Logan Dean

Hello, my name is Logan Dean and I am a MA student in the Department of Anthropology. I was born and raised in Southwest Colorado. I graduated from Colorado State University in 2018 with two bachelor’s degrees, in Biological Anthropology and Sociology (Criminology & Criminal Justice). Since graduation I've attended University of New Brunswick's Bioarchaeology Field School in Nova Scotia, Canada, and have been associated with Archaeological research endeavors and excavations in the United States and Egypt. My research interests include Southwestern archaeology, migration, landscape archaeology, GIS, LiDAR, and Westward expansion. My MA research focuses on the limitations and potentials of remote sensing datasets, specifically LiDAR, and how these datasets can be applied to identifying, recording and researching prehistoric Pueblo III-era farming terraces and check dam features in the Northern San Juan Region of the Colorado Plateau. In my spare time I enjoy most anything outside: hiking, backpacking, camping, fishing, hunting, and sightseeing.