Research

Water Heritage Anthropological Project

Research Papers

  • [in press] Cannon, M.B. and Cohen, A.S. Water Heritage of the Mountain West: Integrating Public Archaeology with Multidisciplinary Approaches to Water Research. In Public Archaeology for the 21st Century, edited by J. Brooks and F. Moss, University of Georgia Press. 

  • 2023 Cohen, A.S., Cannon, M.B., Jimenez, K. Challenges of Documenting Historic Water Systems: Integrating Open-Source Water Data with Archaeological Datasets in Utah. Advances in Archaeological Practice 11(2):211-223.  https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2022.34

  • 2021 Cannon, M.B., Cohen, A.S., Jimenez, K. Connecting Native Students to STEM Research Using Virtual Archaeology: A Case Study from the Water Heritage Anthropological Project. Advances in Archaeological Practice 9(2):175-185.  https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2021.2

Conference Sessions Organized

  • 2022 Water Heritage in the West. Session organized for the 50th Annual Utah State Historical Society Meeting, Provo, UT. 

  • 2022 Waterways in the West: How Water Shapes Communities Over Time. Session organized for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Salt Lake City, UT. 

Conference Presentations

  • 2023 Cannon, M.B. and Cohen, A.S. Long-Term and Multidisciplinary Approaches to Water Use and Management in the Mountain West. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Portland, OR.  

  • 2023 Christensen, B., Pardone, D., Martin, J., Warren, K., Dengah, F., Cannon, M., Cohen, A.S. Perspectives on Water: “Are we even in a crisis?” Poster presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings, Cincinnati, OH.   

  • 2022 Cohen, A.S. and Cannon, M.B. The Longue Durée of Water Heritage in Utah. Paper presented at the Utah State Historical Society Annual Meeting, Provo, UT.  

  • 2022 Cannon, M.B., Cohen, A.S., Jensen, M. Dimensions of Water Heritage in the Mountain West: A Case Study from Northern Utah. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Salt Lake City, UT.   

  • 2022  Waltzer, M., Cohen, A.S., Cannon, M.B. Water in the Desert: A Long-Term Perspective on Great Basin Water Heritage. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Salt Lake City, UT.   
  • 2021 Cannon, M.B., Cohen, A.S., Jimenez, K. Water Heritage and Remote Delivery: Reshaping the Native American Studies Mentorship Program. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings.