Kelton Meyer
Department of Anthropology
Assistant Professor, Archaeology
Contact Information
Kelton.Meyer@uwyo.edu
Ph.D. Colorado State University 2025
M.A. Colorado State University 2019
B.A. University of Northern Colorado 2014
Dr. Meyer joined the anthropology faculty as an assistant professor in 2025. He specializes in the archaeology of the earliest hunter-gatherers in North America as well as Formative era societies throughout the Intermountain West and Great Plains. He is particularly interested in archaeological sites and landscapes with evidence of long-term and repetitive occupation. He advocates for quantitative and hypothesis-driven research and commonly uses spatial statistics, geochronological and radiometric dating methods, lithic analysis, 3D modeling, and aerial imaging.
Kelton’s active field projects focus on Folsom campsites and bison kills in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado, Fremont corn storage (granaries) and defensive architecture in the Uintah Basin, stone driveline hunting sites in the alpine of Colorado and Wyoming, and lithic quarries found throughout the Rocky Mountains and Central High Plains. He recently established the Continental Divide Archaeological Center (CDAC) to support student and faculty research projects in the region.
Dr. Meyer is accepting applications from MA and PhD students interested in collaborative field research and working with site collections in curation facilities.
Courses Taught:
ANTH 1300 Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH 3310 Introduction to Anthropological Research Methods
ANTH 4120/5120 North American Archaeology
ANTH 4125/5125 Great Plains Archaeology
ANTH 4140/5180 Archaeological Field School
Selected Publications:
Meyer, Kelton A. 2023. The Symbiosis of Lichenometry and Radiocarbon Dating: A Bayesian Chronology of Alpine Hunting in Colorado’s Southern Rocky Mountains, USA. Radiocarbon 65(4):899-929. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2023.58
Meyer, Kelton A. 2021. A Multi-Method Approach to Dating: Persistent Occupation of the Alpine Tundra at Rollins Pass, Colorado. Journal of Field Archaeology 46(2):93-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2020.1861499.
Buchanan, Briggs, J. David Kilby, Marcus J. Hamilton, Jason M. LaBelle, Kelton A. Meyer, Jacob Holland Lulewicz, Brian Andrews, Brooke M. Morgan, Brendon Asher, Vance T. Holliday, Gregory W. L. Hodgins & Todd A. Surovell. 2021. Bayesian Revision of the Folsom Age Range Using IntCal20. PaleoAmerica 7(2):133-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2021.1890401.
LaBelle, Jason M. and Kelton A. Meyer. 2021. Paleoecological and Archaeological Investigation of the ROMO 9 Ice Patch, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA. Journal of Glacial Archaeology 5:51-71. https://doi.org/10.1558/jga.19957.
LaBelle, Jason M, Kelton A. Meyer, and Raymond V. Sumner. 2021. Folsom Point Diggings: The Johnson Site in the Foothills of Larimer County, Colorado. PaleoAmerica 7(2):162-180. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2021.1893957.
LaBelle, Jason M. and Kelton A. Meyer. 2021. Kill, Camp, and Repeat: Return to the Lindenmeier Folsom Site, Colorado. Great Plains Research 31(1):75-96. 10.1353/gpr.2021.0004.
Meyer, Kelton A. 2020. The Fox Site (5WL8848): A Clovis Occupation on the Kersey Terrace, Northern Colorado. Plains Anthropologist 65(255):249-273. https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2019.1680786.
