William T. Hartwell

Associate Research Archaeologist

Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences

Email: Ted.Hartwell@dri.edu

Education

Professional Interests

Mr. Hartwell is the Program Manager for DRI's Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP), a program that directly involves members of the public in the operation of a network of radiation and weather monitoring stations located in communities surrounding and downwind of the Nevada Test Site. He is presently serving as Deputy Director of the Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences.

Mr. Hartwell's archaeological research has focused on three geographic regions: the southern Great Basin, the southern Great Plains, and the pampas of Argentina. Specific interests include hunter-gatherer lithic technology, caching behavior, quarrying behavior, and soil formation processes.

Specific research has included recent investigations of a historic toll road in north-central Nevada, an examination of quarrying behavior in the southern Great Basin, late Paleoindian lithic technology on the Plains, and participation in a study comparing and contrasting human adaptation on the U.S. southern Great Plains and Argentinean pampas. In addition, Mr. Hartwell has recently studied how popular culture can affect the public perception of science, most recently speaking as an invited participant at a workshop on "Comet and Asteroid Impacts and Human Society". He also has produced a publication for the general public that discusses archaeological research at Yucca Mountain on the Nevada Test Site.

Research

Selected Publications

Hartwell, W.T., 2007:

The Sky on the Ground: Celestial Objects and Events in Archaeology and Popular Culture. In Comet/ Asteroid Impacts and Human Society (edited by P. Bobrowsky and H. Rickman), pp. 71-87. Springer, New York.

Hartwell, W.T., C. Barrett, and S. Edwards, 2005:

Retracing the Past: The Austin and Reese River Transportation Company Toll Road. Nevada Archaeologist 20 and 21:23-34.

Politis, G.G., E. Johnson, M.A. Gutierrez, and W.T. Hartwell, 2003:

Survival of Pleistocene Fauna: New Radiocarbon Dates on Organic Sediments from La Moderna (Pampean Region, Argentina). In Where the South Winds Blow: Ancient Evidence of Paleo South
Americans, pp. 45-50.

Hartwell, W.T. and K. Varley, 2003:

A Fluted Projectile Point Base from Yucca Mountain, Southern Nevada. Current Research in the Pleistocene 20:30-31.

Hartwell, W.T. and D. Valentine, 2002:

Reading the Stones: The Archaeology of Yucca Mountain. Topics in Yucca Mountain Archaeology No. 4, 78 pp. Prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy by the Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Hartwell, W.T., D.S. Shafer, R. Cullison, S. Sedano, M. Herndon, G. McCurdy, L. Karr, C. Shadel,

L. Glass, and R. Furlow, 2001: (CD-ROM) The Community Environmental Monitoring Program: Environmental Communication and Education Through Participation. Proceedings of the Waste Management 2001 Symposium “HLW, LLW, Mixed, Hazardous Wastes and Environmental Restoration---Working Towards a Cleaner Environment,” Tucson, Arizona.

Hartwell, W.T., 1998:

Lithic Resource Depletion by Early Prehistoric Populations in the Desert West of North America. Proceedings of the International Conference on Desert Technology IV, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. J. of Arid Land Studies 7:15-18.

Johnson, E., Politis, G., Martinez, G., Hartwell, W.T., Guiterrez, M., and Haas, H., 1998:

Radiocarbon Chronology of Paso Otero 1 in the Pampean Region of Argentina. Quaternary of South America and Antarctic Peninsula 11:15-25.

Buck, P.E., Hartwell, W.T., and Haynes, G.M. (eds.), 1998:

Archaeological Investigations at Two Early Holocene Sites near Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada. Topics in Yucca Mountain Archaeology Number 2.

Johnson, E., Gutierrez, M., Politis, G., Martinez, G. and Hartwell, W.T., 1997:

Holocene Taphonomy at Paso Otero 1 on the eastern Pampas of Argentina. Proceedings of the 1993 Bone Modification Conference, Hot Springs, South Dakota. Archaeology Laboratory, Augustana College Occasional Publication No. 1, pp. 105-121.

Gutierrez, M., G. Martinez, E. Johnson, G. Politis, and W.T. Hartwell, 1997:

Nuevos Analisis Oseos en el Sitio Paso Otero I (Partido de Necochea, Provincia de Buenos Aires). In Arqueologia Pampeana en la decada de los ’90, edited by M. Beron and G. Politis, pp. 213-228. Museo de Historia Natural de San Rafael (Mendoza) – INCUAPA, San Rafael.

Hartwell, W.T., Haynes, G.M. and Rhode, D., 1996:

Early Obsidian use and Depletion at Yucca Mountain, Southern Nevada: Evidence from Obsidian Hydration Studies. Current Research in the Pleistocene 13:57-59.

Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Johnson, E., Haas, H., de los Ros-Paredes, M., Ralph, R.W.

and Hartwell, W.T., 1995: First Radiocarbon Dates for San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Quaternary Research 43:255-258.

Hartwell, W.T., 1995:

The Ryan's Site Cache: Comparisons to Plainview. Plains Anthropologist 40(152):165-184.