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Paulette Steeves is an Indigenous archaeologist and Lecturer in Indigenous Archaeology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on challenging the Clovis First paradigm by documenting Indigenous presence in the Western Hemisphere as early as 60,000 years ago through a comprehensive database of Pleistocene-era archaeological sites. She holds a PhD from Binghamton University, where she completed a groundbreaking dissertation titled Decolonizing Indigenous Histories: Pleistocene Archaeology Sites of the Western Hemisphere, the first in the U.S. framed in Indigenous Method and Theory in Anthropology.
- Education: BA in Anthropology (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville), PhD (Binghamton University)
- Key Experience: Two-year Quapaw NAGPRA internship; collaboration with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science on Great Plains mammoth sites
Her work integrates osteology, genetics, and paleontology to reconstruct ancient Indigenous histories. She actively advocates for decolonizing academic knowledge production through teaching and research.
