RESEARCH & CURRENT PROJECTS
FACULTY
Forest Canyon Cultural Landscape-“Patch Ecology” Pilot Project ($13,678)
Rocky Mountain National Park/Cooperative Ecosystems Study Unit (CESU)-Rocky Mountain Region
Bob Brunswig (School of Social Sciences/Anthropology) and James Doerner (Geography)
Pilot study for an interdisciplinary study and GIS model of natural and cultural landscape use of Forest Canyon Pass, Rocky Mountain National Park, over the past 11,000 years. The project is based in Patch Ecology Theory and utilizes field data and analytical methodologies from archaeology, physical geography (paleoclimate/paleoecology), Geographic Information System (GIS) software analysis/modeling, Native American ethnobotany research, and ecological biology.
HRMEI
North Park Cultural Landscapes Project ($6,750)
Bureau of Land Management- Kremmling District
Bob Brunswig (School of Social Sciences/Anthropology)
BLM annual support for a long-term interdisciplinary research program in North Park, Jackson County, Colorado. Field and laboratory expense funding has been granted year-by-year since the project’s inception in 2005. In fall 2007, the BLM nominated UNC for its National Paleoindian Archaeology Program which, in approved, will provide an additional source of project funding.
Ethnographic Overview Phase I-Colorado National Monument: ($60,000)
Colorado National Monument/Cooperative Ecosystems Study Unit (CESU) Rocky Mountain Region
Sally McBeth (Anthropology)
The project is based a National Park Service need to conduct research and identify and document ethnographic resources within and near Colorado National Monument in Western Colorado. It integrates the prehistoric, historic, and cultural (ethnographic), and legal documentation of the Native American cultural associations of the monument with currently held knowledge and perspectives of tribal community members (especially the Northern Ute) who have historic affiliation in the area.
Native American Interpretive Materials and Planning for Rocky Mountain National Park: ($10,000)
Rocky Mountain National Park/Cooperative Ecosystems Study Unit (CESU)-Rocky Mountain Region
Sally McBeth & Bob Brunswig (Anthropology)
This project, funded by the National Park Service, builds on a long-term research record in Rocky Mountain National Park archaeology and Native American culture by the two co-principal investigators. It goal is to write and make available for publication a public audience booklet on the prehistoric and historic record of the park and descriptions of the cultures of native peoples known to have occupied the park in historic times. A second goal is to initiate an assessment of current park programs which present the park’s cultural history to its visitors.
Rocky Mountain National Park Sacred Sites Project: ($33,988)
Rocky Mountain National Park/National Park Service
Bob Brunswig (Anthropology)
This project, funded by the National Park Service, seeks to develop a cultural landscapes model of Native American spiritual places, including actual physical locations, in Rocky Mountain National Park for preservation, consultation, and interpretive purposes. It includes survey-grade GPS mapping of previously suspected or known Native American sacred sites in Rocky Mountain National Park and new surveys of selected landscape features believed to contain similar sites. Resulting data are being incorporated into an analytical report and GIS site prediction model for use in management and protection of sites identified as actual or probable Traditional Cultural Properties within the boundaries of Rocky Mountain National Park.
STUDENTS
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