Dr. Matthew Douglass
Ph.D. University of Auckland, 2010
Lecturer
Office: 905 Oldfather Hall
Email: matt.j.douglass@gmail.com
Subfield:
Archaeology
Major Research Interests:
Stone artifact analysis, Human environmental interaction, Hunter-Gatherers of the North American Great Plains and Australia, Experimental archaeology
Educational Background:
Ph.D. (2010) University of Auckland, Department of Anthropology
M.A. (2005) University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Anthropology and Geography
B.A. (2002) University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Anthropology and Geography
Recent Publications:
(In Press) Simon Holdaway and Matthew Douglass. A 21st Century Archaeology of Stone Artifacts. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. Available Online March 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10816-011-9103-6
(In Press) Douglass, Matthew, J. and Simon J. Holdaway. Quantifying Stone Raw Material Size Distributions: An Archaeological Application for Investigating Cortex Proportions and Prehistoric Mobility in Lithic Assemblages from Western New South Wales, Australia. In On the Cutting Edge in Southeastern Australia, edited by Jim Specht and Robin Torrence. Technical Report of the Australian Museum.
(In Press) Holdaway, Simon, Matthew Douglass and Patricia Fanning. Landscape Scale and Human Mobility: Geoarchaeological Evidence from Rutherfords Creek, New South Wales, Australia. Landscape and Heritage Series. University of Amsterdam Press.
(In Press) Simon Holdaway, Justin Shiner, Patricia Fanning and Matthew Douglass. Context and Complexity in Arid Australia. Edited volume: From the Pecos to the Paleolithic: Papers in Honor of Arthur J. Jelinek. University of Arizona Press.
2010 Simon Holdaway, Patricia Fanning, Ed Rhodes, Samuel Marx, Bruce Floyd and Matthew Douglass. Correlating the Archaeological and Paleoenvironmental Record in Arid Western New South Wales, Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 292(1-2):192-200.
2010 Lin, Sam, Matthew Douglass and Simon Holdaway. The Application of 3D Laser Scanning Technology to the Assessment of Ordinal and Mechanical Cortex Quantification in Lithic Analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 37(4): 694-702.
2009 Douglass, Matthew J. Review: Place as Occupational Histories: An Investigation of the deflated surface archaeological record of Pine Point and Langewell Stations, Western New South Wales, Australia, by Justin I. Shiner. Archaeology in New Zealand.
2008 Douglass, Matthew J., Simon J. Holdaway, Patricia C. Fanning and Justin I. Shiner An Assessment and Archaeological Application of Cortex Measurement in Lithic Assemblages. American Antiquity (73) 513-526.
2008 Holdaway, Simon, Justin Shiner, Patricia Fanning and Matthew Douglass Assemblage formation as a result of raw material acquisition in western New South Wales, Australia. Lithic Technology 33:73-85.
Recent Conference Presentations:
2011 Simon Holdaway, Matthew Douglass and Rebecca Phillipps. “Flake selection, assemblage variability and technological organization.” Symposium: Lithic Technology and the Status of Rocks in Archaeology: A Tribute to George Odell. 2011 Society for American Archaeology Conference, Sacramento, CA.
2011Sam C. Lin, Matthew J. Douglass, Daniel Parker, Simon J. Holdaway. “Experimental Assessment of Cortex Composition in Lithic Assemblages through Computer Simulation.” 2011 Society for American Archaeology Conference, Sacramento, CA.
2010 Douglass, Matthew, Simon Holdaway and Thomas Barker. “Assemblage Color Variability as a Proxy for Prehistoric Mobility in Western New South Wales, Australia.” 2010 Society for American Archaeology Conference, St. Louis, MO.
2010 Holdaway, Simon, Matthew Douglass and Patricia Fanning. “Measuring Stone Artefacts to Assess the Extent of Mobility at a Landscape Scale: Rutherfords Creek New South Wales, Australia.” Keynote address, 2010 Landscape Archaeological Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2009 Douglass, Matthew. “Exploring Artefact Curation amongst Expedient Stone Assemblages within Australia’s Arid Core.” PhD Thesis Presentation to the University of Auckland Department of Anthropology. May 18 2009.
2009 Douglass, Matthew J. and Simon J. Holdaway. “Exploring Artifact Curation amongst Expedient Stone Artifacts within Australia's Arid Core.” 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA.
2009 Lin, Sam, Matthew Douglass and Simon Holdaway. “The Application of 3D Laser Scanning Technology to the Assessment of Ordinal and Mechanical Cortex Quantification in Lithic Analysis.” 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA.
2008 Douglass, Matthew J. and Simon J. Holdaway. “Investigating stone Artifact Transport Through the Measurement of Cortical Surface Area in Western New South Wales, Australia.” 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2008 Holdaway, Simon, Justin Shiner, Patricia Fanning, and Matthew Douglass. “Context and Complexity in Arid Australia.” 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Vancouver, BC, Canada.