Grayson, Donald K.

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GRAYSON, Donald K.

GRAYSON, Donald K. American, b. 1945. Genres: Bibliography, Earth sciences. Career: University of Oregon, Eugene, instructor in anthropology, 1969-71; Kirkland College, Clinton, NY, assistant professor of anthropology, 1971-74; Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office, Portland, state office archaeologist, 1974-75; University of Washington, Seattle, assistant professor, 1975-78, associate professor, 1978-83, professor of anthropology, 1983-, adjunct faculty at Quaternary Sciences Center, 1975-, adjunct assistant curator of environmental archaeology at Thomas Burke Memorial Museum, 1977-78, adjunct associate curator, 1978-83, adjunct curator, 1983-, acting curator of archaeology, 1988-89. New York University, visiting associate professor, 1981. American Museum of Natural History, research associate in anthropology, 1979-; National Science Foundation, member of Archaeology Panel, 1985-87; Desert Research Institute, member of National Scientific Advisory Board, 1989-90; conducted extensive archaeological and biological field work in the northwestern United States; also worked in France. Publications: A Bibliography of the Literature on North American Climates of the Past 13,000 Years, 1975; (ed. with P.D. Sheets, and contrib.) Volcanic Activity and Human Ecology, 1979; The Establishment of Human Antiquity, 1983; Quantitative Zooarchaeology: Topics in the Analysis of Archaeological Faunas, 1984; The Deserts' Past: A Natural Prehistory of the Great Basin, 1993. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor of about 100 articles and reviews to scholarly journals. Address: Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, U.S.A.