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William Hildebrandt Home  Directory William Hildebrandt
| Education History | |
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Ph.D., University of California, Davis |
| Research Focus | |
Teaching Specialties: California and Great Basin archaeology, human behavioral ecology, cultural resource management
Area of Research: California and Great Basin archaeology
Area of Fieldwork: California and the Great Basin |
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Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc.
2727 Del Rio Place, Suite A
Davis, CA 95616-7729
William Hildebrandt is a California archaeologist with an extensive record of research, cultural resource management, and public service. He is co-founder and President of Far Western Anthropological Research Group, a 32-person cultural resource management firm based in Davis, California, with offices in San Luis Obispo and Reno, Nevada.
Dr. Hildebrandt’s ongoing research focuses on historical ecology and human hunting strategies in California and the Great Basin, with an emphasis on zooarchaeological data. He has been a major contributor to the debate over possible “tragedies of the commons,” or extirpation of northern fur seals by prehistoric Indian groups along the coast of California. He is collaborating with Diane Gifford-Gonzalez and other U.S., Canadian, and Russian scholars to produce a comprehensive summary of the aboriginal use of this currently threatened species around the Pacific Rim before the advent of European sealing.
Other research addresses change in human settlement and foraging strategies over time, focusing on gender differences in labor and reproductive strategies through application of human behavioral ecology to the archaic periods of California and Great Basin prehistory.
He is author and editor of many public archaeology reports produced by Far Western. A Far Western report by Jeffrey Rosenthal, Jack Meyer, William Hildebrandt, and Jay King received the 2005 Preservation Design Award from the California Preservation Foundation for their GIS-based Geoarchaeological Study and Sensitivity Model for the Southern Santa Clara, Hollister and San Juan Valley. Far Western Anthropological Research Group has a strong commitment to public education, as evidenced by their exhibit design services, as well as the public education video, “The Obsidian Trail.”
Dr. Hildebrandt has been recognized at state and national levels for his work in cultural resource management. Honors include the 1996 the Society for American Archaeology Award for Excellence in Cultural Resource Management and appointment in 2001 to the State Historic Resources Commission.
Dr. Hildebrandt works with graduate students in archaeology as a member of qualifying examination and dissertation committees and offers a limited number of independent studies or internships yearly. He offers graduate students in California studies a research-focused sounding board for their own projects, as well as networking them with Californianists outside the Monterey Bay area. |
| Selected Publications | |
In Press - Hildebrandt, W. R. and K. L. Carpenter. "California Animals." In Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 3 – Environment, Origins, and Population. Edited by Bruce Smith. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
In Press - Hildebrandt, W. R. "Northwest California: Ancient Lifeways among Forested Mountains, Flowing Rivers, and Rocky Ocean Shores." In California Archaeology: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity. Edited by T.L. Jones and K.A. Klar. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek.
2006 - Hildebrandt, W. R. and A. Ruby. "Prehistoric Pinyon Exploitation in the Southwestern Great Basin: A View from the Coso Range." Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 26(1): 9-29.
2005 - McGuire, K. and W. Hildebrandt. "Re-Thinking Great Basin Foragers: Prestige Hunting and Costly Signaling During the Middle Archaic Period." American Antiquity 70(4): 695-712.
2004 - Hildebrandt, W.R. and T.L. Jones. "Evolution of Marine Mammal Hunting: A View from the California and Oregon Coasts." In Prehistoric California: Archaeology and the Myth of Paradise, pp. 53-72. Edited by L.M. Raab and T.L. Jones. University of Utah Press.
2004 - Hildebrandt, W. R. "Xonxon’ata, In the Tall Oaks: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of a Chumash Village in Santa Ynez Valley." Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Contributions in Anthropology No. 2.
2002 - Hildebrandt, W. R. and K. R. McGuire. "The Ascendance of Hunting during the California Middle Archaic: An Evolutionary Perspective." American Antiquity 67(2): 231-256.
2002 - Hildebrandt, W. R. and T. L. Jones. "Depletion of Prehistoric Pinniped Populations Along the California and Oregon Coasts: Were Humans the Cause?" In Wilderness and Political Ecology: Aboriginal Land Management – Myths and Reality, pp. 72-110. Edited by C.E. Kay and R.T. Simmons. University of Utah Press. |
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