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Tom Connolly
State Museum of Anthropology

Eric White, McNair Scholar

Thomas Connolly is Research Director for the State Museum of Anthropology/UO Museum of Natural History, a position he has held since earning his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1986. He has received grants from the Oregon Department of Forestry, Klamath District, to create a cultural resource inventory plan and field inventory and from the Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation to conduct archaeological studies on State parks. He also conducts archeological research for State highway projects as part of an agreement with the Oregon Department of Transportation. Recent publications include: “Par-Tee Site Consultation,” Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon (2000); “Comments on ‘America’s Oldest Basketry,’” (with W. S. Cannon), Radiocarbon (1999); “Newberry Crater: A Ten-Thousand-Year Record of Human Occupation and Environmental Change in the Basin-Plateau Borderlands,” University of Utah Anthropological Papers (1999); “On the Origin and Position of Pacific Coast Athapaskans,” Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon (1999); and “Radiocarbon Evidence Relating to Northern Great Basin Basketry Chronology” (with C. S. Fowler, and W. S. Cannon), Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (1998).