Daron Duke, Ph.D.
Daron has archaeological experience in diverse regions and project settings, with emphasis on the Great Basin. He has been involved in federal, state, commercial, and academic projects throughout the western United States, directing numerous efforts under Section 106 and Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Recent work includes large-scale transmission line and solar energy projects for the Bureau of Land Management and research-oriented modeling, survey, and excavation projects for lands managed by the U.S. military. He is active in the regional archaeological community and served on the Board of Directors for the Nevada Archaeological Association from 2003 to 2011.
Daron’s research interests lie in hunter-gatherer ecology and the archaeological implications of shifting levels of resource intensification. His methodological expertise is in stone tool analysis, where he specializes in lithic resource use, formal reduction models, and experimental studies. He has directed large-scale XRF sourcing and obsidian hydration dating projects. Daron’s active research focuses on Great Basin Paleoindian responses to the disappearance of wetland habitats in the Early Holocene, continuity in seasonal land use through time in the Sierra Nevada, and peripheral Fremont and Virgin Anasazi settlement and interaction in southeastern Nevada.
You can access publications or follow Daron’s work on Academia.edu at: http://independent.academia.edu/DaronDuke
