Position:

Research Associate in Geoarchaeology

Education:

PhD, Anthropology, Texas A&M University, 2016
MA, Anthropology, Texas A&M University, 2010
BA, Anthropology, Temple University, 2004

I am an environmental archaeologist with a background in geoarchaeology, paleoecology, lithic technology, and paleoethnobotany. My broad research goal is to investigate human adaptation to different landscapes and human response to ecological change. My research focuses in North America, in particular investigating when and how humans first settled the Americas and human response to late Pleistocene and Holocene ecological change.

Current Research:

Investigating the Nature and Timing of the Earliest Human Occupation of North America using a Novel Integration of Biogeochemistry and Micromorphology

Alaska Range Uplands Survey

Past Research:

Paleoindian Toolstone Provisioning and Settlement Organization at the Higgins Site (18AN489).

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Module contributor:

ARA1026 Introduction to Archaeological Science

ARA2004 Environmental Archaeology

ARA8234 Landscape Archaeology: Theory and Practice

ARA3122/8132 Coastal Connections in Early Prehistoric Europe

• Blong JC. Regional stratigraphy and human occupation of the upper Susitna River basin, central Alaska Range. Geoarchaeology 2019, 34(4), 380-399.
• Blong JC. Late-Glacial Hunter-Gatherers in the Central Alaska Range and the Role of Upland Ecosystems in the Peopling of Alaska. PaleoAmerica 2018, 4(2), 103-133.
• Shillito L-M, Blong J, Jenkins D, Stafford TW, Whelton H, McDonough K, Bull I. New Research at Paisley Caves: Applying New Integrated Analytical Approaches to Understanding Stratigraphy, Taphonomy and Site Formation Processes. PaleoAmerica 2018, 4(1), 82-86.
• Blong JC. Early Holocene Settlement of the Upper Susitna River Basin, Central Alaska. Journal of Ancient Technology Laboratory 2017, 13(4), 27-50.
• Blong JC, DiPietro LM. Stratigraphy, Dating, and Lithic Assemblages from Middle- to Late-Holocene Sites in the Ewe Creek Drainage, Denali National Park and Preserve. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 2014, 12(2), 74-90.
• Blong JC. Paleoindian Toolstone Provisioning and Settlement Organization at the Higgins Site (18AN489). In: Gingerich, JAM, ed. In The Eastern Fluted Point Tradition. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2013, pp.259-279.
• Blong JC. Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in the Savage River Uplands, Denali National Park and Preserve. Alaska Parks Science 2013, 12(1), 21-25.
• Blong JC. An Early Holocene Site in the Upper Susitna Basin, Central Alaska. Current Research in the Pleistocene 2011, 28, 25-26.
• Graf KE, Blong JC, Goebel T. A Concave-Based Projectile Point Form from Renewed Excavations at the Owl Ridge Site, Central Alaska. Current Research in the Pleistocene 2010, 27, 88-91.
• Shillito L-M, Blong JC, Sawyer AH, Mackay H. Geoarchaeology from Landscapes to Material Culture: papers from the 7^th Developing International Geoarchaeology conference. Geoarchaeology 2019, 34(4), 377-379.