RESUME OF ARIANE OBERLING PINSON, Ph.D.

North Alkali Basin Paleoecology and Prehistory Project

Ariane Pinson served as Principal Investigator of this research project that studied Paleoindian lifeways and environmental history during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition (11,500 to 7000 BP) in the northern Great Basin.  This project involved 5 summers of field work to study the geological record of Dietz Basin, Oregon, as well as to conduct archaeological surveys and excavations in the same basin.  Publication of the results is on-going.

Positions Held

• Research Associate, Sundance Program, University of Nevada, Reno, June 1995 to Fall 2001.
• Field Director, University of Nevada, Reno Field School, Summer 1996.  Dr. Don Fowler, Executive Director.

Publications

• Submitted. "Geoarchaeological context of Clovis and Western Stemmed Tradition sites in Dietz Basin, Lake County, Oregon." Geoarchaeology.
• In press. "Artiodactyl use and adaptive discontinuity across the Paleoarchaic-Archaic transition in the Northern Great Basin." In Untitled, edited by K. Graf and D. Schmitt, University of Utah Press. Expected pub.: Fall 2007.
• 2005 Surveys and Test Excavations in the Northeast Quadrant of Dietz Basin, Lake County, Oregon. Report to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Lakeview Oregon.
• 2004. Of Lakeshores and Dry Basin Floors: The Early Holocene Record of Environmental Change and Human Adaptation at the Tucker Site in Regional Perspective.  Chapter in edited volume tentatively titled Early and Middle Holocene Archaeology of the Fort Rock Region in the Northern Great Basin, ed. by Dennis Jenkins, Thomas Connolly, and C. Melvin Aikens, University of Oregon Anthropological Papers ##, Eugene. 
• 2000.  “Beginning with Fundamentals: The Sundance Program Research Design (Draft).”  Ms. on file at the Sundance Program, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno.
• 1999. Foraging in Uncertain Times: The Effects of Risk on Subsistence Behavior During the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the Oregon Great Basin.  Ph.D. dissertation, University of New Mexico, published by UMI.
• 1998. Subsistence and settlement patterns during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the northern Great Basin: the view from Dietz Basin, Current Research in the Pleistocene, Volume 15, pp. 60-62.
• 1998. “Archaeological Investigations in Dietz Basin, Lake County, Oregon:  The Results of the 1996 Field Season”.  Sundance Archeological Research Fund, Technical Paper No. 4, 68 pages, University of Nevada, Reno.
• 1996. “Archaeological Investigations at the Dietz site (35LK1529), Lake County, Oregon, 1995”.  Sundance Archaeological Research Fund Report No. 2, 72 pages, University of Nevada, Reno.

Professional Presentations

• 2000. Corralling the Stampede: Scientific Approaches to Chronology in Great Basin Prehistory.  Symposium organized for the 27th Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Ogden, Utah.
• 2000. Good Dates, Bad Dates: The Projectile Point Chronology in the Northern Great Basin in Light of the Stratigraphic and Surface Records.  Paper presented at the 27th Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Ogden, Utah.
• 2000. Bad Times, Better Times: An Evolutionary Ecological Approach to the Paleoindian-Archaic Transition in the Northern Great Basin.  Paper presented at the 27th Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Ogden, Utah.
• 1998. (with Barbara J. McKay) Landscape Heterogeneity and Subsistence During the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the Northern Great Basin.  Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, Washington.
• 1998. Ecological Hierarchy Theory and Land Use in Prehistory.  Paper presented at the University of New Mexico Graduate Anthropology Symposium, Albuquerque.
• 1997. Landscape change and early Holocene occupation at the Dietz site, Dietz Basin, Oregon: results of recent excavations.  Paper presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1996. Excavations at the Dietz site, OR: Results of the 1996 Field Season. Paper presented at the Twenty‑fifth Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Kings Beach, California, October 10‑12.
• 1996. (with Fred L. Nials) New Work at the Dietz Site, OR. Poster for the Society for American Archaeology, 61st Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 1995. The Western Pluvial Lakes Tradition in small basins in Oregon: A lacustrine adaptation in search of a lake. Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico.

Grants And Research Support

• 2000. Sundance Archaeological Research Fund, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno and U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Lakeview District, support for survey, testing and geomorphological work in North Alkali Basin, Oregon (supplies, equipment, personnel, housing, vehicles) valued by UNR/BLM at approximately: $10,000.
• 1999. Travel Grant, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico: $50.
• 1998. Research, Project and Travel Grant, Office of Graduate Studies, University of New Mexico: $1,000.
• 1998. Student Research and Conference Travel Grant, Graduate Student Association, University of New Mexico: $500.
• 1998. Student Research and Conference Travel Grant, Graduate Student Association, University of New Mexico: $500.
• 1998. Travel Grant, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico: $55.
• 1997. Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research: $600.
• 1995-7. Sundance Archaeological Research Fund, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno, support for research (supplies, equipment, personnel, vehicles, other support) valued by UNR at: $60,420.
• 1994-7. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Lakeview District, support for research (stipend, housing, vehicles, fuel, equipment, backhoe and operator, personnel, other support) valued by the BLM at:  $23,500.
• 1994-7. University of New Mexico, Office of Graduate Studies, allocation of NSF Graduate Student Fellowship tuition waiver money for research, used to cover miscellaneous research expenses:  $11,450.
• 1994. Student Research and Conference Travel Grant, Graduate Student Association, University of New Mexico: $225.

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