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Emily Middleton

Academic Interests: prehistoric archaeology, rock art, landscape and identity

Status: MA

Previous Degrees: BA (2010), California State, Los Angeles

Contact Information: emily.susan.middleton@gmail.com

Biography: A southern California native, Emily is a second-year master's student with plans to focus her research on the prehistoric rock art of the Great Basin. Previous research includes experimental archaeology to reproduce pigment from various pictographs found on the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station in southeastern California. As a Research Assistant for UNR's Great Basin Paleoindian Research Unit (GBPRU), Emily is enjoying the opportunity to contribute to ongoing research and gain valuable experience. In the Spring of 2012 Emily will begin an internship with the Nevada Rock Art Foundation to assist with their needs and facilitate her own research goals.

Publications:

2012 Cascade Points in the Northern Great Basin: A Radiocarbon-Dated Foliate Point Assemblage from Warner Valley, Oregon. North American Archaeologist, in press.

2010 Jairo Avila, Toni Gonzalez, Emily Middleton, Giancarlo Restreppo, and Adam Solano. Pigments and Pictographs: An Experiment in the Mohave Desert. Poster presented at the 32nd Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Layton, UT.