Email: raymond.mauldin@utsa.edu

Dr. Mauldin has over 25 years of experience in the fields of archaeology and anthropology. He has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.  He has conducted ethnographic work in South America.  He has demonstrated the ability to design, conduct, and complete all aspects of research projects, including budgets, personnel, logistics, and dissemination of results. Dr. Mauldin's topical interests include ethnography and archaeology of hunters and gatherers, low-level agricultural systems, agricultural intensification, subsistence change, experimental archaeology and ethnoarchaeology. He has conducted research in lithic technology and has a background in quantitative methods. Dr. Mauldin has teaching experience as both a teaching assistant and instructor for several classes in cultural anthropology and archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of New Mexico, the University of Texas at El Paso, New Mexico State University, and the University of Texas at San Antonio.  He has presented guest lectures to anthropology students and faculty at Loyola University (Chicago), University of New Mexico (Albuquerque) and New Mexico State University (Las Cruces).  In 1988, he was recognized as one of six outstanding teaching assistants at the University of New Mexico, and has consistently received high evaluations on his teaching. He has presented over 50 papers at professional meetings including over 20 papers at national/international meetings.  Many of these papers were in invited symposia.  He served as a discussant for a symposium at the Southwest Anthropological Association meetings, and has organized four symposia at national and regional meetings. He has also presented several public lectures on archaeology. He has co‑edited a monograph on lithic technology, and since 1988 has over 20 peer reviewed articles in journals or books, including articles in American Antiquity, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Kiva, Antiquity, Current Research in the Pleistocene, Texas Journal of Science,  and  Lithic Technology. He has over 60 contract monographs, museum reports, conference publications, or chapters in contract volumes. He has served as a reviewer for American Antiquity, Lithic Technology, and Kiva, and is a member of the Society for American Archaeology, Archaeological and Historical Society of Arizona, the Texas Academy of Sciences, and the South Texas Archaeological Association.

His educational credentials include a B.A. (UTEP), an M.A. (UT Austin), and a Ph.D. (UNM), all in Anthropology. His MA research used cross‑cultural ethnographic data on pithouse use to structure archaeological investigations into Basketmaker II settlement and subsistence patterns in northern Arizona.  His Ph.D. research centered on the Jornada area of southern New Mexico and western Texas.  Using over 500 radiocarbon dated features, 450 obsidian hydration dates, and the grinding surface area measured on over 750 manos, coupled with detailed investigations of climate change, his dissertation investigated changing patterns of land use at large spatial scales.   He served as the Principal Investigator for the Anthropology Research Center at the University of Texas at El Paso where he oversaw a variety of archaeological projects totaling more than 1.7 million dollars and a staff of over 40 individuals.  He was an Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology   at UTEP form 1996 to 1997, an assistant professor at New Mexico State University during 1998, and is currently associated with the University of Texas at San Antonio.  He was a managing partner with Centro de Investigaciones Arqueologicas, a CRM firm conducting research in the southern Southwest, and was president of the board of directors for the Center for Indigenous Research, a non-profit organization dedicated to public education, research, and archaeological preservation.   In 1999, he became a Project Archaeologist with the Center for Archaeological Research (CAR) at the University of Texas at San Antonio.  Currently, he is the Assistant Director for the CAR.

 EDUCATION :

1974-1978 University of Texas, El Paso, Texas. B.A. in Anthropology.   

1980-1982  University of Texas, Austin, Texas. M.A. in Anthropology (awarded 1983). Thesis title: An Inquiry into the Past: Basketmaker II Settlement on Northeastern Black Mesa, Arizona.  Thesis chairman, Dr. James A. Neely.

1985-1990  University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M.  Ph.D. in Anthropology (awarded 1995). Dissertation title: Groping for the Past: Archaeological Patterns Across Space and Time in the Southern Southwestern United States. Dissertation chairman, Dr. Lewis R. Binford.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS/ CONTRACT REPORTS

2001

An Archaeological Survey of Twin Buttes Reservoir, Ton Green County, Texas.  Center for Archaeological Research , the University of Texas at San Antonio, Archaeological Survey Report, No 300.  (with David L. Nickels).

1999

Late Wisconsin-Age Proboscideans from South New Mexico. Texas Journal of Science.  (with J.D. Leach, J. , D. Kuehn, and G. S. Morgan). 

1998

Paleoindian Archaeology at Hollaman Air Force Base, New Mexico.  Current Research in the Pleistocene.  Vol. 15. (with D. Amick and M. Tagg).

The Impact of Eolian Geomorphic Processes on Archaeological Assemblages.  Bulletin of Texas Archaeology. Vol. 69: 99-198.   (with J. Leach and H. Curtis Monger).

1997

The Effects of Raw Material on Flake Breakage Patterns. Lithic Technology.  Vol. 22: 18-32.  (with D. Amick).

The McGregor Guided Missile Range Survey Project, New Mexico.  Volume 1: The Archaeology of Landscape- General Survey. ARC Archaeological Technical Report No.  15.  ARC, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Texas at El Paso. (with B. OâLeary, T. Kludt, and T. Church).

 

1996

Mano Size, Stable Carbon Isotope Ratios, and Macrobotanical Remains as Indicators of Maize Dependence in the American Southwest.  Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.  Vol.  3 (4): 253-318. (with R. Hard and G. Raymond).

Mogollon Village Revisited: Chronometric Results and Interpretations.  Kiva. Vol 61: 385-400.  (with  P. Gilman and C. Stevenson). 

Immunological Residue Analysis of Archeological Material from West Texas. Texas Journal   of Science Vol. 48: 25-34 (with J. Leach).

Exploring Patterns in Late Archaic and Early Ceramic Residential Occupation in the Northern  Chihuahuan Desert. In Early Formative Adaptations in the Southern Southwest. Edited by B. Roth. Pp. 85-97. Prehistory Press, Madison, Wisconsin.

Living on the River's Edge: Archaeological Investigations at the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, Tigua Indian Reservation, Ysleta, Texas. Report prepared for the Tigua Indian Tribe (with J. Leach, N. Houser,  R. D. Harrison, and J. A. Peterson).

Significance Standards for Prehistoric Sites at Fort Bliss: A Design for Further Research and the Management of Cultural Resources .  TRC Mariah.  Manuscript prepared for the U.S. Army Engineer District, Fort Worth. (with J. Abbott, P. Patterson, W. N. Trierweiler, R. J. Hard, C. R. Lintz, and C. L. Tennis).

1995

On the Identification of Blood Residues on Paleoindian Artifacts.  Current Research in the  Pleistocene. Vol. 12. 85-87.  (with J. Leach and D. Amick).

Additional Comments on Blood Residue Analysis in Archaeology. Antiquity.  Vol.  69. 1020-1022. (with J. Leach).

1994

Small Sites in Western Texas and Southern New Mexico.  Bulletin of Texas Archaeology Vol. 65: 185-206.

1993

The Relationship Between Ground Stone and Agricultural Intensification in Western New Mexico. Kiva Vol. 58: 317-330.

Lithic and Ground Stone Artifacts. In Archaeological Studies along the Arizona Interconnection Project Transmission Line Corridor. J. Simon Bruder and A. E. Rogge. Dames and Moore, Phoenix and Zuni Archaeological Program, Zuni, N.M.

1991

The Mogollon Village Archaeological Project, 1989.  Report submitted to the U.S. Forest Service. (with P. Gilman and V. Powell).

The Mogollon Village Archaeological Project, 1991. Report submitted to the U.S. Forest Service. (with M. Duncan and P. Gilman).

Ground Stone Morphology and Agricultural Dependence in the Mogollon Highlands. In Proceedings of the 5^th  Mogollon Conference.  P. Beckett, editor. COAS Research and Publishing, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

1989

Comments On Sullivan and Rozen's Debitage Analysis and Archaeological Interpretation. (with  D. Amick). American Antiquity. Vol. 54: 166-168.

Experiments in Lithic Technology. Edited by D.Amick and R. Mauldin. British Archaeological Reports, International Series, Number 528. London.

The Potential of Experiments in Lithic Technology. In Experiments in Lithic Technology.  Edited by D. Amick and R.Mauldin. British  Archaeological Reports, International Series,    Number 528. London. (with D. Amick and L.R. Binford).

Patterning in Debitage from Experimental Bifacial Core Reduction.  In Experiments in Lithic Technology.  Edited by D. Amick and R. Mauldin. British Archaeological Reports, International Series, Number 528. London. (with D. Amick).

1988

An Evaluation of Debitage Produced by Experimental Bifacial Core Reduction of a Georgetown Chert Nodule. (with D. Amick and S. Tomka). In Lithic Technology Vol. 17: 17-26.

EXPERIENCE/ REFERENCES/ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

A complete list of publications, presentations, work experience, and references are available on request.