Staff
Jeff Boyer, Project Director
Jeff Boyer
Project Director
505-827-6387
jeffrey.boyer@state.nm.us
M.A., University of New Mexico, 1983
Since 1987, when I started here, I've worked on the archaeology of different parts of New Mexico but have spent most of my time in the Northern Rio Grande. That's fine with me, since it's my home and the area in which I'm most interested. My current role as project codirector of the combined US 84/285 projects allows me to continue examining the development of prehistoric Puebloan communities in the region, and the expansion of Puebloan and Euroamerican frontiers—interests I've cultivated on other projects through the years. Our work is rewriting the prehistory and history of the northern Rio Grande, sometimes daily. I've also learned about sediments and soils and the potential of adobe-materials analyses to illuminate site structure, so I can say, more accurately than when I started, that I am a "dirt archaeologist."