Rate My Professor Patrick Lubinski

Lubinski's research focuses on zooarchaeology, archaeological methods, cultural resource management, and the archaeology of western North America. He directs the Central Washington University Zooarchaeology Laboratory and leads the Wenas Creek Mammoth Project, publishing on its findings including 'The 17 Ka Wenas Creek Site in Washington State: Bone Taphonomy and Mammoth Paleontology' in PaleoAmerica (2024) and 'Bison Remains from ~14,000 14C yr BP at the Wenas Creek Mammoth Site' in PaleoAmerica (2016). Other significant publications include 'Reconstructing Paleohydrology in the Northwest Great Basin Since the Last Deglaciation Using Paisley Caves Fish Remains' in Quaternary Science Reviews (2021), 'Tui Chub (Siphateles bicolor) are Native to the Columbia River Basin in Washington State' in Northwest Science (2021), 'Blind Testing of Faunal Identification Protocols: A Case Study with North American Artiodactyl Stylohyoids' in American Antiquity (2020), and 'Identifying and Siding the Stylohyoid Bone for North American Artiodactyls' in International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (2018). His earlier work 'Fish Heads, Fish Heads: An Experiment on Differential Bone Preservation in a Salmonid Fish' appeared in Journal of Archaeological Science (1996). Lubinski has over 30 field seasons in academic and cultural resource management projects across Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Ohio, Nevada, North Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, France, and Tunisia, contributing to more than 80 archaeological reports.