Christopher Schwartz
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MCENT 206 PO Box 872402 Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
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I am an anthropological archaeologist and cultural resource management professional who examines the social impacts of long-distance exchange and long-term human-animal relationships in pre-Hispanic North America. I draw on various lines of evidence, including faunal skeletal material, isotopic analyses, material culture, Indigenous perspectives, and spatial analyses, to understand how interregional interaction and human-animal relationships led to large-scale social transformations in the past. I am a Project Scientist with Environmental Planning Group, A Terracon Company, and I am also the lead editor of Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the US Southwest and Mexican Northwest.
Pre-contact archaeology of US Southwest and Mexican Northwest; isotope biogeochemistry in archaeology; long-distance exchange and acquisition; zooarchaeology; ritual use of animals; cultural resource management
2022 Dolan, Sean G., Andrew T. Ozga, Karl W. Laumbach, John Krigbaum, Aurelie Manin, Christopher W. Schwartz, Anne C. Stone, Kelly J. Knudson. “Turkey Iconography, Domestication, and Husbandry in the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico, AD 1000-1130”. American Antiquity 88(1):41-61. DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2022.81.
2022 Schwartz, Christopher W., Stephen Plog, and Patricia A. Gilman (Eds.). Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2022 Schwartz, Christopher W. "Macaws and Parrots of the Flagstaff Area". In, Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest, edited by Christopher W. Schwartz, Stephen Plog, and Patricia A. Gilman, pp. 156-182. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2022 Schwartz, Christopher W., Kelley L.M. Taylor, and Michelle Hegmon. "The Human Experience of Transporting and Raising Scarlet Macaws at Paquimé in Northern Chihuahua, México". In, Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest, edited by Christopher W. Schwartz, Stephen Plog, and Patricia A. Gilman, pp. 297-320. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2022 Schwartz, Christopher W., Stephen Plog, and Patricia A. Gilman. "Exploring Variation in the Frequency and Context of Macaws and Parrots in the US Southwest and Mexican Northwest". In, Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest, edited by Christopher W. Schwartz, Stephen Plog, and Patricia A. Gilman, pp. 321-346. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2022 Plog, Stephen, Christopher W. Schwartz, and Patricia A. Gilman. "Birds of the Sun: The Many Dimensions of Macaws and Other Parrots in the Lives of Pre-Hispanic People of the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest". In, Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest, edited by Christopher W. Schwartz, Stephen Plog, and Patricia A. Gilman, pp. 3-28. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2022 Nelson, Ben A., José Luis Punzo Díaz, and Christopher W. Schwartz. "Macaw and Parrot Use from Mesoamerica to the U.S. Southwest". In, Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest, edited by Christopher W. Schwartz, Stephen Plog, and Patricia A. Gilman, pp. 60-76. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2021 Shepard, Lindsay M., Will G. Russell, Christopher W. Schwartz, Robert S. Weiner, and Ben A. Nelson. The Social Use and Value of Blue-Green Stone Mosaics at Sites within Canal System 2, Phoenix Basin, Hohokam Regional System. American Antiquity. DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2020.111.
2021 Schwartz, Christopher W., Andrew D. Somerville, Ben A. Nelson, and Kelly J. Knudson. Investigating Pre-Hispanic Scarlet Macaw Origins through Radiogenic Strontium Isotope Analysis at Paquimé in Chihuahua, Mexico. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 61:101256. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101256.
2019 Baller, Kendall, Marcus Lorang, Christopher W. Schwartz, and Christopher Morehart. “Analysis of Archaeobotanical Samples from Cuychen”. In The Realm Below: Speleoarchaeological Investigations in the Macal River Valley, Belize, edited by C. Helmke, pp. 195-203. Precolumbia Mesoweb Press, San Francisco.
2018 Schwartz, Christopher W. A Contextual Analysis of Ritual Fauna and Socially Integrative Architecture in the Tonto Basin, Arizona. Kiva 84(3):317–341. DOI:10.1080/00231940.2018.1463684.
Project Co-PI, Scarlet Macaws, Distant Exchange, and the Establishment of Central Places in the US Southwest & Mexican Northwest, ca. 900-1450 CE. National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, B. Nelson (PI), K.J. Knudson (Co-PI). Tempe, AZ, 2019-pres.
Project Co-Director (current) & Graduate Research Associate (previously), Connections and Impacts of Northwest Mexico Project, B. Nelson, J.L. Punzo, & C.W. Schwartz (PIs). Tempe, AZ, 2019-pres., 2013-2017.
Database Manager & Zooarchaeologist, La Quemada-Malpaso Valley Archaeological Project, B. Nelson (PI). Tempe, AZ & Zacatecas, ZAC, 2017-pres.
Project Co-PI, Ancient Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of Turkey Remains in the U.S. Southwest, S. Winingear, S.E. Oas, & C.W. Schwartz. Tempe, AZ, 2019-pres.
Isotopic Analyst & Project Co-PI, Cibola Turkey Project, S.E. Oas & C.W. Schwartz. Tempe, AZ, 2017-pres.
Field Archaeologist & Zooarchaeologist, Chicoloapan-Coatepec Archaeological Project: Long Term Urban Change in Response to Societal Collapse, S. Clayton (PI). Madison, WI & Coatepec, MEX, 2018-pres.
Field Archaeologist, Collaborative Research: Polity and Urbanization at Teotihuacan, Mexico: Investigations at the Plaza of the Columns Complex, S. Sugiyama, N. Sugiyama, D. Carballo, V. Ortega, B. Fash (PIs). Tempe, AZ & San Juan, MEX, 2015-2016.
Field Archaeologist, Roots of Casas Grandes Archaeological Project, M. Searcy & T. Pitezel (PIs). Viejo Casas Grandes, CHH, 2014.
2022 Book Subvention Award, Arizona Archaeological & Historical Society
2021 Powers Prize, Pecos Conference
2020 Fred Plog Memorial Fellowship, Society for American Archaeology
2020 Graduate Excellence Award, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, ASU
2019 Graduate Scholarship, PaleoWest Foundation
2019 Directorate Teaching Award, School of Human Evolution & Social Change, ASU
2019 Honorable Mention, Ruppé Prize in Archaeology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change, ASU
2019 Graduate Excellence Award, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, ASU
2017 Student Leader Award, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, ASU
2016 Graduate Excellence Award, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, ASU
2012 Jose Franco & Francisco Ocampo Quesada Research Award, Barrett, the Honors College
2011 Southwest Archaeology Award, Dons & Doñas of Arizona
2011 Student Convocation Speaker, Barrett, the Honors College
Archaeology Southwest, Arizona Archeological and Historical Society (AAHS), Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis (CfAS), Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
2021-pres. Committee Member, Student Paper Award Committee, Society for American Archaeology
2020-pres. Ad-hoc Reviewer for National Science Foundation, National Science Foundation: Human Networks and Data Science Program, American Antiquity, eLife, Journal of Field Archaeology, Kiva, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2020 Barrett Alumni Opportunity Scholarship Reviewer, Barrett, the Honors College, ASU
2018-pres. Co-Founder & Co-Organizer, Southern Southwest Archaeological Conference
2017-2018 President, Association of All Graduate Students of SHESC, ASU
2016-2017 Vice President, Association of All Graduate Students of SHESC, ASU
2015-2017 Travel Grant Reviewer, Graduate & Professional Student Association, ASU
2015-2016 Archaeology Approach Representative, Association of All Graduate Students of SHESC, ASU
2015 Centennial Professorship Award Reviewer, Graduate & Professional Student Association, ASU
2014-2015 Graduate Student Mentor, Association of All Graduate Students of SHESC, ASU
2022-pres. Project Scientist, Environmental Planning Group, A Terracon Company