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Stance Hurst, PhD

EDUCATION

2007 University of Oklahoma Ph.D., Anthropology

2002 University of Oklahoma M.A., Anthropology

1996 University of Idaho B.S., Anthropology

TEACHING POSITIONS

Graduate Faculty Texas Tech University, Heritage and Museum Sciences, Present-2011

Instructor University of Oklahoma, Department of Anthropology, 2007-2005

RESEARCH POSITIONS

Field Manager Lubbock Lake Landmark regional research program, Present-2007

Faunal Specialist Paleocultural Research Group, 2006

Graduate Assistant Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History/ Department of

Research Assistant Oklahoma Archeological Survey, 2001-2000

Research Assistant Department of Anthropology, University of Idaho, 1995

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Digital heritage, lithic technology, prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies, geoarchaeology, heritage management, GIS, and the Plains region

PUBLICATIONS

Hurst, Stance, Dallas Ward, Doug Cunningham, and Eileen Johnson

2018 Cowboy Life Along the Llano Estacado’s Eastern Escarpment of Texas: Insights from Macy Locality 16 (41GR722). Historical Archaeology. In Press.

Hurst, Stance

2017 Territorial Perspective on Lithic Caching: Insights From Garza Protohistoric (1450-1650 CE) Caching Strategies on the Southern Plains, USA. Quaternary International. In Press.

Hurst, Stance, Doug Cunningham, and Eileen Johnson

2017 A behavioral landscape perspective on silcrete use in hunter-gatherer lithic technologies along the Southern High Plains Eastern Escarpment of Northwestern Texas (USA). Journal of Archaeological Science Reports In Press.

Hurst, Stance, Jessica Stepp, Susan Rowe, and Eileen Johnson

2017 Making Prehistory More Accessible with Digital Heritage – The Use of 3D Technologies in Museum Exhibition and Education. In Edmuse Final Event and International Conference Proceedings, edited by Vincenza Ferrara, pp. 95-99. Sapienza Universita di Roma.

Hurst, Stance and Eileen Johnson

2016 Gearing up at the Adair-Steadman (41FS2) Folsom Site. Paleoamerica. 2:252-260.

2016 Prominent Places on the Landscape: Occupations at Cowhead Mesa along the Eastern Escarpment Edge of the Southern High Plains of Texas. Plains Anthropologist In Press.

Hurst, Stance, Doug Cunningham, and Eileen Johnson

2015 Experiments in Late Archaic Methods of Heat-Treating Ogallala Formation Quartzarenite Clasts along the Southern High Plains Eastern Escarpment of Texas. Journal of Archaeological Science: Report 3: 207-215.

Murphy, Laura R., Stance C. Hurst, Vance T. Holliday and Eileen Johnson

2014 Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Soil Stratigraphy, and Geoarchaeology of the Caprock Canyonlands, Northwest Texas, USA. Quaternary International 342:57-72.

Hurst, Stance and Eileen Johnson

2012Adair-Steadman (41FS2) – Mapping and Survey at a Folsom Site in the Brazos River Drainage on the Southern Plains. Lubbock Lake Landmark Quaternary Research Center Series Vol. 20, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

2011 Ultrathin Biface at the Adair-Steadman (41FS2) Folsom Campsite/Workshop on the Southern Plains. Current Research in the Pleistocene 28:52-54.

Hurst, Stance. and Jack L. Hofman (editors)

2010 Exploring Variability in Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways, University of Kansas Publications in Anthropology 25, Lawrence.

Hurst, Stance

2010Discovering Identity-Based Foraging Territories on the Southern Plains 10,200-8,000 RCYBP. In Exploring Variability in Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways, edited by Stance Hurst and Jack L. Hofman, pp. 97-118, University of Kansas Publications in Anthropology 25, Lawrence.

Hurst, Stance Brian J. Carter, and Nancy Beavan Athfield

2010Investigation of a 10,214 Year Old Late Paleoindian Bison Kill at the HowardGully Site in Southwestern Oklahoma. Plains Anthropologist 55:25-38.

Hurst, Stance, Eileen Johnson, Vance T. Holliday, and Sophie Butler.

2010Playa Archaeology on the Southern High Plains of Texas – Spatial Analysis of Hunter-Gatherer Occupations at Tahoka-Walker (41LY53). Plains Anthropologist 55:195-214.

Hurst, Stance, Eileen Johnson, Zaneta McCoy-Martinez, and Doug Cunningham

2010The Lithology of Ogallala Gravels and Hunter-Gatherer Procurement Strategies Along the Southern High Plains Eastern Escarpment of Texas, U.S.A. Geoarchaeology 25:96-121.

Hurst, Stance, Jim Warnica, and Eileen Johnson

2010San Patrice Projectile Points from the Hardwick Site, a Paleoindian Locality on the Southern High Plains of New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 26:70-73.

Hurst, Stance, Leland Bement, Linda S. Cummings, and R.A. Varney

2009Geoarchaeological Investigations at Rattlesnake Slough (34GR4), Southwestern Oklahoma. In Geoarchaeology and the Cross Timbers, edited by David J. Cranford, Elsbeth L. Dowd, and Don G. Wyckoff, Oklahoma Anthropological Society Memoir No. 13.

Hurst, Stance, Elizabeth Louden, and Eileen Johnson

2009Unravelling the Cowhead Mesa Petroglyphs with 3-D Laser Scanning and High- Resolution Digital Photography. Rock Art Research 26:43-54.

Hurst, Stance, Eileen Johnson, and Doug Cunningham

2008Macy Locality-15, a Late-Paleoindian Site along the Caprock Escarpment of Texas. Current Research in the Pleistocene 25:97-98.

Johnson, Eileen, Stance Hurst, and Vance T. Holliday

2008Tahoka-Walker: A Minimum Analytical Nodule Analysis of the Paleoindian Component. Current Research in the Pleistocene 25:102-104.

Hurst, Stance

2006An Analysis of Variation in Caching Behavior. Lithic Technology 31:101-126

Taylor-Montoya, John J., Stance Hurst, and M. Steven Shackley

2006Preliminary Analysis and Geochemical Sourcing of Obsidian Artifacts From the Charley Terrace (34RM439) Late Paleoindian Site, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma Archaeology 54:21-33.

Hurst, Stance Leland C. Bement, and Linda S. Cummings

2006Geoarchaeological Investigations at the Rattlesnake Slough (34GR4) locality, Greer County, Oklahoma. Archeological Resource Technical Series No. 2. Oklahoma Archeological Survey, Norman.

Hurst, Stance and Don G. Wyckoff

2004A New 14C Date for the Late Paleoindian Perry Ranch (34JK81) Bison Kill Site. Current Research in the Pleistocene 21:51-52.

SELECTED PAPERS PRESENTED

Hurst, Stance, Jessica Stepp, Susan Rowe, and Eileen Johnson

2017Making Prehistory More Accessible with Digital Heritage – The Use of 3D Technologies in Museum Exhibition and Education. Education and Museum: Cultural Heritage and Learning EdMuse International Conference. Roma, 26-27 June 2017, Sapienza Universita di Roma.

Hurst, Stance

2014Invited Discussant: Symposium Calf Creek: a Middle Holocene Horizon on the Southern Plains. 79th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.

Johnson, Eileen, and Stance Hurst

2012Native Peoples and Bison Hunting on the Llano Estacado grasslands – a 12,000 year perspective. Paper presented at the 47th annual Western Literature Association Conference, Lubbock, Texas.

Hurst, Stance, Eileen Johnson, and Doug Cunningham

2011Invited Speaker: Experiments in the Heat-Treatment of Ogallala Formation Silicified Sediment Nodules. Paper presented at the 2011 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting & Exposition, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hurst, Stance and Eileen Johnson

2010Gearing up at Adair-Steadman: A Look at Folsom Stone Tool Production on the Southern Plains, U.S.A. Paper presented at the 75th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri.

Hurst, Stance, Eileen Johnson, and Doug Cunningham

2009High-Tech Foragers? An Investigation of a Lithic Assemblage at 41GR793 (Macy Locality 126) Below the Caprock Escarpment of West Texas. Paper presented at the 67th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Norman, Oklahoma.

Hurst, Stance, Eileen Johnson, Doug Cunningham, Elizabeth Louden, and Hannah Aiken

2007Long Live Texas: Recording Petroglyphs using 3D Laser Technology and High Resolution Photography at Cowhead Mesa Rock Art Site (41GR414) near Post, Texas. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Rapid City, South Dakota.

Hurst, Stance

2005Archaeological Investigations at the Howard Gully Site: A Late Paleoindian Site on the Southern Plains. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Society for American Archaeology Conference Salt Lake City, Utah.

2004Cultural Differentiation and the Formation of Social Boundaries During the Late Paleoindian Period on the Southern Plains. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Society for American Archaeology Conference in Montreal, Canada.

2003Caching Chipped Stone on the Southern Plains: An Exploration Into Variables and Patterns of Caching Behavior. Paper presented at the 61st Annual Plains Anthropological Conference Fayetteville, AR.

2002Paleoindian Lithic Technology Revealed at the Kibridge-Yampa Site. Paper presented at the 67th Annual Society for American Archaeology Conference in Denver, CO.

2001Caching Behavior on the Southern Plains. Paper presented at the 59th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference in Lincoln, NE.

Hurst, Stance and Karin Rebnegger

1999The Hidden Virtues of Ogallala Quartzite. Paper presented at the 57th Annual Plains Conference in Sioux Falls, SD.

SESSIONS AND SYMPOSIA CHAIRED AND ORGANIZED

2009Cores, Flakes, Angular Debris, and Grit: Lithic Technological Studies in Honor of Don G. Wyckoff. Symposium held at the 67th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference in Norman, OK.

2006Hunter and Gatherer Lifeways of the Early Holocene. E-Symposium at the 71st Annual Society for American Archaeology Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

RESEARCH GRANTS

Johnson, Eileen, and Stance Hurst

2015Modeling Historic Heritage on Llano Estacado Landscape. Scholarship Catalyst Program. Texas Tech University. $3,000 Award Period: 2016

2014Geoarchaeology Investigation of Clovis. Scholarship Catalyst Program. Texas Tech University. $3,000 Award Period: 2015

Hurst, Stance

2004Investigations into the Development of Social Boundaries and Ethnic Groups Between Hunters and Gatherers on the Southern Plains During the Early Holocene Period. Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma. $3,000 Award Period: 2004

2003Geoarchaeological Investigations of the Rattlesnake Slough (34GR4) locality, Greer County, OK. Bureau of Reclamation $15,057,65 Award Period: 2003-2004

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Peer reviewer: American Antiquity, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Field Archaeology, Lithic Technology, Plains Anthropologist, Quaternary International, Paleoamerica

Professional and society memberships: Society for American Archaeology, Plains Anthropological Society