Matthew Douglass Current Research Projects:
Human Natural System Coupling among Pastoralists Experiencing Change with colleagues from Univ of Nebraska, Penn State, Duke, and National Museums of Kenya investigating recent, historic, and prehistoric resiliency among the pastoralits in northern Kenya.
One Million Years of Human Environmental Interaction in the Fynbos Biome of South Africa with colleagues from the Univ of Utah, The George Washington University. Investigates origins of human engineered landscapes in southern Africa over 1 million years in the past.
Koobi Fora Field School with colleagues from The George Washington University, National Museums of Kenya, American Museum of Natural History, Penn State, Duke. investigating c. 3.5 mya of human environmental interaction in the Turkana Basin.
KFFS Faculty instruct students in flint knapping and stone artifact analysis at Base Camp on the shore of Lake Turkana.
Digital North: Three-Dimensional Technologies and Arctic Education, with colleagues from Harvard, University of Tromsø, Sámi University of Applied Sciences. Project seeks to understand the complex intersection of these different factors as they affect a small indigenous community living within a complex international management environment Norwegian/Finnish Sámi Reindeer herders. A portion of the project concerns understanding of these effects on the maintenance of traditional material culture, with digital efforts (including photogrammetry and 360 virtual tours) to provide access to heritage information for a dispersed community.
Sámi Reindeer herding alonng the Norweigan/Finnish Border
USDA National Forests and Grasslands Challenge Cost Share Agreement to develop an integrated experiential and outreach educational program and conduct archaeological research for the National Grasslands Visitor Center.
UNL students and US Forest Service staff work to identify privately held artifact collections brought into the Trailside Museum in Crawford, NE
Great Plains Archaeology Virtual Reconstruction
