Education

• Ph.D - UC Riverside
• M.A. - UC Riverside
• B.A. - CSU, Bakersfield

Courses Taught

• Anthropology 150 – Introduction to Anthropology
• Anthropology 306 – Native Peoples of North America
• Anthropology 307 – Native Peoples of California and the Southwest
• Anthropology 319 – Prehistoric Archaeology
• Anthropology 427 – Archaeology of North America
• Anthropology 430 – Cultural Ecology
• Anthropology 476 – Field School in Archaeology
• Anthropology 490 – Experimental Archaeology
• Anthropology 518 – Laboratory Methods in Archaeology
• Anthropology 521 – California Archaeology
• Anthropology 607 – Cultural Resources Management

Selected Publications and Presentations

Publications As First or Sole Author

In Press Good Water and Firewood:  The Island Oasis of Isla Cedros, Baja
California, Mexico.  In:  Clio, Demeter and Poseidon Collide:  Archaeology and Historical Ecology in the Pacific Rim.  Scott M. Fitzpatrick and Michiko Intoh, eds.  pp ??-??.  University of California Press, Berkeley.

2007  The Huamalgüeños of Isla Cedros, Baja California, as Described in Father Miguel Venegas’ 1739 Manuscript Obras Californianas. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 26(2):1-30. (With Claudia Garcia-Des Lauriers)  

2006  The Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene Occupation of Isla Cedros, Baja California. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 1:255-270.  

2006 Chapter 10: Isla Cedros.  In: Archaeology of Baja California . D. Laylander and J.D. Moore, eds.  pp 153-166.  University Press of Florida, Gainsville. 

2005  The Watercraft of Isla Cedros, Baja California; Variability and Capabilities of IndigenousSeafaring Technology Along The Pacific Coast of North America. American Antiquity 70:342-361.

Collaborative Efforts

Erlandson, J., M. Moss, and M. Des Lauriers In Press  Living on the Edge:  Early Maritime Cultures of the Pacific Coast of North America.  Quaternary Science Reviews 28:??-??

M. Des Lauriers Chapter 7. Of Clams and Clovis: Paleocoastal Archaeology on Cedros Island, Baja California.  In:  Advances  in the Pleistocene Prehistory of the Pacific Coast: A New World Perspective.  Loren Davis, ed.  pp ??-??

Willis, S.C., and M. Des Lauriers Chapter 3.  New World Pacific technological traditions and patterns.  In:  Advances in the Pleistocene Prehistory of the Pacific Coast: A New World Perspective.  Loren
Davis, ed.  pp ??-??.

 

Research and Interests

• Comming Soon.