Charles Koenig

Charles Koenig serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology within the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Holding a Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming, he specializes in archaeological research focused on Indigenous histories in West Texas.

His research encompasses:

• Indigenous cooking methods and earth oven technology
• Rock art analysis (pictographs and petroglyphs)
• Rockshelter and cave archaeology
• Experimental archaeology methodologies
• Long-term Indigenous lifeways through sites like Eagle Cave

Dr. Koenig's work prominently features the analysis of Eagle Cave, a deeply stratified rockshelter preserving 13,000 years of Indigenous cultural sequences. His experimental approaches reconstruct ancient technological practices to understand cultural continuity and adaptation. He teaches courses including ANT 304T: Introduction to Texas Archaeology, with office hours held at WCP 4.146 on Tuesdays (1-2 PM), Wednesdays (10-11 AM), and Thursdays (9-10 AM), plus Zoom appointments.