Areas of interest
Emergence of Social Inequality, Complex Non-State Societies, Lithics Analysis, Evolutionary Modeling, GIS/Spatial Analysis
Education
- BA, Washington State University Vancouver 2007
- MA, Western Washington University 2009
- PhD, Washington State University Pullman 2015
Introduction
I joined the department in January 2022 after working for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and I am involved in active heritage management work with the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife. I am a current Adjunct Professor, and former director of the SFU Heritage Resource Management program.
Research
My research focuses on the emergence of hereditary social inequality and modeling social learning in complex hunter-gathering-fishing societies. I work in the Salish Sea and Columbia Plateau in Washington State and British Columbia.
Publications
2020 Rorabaugh, A. N. A Critical Reassessment of the Chronology of the Wells Dam Project Area: 9,000 Years of Continuity on the Upper-Middle Columbia River. In Of Housepits and Homes: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Houses and Settlements on the Columbia-Fraser Plateau Journal of Northwest Anthropology Memoir 19. Carney, M., Brown, J. W., and D. E. Wallen (Eds). Pp. 121-153
2019 Rorabaugh, A. N. Hunting Social Networks on the Salish Sea Before and After the Bow and Arrow. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 23: 842-843.
2017 Rorabaugh, A. N. and Shantry, K. Credibility Enhancing Displays and the Signaling of Coast Salish Resource Commitments. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. 12(3):380-397.
Courses
This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.