EDUCATION
1987 Ph.D. (Anthropology) University of California, Riverside
1977 M.A. (Anthropology) California State University, Sacramento
1973 B.A. (Anthropology) California State University, Sacramento
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1997-2000 Chair, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, CSU Bakersfield.
1994-present Professor of Anthropology, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, CSU Bakersfield.
1991-1994 Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, CSU Bakersfield.
1989-1991 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, CSU Bakersfield.
1987-1989 Lecturer in Anthropology, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, CSU Bakersfield.
1974-1987 Lecturer in Anthropology, CSU Fullerton (1987), Cerro Coso Community College (1975-1978, 1985, 1987),
CSU San Bernardino (1980, 1986), Antelope Valley Community College (1974-1978).
COURSES TAUGHT
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Traditional Cultures of the World Mesoamerican Archaeology
Introduction to Physical Anthropology Native Peoples of North America Cultural Ecology
Introduction to Archaeology Indians of the Southwest Seminar in Archaeological Theory
Introduction to Laboratory Methods in Archaeology Principles of Archaeology Seminar in Archaeological Methods
Introduction to Field Archaeology World Prehistory Senior Seminar
Intermediate Field Archaeology New World Prehistory Advanced Laboratory Methods in Archaeology
Survey Techniques in Field Archaeology Prehistory of North America Excavation Methods in Field Archaeology
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS AT CSU BAKERSFIELD
2002 Outside Reviewer, Anthropology Program, CSU Chico
2002 Outside Reviewer, Anthropology Program, CSU Fullerton
1998 Outside Reviewer, Anthropology Program, CSU Fresno
1987-present Director, Center for Archaeological Research
1991-1999 Director, Museum of Anthropology
1993-1994 General Education Committee (Chair for 1994)
1994-1995 Coordinator, Masters Program in Anthropology
1990-1994 Coordinator, Masters Program in Behavioral Science
1987-1992 Coordinator, Southern San Joaquin Valley Archaeological Information Center
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Hunter-gatherers, Native North America, Prehistory of North America, Mojave Desert Prehistory, Cultural Adaptation to Arid Environments, Human and Cultural Ecology, Entomophagy, Ethnobiology.
AREAS OF MAJOR FIELDWORK
The Mojave and Colorado deserts of California and Arizona, southern, central, and northern California, western Nevada, and northern Arizona.
LITERARY APPOINTMENTS
1998-2000 Co-editor (with Jill K. Gardner), Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology.
1991-1998 Editor, Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology.
1991-1998 Editor, CSUB Museum of Anthropology Occasional Papers.
1990 Book Reviews Editor, Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology.
1988-1991 Contributing Editor, Society for California Archaeology Newsletter.
1986-1989 Co-editor (with Philip J. Wilke), Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology.
1983-1985 Assistant Editor, Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology.
AWARDS and GRANTS
2002 University Research Council grant ($2,500) to complete the faunal analysis of the Red Rock Canyon Rockshelter site.
2001 University Research Council grant ($2,500) to analysis of the Red Rock Canyon Rockshelter site.
2000 Merit Salary Increase
2000 CSUB Research Council grant ($1,500 and 5 WTUs) for completing the Rustler Rockshelter report
2000 Sabbatical Leave (Fall Quarter)
1999 Merit Salary Increase
1999 CSUB Research Council grant (5 WTUs) for working on a book in Paleonutrition.
1999 CSUB Graduate Stipend (for Victoria Harvey) for a bead analysis at the CA-KER-303 site.
1998 Merit Salary Increase
1998 CSUB Undergraduate Stipend (for Matt Des Lauriers) for the Koehn Lake archaeological project.
1997 Society for California Archaeology, Martin A. Baumhoff Special Achievement Award
1997 Performance Salary Step Increase (Two Steps).
1996-99 Honors Program Faculty
1996 Performance Salary Step Increase (One Step).
1996 CSUB Research Council grant ($3,000) for chemical investigations into the lipids in paleofeces.
1996 Outstanding Professor Award from Sorority/Fraternity Organization, CSUB
1994 Sabbatical Leave (Spring Quarter).
1994 CSUB Undergraduate Stipend (for Jill K. Gardner) for the Seep Springs archaeological project.
1993 CSUB Research Council grant (RA funding) for cataloguing the artifacts from Rustler Rockshelter.
1992 CSUB Research Council grant (RA funding) for faunal analysis at the Koehn Lake site.
1990 CSUB Research Council grant (WTUs and funding) for research into western Mojave Desert Prehistory.
1989 CSUB Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award.
1987 UC Riverside Academic Senate grant for research on entomophagy.
1986 UC Riverside Graduate Council Fellowship for the 1986-1987 Academic Year.
1986 Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Anthropology (1985-1986), University of California, Riverside.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Society for American Archaeology Pacific Coast Archaeological Society
Society for California Archaeology Antelope Valley Archaeological Society
Archaeological Survey Association Kern County Archaeological Society
Great Basin Anthropological Association Registry of Professional Archaeologists
1998-2000 Vice President, Kern County Archaeological Society.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Over the years, I have participated in over 120 excavation projects, 70 as director, and have conducted over 500 surveys. I worked as an archaeologist for the Archaeological Research Unit at UC Riverside (1983-87), the Bureau of Land Management (Barstow Area Archaeologist 1978-83), Paul G. Chace and Associates (1978), for the Air Force (Edwards AFB Archaeologist 1976-77), as a private consultant (1974-76), and for State Parks (as a seasonal, 1972-74).
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
1977 (Sutton, Mark Q.) The Archaeological Concept of Field House. Master's thesis, California State University, Sacramento.
1977 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Jay A. Tremblay) Archaeological Investigations at Seven Sites on Edwards Air Force Base, California. Edwards Air Force Base: Air Force Flight Test Center Technical Publication No. 18.
1977 (Sutton, Mark Q., and R. W. Robinson) Final Report on the Mitigation for the Cultural Resources on the Space Shuttle Transport Road. Los Angeles: United States Army Corps of Engineers.
1980 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Archaeological Investigations at Antelope School (Lan-720): An Historic Site in the Antelope Valley, California. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly 27(3).
1980 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Class 2 Archaeological Survey of a Portion of Stoddard Valley. Barstow: Bureau of Land Management.
1986 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Archaeological Investigations at the Owl Canyon Site (CA-SBR-3801), Mojave Desert, California. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 9.
1987 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Consideration of the Numic Spread. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Riverside.
1987 (Sutton, Mark Q., Ed.) Papers on the Archaeology of the Mojave Desert. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 10.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q.) An Introduction to the Archaeology of the Western Mojave Desert, California. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 14.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Philip J. Wilke, Eds.) Archaeological Investigations at CA-RIV-1179, CA-RIV-2823, and CA-RIV-2827, La Quinta, Riverside County, California. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 20.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Insects as Food: Aboriginal Entomophagy in the Great Basin. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers No. 33.
1991 (Sutton, Mark Q., Ed.) Papers on the Archaeology of the Mojave Desert 2. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 32.
1991 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Archaeological Investigations at Cantil, Fremont Valley, Western Mojave Desert, California. CSU Bakersfield, Museum of Anthropology Occasional Papers No. 1.
1992 (Sutton, Mark Q., Ed.) Archaeological Studies in the Goose Lake Area, San Joaquin Valley, California. CSU, Bakersfield, Museum of Anthropology Occasional Papers No. 2.
1993 (Sutton, Mark Q., Ed.) Archaeological Investigations in the Rosamond Area, Western Mojave Desert, California. CSU, Bakersfield, Museum of Anthropology Occasional Papers No. 3.
1993 (Sutton, Mark Q., Joan S. Schneider and Robert M. Yohe II) The Siphon Site (CA-SBR-6580): A Millingstone Horizon Site in Summit Valley, California. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly 40(3).
1996 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Brooke S. Arkush) Archaeological Laboratory Methods: An Introduction. Dubuque, IO: Kendall/Hunt.
1996 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Joan S. Schneider) Archaeological Investigations at Guapiabit: CA-SBR-1913. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly 43(4).
1998 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Brooke S. Arkush) Archaeological Laboratory Methods: An Introduction (2nd ed.). Dubuque, IO: Kendall/Hunt.
2000 (Sutton, Mark Q.) An Introduction to Native North America. Allyn & Bacon.
2000 (Parr, Robert E., David J. Scott, and Mark Q. Sutton) Archaeological Investigations at CA-SBR-7691, A Millingstone Horizon Site in the Summit Valley, San Bernardino County, California. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly 48(1).
2002 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Brooke S. Arkush) Archaeological Laboratory Methods: An Introduction (3rd ed.). Dubuque, IO: Kendall/Hunt.
2003 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Robert M. Yohe II) Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past. Allyn & Bacon.
2004 (Sutton, Mark Q.) An Introduction to Native North America (2nd Ed.). Allyn & Bacon.
REFEREED ARTICLES
1978 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Series of Discoidals from Northern San Diego County, California. The Journal of California Anthropology 5(2):266-270.
1979 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Three Baked Clay Figurines from the Antelope Valley, California. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 1(2):367-369.
1980 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Some Aspects of Kitanemuk Prehistory. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 2(2):214-225.
1982 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Kawaiisu Mythology and Rock Art: One Example. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 4(1):148-154.
1984 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Philip J. Wilke) New Observations on a Clovis Point from the Central Mojave Desert, California. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 6(1):113-115.
1984 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Eric W. Ritter) A Basket Fragment from the Lava Mountains, California. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 6(1):115-118.
1984 (Sutton, Mark Q.) The Productivity of Pinus monophylla and Modeling Great Basin Subsistence Strategies. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 6(2):240-246.
1985 (Sutton, Mark Q.) The California Salmon Fly as a Food Source in Northeastern California. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 7(2):176-182.
1986 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Warfare and Expansion: An Ethnohistoric Perspective on the Numic Spread. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 8(1):65-82.
1986 (Yohe, Robert M., II, Mark Q. Sutton, and Daniel F. McCarthy) A "Battle Scene" Petroglyph in the Coso Range, California. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 8(1):133-137.
1987 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Some Thoughts on the Possible Function of Some Cairn Complexes in the Southwestern Great Basin. Nevada Archaeologist 6(1):23-30.
1987 (Sutton, Mark Q., Christopher B. Donnan and Dennis L. Jenkins) The Archaeology of Southcott Cave, Providence Mountains, California. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 9(2):232-250.
1987 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Eric W. Ritter) Two Cast Iron Pots from Aboriginal Contexts in Southern California. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 9(2):289-292.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Robert M. Yohe II) The Perishables from Cave No. 5, Providence Mountains, California. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 10(1):117-123.
1989 (J. Richard Ambler, and Mark Q. Sutton) The Anasazi Abandonment of the San Juan Drainage and the Numic Expansion. North American Archaeologist 10(1):39-55.
1989 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Ethnobiological Inferences from Great Basin Oral Tradition. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 11(2):240-267.
1989 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Late Prehistoric Interaction Spheres in the Mojave Desert, California. North American Archaeologist 10(2):95-121.
1989 (Kelly L. Zimmerman, Catherine Lewis-Pruett, and Mark Q. Sutton) A Clovis-like Point from the Southern Sierra Nevada, California. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 11(1):89-91.
1989 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Crescent from the Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 11(1):96-98.
1990 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Insect Resources and Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Evolution. In: Proceedings of the First International Congress of Ethnobiology, Darrell A. Posey, William Leslie Overal, Charles R. Clement, Mark J. Plotkin, Elaine Elisabetsky, Clarice Novaes de Mota, and José Flàvio Pessôa de Barros, eds., pp. 195-207. Belém, Brazil: Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi.
1990 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Insects as a Food Source in Aboriginal Tasmania. In: Proceedings of the First International Congress of Ethnobiology, Darrell A. Posey, William Leslie Overal, Charles R. Clement, Mark J. Plotkin, Elaine Elisabetsky, Clarice Novaes de Mota, and José Flàvio Pessôa de Barros, eds., pp. 209-217. Belém, Brazil: Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi.
1990 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Notes on Creosote Lac Scale Insect Resin as a Mastic and Sealant in the Southwestern Great Basin. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 12(2):262-268.
1991 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Approaches to Linguistic Prehistory. North American Archaeologist 12(4):303-324.
1991 (Parr, Robert E., and Mark Q. Sutton) Invisible Archaeological Deposits at Small Milling Sites. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 13(2):279-283.
1993 (Newman, Margaret E., Robert M. Yohe II, Howard Ceri, and Mark Q. Sutton) Immunological Protein Residue Analysis of Non-lithic Archaeological Materials. Journal of Archaeological Science 20:93-100.
1993 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Midden and Coprolite Derived Subsistence Evidence: An Analysis of Data from the La Quinta Site, Salton Basin, California. Journal of Ethnobiology 13(1):1-15.
1993 (Sutton, Mark Q.) The Numic Expansion in Great Basin Oral Tradition. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 15(1):111-128.
1993 (Sutton, Mark Q.) On the Subsistence Ecology of the Late Inland Millingstone Horizon in Southern California. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 15(1):134-140.
1994 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Indirect Studies in Paleonutrition Studies. In: Paleonutrition: The Diet and Health of Prehistoric Americans, Kristin D. Sobolik, ed., pp. 98-111. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No. 22.
1994 (Sutton, Mark Q., and David Rhode) A History of the Numic Problem. In: Across the West: Human Population Movement and the Expansion of the Numa, David B. Madsen and David Rhode, eds., pp. 6-15. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
1994 (Sutton, Mark Q.) The Numic Expansion as Seen from the Mojave Desert. In: Across the West: Human Population Movement and the Expansion of the Numa, David B. Madsen and David Rhode, eds., pp. 133-140. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
1995 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Archaeological Aspects of Insect Use. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 2(3):253-298.
1995 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Karl J. Reinhard) Cluster Analysis of the Coprolites from Antelope House: Implications for Anasazi Diet and Cuisine. Journal of Archaeological Science 22(6):741-750.
1995 (Fox, Andrew, Carl Heron, and Mark Q. Sutton) Characterization of Natural Products on Native American Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials from the Great Basin, USA: A Preliminary Study. Archaeometry 37(2):363-375.
1995 (Stacey, Rebecca J., Andrew Fox, Carl Heron, and Mark Q. Sutton) Chemical Characterization of Resins Used by Native Americans in the Southwestern Great Basin, USA. In: Resins: Ancient and Modern, Margot M. Wright and Joyce H. Townsend, eds., pp. 100-105. Edinburgh: Scottish Society for Conservation and Restoration.
1995 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Comment on Chartkoff's "A Nested Hierarchy of Contexts: An Approach to Defining Significance for Lithic Scatters" Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 17(1):129-130.
1996 (Sutton, Mark Q., Minnie Malik, and Andrew Ogram) Experiments on the Determination of Gender from Coprolites by DNA Analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 23(2):263-267.
1996 (Sutton, Mark Q.) The Current Status of the Archaeology of the Mojave Desert. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 18(2):221-257.
1996 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Charmstone Cache from the Southern San Joaquin Valley. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 32(4):41-54.
1997 (O'Donnell, John Thomas, Mark Q. Sutton, and R. W. Robinson) Eggshell Cave: A Ceremonial Site in the Western Mojave Desert, California. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 19(1):104-116.
1998 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Cluster Analysis of Paleofecal Data Sets: A Test of Late Prehistoric Settlement and Subsistence Patterns in the Northern Coachella Valley, California. American Antiquity 63(1):86-107.
1998 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Forward. In: Walking Where We Lived: Memoirs of A Mono Indian Family, by Gaylen D. Lee, pp. xi-xii. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
1998 (Stacey, Rebecca J., Carl Heron, and Mark Q. Sutton) The Chemistry, Archaeology, and Ethnography of a Native American Insect Resin. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 20(1):53-71.
2000 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Prehistoric Movements of Northern Uto-Aztecan Peoples Along the Northwestern Edge of the Southwest: Impact on Southwestern Populations. In: The Archaeology of Regional Interaction: Religion, Warfare, and Exchange Across the American Southwest and Beyond, Michele Hegmon, ed., pp. 295-315. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
2000 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Strategy and Tactic in the Analysis of Archaeological Hunter-Gatherer Systems. North American Archaeologist 21(3):217-231.
2000 (Sutton, Mark Q., Robin Novickas, and Gregory Seymour) The Archaeology of Vontrigger Springs, Eastern Mojave Desert, California. In: Archaeological Passage: A Volume in Honor of Claude Nelson Warren, Joan S. Schneider, Robert M. Yohe II, and Jill K. Gardner, eds., pp. 153-168. Western Center for Archaeology & Palenotology, Publications in Archaeology No. 1.
2001 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Excavations at Teddy Bear Cave (CA-KER-508), Tomo-Kahni State Park, Southern Sierra Nevada, California. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 37(1):1-26.
NONREFEREED ARTICLES
1977 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Antelope as a Resource in Aboriginal Antelope Valley. Kern County Archaeological Society Journal 1:5-8.
1979 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Archaeological Investigations at Lan-765: A Surface Site in the Antelope Valley, California. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 15(4):35-47.
1979 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Archaeological Investigations at Ker-696: An Early Site in the Antelope Valley, California. Archaeological Survey Association Journal 3(1):23-30.
1979 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Archaeological Investigations at Lan-771. Archaeological Survey Association Journal 3(1):11-22.
1980 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Pitted Boulder Site in the Western Mojave Desert. La Pintura 7(2):10.
1981 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Obsidian Hydration in the Antelope Valley. In: Obsidian Dates III, Clement W. Meighan and Glenn S. Russell, eds., pp. 123-124. Los Angeles: University of California Institute of Archaeology Monograph 16.
1981 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Bighorn Sheep Rock Art from the Southern Sierra Nevada. The Masterkey 55(1):13-17.
1981 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Corrections to "Some Aspects of Kitanemuk Prehistory." Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 3(1):149.
1982 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Two Incised Green Slates from Southern California. The Masterkey 56(1):28-32.
1982 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Archaeology of the Fairmont Buttes. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 18(4):1-26.
1982 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Rock Art of the Western Mojave Desert. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 18(4):27-38.
1984 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Archaeological Investigations at Ker-733: A Special Purpose Site in the Antelope Valley. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 20(4):33-55.
1986 (Sutton, Mark Q.) The Milepost 14 Camp: An Historic Railroad Construction Camp on the Death Valley Railway, Inyo County, California. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 22(2):39-44.
1987 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Introduction. In: Papers on the Archaeology of the Mojave Desert, Mark Q. Sutton, ed., pp. 1-2. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 10.
1987 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Excavations at CA-SBR-3829, The Denning Springs Rockshelter, Avawatz Mountains, California. In: Papers on the Archaeology of the Mojave Desert, Mark Q. Sutton, ed., pp. 115-140. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 10.
1987 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Robert M. Yohe II) Nopah Cave: A Late Period Sheep Hunting Camp in the Southwestern Great Basin. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 23(3):24-34.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Claude N. Warren) Introduction. In: A Symposium on Mojave Prehistory, Mark Q. Sutton and Claude N. Warren, eds., pp. 1. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 24(1).
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q.) On the Late Prehistory of the Western Mojave Desert. In: A Symposium on Mojave Desert Prehistory, Mark Q. Sutton and Claude N. Warren, eds., pp. 22-29. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 24(1).
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Andy Greene) A Note on Kawaiisu Ethnopharmocology. Society for California Archaeology Newsletter 22(2):13.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Obsidian Analyses in the Mojave Desert, California: Results, Cautions, and Comments. In: Obsidian Dates IV, Clement W. Meighan and Janet Scalise, eds., pp. 51-63. Los Angeles: University of California Institute of Archaeology Monograph No. 24.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Philip J. Wilke) Archaeological Investigations at the CA-RIV-2823 Rock Cairn Complex. In: Archaeological Investigations at CA-RIV-1179, CA-RIV-2823, and CA-RIV-2827, La Quinta, Riverside County, California, Mark Q. Sutton and Philip J. Wilke, eds., pp. 15-20. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 20.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Test Excavations at CA-RIV-2827. In: Archaeological Investigations at CA-RIV-1179, CA-RIV-2823, and CA-RIV-2827, La Quinta, Riverside County, California, Mark Q. Sutton and Philip J. Wilke, eds., pp. 21-35. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 20.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q.) CA-RIV-1179: Site Description, Research Focus, Field Method, Stratigraphy, Features, and Dating. In: Archaeological Investigations at CA-RIV-1179, CA-RIV-2823, and CA-RIV-2827, La Quinta, Riverside County, California, Mark Q. Sutton and Philip J. Wilke, eds., pp. 37-52. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 20.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Material Culture from CA-RIV-1179. In: Archaeological Investigations at CA-RIV-1179, CA-RIV-2823, and CA-RIV-2827, La Quinta, Riverside County, California, Mark Q. Sutton and Philip J. Wilke, eds., pp. 53-69. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 20.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Robert M. Yohe II) The Human Remains from CA-RIV-1179. In: Archaeological Investigations at CA-RIV-1179, CA-RIV-2823, and CA-RIV-2827, La Quinta, Riverside County, California, Mark Q. Sutton and Philip J. Wilke, eds., pp. 77-102. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 20.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Robert M. Yohe II) Terrestrial and Avian Faunal Remains from CA-RIV-1179. In: Archaeological Investigations at CA-RIV-1179, CA-RIV-2823, and CA-RIV-2827, La Quinta, Riverside County, California, Mark Q. Sutton and Philip J. Wilke, eds., pp. 103-117. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 20.
1988 (Wilke, Philip J., and Mark Q. Sutton) Summary and Inferences. In: Archaeological Investigations at CA-RIV-1179, CA-RIV-2823, and CA-RIV-2827, La Quinta, Riverside County, California, Mark Q. Sutton and Philip J. Wilke, eds., pp. 157-164. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 20.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Dental Modification in a Burial from the Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. In: Human Skeletal Biology: Contributions to the Understanding of California's Prehistoric Populations, Gary D. Richards, ed. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 24:91-96.
1989 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Robert M. Yohe II) An Analysis of the Vertebrate Faunal Remains from the Afton Canyon Site (CA-SBR-85). In: The Archaeology of the Afton Canyon Site by Joan S. Schneider, pp. 143-158. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly 36(1).
1990 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Two Small Quarry Sites Near Rosamond, Kern County, California. Antelope Valley Archaeological Society Occasional Papers 2:67-76.
1990 (Chace, Paul G., and Mark Q. Sutton) The Kelly Site Complex: An Inland Encinitas Tradition Settlement in San Diego County. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 26(1):42-59.
1991 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Preface to the Baker Site Report. In: Papers on the Archaeology of the Mojave Desert 2, Mark Q. Sutton, ed., pp. 1-10. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 32.
1991 (Yohe, Robert M., II, and Mark Q. Sutton) The Excavation of an Unusual Rock Feature North of Kramer Junction, San Bernardino County, California. In: Papers on the Archaeology of the Mojave Desert 2, Mark Q. Sutton, ed., pp. 75-84. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 32.
1991 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Robert E. Parr) An Archaeological Survey of Hidden Valley, Central Mojave Desert. In: Papers on the Archaeology of the Mojave Desert 2, Mark Q. Sutton, ed., pp. 85-125. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 32.
1992 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Dated Human Burial in Red Rock Canyon, Kern County, California. Kern County Archaeological Society Journal 3:23-29.
1992 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Introduction and Cultural Background. In: Archaeological Studies in the Goose Lake Area, San Joaquin Valley, California, Mark Q. Sutton, ed., pp. 1-8. CSU, Bakersfield, Museum of Anthropology Occasional Papers No. 2.
1992 (Sutton, Mark Q.) The Goose Lake (CA-KER-766) Project. In: Archaeological Studies in the Goose Lake Area, San Joaquin Valley, California, Mark Q. Sutton, ed., pp. 26-30. CSU, Bakersfield, Museum of Anthropology Occasional Papers No. 2.
1992 (Jackson, Scott R., Mark Q. Sutton, and Kenneth Gobalet) The Faunal Remains from the Goose Lake Site (CA-KER-766). In: Archaeological Studies in the Goose Lake Area, San Joaquin Valley, California, Mark Q. Sutton, ed., pp. 54-66. CSU, Bakersfield, Museum of Anthropology Occasional Papers No. 2.
1992 (Clift, Greg, Mark Q. Sutton, and Emmanuel Gabet) A Second Look at Gifford and Schenk's Site 11 (CA-KER-46), Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. In: Archaeological Studies in the Goose Lake Area, San Joaquin Valley, California, Mark Q. Sutton, ed., pp. 67-89. CSU, Bakersfield, Museum of Anthropology Occasional Papers No. 2.
1992 (Sutton, Mark Q., and G. Dicken Everson) Archaeological Investigations at the Oak Creek Canyon Site (CA-KER-1998), Tehachapi Mountains. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 28(1):43-66.
1992 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Recent Excavations at Rustler Rockshelter, Eastern Mojave Desert. Society for California Archaeology Newsletter 26(5):10.
1993 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Background to the Archaeology of the Rosamond Area, Western Mojave Desert, California. In: Archaeological Studies in Rosamond, Western Mojave Desert, California, Mark Q. Sutton, ed., pp. 1-9. CSU, Bakersfield, Museum of Anthropology Occasional Papers No. 3.
1993 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Scott R. Jackson) Archaeological Investigations CA-KER-2450, Rosamond, Kern County, California. In: Archaeological Studies in Rosamond, Western Mojave Desert, California, Mark Q. Sutton, ed., pp. 10-25. CSU, Bakersfield, Museum of Anthropology Occasional Papers No. 3.
1993 (Everson, G. Dicken, and Mark Q. Sutton) Archaeological Investigations at Four Small Archaeological Sites in Rosamond, Kern County, California. In: Archaeological Studies in Rosamond, Western Mojave Desert, California, Mark Q. Sutton, ed., pp. 34-47. California State University, Bakersfield, Museum of Anthropology Occasional Papers No. 3.
1993 (Everson, G. Dicken, Lori D. Wear, and Mark Q. Sutton) Archaeological Investigations at 12 Sites in Rosamond, Kern County, California. In: Archaeological Studies in Rosamond, Western Mojave Desert, California, Mark Q. Sutton, ed., pp. 87-136. CSU, Bakersfield, Museum of Anthropology Occasional Papers No. 3.
1993 (Sutton, Mark Q.) On the Archaeology of the Western Mojave Desert: Notes from Rosamond. In: Archaeological Studies in Rosamond, Western Mojave Desert, California, Mark Q. Sutton, ed., pp. 154-157. CSU, Bakersfield, Museum of Anthropology Occasional Papers No. 3.
1993 (Sutton, Mark Q., Editor and Annotator) The Indians of Pelican Island by Harold Estep. Kern County Archaeological Society Journal 4:2-30.
1993 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Perspective on Archaeological Research in the California Desert: 1960 to 1990. In: Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology, Vol. 6, Martin D. Rosen, Lynne E. Christenson, Susan M. Hector, and Don Laylander eds., pp. 233-237. San Diego: Society for California Archaeology.
1994 (Sutton, Mark Q., Scott R. Jackson, and F. A. Riddell) Test Excavations at Seven Sites in the Southern Sierra Nevada near Lake Isabella, California. Kern County Archaeological Society Journal 5:22-85.
1994 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Consideration of a Hopi Migration Across the Mojave Desert. In: Kelso Conference Papers, 1987-1992: A Collection of Papers and Abstracts from the First Five Kelso Conferences on the Prehistory of the Mojave Desert, G. Dicken Everson and Joan S. Schneider, eds., pp. 15-20. CSU, Bakersfield, Museum of Anthropology Occasional Papers No. 4.
1995 (Collins, Dawn, Aaron Dutcher, and Mark Q. Sutton) Archaeological Investigations at the Greenlee Site (CA-TUL-1695), Southern Sierra Nevada. Kern County Archaeological Society Journal 6:3-21.
1995 (Siefkin, Susan Kerr, and Mark Q. Sutton) An Isolated Cremation from Sand Canyon, Tehachapi, California. Kern County Archaeological Society Journal 6:41-51.
1995 (Sutton, Mark Q.) The Rustler Rockshelter Site. In: Ancient Surfaces of the East Mojave Desert, Robert E. Reynolds and Jennifer Reynolds, eds., pp. 81-82. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly 42(3).
1996 (Lomax, Loreen, and Mark Q. Sutton) The ASA Surface Collection from the Area of CA-SBR-1913, Summit Valley, California: Description and Interpretations. In: Archaeological Investigations at Guapiabit: CA-SBR-1913, by Mark Q. Sutton and Joan S. Schneider, pp. 43-50. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly 43(4).
1996 (Peden, Andrea, and Mark Q. Sutton) The Ceramics from CA-SBR-1913. In: Archaeological Investigations at Guapiabit: CA-SBR-1913, by Mark Q. Sutton and Joan S. Schneider, pp. 77-78. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly 43(4).
1997 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Brief Introduction to the Archaeology of Nettle Spring. Tomo-Kahni News 4(4):4-5.
1997 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Background for Archaeological Investigations at Buena Vista Lake, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Kern County Archaeological Society Journal 8:3-21.
2000 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Notes on Two Tubatulabal Strands of Glass Beads. Society for California Archaeology Newsletter 34(4):28-32.
2003 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Commentary: How About Some Quality Control in California Archaeology? Society for California Archaeology Newsletter 37(2):15-16.
2003 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Rebecca S. Orfila) A Radiocarbon Correction Factor for Freshwater Shell for the Lower Kern River/Northern Buena Vista Lake Area, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Society for California Archaeology Newsletter 37(2):23-24.
REVIEWS
1987 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Review of "Handbook of Indian Foods and Fibers of Arid America" by Walter Ebeling. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 9(2):297-299.
1989 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Review of "The Archaeology of Mitchell Caverns" by Diana G. Pinto. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 11(1):133-134.
1990 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Review of "Archaeology of the Three Springs Valley, California" by Brian D. Dillon and Matthew A. Boxt (eds.). Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 12(1):140-142.
1993 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Review of "Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians" by Thomas C. Blackburn and Kat Anderson (eds.). Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 15(2):261-263.
1995 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Review of "Toward a New Taxonomic Framework for Central California Archaeology: Essays by James A. Bennyhoff and David A. Fredrickson" assembled and edited by Richard E. Hughes. American Antiquity 60(2):389.
REFEREED BOOKS
2004 (Sutton, Mark Q., and E. N. Anderson) An Introduction to Cultural Ecology. AltaMira Press.
2006 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Prehistory of North America. Allyn & Bacon.
REFEREED ARTICLE
n.d. (Sutton, Mark Q.,and Matthew R. Des Lauriers) Emerging Patterns in Obsidian Usage in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly.
NONREFEREED WORKS
2003 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Comment: The Leaky Pipeline of CEQA Review. Society for California Archaeology Newsletter.
1999 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Thoughts on a Paleoindian Occupation of the Buena Vista Lake Basin, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Kern County Archaeological Society Journal 10.
n.d. (Gardner, Jill K., Sally F. McGill, and Mark Q. Sutton) Middle Holocene Hearth Features Along the Garlock Fault, Western Fremont Valley, California. Papers on the Archaeology of the Mojave Desert 3, Jill K. Gardner, ed. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory.
(Rogers, Alexander K., Mark Q. Sutton, and Roy A. LaFever) Chemical Signatures of Anadonta in Midden Soil from the Manifold Site (CA-KER-4220), Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Submitted to the American Antiquity.
(Sutton, Mark Q., Margaret M. Newman, and Robert M. Yohe II) Understanding Archaeological Protein Residue Analysis. Submitted to the Journal of Archaeological Science.
(Sobolik, Kristin D., and Mark Q. Sutton) Paleonutrition. Submitted to Cambridge University Press.
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
(Sutton, Mark Q. and Jill K. Gardner) The Archaeology of the Koehn Lake Site (CA-KER-875), Fremont Valley, Western Mojave Desert, California. MS.
(Sutton, Mark Q.) The 1992 Excavations at Rustler Rockshelter, Eastern Mojave Desert, California. MS.
(Sutton, Mark Q., and R. W. Robinson) Excavations at the Red Rock Canyon Rockshelter (CA-KER-147), Western Mojave Desert, California. MS.
ARTICLES
(Orfila, Rebecca, Mark Q. Sutton, Bruno Huerta, and Patricia Martz) Analysis of Possible Paleofecal Samples from Pellejo Chico Alto, Peru: Results and Lessons. MS.
(Wolfe, Susan I., and Mark Q. Sutton) Acorns and Dental Wear in Aboriginal California. MS.
(Fleagle [McQueen] Christine M., and Mark Q. Sutton) A Kawaiisu Healing Cave. MS.
(Des Lauriers, Matthew R., and Mark Q. Sutton) The ASA Collection from Witchstick Cave, Sand Canyon, Tehachapi, California. MS.
(Gardner, Jill K., Mark Q. Sutton, and Matthew R. Des Lauriers) Excavations at the Cross Mountain Site (CA-KER-4619), Southern Sierra Nevada, California. MS.
(Sutton, Mark Q. and Sandra McCune) Test Excavations at the Buttonwillow Site (CA-KER-2720), Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. MS.
In addition to presenting papers, I have chaired symposia at the 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, and 2002 annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, the 1986 and 2000 Great Basin Anthropological Conference, the 1987 California Indian Conference, and the 1991 Kelso Conference. In 2001, Jill K. Gardner and I organized the Kelso Conference.
1976 (Robinson, R. W., Alan Van Eggers, and Mark Q. Sutton) Investigations at Lan-298: A Reappraisal of Cultural Traditions in Antelope Valley, California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, San Diego.
1978 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Relationships Between Artifactual and Unmodified Lithics at Lan-771. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Yosemite.
1978 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Excavations at Lan-298: A Preliminary Analysis. Paper presented at the Fall Data Sharing Meeting of the Society for California Archaeology, Redlands.
1978 (Sutton, Mark Q., Charles Forbes and Sylva Robinson) A Possible Paleo-Indian Site Complex in the Western Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Yosemite.
1979 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Some Thoughts on the Prehistory of the Antelope Valley. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, San Luis Obispo.
1980 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Investigations at the Owl Canyon Site (SBr-3801). Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Redding.
1980 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Kawaiisu Mythology and Rock Art: One Example. Paper presented at the annual Rock Art Symposium, San Diego Museum of Man.
1981 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Rock Art Styles in the Western Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Southwestern Anthropological Association, Santa Barbara.
1981 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Proto-Historic Archaeology in the Antelope Valley. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Bakersfield.
1981 (Sutton, Mark Q.) The Cultural Resource Program in the Barstow Resource Area. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Bakersfield.
1981 (Sutton, Mark Q.) An Overview of Inland Southern California Prehistory. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Bakersfield.
1981 (McIntyre, Michael J., and Mark Q. Sutton) Late Prehistoric Period Adaptive Strategies in the Western Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Bakersfield.
1981 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Portable Rock Art: Incised Slate from the Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual Rock Art Symposium, San Diego Museum of Man.
1981 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Test Excavations at Denning Springs. Paper presented at the Fall Data Sharing Meeting of the Society for California Archaeology, Fullerton.
1982 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Ker-733: A Special Purpose Site in the Western Mojave. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Sacramento.
1982 (Sutton, Mark Q.) An Historic Railroad Camp on the Death Valley Railway. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Sacramento.
1982 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Some Preliminary Data on Aboriginal Faunal Utilization in the Western Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Sacramento.
1982 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Prehistory of the Western Mojave Desert, California. Paper presented at the Arid Lands Archaeology Symposium, California State University, Fullerton.
1982 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Michael J. McIntyre) Dynamics of Late Period Adaptive Strategies in the Western Mojave. Paper presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Reno.
1982 (Sutton, Mark Q., and R. W. Robinson) Morphology of Three Structures Recovered During Excavations at Ker-303, A Late Period Village in the Western Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Reno.
1983 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Robert M. Yohe II) Preliminary Report on the Nopah Cave (Iny-2535) Test Excavation. Paper presented at the Society for California Archaeology Fall Data Sharing Meeting, Long Beach.
1984 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Southcott Cave (CA-Sbr-334): A Preliminary Report. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Salinas.
1984 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Late Prehistoric Social Organization in the Western Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Salinas.
1984 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Short-Term and Long-Term Optimal Foraging Strategies: A Model of Numic Expansion in the Great Basin. Paper presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Boise.
1985 (Sutton, Mark Q.) On the Numic Expansion: Data from the Ethnographic Period. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver.
1985 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Philip J. Wilke) A Cairn Complex in the Northern Coachella Valley: Implications for Hunting and Technology. Paper presented at the Society for California Archaeology Fall Data Sharing Meeting, Northridge.
1985 (Schneider, Joan S., and Mark Q. Sutton) Archaeological Investigations at the Afton Canyon Site, San Bernardino County, California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, San Diego.
1986 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Preliminary Results of the Excavations at Koehn Lake, Western Mojave Desert, California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Santa Rosa.
1986 (Ambler, J. Richard, and Mark Q. Sutton) The Anasazi Abandonment of the San Juan Drainage and the Numic Expansion. Paper presented at the Pecos Conference, Payson, Arizona.
1986 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Diet-Breadth and Patch-Choice Models in Great Basin Subsistence Studies. Paper presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Las Vegas.
1986 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Consideration of Insects as Resources in the Aboriginal Great Basin. Paper presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Las Vegas.
1986 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Carl L. Hansen) Investigations at Koehn Lake, Western Mojave Desert, California. Paper presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Las Vegas.
1987 (Sutton, Mark Q.) On the Late Prehistory of the Western Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Fresno.
1987 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Review of Optimal Foraging Theory in the Great Basin. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Toronto.
1987 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Consideration of a Hopi Migration Across the Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual Kelso Conference on the Prehistory of the Mojave Desert, Soda Springs, California.
1987 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Approaches to Linguistic Prehistory. Paper presented at the Third California Indian Conference, Santa Barbara.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Late Prehistoric Adaptations in the Southwestern Great Basin. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Redding.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Model of Linguistic Prehistory in the Southern California Deserts. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, Northridge.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Late Prehistoric Environment and Culture in the Western Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Park City.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Ethnobiological Inferences from Great Basin Oral Tradition. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix.
1988 (Sutton, Mark Q.) More on the Fremont Valley. Paper presented at the annual Kelso Conference on the Prehistory of the Mojave Desert, Nipton, California.
1989 (Sutton, Mark Q., and G. Dicken Everson) Investigations at the Oak Creek Canyon Site, Tehachapi Mountains. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Los Angeles.
1989 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Creosote Lac Insect Tachardiella larreae Comstock (Homoptera) Resin as a Mastic and Sealant in the Southwestern Great Basin. Paper presented at the Society for Ethnobiology Conference, Riverside.
1989 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Prehistoric Dietary Preferences in the Salton Basin, California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta.
1989 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Robert E. Parr) An Archaeological Survey of Hidden Valley, Central Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the Society for California Archaeology Fall Data Sharing Meeting, Santa Barbara.
1989 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Archaeological Investigations at a Millingstone Horizon Site on the Upper Mojave River. Paper presented at the annual Kelso Conference on the Prehistory of the Mojave Desert, Amboy, California.
1990 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Archaeological Investigations at a Millingstone Horizon Site on the Upper Mojave River. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Foster City.
1990 (Sutton, Mark Q.) An Introduction to the Goose Lake Project. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Foster City.
1990 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Goose Lake: Summary and Inferences. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Foster City.
1990 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Koehn Lake in the Prehistory of the Western Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Las Vegas.
1990 (Sutton, Mark Q.) The Numic Expansion in Great Basin Oral Tradition. Paper presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Reno.
1990 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Western Mojave Desert Archaeology. Paper presented at the Society for California Archaeology Data Sharing Meetings, Riverside.
1991 (Novickas, Robin, and Mark Q. Sutton) Archaeological Investigations at Vontrigger Springs, Eastern Mojave Desert, California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Sacramento.
1991 (Sutton, Mark Q.) An Introduction to the Keene Ranch Project. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Sacramento.
1991 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Late Prehistoric Environmental Change and Cultural Change in the Western Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.
1991 (Parr, Robert E., and Mark Q. Sutton) "Invisible" Archaeological Deposits at Small Milling Sites. Paper presented at the Society for California Archaeology Fall Data Sharing Meeting, Los Angeles.
1991 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Robert M. Yohe II) Archaeological Investigations at CA-SBR-1913: A Late Village on the Upper Mojave River. Paper presented at the annual Kelso Conference on the Prehistory of the Mojave Desert, Stovepipe Wells, California.
1992 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Comments on Indirect Studies in Paleonutrition. Paper presented at the Conference on Paleonutrition, Southern Illinois University.
1992 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Changing Settlement/Subsistence Along the Upper Mojave River, California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Pasadena.
1992 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Perspectives on Research in the Desert: 1960 to 1990. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Pasadena.
1992 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Comments on the Symposium "Prehistoric Archaeology of the Western Mojave Desert." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Pasadena.
1992 (Yohe II, Robert M., Margaret E. Newman, Mark Q. Sutton, and Joan S. Schneider) Protein Residue Analysis of Groundstone Artifacts: New Results from Five Archaeological Sites in Southern California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Pasadena.
1992 (Fenenga, Gerrit L., and Mark Q. Sutton) On the Value of California Archaeology. Paper presented at the Society for California Archaeology Fall Data Sharing Meetings, Pasadena.
1992 (Sutton, Mark Q.) The 1992 Excavations at Rustler Rockshelter, Eastern Mojave Desert, California: A Reevaluation of the Eastern Mojave Type Site. Paper presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Boise.
1992 (Sutton, Mark Q.) The Numic Expansion as Seen from the Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual Kelso Conference on the Prehistory of the Mojave Desert, Twentynine Palms, California.
1993 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Robert M. Yohe II) The Mid- to Late-Holocene Interface in the Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Monterey.
1993 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Karl J. Reinhard) Cluster Analysis of the Coprolites from Antelope House: Implications for Anasazi Diet and Cuisine. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis.
1993 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Robert M. Yohe II) Mid-Holocene Settlement and Subsistence Adaptations in the Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis.
1993 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Recent Investigations in the Eastern Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual Kelso Conference on the Prehistory of the Mojave Desert, Granite Mountains, California.
1994 (Sutton, Mark Q.) A Charmstone Cache from the Southern San Joaquin Valley. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Ventura.
1994 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Rodent Utilization in the Great Basin: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim.
1994 (Fox, Andrew, Carl Heron, and Mark Q. Sutton) Identification of Native American Natural Products on Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials from the Southwest Great Basin. Paper submitted for the International Archaeometry Conference, Ankara, May 1994.
1994 (Gardner, Jill K., Sally F. McGill, and Mark Q. Sutton) Buried Hearth Features Along the Garlock Fault. Paper presented at the annual Kelso Conference on the Prehistory of the California Deserts, Little Lake, California.
1994 (Sutton, Mark Q.) The 1992 Excavations at Rustler Rockshelter, Eastern Mojave Desert, California: A Progress Report. Paper presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Elko, Nevada.
1995 (Sutton, Mark Q.) The Archaeology of Teddy Bear Cave (CA-KER-508): A Preliminary Report. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Eureka.
1995 (Manifold, Douglas, Mark Q. Sutton, and R. W. Robinson) The Archaeology of the Cal City Cave, Western Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual Kelso Conference on the Prehistory of the California Deserts, Zzyzx, California.
1995 (Gardner, Jill K., Sally F. McGill, and Mark Q. Sutton) Further Analysis of Mid-Holocene Hearth Features Along the Garlock Fault, Western Fremont Valley. Paper presented at the Society for California Archaeology Fall Data Sharing Meetings, UCLA.
1996 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Prehistoric Movements of Mojave Desert Peoples Along the Northwestern Edge of the Southwest: The Impact on Southwestern Populations. Paper presented at the annual Southwest Symposium, Tempe.
1996 (Stacey, Rebecca J., Carl Heron, Mark Q. Sutton, and Andrew Fox) Recent Results in Identification of Residues and Adhesives from the Southwestern Great Basin. Paper presented at the Society of Ethnobiology Conference, Santa Barbara.
1996 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Background to the Archaeology of the Buena Vista Lake Region. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Bakersfield.
1996 (Manifold, Douglas, Mark Q. Sutton, and R. W. Robinson) Archaeological Investigations at the Cal City Cave: Western Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Bakersfield.
1996 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Late Prehistoric Settlement and Subsistence Patterns in the Northern Coachella Valley, California: A Comparative Analysis of Coprolite Constituents from Several Sites. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.
1996 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Insects in Archaeology: In Human Diet and Culture and as Environmental Indicators. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, Loyola University.
1996 (Heron, Carl, Rachel Hinds, Rebecca J. Stacey, and Mark Q. Sutton) Characterization of Sugars on Basketry Fragments from Breakfast Canyon Rockshelter, Death Valley, USA. Paper presented at Organic Chemistry meetings, Coburg, Germany.
1996 (Sutton, Mark Q., Jill K. Gardner, Susan Kerr Siefkin, and Matthew Des Lauriers) Salvage Excavations at the Cross Mountain Site (CA-KER-4619), Southern Sierra Nevada, California. Paper presented at the annual Kelso Conference on the Prehistory of the California Deserts, Red Rock Canyon, California.
1996 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Thoughts on a Paleoindian Occupation of the Buena Vista Basin, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Paper presented at the Society for California Archaeology Fall Data Sharing Meeting, UC Riverside.
1996 (Gardner, Jill K., Mark Q. Sutton, Susan Kerr Siefkin, and Matthew Des Lauriers) Recent Salvage Excavations at the Cross Mountain Site (CA-KER-4619), Southern Sierra Nevada, California. Paper presented at the Society for California Archaeology Fall Data Sharing Meeting, UC Riverside.
1997 (Wolfe, Susan I., and Mark Q. Sutton) On the Origin of Dietary Grit and Implications for Dental Wear in Aboriginal California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Rohnert Park.
1997 (Gardner, Jill K., Mark Q. Sutton, Susan Kerr Siefkin, Richard Cerreto, and Matthew Des Lauriers) Further Analysis of Salvage Excavations at the Cross Mountain Site (CA-KER-4619), Southern Sierra Nevada, California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Rohnert Park.
1997 (Parr, Robert E., and Mark Q. Sutton) Excavations at CA-SBR-7691, Summit Valley, San Bernardino County, California. Paper presented at the annual Kelso Conference on the Prehistory of the California Deserts, Ocotillo, California.
1998 (Heron, Carl, Rachel Hinds, Rebecca J. Stacey, and Mark Q. Sutton) Staying Sweet in Death Valley: Identification and Source Origin of Sugars Surviving on Basketry Fragments from Breakfast Canyon Rockshelter, Death Valley, USA. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle.
1998 (Sutton, Mark Q.) An Update on the Archaeology of Buena Vista Lake, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, San Diego.
1998 (Gardner, Jill K., Linda Wells, and Mark Q. Sutton) DNA Analysis of Ancient Teeth from the Cross Mountain Site (CA-KER-4619), Southern Sierra Nevada, California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, San Diego.
1998 (Des Lauriers, Matthew, Mark Q. Sutton, and Robert Negrini) Geophysical Explorations at the Koehn Lake Site (CA-KER-875), a Rose Spring Period Village in the Western Mojave Desert, California. Paper presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Bend, Oregon.
1998 (Harvey, Victoria, Matthew Des Lauriers, Richard Des Lauriers, Gale Grasse, Chris Schreffler, Audry Williams, Erik Zaborsky, and Mark Q. Sutton) Report on Preliminary Investigations at CA-KER-5408, Coles Levee Ecological Preserve, Kern County, California. Paper presented at the Society for California Archaeology, Southern Data Sharing Meetings, Santa Barbara.
1999 (Sutton, Mark Q., and Matthew Des Lauriers) A Review of Obsidian Studies in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Sacramento.
1999 (Grasse, Gale, Matthew Des Lauriers, Victoria Harvey, Chris Schreffler, Mark Q. Sutton, and Audry Williams) Report on Preliminary Investigations at CA-KER-5408, Coles Levee Ecological Preserve, Kern County, California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Sacramento.
1999 (Yohe, Robert M. II, and Mark Q. Sutton) Settlement, Subsistence, Technology, Environmental Change, and the Rose Spring Period in the Western Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual Kelso Conference on the Prehistory of the California Deserts, Panamint Springs, California.
2000 (Sutton, Mark Q.) Research Potential of the Buena Vista Lake Sites, California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia.
2000 (Yohe, Robert M. II, and Mark Q. Sutton) Implications of Technological and Environmental Change in the Rose Spring Period in the Western Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Riverside.
2000 (Mark Q. Sutton and Robert M. Yohe II) A Proposed Nomenclature for the Rose Spring Period in the Southwestern Great Basin. Paper presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Ogden, Utah.
2000 (Yohe, Robert M. II, and Mark Q. Sutton) On the Nomenclature for the Rose Spring Period in the Western Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the annual Kelso Conference on the Prehistory of the California Deserts, Death Valley Junction, California.
2001 (Sutton, Mark Q.) "Because the Light's Better": On the Efficiency of Shovel Test Pitting as a Tool to Evaluate Archaeological Sites. Paper presented at the Kelso Conference on the Archaeology of the California Deserts, Hemet, California.
2002 (Rogers, Alexander K., Mark Q. Sutton, and Roy A. LaFever) Initial Results of Chemical Analysis of Midden Soil from the Manifold Site (CA-KER-4220), Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, San Diego.
2002 (Harvey, Victoria L., Mark Q. Sutton, Roger W. Robinson, and Douglas Manifold) Archaeological Investigations at the Cal City Cave, CA-KER-517, Kern County, California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, San Diego.
2002 (Grasse, Gale, Mark Q. Sutton, Victoria Harvey, and Audry Williams) Excavations at the Grasse Site (CA-KER-5408), Buena Vista Lake, California. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, San Diego.
2002 (Walker, Blendon, and Mark Q. Sutton) The 1956 and 1971 Investigations at CA-KER-229, Sand Canyon, California: The Work at Locus C. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, San Diego.
2002 (Gardner, Jill K., Mark Q. Sutton, and Linda Wells) Molecular Analysis of Deciduous Teeth from the Cross Mountain Site, Southern Sierra Nevada. Paper presented at the Kelso Conference on the Archaeology of the California Deserts, Red Rock Canyon, California.
2002 (Gardner, Jill K., and Mark Q. Sutton) Investigating Late Holocene Climate and Culture in the Western Mojave Desert. Paper presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Elko, Nevada.
2003 (Gardner, Jill K., Mark Q. Sutton, Robert M. Negrini, and Peter E. Wigand) Investigating the Paleoindian Occupation at Tulare lake: Issues and Problems. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Sacramento.
2003 (Yohe, Robert M. II, Margaret E. Newman, and Mark Q. Sutton) Immunological Protein Residue Analysis: An Update on Archaeological Applications. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Southwestern Anthropological Association, Bakersfield.
Dr. Philip Silverman, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, CSU Bakersfield, California 93311-1099 (661) 664-2389
Dr. Philip J. Wilke, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of California, Riverside, California 92521 (909) 787-3117
Dr. Claude N. Warren, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 (702) 739-3590