Michael Thom

Hello! Me llamo es Michael Thom… I was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest in the state of Washington, in a rainy city called Woodinville. Shortly after graduating from the University of Washington in Seattle, I moved to central California where I fell in love with roaming the outdoors, connecting with native lifeways through ethnobotany, learning tribal histories, and communicating these passions with others. That’s what animates me most, and what led me to archaeology. Long days of surveying with the Forest Service, recording sites and artifacts, and excavating under eastern Oregon’s summer sun has only reinforced this conviction of mine. My interests are in studying hunter-gatherer societies, Paleoindian lithic technology, and ethnobotany. I also like to flintknap… My MA research is centered on how prehistoric settlement-subsistence patterns and occupation intensity changed over time in the Grand Teton Mountains of Wyoming.