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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Program in Medieval Studies

Katelyn Jo Bishop

Assistant Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Hanson, K. E., Fladd, S. G., Oas, S. E., & Bishop, K. J. (2024). The Social Construction of Backdirt in Chaco Archaeology. Journal of Field Archaeology, 49(2), 129-139. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2024.2307122

Bishop, K. J., Fladd, S. G., & Watson, A. S. (2023). Reassessing a Century of Excavation Data and Faunal Remains from Chaco Canyon. In S. E. Nash, & E. L. Baxter (Eds.), Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology: Chronometry, Collections, and Contexts (pp. 278-296). (Proceedings of the Southwest Symposium). University Press of Colorado. http://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.608080.22

Bishop, K. J. (2022). Bird Behavior and Biology: The Agentive Role of Birds in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. In M. L. Smith (Ed.), The Power of Nature: Archaeology and Human-Environmental Dynamics (pp. 163-186). University Press of Colorado. http://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.608081.12

Plog, S., Bishop, K. J., Kennett, D. J., Fladd, S., & Harper, T. K. (2022). Scarlet Macaws, Ritual, and Sociopolitical Organization in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. In C. W. Schwartz, S. Plog, & P. A. Gilman (Eds.), Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest (pp. 100-127). (Amerind Studies in Archaeology). University of Arizona Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv29sfpn5.9

Lesure, R. G., Sinensky, R. J., Schachner, G., Wake, T. A., & Bishop, K. J. (2021). Large-Scale Patterns in the Agricultural Demographic Transition of Mesoamerica and Southwestern North America. American Antiquity, 86(3), 593-612. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2021.23

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