• Office: WRI A112
• Phone: 702 895 3646
• Fax: 702 895 4823
• Email (barbara.roth@unlv.edu)
• Ph. D. : University of Arizona, 1989
• Lithics Lab
• 2009 Summer Field School

Interests: Archaeology of hunter-gatherers, the transition from foraging to farming, lithic technology, gender studies, prehistoric household organization, American Southwest, southern Great Basin.

Archaic period hunter-gatherers in arid settings used a range of strategies to cope with their environment. The various strategies influence the kinds of archaeological remains we encounter, whether one's focus is on Archaic period settlement patterns in the Sonoran Desert or hunter-gatherer adaptations in arid environments in the Southwest and southern Great Basin. Both the Archaic and the late pre-historic hunter-gatherer adaptations can be examined by means of land use studies and lithic analysis. Also interesting is the transition from hunting-gathering to farming in the Mimbres Mogollon region of southwestern New Mexico and the changes in household organization that occurred as groups became increasingly sedentary and dependent on agriculture. A clear picture should emerge from excavations of two Pithouse period sites in the uplands surrounding the Mimbres River Valley and a new project at a large pithouse site on the Mimbres River.