About
Barton's research interests center around long-term human ecology and landscape
dynamics with ongoing projects in the Mediterranean (late Pleistocene
through mid-Holocene) and American Southwest (Holocene-Archaic). He has done
fieldwork in Spain, Bosnia, and various locales in North America and has expertise in
hunter/gatherer and early farming societies, geoarchaeology, lithic technology, and
evolutionary theory, with an emphasis on human/environmental interaction, landscape
dynamics, and techno-economic change. He is actively involved in applying quantitative
methods in archaeological research, emphasizing spatial technologies (including GIS
and remote sensing), exploratory data analysis, and morphological analysis. He is a
member of the GRASS GIS
international development team.
Barton directs an international, multidisciplinary team studying the long-term interactions
of humans and landscapes in the Mediterranean, with support from the National Science
Foundation Biocomplexity in the Environment program. This five year project,
Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics, is developing multi-dimensional
computer models of landscape change and agricultural landuse practices for a 6,000 year
period spanning the beginning of farming to the beginning of urban civilization.
Barton teaches courses in Human Impacts on the Environment, Spatial Technologies in
Anthropological Research, Geoarchaeology, Lithic Technology, and Issues in Old World
Domestication Economies. He also serves as curator for the School's extensive
archaeological and ethnographic collections.
His diverse publicationsincluding five books and monographsdeal with prehistoric
technology, land-use and ecology, geoarchaeology, Darwinian theory, prehistoric rock art, and
the peopling of the Americas. His is a member of the Governor's Archaeology Advisory
Commission and the AZSITE Consortium (a multi-institutional organization that manages the
digital information about the State of Arizona's archaeological and historic resources).
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Select Publications
C. Michael Barton, J. Bernabeu Auban, O. Garcia Puchol, S. Schmich and L. Molina Balaguer (2004)
Long-term socioecology and contingent landscapes. Journal of Archaeological Method and
Theory: 11:253-395.
Julien Riel-Salvatore and C. Michael Barton (2004)
Late Pleistocene technology, economic behavior, and land-use dynamics in southern Italy.
American Antiquity, 69(2): 273-290.
C. Michael Barton, G.A. Clark, D. Yesner, & G. Pearson, editors (2004)
The Settlement of the American Continents: a Multidisciplinary Approach to Human Biogeography. University of
Arizona Press, Tucson.
C. Michael Barton, J. Bernabeu, J.E. Aura, O. Garcia, & N. La Roca (2002)
Dynamic landscapes,
artifact taphonomy, and landuse modeling in the western Mediterranean. Geoarchaeology
17(2): 155-190.
Joan Bernabeu, C. Michael Barton, & Manuel Perez Ripoll (2001)
A taphonomic perspective on Neolithic beginnings: theory, interpretation, and empirical data in
the western Mediterranean. Journal of Archaeological Science. 28: 597-612.
C. Michael Barton & G.A. Clark (editors) (1997)
Rediscovering Darwin: Evolutionary Theory in Archaeological Explanation. Archaeological
Papers of the American Anthropological Association, no. 7, Washington, D.C.
C. Michael Barton, Deborah I. Olszewski & Nancy R. Coinman (1996)
Beyond the graver: reconsidering burin function. Journal of Field Archaeology 23(1): 111-125.
C. Michael Barton, G.A. Clark & Allison Cohen (1994)
Art as information: explaining paleolithic art in Europe. World Archaeology, 26(2): 184-206.
Michael P. Neeley & C. Michael Barton (1994)
A new approach to interpreting Late-Pleistocene microlith industries in southwest Asia.
Antiquity, 68(259): 275-288.
C. Michael Barton & G.A. Clark (1993)
Cultural and natural formation processes in late Quaternary cave and rockshelter sites of
western Europe and the Near East. In Formation Processes in Archaeological Context,
edited by P. Goldberg, D.T. Nash, & M.D. Petraglia, pp 33-52. Prehistory Press.
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