Faculty

Maribeth Murray

Office: Eielson 313
Phone: 907 474-6751
Email: ffmsm.uaf.edu

UAF Department of Anthropology
310 Eielson Building
P.O. Box 757720
Fairbanks, AK 99775
Main telephone: 907- 474-7288
Fax: 907 474-7453
E-mail: fyanth@uaf.edu

Profile

Dr. Murray conducts ecological and environmental archaeological research in the high latitude regions of North America. She has done archaeological field work in Ontario, Northern Ireland, coastal Newfoundland, Arctic Canada, and Alaska. Her current research is focused on human and natural system dynamics over the long-term in the Gulf of Alaska, the paleorecord of human impacts on fisheries and marine mammals in the circumpolar world, and the integration of archaeology, oceanography, human ecology and environmental toxicology for applied research on human and ecosystem health.

Dr. Murray has been the General Editor of the Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska since 2001. She is currently the Director of the Human Dimensions of the Arctic System (HARC) Core Office, managed through the Center for Global Change at UAF. HARC is the human dimensions component of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Arctic System Science Program (ARCSS). HARC works within an interdisciplinary context to synthesize Arctic Human Dimensions scientific knowledge and to integrate this knowledge into larger ARCSS syntheses efforts to understand climate and other kinds of regional and global change.

Publications

Books

2001	* People and Wildlife in Northern North America: Essays in Honor of R. Dale Guthrie. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 944. S.C. Gerlach and M.S. Murray, editors 306 pages.

Book Chapters

2005	* In review. Whitecoats, Beaters, and Turners: Prehistoric Harp Seal Use in Northwestern Newfoundland, In Cultural Landscapes of Port au Choix: Prehistoric Coastal Occupations of Northwestern Newfoundland, edited by M.A.P. Renouf.

2000	* A Zooarchaeological Approach to Arctic Prehistory. In Animal Bones, Human Societies edited by P. Rowley-Conwy. Oxbow Books, Oxford. Pp 58-64 M.S. Murray (reviewed by editor).

Journal Arcticles

2005	* In Press. Prehistoric Use of Ringed Seals: A Zooarchaeological Study from Arctic Canada. Environmental Archaeology: The Journal of Human Paleoecology. (publication scheduled April 2005).

2003	* Chronology, Culture, and Climate: A Radiometric Re-evaluation of Late Prehistoric Occupations at Cape Denbigh, Alaska. Arctic Anthropology 40(1): 87-105. M.S. Murray, A. Robertson and R. Ferrara.

* Changing Subsistence Practices at the Dorset Palaeoeskimo Site of Phillip’s Garden, Newfoundland. Arctic Anthropology (40)1: 106-120. L. Hodgetts, M.A.P. Renouf, M.S. Murray, D. McCuaig-Balkwill, and L. Howse.

1999	* Local Heroes. The Long Term Effects of Short Term Prosperity: An Example from the Canadian Arctic. World Archaeology 30(3): 466-483. M.S. Murray.

* Two Winter Dwellings at Phillip’s Garden, A Dorset Site in Northwestern Newfoundland. Arctic Anthropology 36(1-2): 118-132. M.A.P. Renouf and M.S. Murray.

1995	* Identifying Seasonality in Pre-Dorset Structures in Back Bay, Prince of Wales Island, NWT. Arctic Anthropology 32(2): 106-117. P. Ramsden and M.S. Murray.

Journal Issues

2003	* Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, New Series 3(1): Communities of Memory. M.S. Murray, general editor, Phyllis Morrow, guest editor, 150 pages.

2002	*Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, New Series 2(1): Environmental Archaeology and Human Paleoecology in the Holarctic: Papers in Honor of William Roger Powers. M.S. Murray, general editor, 158 pages.

2001	* Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, New Series 1(1): Arctic Archaeological Site Structure. M.S. Murray, general editor, 91 pages.

Book Reviews

1998	* Threads of Arctic Prehistory: Papers in Honour of William E. Taylor Jr., edited by David Morrison and Jean-Luc Pilon. Archaeological Survey of Canada Mercury Series Paper 149. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 22(1):87-89. M.S. Murray.

Links

HARC Prospectus

NSF ARCSS Program

UAF Center for Global Change