Nicole Waguespack
Associate Professor
Archaeology

BA 1996, Colorado State University
MA 1999, University of Wyoming
Ph.D. 2003, University of Arizona
nmwagues@uwyo.edu • (307) 766-2931 • Anthropology Bldg 214

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Nicole Waguespack received her B.A. in Anthropology from Colorado State University, her M.A. from the University of Wyoming, and her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. She specializes in the archaeology of hunting and gathering populations and the first peoples of the New World. Her work is generally focused on the Paleoindian period of the Western Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, examining the economic and social aspects of forager lifeways. She has worked on numerous Paleoindian sites across the Rocky Mountain west, and excavated Barger Gulch, Locality B, a Folsom campsite in Middle Park, Colorado, from 1997 through 2007. Much of her work involves the application of models from human behavioral ecology to archaeological problems. In this vein, she has examined questions of hunter-gatherer subsistence, food sharing, technology, division of labor, and faunal extinctions. Professor Waguespack teaches a variety of lower and upper division archaeology courses.

Courses Taught:

ANTH1300            Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH 3400           Hunters & Gatherers
ANTH4010            History of Anthropological Thought
ANTH4020/5005    Seminar: Ethnoarchaeology
ANTH4110/5110    Zooarchaeology
ANTH4150/5150    Seminar: New World Colonization
ANTH 5015           Archaeological Theory & Method

Recent/ Selected Publications:

Surovell, T.A. and N. M. Waguespack
2008 How Many Elephant Kills are 14? Clovis Mammoth and Mastodon Kills in Context. Quaternary International 191: 82-97. pdf

Waguespack, N. M.
2007 Why We're Still Arguing about the Pleistocene Occupation of the Americas. Evolutionary Anthropology 16:63-74. pdf

Waguespack, N.M.
2005 The Organization of Male and Female Labor in Foraging Societies: Implications for Early Paleoindian Archaeology. American Anthropologist 107(4):666-676. pdf

Waguespack, N. M. and T. A. Surovell
2003 Clovis Hunting Strategies, or How to Make Out on Plentiful Resources. American Antiquity 68(2):333-352. pdf

Waguespack, N. M.
2002 Caribou Sharing and Storage: Refitting the Palangana Site. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 21:396-417. pdf
 

Research Interests:
Hunter-Gatherer Ecology, Paleoindian Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Behavioral Ecology, Subsistence Strategies, Pleistocene Extinctions

Press releases:

• 6/21/2007 - Archeologists Turn to Professional MythBusters for Stone-Age Experiment
• 4/29/2005 - UW Researchers Find Support for "Overkill Hypothesis"
• 11/3/2004 - UW Faculty Member Interviewed on Discovery Channel Feature
• 5/28/1997 - Students Receive Arts and Sciences Scholarships