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Thomas James Connolly Archaeological Research Director Phone: 541-346-3031 (office) UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History 541-285-8267 (cell) & State Museum of Anthropology [email protected] 1224 University of Oregon http://natural-history.uoregon.edu/ Eugene, Oregon 97403-1224 Education Ph.D. 1986 University of Oregon. Department of Anthropology (Archaeology; Dissertation title: Cultural Stability and Change in the Prehistory of Southwest Oregon and Northern California) M.S. 1980 University of Oregon, Department of Anthropology (Archaeology). B.S. 1977 Moorhead State University (now Minnesota State University at Moorhead), Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Sociology, magna cum laude). Archaeological Employment 1986-present Director, Research Division, State Museum of Anthropology, Museum of Natural & Cultural History, University of Oregon, Eugene (Sr. Research Associate 1995-2008; Research Associate 1986-1995). 1984-86 Collections Specialist, State Museum of Anthropology, University of Oregon. 1983-86 Partner in BC/AD Consultants, a cultural resource consulting service. 1981-84 Research Assistant, State Museum of Anthropology, University of Oregon. 1983-79 Contract Archaeologist, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon. 1976-86 Archaeological Technician, University of Oregon, University of North Dakota, University of Minnesota at Moorhead, Heritage Research Associates. Teaching Experience 1999-present Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon (primary affiliation with the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History). Co-Instructor: Oregon Archaeology 2001-2010 University of Oregon Field Studies Center, Bend, Oregon. Courses taught: Oregon Archaeology, Archaeological Research Methods 1980-1981 Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Graduate Teaching Assistant 1977-1979 Teaching Substitute, Secondary Schools, Fargo School District, Fargo, North Dakota Publications: Books, Monographs, and Edited Volumes Aikens, C. Melvin, Thomas J. Connolly, and Dennis L. Jenkins 2011 Oregon Archaeology. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis. Schablitsky, Julie M. Robert S. Neyland, Thomas Connolly, Guy Tasa, and Chelsea Rose 2011 The Archaeological Investigations of John Paul Jones’ Birthplace, Arbigland Estate, Kirkbean, Scotland. First Landing Foundation, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Jenkins, Dennis L., Thomas J. Connolly, and Paul W. Baxter 2010 Riverine Resource Use on the Oregon-Idaho Border: Archaeological Investigations at 35ML1328 and 35ML1379, North Ontario, Malheur County. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers 69, Eugene. Jenkins, Dennis L., Thomas J. Connolly, and C. Melvin Aikens (editors) 2004 Early and Middle Holocene Archaeology of the Northern Great Basin. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers 62, Eugene. O’Neill, Brian L., Thomas J. Connolly, and Dorothy E. Friedel 2004 A Holocene Geoarchaeological Record for the Upper Willamette Valley, Oregon: The Long Tom and Chalker Sites. Eugene: University of Oregon Anthropological Papers 61. Connolly, Thomas J. 1999 Newberry Crater: A Ten-Thousand-Year Record of Human Occupation and Environmental Change in the Basin-Plateau Borderlands. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 121. Salt Lake City. 1 Jenkins, Dennis and Thomas J. Connolly 1996 Mid-Holocene Occupations at the Heath Cliffs Site, the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers 53. Eugene. Jenkins, Dennis and Thomas J. Connolly 1994 Archaeological Investigations at the Paquet Gulch Bridge Site: A Pithouse Village in the Deschutes River Basin, Southwest Columbia Plateau, Oregon. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers 49. Connolly, Thomas J., Jane E. Benjamin, Brian L. O’Neill, and Dennis L. Jenkins 1994 Archaeological Investigations at Two Sites on the Upper Rogue River (35JA189 and 35JA190), Southwest Oregon. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers 48. Connolly, Thomas J. and Dennis L. Jenkins 1993 Archaeology of Mitchell Cave (35WH122): A Late Period Hunting Camp in the Ochoco Mountains, Wheeler County, Oregon. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers 46. Connolly, Thomas J. 1992 Human Responses to Change in Coastal Geomorphology and Fauna on the Southern Northwest Coast: Archaeological Investigations at Seaside, Oregon. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers 45. Connolly, Thomas J. 1991 The Standley Site (35DO182): Investigations into the Prehistory of Camas Valley, Southwest Oregon. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers 43. Eugene. Jenkins, Dennis L. and Thomas J. Connolly 1990 Archaeology of Indian Grade Spring: A Special Function Campsite on Stinkingwater Mountain, Harney County, Oregon. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers 42. Baxter, Paul W., Richard D. Cheatham, Thomas J. Connolly, and Judith A. Willig 1983 Rigdon's Horse Pasture Cave: An Upland Hunting Camp in the Western Cascades, University of Oregon Anthropological Papers 28. Publications: Journal Articles or Book Chapters (*peer reviewed) Connolly, Thomas J., Craig E. Skinner, and Paul W. Baxter *2015 Ancient Trade Routes for Obsidian Cliffs and Newberry Volcano Glass in the Pacific Northwest. In Toolstone Geography of the Pacific Northwest, edited by Terry L. Ozbun and Ron Adams, pp. 180-192. Simon Fraser University, Archaeology Press, Burnaby, British Columbia. Baxter, Paul W., Thomas J. Connolly, and Craig E. Skinner *2015 Obsidian Use in the Willamette Valley and Adjacent Western Cascades of Oregon. In Toolstone Geography of the Pacific Northwest, edited by Terry L. Ozbun and Ron Adams, pp. 218-233. Simon Fraser University, Archaeology Press, Burnaby, British Columbia. Jenkins, Dennis L., Loren G. Davis, Thomas W. Stafford, Jr., Paula F. Campos, Thomas J. Connolly, Linda Scott Cummings, Michael Hofreiter, Bryan Hockett, Katelyn McDonough, Ian Luthe, Patrick W. O’Grady, Karl J. Reinhard, Mark E. Swisher, Frances White, Bonnie Yates, Robert M. Yohe II, Chad Yost, and Eske Willerslev *2013 Geochronology, Archaeological Context, and DNA at the Paisley Caves. In Paleoamerican Odyssey, edited by Kelly E. Graf, Caroline V. Ketron, and Michael R. Waters, pp. 485-510. Center for the Study of the First Americans, College Station, Texas. Connolly, Thomas J. *2013 Implications of New Radiocarbon Ages on Coiled Basketry from the Northern Great Basin. American Antiquity 78(2):373-384. Jenkins, Dennis L., Loren G. Davis, Thomas W. Stafford, Jr., Paula F. Campos, Bryan Hockett, George T. Jones, Linda Scott Cummings, Chad Yost, Thomas J. Connolly, Robert M. Yohe II, Summer C. Gibbons, Maanasa Raghavan, Morten Rasmussen, Johanna L. A. Paijmans, Michael Hofreiter, Thomas P. Gilbert, Eske Willerslev *2012 Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points and Human Coprolites at the Paisley Caves. Science 337(6091):223-228. Connolly, Thomas J. 2011 Luther Cressman and the Fort Rock Sandals. In 10,000 Years of Shoes: The Photographs of Brian Lanker, edited by Jon M. Erlandson and Sarah B. McClure, pp. 1-5. University of Oregon Museum of Natural & Cultural History, Eugene. Connolly, Thomas J. 2011 Archaeology, History, and Community: An Enduring Legacy at Beatty, Klamath County. Oregon Historical Quarterly 112(1):84-87. 2 Connolly, Thomas J., Richard L. Bland, and Ward Tonsfeldt *2011 Tracking the Kerry Line: Evidence from a Logging Railroad Camp in the Nehalem Valley, Oregon. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 45(2):199-208. Connolly, Thomas J. and Dennis L. Jenkins *2011 Archaeology of the Malheur River Corridor, East Central Oregon. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 45(2):135-147. Connolly, Thomas J., Christopher L. Ruiz, Jeanne McLaughlin, Guy L. Tasa, and Elizabeth Kallenbach *2010 The Archaeology of a Pioneer Family Cemetery in Western Oregon, 1854-1879. Historical Archaeology 44(4):28-45. Connolly, Thomas J., Mark E. Swisher, Christopher L. Ruiz, and Elizabeth A. Kallenbach *2009 A Window on the Past: Pane Glass at the Beatty Curve Archaeological Site, South-Central Oregon. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 43(2):141-151. Connolly, Thomas J. 2009 Willamette Valley, Western Oregon: The Long History of Settlements in an Interior Valley. In Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Francis P. McManamon, Linda S. Cordell, Kent Lightfoot, and George R. Milner, pp 199-203. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. Connolly, Thomas J. and Pat Barker 2008 Great Basin Sandals. In The Great Basin: People and Place Ancient Times, edited by Catherine S. Fowler and Don D. Fowler, pp. 68-73. School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe. Tasa, Guy L., and Thomas J. Connolly 2008 Archaeological Investigations at the Earl Dune Site (35CLT66): Native Land Use Patterns and Dune Chronology of the Clatsop Plains. In Dunes, Headlands, Estuaries, and Rivers: Current Archaeological Research on the Oregon Coast, edited by Guy L. Tasa and Brian L. O’Neill, pp. 57-64. Association of Oregon Archaeologists Occasional Papers No. 8, Eugene. Connolly, Thomas J., and Guy L. Tasa 2008 The Middle Holocene Cultural Record on the Oregon Coast : New Perspectives from Recent Work along the Central Oregon Coast . In Dunes, Headlands, Estuaries, and Rivers: Current Archaeological Research on the Oregon Coast, edited by Guy L. Tasa and Brian L. O’Neill, pp. 73-82. Association of Oregon Archaeologists Occasional Papers No. 8, Eugene. Connolly, Thomas J., R. Scott Byram, and Robert Kentta 2008 Archaeology Illuminated by History, History Illuminated by Archaeology: Examples from the Oregon Coast. 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