Anna Marie Prentiss

Anna Marie Prentiss is Regents Professor of Anthropology at University of Montana. Prentiss is an archaeologist specializing in the ancient history of the Great Plains, Pacific Northwest, Plateau region, and Arctic regions of North America. She has a methodological specialty in lithic technology and theoretical interests in the archaeology of villages and towns, social inequality, hunter-gatherer mobility and technological organization, and the cultural evolutionary process. She has authored and edited many publications, including the Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology; The Last House at Bridge River: The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Household in British Columbia during the Fur Trade Period; and the co-authored People of the Middle Fraser Canyon. Prentiss holds a Ph.D. in Archaeology from Simon Fraser University.