Jordan Pratt

Collections Manager, University of Nevada, Reno Museum of People, Place, and Time
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Summary

As Collections Manager at the University of Nevada, Reno Museum of People, Place, and Time, Jordan is responsible for the care of the Museum’s archaeological and ethnographic collections. This includes both physical collections management and data management. Pratt is committed to collaborative collection management, collections-based research and education, and public community-based archaeology.

Pratt has experience caring for archaeological and ethnographic collections from the Great Basin, Texas, New Mexico, Alaska, and surrounding states. Additionally, she has worked on archaeological sites in the Intermountain West since 2012. She has conducted fieldwork in the Great Basin (Oregon, Nevada), Alaska, and Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Outside of collections management, Pratt’s research focuses on lithic technological organization at late-Pleistocene and Early Holocene open-air archaeological sites in the Harney Basin, Oregon.

Research interests

  • Curation and collections management
  • Collections-based research
  • Public outreach
  • Science communication
  • Lithic technology and technological organization
  • Peopling of the Americas
  • Great Basin archaeology

Selected publications

  • 2024 McDonough, Katelyn N., Richard L. Rosencrance, Jordan E. Pratt (editors). Current Perspectives on Stemmed and Fluted Technologies in the American Far West. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
  • 2024 McDonough, Katelyn N., Richard L. Rosencrance, and Jordan E. Pratt. “A History of Stemmed and Fluted Technology Research in the American Far West,” in Current Perspectives on Stemmed and Fluted Technologies in the American Far West, edited by Katelyn N. McDonough, Richard L. Rosencrance, and Jordan E. Pratt. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
  • 2020 Pratt, Jordan, Ted Goebel, Kelly Graf, and Masami Izuho. A Circum Pacific Perspective on the Origin of Stemmed Points in North America. PaleoAmerica. 6(1): 64-108.
  • 2020 Smith, Geoffrey M., Daron Duke, Dennis L. Jenkins, Ted Goebel, Loren G. Davis, Patrick O’Grady, Dan Steuber, Jordan E. Pratt, and Heather L. Smith. The Western Stemmed Tradition: Problems and Prospects in Paleoindian Archaeology in the Intermountain West. PaleoAmerica. 6(1): 23-42.
  • 2018 Sonderman, Elanor, Jordan Pratt, and Heather Thakar. “Curate It!” in Active Archaeology Notebook, edited by Leah McCurdy, pp. 65-68. Thames and Hudson, London.

Education

  • Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, Texas A&M University
  • B.A., Anthropology, University of Oregon, 2015