Bio:
Rebecca Sgouros is an archaeologist and educator with over fifteen years of fieldwork
and research experience in the Mediterranean, Central America, and Northwestern Wyoming.
As a founding member of the Mercill Archaeology Center in Jackson Hole she co-directed
multiple projects focused on hunter gatherer adaptations to high elevations, paleo
diet studies, and environmental reconstruction in the Tetons, Gros Ventre, and Wind
River Mountains. In addition to her fieldwork, Rebecca has emphasized education and
outreach by creating multiple curriculums on Wyoming archaeology for Teton County
Schools, teaching over 2,000 K-12 students about Jackson Hole prehistory, and excavating
a Cody Complex site with a crew of local Middle School students.
Rebecca consults on educational projects across the continent and has created learning materials including an educational board game for Belizean students based on historical examples excavated from Mayan sites, coloring book & activity sheets on archaeology methodology, and an interpretive trail signage series on Wabanaki prehistory in northern Maine. Rebecca is the Vice President of the Rocky Mountain Anthropological Association and Vice Chair of the Hirundo Wildlife Refuge in central Maine where she oversees archaeological and environmental research and outreach. In addition to her North American work, Rebecca also works as a zooarchaeologist at the Mycenaean palatial site of Iklaina in Greece and has participated in field work and paleobotanical analysis on Roman sites in Italy.
