Publications:
Turner, Derek D. and Michelle I. Turner 2021 “I’m Not Saying It Was Aliens”: An Archaeological and Philosophical Analysis of a Conspiracy Theory, in Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy, edited by Anton Killin and Sean Allen-Hermanson. Synthese Library.
Book review: Color in the Ancestral Pueblo Southwest in Kiva
The Innocent Buyer of Art Looted During World War II. Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Dissertation and Thesis:
My dissertation: Becoming Chacoan: The Archaeology of the Aztec North Great House
My MA thesis: Ceramics of Aztec North and the Terrace Community, Aztec Ruins National Monument
Public Webinars:
A new webinar from October 2021 about my postdoctoral project at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, analyzing materials from the Wallace Great House near Cortez, Colorado. Thank you to Crow Canyon for the great opportunities to do this research and to talk about it in the webinar, and thanks also to the Four Corners Lecture Series.
Turner, Derek D. and Michelle I. Turner 2021 “I’m Not Saying It Was Aliens”: An Archaeological and Philosophical Analysis of a Conspiracy Theory, in Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy, edited by Anton Killin and Sean Allen-Hermanson. Synthese Library.
Book review: Color in the Ancestral Pueblo Southwest in Kiva
The Innocent Buyer of Art Looted During World War II. Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Dissertation and Thesis:
My dissertation: Becoming Chacoan: The Archaeology of the Aztec North Great House
My MA thesis: Ceramics of Aztec North and the Terrace Community, Aztec Ruins National Monument
Public Webinars:
A new webinar from October 2021 about my postdoctoral project at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, analyzing materials from the Wallace Great House near Cortez, Colorado. Thank you to Crow Canyon for the great opportunities to do this research and to talk about it in the webinar, and thanks also to the Four Corners Lecture Series.
I had so much fun doing a Facebook Live video for Aztec Ruins National Monument for their 2020 International Archaeology Day celebration, on the archaeology of Aztec North. It was wonderful to be on site at Aztec Ruins, to be able to convey a bit of sense of place. We also pulled some of the actual objects from the excavation to talk about them and what we learned from them. Thank you to the folks at Aztec Ruins for the invitation to do this and for producing this great video!
I also recently gave a webinar for Crow Canyon Archaeological Center on my work at Aztec North. Thank you to Crow Canyon and the Four Corners Lecture Series for inviting me to speak, and here is the link.
And here's a link to a webinar I recently gave for the Chimney Rock Interpretive Association, "Chimney Rock as a Landscape of Interaction on the Chacoan Frontier."
Essays and Blog Posts:
Shantok Pottery and Epidemic Disease in New England, a blog post I wrote in relation to the Covid pandemic.
Notes from a Field Season at Aztec North, a blog post I wrote for Archaeology Southwest about our project.
Excavating at the Aztec North Great House, Aztec Ruins National Monument. Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Glyphs Newsletter, March 2017.
Checks and Balances: The Legal Future for Archaeology and Archaeologists, a blog post I wrote for the MAPA public archaeology blog after the 2016 election.
When Archaeologists Teach the Law, a MAPA blog post on archaeologists educating people about the law, including the discovery doctrine.
NAGPRA After Kennewick Man, a MAPA blog post published the week that Congress voted to send Kennewick Man home, and discussing recent high-profile NAGPRA violations.
“So, you dug it up and then you just reburied it?”, a MAPA blog post about the questions I sometimes get about our excavation project, and how they relate to public archaeology.
Media coverage:
Archaeology Podcast Network episode about the fieldwork at Aztec North great house (5 minutes)
Some of my favorite places:
Chaco Canyon
Aztec Ruins
Chimney Rock
Mesa Verde
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
