Summary
Current status: M.A. student
Lab association: Historical archaeology lab
Nate’s love of archaeology began in 1981, when as an eight-year-old he emerged from a movie theater on El Camino Real in San Jose, California, having just seen Raiders of the Lost Ark. Eight years later he was fortunate to attend the University of Nevada, Reno Field School in Warner Valley, Oregon. With his passion informed, Nate returned home and applied what he had learned by excavating the remains of an historic dump in his own backyard. After graduating with a B.A. in History, Nate entered the M.A. in Anthropology program at University of Nevada, Reno. Unfortunately, due to health problems he stepped away; however, following a brief stay in Fallon, Nevada, he is pursuing his M.A. in Anthropology once again, eager to finish what began so long ago.
Selected publications
- 2024, K. N. McDonough, R. L. Rosencrance, J. E. Pratt (editors). Current Perspectives on Stemmed and Fluted Technologies in the American Far West. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
- 2022, R. L. Rosencrance, K. N. McDonough, J. H. Holcomb, P. E. Endzweig, and D. L. Jenkins. Dating and Analysis of Western Stemmed Toolkits from the Legacy Collection of Connley Cave 4, Oregon. PaleoAmerica 8(3):264-284.
- 2022, K. N. McDonough, J. L. Kennedy, R. L. Rosencrance, J. H. Holcomb, D. L. Jenkins, and K. Puseman. Expanding Paleoindian Diet Breadth: Paleoethnobotany of Connley Cave 5, Oregon, USA. American Antiquity 87(2):303-332.
- 2021, R. L. Rosencrance, and A. J. Hirshman. Over the Hills and Far Away: Middle and Late Woodland Archaeology and Toolstone Conveyance at Hyre Mound (46RD1), West Virginia. North American Archaeologist 42(2):140-176.
- 2019, R. L. Rosencrance, G. M. Smith, D. L. Jenkins, T. J. Connolly, and T. C. Layton. Reinvestigating Cougar Mountain Cave: New Perspectives on Stratigraphy, Chronology, and a Younger Dryas Occupation in the Northern Great Basin. American Antiquity 84(3):559-573
Academic interests
Collaborative archaeology, diaspora, historical archaeology, peopling of the Americas
Education
B.A. History, Point Loma Nazarene University, 1995