Dean R. Snow

Dean Snow is an archaeologist and ethnohistorian. He received his BA from the University of Minnesota in 1962 and his PhD from the University of Oregon in 1966. He taught at the University of Maine and later at the University of Albany, during which time he established and carried out archaeological research programs in highland Mexico, New England, New York and the British Isles. He is known for his research into the paleodemography of prehistoric populations in all of these areas. Snow moved to Penn State in 1995, where he served as Head of the Department of Anthropology. He has served, as president of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Chair and later Secretary of Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., and as President of the Society for American Archaeology 2007-09. He carried out research on human sexual dimorphism as expressed in European cave art. His 1777: Tipping Point at Saratoga was published in 2016. He published a new edition of Archaeology of Native North America with Nancy Gonlin and Peter Siegel in 2019. The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram, is scheduled for publication in 2022.