Steven A. Weber [Associate Professor at WSU-Vancouver]
received his B.S. and M.A. in anthropology from Northern Arizona University, where he specialized in Southwest archaeology.
After working several years as a consulting archaeologist, he returned to graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania
where he received his Ph.D. in 1989. The theme of his research has continued to be how and why people adopt new subsistence
strategies, and how change in subsistence systems relates to change in material culture and settlement systems.
With a colleague, Dr. Weber co-founded the Society of Ethnobiology and the Journal of Ethnobiology in order to promote the interdisciplinary study of human interaction with the natural environment. Dr. Weber remains committed to promoting the creative fusion of biological and anthropological approaches to the study of humans and their surroundings. Since arriving at WSU-Vancouver in 1994, he has been involved in projects in India, Pakistan and Washington. He maintains his special interest in paleoethnobotany, but regards himself first and foremost as a field-oriented archaeologist.