My Biography
Catherine M. Cameron is professor emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research interests include prehistoric demography, the evolution of complex societies, and processes of cultural transmission. She has worked in the northern part of the American Southwest, focusing especially on the Chaco and post-Chaco eras (AD 900–1300). She led investigations in southeastern Utah at the Bluff Great House, a Chacoan site, and in nearby Comb Wash, publishing a monograph on this research in 2009 (Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan, University of Arizona Press). She currently studies warfare, captive-taking, and enslavement in prehistoric small-scale societies. She has edited several volumes on this topic, and published a number of book chapters and journal articles. Her single-authored volume Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World (University of Nebraska Press) was published in 2016. Her co-edited volume (with Brenda Bowser) Landscapes of Movement and Predation was published in 2024 (University of Arizona Press)