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Christopher L. Nagle
Education
B.A. - Brown University, 1973 - Anthropology/archeology
Ph.D. - Brandeis University, 1984 - Anthropology/archeology
Dissertation Title: Lithic Raw Materials Procurement and Exchange in Dorset Culture Along the Labrador Coast
Positions Held, Research Activities
1977 - 1980
RESEARCH CO-DIRECTOR and COMPUTER APPLICATIONS SPECIALIST for the Torngat Archeological Project (Smithsonian Institution/Bryn Mawr College). Responsible for analysis, description, and publication of Late Paleoeskimo sites and cultural materials from northern Labrador. Directed lithic sampling program and neutron activation studies of nephrite jades and soapstones. Planned and directed computerized information management and statistical analysis of 1977 and 1978 Torngat collections.
1980 - 1983
DISSERTATION RESEARCH on the procurement and distribution of various kinds of lithic material (cherts, soapstone, jade, and schist) from Dorset Paleoeskimo sites along the Labrador coast. Data for each type of material, controlled by stage of manufacture and site function, were evaluated against a distance-decay model, developed from ethnographic evidence of raw materials acquisition in hunting and gathering societies.
1981
FLINTKNAPPING FIELDSCHOOL, directed by Dr. J. Jeffrey Flenniken (Washington State University).
1983 - 1984
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW in Materials Analysis, Conservation Analytical Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution. Physical and chemical characterization of nephrite jades from the Eastern Canadian Arctic, employing petrographic thin-sections, x-ray diffraction, electron microprobe, and instrumental neutron activation analytical techniques, to assist in elucidating regional patterns of raw materials procurement and exchange in Paleoeskimo cultures.
1984 - present
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution. Continuing archaeometric lithic raw materials resource studies on cherts, soapstones, and nephrite jades from the Eastern Canadian Arctic. Research program is directed toward 1) developing a systematic understanding of Paleoeskimo raw materials utilization and cultural interaction throughout the region across space and through time; and 2) demonstrating the relevance of study area results to more general theories of resource procurement and exchange in hunter/gatherer societies.
1992 - present
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland. Teach one graduate/undergraduate course each year: Quantitative Methods for Applied Anthropology.
1995 - 1997
FACULTY SUPPORT SPECIALIST, Academic Computing Services, Georgetown University. Serve the faculty of the Social Science departments by providing them with expertise and support to enhance their teaching and research by means of computing and network resources, including methods of quantitative analysis using SAS and SPSS.
1997 - present
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, Department of Sociology, Georgetown University. Teach one undergraduate course each year: Introduction to Anthropology.
1997 - present
MANAGER OF NETWORK INTEGRATION SERVICES, Academic Computing Services, Georgetown University. Plan, design, and install new workstation network connections for the Main Campus. Assist in planning and implementing new network wiring of buildings. Supervise a staff of four LAN administrators in supporting existing network connections, installing network software and hardware, and administering and maintaining Novell network servers.
Research Interests:
Arctic archeology and ethnology
Statistical methods and quantitative applications in the social sciences
Archaeometric methods applied to anthropological problems
Hunter/gatherer societies
North American archeology
Material culture, museum research and collections management
Cultural ecology and culture change/evolution
Positions with Professional Societies:
1995 - present
Society for American Archaeology: Assistant Editor for Far North Current Research section of Society's journal, American Antiquity.
1995 - present
Society for Archaeological Sciences: Editor for Society's quarterly publication, SAS Bulletin.
Archeological Field Experience:
1973
EXCAVATOR at a late pre-contact Indian village in west-central Alaska. Dr. E. James Dixon (University of Alaska Museum), principal investigator.
1974
SURVEY and EXCAVATION of prehistoric and historic Indian and Eskimo sites on the central Labrador coast. Dr. William Fitzhugh (Smithsonian Institution), principal investigator.
1977 - 1978
PROJECT CREW LEADER for the Torngat Archeological Project. Archeological survey of prehistoric and historic Indian and Eskimo sites on the northern Labrador coast. Dr. William Fitzhugh (Smithsonian Institution) and Dr. Richard Jordan (Bryn Mawr College), principal investigators.
1980 - 1982
Field work and background research on various CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT studies in Massachusetts and Rhode Island involving prehistoric and historic sites.
1981
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, Documentation and study of the Fleur de Lys soapstone quarry, Newfoundland.
1984
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, Western Newfoundland chert source survey; Labrador jade source survey.
1992 - 1993
Field work and background research on numerous Phase I and II CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT studies in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware involving prehistoric and historic sites, and military installations.
1993
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, Western Newfoundland chert source survey.
1996 - present
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, Archeological research at the Fleur de Lys Dorset Paloeeskimo soapstone quarry, Newfoundland, in support of tourism development at the site.
Publications:
1976
Report on Meeting for Computer Data Banking in Anthropology Museums. Newsletter of Computer Archaeology 12:40 44.
1978
Indian Occupations of the Intermediate Period on the Central Labrador Coast: A Preliminary Synthesis. Arctic Anthropology 15:119 145.
1982a
1981Field Investigations at the Fleur de Lys Soapstone Quarry, Baie Verte, Newfoundland. Pp. 102 129 in Archaeology in Newfoundland and Labrador-1981, edited by J.S. Thomson and C. Thomson. Annual Report #2, Historic Resources Division, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Nfld.
1982b
Optical Mark Recognition Forms in Data Entry: Some Applications (with U.V. Wilcox). Journal of Field Archaeology 9:538 547.
1983a
Characterization of Dorset Paleoeskimo Nephritic Jade Artifacts from Central Labrador (with M.J. Blackman). Pp. 411 419 in Proceedings of the 22nd Symposium on Archaeometry (1982), edited by A. Aspinall and S.E. Warren. University of Bradford, U.K.
1983b
The Utilization of Rare Earth Element Concentrations for the Characterization of Soapstone Quarries (with M. Rogers, R.O. Allen, and W. Fitzhugh). Archaeometry 25:186 195.
1984
Use of Rare Earth Element Analysis to Study the Utilization and Procurement of Soapstone Along the Labrador Coast (with R.O. Allen, H. Hamroush, and W. Fitzhugh). Pp. 3 18 in Archaeological Chemistry-III, edited by J.B. Lambert. ACS Advances in Chemistry Series, No. 205.
1985
Lithic Raw Materials Resource Studies in Newfoundland and Labrador: A Progress Report. Pp. 86 121 in Archaeology in Newfoundland and Labrador-1984, edited by J.S. Thomson and C. Thomson. Annual Report #5, Historic Resources Division, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Newfoundland.
1986
Flaked Stone Procurement and Distribution in Dorset Culture Sites Along the Labrador Coast. Pp. 95 110 in Palaeo-Eskimo Cultures in Newfoundland, Labrador and Ungava. Memorial University of Newfoundland Reports in Archaeology No. 1, St. John's, Newfoundland.
1988
Collecting New Data for the Purpose of Model Development (with J.H. Altschul). Pp. 257 299 (Chapter 6) in Quantifying the Present and Predicting the Past: Theory, Method, and Application of Archaeological Predictive Modeling, edited by W. James Judge and Lynne Sebastian. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management Service Center, Denver.
1989
Comment on: Diversity, Organization, and Behavior in the Material Record: Ethnographic and Archaeological Examples, by Michael J. Shott. Current Anthropology 30(3):305 306.
In press
Lithic Raw Materials Procurement, Regional Interaction and Exchange in Dorset Culture along the Labrador Coast. Smithsonian Contributions To Anthropology (expected publication date, 1998).
Submitted
A Formal and Functional Analysis of the Stemmed Points from Rattlers Bight 1 (GcBi-7), 127 ms. pages. Part of a monograph on Maritime Archaic Occupations of Coastal Labrador, by William Fitzhugh, Aron Crowell, and Christopher Nagle. Smithsonian Contributions To Anthropology.
In prep
A Stylistic Chronology of Dorset Paleoeskimo Soapstone Vessels in the Eastern Arctic. To be published in the Proceedings of the Eastern Arctic Archeology Elders Conference, Arctic Visions Series, University Press of New England. Conference held in honor of Elmer Harp at Dartmouth College, April, 1993.in prepThe Dorset Occupations of Avayalik Island, Northern Labrador. To be published as one volume in a Smithsonian Contributions To Anthropology series, "The Archeology of the Central and Northern Labrador Coast". |
