Patrick Lubinski, Ph.D.
Professor
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
For PDF copies, please see ResearchGate or Academia.edu or email me.
- 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
- Fish remains from Paisley Cave, Oregon
Contact
Office: Dean Hall 338