Dr. Lynne G. Goldstein

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Michigan State University
College of Social Science
Anthropology
ProfessorAppointed: 1996

Mailing Address

Department of Anthropology
354 Baker Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1118
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (517) 353-4704
Fax: (517) 432-2363
lynneg@msu.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., Northwestern University, Anthropology, 1976.
M.A., Northwestern University, Anthropology, 1973.
B.A., Beloit College, Anthropology, 1971.

Expertise and Research Interests

- Eastern United States archaeology, and especially Late Woodland/Mississippian organization and settlement
- Mortuary analysis
- Historic archaeology
- Archaeological theory
- Archaeology and public policy
- Ethics and anthropology
- Spatial and landscape analysis

Other Expertise

I have extensive administrative experience, and also experience as a mediator/monitor. As an administrator, I served as Chair of two Anthropology departments for over 13 years. I have also chaired university-wide committees and major search committees for university-level positions.

My expertise in mortuary analysis has led to a number of appointments relating to the issues of repatriation and reburial of Native American human remains and sacred objects, as well as Euro-American human remains. I have served on committees, and I have also mediated disputes between museums and tribes. I have served in one or more of these capacities for the Society for American Archaeology, the American Anthropological Association, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of California System, and the State of Wisconsin.

Future Research

Aztalan in Historical Perspective: A Historical Examination and Synthesis of Work at the Prehistoric Aztalan Site, Wisconsin. Monograph based on a multi-year research project.

Once Sacred Ground: The Life History of a Place and Its People - The Joint Courts Complex Archaeological Data Recovery Project. I am one of several co-authors on this complex project in Tucson, AZ. Excavation of a 1860-1881 multicultural cemetery in downtown Tucson that had to be moved. Work is in progress; includes excavation and analysis of approx. 1100 burials.

The Russian Cemetery at Fort Ross State Historic Park, Sonoma County, California: 1812-1841. Analysis and interpretation of cemetery excavations I directed 1990-1992. Research and excavation conducted with approval of Russian Orthodox Church and native groups.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Anthropology, Archaeology, Ethics, Public Policy.

Additional Terms:

Archaeology, Ethics and Public Policy, Great Lakes Archaeology and History, Landscape Archaeology, Mortuary Practices.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

French: (Basic, Basic, Basic)

Memberships

American Anthropological Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Society for American Archaeology
Society for Historical Archaeology

Honors and Awards

2005, Jacob Climo Award, Graduate Anthropology Organization, Michigan State University, Excellence in Mentoring
2000, Presidential Recognition Award, Society for American Archaeology, Service to the archaeological profession
1995, Presidential Recognition Award, Society for American Archaeology, Service to the archaeological profession
1995-2000, Editor, American Antiquity, Society for American Archaeology, Editor of leading American archaeology journal
1994-1996, Advisor, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Advisor for Wisconsin (one of two per state)
1991, Presidential Recognition Award, Society for American Archaeology, Service to the archaeological profession
1991, President's Award, American Anthropological Association, Exceptional service to the profession
1988, Faculty Distinguished Public Service Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Public & community service
1982, Lapham Research Medal, Wisconsin Archaeological Society, Exemplary research in Wisconsin archaeology

Previous Positions

1996-2006, Chairperson, Michigan State University, College of Social Science, Anthropology
1993-1997, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Letters and Science, Anthropology
1993-1996, Chairperson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Letters and Science, Anthropology
1981-1993, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Letters and Science, Anthropology
1975-1981, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Letters and Science, Anthropology

Funding Received

  • National Science Foundation (NSF): The Nature and Structure of a Frontier Mississippian Village: The Aztalan Site, Wisconsin, $150,385, Mar 1, 2001 to Dec 31, 2003.
  • Statistical Research, Inc: Tucson, AZ Joint Courts Archaeological Project, $100,000, 2006 to 2010.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): Ethnographic Training Grant, $50,000, 2000 to 2004.
  • Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources: Compilation of information on the Aztalan site, $25,000, 1998 to 1999.
  • State of Wisconsin: Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Archaeology Program, $120,000, 1990 to 1997.
  • Wisconsin Humanities Commission: Archaeology exhibit at the Cedarburg Cultural Center, $10,000, 1990 to .
  • US Department of the Interior, Office of Archaeology & Historic Preservation: Survey and Planning grants, Southeastern Wisconsin, $480,000, 1978 to 1997.

Publications

  • Lynne Goldstein, Robert A Brinkmann (2008) The Context of the Cemetery at Fort Ross: Multiple Lines of Evidence, Multiple Research Questions, Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly, 39 (4), 1-21
  • Lynne Goldstein (2008) Observations of an Anthropologist on Plastinated Bodies Exhibits, Medical Humanities Report, 29 (2), 1-2
  • Lynne Goldstein (2008) Comment on The Regeneration of Life: Neolithic Structures of Symbolic Remembering and Forgetting, Current Anthropology, 49 (2), 189-190
  • Lynne Goldstein (2008) Who Owns the Past?, Encyclopedia of Archaeology, New York, Elsevier Publishing, 2212-2214 pages (bookchapter)
  • Lynne Goldstein (2006) Mortuary Analysis and Bioarchaeology, Bioarchaeology: The Contextual Analysis of Human Remains, Burlington, MA, Elsevier Publishing, 375-387 pages (bookchapter)
  • Robert A. Birmingham, Lynne Goldstein (2005) Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press & Wisconsin Historical Society, In Press
  • Lynne Goldstein (2004) An Analysis of Plummets in the Lower Illinois River Valley, Aboriginal Ritual and Economy in the Eastern Woodlands: Essays in Memory of Howard Dalton Winters, Volume XXX Edition, Springfield, Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers, 73-112 pages (bookchapter)
  • Lynne Goldstein, Jane Buikstra (2004) A Nineteenth Century Rural Irish Cemetery in McDonough County, Illinois (Chapter 4), An Upper Great Lakes Archaeological Odyssey: Essays in Honor of Charles E. Cleland, Detroit, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Wayne State University Press, 43-63 pages (bookchapter)
  • William A Lovis, Keith W Kintigh, Vincas P Steponaitis, Lynne Goldstein (2004) Archaeological Perspectives on the NAGPRA: Underlying Principles, Legislative History, and Current Issues, Legal Perspectives on Cultural Resources, Walnut Creek, California, AltaMira Press, 165-184 pages (bookchapter)
  • Lynne Goldstein, Teaching Ethics by Example: Archaeological Research and Graduate Training, Theory, Method, and Practice in Modern Archaeology (Robert J. Jeske and Douglas Charles, editors). Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, 301-308, 2003
  • Lynne Goldstein (2003) Commentary: Robert L. Hall at the Edge of Knowledge, The Wisconsin Archeologist, 84 (1&2), 261-264
  • Lynne Goldstein, Afterword — Visible Death: Mortuary Site and Mortuary Landscape in Diachronic Perspective, The Space and Place of Death (Helaine Silverman and David B. Small, editors). Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 11, 201-205, 2002
  • Lynne Goldstein, Ancient Southwest Mortuary Practices: Perspectives from Outside the Southwest, Ancient Burial Practices in the American Southwest: Archaeology, Physical Anthropology, and Native American Perspectives (Douglas R. Mitchell and Judy L. Brunson-Hadley, editors), 249-253, 2001
  • Lynne Goldstein, The Politics of Archaeology (NAGPRA, Related Issues), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (subject editors: P. Kirch and M. Conkey), 3.2, article 41, 2001
  • Joe Watkins, Lynne Goldstein, Karen Vitelli, and Leigh Jenkins, Accountability: Responsibilities of Archaeologists to Other Interest Groups, Ethics in American Archaeology (second edition), 40-44, 2000
  • Lynne Goldstein, The Potential for Future Relationships Between Archaeologists and Native Americans (reprinted), Ethics in American Archaeology, 118-125, 2000
  • Lynne Goldstein, Mississippian Ritual as Viewed through the Practice of Secondary Disposal of the Dead, Mounds, Modoc, and Mesoamerica: Papers in Honor of Melvin L. Fowler (Steven R. Ahler, editor), XXVIII, 193-205, 2000
  • Lynne Goldstein, The Future of New World Archaeology, Discovering Archaeology (Scientific American Publication), 2(1), 74, 2000
  • Lynne Goldstein, Aztalan, Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia, 41-43, 1998
  • Lynne Goldstein and Joan E Freeman, Aztalan: A Middle Mississippian Village, Wisconsin Archeologist, 78(1/2), 223-248, 1997
  • Lynne Goldstein, Exploring Aztalan and Its Role in Mississippian Societies, Research Frontiers in Anthropology: Archaeology, 2, 159-186, 1997
  • Lynne Goldstein, Repatriation and Reburial, The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, 589-90, 1996
  • Joe Watkins, Lynne Goldstein, Karen Vitelli, and Leigh Jenkins, Accountability: Responsibilities of Archaeologists to Other Interest Groups, Ethics in American Archaeology: Challenges for the 1990s, 33-37, 1995
  • Lynne Goldstein, Politics, Law, Pragmatics, and Human Burial Excavations: An Example from Northern California, Bodies of Evidence: Reconstructing History Through Skeletal Analysis, 3-17, 1995
  • Lynne Goldstein, Landscapes and mortuary practices: A case for regional perspectives, Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis, 101-121, 1995
  • Lynne Goldstein, Relationships, Affiliations, Recriminations, & Lessons Learned: Comments on the Larsen Bay Repatriation Case, Reckoning with the Dead: Kodiak Island Archaeology and the Larsen Bay Repatriation Case, 175-179, 1994
  • Lynne Goldstein, Archaeology, Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia, 50-54, 1994
  • Lynne Goldstein, Fort Ross Clothing: New Data from Old Sources, Clothing at Fort Ross and in Colonial Russian America: A New Look, 104-110, 1993
  • Lynne Goldstein, Excavating Burials in the 1990’s, Archaeology: Discovering Our Past, 602-605, 1992
  • Lynne Goldstein, The Potential for Future Relationships Between Archaeologists and Native Americans, Quandaries and Quests: Visions of Archaeology’s Future, 59-71, 1992
  • Lynne Goldstein, The Mysteries of Aztalan, Wisconsin Academy Review, 28-34, Summer 1991
  • Lynne Goldstein, The Implications of Aztalan’s Location, New Perspectives on Cahokia: Views from the Periphery, 209-227, 1991
  • Lynne Goldstein and John D. Richards, Ancient Aztalan: The Cultural and Ecological Context of a Late Prehistoric Site in the Midwest, Cahokia and the Hinterlands: Middle Mississippian Cultures of the Midwest, 193-206, 1991
  • Lynne Goldstein and Keith Kintigh, Ethics and the Reburial Controversy, American Antiquity, 55(3), 585-591, 1990
  • Lynne Goldstein, Michael Moratto, and Douglas H. Ubelaker, The Panel for a National Dialogue on Museum/Native American Relations: A Minority View, Museum Anthropology, 14(1), 15-16, 1990
  • Michael F Kolb, Norman Lasca, and Lynne Goldstein, A Soil-Geomorphic Analysis of the Midden Deposits at the Aztalan Site, Wisconsin, Archaeological Geology of North America, 4, 199-218, 1990
  • Lynne Goldstein and Sannie K. Osborn, A Guide to Common Prehistoric Projectile Points in Wisconsin, 1988
  • Lynne Goldstein, The Context of the Hensler Petroglyphs and Its Implications, Wisconsin Archeologist, 68(4), 412-418, 1987
  • Lynne Goldstein, The Art of Understanding Data, Wheels for the Mind, 2(4), 42-49, 1986
  • Lynne Goldstein, Prehistoric Indians of Wisconsin (revised third edition), 1985
  • Lynne Goldstein, One-dimensional archaeology and multi-dimensional people: Spatial organization and mortuary analysis, The Archaeology of Death, 53-69, 1981
  • Lynne Goldstein, Mississippian Mortuary Practices: A Case Study of Two Cemeteries in the Lower Illinois Valley, 1980
  • Jane Buikstra and Lynne Goldstein, The Perrins Ledge Crematory, Reports of Investigation, Illinois State Museum, 28, 1973

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