MacDonald, Douglas H., Ph.D., RPA

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
The University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812
douglas.macdonald@mso.umt.edu
406-243-5814
406-243-4918 (fax)
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Dr. MacDonald’s recent research involves identification of prehistoric forager settlement and mobility patterns by tracing sources of lithic raw materials for stone tools recovered at archaeological sites. Evolutionary theory, including evolutionary ecology and dual inheritance theories, are important theoretical frameworks in MacDonald’s work. MacDonald has published articles in Archaeology of Eastern North America (2006), Pennsylvania Archaeologist (2006 and 2003), Geoarchaeology (2003), American Antiquity (2001), Plains Anthropologist (1999), Current Anthropology (1998), Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (1998), Current Research in the Pleistocene (1996 and 1997), and North American Archaeologist (1995). MacDonald also recently contributed to two edited volumes, including The Settlement of the American Continents (University of Arizona Press, 2004) and Upland Archaeology in the East (Society of Virginia Archaeology, 2005). Full titles of the respective articles/chapters are included in the attached vita. While recent research has been focused in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, future work will be focused within the northern Great Plains of North America.

Classes Taught

At The University of Montana
  • ANTH 101 INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY (SUMMER)
  • ANTH 450 ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY (FALL SEMESTER) Syllabus
  • ANTH 451 CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (FALL SEMESTER) Syllabus
  • ANTH 352 ARCHAEOLOGY OF MONTANA (SPRING SEMESTER) Syllabus
  • ANTH 602 CULTURAL HERITAGE POLICY & PRACTICE (SPRING SEMESTER) Syllabus

At Washington State University

  • Art and Society (Rock Art in Prehistoric Society)
  • Native American Cultures
  • Sex and Evolution
  • Introduction to Anthropology