| Nathan McDonald Craig |
GIS Developer
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Santa Barbra, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106
Phone: (805) 971-6917
Email: nathancraig@umail.ucsb.edu
website: http://titicaca.ucsb.edu/~craig |
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| Education |
| 2005 |
Ph.D., Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara |
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M.A., Anthropology with Archaeology emphasis, UC Santa Barbara |
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B.A., Anthropology with Archaeology emphasis, UC Santa Cruz Highest Honors.
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| Teaching Experience |
| 2005 |
Anthropology 196 The Archaeology of Religion
Spring
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| 2003 |
Anthropology 105 Human Variation
Summer |
| 2001 |
Site Mapping, Total Station, and GIS Workshop for UCSB Graduate Students
Spring |
| 2000 |
Laboratory Coordinator: Anthropology 197, GIS for Archaeologists and Anthropologists
Spring
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| 1997 |
Head Teaching Assistant: Anthropology 3, Introduction to Archaeology
Winter |
| 1997 |
Head Teaching Assistant: Anthropology 2, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Fall
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| 1996 |
Teaching Assistant: Anthropology 3, Introduction to Archaeology
Winter |
| 1996 |
Head Teaching Assistant: Anthropology 2, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Fall |
| 1995 |
Teaching Assistant: Anthropology 3, Introduction to Archaeology
Winter
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| 1995 |
Teaching Assistant: Anthropology 2, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.
Fall
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| Publications |
In Press |
Ritual Use of Caves in the Andes. In Journeys into the Dark Zone: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Caves as Sacred Spaces (vols. 1 & 2) edited by H. Moyes. University Press of Colorado.
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| In Press |
Future Directions in the Recording of Archaeological Excavations Using GIS, with Mark Aldenderfer. In Future Directions in GIS, edited by S. Branting. Archaeopress, Oxford.
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| In Press |
Horticultural Investment, Transportation, and Site Spacing: Remote Sensing of Yanomamö Landscape Features as a Test Case. With Napoleon Chagnon
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| In Press |
Rapid piece plotting of small artifact distributions in domestic and ritual activity areas using GIS. With Holley Moyes and Mark Aldenderfer |
| 2001 |
Jennings, Justin and Nathan Craig
Polity Wide Analysis and Imperial Political Economy: An Example from the Wari Empire of Peru. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 20: 479-502.
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| 2001 |
Hagen, Edward, Raymond Hames, Nathan Craig, Matt Lauer, and Michael Price
Parental Investment and Child Health in a Yanomamö Village Suffering Short-Term Food Stress. Journal of Biosocial Science. 33: 503-528.
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| Synergistic Activities |
1999 |
Aldenderfer, Mark, Arthur Clifford, and Nathan Craig
Interactive Data Exploration on the WWW for Classroom Activities in Archaeology Using ArcView Internet Map Server.
Paper presented at 1999 ESRI User Conference in San Diego, CA.
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| 2005 |
Carlson, Keith and Nathan Craig
Late Preceramic Mound Site Locational Pattering in the Norte Chico of Coastal Peru: A GIS Approach.
Paper to be presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Salt Lake City, Utah March 30-April 3. 2005
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| 2004 |
Digital Archaeology at PANC.
Presented at San Marcos University.
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| 2002 |
Recording Large-Scale Archaeological Excavations with GIS. ArcNews, April: 34-35.
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| 2001 |
Consideraciones Metodológicos y Teoréticos al Sitio Jiskairumoko.
Presentado en el Universidad del Altiplano. |
| 2001 |
Investigating Archaic Domestic Architecture in the Titicaca Basin Using GIS.
National Center for Geographic Information Analysis: Brown Bag Lecture, UCSB. |
1999 |
Real-Time GIS construction and digital data recording of the Jiskairumoko excavation. Society for American Archaeology Bulletin.
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| 1994 |
A Preliminary Report on Basketry Materials Used by Contemporary Native Americans Living in Proximity to the Cleveland National Forest.
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2002 |
Domestic Architecture from the Late Archaic South-Central Andean Site of Jiskairumoko. With Mark Aldenderfer.
Paper presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Denver. March 20-24, 2002. |
| 2001 |
Using ArcView for Estimating Volume at Stratigraphically Complex Archaeological Sites. With Mark Aldenderfer.
Paper presented at the 21st Annual ESRI International User Conference, July 10, 2001.
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2001 |
Preliminary stages in the development of a real-time digital data recording system for archaeological excavation using ArcView GIS 3.1. With Mark Aldenderfer
ESRI Archaeology Publication. 1.
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| 2001 |
Digitally recording fieldwork and e-publication: Research and education examples from Jiskairumoko. With Mark Aldenderfer.
Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in New Orleans. April 18-22, 2001.
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| 2004 |
Rapid piece plotting of small artifact distributions in domestic and ritual activity areas using GIS. With Mark Aldenderfer and Holley Moyes
Paper to be presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Montreal, Québec, Canada. March 31-April 4.
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| 2000 |
Cartographic analysis of Yanomamö settlement patterns using historic space borne optical imaging systems. With Napoleon Chagnon
Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Philadelphia. April 5-8, 2000.
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2001 |
Organizing Archaeological Geophysical Survey and Surface Mapping Data in ArcView. With Elizabeth Klarich, Nicholas Tripcevich, George Herbst, and Arleen Garcia
Paper presented at the 21st Annual ESRI International User Conference, July 10, 2001.
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| 1999 |
Jennings, Justin and Nathan Craig
Polity Wide Analysis and Imperial Political Economy: An Example from the Wari Empire of Peru.
Paper presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Chicago, 1999.
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| 1999 |
Hagen, Edward, Nathan Craig, Raymond Hames, Matt Lauer, and Michael Price
Parental Investment and Child Health at a Yanomamö Village.
Paper presented at the 1999 meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.
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| 2001 |
Klarich, Elizabeth and Nathan Craig
Geophysical Survey in the Lake Titicaca Basin: Uncovering Domestic Architecture at the Upper Formative Center of Pucara, Peru.
Poster presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in New Orleans. April 18-22, 2001.
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| In Prep. |
Plourde, Amiee and Nathan Craig
Visible plazas, sunken courts, and buried monoliths: geophysical survey and GIS as tools to help uncover buried features of the south-central Andean Formative.
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| 2000 |
Richard. H. Steckel, Phillip L. Walker, and Nathan Craig
A Geographic Information System analysis of variation in health and nutrition in the Western Hemisphere.
Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in San Antonio, 2000.
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| Field Work |
| 2004 |
Norte Chico, Peru
Field Directors: Jonathan Haas and Winifred Creamer
June-August
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| 2003 |
July-August, 2003 Chechem Ha Cave, Belize
Field Director: Holley Moyes
July-August
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| 2002 |
Jachacachi, Peru
Principal Investigator: Mark S. Aldenderfer.
July-November
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2001 |
Jachacachi, Peru
Principal Investigator: Mark S. Aldenderfer.
July-November
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| 1998 |
Yanomamö Field Research at Cejal, Venezuela
Principal Investigators: Napoleon A. Chagnon, Ph.D. and Raymond B. Hames Ph.D.
July 6-August 1
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1997 |
Universidad Federal de Roraima
Principal Investigator: Napoleon A. Chagnon.
March 16-April 1
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| 1994-1995 |
GS-5 Archaeologist Lassen National Forest
Supervisors: Chris O' Brien Ph.D. and Mike Dugas M.A.
June 7-September 15, 1995 and June 13-September 30, 1994
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| 1994-1994 |
Intern, Cleveland National Forest Heritage Resource Program
Supervisor: Cari ver Planck, M.A.
May 1-June 10, 1994 and May 1-June 10, 1995
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| 1993 |
Petroglyph survey at "Sitio Pedrigal" Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Supervisors: Ellen Hardy, Ph.D. and Ricardo Vasquez.
Spring
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| 1993 |
Zooarchaeological Laboratory Analysis Tutorial at UCSC
Supervisor Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, Ph.D.
Winter
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1991 |
Rancho Santiago Archaeological Field School at the "Sthal Site" Little Lake, California
Supervisors: Nick Spain, M.A. and Adella Schroth, Ph.D.
Winter
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| Fellowships and Awards |
| 2004 |
California Space Grant Fellowship, Spring
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| 2002 |
ESRI International User Conference Special Achievement in GIS, Fall
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| 2002 |
UCSB Affiliates Fellowship, Fall |
| 2003 |
UCSB Graduate Division Fellowship, Spring
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| 2001 |
Anthropology of Technology Prize, Fall
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| 2001 |
ESRI International User Conference Special Achievement in GIS, Spring
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| 1999 |
Humanities and Social Science Research Grant, Spring |
| 1998 |
Anthropology Department Field Fund Award, Spring |
| 1996 |
California Space Grant Fellowship, Spring
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| Computer and Multimedia Skills |
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GIS database design and management.
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Arc/Info and ArcView GIS. AML and Avenue script writing skills. |
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Multispectral Landsat and SPOT image processing with IPW and ERDAS Imagine.
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Use of Trimble Geoexplorer and TDC 1 GPS receivers with Pfinder and Trimble Office.
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Use of TopCon and Leica Total Stations with Leica Survey Office and TFR Mapper.
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Web server administration and Webmaster (http://titicaca.ucsb.edu).
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HTML and JavaScript.
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Refrences |
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Dr. Mark Aldenderfer, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, (805) 893-8604, FAX (805) 893-8707, aldenderfer@anth.ucsb.edu. |
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Dr. Michael Jochim, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, (805) 893-4396, FAX (805) 893-8707, jochim@anth.ucsb.edu. |
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Dr. Michael Glassow, Professor, Department Chair, Department of Anthropology, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, (805) 893-2054, FAX (805) 893-8707, glassow@anth.ucsb.edu. |
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