Biographical sketches and contact information
Buck, Paul, Ph.D.Contact InformationE-mail: Paul.Buck@dri.edu |
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Dr. Buck is an anthropologist and educator. He has been involved in archaeological and anthropological projects in a wide variety of contexts in western North America and Egypt for almost 30 years. He has published on remote sensing research and other archaeological projects in international, national, and regional peer-reviewed journals. Buck currently has on-going field research in the archaeology of the prehistoric Anasazi in NW Arizona of the Mt. Trumbull region.
His research interests include:
- Hunter/gatherer adaptations in arid and subarid environments of Western North America;
- The evolution of complex society, agricultural systems and urbanism in the SW U.S. Remote sensing and geophysical prospection, including applications of multispectral scanner systems to archaeological site detection and characterization; spectral properties of archaeological materials; ground-penetrating radar.
- Site formation processes, microartifact studies, reconstruction of regional landscapes and processes affecting sites in arid lands; lithic analyses.