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University of Wyoming
Todd Surovell

Todd Surovell
Associate Professor
Archaeology

B.S. 1995, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. 1999, University of Arizona
Ph.D. 2003, University of Arizona

surovell@uwyo.edu • (307) 766-3239 • Anthropology Bldg 217

 

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Dr. Surovell specializes in the archaeology of hunter-gatherers and the first peoples of the New World. He has done fieldwork in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arizona, Wisconsin, Denmark, and Israel. He is a proponent of human behavioral ecology, and has used this approach to explore questions of past human demography, subsistence, and technology. He commonly uses mathematical modeling, computer simulation, and geoarchaeological methods in his work.He teaches a variety of courses in archaeology but most regularly Geoarchaeology, Quantitative Methods for Anthropologists, and Old World Archaeology.

 

Courses taught:

ANTH 3600            Archaeological Sciences
ANTH 4135/5135   Quantitative Methods for Anthropologists 
ANTH 4130/5130   Old World Archaeology  
ANTH 4150/5150   Seminar: Colonization of the Americas
ANTH 4150/5150   Computer Programming for Archaeologists  
ANTH 4170/5170   Geoarchaeology 
 

Recent/Selected Publications:

Surovell, T. A. and N. M. Waguespack (2007) Folsom hearth-centered use of space at Barger Gulch, Locality B. In Emerging Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology, edited by R. S. Brunswig and B. Pitblado, pp. 219-259, University of Colorado Press, Boulder. pdf

Surovell, T. A. and P.J. Brantingham (2007) A Note on the Use of Temporal Frequency Distributions in Studies of Prehistoric Demography. Journal of Archaeological Science 34:1868-1877. pdf

Surovell, T. A., N. M. Waguespack, and P. J. Brantingham (2005) Global Archaeological Evidence for Proboscidean Overkill. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102:6231-6236. pdf

Surovell, T. A., N. M. Waguespack, J. H. Mayer, M. Kornfeld and G. C. Frison (2005) Shallow Site Archaeology: Artifact Dispersal, Stratigraphy, and Radiocarbon Dating at the Barger Gulch Locality B Folsom site, Middle Park, Colorado. Geoarchaeology 20:627-649. pdf

Surovell, T. A. (2003) Simulating coastal migration in New World colonization. Current Anthropology 484:580-591. pdf

 
 

Research Interests:
Human Behavioral Ecology, New World Colonization, Lithic Technology, Human Demography, Subsistence, Pleistocene Extinctions, Geoarchaeology, Archaeological Modeling

 

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