Dr. Herbert D. G. Maschner
Anthropology Research Professor
Senior Scientist and Affiliate Professor, IAC
Idaho State University
921 So. 8th Avenue, Stop 8005
Pocatello, Idaho 83209-8005
Phone: (208) 282-2745
Fax: (208) 282-4944
e-mail: maschner@isu.edu
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Research
- Sanak Biocomplexity Project
- Lower Alaska Peninsula Project
- Kuiu Island Archaeology Project
Center for Archaeology, Materials, and Applied Spectroscopy (CAMAS)
- Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Elemental and Isotopic Analyses (ILEIA)
- ICP-MS and Laser Ablation (LA-ICP-MS)
- Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry (IRMS)
- X-ray Florescence (XRF)
- Idaho Visualization Laboratory (IVL)
Herbert Maschner is Research Professor of Anthropology, Assistant Chair in the Department of Anthropology, Director of the Center for Archaeology, Materials, and Applied Spectroscopy (CAMAS), Senior Scientist at the Idaho Accelerator Center (IAC), Associate Editor of the Journal of World Prehistory, and an Executive Director of the Foundation for Archaeological Research and Environmental Studies (FARES). In 2006 he was named ISU’s Distinguished Researcher.
Maschner did his PhD at the University of California-Santa Barbara, his MS at the University of Alaska, and the BS at the University of New Mexico. His primary research interests include using archaeological data to investigate human biocomplexity and the environment, resource sustainability, long-term human impacts on marine and terrestrial ecosystems, Darwinian theory and evolutionary psychology, warfare and inequality, and global historical ecologies. Methodologically his interests include elemental and isotopic analyses, geographic information systems and remote sensing, and complex systems analysis. His primary research area is the North Pacific Rim, especially the eastern Aleutian region.
Maschner’s research has been funded by NSF, NOAA, USFWS, the USDA Forest Service, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and local agencies. He has been Principle Investigator or co-PI on ≈$5.265 million in grants, which includes PI on ≈$3.937 million from the National Science Foundation.
His major works published, in press, or submitted include 1 monograph, 8 edited books, 1 edited journal section, and 70+ articles, chapters, reviews (51 peer-reviewed). He has organized 28 conferences and symposia, presented 140 conference papers, done 72 invited lectures, and written 29 professional reports.
Maschner’s principal research collaborators are Dr. Katherine Reedy-Maschner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at ISU, and their two sons, Alexander Beowulf and Augustus Dylan.