PERMANENT ADDRESS: :
23390 C.R. K
Cortez, CO 81321
(970) 565-8975 ext. 151

EDUCATION:
Arizona State University, Ph.D. Anthropology, 1997
University of Texas, M.A. Anthropology, 1984
University of Texas, B.A. Archaeological Studies, 1976

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Archaeology of the southwestern United States, site formation processes, household and community organization, patterns of sedentism and mobility, land use, settlement patterns, the formation of cultural landscapes, human impact on the environment, social theory, archaeology and public education.

RECENT EMPLOYMENT: RESEARCH ARCHAEOLOGIST ON MAJOR PROJECTS
6/87 - Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
present23390 County Road K, Cortez, CO 81321, 303/565-8975
Supervisor:Dr. Ricky R. Lightfoot, President/CEO, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Position: Director of Research, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.

7/85 - Zuni Archaeology Program
6/87 P.O. Box 339, Zuni, NM 87327, 505/782-4814
Supervisor: Mr. Roger Anyon
Position: Project Director/Author, excavation reports and special analyses.

6/82 - Dolores Archaeological Program
4/84 17219 County Road 26, Dolores, CO 81323
Supervisor: Dr. David Breternitz
Position: Crew Chief/Report Writer, large scale excavation project.

6/79 - Dolores Archaeological Program
9/80 17291 County Road 26, Dolores, CO 81323
Supervisor: Dr. David Breternitz
Position: Assistant Crew Chief/Report Writer, large scale excavation project.

BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS, AND EDITED VOLUMES:
2002 Seeking the Center Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region, edited by Mark D. Varien and Richard H. Wilshusen, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
2000 Kiva: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History, Volume 66, Number 1, Mark D. Varien, Guest Editor, The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, Tucson, AZ
1999 Colorado Prehistory: A Context for the Southern Colorado River Basin, edited by W. D. Lipe, M. D. Varien, and R. H. Wilshusen, Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, Denver.
1999 Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape: Mesa Verde and Beyond, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
1999 The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: Site Testing, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.(volume editor and author of 11 out of 22 chapters).
1997 New Perspectives on Settlement Patterns: Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Arizona State University, Tempe.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
2002 Occupation Span and the Organization of Activities at Residential Sites: A Case Study from the Mesa Verde Region. In Ancient Households of the Americas: Conceptualizing What Households Do, edited by J. G. Douglass and N. Gonlin, University of Colorado Press, Boulder. In Press.
2002 A Partnership for Understanding the Past: Crow Canyon’s Research in the Central Mesa Verde Region, by Mark D. Varien and Richard Wilshusen. In Seeking the Center Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region, edited by Mark D. Varien and Richard H. Wilshusen, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
2002 Persistent Communities and Mobile Households: Population Movement in the Central Mesa Verde Region A.D. 950 to 1290. In Seeking the Center Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region, edited by Mark D. Varien and Richard H. Wilshusen, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
2001 We Have Learned A Lot, But We Still Have More to Learn. In Cordell, L. S., and Judge, W. J. (eds.), Chaco Society and Polity: Papers from the 1999 Conference, Special Publication, No. 4, New Mexico Archaeological Society, Albuquerque, In Press.
2000 Communities and the Chacoan Regional System. In Great House Communities across the Chacoan Landscape, edited by J. Kantner and N. Mahoney, pp. 149–156. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2000 Competition, Cooperation, and Conflict: Agricultural Production and Community Catchments in the Mesa Verde Region. Kiva, 66(1):45–65, edited by Mark D. Varien, article by Mark D. Varien, Carla R. Van West, and G. Stuart Patterson.
2000 Introduction. Kiva, 66(1):5–18, edited by Mark D. Varien, article by Mark D. Varien.
1999 Chapter 8: Pueblo II (A.D. 900–1150). In Colorado Prehistory: A Context for the Southern Colorado River Basin, edited by W. D. Lipe, M. D. Varien, and R. H. Wilshusen, pp. 242–289. Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, Denver. Chapter by William D. Lipe and Mark D. Varien.
1999 Chapter 9: Pueblo III (A.D. 1150–1300). In Colorado Prehistory: A Context for the Southern Colorado River Basin, edited by W. D. Lipe, M. D. Varien, and R. H. Wilshusen, pp. 290–352. Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, Denver. Chapter by William D. Lipe and Mark D. Varien.
1999 Chapter 11: Native American Issues and Perspectives. Colorado Prehistory: A Context for the Southern Colorado River Basin, edited by W. D. Lipe, M. D. Varien, and R. H. Wilshusen, pp. 370–404. Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, Denver. Chapter authored by Mark D. Varien, Tito Naranjo, Marjorie R. Connolly, and William D. Lipe..
1997 Accumulations Research: Problems and Prospects for Estimating Site Occupation Span. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 141-191. Mark D. Varien and Barbara J. Mills.
1997 Unpacking the Discard Equation: Simulating the Accumulation of Artifacts in the Archaeological Record. American Antiquity. Vol. 62, No. 2, pp. 194-213. Mark D. Varien and James M. Potter.
1996 Formal Architecture and Settlement Organization in the Teuchitlan Region of West Mexico. In Ancient Mesoamerica. 7:103-120. Michael A. Ohnersorgen and Mark D Varien.
1996 Mesa Verde Region Settlement, A.D. 1100-1300. Pueblo Cultures In Transition, A.D. 1100-1350. edited by Michael A. Adler. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Coauthored with Mark D. Varien (senior author), William D. Lipe, Bruce A. Bradley, Michael A. Adler, Ian M. Thompson, pp. 86-113.
1996 Prehistoric Architecture with Unknown Function. In Anasazi Architecture and American Design, ed. by B.H. Morrow and V.B. Price, pp. 149-158. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Coauthored with Ian Thompson (senior author) Mark D. Varien, Susan Kenzle, and Rina Swentzell.
1994 The Changing Face of the Community in the Mesa Verde Region, The Second Anasazi Symposium, Mesa Verde National Park, National Park Service, Coauthored with Michael A. Adler, pp. 83-97.

1993 Chapter 2, Excavations. In The Duckfoot Site: Descriptive Archaeology. edited by Ricky R. Lightfoot and Mary C. Etzkorn. Occasional Paper No. 3, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. Coauthour with Ricky R. Lightfoot (senior author), Mary C. Etzkorn and Mark D. Varien, pp. 15-129.
1992 Chapter 5, The Site Testing Program. In The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: A Progress Report, edited by W.D. Lipe, pp.45-67. Occasional Paper No. 2, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. Mark D. Varien, Kristin A. Kuckelman, and James H. Kleidon, pp. 45-67.
1989 Ritual and Non-Ritual Activities in Mesa Verde Region Protokivas, in The Architecture of Social Integration in Prehistoric Pueblos, edited by W.D. Lipe and Michelle Hegmon, pp. 73-87. Occasional Paper No. 1, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Mark D. Varien and Ricky R. Lightfoot.

PUBLISHED REPORTS:
1990 Excavations at Three Prehistoric Sites Along Pia Mesa Road, Zuni Indian Reservation, McKinley County, New Mexico. Zuni Archaeology Program Report No. 233.
1989 Excavations at sites K3:101, K3:213, and the testing of sites K3:112, K3:218, and Prehistoric Architecture in Oak Wash. In Prehistoric and Historic Land Use in Oak Wash, Zuni Indian Reservation, McKinley County, New Mexico. Zuni Archaeology Program Report No. 224.
1988 Chapter 4, Excavations in Areas 1 and 2. In Anasazi Communities at Dolores: Grass Mesa Village (Site 5MT23), compiled by William D. Lipe, James N. Morris, and Timothy A. Kohler, pp. 75-315. Bureau of Reclamation, Engineering and Research Center, Denver.
1988 Chapter 18, Synthesis. In Anasazi Communities at Dolores: Grass Mesa Village (Site 5MT23), compiled by William D. Lipe, James N. Morris, and Timothy A. Kohler, pp.1213-1276. Bureau of Reclamation Engineering and Research Center, Denver. William D. Lipe (senior author), Mark D. Varien, Timothy A. Kohler, James N. Morris, and Ricky Lightfoot
1987 Survey, Testing, and Excavation Along New Mexico State Highway 53, Between the Black Rock Cutoff Road and the Nutria Road, Zuni Indian Reservation, McKinley County, New Mexico. Zuni Archaeology Program Report No. 232.
1986 Excavations at Tres Bobos Hamlet (Site 5MT4545) a Basketmaker III Hamlet. In Dolores Archaeological Program: Anasazi Communities at Dolores: Early Anasazi Sites in the Sagehen Flats Area, compiled by Allen E. Kane and G. Timothy Gross, pp.119-174. Bureau of Reclamation Engineering and Research Center, Denver. Joel M. Brisbin (senior author) and Mark Varien
1986 Appendix 3H, Botanical Report for Tres Bobos Hamlet. In Dolores Archaeological Program : Anasazi Communities at Dolores: Early Sites in the Sagehen Flats Area, compiled by Allen E. Kane, and G. Timothy Gross, pp. 201-210. Bureau of Reclamation Engineering and Research, Denver, CO.
1986 Excavations in Area 3 at Rio Vista Village. In Dolores Archaeological Program: Anasazi Communities at Dolores: Middle Canyon Area, compiled by Allen E. Kane and Christine K. Robinson, pp. 359-436. Bureau of Reclamation Engineering and Research Center, Denver. Richard H. Wilshusen (senior author) and Mark D. Varien

MEETING PAPERS:
2001 Occupation Span and The Organization of Activities at Residential Sites: A Case Study from the Mesa Verde Region. Paper presented in the symposium What Households Do: Recent Research on Household Organization in the Americas, 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, 18–22 April 2001.
1999 Thoughts on Chacoan Society and Polity. Paper present at the workshop, Chaco Society and Polity, Ft. Lewis College, Durango, CO. Workshop sponsored by the National Park Service.
1999 Competition, Cooperation, and Conflict: Agricultural Production and Community Catchments in the Mesa Verde Region. Paper present in the symposium, Public Archaeology in Ancient Pueblos: Recent Research on the Mesa Verde Region Communities, A.D. 900-1300. Presented at the 64th Annual Meeting for the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago.

1998 Chacoan Communities. Paper delivered as the discussant in the symposium, The Chaco Anasazi Community: Inside Looking Out, at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle.
1998 Prehistoric Communities and Cultural Landscapes in the Mesa Verde Heartland. Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle. Carla R. Van West and Mark D. Varien.
1998 Public Archaeology in the Mesa Verde Region, A.D. 900 to 1300. Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle.
1997 The Ecological and Social Determinants of Mesa Verde Region Settlement Patterns. Paper presented in the symposium New Modes of Inquiry for Investigating Prehistoric Settlement and Subsistence Variability in the American Southwest, at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville.
1996 Sedentism and Population Movement Among Mesa Verde Region Communities. Paper presented at the 61st Annual Meeting for the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.
1995 Doing High Quality Archaeological Research with Public Participants: Crow Canyon’s Research. Paper presented at the 1995 Chacmool Conference, Calgary, Canada. Richard H. Wilshusen (senior author), Mark D. Varien, Ricky R. Lightfoot and Kristin A. Kuckelman.
1995 Sedentism and Mobility in Agricultural and Horticultural Societies: Beyond Ecological Determinism. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1995 Unpacking the Discard Equation. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis Minnesota. James Potter (senior author) and Mark D. Varien.
1994 Thirteenth Century Canyon Rim Architectural Complexes in the Mesa Verde Region. Poster session presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, California. Coauthored with Jeffrey Kelley (senior author), William D. Lipe, Mark D. Varien, and Connie Huegle.
1993 The Abandonment of Structures Sites and Regions: A Case Study from the Mesa Verde Region. Paper presented at the 58th annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis. Mark D. Varien and Kristin A. Kuckelman
1990 Measuring Site Uselife: Accumulation Rate Studies. Paper presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Las Vegas, NV.
1990 Hamlets and Villages in Prestate Settings: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Presented in the Symposium Gambling on Aggregation, 55th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Las Vegas, NV. Richard H. Wilshusen (senior author) and Mark D. Varien
1989 Thirteenth Century Anasazi Community Organization in SW Colorado: The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project. Presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Society or American Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia. William D. Lipe (senior author) with Bruce A. Bradley, Mark D. Varien, and Michael A. Adler
1988 Ritual and Non-Ritual Activities in Mesa Verde Protokivas. Presented in the symposium, Architecture and Integrative Rituals, 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Phoenix, AZ. Mark D. Varien and Ricky Lightfoot
1984 Honky House: The Replication of Three Anasazi Surface Rooms. Paper presented at the symposium "Energy, Engineering, and Resources in Early Anasazi Architecture:Examples from the Dolores Project", at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Portland, OR.

AWARDS:
• 1997 Society for American Archaeology Dissertation Prize
• First Prize, 1994 Ruppe Prize (Best student paper in Archaeology, Arizona State University).
• Honorable Mention, 1993 Ruppé Prize.
• Graduate Tuition Scholarship, Arizona State University.
• Stephen H. Hart Award (Given by the Colorado Historical Society to the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists to recognize those who worked on the publication of the five-volume set entitled Colorado Prehistory).

GRANTS:
• Arizona State University Graduate Research Support Office Grant
• Ballantine Family Fund Grant
• National Geographic Society Grant # 6016-97
• National Geographic Society Grant # 6292-98
• National Geographic Society Grant # 6559-99
• National Geographic Society Grant # 6860-00
• Colorado Digitization Project Grant
• Colorado Historical Society Grant # 1997-PI-015
• Colorado Historical Society Grant # 2001-G1-005
• National Science Foundation Grant # 2001-SES 0119981

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
• Society for American Archaeology
• Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists
• Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society
• New Mexico Archaeological Council

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
• Executive Board, Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, 2002–2004
• Society for American Archaeology Lifetime Achievement Award Committee

REFERENCES:

Dr. Keith W. Kintigh Dr. William D. Lipe
Department of Anthropology Department of Anthropology
Arizona State University Washington State University
Tempe, Arizona 85287-2402 Pullman, WA 99164-4710
602/965-6213 509/335-8556

Dr. Katherine A. Spielmann Dr. Jeffrey S. Dean
Department of Anthropology Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
Arizona State University University of Arizona
Tempe, Arizona 85287-2402 Tempe, Arizona 85721
602/965-7212 520/621-2320