Patrick Lubinski, PhD

Interests & Expertise

• Archaeology, zooarchaeology, methods, cultural resource management, western North America

Archaeological Experience

• More than 30 field seasons in both academic/research and cultural resource management settings
• Work in Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Ohio, Nevada, North Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, France, and Tunisia
• Extensive work in Washington and Wyoming
• Completion of more than 80 archaeological reports

Teaching Highlights

• Professor, Central Washington University, 2010-present (Distinguished Teaching Award 2017)
• Associate Professor, Central Washington University, 2005-2010 (Faculty Mentor Award, SOURCE 2007)
• Assistant Professor, Central Washington University, 2000-2005 (Excellence in Teaching Award 2005)
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Western Wyoming Community College, 1998-2000

Courses Taught at CWU Since 2015

• Anth 107 General Anthropology
• Anth 120 Archaeology: Science of the Past
• Anth 296 Individual Study
• Anth 301 Principles and Assessment
• Anth 322 World Prehistory
• Anth 425 Zooarchaeology
• Anth 458 Senior Comprehensive Survey
• Anth 486 Advanced Archaeological Methods
• Anth 493 Anthropological Field Experience
• Anth 496 Individual Study
• CERM 502 Policy & Law in Cultural & Environmental Resource Management
• CERM 505 Introduction to Graduate Research
• CERM 506 Colloquium in Cultural & Environmental Resource Management

Selected Publications Since 2010

• Hudson, AM, MM Emery-Wetherell, PM Lubinski, VL Butler, DN Grimstead, and DL Jenkins. (2021) Reconstructing Paleohydrology in the Northwest Great Basin Since the Last Deglaciation Using Paisley Caves Fish Remains (Oregon, U.S.A.). Quaternary Science Reviews 261:106936.
• Lubinski, PM, and AT Scholz (2021) Tui Chub (Siphateles bicolor) are Native to the Columbia River Basin in Washington State. Northwest Science 94(3-4):243-255.
• Jastremski, NA., L Henebry-DeLeon, PM Lubinski and D Klyve (2021) Highland vs. Lowland Craniometry in Andean South America: An Ecuadorian Case Study. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 35:102758.
• Lubinski, PM, RL Lyman, and MP Johnson [student] (2020) Blind Testing of Faunal Identification Protocols: A Case Study with North American Artiodactyl Stylohyoids. American Antiquity 85:781-794. DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2020.45
• Johnson, MP [student], PM Lubinski, and S Hackenberger (2020) Legacy Collections and Zooarchaeological Analysis: Interpreting Two House Sites and Associated Fauna from the 1961-62 Ginkgo State Park Project. In Of Housepits and Homes: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Houses and Settlements in the Columbia-Fraser Plateau, edited by Molly Carney, James W. Brown, and Dakota E. Wallen, pp. 29-53. Journal of Northwest Anthropology Memoir No. 19.
• Lubinski, PM, and TA Hale [student] (2018) Identifying and Siding the Stylohyoid Bone for North American Artiodactyls. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 28:364-374. DOI: 10.1002/oa.2669
• Hockett, B, ME Adams, PM Lubinski, VL Butler, and DL Jenkins (2017) Late Pleistocene Subsistence in the Great Basin: Younger Dryas-aged Faunal Remains from the Botanical Lens, Paisley Cave 2, Oregon. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 13:565-576. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.05.003
• Donta, C, A Aymond [student], MA Partlow, and PM Lubinski (2016) Artifacts, Houses and Fauna from 1989 Excavations at the Monashka Bay Site on Kodiak Island. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 14:88- 106.
• Lubinski, PM (2016) Bison Remains from ~14,000 14C yr BP at the Wenas Creek Mammoth Site in Washington State. PaleoAmerica 2:277-280.
• Vickers, S [student], PM Lubinski, L Henebry DeLeon, JT Bowen (2015) Proposed Method for Predicting Pair Matching of Skeletal Elements Allows Too Many False Rejections. Journal of Forensic Sciences 60:102-106.
• Lubinski, PM, K Terry, PT McCutcheon (2014) Comparative Methods for Distinguishing Flakes from Geofacts: A Case Study from the Wenas Creek Mammoth Site. Journal of Archaeological Science 52:308-320.
• Lubinski, PM, J Feathers, K Lillquist (2014) Single-Grain Luminescence Dating of Sediment Surrounding a Possible Late Pleistocene Artifact from the Wenas Creek Mammoth Site, Pacific Northwest, USA. Geoarchaeology 29:16-32.
• Lubinski, PM (2013) What is Adequate Evidence for Mass Procurement of Ungulates in Zooarchaeology? Quaternary International 297:167-175.
• Lubinski, PM., MA Partlow (2012) Evidence for Local Fish Catch in Zooarchaeology. Journal of Ethnobiology 32(2):228-245.
• Lubinski, PM (2011) Comments on Evidence for Hunting of Pronghorn Herds in Prehistory Northwest Science, 85(1):68-70.
• Lubinski, PM., BS Shaffer (2010) Experimental Zooarchaeology: Research Directions and Methods. In Designing Experimental Research in Archaeology: Examining Technology through Production and Use, (Ferguson JR, Ed.), pp. 241-257. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

Current Research

• CWU Zooarchaeology Laboratory
• Wenas Creek Mammoth Investigation, Yakima County, Washington
• Zooarchaeology of sites in Central Washington
• Faunal identification protocols
• Quantification in fish size estimates and artiodactyl mortality profiles
• Vertebrate remains from Paisley Cave, Oregon

Curriculum vitae