Don D. Fowler is an anthropologist and archaeologist in the southwestern United States. He received his undergraduate degree from the
University of Utah and his
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from the
University of Pittsburgh.
As a student, Fowler worked on the Glen Canyon Project, surveying the canyon for archaeological data before the
Glen Canyon Dam
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was finished being built.
[Fowler, Don D. ''The Glen Canyon Country: A Personal Memoir'' (2011) 978-1-60781-134-3] The Sundance Archaeological Research Fund is just one of the archaeological projects he has directed in the
Great Basin
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. From 1985 to 1987 Fowler was the president of the
Society for American Archaeology and from 1988 to 1991 he held a Foundation Professorship from the
University of Nevada, Reno.
He is now the
Mamie Kleberg Professor of
Historic Preservation and
Anthropology, Emeritus at the
University of Nevada, Reno.
and sits on the advisory board of The Center for Desert Archaeology.
Awards
*Distinguished Graduate Medal,
University of Pittsburgh (1986)
*
Society for American Archaeology Lifetime Achievement Award (2003)
*Outstanding Researcher of the Year,
University of Nevada, Reno (2003)
Selected bibliography
* Fowler, Don D. ''In a Sacred Manner We Live: Photographs of the North American Indian'' (1972)
* Fowler, Don D., Robert C. Euler, and
Catherine S. Fowler
Catherine "Kay" S. Fowler is an anthropologist whose work has focused on preserving the cultures of the native people of the Great Basin. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy, PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, retrieved June 30, 2011 and from ...
. ''
John Wesley Powell and the Anthropology of the Canyon Country'' (1981)
* Fowler, Don D. ''The Western Photographs of
John K. Hillers'' (1989)
* Fowler, Don D. ''A Laboratory of Anthropology: Science and Romanticism in the American Southwest, 1846–1930'' (2010)
* Fowler, Don D. ''The Glen Canyon Country: A Personal Memoir'' (2011) / 978-1-60781-127-5
*
Fowler, Catherine S., and Don D. Fowler. ''The Great Basin: People and Place in Ancient Times'' (2008)
* Cordell, Linda S. and Don D. Fowler, eds. (2005). ''Southwest Archaeology in the Twentieth Century''
See also
*
Catherine S. Fowler
Catherine "Kay" S. Fowler is an anthropologist whose work has focused on preserving the cultures of the native people of the Great Basin. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy, PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, retrieved June 30, 2011 and from ...
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21st-century American anthropologists
American archaeologists
Living people
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University of Utah alumni
University of Pittsburgh alumni
University of Nevada, Reno faculty