Staff

Robert Dello-Russo, Deputy Director

Robert Dello-Russo Robert Dello-Russo
Deputy Director
505-827-6472
Robert.Dello-Russo1@state.nm.us

I found my first opportunity in archaeology during the summer of 1984 on the Calispell Valley Project with Washington State University. That winter I moved to Eugene, Oregon, to take anthropology classes at the University of Oregon. For two years after that, I did inventory and excavation fieldwork in Oregon and Washington, finally moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1986.

Since that time I've worked as an archaeologist in New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, and Utah. In 1988 I enrolled in the graduate anthropology program at UNM and acquired an M.A. in 1991 and a Ph.D. in 1999. I lived in and around Socorro, New Mexico, for 12 years, during which I started a cultural resource management business, Escondida Research Group, LLC, which I currently co-own and operate with my partner, Patrice Walker. The business operated in both Colorado (Western Slope) and New Mexico for several years but is only in New Mexico at present.

In early 2005 I became the first archaeologist for the New Mexico Department of Game & Fish, developing and operating a compliance program for that agency. In early 2007 I was offered and accepted a position as deputy director with the OAS. My archaeological research interests include hunter-gatherer archaeology, the arrival and acceptance of early maize in New Mexico, Late Paleoindian settlement and subsistence in New Mexico, paleoclimatology, geoarchaeology, rockshelter archaeology, and lithic sourcing studies using X-ray fluorescence. I am thrilled to be working with a well-respected organization of talented archaeologists.