Robert Hoard

Background

About Robert Hoard

Areas of Emphasis: Archaeology, primarily early horticultural societies; geographic emphasis: North America (Midwest, Great Plains). Research foci: ceramic technology, materials science, archaeometry, exchange, Early Plains ceramic period, historic period dry laid native limestone rock fences. I also am actively engaged in Public archaeology and citizen science. I have been active in archaeological fieldwork-survey, testing, and excavation-since 1979 and have worked in Kansas, Missouri, Oregon, Wyoming, Florida, Tennessee, Illinois, Colorado, and New Mexico on sites ranging from the PaleoIndian period to historic sites including Little Salt Spring in Florida, the Lamb Spring site in Colorado, and the Tobias site in Kansas. I worked overseas in the Federated States of Micronesia on the Nan Madol on Pohnpei, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage list. I also have years of experience in laboratory analysis, including work at the Missouri University Research Reactor doing sample preparation for neutron activation analysis.