Prairie Research Institute

Curriculum Vitae

• 2012–present Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, University of California, Davis
• 2011 M.A. Anthropology, University of California, Davis
• 2009 Graduate Certificate in GIS, Iowa State University
• 2009 B.S. Anthropology and B.A. English with minor in Economics; Summa Cum Laude and Honors Program, Iowa State University

I specialize in the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene archaeology of the Western Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi Valley, with emphasis on hunter-gatherer mobility, site structure, and stone tool technologies. His technical specialties include Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis, Lithic Analysis, and Human Behavioral Ecology.

• Wisconsin Archaeological Society
• Midwest Archaeological Conference
• Southeastern Archaeological Conference
• Illinois Archaeological Survey
• Society for American Archaeology
  
  

White, Andrew A., Robert G. McCullough, and John M. Lambert
2024    A First Approximation of Large-Scale, Long-Term Population Changes in the Precontact Wabash River Valley in Illinois. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology (In Press).

Tolmie, Clare and John M. Lambert
2024    The Lake Effect: Lake Michigan, Landscape Evolution, and the Archaeological Record of the Chicago Region. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology (In Press).

Lambert, John M., and B. Jacob Skousen
2023 A critical review of UAS-based aerial photography and photogrammetry of Cahokia’s  Grand Plaza. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 47:1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103789.

Smallwood, Ashley, Thomas A. Jennings, Heather L. Smith, Charlotte D. Pevny, Michael R. Waters, Thomas J. Loebel, John M. Lambert, Jacob Ray, Devin Stephens
2022 Using 3D models to understand the changing role of fluting in Paleoindian point technology from Clovis to Dalton. American Antiquity 87(3):544-566. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2022.19 

Loebel, Thomas J., John M. Lambert, and Matthew G. Hill
2022 Colonization Dynamics and the Clovis Occupation of Wisconsin. In Early PaleoIndian in the Upper Midcontinent of North America: Lithic Procurement, Settlement Mobility, and Social Interaction, edited by Brad H. Koldehoff and Henry T. Wright. TAMU Press, College Station, TX (In Press). 

Hedman, Kris M., Thomas E. Emerson, Matthew Fort, John M. Lambert, Alleen M. Betzenhauser, and Timothy R. Pauketat
2022 Corn, Climate, and Human Population of Greater Cahokia. In Following the Mississippian Spread: Climate Change and Migration in the Eastern US (ca. AD 1000-1600), edited by Robert Cook and Aaron Comstock, pp. 37-63. Springer Publishing, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89082-7 

Hedman, Kris M., Philip Slater, Matthew Fort, Thomas E. Emerson, John M. Lambert
2018 Expanding the strontium isoscape for the American midcontinent: Identifying potential places of origin for Cahokia and Pre-columbian migrants. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 22:202-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.09.027 

Legg, Robert J., Robert R. Regis, John M. Lambert, Matthew Liesch, and Charles B. Travis
2017 Geoarchaeological Modeling of Late Paleoindian Site Location in the Northwestern Great Lakes Region. PaleoAmerica 3(2):150-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2017.1291244 

Loebel, Thomas J., John M. Lambert, and Matthew G. Hill
2016 Synthesis and Assessment of the Folsom Record in Illinois and Wisconsin. PaleoAmerica 2(2):1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1174922 

Lambert, John M., and Thomas J. Loebel
2015 Paleoindian Colonization of the Recently Deglaciated Great Lakes: Mobility and Technological Organization in eastern Wisconsin. PaleoAmerica 1(3):284-288. https://doi.org/10.1179/2055557115Y.0000000002 

Lambert, John M.
2014 Upper Valley Dalton at the Sucices Site in Northwest Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Archeologist 95(2):152-157.