Instructor Biographies:
Eric Bartelink, Ph.D.: Texas A&M (2006)
 Bartelink
is currently a professor in the Department of Anthropology at California
State University, Chico. He is a physical/biological anthropologist
with academic interests in human skeletal biology and archaeological
applications of stable isotope analysis. Bartelink's current academic research
focuses on reconstructing diet and health patterns in prehistoric central
California . His expertise is in bioarchaeology, paleodietary reconstruction
using stable isotope analysis, forensic anthropology, and California
prehistory.
Bartelink
will lead the discussion about stable isotope analysis of human bone.
Frank Bayham, Ph.D.: Arizona State University (1982)
 Bayham
is currently a professor in the Department of Anthropology at California
State University, Chico. He is a zooarchaeologist with academic and research
interest in the Southwest, the Great Basin, and Northern California . His expertise
is in faunal remains from the Western United States and taphonomy. Over the
past two decades, Bayham has taught a variety of archaeology courses including
those that address field and laboratory methods, zooarchaeology, taphonomy,
and archaeological theory.
Bayham will lead the introduction to the course,
discuss the uses of bone and its relevance in archaeology with relation to
NAGPRA, act as tour guide during the field trip through the Eagle Lake Basin
and present the debate concerning the ascendance of hunting during the
Middle Archaic.
Melanie Beasley, M.A.: CSU, Chico (2008)
 Beasley
just graduated from CSU, Chico and is currently teaching Physical Anthropology
at Butte Community College . She has worked for CRM firms
in California for the past six years as an osteologist. Her
MA thesis focused on reconstructing the diets of individuals from a
site in the San Francisco Bay Area using stable isotopes.
Beasley will organize
the workshop labs and lead the discussion on the human skeleton.
Raymond J. Bogiatto, M.S.: CSU, Chico (1986)
 Bogiatto
is currently the Station Manager of the Eagle Lake Field Station, Director
of the CSUC Vertebrate Museum, and part-time faculty in the Department
of Biology at California State University, Chico. His expertise is
in the field of ornithology, with an emphasis on waterfowl biology
and ecology. Bogiatto, who has extensive knowledge about the wildlife
and habitats of California and the Great Basin, teaches courses such
as Ornithology, Waterfowl Biology, Advanced Zoology, and Field Studies
in Natural History.
Bogiatto will lead discussions on the taxonomy
and ecology of each class of animals presented during the workshop.
As the Station Manager, Bogiatto will also play a key role in the field
trip through the Eagle Lake Basin and to the “bat cave.”
Jack Broughton, Ph.D.: University of Washington (1995)
 Broughton
is currently a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University
of Utah. His expertise is in zooarchaeology, evolutionary
ecology, human paleoecology and North American Prehistory
with an emphasis in California and the Great Basin. The archaeofaunal
record of past foraging
behavior is the primary window through which he explores
issues involving hunter-gatherer paleoecology, especially
the analysis of human- and climate-induced change in past faunal landscapes,
and their implications
for related aspects of human behavior, historical ecology, and modern
conservation biology.
Broughton will lead discussions on the osteology and uniqueness of
each class of animals presented during the workshop and the evidence
for resource intensification.
Christopher O'Brien, Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin
, Madison (1994)
 O'Brien
is the Forest Archaeologist for Lassen National Forest, an Adjunct
Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Chico and
at Lassen Community College, Susanville. He is currently working on
the zooarchaeology of several cave and rockshelter sites in northern
California, and the historical ecology of several species. He has
also been directing archaeological excavations in western Tanzania
since 2002. O'Brien's expertise is in zooarchaeology, historical ecology
and dental increment analysis.
O'Brien will lead discussions concerning historical ecology and dental
increment analysis.
Beth A.S. Shook, Ph.D.: University of California
, Davis (2005)
 Shook
is currently a professor in the Department of Anthropology at California
State University, Chico. She is a physical anthropologist with
research interests in human genetics, the genetics of Native American
populations, the peopling of the New World , the anthropology of science
and human variation. Her expertise is in ancient DNA analysis, human
genetics and human variation.
Shook will lead a discussion about the uses of ancient DNA analysis.
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