Tracking Ancient Footsteps

Tracking Ancient Footsteps celebrates William D. Lipe's five-decade career in Southwestern and conservation archaeology. From the arid expanses of Glen Canyon, the Red Rock Plateau, and Cedar Mesa in Utah, to the relatively lush Dolores Valley and Mesa Verde regions of Colorado, Lipe participated in the key projects defining much of what is known today about the ancient Native American past in the Southwest. And, in 1974, he provided a timely definition for “public archaeology” that influences researchers and land managers to the present time. In Tracking Ancient Footsteps, nine of his close colleagues share their experiences, providing a chronology of one man's life intersecting with our understanding of Southwestern Prehistory, the role of government land-holding agencies, and the archaeological profession as a whole.

R.G. Matson is Professor of Archaeology, Emeritus, at the Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia (UBC). He earned B.A. in anthropology in 1966 from the University of California, Riverside, and received a Ph.C. (1969) and Ph.D. (1971) in anthropology at the University of California, Davis

Timothy A. Kohler is an archaeologist in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1978, with specialties in southeastern archaeology and quantitative methods, and currently is a research associate at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute, and director of the WSU/UW IPEM (IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling).