SHORT VITA

James C. Woods

Director, Herrett Center for Arts and Science
Associate Professor of Anthropology
College of Southern Idaho
P.O. Box 1238
Twin Falls, Idaho, USA 83303-1238
(208) 732-6862 (mornings), (208) 732-6658 (afternoons)
(208) 736-4712 (FAX)
jwoods@csi.edu or jwoods@magiclink.com

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Education

A.A. College of Southern Idaho (Studio Art), 1973
B.F.A. Boise State University (Sculpture and Ceramics), 1975
M.A. Idaho State University (Anthropology), 1987

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Professional Activities

Commissioner, Twin Falls County Historical Preservation Commission (since 1987)

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology, Idaho State University (since 1992)

Lithic Lab Director, RAINPEG Project (Regional Archaeological Investigations in the North Peten of Guatemala), Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA (since 1991)

Board of Directors, FARES (Foundation for Anthropological Research and Environmental Studies)(since 1997)

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Skills and Professional Interests

Archaeology — stone tool replication and analysis, technical illustration

Other Interests — woodworking, gas and electric welding, plastic casting and fabricating, sculptural ceramics in high-fire, wood-fire, and raku; metal sculpture

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Teaching Experience

Introduction to Archaeology Archaeology of North America Methods in Lithic Analysis Archaeology of Mesoamerica Prehistory of Southern Idaho

Archaeology of the Desert West Flintknapping Seminar Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Recent Issues in Maya Archaeology

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Museum Exhibits Funded by Grants

People of the Snake River (1979)	Backtracking: Ancient Art of Southern Idaho (1989)
Cultural Resource Preservation (1985)	Agaiduka: Ancient Fishermen of the Snake River (1992)
Baker Caves: New Information About Prehistoric Indians of the Snake River Plain (1987)

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Archaeological Experience (Selected List)

• Camas Creek Survey, Owyhee Uplands, Southwestern Idaho (1978)
• Owyhee River Survey, East and South Forks, Owyhee Uplands, Idaho (1981)
• Kueney Site Project, Twin Falls County, Idaho (1983)
• Colha Project, Northern Belize (1986)
• Kelvin's Cave, Western Snake River Plain (1988)
• Snake River Plain Clovis Technology Project (1988)
• The Buhl Burial (1989)
• RAINPEG Project, Northern Guatemala (1991)
• Kwahadu Rockshelter, Western Snake River Plain (1991)
• Centennial Rockshelter, Western Snake River Plain (1991)
• Columbet Creek Cooperative Agreement (1992)
• RAINPEG Project, Northern Guatemala (1991-present)
• Arkansas Novaculite Quarry Study Team (1996)

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Selected Bibliography

Green, Thomas J., Bruce Cochran, Todd W. Fenton, James C. Woods, Gene L. Titmus, Larry Tiezen, Mary Anne Davis, and Susanne J. Miller
	1998	The Buhl Burial: A Paleoindian Woman from Southern Idaho.  American Antiquity, 63(3):437-456.
Plew, M. G., and J. C. Woods
	1985	Observation of Edge Damage and Technological Effects on Pressure Flaked Stone Tools. In Stone Tool Analysis: Essays in Honor of Don E. Crabtree, edited by M. G. Plew, J. C. Woods, and M. G. Pavesic, pp. 211-227. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Plew, M. G., J. C. Woods, and M. G. Pavesic (editors)
	1985	Stone Tool Analysis: Essays in Honor of Don E. Crabtree, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Titmus, G. L. and J. C. Woods
	1987	An Experimental Study of Projectile Point Fracture Patterns. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 8(1):37-49.
	1991	A Closer Look at Margin "Grinding" on Clovis and Folsom Points. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 13(2):194-203.
	1992	Fluted Points from The Snake River Plain. In Clovis, Origins and Adaptations, edited by R. Bonnichsen and K. L. Turnmire, pp. 119-132, Peopling of the Americas Publications, Center for the Study of the First Americans, Oregon State University, Corvallis.
Woods, J. C.
	1981	Don E. Crabtree (1912-1980), Idaho Archaeologist, 4(IV):1-3.
	1988	Manufacturing and Use Damage on Pressure-Flaked Stone Tools. Master's thesis, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Idaho State University, Pocatello.
	1989	Projectile Point Fracture Patterns and Inferences About Tool Function. Idaho Archaeologist, 11(1):3-7.
Woods, J. C., and G. L. Titmus
	1985	A Technological Analysis of the Simon Clovis Collection, Idaho Archaeologist, 8(l):3-8.
	1992	Operación Q206: Una Cantera Caliza. In El Informe de las Investigaciones realizadas en la Temporada de 1991 en el sitio arqueológico, Nakbe, Peten. Proyecto Regiónal Investigaciónes Arqueología del Norte Peten, Guatemala. Edited by R. D. Hansen, University of California, Department of Archaeology and Institute of Anthropology and History in Guatemala (IDAEH).
	1996	Stone on Stone: Perspectives on Maya Civilization from Lithic Studies. Eighth Palenque Round Table, 1993, The Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute: San Francisco, pp. 479-489.

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In Preparation

• The Ancient Limestone Quarries of Nakbe, Guatemala (with Gene L. Titmus)
• Initial Investigations at Kelvin's Cave (10 LN 93), Lincoln County, Idaho (with Daniel S. Meatte and Gene L. Titmus).
• Test Excavations at Kwahadu Rockshelter (10 JE 104), Jerome County, Idaho (with Gene L. Titmus).

Last updated 1 September 1999
Comments or questions?
Email me: jwoods@csi.edu