archival research

Thompson, Sally

Anthropologist

Dept of Anthropology

The University of Montana - Missoula

I've spent over thirty years working with the native tribes of the Rocky Mountain West. Trained as an anthropologist (Ph.D., CU, Boulder, 1980), I have worked as an archaeologist, ethnographer, and ethnohistorian. My dissertation research focused on assessing human adaptations to climate change at the Plains-Mountain interface of Wyoming and Colorado through the examination of Holocene archaeological data.

archaeology, ethnohistory, archival research, historic trails, traditional ecological knowledge, climate science