Brian T. Wygal
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Adelphi University
United States of America
Biography
Brian T. Wygal done Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno (2009) M.A., University of Alaska, Anchorage (2003) B.S., Kansas State University (1998).2014 Omicron Delta Kappa, National Leadership Honor Society, 11th Annual Academic Adviser Recognition Award student nominated).PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2014 Co-Chair and Organizer. Papers on Environmental Archaeology. Symposium presented at the 42nd Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage 2013 Co-organizer/chairperson. Greater Beringian Archaeology. Poster Symposium to be presented at the Paleoamerican Odyssey: A Conference Focused on First Americans Archaeology, October 17-19 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Research Interest
Alaska archaeology, environmental archaeology, deglaciation and human colonization, human ecology, technological organization, First Americans
Publications
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Gómez Coutouly, YA, Colas Guére, C, Renard, CM, Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT (2015), A Mid-Holocene Prehistoric Strike-A-Light from the Goodpaster Flats, Interior Alaska. Alaska Journal of Anthropology, 13(2), 71-86.
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Krasinski, KE, Wygal, BT, Wells, J, Martin, R, and Seager-Boss, F (2016), Detecting Late Holocene Cultural Landscape Modifications in the Susitna Valley, Southcentral Alaska, Boreal Forest with LiDAR Imagery. Journal of Field Archaeology, 41(3), 255-270.
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Wygal, BT (2016), The Peopling of Eastern Beringia and its Archaeological Complexities. Quaternary International, in press.
