James David Keyser

Background

James David Keyser was born on March 3, 1950, in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States. He is the son of Raymond Clyde and Mina Marie Keyser.

Education

In 1972 James David Keyser received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Montana. In 1974 he obtained a Master of Arts degree from this university. Besides, in 1977 Keyser gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oregon.

Career

From 1973 to 1976 James David Keyser was a research archaeologist at the University of Montana. Then he became an assistant professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. From 1977 to 1978 Keyser served as an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Tulsa. From 1978 to 1980 he was an archaeologist with Minerals and Geology Group, Northern Region at the United States Forest Service, and became a regional archaeologist with Pacific Northwest Region in 1980.

From 1999 to 2000 he was a lecturer at Portland State University. From 1999 to 2001 he worked as a European rock art tour leader for Walking Softly Adventures. From 1999 to 2001 he was a member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee for the Study of Chauvet Cave.

He has published Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau (1992), Indian Petroglyphs of the Columbia Gorge: The Jeanne Hillis Rubbings (1994), The Five Crows Ledger: Biographic Warrior Art of the Flathead Indians (2000), Plains Indian Rock Art (2001), etc.

He is a contributor to several books, including The Landscape of Rock Art (2001); and The Ethnography of Rock Art (2001). Other contributions were to anthropology journals, including Northwest Parks and Wildlife, Archaeology in Montana, Wyoming Archaeologist, Longbow, Journal of Interpretation, Montana: Magazine of Western History, Columbia: Magazine of Northwest History, Canadian Journal of Archaeology, Journal of Field Archaeology, and Plains Anthropologist.

Achievements

• James David Keyser is widely known as the author of the Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau and Plains Indian Rock Art. His works received high praise from critics.

Works

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  • Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau

    (From the river valleys of interior British Columbia south...)

    1992
  • Talking with the Past; the Ethnography of Rock Art

    (This collection of papers and newly gathered ethnography ...)

    2006
  • Plains Indian Rock Art

    (Archaeologists James Keyser and Michael Klassen show us t...)

    2001
  • Indian Petroglyphs of the Columbia Gorge

    (Indian Petroglyphs of the Columbia Gorge: The Jeanne Hill...)

    1994
  • The Five Crows Ledger: Biographic Warrior Art of the Flathead

    (This ledger art is derived from Plains Indian biographic ...)

    2000
  • Warrior Art of Wyoming's Green River Basin: Biographic Petroglyphs along the Seedskadee 2005

Membership

James David Keyser is a member of Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi.

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  Sigma Xi , United States

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  Phi Kappa Phi , United States

Interests

• cooking

Connections

Father:

Raymond Clyde Keyser

Mother:

Mina Marie Keyser

References

• Contemporary Authors
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