Office: EPS 2.208
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Phone: 512 471 6007, 512 471 8514
dcreel@mail.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1986

Research interests:
Archeology; Texas, Plains, Southwest, Southeast U.S.

In the past ten years, most of my research has been focused on the prehistoric Mimbres culture in southwestern New Mexico. Additional areas of research interest that overlap to a varying extent with my Mimbres research include (1) use of ceramic compositional analysis to address questions of exchange, interaction, and migration, and (2) more recently, use of near surface geophysical sensing technologies in archeological research. Each of these areas of research is represented by publications and by presentations at numerous professional meetings.



Courses taught: 2006-07 On leave during Fall semester, Ant 322K Southwestern Archaeology

2005-06 Ant 322K Southwestern Archaeology (both semesters), Ant 376P Research Internship

2004-05 Ant 322K Southwestern Archaeology, Ant 462M Archaeological Techniques, Ant 698A, B Thesis (both semesters)

2003-04 Ant 322K Southwestern Archaeology, Ant 462M Archaeological Techniques, Ant 376P Research Internship, Ant 384M The American Southwest, Ant 662 Archaeological Field Methods

Ant 679HA Honors Tutorial Course (both semesters)

Field(s) of Study: Archaeology

Recent Publications:
RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2006 Excavations at the Old Town Ruin, Luna County, New Mexico, 1989-2003. Volume 1. US Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, Santa Fe

2006 Environmental Variation and Prehistoric Culture in the Mimbres Area. In Culture and Environment in the Ancient Southwest, edited by David Doyel and Jeffrey Dean. University of Utah Press.

2006 Evidence for Mimbres Social Differentiation at the Old Town Site. In Mimbres Society, edited by Valli Powell and Patricia Gilman, University of Arizona Press.

2005 D. Creel, D. Hudler, S. Wilson, C. Schultz, and C. Walker A Magnetometer Survey of Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site. Technical Report 51. Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin.

2005 (C. Descartes, Darrell Creel, R. Speakman, S. Wilson, and M. Glascock) Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Pottery from the George C. Davis (41CE19) Site, Texas. North American Archaeologist 25(2):121-138.

2004: A Magnetometer Survey of Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site. Technical Report 51. Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin. Coauthored with Roger Anyon.

2003 (with Roger Anyon) New Perspectives on Mimbres Communal Pitstructures and Implications for Ritual and Cultural Developments. American Antiquity 68:67-92.

2003 Darrell Creel, Tiffany Clark, and Hector Neff, Production and Long Distance Movement of Chupadero Black-on-white Pottery in New Mexico and Texas. Chapter 6, in Geochemical Evidence for Long Distance Exchange, edited by Michael Glascock, pp 109-132. Bergin and Garvey, Westport, Connecticut.

2002 Darrell Creel, Matthew Williams, Hector Neff, and Michael Glascock. Neutron Activation Analysis of Black Mountain Phase Ceramics and Its Implications for Manufacture and Exchange Patterns. In Chemical Sourcing in the Southwest, edited by Donna Glowacki and Hector Neff. UCLA Press.

1999 The Black Mountain Phase in the Mimbres Area. In The Casas Grandes World, edited by Curtis Schaafsma and Carroll Riley, pp.107-120. University of Utah Press.

1999 S. Decker, S. Black, T. Gustavson, D. Creel, and H. Iceland. The Woodrow Heard Site, 41UV88: A Holocene Terrace Site in the Western Balcones Canyonlands of Southwestern Texas. Studies in Archeology 33, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin. 1997 Stephen Black, Linda Ellis, Darrell Creel, and Glenn Goode. Hot Rock Cooking on the Greater Edwards Plateau: Four Burned Rock Midden Sites in West Central Texas. Texas Archeological Research Laboratory Studies in Archeology 22 and Texas Department of Transportation Archeology Studies Program, Report 2.

1999 (M. Hegmon, M. Nelson, R. Anyon, D. Creel, H. Shafer, and S. LeBlanc) Systematics of Late and Post Mimbres Occupations in the American Southwest. The Kiva 65:143-166.

1997 Ceremonial Cave: An Overview of Investigations and Contents. In The Hueco Mountain Cave and Rockshelter Survey: A Phase I Baseline Inventory in Maneuver Area 2D on Fort Bliss, Texas, by Federico Almarez and Jeff Leach. Appendix A. pp 75-88. Archaeological Technical Reports No. 10. Anthropology Research Center, The University of Texas at El Paso.

1994 (with Charmion McKusick) Prehistoric Macaws and Parrots in the Mimbres Area, New Mexico. American Antiquity 59:510-524.

1991 The Importance of Bison Hides in Late Prehistoric Exchange in the Southern Plains. American Antiquity 56:40-49.

1990 (with Robert Scott and Michael Collins) A Faunal Record from West Central Texas and Its Bearing on Late Holocene Bison Population Changes in the Southern Plains. Plains Anthropologist 35:55-69.

1989 A Primary Cremation at the NAN Ranch Ruin, Grant County, New Mexico, with Comparative Data on other Cremations in the Mimbres Area. Journal of Field Archaeology 16:309-329.

1989 Anthropomorphic Rock Art Figures in the Middle Mimbres Valley, New Mexico. The Kiva 55:71-86.