Professor

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Washington, 1997
M.A. Anthropology, University of Washington, 1988
B.A. Anthropology, Western Washington Univ., 1984

Office: Dean Hall 340

Phone: 509-963-2075
Fax: 509-963-3215
Email: mccutchp@cwu.edu

(see full CV)

2018

Chronometric Precision and Accuracy: Radiocarbon and Luminescence Age Estimates for Pacific Northwest Cooking Features. Journal of Canadian Archaeology.  Accepted for publication March 27, 2018. Junior author with James W. Brown, James K. Feathers, James C. Chatters, Patrick T. McCutcheon, and Steven Hackenberger.

2017

Fire-Climate-Human Interactions during the Postglacial Period at Sunrise Ridge, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington (USA). Quaternary Science Reviews 177: 246-264. Junior author with Megan K. Walsh, Michael L. Lukens, and Greg C. Burtchard.

2017

Calcined Bone as a Reliable Medium for Radiocarbon Dating: a Test using Paired North American Samples. American Antiquity 82(3): 593-608.

2017

Chemical Sourcing of Obsidian Artifacts from the Grissom Site (45-KT-301) to Study Source Variability. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 51(1):37-72. Junior author with Anne B. Parfitt.

2016

The Archaeology of Obsidian Occurrence in Stone Tool Manufacture and Use Along Two Reaches of The Northern Mid-Columbia River, Washington.  Journal of Northwest Anthropology 50(1):79-102.  Junior author with Sonja C. Kassa.

2014

Comparative Methods for Distinguishing Flakes from Geofacts: a Case Study from the Wenas Creek Mammoth Site. Journal of Archaeological Science 52:308-320. Junior author with Patrick M. Lubinski and Karisa Terry.

2011

The Saddle Mountains Geodatabase and a Preliminary Analysis of the Distribution of the Archaeological Record Relative to Enivornmental Variables in the Saddle Mountains, Grant County, Washington.  Report submitted to Bureau of Land Management.  Junior author with Kevin Vaughn.

2009

Possible Lithic Artifacts from 2005-07 Excavations at the Wenas Creek Mammoth Site. Current Research in the Pleistocene 26:85-86.  Junior author with Pat Lubinski, Karl Lillquist, Morris Uebelacker, Bax Barton, and Jake Shapely.

2009

2008 Systematic Pedestrian Survey in the Saddle Mountains, Grant County, Washington.  Report submitted to Bureau of Land Management. Junior author with Kevin Vaughn and CJ Anderson.

2008

Determination of Eligibility of 19 Archaeological Sites in the Klamath River Canyon, Oregon.  Report submitted to Bureau of Land Management. Senior author with contributions from Jason Dabling.

2008

2006 Systematic Pedestrian Survey in the Saddle Mountains, Grant County, Washington.  Report submitted to Bureau of Land Management, Junior author with Susan Hughes and Kevin Vaughn.

2008

2005 Systematic Pedestrian Survey in the Saddle Mountains, Grant County, Washington.  Report submitted to Bureau of Land Management, Senior author with Kevin Vaughn and Amy Senn.

2008

2004 Systematic Pedestrian Survey in the Saddle Mountains, Grant County, Washington.  Report submitted to Bureau of Land Management, Senior author with Kevin Vaughn and Vanessa Tucker.

2004

2000 Systematic Pedestrian Survey in the Saddle Mountains, Grant County, Washington.  Report submitted to Bureau of Land Management.

2003

Archaeological Reconnaissance and Environmental History at Reflection Lakes, Mount Rainier National Park.  Report submitted to Mount Rainier National Park.  Senior author with Nicholas Smith.

2002

1999 Systematic Pedestrian Survey in the Saddle Mountains, Grant County, Washington.  Report submitted to Bureau of Land Management.  Senior author with Tucker Orvald.

2002

Central Washington University's 1998 Systematic Archaeological Survey in Mount Rainier National Park. Report in submitted to Mount Rainier National Park.  Senior author with Steve Dampf.2001 Central Washington University's 1998 Systematic Archaeological Survey in Mount Rainier National Park. Report for Mount Rainier National Park. Senior author with Steve Dampf.

2000

1999 Systematic Survey in the Saddle Mountains, Grant County, Washington. Report in preparation for the Bureau of Land Management. Senior author with Tucker Orvald.

1999

Systematic Survey at Mount Rainier National Park. Report prepared for the Mount Rainier National Park on the 1997 fieldwork.

1999

Systematic Pedestrian Survey In The Saddle Mountains, Grant County, Washington. Report prepared for the Bureau of Land Management on the 1998 fieldwork. Junior author with Paula J. Hungar.

1998

Quantifying Lithic Raw Material Variability of Crowley's Ridge Gravel, Southeast Missouri. Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley, edited by Michael J. O'Brien and Robert C. Dunnell. Alabama University Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Senior author with R. C. Dunnell.

1997

From Macroscopic to Microscopic: Understanding Prehistoric Heat Treatment of Stone Tools. Siliceous Rocks and Culture, edited by A. Ramos-Millan and M. A. Bustillo, pp:447-462. Universidad De Granada, Monografica Arte Y Arqueologia. Copartgraf, s.c.a. Albolote, Granada, Espana. Senior author with Scott M. Kuehner.

1996

Effects of Sudden Submergence on Archaeological Sites along the Southern Coast of Washington About A. D. 1700. Geoarchaeology. Junior author with Steve Cole, Brian Atwater, Julie Stein, and Eileen Hemphill-Haley.

1994

Heat Treatment of Mill Creek and Dover Chert on the Malden Plain, Southeast Missouri. Journal of Archaeological Science, 21(1):79-89. Junior author with Robert C. Dunnell, Motoji Ikeya, and Shin Toyoda.

1992

Burned Archaeological Bone. In Deciphering a Shell Midden, edited by Julie K. Stein. Academic Press, Orlando.