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Paul Roebuck

Worked as an archaeologist, educator, systems analyst, programmer, railroad weigh-master and yard clerk, neurosurgical technician, short-order cook, printer's devil, library page, and construction worker.

Currently owns a contract archaeology business in New Mexico with a focus on the archaeology of Navajo Origins.

An early innovator in computer science and its application to Southwest Archaeology, Paul developed the first computerized inventory of archaeological sites for the state of Colorado in the mid 1970's. He designed and coded the archaeological data inventory for the Dolores Archaeological Project. He worked on the software team that designed the first commercial point-polygon GIS mapping system in the US and has applied GIS concepts and data visualization techniques to a number of academic, commercial and governmental problem domains over the years.

Paul discovered and excavated the only known female high status burial in the Mesa Verde region at the Dominguez ruin near Dolores Colorado while working for the Mesa Verde research center.

PhD, Geography, University of Minnesota
Dissertation: "The Geography of Nature"

MA, Anthropology, University of Colorado
Thesis Project: "The Archaeology of the Gunnison Gorge"

BA, Philosophy, University of Colorado

Past Teaching:

Graduate Courses

* History of Anthropological Thought
* Cultural Anthropology
* Environmental Ethics
* Moral Philosophies Underlying Professional Ethics
* Social Theory: Ideas in Practice
* Critical Theory
* Social Science Methodology
* Anthropology of Gender
* Colorado History
* Artifact and Art
* The Philosophy of Charles Taylor
* Hermeneutics and Interpretation of Myth among the Ayore

    

Undergraduate Courses

* Physical Geography
* Meteorology
* History of Conservation
* Environmental Studies
* Geography of Latin America
* Geography of Africa
* Human Geography
* World Regional Geography
* Western Civilization1
* Western Civilization2
* US History

Travels: Egypt, Turkey, China, Thailand, Poland, Spain, Mexico, Caribbean, Hawaii, Continental US

He likes to travel, read, watch movies, cook, golf, ski, garden, dance, and practice Aikido

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