Research

Mary Adair
Her research interests include economic patterns and dietary choices of prehistoric and early historic populations of the central Great plains. In particular, she focuses on the identification and interpretation of plant remains recovered from archaeological sites. She is currently studying archaeobotanical (plant) remains from archaeological deposits identified as ancestral Wichita.

Jeannette Blackmar
Her research interests include Great Plains archaeology, peopling of the Americas, gender issues in hunter-gatherers , zooarchaeology, and paleoecology. Recent research involved the analysis of faunal remains from Denuziller, an open-air French Middle Paleolithic site. She is currently studying faunal remains from Late Paleoindian age sites in the central Plains.

Jack L. Hofman
His research interests include peopling of the New World, early prehistory of the Great Plains, Paleoindian land use, lithic studies, and bison hunting and ecology.

John W. Hoopes
His research interests include archaeology, human ecology, ceramic analysis, digital and Internet applications in the following regions around the world: Southern Central America, Mesoamerica, and South America.