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Come join the 48th annual CSU archaeology field school. Earn 8 credits (2 for ANTH 260, Intro to Field Archaeology and 6 for ANTH 460, Field Archaeology).
ANTH 140 (Introduction to Prehistory); concurrent registration in ANTH 460 (Field Class in Archaeology)
9704910930 | jason.labelle@colostate.edu
Dr. LaBelle is an archaeologist interested in Native American foragers inhabiting the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of North America, with research spanning several periods over the last 12,000 years. His current work involves landscape level survey and testing of prehistoric and protohistoric sites surrounding the Lindenmeier Folsom site, a national historic landmark.
Dr. LaBelle’s research interests include grassland/foothills/mountain ecology, playa lakes, hunter-gatherer site structure, hearth cooking technology, lithic technology, and the history of archaeology. Past fieldwork has taken him across the Plains of Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Montana, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming. In addition to teaching and research, he is also the director of the Laboratory of Public Archaeology (LOPA), which houses archaeological collections and associated data from academic and contract projects located within the Platte and Colorado River Basins. Dr. LaBelle is currently president of the Colorado Archaeological Society (1000+ members) and has actively worked with avocational archaeologists throughout the Plains in documenting their collections. He has published articles in “American Antiquity”, “Archaeometry”, “Current Research in the Pleistocene”, “Geoarchaeology”, “Plains Anthropologist”, in addition to book chapters and technical reports in the academic and contract realms.