Tim Riley

Archaeology | Utah State University Eastern

Director and Curator of Archaeology | Prehistoric Museum

Tim Riley

Contact Information

Office Location: USU Eastern (Prehistoric Museum)
Phone: +1 435 613 5290
Email: tim.riley@usu.edu

Educational Background

EDUCATION:

2010, Ph.D. in Anthropology from Texas A&M University

2000, A.B. with honors in Anthropology from the University of Chicago

Emphasis

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Paleoethnobotany, Palynology, Coprolite analysis, Colorado Plateau, Perishable materials, Public Outreach, Museum Studies

Biography

As a museum-based archaeologist, Dr. Riley has a number of interests centered around public outreach and education, artifact conservation and care, actualistic/experimental archaeology, and integrating objects with lost context into the scientific record of past human activity in eastern Utah. Trained as a paleoethnobotanist and palynologist, he is primarily interested in the intersection of plant communities and human material culture.