Matthew E Hill Jr

Research Interests: archaeology, zooarchaeology, human impacts to environment, ecology and environment, hunter-gatherers, Paleoindians; Great Plains, Southwest US

Keywords:

• Archaeology

My research is informed by the principles of historical ecology, which attempts to integrate the notions of ecology and the environment as central themes in the study of human societies. My work focuses on landscape-scale processes of human-environment interactions expressed in long-term behavioral changes (spanning from the end of the Ice Age to the historic period) across various environmental settings (Great Plains grasslands, Rocky Mountains, Desert Southwest).

Currently I am involved in three different research projects:

1. The first project involve the study of economic and technological change among late 17th-early 18th century Native American farmers in Western Kansas.
2. The second project investigates long-term changes among big-game hunters on the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains.
3. The third project tries to measure the effects of human hunting had on large-bodied mammal populations in North America.