Posts by Collection

portfolio

publications

Carney, Molly, Eric Wohlgemuth, Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, and Shannon Tushingham 2022 Bulbs and Biographies, Pine nuts and Palimpsests: Exploring Plant Diversity and Earth Oven Reuse at a Late Period Plateau Site. Anthropological and Archaeological Sciences 14(130). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01588-1.

Carney, Molly, Melanie Diedrich, John Blong, Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, Tiffany Fulkerson, Tiffany Kite, Joyce LeCompte-Mastenbrook, Katy Leonard-Doll, Mario Zimmermann, and Shannon Tushingham 2022 Northwest Native Plants: An Online, Digital Space for Ethnobotanical and Paleoethnobotanical Knowledge. Heritage. 5:297–310. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage5010016

Carney, Molly, Tara McLaughlin, Shannon Tushingham, and Jade d’Alpoim Guedes 2021 Harvesting strategies as evidence for 4,000 years of camas (Camassia quamash) management in the North American Columbia Plateau. Royal Society Open Science, 8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos/202213

Carney, Molly and Jade d’Alpoim-Guedes 2021 Paleoethnobotanical identification criteria for bulbs of the North American Northwest. Vegetation History and Archeobotany. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-020-00808-9

Carney, Molly and Benjamin Davies 2020 Agent-Based Modeling, Scientific Reproducibility, and Taphonomy: A Successful Model Implementation Case Study. Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 3(1), pp.182–196. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.52

Carney, Molly 2020 Performativity on the Plateau? Exploring Variability in Archaeological Long and Conical Tule Mat Lodges. In Of Housepits and Homes: 21st Century Perspectives on Houses and Settlements in the Columbia-Fraser Plateau Past, edited by Molly Carney, James W. Brown and Dakota E. Wallen. Journal of Northwest Anthropology Memoir 19, Richland, Washington.

Carney, Molly, Jade d’Alpoim-Guedes, Kevin J. Lyons, and Melissa Goodman-Elgar 2019 Gendered Places and Depositional Histories: Reconstructing a Menstrual Lodge in the Interior Northwest. American Antiquity 84(3):400-419. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2019.30

Edited Volumes

Carney, Molly, James W. Brown and Dakota E. Wallen (eds) 2020 Of Housepits and Homes: 21st Century Perspectives on Houses and Settlements in the Columbia-Fraser Plateau Past. Journal of Northwest Anthropology Memoir 19, Richland, Washington.

Manuscripts in Review and in Preparation

Carney, Molly n.d. The Archaeology of Stewardship and Cultural Keystone Species in the Pacific Northwest. Invited manuscript in review with the Journal of Northwest Anthropology, Special Publication No. 5 Current Anthropological and Archaeological Research from the Pacific Northwest—2023, edited by Darby C. Stapp, Julia G. Longenecker, and Victoria Boozer.

Carney, Molly n.d. Fleshing Out Scales of Camas Stewardship in the North American Northwest. Manuscript to be submitted to Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

Carney, Molly n.d. Archaeological Contributions to Camas Conservation. Manuscript to be submitted to Northwest Science.

Non-peer Reviewed Works

Carney, Molly 2021 Camassia in the North American Pacific Northwest. The Bulb Garden 18(4):3-6.

Carney, Molly, James W. Brown and Dakota E. Wallen 2020 Houses, Homes, and Dwellings of the Columbia Fraser Plateau: An Introduction. In Of Housepits and Homes: 21st Century Perspectives on Houses and Settlements in the Columbia-Fraser Plateau Past, edited by Molly Carney, James W. Brown and Dakota E. Wallen. Journal of Northwest Anthropology Memoir 19, Richland, Washington.

Carney, Molly and Shannon Tushingham (eds) 2019+ Cultural and Historic Guide to Northwest Native Plants. Washington State University Museum of Anthropology. http://cdsc-wsu.org/nwnativeplants/.

talks

Paleoethnobotany Lab

The U of A Paleoethnobotany Lab is set up for the identification and analysis of archaeobotanical and ethnobiological materials. Our lab features Leica microscopes and imaging systems for the analysis and documentation of a variety of archaeological remains and comparative specimens. We prioritize macrobotanical and starch extraction, processing, and identification. We also work with the Arkansas Nano & Bio Materials Characterization Facility on scanning electron microscopy analysis of plant materials.

Our botanical comparative collections include seeds, wood, geophytes, starch, and herbarium voucher specimens, with a regional focus on the North American Pacific Northwest and the Eastern Woodlands. We are in the process of buidling this collecion and imaging these reference materials. Once imaged these will be uploaded to the Northwest Native Plants website.

We welcome students from all backgrounds and interests into the Paleoethnobotany Laboratory. I am currently looking for undergraduate volunteers to help us organize and digitize our reference collections and to help sorting and identifying archaeological samples. Some remote opportunities are available. Please email Dr. Carney to get started.

I am actively recruiting graduate students to join our lab group. Students interested in any aspect of environmental archaeology or the study of past human-environmental interactions are welcome to apply. Please contact me directly with questions about our graduate program or to discuss your potential application.

teaching

Pedogogy

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University of Arkansas

Anth 3023, Approaches to Archaeology

Anth 3473, North American Archaeology

Washington State University

Anth 101, Introduction to Anthropology

Anth 320, Native Peoples of North America

Hist 105, Roots of Contemporary Issues

University of California at San Diego

Visiting Graduate Student and Paleoenvironment Lab Manager at Scripps Institute of Oceanography

Molly Carney