Douglas H. MacDonald

Doug MacDonald is a Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Montana. Since 2006, his research has been focused on the Native American archaeology of Montana, Wyoming, and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. MacDonald’s most recent book is entitled Land of Beginnings: the Archaeology of Montana’s First Peoples, published in 2024 by Montana Historical Society Press. In 2018, the University of Washington Press published Before Yellowstone: Native American Archaeology in the National Park. This book provides an overview of the last 11,000 years of Native American use of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Much of the research in the book was highlighted in a January 2021 cover article in Smithsonian magazine. The Yellowstone archaeology project has also provided research for the completion of more than 20 graduate student projects, as well as more than 20 published articles and book chapters, including one recently in American Antiquity, the major journal of American archaeology. Other published books include Montana Before History (2012, Mountain Press), Yellowstone Archaeology, and Lithics in the West.