Lucille Lewis Johnson
Office: Blodgett 102
Ext: 5507
Email: johnsonl@vassar.edu
Lucille Lewis Johnson came to Vassar in 1973 after receiving her PhD degree at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the archaeology of hunter-gatherer populations, and she has undertaken archaeological research in the United States - from Arizona to New York, in South America - Peru and Chile, and in Egypt. She currently works in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Her Alaska research has been funded by the National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation and has involved many Vassar students funded by both these organizations and Vassar Ford and URSI funds. In South America she worked on ceramic period sites as well as earlier lithic sites and she has travelled extensively in Mesoamerica as well. She has published one edited book, Paleoshorelines and Prehistory, and her articles have appeared in Current Anthropology, Geoarchaeology, Arctic Anthropology, the Journal of New Zealand Archaeology and various edited volumes. Her teaching interests include New World archaeology; the origins and development of cultural complexity, both in Alaska and in Meso- and South America; technology, ecology and society, and human evolution.