heather b. trigg - Fiske Center - University of Massachusetts Boston

HEATHER B. TRIGG
Fiske Center for Archaeological Research
University of Massachusetts at Boston
Phone: (617) 287-6838
Fax: (617) 287-6857
email: heather.trigg@umb.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Anthropology, April 1999
Title: The Economy of Early Colonial New Mexico, AD 1598 - 1680: An Investigation of
Social Structure and Human Agency Using Archaeological and Documentary Data
M.A. University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology, May 1991
B.S.
University of Michigan, Anthropology and Computer Science,
Magna cum Laude, December 1983
Academic Positions
2001-present Research Scientist, Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, University Massachusetts,
Boston.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston.
1999-2000 Fellow, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
2000 Adjunct Professor, Southern Methodist University Department of Anthropology.
Field Experience
2005-2006 Director. Parker Borrego Archaeological Project, Velarde, New Mexico, 19 th century
Spanish New Mexican homesite.
1995 Director. Early Spanish Colonial Interactions Research Project. Directed
excavations of the Sanchez Site (LA 20,000) an early Spanish Colonial site in New
Mexico.
1994 Excavator and Paleoethnobotanical Consultant. Northern Rio Grande Research Project.
Principal Investigators: Drs. Winifred Creamer and Jonathan Haas, Northern
Illinois University and the Field Museum. Responsible for excavation and
development of the paleoethnobotanical sampling and flotation processing of a late
pre-contact Pueblo site in northern New Mexico.
1993 Co-site director. Rio del Oso Archaeological Project. Principal Investigator: Dr.
Richard Ford, University of Michigan. Responsible for the excavation of LA
90838 - an Archaic site along the Rio del Oso, New Mexico.
1993 Archaeologist. Ancestral Tewa Community Study 1993. Principal Investigator:
James Snead, UCLA. Assisted in surveying and mapping sites on the Caja Del Rio
and Camp Frank Rand, New Mexico.
1992 Archaeologist. Ancestral Tewa Community Study 1992. Principal Investigator:

James Snead, UCLA. Assisted in surveying and mapping sites on the Caja Del Rio
and Camp Frank Rand, New Mexico.
1986 Archaeologist. WS Ranch Site Project. Principal Investigator: Dr. James Neely,
University of Texas. Assisted in supervision of field school students in
excavations at O Block Cave, New Mexico.
1985 Archaeologist. Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael Jochim, University of California,
Santa Barbara. Assisted in excavation of a Mesolithic site near Bad Buchau, Germany.
1985 Archaeologist. Principal Investigator: Susan Gregg, University of
Michigan. Assisted in field recovery, processing, and analyzing of botanical
remains from a Neolithic site, Blaubeuren, Germany.
1982, 83 Archaeologist. Black Mesa Archaeological Project, Ethnobotanical
Laboratory. Principal Investigator: Dr. George Gumerman, Southern Illinois
University, Center for Archaeological Investigations. Responsible for the analysis
of macro-botanical materials.
Lab Experience
1998-2000 Project Paleoethnobotanist - Mission San Marcos Archaeological
Project, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Principal Investigator: David Hurst
Thomas, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
1999-2000 Paako Research Project, Albuquerque, New Mexico - My role in the larger
project is to examine issues of cross-cultural interaction through analysis of macro
botanical materials. Principal Investigator: Mark Lycett, University of Chicago.
1999 Paleoethnobotanical Analyst - Analyzed botanical materials from Mongolia.
Principal Investigator: Henry Wright, University of Michigan.
1998-99 Paleoethnobotanical Analyst - Analyzed botanical materials from Chogha
Gavaneh, Iran. Principal Investigator: Henry Wright, University of Michigan.
1991-95 Graduate Student Research Assistant for Dr. Richard Ford, University of
Michigan. Responsible for cataloguing and assisted in curating materials in the
Ethnographic and Ethnobotanical Collections at the Museum of Anthropology.
Completed NAGPRA inventory of the Ethnographic Collections. Identified
macro-botanical materials from archaeological sites. Analyzed archaeological
materials from excavations of LA 90838 - an Archaic site in New Mexico.
1993 Paleoethnobotanical Analyst. Great Lakes Research Associates. Responsible
for the identification of macro-botanical materials from a Middle Woodland site in
Michigan.
1988 Paleoethnobotanical Analyst. Palo Duro/Spearman project, Principal
Investigator: Dr. James Neely, University of Texas. Responsible for the analysis
of seeds from water-logged deposits.
1986 Paleoethnobotanical Analyst. O Block Cave/ WS Ranch Sites, Principal
Investigator: Dr. James Neely, University of Texas. Responsible for the analysis of
macro-botanical material from dry caves and open-air sites.

1984-85 Research Assistant. Ethnobotanical Laboratory, Museum of Anthropology, Ann
Arbor, Michigan. Responsible for (1) the analysis of botanical materials from Bat
Cave, New Mexico, and (2) the analysis and computerized data entry of the
botanical materials from Tsosie Shelter, Black Mesa, Arizona.
1981-84 Assistant in Research. Black Mesa Archaeological Project, Ethnobotanical
Laboratory, Museum of Anthropology, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Academic year
part-time position. Responsible for the analysis and computerized data entry of
macro-botanical materials.
Teaching and Community Education
2004, 2007 Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston, Team taught ANTH 545 Topics in
Environmental Archaeology
2000 Adjunct Professor, Southern Methodist University Department of Anthropology.
Anthropology 4390/6390 - Paleoethnobotany.
1997-98 Research Associate, University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens.
Responsible for developing an interpreted ethnobotanical trail and a ridge field
garden for community outreach and education.
1996 Lecturer, University of Michigan Department of Anthropology. Taught Anthropology
296.103 - For God, Gold, and Glory: Spanish Ventures in the New World.
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
2008 President’s Learning and Technology Grant, University of Massachusetts Boston (with
Robert Stevenson, Arthur Eisenkraft, Robert Morris, Jerry Schoen, Jack Ahern, David
Glassberg, Matthew Mattingly, Karen Searcy, and John Reiff.
2006 John Healey Endowment Research Grant, University of Massachusetts Boston
2005 National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate Grant (with Stephen
Mrozowski)
2002 John Healey Endowment Research Grant, University of Massachusetts Boston
1999-2000 Clements Research Fellowship - Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern
Methodist University.
1998 Rackham Graduate School Dissertation Write-up Grant
1997 Block Grant, Department of Anthropology University of Michigan
1996 Block Grant, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
1995 1). James B. Griffin Funds Grant
2). University of Michigan Rackham Discretionary Funds Grant
1994 1). James B. Griffin Funds Grant
2). University of Michigan Rackham Discretionary Funds Grant

1986-90 National Science Foundation, 3-year Graduate Fellowship
Publications
Trigg. H. and D. Landon
In review Labor and Agricultural Production at Sylvester Manor Plantation, Shelter Island, New York.
Submitted to Historical Archaeology.
Jacobucci, S., H. Trigg, and S. Silliman
In review Vegetation and Culture on the Eastern Pequot Reservation: Interpreting Millennia of Pollen and
Charcoal in Southeastern Connecticut. Submitted to Northeast Anthropology.
Trigg, H., D. Bolender, K. Johnson, M. Patalano, and J. Steinberg
In review Note on Barley Found in Dung in the Lowest Levels of the Farm Mound Midden at Reynistadur,
Skagafjordur Iceland. Submitted to Archaeologia Islandica.
Trigg, H. and A. Leasure
2007 Cider, Wheat and Maize: Paleoethnobotany at Sylvester Manor. Northeast Historical Archaeology
36:113-126.
Trigg, H. and D. Gold
2005 Mestizaje and Migration: Modeling Population Dynamics in Seventeenth-Century New
Mexico’s Spanish Society. Engaged Anthropology: Research Essays on North American
Archaeology, Ethnobotany, and Museology, edited by M. Hegmon and B. Eiselt.
University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Paper 94.
Trigg, H.
2005 From Household to Empire: Society and Economy in Early Colonial New Mexico.
University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Trigg, H.
2004 Food Choice and Social Identity in Early Colonial New Mexico. Journal of the Southwest
46:223-252.
Trigg, H., D. Landon, E. Newman, and A. Hancock
2003 Archaeobiological Materials Analyses. In Supplementary Excavations at the Kirk Street
Agents’ House Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, Massachusetts, edited by William
A. Griswold, pp. 27-41. Occasional Publications in Field Archeology No. 2. Archeology
Program Northeast Region National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior.
Trigg, H.
2003 The Ties that Bind: Regional Interactions in Early Colonial New Mexico, AD 1598-1680.
Historical Archaeology 37:65-84.
Trigg, H., R. Ford, J. Moore, and L. Jessop
1994 Coprolite evidence for prehistoric foodstuffs, condiments, and medicines. In Eating
on the Wild Side: The Pharmacologic, Ecologic, and Social Implications of Using
Noncultigens, edited by Nina Etkin, pp. 210-223. University of Arizona Press.
Ford, R., P. Vander Werf, C. Goland, and H. Trigg
1985 Ethnobotanical Recovery: Summary of Analysis and Frequency Tables -
Paleoethnobotany of Anasazi Sites. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1983: a

descriptive report. Edited by Andrew L. Christenson and William J. Parry. Center for
Archaeological Investigations Research Paper, no. 46. Southern Illinois University.
Green, M., K. Jacobi, B. Boeke, H. O'Brien, E. Word, R. Boston, H. Trigg, G. Glennie, and M. Gould
1985 ARIZONA D:11:2030. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1983: a descriptive report.
Edited by Andrew L. Christenson and William J. Parry. Center for Archaeological
Investigations Research Paper, no. 46. Southern Illinois University.
Trigg, H.
1985 Ethnobotanical Analysis of D:7:2085. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1983: a
descriptive report. Edited by Andrew L. Christenson and William J. Parry. Center for
Archaeological Investigations Research Paper, no. 46. Southern Illinois University.
Wagner, G., T. Smart, R. I. Ford, and H. Trigg
1984 Ethnobotanical Recovery, 1982: Summary of Analysis and Frequency Tables. In
Excavations on Black Mesa, 1982: a descriptive report. Edited by D. L. Nichols and
F. E. Smiley. Center for Archaeological Investigations Research Paper, no. 39.
Southern Illinois University.
Wills, W., E. Word, J. Manson, and H. Trigg
1984 ARIZONA D:11:2126. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1982: a descriptive report.
Edited by Deborah L. Nichols and Francis E. Smiley. Center for Archaeological
Investigations Research Paper, no. 39. Southern Illinois University.
Presentations
Trigg, H. and S. Jacobucci
2008 Urbanization and Human Parasites: Implications for Health in Urban Communities. Poster
to be presented at the 73rd Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, March 26-
30 th 2008, Vancouver.
Trigg, H. and J. Pickrell
2008 Changing Empires, Maintaining Identities: An Examination of 19 th Century Spanish New Mexican
Household Consumption. Paper presented at the 41 st Annual Conference on Historical and
Underwater Archaeology, January 8-13, 2008 Albuquerque.
Landon, D., H. Trigg, and S. Jacobucci
2008 Diet, Health, and Urban Backlot Ecology at the African Meeting House, Boston, MA. Paper
presented at the 41 st Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, January 8-13,
2008 Albuquerque.
Trigg, H., K. McBride, and M. Smith
2007 Botanical Indications of the Impact of the Reservation System on the Mashantucket Pequot.
Paper presented at the 30 th Annual Meeting of the Society of Ethnobiology. Berkeley
Trigg, H. and D. Gold
2005 Cultural Identity and Mestizaje in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico. Paper presented at
the Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Salt Lake City.
Landon, D. and H. Trigg
2005 Environmental Archaeology at Sylvester Manor. Paper to be presented at the Society for
Historical Archaeology, York, England.

Trigg, H. and D. Landon
2004 Faunal and Botanical Evidence for Cross-cultural Interactions at Sylvester Manor, a 17 th -
century Northern Plantation. Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology,
Montreal, Canada.
2004 Faunal and Botanical Evidence for Cross-Cultural Interactions at Sylvester Manor, a
Seventeenth-Century Northern Plantation. Poster Presented at the Society for Historical
Archaeology Meetings, St. Louis, Missouri.
Landon, D. and H. Trigg
2003 Archaeobiological Evidence for Culture Contact and Agricultural Production at Sylvester
Manor, 1652-1765. Poster presented at the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology,
Lowell, Massachusetts.
Trigg, H.
2003 Paleoethnobotany at Sylvester Manor. Paper Presented at the 2003 Society for Historical
Archaeology Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, January, 14-19 2003.
Providence.
Trigg, H.
2000 Past Research and Future Directions in 17th Century Spanish Colonial Archaeology. Paper
presented at the Southwest Symposium, January 14-16, 2000, Santa Fe.
Trigg, H.
2000 Factionalism. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, April 5 - 9, 2000, Philadelphia.
Trigg, H.
1999 Food Choice, Identity, and Social Structure in Early Colonial New Mexico. Paper
presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,
November 17-21, 1999, Chicago.
Trigg, H.
1996 Paleoethnobotanical Evidence of the Early Spanish Colonial Economy in New
Mexico. Poster presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, New Orleans.
Ford, R., and H. Trigg
1991 Eating on the Wildside: analysis of Mogollon coprolites. Paper presented at the 90th
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago.
Robinson, D., and H. Trigg
1988 Chronology and Archaeobotany: Pueblo Period Subsistence Practices in the San
Francisco River Valley, West-Central New Mexico. Paper presented at the 53rd
Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Phoenix.
Reports and Unpublished Manuscripts
Trigg, H.
2007 An Examination of Botanical Materials from Mashantucket Pequot Site 72-58. A report submitted to
the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Museum and Research Center.

Gallagher, D., S. Jacobucci, and H. Trigg
2007 Chapter 10. The Archaeoparasitology of the 44 Joy Street Privy. In Investigating the Heart of a
Community: Archaeological Excavations at the African Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts,
edited by D. Landon, pp. 147-156. Fiske Center Cultural Resource Management Study No. 22.
Jacobucci, S. and H. Trigg
2006 An Analysis of Macrobotanical and Pollen Remains from Several Contexts Associated with the
Manchester Boarding House. Report submitted to Independent Archaeological Consulting.
Trigg, H. and Diana Gallagher
2005 Report on Archaeobiological Materials from the Saugus Ironworks, Saugus, Massachusetts.
Center for Cultural and Environmental History Cultural Resource Management Study No.
14.
Trigg, H.
2000 Report on Flotation and Wood Samples from Mongolia. Report submitted to William
Honeychurch, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
1999 The Economy of Early Colonial New Mexico, AD 1598 - 1680: An Investigation of
Social Structure and Human Agency Using Archaeological and Documentary Data.
Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
1999 Paleoethnobotanical Report on the Remains from Paako Pueblo. Manuscript
submitted to Mark Lycett, University of Chicago.
1999 Report on the Palaeoethnobotanical Remains from LA 54,000 - The La Fonda
Garage Project. Manuscript submitted to the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico.
1999 Botanical Materials from Chogha Gavaneh, Iran. Manuscript submitted to Henry
Wright, University of Michigan.
1998 Ethnobotanical Analysis of LA 20,000. Manuscript submitted to Cross Cultural
Research Associates, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1990 The Distribution of Seeds of Wild Plants at Three Fir Shelter, A Basketmaker II Site
in Northeastern Arizona: Cultural Implications. MA Thesis, Department of
Anthropology, University of Texas.
1983 Prehistoric Population Growth and Agricultural Practices on Black Mesa: a
simulation approach. Honors Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of
Michigan.
Service
Present
Co-Editor of the Journal of Ethnobiology.