UW Faculty Member Interviewed on Discovery Channel Feature

Nov. 3, 2004 -- University of Wyoming anthropologist Nicole Waguespack will be featured on "L.A. 10,000 B.C.," to be broadcast Saturday, Nov. 6, at noon MST and Sunday, Nov. 7, at 2 p.m. MST.

An assistant professor in the UW Department of Anthropology, Waguespack will discuss the hunting behaviors of the Clovis peoples, early paleoindians (early inhabitants of North America).

According to Waguespack, who teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in anthropology, the program tells how humans in the Clovis time period developed and honed hunting techniques in order to survive. She says the show highlights human interaction with animals that are now extinct, such as the woolly mammoth, the short-faced bear and giant birds.

"I was contacted by the producers because of the long history of involvement in paleoindian studies by the UW Department of Anthropology," says Waguespack. "Our department is well known for studying this time period."

An expert in the archaeology of hunting and gathering by paleoindians, Waguespack joined the UW faculty in 2003. She received a bachelor's degree from Colorado State University, a master's degree from UW, and a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Arizona. She and colleagues in UW's George C. Frison Institute currently are excavating the Barger Gulch site, a 10,500-year-old Folsom camp site in Middle Park, Colo.

Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2004