Judson Finley
Anthropology-Archaeology
Department Head | Sociology and Anthropology
Contact Information
Office Location: Logan (MAIN 216B)Phone: +1 435 797 9621
Email: judson.finley@usu.edu
Educational Background
Licensures & Certifications
Biography
Judson Finley is an archaeologist who received his PhD in anthropology from Washington State University. Judson's specialty is the geological interface with Native history of the West.
Teaching Interests
North American Archaeology, North American Indian Cultures, Cultural Resource Management Policy, Geoarchaeology, Climate Studies, Archaeometry
Research Interests
Quaternary Paleoecology of western North America; rockshelter and cave sedimentary records; obsidian and ceramic artifact geochemistry; ceramic petrography
Awards
CHASS Faculty Undergraduate Mentor of the Year, 2019
Utah State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Beyond Bears Ears: Public Lands, Utah, and You. Interdisciplinary Think Tank Award, 2017
Utah State University Honors College
Notable New Grant, 2016
Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Utah State University
CHASS Faculty Undergraduate Advisor Award, 2016
Utah State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Project of the Year Award, 2011
Rocky Mountains Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit to Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Archaeological Field School
Regional Forester Honor Award, Recreation Partner of the Year, 2009
USDA National Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region
2008
Amerind New World Studies Series Seminar, Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona
2007
Amerind New World Studies Series Seminar, Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona
Publications | Abstracts
- Finley, J.B, Rowe, M.J, Rockshelters as Archives of Late Quaternary Geological Records in the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming : GSA Abstrsacts with Programs. Geological Society of America *
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Books
- Finley, J.B, (2022). Ecopedagogies: Practical Approaches to Experiential Learning. Routledge *
- Finley, J.B, (2022). Connections, Relationships, and the Land: An Anthropological Field School.: Ecopedagogies: Practical Approaches to Experiential Learning. Routledge *
- Finley, J.B, (2022). From Dinosaur to Bears Ears: Engaging Utah’s Public Lands Via Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Experiential Learning: Ecopedagogies: Practical Approaches to Experiential Learning. Routledge
- Finley, J.B, (2022). Out of the Classroom and into the Wild: Ecopedagogies in Action: Ecopedagogies: Practical Approaches to Experiential Learning. Routledge *
- Finley, J.B, History of Work, Stratigraphy, and Cultural Chronology: In the Shadow of the Steamboat: A Natural and Cultural History of North Warner Valley, Oregon. University of Utah Press
- Rowe, M.J, Finley, J.B, (2021). Enhancing Environmental and Cultural Justice Outcomes Under the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Historic Preservation Act: Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures. Routledge Press
- Finley, J.B, (2016). Late Holocene Geoarchaeology of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Stones, Bones, and Profiles: Papers in Honor of George C. Frison and C. Vance Haynes. University of Colorado Press
- Scheiber, L.L, Finley, J.B, (2012). Situating (Proto) History on the Northwestern Plains and Rocky Mountains: The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology. Oxford University Press
- Scheiber, L.L, Finley, J.B, (2011). Mobility as Resistance: Colonialism Among Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers In The American West: Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process. University of Arizona Press
- Eckerle, W., Finley, J.B, Hanna, R., (2011). Data Collection Strategies for Assessing Artifact Zone Spatial and Associational Integrity in Sand Occupational Substrates: In Archaeology in 3D: Deciphering Buried Sites in the Western U.S.. The SAA Press
- Eckerle, W., Ingbar, E., Taddie, S., Finley, J.B, Drews, M., Hopkins, M., (2011). Forecasting Landscape Settings Conducive to Site Burial: Archaeology in 3D: Deciphering Buried Sites in the Western U.S.. The SAA Press
- Scheiber, L.L, Finley, J.B, (2010). Mountain Shoshone Technological Transitions Across the Great Divide: Across the Great Divide: Culture Contact and Culture Change in North America at AD 1500. University of Arizona Press
- Finley, J.B, (2007). Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Geomorphology.: Medicine Lodge Creek: Holocene Archaeology of the Eastern Big Horn Basin, Wyoming. Clovis Press
- Larson, M.L, Finley, J.B, (2004). Analytical Nodules: Retrospect and Prospect: Aggregate Analyses in Lithic Studies. University of Utah Press
Publications | Book Chapters
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Finley, J.B, Robinson, E., DeRose, J., (2023). Arroyo Formation Impacts on an Early Agricultural Community in Northeastern Utah. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 38, 109-126.
- Kornfeld, M., Adovasio, J.M, Larson, M., Finley, J.B, (2022). Fencing is Perishable: A Response to “Don’t Fence them In: Comments on ‘Perishable Artifacts from Last Canyon Cave, Montana.’ By Linea Sundstom.”. Plains Anthropologist, 67:262, 197-203. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2022.2066917
- Kornfeld, M., Adovasio, J.M, Larson, M., Finley, J.B, (2021). Perishable Artifacts from Last Canyon Cave, Montana. Plains Anthropologist, 66:260, 373-389. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2021.1895042
- Minckley, T.A, Clementz, M., Kornfeld, M., Larson, M., Finley, J.B, (2021). Late Pleistocene Environments of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming-Montana, USA. Quaternary Research, 99, 128-141. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.78
- Finley, J.B, Robinson, E., DeRose, J., Hora, E., (2020). Multidecadal Climate Variability and the Florescence of Fremont Societies in Eastern Utah. American Antiquity, 85:1, 93--112.
- Bird, D., Freeman, J., Robinson, E., Maughan, G., Finley, J.B, Lambert, P.M, Kelly, R.L, (2020). A First Empirical Analysis of Population Stability in North America Using Radiocarbon Records. The Holocene, 30:9, 1345-1359.
- Davis, C.M, Aaberg, S.A, Crofutt, C., Eckerle, W.P, Finley, J.B, Wilson, M.C, (2020). Horse Thief Cave: A Holocene Occupational Sequence in the Dry Range, West-Central Montana. Archaeology in Montana, 61:1, 67-88.
- Freeman, J., Baggio, J., Robinson, E., Byers, D.A, Gayo, E., Finley, J.B, Meyer, J., Kelly, R.L, Anderies, J.M, (2018). Synchronization of Energy Consumption by Human Societies through the Holocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 115:40, 9962-9967. doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1802859115
- Finley, J.B, Scheiber, L.L, Ferguson, J.R, (2018). Compositional Analysis of Intermountain Ware Manufacturing Areas in Western Wyoming, USA.. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 18:2018, 587-595. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.02.011
- Rowe, M.J, Finley, J.B, Baldwin, E., (2018). Consultation without Collaboration is Merely Good Words: An Analysis of Tribal Consultation under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Arizona Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 8:2, 1-47.
- Finley, J.B, Ideker, C.J, Rittenour, T.M, (2017). Single-Grain Optically Stimulated Luminescence Ages of Brownware Pottery in the Central Rocky Mountains and the Spread of Numic Ceramic Technology. American Antiquity, 82, 761-780. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2017.38
- Ideker, C.J, Finley, J.B, Rittenour, T.M, Summa-Nelson, M., (2017). Single-Grain Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating of Prehistoric Ceramics from the Greater Yellowstone Area, Wyoming, USA. Quaternary Geochronology, 42, 42-55. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2017.07.004
- Connolly, T.J, Finley, J.B, Smith, G.M, Jenkins, D.L, Endzweig, P.E, O'Neill, B.L, Baxter, P.W, (2017). Return to Fort Rock: Assessing the Site’s Potential to Contribute to Ongoing Debates about How and When Humans Colonized the Great Basin. American Antiquity82, 558-573. doi: 10.1017/aaq.2017.12
- Byers, D.A, Hargiss, E., Finley, J.B, (2015). Flake Morphology, Fluvial Dynamics, and Debitage Transport Potential. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 30, 379-392.
- Smith, G.M, Pattee, D.D, Finley, J.B, Fagan, J.L, Pellegrini, E., A Stone Crescent from a Stratified, Radiocarbon-Dated Site in the Northern Great Basin. North American Archaeologist, 35:3, 257-276.
- Finley, J.B, Boyle, M.P, The Frequency and Typology of Ceramic Sites in Western Wyoming. Plains Anthropologist, 59:1, 1-18.
- Finley, J.B, Branam, K., Scheiber, L., Finley, C., Leggins, B.T, (2013). The Two Eagles Site (24CB2069): A Tipi Encampment in Bighorn Canyon Montana. Archaeology in Montana, 54:1, 1-38.
- Scheiber, L.L, Finley, J.B, (2011). Obsidian Source Use in the Greater Yellowstone Area, Wyoming Basin, and Central Rocky Mountains. American Antiquity , 76, 372-394.
- Sch, L.L, Branam, K.M, Finley, J.B, Nathan, R.A, Burnett, k.L, Boyle, M., Rutecki, D.M, Erickson, A.E, Finley, C.C, Luck, A.G, (2011). “Crow Rediscover a Piece of Their Homeland”: America’s Best Idea at Bighorn Canyon. SAA's Archaeological Practice, January 2011 prototype:1, 29-34.
- Scheiber, L.L, Finley, J.B, (2010). Cyber Landscapes and Domestic Landscapes in the Rocky Mountains. Antiquity , 84, 114-130.
- Surovell, T.A, Finley, J.B, Smith, G., Kelly, R., Brantingham, J., (2009). Correcting Temporal Frequency Distributions for Taphonomic Bias. Journal of Archaeological Science , 36, 1715-1724.
- Olga, F., Kornfeld, M., Finley, J.B, Larson, M.L, (2009). Last Canyon Cave: Late-Pleistocene Fauna and People. Current Research in the Pleistocene , 26, 58-60.
- Finley, J.B, Kornfeld, M., Finley, C.C, Andrews, B., Frison, G.C, Bies, M.T, (2005). Rockshelter Archaeology and Geoarchaeology in the Bighorn Mountains. Plains Anthropologist , 50, 227-248.
- Finley, J.B, Kornfeld, M. , Frison, G.C, Finley, C.C, (2003). Below Folsom at Two Moon Shelter, Wyoming. Current Research in the Pleistocene 20, Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University, College Station
Professional Journal
- Scheiber, L.L, Finley, J.B, Boyle, M., (2008). Bad Pass Archaeology. The American Surveyor , Apr/May, 12-22. *
Public or Trade Journal
- Scheiber, L.L, Boyle, M., Finley, J.B, (2009). Archaeology: Combining Mapping Techniques with Digital Technology. PositionIT , Nov/Dec, 25-29. *
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Technical Reports
Other Reports
- Finley, J.B, Andrews, B., Kornfeld, M., Frison, G., (2002). The Black Mountain Archaeological District: 2001 Field Studies.
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
Bulletins
- Rowe, M.J, Finley, J.B, Branam, K.M, Putting America’s Archaeological Resources to Work: Three Tangible Benefits of Archaeological Preservation at Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. The SAA Archaeological Record
Newsletter
- Finley, J.B, Herrmann, E., (2014). Fall Newsletter of the Archaeological Geology Division of the Geological Society of America. Geological Society of America *
- Finley, J.B, Herrmann, E., (2014). Winter Newsletter of the Geoarchaeological Interest Group of the Society for American Archaeology. Society for American Archaeology *
- Fadem, C., Finley, J.B, (2013). Fall Newsletter of the Archaeological Geology Division of the Geological Society of America. Geological Society of America *
- Fadem, C., Finley, J.B, (2012). Fall Newsletter of the Archaeological Geology Division of the Geological Society of America. Geological Society of America *
Other
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Teaching
Creative Works | Other
- Two Eagles Interpretive Trail: When People Placed Stone Against Their Lodges, Other, Interpretive Trail - 2012