Richard R. Drass

Originally from Pennsylvania, Rich is an Archeologist III and has been with the Survey since 1978.

Education

Research Interests

Southern Plains archaeology, paleoethnobotany, settlement/subsistence behavior, development of agriculture, selectionist models of economic specialization.

Other Facts

Richard will be co-directing a field school in June 2008 at the Bryson-Paddock site.

Rich is currently analyzing remains from the Little Deer Site in Custer County, a sixteenth century village. He is also involved in analysis of the distribution and prehistoric cultivation of marshelder, a plant native to disturbed settings along Oklahoma streams. Rich is currently editor of Plains Anthropologist and past editor of Oklahoma Archeology, journal of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society.

rdrass@ou.edu

Salt Fork Survey Report Cover, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4,

Table 6-8, Table 12, Appendix A, References

Visit Rich's home page on Southern Plains Villagers.

Information on the Bryson-Paddock site