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University of Wyoming
Charles A. Reher

Charles A. Reher
Associate Professor
Archeology

BA 1970, University of Wyoming
MA 1971, University of Wyoming
Ph.D. 1978, Universit of New Mexico
arrow@uwyo.edu • 307) 766-2208 • Anthropology Bldg 219

 

Director of Anthropology Museum and the Archaeological Field School Program; Department Computer Coordinator, Graduate Advisor; Vice President, Plain Anthropological Association; Tribal Archaeologist for the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapahoe Tribes, Wind River Reservation.

Research Interests
In General ... research and teaching in Northwest Plains archaeology, especially the study of Late Prehistoric/Plains Indian cultures and the archaeology of Early Historic Frontier expansion ...

... also, when I can ... Southwest archaeology, including Anasazi cultures of the Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde areas, and the Early Historic Navajo.

More Specifically ... tend to specialize in the study of chipped stone technology, including projectile point analysis and experimental flintknapping ...

... but ... due to my own interests and also the needs of our department ... additional research and teaching in stylistic and functional analysis of ceramics; all aspects of historical archaeology including the analysis of trade beads and glass containers; bison ecology and faunal analysis; site dating and paleoclimatic reconstruction using dendrochronology; hunter-gatherer adaptation in semiarid environments; ethnobotany; geoarchaeology; archaeological applications of remote sensing; computer applications of statistical analysis and other quantitative techniques; computerized digital imagery analysis; museum display techniques.

Some Contemporary Issues ... various activities in cultural resource management contexts, including advocacy of Native American viewpoints; the role of archaeology in historic preservation, public education, and economic development; currently developing major research and public education field centers in the small southeastern Wyoming town of Pine Bluffs, and at the Vore Buffalo Jump near Sundance in northeast Wyoming.

Some Current Professional Duties ... Director of Anthropology Museum and the Archaeological Field School Program; Department Computer Coordinator, Graduate Advisor; Vice President, Plain Anthropological Association; Tribal Archaeologist for the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapahoe Tribes, Wind River Reservation.

Recent Publications

(in press) Dreams and Schemes in the Wyoming Black Hills: Development of a Research, Education and Economic Development Center at the Vore Buffalo Jump, with G. Gade. Chapter In "The Public On-Site Interpretation of Plains Bison Kills", L.B. Davis, Ed., Museum of the Rockies Archaeology Series.

(1996) 12,000 Years of Hunting and Gathering in Northeast Wyoming: An Archaeological Overview of Northeast Wyoming, M. Kornfeld and C.A. Reher. Technical Report No. 10, Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming.

(1995) Tree Growth on the Snake River Floodplain, Jackson Hole, Wyoming: A Dendrochronology Project, C.A. Reher and L.L. Scheiber. Wetlands Research Program Technical Report WRP-RE-9. U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Washington D.C.

(1991) Large Scale Lithic Quarries and Regional Transport Systems on the High Plains of Eastern Wyoming: Spanish Diggings Revisited. In "Raw Material Economies Among Hunter-Gatherers", A.M. White and S. Holen, Eds., University of Kansas Publications in Anthropology19: 251-284. (Proceedings of the University of Kansas Museum of Anthropology International Conference on Hunter-Gatherer Material Economy).
 

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