James W. Taylor
jamest42@u.washington.edu

Education

BA with Distinction, Anthropology, University of Washington, 2004
Doctoral Student of Archaeology, University of Washington

Honors and Awards

• NSF IGERT Fellow
• Mary Gates Scholar
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention
• Mary Gates Undergraduate Research Grants
• UW Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Award
• UW Quaternary Research Center – Graduate Research Funding
• Geochron Laboratories Research Grant

Research

• Paleoenvironmental reconstruction and marine radiocarbon calibration for the Shelikof Strait region of Kodiak, AK utilizing modern and archaeological shellfish (USA)
• Participant in the Kuril Biocomplexity Project: Human Vulnerability and Resilience to Subarctic Change (Russia)
• Engaged in pilot research reconstructing late Holocene environmental conditions in Wallacia (East Timor)

Publications and Presentations

Henck, A., J. Taylor, H. Lv, Y. Li, Q. Yang, B. Grub, S. Breslow, A. Robbins, A. Elliott, T. Hinckley, S. Widder, X. Hu, D. Jian, and X. Liao. In Review. Hillslope Terraces and Swidden Agriculture in Northern Sichuan, China: Interdisciplinary Research in Jiuzhaigou National Park. Quaternary Research. Submitted October 15, 2008.

Taylor, James W. 2006. Jiuzhaigou National Park, Sichuan University, and University of Washington "Collaboration on Cultural Resources," Report submitted to Jiuzhaigou National Park, Sichuan, People's Republic of China. Translated into Mandarin by Chin Shi, 33 pages.

Gillikin, David Paul, Anne Lorrain, Jacques Navez, James W. Taylor, Luc André, Eddy Keppens, Willy Baeyens and Frank Dehairs. 2005. Strong Biological Controls on Sr/Ca in Aragonitic Marine Bivalve Shells. Geochemisty, Geophysics, Geosystems. 28 May, 6(5):1-16.

Taylor, James W., A. Henck, Y. Li, H. Lu, and Q. Yang. 2008. Interdisciplinary, International Research at the Asano Archaeological Site, Jiuzhaigou National Park, Sichuan, China. Poster to be presented at the 73rd Annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver.

Phillips, S. Colby, James W. Taylor, and Ben Fitzhugh. 2005. Human Migration and Mobility in the Kuril Islands. Poster presented at the 72nd Annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin.

Taylor, James W. and Ben Fitzhugh. 2004. The Little Ice Age and the Koniag Tradition of Kodiak, Alaska: Isotopic and Geochemical Analyses of Saxidomus giganteus (butter clam). Symposium at the Fifth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS V), presented by Dr. Ben Fitzhugh for James Taylor, Fairbanks, AK.

Taylor, James W., Ben Fitzhugh, and Eric Steig. 2004. Detecting the Little Ice Age on the Kodiak Archipelago: An Isotopic Analysis of Saxidomus giganteus. Poster presented at the 69th Annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal.