HEATHER B. TRIGG Fiske Center for Archaeological Research University of Massachusetts at Boston Phone: (617) 287-6838 Fax: (617) 287-6857 email: heather.trigg@umb.edu Education Ph.D. University of Michigan, Anthropology, April 1999 Title: The Economy of Early Colonial New Mexico, AD 1598-1680: An Investigation of Social Structure and Human Agency Using Archaeological and Documentary Data M.A. University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology, May 1991 B.S. University of Michigan, Anthropology and Computer Science, Magna cum Laude, December 1983 Academic Positions 2001-present Research Scientist, Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, University Massachusetts, Boston. Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston. 1999-2000 Fellow, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. 2000 Adjunct Professor, Southern Methodist University Department of Anthropology. Field Experience 2005-2006 Director. Parker Borrego Archaeological Project, Velarde, New Mexico, 19 th century Spanish New Mexican homesite. 1995 Director. Early Spanish Colonial Interactions Research Project. Directed excavations of the Sanchez Site (LA 20,000) an early Spanish Colonial site in New Mexico. 1994 Excavator and Paleoethnobotanical Consultant. Northern Rio Grande Research Project. Principal Investigators: Drs. Winifred Creamer and Jonathan Haas, Northern Illinois University and the Field Museum. Responsible for excavation and development of the paleoethnobotanical sampling and flotation processing of a late pre-contact Pueblo site in northern New Mexico. 1993 Co-site director. Rio del Oso Archaeological Project. Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Ford, University of Michigan. Responsible for the excavation of LA 90838 - an Archaic site along the Rio del Oso, New Mexico. 1993 Archaeologist. Ancestral Tewa Community Study 1993. Principal Investigator: James Snead, UCLA. Assisted in surveying and mapping sites on the Caja Del Rio and Camp Frank Rand, New Mexico. 1992 Archaeologist. Ancestral Tewa Community Study 1992. Principal Investigator:
James Snead, UCLA. Assisted in surveying and mapping sites on the Caja Del Rio and Camp Frank Rand, New Mexico. 1986 Archaeologist. WS Ranch Site Project. Principal Investigator: Dr. James Neely, University of Texas. Assisted in supervision of field school students in excavations at O Block Cave, New Mexico. 1985 Archaeologist. Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael Jochim, University of California, Santa Barbara. Assisted in excavation of a Mesolithic site near Bad Buchau, Germany. 1985 Archaeologist. Principal Investigator: Susan Gregg, University of Michigan. Assisted in field recovery, processing, and analyzing of botanical remains from a Neolithic site, Blaubeuren, Germany. 1982, 83 Archaeologist. Black Mesa Archaeological Project, Ethnobotanical Laboratory. Principal Investigator: Dr. George Gumerman, Southern Illinois University, Center for Archaeological Investigations. Responsible for the analysis of macro-botanical materials. Lab Experience 1998-2000 Project Paleoethnobotanist - Mission San Marcos Archaeological Project, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Principal Investigator: David Hurst Thomas, American Museum of Natural History, New York. 1999-2000 Paako Research Project, Albuquerque, New Mexico - My role in the larger project is to examine issues of cross-cultural interaction through analysis of macro botanical materials. Principal Investigator: Mark Lycett, University of Chicago. 1999 Paleoethnobotanical Analyst - Analyzed botanical materials from Mongolia. Principal Investigator: Henry Wright, University of Michigan. 1998-99 Paleoethnobotanical Analyst - Analyzed botanical materials from Chogha Gavaneh, Iran. Principal Investigator: Henry Wright, University of Michigan. 1991-95 Graduate Student Research Assistant for Dr. Richard Ford, University of Michigan. Responsible for cataloguing and assisted in curating materials in the Ethnographic and Ethnobotanical Collections at the Museum of Anthropology. Completed NAGPRA inventory of the Ethnographic Collections. Identified macro-botanical materials from archaeological sites. Analyzed archaeological materials from excavations of LA 90838 - an Archaic site in New Mexico. 1993 Paleoethnobotanical Analyst. Great Lakes Research Associates. Responsible for the identification of macro-botanical materials from a Middle Woodland site in Michigan. 1988 Paleoethnobotanical Analyst. Palo Duro/Spearman project, Principal Investigator: Dr. James Neely, University of Texas. Responsible for the analysis of seeds from water-logged deposits. 1986 Paleoethnobotanical Analyst. O Block Cave/ WS Ranch Sites, Principal Investigator: Dr. James Neely, University of Texas. Responsible for the analysis of macro-botanical material from dry caves and open-air sites.
1984-85 Research Assistant. Ethnobotanical Laboratory, Museum of Anthropology, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Responsible for (1) the analysis of botanical materials from Bat Cave, New Mexico, and (2) the analysis and computerized data entry of the botanical materials from Tsosie Shelter, Black Mesa, Arizona. 1981-84 Assistant in Research. Black Mesa Archaeological Project, Ethnobotanical Laboratory, Museum of Anthropology, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Academic year part-time position. Responsible for the analysis and computerized data entry of macro-botanical materials. Teaching and Community Education 2004, 2007 Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston, Team taught ANTH 545 Topics in Environmental Archaeology 2000 Adjunct Professor, Southern Methodist University Department of Anthropology. Anthropology 4390/6390 - Paleoethnobotany. 1997-98 Research Associate, University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Responsible for developing an interpreted ethnobotanical trail and a ridge field garden for community outreach and education. 1996 Lecturer, University of Michigan Department of Anthropology. Taught Anthropology 296.103 - For God, Gold, and Glory: Spanish Ventures in the New World. Awards, Grants, and Fellowships 2008 President s Learning and Technology Grant, University of Massachusetts Boston (with Robert Stevenson, Arthur Eisenkraft, Robert Morris, Jerry Schoen, Jack Ahern, David Glassberg, Matthew Mattingly, Karen Searcy, and John Reiff. 2006 John Healey Endowment Research Grant, University of Massachusetts Boston 2005 National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate Grant (with Stephen Mrozowski) 2002 John Healey Endowment Research Grant, University of Massachusetts Boston 1999-2000 Clements Research Fellowship - Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. 1998 Rackham Graduate School Dissertation Write-up Grant 1997 Block Grant, Department of Anthropology University of Michigan 1996 Block Grant, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan 1995 1). James B. Griffin Funds Grant 2). University of Michigan Rackham Discretionary Funds Grant 1994 1). James B. Griffin Funds Grant 2). University of Michigan Rackham Discretionary Funds Grant
1986-90 National Science Foundation, 3-year Graduate Fellowship Publications Trigg. H. and D. Landon In review Labor and Agricultural Production at Sylvester Manor Plantation, Shelter Island, New York. Submitted to Historical Archaeology. Jacobucci, S., H. Trigg, and S. Silliman In review Vegetation and Culture on the Eastern Pequot Reservation: Interpreting Millennia of Pollen and Charcoal in Southeastern Connecticut. Submitted to Northeast Anthropology., D. Bolender, K. Johnson, M. Patalano, and J. Steinberg In review Note on Barley Found in Dung in the Lowest Levels of the Farm Mound Midden at Reynistadur, Skagafjordur Iceland. Submitted to Archaeologia Islandica. and A. Leasure 2007 Cider, Wheat and Maize: Paleoethnobotany at Sylvester Manor. Northeast Historical Archaeology 36:113-126. and D. Gold 2005 Mestizaje and Migration: Modeling Population Dynamics in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico s Spanish Society. Engaged Anthropology: Research Essays on North American Archaeology, Ethnobotany, and Museology, edited by M. Hegmon and B. Eiselt. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Paper 94. 2005 From Household to Empire: Society and Economy in Early Colonial New Mexico. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 2004 Food Choice and Social Identity in Early Colonial New Mexico. Journal of the Southwest 46:223-252., D. Landon, E. Newman, and A. Hancock 2003 Archaeobiological Materials Analyses. In Supplementary Excavations at the Kirk Street Agents House Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, Massachusetts, edited by William A. Griswold, pp. 27-41. Occasional Publications in Field Archeology No. 2. Archeology Program Northeast Region National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. 2003 The Ties that Bind: Regional Interactions in Early Colonial New Mexico, AD 1598-1680. Historical Archaeology 37:65-84., R. Ford, J. Moore, and L. Jessop 1994 Coprolite evidence for prehistoric foodstuffs, condiments, and medicines. In Eating on the Wild Side: The Pharmacologic, Ecologic, and Social Implications of Using Noncultigens, edited by Nina Etkin, pp. 210-223. University of Arizona Press. Ford, R., P. Vander Werf, C. Goland, and H. Trigg 1985 Ethnobotanical Recovery: Summary of Analysis and Frequency Tables - Paleoethnobotany of Anasazi Sites. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1983: a
descriptive report. Edited by Andrew L. Christenson and William J. Parry. Center for Archaeological Investigations Research Paper, no. 46. Southern Illinois University. Green, M., K. Jacobi, B. Boeke, H. O'Brien, E. Word, R. Boston, H. Trigg, G. Glennie, and M. Gould 1985 ARIZONA D:11:2030. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1983: a descriptive report. Edited by Andrew L. Christenson and William J. Parry. Center for Archaeological Investigations Research Paper, no. 46. Southern Illinois University. 1985 Ethnobotanical Analysis of D:7:2085. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1983: a descriptive report. Edited by Andrew L. Christenson and William J. Parry. Center for Archaeological Investigations Research Paper, no. 46. Southern Illinois University. Wagner, G., T. Smart, R. I. Ford, and H. Trigg 1984 Ethnobotanical Recovery, 1982: Summary of Analysis and Frequency Tables. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1982: a descriptive report. Edited by D. L. Nichols and F. E. Smiley. Center for Archaeological Investigations Research Paper, no. 39. Southern Illinois University. Wills, W., E. Word, J. Manson, and H. Trigg 1984 ARIZONA D:11:2126. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1982: a descriptive report. Edited by Deborah L. Nichols and Francis E. Smiley. Center for Archaeological Investigations Research Paper, no. 39. Southern Illinois University. Presentations and S. Jacobucci 2008 Urbanization and Human Parasites: Implications for Health in Urban Communities. Poster to be presented at the 73rd Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, March 26-30 th 2008, Vancouver. and J. Pickrell 2008 Changing Empires, Maintaining Identities: An Examination of 19 th Century Spanish New Mexican Household Consumption. Paper presented at the 41 st Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, January 8-13, 2008 Albuquerque. Landon, D., H. Trigg, and S. Jacobucci 2008 Diet, Health, and Urban Backlot Ecology at the African Meeting House, Boston, MA. Paper presented at the 41 st Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, January 8-13, 2008 Albuquerque., K. McBride, and M. Smith 2007 Botanical Indications of the Impact of the Reservation System on the Mashantucket Pequot. Paper presented at the 30 th Annual Meeting of the Society of Ethnobiology. Berkeley and D. Gold 2005 Cultural Identity and Mestizaje in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Salt Lake City. Landon, D. and H. Trigg 2005 Environmental Archaeology at Sylvester Manor. Paper to be presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology, York, England.
and D. Landon 2004 Faunal and Botanical Evidence for Cross-cultural Interactions at Sylvester Manor, a 17 th - century Northern Plantation. Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Canada. 2004 Faunal and Botanical Evidence for Cross-Cultural Interactions at Sylvester Manor, a Seventeenth-Century Northern Plantation. Poster Presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology Meetings, St. Louis, Missouri. Landon, D. and H. Trigg 2003 Archaeobiological Evidence for Culture Contact and Agricultural Production at Sylvester Manor, 1652-1765. Poster presented at the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology, Lowell, Massachusetts. 2003 Paleoethnobotany at Sylvester Manor. Paper Presented at the 2003 Society for Historical Archaeology Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, January, 14-19 2003. Providence. 2000 Past Research and Future Directions in 17th Century Spanish Colonial Archaeology. Paper presented at the Southwest Symposium, January 14-16, 2000, Santa Fe. 2000 Factionalism. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 5-9, 2000, Philadelphia. 1999 Food Choice, Identity, and Social Structure in Early Colonial New Mexico. Paper presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 17-21, 1999, Chicago. 1996 Paleoethnobotanical Evidence of the Early Spanish Colonial Economy in New Mexico. Poster presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans. Ford, R., and H. Trigg 1991 Eating on the Wildside: analysis of Mogollon coprolites. Paper presented at the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago. Robinson, D., and H. Trigg 1988 Chronology and Archaeobotany: Pueblo Period Subsistence Practices in the San Francisco River Valley, West-Central New Mexico. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Phoenix. Reports and Unpublished Manuscripts 2007 An Examination of Botanical Materials from Mashantucket Pequot Site 72-58. A report submitted to the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Museum and Research Center.
Gallagher, D., S. Jacobucci, and H. Trigg 2007 Chapter 10. The Archaeoparasitology of the 44 Joy Street Privy. In Investigating the Heart of a Community: Archaeological Excavations at the African Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts, edited by D. Landon, pp. 147-156. Fiske Center Cultural Resource Management Study No. 22. Jacobucci, S. and H. Trigg 2006 An Analysis of Macrobotanical and Pollen Remains from Several Contexts Associated with the Manchester Boarding House. Report submitted to Independent Archaeological Consulting. and Diana Gallagher 2005 Report on Archaeobiological Materials from the Saugus Ironworks, Saugus, Massachusetts. Center for Cultural and Environmental History Cultural Resource Management Study No. 14. 2000 Report on Flotation and Wood Samples from Mongolia. Report submitted to William Honeychurch, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan. 1999 The Economy of Early Colonial New Mexico, AD 1598-1680: An Investigation of Social Structure and Human Agency Using Archaeological and Documentary Data. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan. 1999 Paleoethnobotanical Report on the Remains from Paako Pueblo. Manuscript submitted to Mark Lycett, University of Chicago. 1999 Report on the Palaeoethnobotanical Remains from LA 54,000 - The La Fonda Garage Project. Manuscript submitted to the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico. 1999 Botanical Materials from Chogha Gavaneh, Iran. Manuscript submitted to Henry Wright, University of Michigan. 1998 Ethnobotanical Analysis of LA 20,000. Manuscript submitted to Cross Cultural Research Associates, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1990 The Distribution of Seeds of Wild Plants at Three Fir Shelter, A Basketmaker II Site in Northeastern Arizona: Cultural Implications. MA Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas. 1983 Prehistoric Population Growth and Agricultural Practices on Black Mesa: a simulation approach. Honors Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Service Present Co-Editor of the Journal of Ethnobiology.