Dr. Tim A. Kohler
Ph.D., University of Florida
Regents Professor, Graduate Coordinator
Archaeology
Tim A. Kohler [Regents Professor] received his A.B. in general studies from New College of Sarasota in 1972, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Anthropology from the University of Florida in 1975 and 1978. His dissertation research on Weeden Island societies involved sampling the McKeithen village in North Florida. Since arriving at WSU in 1978, he has increasingly specialized in Southwestern archaeology. In the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, he collaborated with William D. Lipe on the Dolores Archaeological Program in southwestern Colorado. Since then, he has directed excavations in Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico, and an NSF Biocomplexity Project devoted to understanding the causes for changes in settlement systems in southwestern Colorado between A.D. 600 and 1300. He is a Research Associate at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, and an External Faculty Member at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico.
Much of his work involves quantitative analysis of archaeological data, along with simulation of aspects of prehistoric behavior. He is especially interested in cooperative behavior, reciprocity, and other evolutionary processes in Neolithic societies. At the graduate level he teaches ANTH 537 (Quantitative Methods in Anthropology) and ANTH 547 (Models in Anthropology). In April 2004 he completed a four-year term as editor of American Antiquity. He currently directs an IGERT providing training to Ph.D. students in evolutionary modeling. Please see the IPEM website for more details. He is also involved with an initiative to preserve ardaeological digital data and make it broadly accessible: http://archaeoinformatics.org/.
Representative Publications
2008 (with Mark Varien, Aaron Wright, and Kristin Kuckleman) Mesa Verde Migrations. American Scientist 96: 146-153.
2007 (editor, with Sander van der Leeuw) Model-Based Archaeology of Socionatural Systems. SAR Press, Santa Fe.
2006 (editor with R.G. Matson) Tracking Ancient Footsteps: William D. Lipe's Contributions to Southwestern Prehistory and Public Archaeology. Washington State University Press.
2005 (with George Gumerman and Robert Reynolds) Simulating Ancient Societies: Computer Modeling is Helping to Unravel the Archaeological Mysteries of the American Southwest. Scientific American. July:76-83.
2004 (with Stephanie VanBuskirk and Samantha Ruscavage-Barz) Vessels and Villages: Evidence for Conformist Transmission in Early Village Aggregations on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 23:100-118.
2004 (editor) Archaeology of Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico: Village Formation on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
2000 (editor, with G. Gumerman) Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-based Modeling of Social and Spatial Presses. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. Oxford University Press, New York.
1996 (with Carla Van West) The Calculus of Self Interest in the Development of Cooperation: Sociopolitical Development and Risk Among the Northern Anasazi. In Evolving Complexity and Environment: Risk in the Prehistoric Southwest, edited by Joseph A. and Bonnie Bagley Tainter, pp. 171–198. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Proceedings Vol. XXVI. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.
1992 Fieldhouses, Villages, and the Tragedy of the Commons in the Early Northern Anasazi Southwest. American Antiquity 57:617–635.
1984 (with
J. T. Milanich and others) McKeithen Weeden Island: The Culture
of Northern Florida, A.D. 200–900. Academic Press, New
York.
Meet Dr. Kohler's Graduate Students
 Michael Spitzer Ph.D. student Research CV |
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 Matt Glaude M.A. student Research CV |
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 Cheryl Harper M.A. student Research CV
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tako@wsu.edu
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