Steve Nash, PhD

Department Chair & Curator of Archaeology
PhD, 1997, University of Arizona
303.370.6056
stephen.nash@dmns.org

Dr. Nash received his PhD and M.A. degrees from the University of Arizona in Tucson. He specializes in the archaeology of the American Southwest, the history of archaeology, and archaeological tree-ring dating. He joined the Museum after spending nine years at the Field Museum, Chicago.

Dr. Nash has published four books, including Time, Trees, and Prehistory: Tree-Ring Dating and the Development of North American Archaeology (University of Utah Press 1999), It's About Time: A History of Archaeological Dating in North America (University of Utah Press 2000), Curators, Collections, and Contexts: Anthropology at The Field Museum 1893–2002 (Field Museum 2003) and, most recently, Readings in Chronometric Analysis: Selections from American Antiquity and Latin American Antiquity, 1935 – 2006 (Society for American Archaeology Press 2009). Dr. Nash currently conducts field research on tree-ring dating archaeological sites at Mesa Verde National Park. He is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and lecturer for the Illinois Department of Humanities “Roads Scholars” Speaker’s Bureau, Chicago.

The Council for Museum Anthropology has named Dr. Nash as Museum Anthropology co-editor for 2009 – 2012. In 2009, Dr. Nash was elected to a two-year term as a Member-at-Large of the Archaeology Division Executive Council of the American Anthropological Association.

• Dr. Nash's Curriculum Vitae (PDF | 169KB)

• Paul Martin Sites Relocation Project
• Tree-Ring Dating of Back-Country Cliff Sites in Mesa Verde National Park

2009       Readings in Chronometric Analysis: Selections from American Antiquity and Latin American Antiquity 1935 – 2006. Society for American Archaeology Press. (Editor and compiler.)

2009       Climate and Natural Environment of the Southwest. Chapter in encyclopedia Archaeology in  America, Volume 3, pp. 17 – 21. Francis P. McManamon, Linda S. Cordell, Kent Lightfoot, and George R. Milner, Eds. Greenwood Publishing. With Paul R. Sheppard.

2008       Dendrochronology. In Pearsall, Deborah, Encyclopedia of Archaeology, pp. 1083-1088. Academic Press, New York.

Nash, S. 2007. Climate and Environment in the Southwest. Chapter in encyclopedia Archaeology in America, edited by Francis P. McManamon, Linda S. Cordell, Kent Lightfoot, and George R. Milner. Greenwood Publishing. With Paul R. Sheppard.

Nash, S. 2006. Dendrochronology. In Encyclopedia of Archaeology. Elsevier Press. (in press)