CRAIG E. SKINNER

Affiliation: Northwest Research Obsidian Studies Laboratory

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Oregon, Anthropology, 1986 - 1991

M.S., University of Oregon, Anthropology, 1991

M.S., University of Oregon, Interdisciplinary Studies (Archaeology, Geology, Geography), 1983

Ed.M., Oregon State University, Education, 1974

B.S., Oregon State University, Anthropology, 1973

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1996 Present Program Director and Owner, Northwest Research Obsidian Studies Laboratory, Corvallis, Oregon.

1994 1996 Program Director, Obsidian Studies Laboratory, BioSystems Analysis, Inc., Santa Cruz, California.

1991 1994 Assistant Laboratory Director, INFOTEC Research, Inc., Eugene, Oregon.

1990 1991 Co-principal Investigator, Willamette National Forest Tephra Project.

PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS

Provenance Studies and the Geochemical Characterization of Archaeological and Geological Materials

Obsidian Characterization and Hydration Studies

Prehistory of the Far Western United States

Internet Applications in Archaeology, Geology, and Geography

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Erlandson, J. M., T. C. Rick, T. J. Braje, B. Culleton, B. Fulfrost, T. Garcia, D. A. Guthrie, N. Jew, D. J. Kennett,

M. L. Moss, L. Reeder, C. Skinner, J. Watts, and L. Willis

2011 Paleoindian Seafaring, Maritime Technologies, and Coastal Foraging on California's Channel Islands.

Science 331:1181 1185.

Hammerstedt, Scott W., Michael D. Glascock, and Craig E. Skinner

2008 Obsidian Artifacts from Moundville. Journal of Alabama Archaeology 54(1-2):54 59.

Garfinkel, Alan P., Jerry N. Hopkins, and Craig E. Skinner

2008 Ancient Stones of Black Glass: Tracing and Dating Paleoindian Obsidian Artifacts from China and Tulare

Lakes. In Ice-Age Stone Tools from the San Joaquin Valley, edited by Jerry N. Hopkins and Alan P.

Garfinkel, pp. 59 97. Contributions to Tulare Lake Archaeology IV, Tulare Lake Archaeological Research

Group.

O'Grady, Patrick, Chuck Morlan, Scott Thomas, Craig E. Skinner, and Jennifer J. Thatcher

2008 Geochemical Sourcing of Five Crescents from the Alvord Desert of Southeastern Oregon. Current

Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 33(3):8 9.

Eerkens, Jelmer, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, Michael D. Glascock, Craig E. Skinner, and Sharon Waechter

2007 Reduction Strategies and Geochemical Characterization of Lithic Assemblages: A Comparison of Three

Case Studies from Western North America. American Antiquity 72:585 597

Boulanger, Matthew H., Thomas R. Jamison, Craig Skinner, and Michael D. Glascock

2007 Analysis of an Obsidian Biface Reportedly Found in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont.

Archaeology of Eastern North America 35:81 92.

Speakman, Robert J., Michael D. Glascock, Robert H. Tykot, Christophe Descantes, Jennifer J. Thatcher, Craig E.

Skinner, and Kyra M. Lienhop

2007 Laser Ablation ICP-MS Characterization of Archaeological Materials for Provenance-Based Research. In

Archaeological Chemistry: Analytical Techniques and Archaeological Interpretation, edited by Michael D.

Glascock, Robert J. Speakman, and Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, pp. 275 296. American Chemical Society

Symposium Series 968, Washington, D. C.

Garfinkel, Alan P., Jeanne Day Binning, Craig E. Skinner, Alexander K. Rogers, Russell Kaldenberg, and Thomas

Chapman

2006 Obsidian Bifaces of the Eastern Sierra: The Portugese Bench and Cactus Flat Biface Cores. Society for

California Archaeology Newsletter 40(2):30 34.

Ferguson, Jeffrey R. and Craig E. Skinner

2005 Bone Cave: A Severely Disturbed Cave Site in Central Oregon. North American Archaeologist

26:221 244.

Haarklau, Lynn, L. Johnson, D. L. Wagner, R. E. Hughes, C. E. Skinner, J. J. Thatcher, and K. Myhrer

2005 Fingerprints in the Great Basin: The Nellis Air Force Base Regional Sourcing Study. Report prepared for

Nellis Air Force Base by Prewitt and Associates, Inc., Austin, Texas.

Skinner, Craig E., J. J. Thatcher, D. L. Jenkins, and A. C. Oetting

2004 X-Rays, Artifacts, and Procurement Ranges: A Mid-Project Snapshot of Prehistoric Obsidian Procurement

Patterns in the Fort Rock Basin of Oregon. In Early and Middle Holocene Archaeology of the Northern

Great Basin, edited by D. L. Jenkins, T. J. Connolly, and C. M. Aikens, pp. 221 232. University of Oregon

Anthropological Papers 62, Eugene, Oregon.

Beck, Charlotte, G. T. Jones, D. L. Jenkins, C. E. Skinner, and J. J Thatcher

2004 Fluted or Basally-Thinned? Re-Examination of a Lanceolate Point from the Connley Caves in the Fort

Rock Basin. In Early and Middle Holocene Archaeology of the Northern Great Basin, edited by edited by

D. L. Jenkins, T. J. Connolly, and C. M. Aikens, pp. 281 294. University of Oregon Anthropological

Papers 62, Eugene, Oregon.

Garfinkel, Alan P., J. D. Binning, E. Younkin, C. Skinner, T. Origer, R. Jackson, J. Lawson and T. Carpenter

2004 The Little Lake Biface Cache, Inyo County, California. In Proceedings of the Society for California

Archaeology 17:87 101.

Ferguson, Jeffrey R. and C. E. Skinner

2003 Colorado Obsidian? Preliminary Results of a Statewide Database of Trace Element Analysis. Southwestern

Lore 69(4):35 50.

Barker, Alex W., C. E. Skinner, M. S. Shackley, M. D. Glascock, and J. D. Rogers

2002 Mesoamerican Origin for an Obsidian Scraper from the Precolumbian Southeastern United States.

American Antiquity 67:103 108.

Buchner, C. Andrew and Craig E. Skinner

2002 An Obsidian Artifact from the La Plant I Site in the Cairo Lowland of Southeast Missouri. Missouri

Archaeological Society Quarterly 19(4).

Lyons, William H., S. P. Thomas, and C. E. Skinner

2001 Changing Obsidian Sources at the Lost Dune and McCoy Creek Sites, Blitzen Valley, Southeast Oregon.

Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 23:273 296.

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Rick, Torben C., C. E. Skinner, J. M. Erlandson, and R. L. Vellanoweth

2001 Obsidian Source Characterization and Human Exchange Systems on California's Channel Islands. Pacific

Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 37:27 44.\

Ambroz, Jessica A., M. D. Glascock, and C. E. Skinner

2001 Chemical Differentiation of Obsidian Within the Glass Buttes Complex, Oregon. Journal of

Archaeological Science 28:741 746.

Johnson, Lynn, David L. Wagner, and Craig E. Skinner

1999 Geochemistry of Archaeological Obsidian Sources in the Saline Range, Death Valley National Park,

California. In Proceedings of Conference on Status of Geologic Research and Mapping in Death Valley

National Park, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 4-11, 1999. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-153,

pp.118 120.

Connolly, Thomas J., Richard E. Hughes, and Craig E. Skinner

1999 Geochemical Characterization of the Newberry Caldera Obsidian Flows. In Newberry Crater: A

Ten-Thousand-Year Record of Human Occupation and Environmental Change in the Basin-Plateau

Borderlands, by Thomas J. Connolly, pp. 151 156. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 121, Salt

Lake City, Utah.

Lepper, Bradley T., C. E. Skinner, and C. M. Stevenson

1998 Analysis of an Obsidian Biface Fragment from a Hopewell Occupation Associated with the Fort Hill

(33HI1) Hilltop Enclosure in Southern Ohio. Archaeology of Eastern North America 26:33 39.

Skinner, Craig E. and Ann C. Bennett-Rogers

1997 The Geologic Source of an Obsidian Wealth Blade from the Whale Cove Site (35-LNC-60), Central

Oregon Coast: Results of X-Ray Fluorescence Trace Element Analysis. Current Archaeological

Happenings in Oregon 22(3):8 10.

Skinner, Craig E. and Paul W. Baxter

1997 Trace Element Characterization Studies of Obsidian from Sites 35-PO-15 and 35-PO-47, Willamette

Valley, Western Oregon: An Archaeological Application of Atomic Absorption Spectrometry. In

Contributions to the Archaeology of Oregon: 1995-1996, edited by Albert C. Oetting. Association of

Oregon Archaeologists Occasional Papers No.6, Eugene, Oregon, pp. 19 30.

Skinner, Craig E. and Carol J. Winkler

1994 Trans-Cascade Prehistoric Procurement of Obsidian in Western Oregon: An Early Look at the Geochemical

Evidence. In Contributions to the Archaeology of Oregon: 1989-1994, edited by Paul Baxter. Association

for Oregon Archaeologists Occasional Papers No. 5, Eugene, Oregon, pp. 29 44.

Skinner, Craig E. and Stefan C. Radosevich

1994 The Geologic Source of the Mazama "Mimic" Mystery Tephra: A Geochemical Reassessment of Volcanic

Tephra from Vine Rockshelter (35LA304), Central Western Cascades, Oregon. In Contributions to the

Archaeology of Oregon: 1989-1994, edited by Paul Baxter. Association for Oregon Archaeologists

Occasional Papers No. 5, Eugene, Oregon, pp. 16 27.

Skinner, Craig E. and Kim J. Tremaine

1993 Interdisciplinary Obsidian Bibliography. International Association for Obsidian Studies Occasional Paper

No. 1, San Jose, California.

Skinner, Craig E.

1993 Obsidian Characterization Laboratory Survey Results. International Association for Obsidian Studies

Bulletin 10:11 14.

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Skinner, Craig E.

1993 Open Vertical Volcanic Conduits: A Preliminary Investigation of An Unusual Volcanic Cave Form With

Examples from Newberry Volcano and the Central High Cascades of Oregon (A Special Session of the 39th

Annual Convention of the National Speleological Society, Bend, Oregon, July 30-August 1, 1982). In

Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology, pp. 7 17. International

Speleological Foundation, Seattle, Washington.

Skinner, Craig E. and Stefan C. Radosevich

1991 Holocene Volcanic Tephra in the Willamette National Forest: Results of a Geochemical and

Geoarchaeological Investigation. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 16(4):6 11.

Skinner, Craig E. and Stefan C. Radosevich

1991 Holocene Volcanic Tephra in the Willamette National Forest, Western Oregon: Distribution, Geochemical

Characterization, and Geoarchaeological Evaluation. Report prepared for the Willamette National Forest,

Eugene, Oregon, by Northwest Research and Trans-World Geology. Eugene, Oregon.

Skinner, Craig E. and Carol J. Winkler

1991 Trans-Cascade Prehistoric Procurement of Obsidian in Western Oregon: The Geochemical Evidence.

Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 16(2):3 9.

Skinner, Craig E., Jon Erlandson, Richard Hughes, Madonna Moss, and John Boughton

1991 Trace Element Composition of Obsidian Artifacts from the Beaverdam Creek Site (35-CR-20), Central

Oregon. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 16(2):9 11.

A list of additional publications may be found at www.obsidianlab.com.

SELECTED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Obsidian Hydration, Cut Sample Selection, and Technological Aspects of Debitage (2009). Poster presented at the

74th Annual Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia. Co-Authors: J.D. Binning, A.P.

Garfinkel, Jennifer J. Thatcher, and Brian Wickstrom.

Obsidian Source Use at Danger Cave (2008). Poster presented at the 31st Biennial Great Basin Anthropological

Conference, Portland, Oregon. Co-Author: D. Page.

Lithic Sourcing in the BC Interior (2008). Paper presented at the 59th Annual Northwest Anthropological

Conference, Victoria, British Columbia. Co-Authors: B. Pegg, C. Robertson, and D. Pokotylo.

A View of Northern Great Basin Prehistory Through the Volcanic Glass Window (2008). Paper presented at the

57th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Seattle, Washington. Co-Author: D. Jenkins.

INNA Examination of Flake Size Bias in XRF Studies (2005). Poster presented at the 70th Annual Meetings of the

Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, Utah. Co-authors: Ferguson, J. R., J. W. Eerkens, and M. D.

Glascock.

Laser Ablation ICP-MS Characterization of Archaeological Materials for Provenance-Based Research (2004). Paper

presented at The Inaugural Symposium of the Archaeological Sciences of America Meeting, Tucson, Arizona.

Co-authors: Speakman, R. J., M. D. Glascock, C. H. Descantes, R. H. Tykot, J. J. Thatcher, K. M. Lienhop, and B. J.

Higgins.

Establishing an Origin for Clay Features at the Tseriadun Site (35-CU-7), Southern Oregon Coast (2004). Paper

presented at the 55th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Eugene, Oregon. Co-authors: L. G. Davis, R.

S. Byram, and F. C. Anderson.

The Social Dimension of Obsidian in the Portland Basin (2004). Paper presented at the 55th Annual Northwest

Anthropological Conference, Eugene, Oregon. Co-author: D. Ellis.

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Chemical Differentiation of Obsidian Within the Newberry Volcanic Complex by Laser Ablation ICP-MS,INAA,

and XRF (2002). Paper presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.

Co-authors: R. J. Speakman and M. D. Glascock.

Bulldozing for Bifaces: Production, Procurement, and Provenance Analysis of an Obsidian Biface Cache from the

Central Cascades of Oregon (2002). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado. Co-authors: A. C. Bennett and J. J. Thatcher.

A Comparison of Obsidian Analyses by Multiple Techniques: Determining Meaningful Levels of Resolution for

Central Mediterranean Provenance Studies (2000). Poster presented at the 32nd International Symposium on

Archaeometry, Mexico City, Mexico. Co-authors: R. H. Tykot and M. D. Glascock

Obsidian Characterization and Hydration Results of the Fort Rock Basin Prehistory Project, Oregon (1999). Paper

presented at the 52nd Northwest Anthropological Conference, Newport, Oregon. Co-authors: D. L. Jenkins,

J. J. Thatcher, and K. Hoar.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Association for Oregon Archaeologists

International Association for Obsidian Studies (President, 1992-1993; Webmaster, 1995-present)

New Zealand Archaeological Association

Society for American Archaeology

Society for California Archaeology

Society for Archaeological Science

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