Keith W. Kintigh

Keith Kintigh is Associate Director and Professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (formerly, Department of Anthropology) at Arizona State University, where he has taught since 1987. His field research focuses on the political and social organization of ancestral Pueblo societies in the Cíbola area of west-central New Mexico. He has led a team of archaeologists and computer and information scientists in establishing Digital Antiquity, a collaborative organization devoted to enhancing preservation and access to the digital records of archaeological investigations, and in developing tDAR (the Digital Archaeological Record), a sustainable digital repository for the documents and data produced by archaeological research. Kintigh is a past president of the Society for American Archaeology (1999-2001). In various capacities for SAA, he has worked extensively on national law and policy regarding the repatriation of Native American human remains. Kintigh earned a BA in Sociology and an MS in Computer Science at Stanford University in 1974 and a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Michigan in 1982.