E. James Dixon

Department of Anthropology and Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

University of New Mexico

jdixon@unm.edu

Albuquerque , New Mexico 87131

E. JAMES DIXON served as Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archeology at
the University of Alaska Museum from (1974–1993). He became curator of archeology
at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in 1993 and subsequently (2001–2007) and
subsequently joined the faculty at the University of Colorado as Professor of
Anthropology and Research Fellow at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. He
served as Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Maxwell Museum of
Anthropology at the University of New Mexico (2007–2016). After attending Fairleigh
Dickenson University, he enrolled in the University of Alaska, Fairbanks where he
received his B.A. and M.A., and then attended Brown University where he received his
Ph.D. He was a Marshall Fellow for research at the National Museum of Denmark in
1972, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in 1996-97, and awarded the
Alaska Anthropological Association’s Professional Achievement Award in 2007. He
specializes in North American archeology with particular focus on human colonization,
high altitude and high latitude human adaptations, and early cultural development in the
Americas. He has led many large research projects and advised and participated in
numerous educational films, videos, and museum exhibitions. He also has lectured and
published extensively including three books, "Quest for the Origins of the First Americans"
(1993), "Bones, Boats, & Bison: Archaeology and the First Colonization of Western North
America" (1999), and "Arrows and Atl Atls: A guide to the Archeology of Beringia" (2013).