Editorial Team

E. James Dixon is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and the former Director Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico (2007-2016). His areas of research include Arctic archeology, Paleoindian archeology, high altitude and high latitude adaptations, and museum science. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Brown University, and B.A. and M.A. from the University of Alaska. He has served as Professor of Anthropology and Director Museum and Field Studies and Research Fellow Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado (2000-2007); Curator of Archeology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science (1994-2000); Professor of Anthropology, Curator of Archeology, Director, Alaska Quaternary Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks (1974-1994). He has published three books and more than seventy journal articles and book chapters. He served as a member of the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for the Geosciences (2014-17), and the Advisory Committee for the Office of Polar Programs (2017-18). He has extensive teaching, public speaking, museum, and research experience and has served as a technical advisor for numerous educational films.

Albert Hafner is full Professor and director at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bern/Switzerland. He studied at the Universities of Tübingen, Freiburg im Breisgau and Zurich. His career began with large scale underwater rescue excavations at Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Western Switzerland. He was part of the core group of the UNESCO World Heritage project “Prehistoric pile-dwellings around the Alps,” awarded in 2011. From 2004 onwards, he led the Schnidejoch expeditions - focusing on a high-alpine ice patch site in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland, with finds ranging from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages. His ongoing research is related to submerged prehistoric settlements in lakes of the south-western Balkans and Switzerland and prehistoric land use of alpine environments.

Dr. Taylor’s research focuses on the relationship between humans and animals, with a topical focus on horses and animal domestication, and a technical emphasis on archaeozoology, archaeological science, and emerging technologies. He has ongoing field projects in the Great Plains and the American Southwest as well as Mongolia and the Steppes of Central Asia. He also conducts museum collections research in China, Australia, and South America.

Morgan received her M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Wyoming. Her research explores human activity in high alpine areas, with a special focus on big game hunting and geoarchaeological methods. Her primary geographic emphasis in on the northern Rockies, particularly the Wind River Mountain range in central Wyoming, and she has conducted archaeological field research in both Europe and North America.