breast). In preparation.
n.d.Ontology and Ethnozoology of Ceremonial Bundles in the Northern Plains (with B. Pavao-Zuckerman). In preparation.
NEWSLETTER ARTICLES
2007Blackfeet Landscape Knowledge and the Badger-Two Medicine Traditional Cultural District. The SAA Archaeological Record 7(2):9-12, 22.
2001Piecing the Puzzle: Ethnographic Research on Federal Lands (second authorwith G. Dewey-Hefley, R. W. Stoffle, and F. Pittaluga). Common Ground (Spring 2001):15.
1998Archaeology, Natural Science, and Applied Research (with D. Austin). AAA Newsletter (April).
1997Time, Trust, and the Measure of Success: The American Indian Cultural Resources Program at the Nevada Test Site (second author with C. Beck and R. Furlow). SAA Bulletin 15(3):40-42.
1985Análisis Térmico-diferencial de la Cerámica Chorrera [Differential-thermal Analysis of Chorrera Ceramics]. Gaceta Arqueológica Andina (January):3-4.