Russell Greaves, Ph.D., RPA
Dr. Greaves has over 34 years of experience in both cultural resource management and academic research, and serves as the Regional Project Director for WSA’s Intermountain and Great Basin regions, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has worked in cultural resource management and research archaeology in the Great Basin, Southwest, Great Plains, and other regions. Much of his work focuses on hunter-gatherer archaeology, and he also has significant experience with archaeology of agricultural societies in the Southwest and Mississippian area. He has been involved with many innovative Paleoindian excavations, including the Folsom type-site in New Mexico and the Hudson-Meng Bison Bonebed cultural resource management and research project in Nebraska. His archaeological expertise includes geoarchaeology, stone tool studies, past subsistence, ethnoarchaeology, liaison with Native American tribes, museum and archival research. He has extensive ethnoarchaeological experience with hunter-gatherers of Venezuela, with Mayan agriculturalists in Mexico, and has worked with Native Americans in the Southwest on a range of cultural resource projects. He is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Utah and has taught at Westminster College, Harvard University, Boston University, the University of Texas at San Antonio, Southern Methodist University, the University of Texas at Arlington, and the University of New Mexico. He is a Research Associate with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University and a Consulting Scholar with the American Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Dr. Greaves has over 34 years of experience in both cultural resource management and academic research, and serves as the Regional Project Director for WSA’s Intermountain and Great Basin regions, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has worked in cultural resource management and research archaeology in the Great Basin, Southwest, Great Plains, and other regions. Much of his work focuses on hunter-gatherer archaeology, and he also has significant experience with archaeology of agricultural societies in the Southwest and Mississippian area. He has been involved with many innovative Paleoindian excavations, including the Folsom type-site in New Mexico and the Hudson-Meng Bison Bonebed cultural resource management and research project in Nebraska. His archaeological expertise includes geoarchaeology, stone tool studies, past subsistence, ethnoarchaeology, liaison with Native American tribes, museum and archival research. He has extensive ethnoarchaeological experience with hunter-gatherers of Venezuela, with Mayan agriculturalists in Mexico, and has worked with Native Americans in the Southwest on a range of cultural resource projects. He is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Utah and has taught at Westminster College, Harvard University, Boston University, the University of Texas at San Antonio, Southern Methodist University, the University of Texas at Arlington, and the University of New Mexico. He is a Research Associate with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University and a Consulting Scholar with the American Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
