Joel C Janetski

820 SWKT
Provo, UT 84602

801-422-6111

joel_janetski@byu.edu

Education

• PHD, ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIV OF UTAH, 1983
• MA, ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIV OF UTAH, 1977
• BA, ENGLISH, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, 1965

Research

• Archaeology of hunter-gatherers and small scale farming societies in western North America and the Near East
• My research has tended to focus on the archaeology of small scale hunting and gathering or farming societies. For the most part this has been in the Great Basin and American Southwest, although I have spent several seasons in the Petra Basin of southern Jordan excavating a Epipaleolithic site with Geometric Kebaran as well as Early and Late Natufian occupations. Currently, I am working at North Creek Shelter, a stratified site in Escalante Valley. The site dates to the early Holocene and contains multiple early Archaic occupations dating prior to 9000 calendar years ago and occupations in excess of 10,500 calendar years ago. Other current research interests include Basketmaker research with collegues Joan Coltrain and Shawn Carlyle at the University of Utah.

Affiliations

• Office of Public Archaeology - 2

Awards

• Sponsored Research Achievement Award, Recognition for Excellence in Sponsored Research, ORCA, BYU, 2005
• Wesley P. Lloyd award for excellence in graduate education at BYU, BYU, 2003
• Dale L. Morgan award, best scholarly article Utah Historical Quarterly, Utah Historical Society, 1990
• Fellow, Utah Historical Society, 2007

Selected Publications

• JANETSKI, JOEL C. (2002). Trade in Fremont Society: Contexts and Contrasts, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 21, 344-370.
• JOEL C. JANETSKI and Michael Chazan. (2005). Shifts in Natufian Strategies and the Younger Dryas: Evidence from Wadi Mataha, Southern Jordan, The Last Hunter-Gatherers in the Near East, International Series 1320.
• J.T. Stock, Susan Pfeiffer, Michael Chazan and JOEL C JANETSKI. (2005). F-81 skeleton from Wadi Mataha, Jordan, and its bearing on human variability in the Epipaleolithic of the Levant, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 128, 453-465.
• Joan B. Coltrain, Joel C. Janetski, and Shawn W. Carlyle. (2006). Chapter 23. The Stable and Radio-Isotope Chemistry of Eastern Basketmaker and Pueblo Groups in the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest: Implications for Anasazi Diets, Origins, and Abandonments in Southwerstern Colorado, The Histories of Maize I: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize.
• JOEL C JANETSKI and Aubrey Baadsgaarad. (2006). Shifts in Epipaleolithic Faunal Exploitation at Wadi Mataha 2, Southern Jordan, Archaeozoology of the Near East VI, Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on the Zooarchaeology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas, ARC Publicaties 123.
• JOEL C JANETSKI. (2006). Mosquito Willie (42TO137): A Late Archaic Site on the Western Edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert, Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 26, 75-92.
• JOEL C JANETSKI. (2007). Great Basin Animals, Smithsonian Handbook of North American Indians: Environment, Origins, and Populations, 3.
• Joan B. Coltrain, JOEL C JANETSKI, Shawn W. Carlyle. (2007). The Stable- and Radio-Isotope Chemistry of Western Basketmaker Burials: Implications for Early Pueblo Diets and Origins, American Antiquity, 72, 301-321.

Experience

• Director, Museum of Peoples and Cultures, BYU, 1984 - 1996
• Chair, Department of Anthropology, 1998 - 2005