Aaron Wright
Aaron joined Archaeology Southwest’s staff as a Preservation Fellow in August 2006, and is currently a Ph.D. student in anthropology at Washington State University. In 1999, he earned a B.A. degree from the Ohio State University, with a major in Anthropology and minors in both Spanish and Folklore. Aaron earned a Master’s degree in Anthropology from Washington State University in 2006, where he used pollen to develop a climatic reconstruction for the Mesa Verde region of southwestern Colorado.
Aaron’s fellowship concerns the rock-art at South Mountain near Phoenix, where he guides and trains volunteers in archaeological survey methods and rock-art recording. Aaron is using the data obtained from these surveys to research Hohokam ritual behavior and landscape utilization in his dissertation research. Aaron has conducted additional archaeological fieldwork in California, Ohio, Washington, Oklahoma, Arizona, and New Mexico. His research interests are quite diverse, and include rock-art, social complexity, identity, oral history, cultural transmission, and palynology.