Patricia Gilman
Associate Professor and Department Chair
(Ph.D. University of New Mexico, 1983)

Current Research Projects:

• Early villages (pit structure sites) in the Mimbres region – numbers of people, amount of sedentism, and ritual
• Mimbres puebloan sites – the transition from pit structures to pueblos, family structure across the transition, Mimbres pottery
• San Simon region of southeastern Arizona – early depopulation, social relationships with Hohokam and Mimbres, role of area in southern Southwest
• Southern Mimbres region – relationship to Mimbres Valley and other Mimbres regions; settlement patterns

New Book:  Mimbres Society, edited by Valli S. Powell-Marti and Patricia A. Gilman; University of Arizona Press. 

Research Projects Available to Graduate Students:

• Mimbres pottery
• Early villages in the southwestern United States
• Pit structure to pueblo transition
• Mobility and sedentism
• Social relationships across the southern Southwest

Office: DHT 522
Email: pgilman@ou.edu
Phone: (405) 325-2490