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A native Taoseño (fifth generation), I grew up with a historian and had little choice but to go into some profession that studies the past. My father would not send me to college to become a starving artist. Apparently, though, it was okay to be a starving archaeologist. I received a BA in Anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1977, and an MA in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 1983. Between 1982 and 1987, I directed an archaeology program for a museum/historic preservation organization in Taos. Following a brief stint with the Carson National Forest in 1987, I became a Supervisory Archaeologist/Project Director with the Museum of New Mexico’s Office of Archaeological Studies. Most of my work has been in north-central New Mexico, but I have gotten to dig sites from Roswell to Farmington. My personal research interests are also wide-ranging, but focus, at least for the moment, on development and organization of small Puebloan and Hispanic communities, Puebloan and Euroamerican frontiers, and comparative material manifestations of Puebloan and Euroamerican worldviews. That could all change tomorrow. I get paid to dig New Mexico! No, really!
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Papers by Jeff Boyer
International Journal of Paleopathology, 2017
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2013
International Journal of Paleopathology, 2017
Ancestral Puebloan people in the North American Southwest suffered high rates of disease, poor he... more Ancestral Puebloan people in the North American Southwest suffered high rates of disease, poor health, and early age-at-death. Four individuals with skeletal expressions of cancer were found in a pre-Columbian population in the Taos Valley-Reports of malignant neoplasms in the archaeological record are uncommon and their presence in four of 82 individuals is a high occurrence. This study continues Whitley and Boyer's (2012) research testing whether concentrations of ionizing radiation were sufficiently high to induce cancer and related health issues. Access to a preserved and partly reconstructed subterranean pit structure inhabited between AD 1120 and 1170, allows us to test radon concentrations in a residential dwelling. This study found radon occurring in high levels, 19.4–20.3 pCi/L (717.8–751.1 Bq/m 3) within the structure. Epidemiological reports are inconsistent when linking specific cancers and radon exposure. However, this study can control for many of the confounding factors plaguing other studies, provide unique data that have the potential to initiate dialogue on the etiology of neoplastic disease in the American Southwest, and add new dimensions to the study of the living conditions and health of the Ancestral Puebloans and their descendants.
Chasing Chaco and the Southwest: Papers in Honor of Frances Joan Mathien, 2008
Between the Mountains, Beyond the Mountains: Papers in Honor of Paul R. Williams, 2009
Glen Canyon, Legislative Struggles, and Contract Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Carol J. Condie, 2012
Books by Jeff Boyer
Scholar of the City Different: Papers in Honor of Cordelia Thomas Snow, 2019
The Multifacted Forester: Papers in Honor of John S. Hayden, 2015
History and Archaeology—Connecting the Dots: Papers in Honor of David H. Snow, 2016
Leaving Mesa Verde, Kohler et al. 2010
International Journal of Paleopathology, 2017
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2013
International Journal of Paleopathology, 2017
Ancestral Puebloan people in the North American Southwest suffered high rates of disease, poor he... more Ancestral Puebloan people in the North American Southwest suffered high rates of disease, poor health, and early age-at-death. Four individuals with skeletal expressions of cancer were found in a pre-Columbian population in the Taos Valley-Reports of malignant neoplasms in the archaeological record are uncommon and their presence in four of 82 individuals is a high occurrence. This study continues Whitley and Boyer's (2012) research testing whether concentrations of ionizing radiation were sufficiently high to induce cancer and related health issues. Access to a preserved and partly reconstructed subterranean pit structure inhabited between AD 1120 and 1170, allows us to test radon concentrations in a residential dwelling. This study found radon occurring in high levels, 19.4–20.3 pCi/L (717.8–751.1 Bq/m 3) within the structure. Epidemiological reports are inconsistent when linking specific cancers and radon exposure. However, this study can control for many of the confounding factors plaguing other studies, provide unique data that have the potential to initiate dialogue on the etiology of neoplastic disease in the American Southwest, and add new dimensions to the study of the living conditions and health of the Ancestral Puebloans and their descendants.
Chasing Chaco and the Southwest: Papers in Honor of Frances Joan Mathien, 2008
Between the Mountains, Beyond the Mountains: Papers in Honor of Paul R. Williams, 2009
Glen Canyon, Legislative Struggles, and Contract Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Carol J. Condie, 2012
Scholar of the City Different: Papers in Honor of Cordelia Thomas Snow, 2019
The Multifacted Forester: Papers in Honor of John S. Hayden, 2015
History and Archaeology—Connecting the Dots: Papers in Honor of David H. Snow, 2016
Leaving Mesa Verde, Kohler et al. 2010
Historical Archaeology, 2014
Presentation to Taos Historic Museums and Taos County Historical Society, August 2019