Kate Magargal portrait
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department
  • Adjunct Instructor, City & Metropolitan Planning
  • Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Honors College
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Presentations

  • Magargal, K.E.. (2017, February). Did prehistoric people affect fi re regimes in southern Utah?. Poster presented at Global Change and Sustainability Annual Research Symposium, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Conference Paper, Presented, 02/09/2017.
  • Magargal, K.E., Parker, A.K., Vernon, K.B., Rath, W., & B.F. Codding. (2016, October). Food, Fire, and Free Space: New Tests of the Numic Expansion. Poster presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Reno, Nevada. Conference Paper, Presented, 10/19/2016.
  • Parker, A. K., Johnson L., Magargal K. E., Rath, W., Di Paolo M., & Codding, B.F. (2016, October). When is a horse not a horse? It depends on your local ecology. Poster presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Reno, Nevada. Poster, Presented, 10/19/2016.
  • Codding, Brian F. and Kate E. Magargal. (2016, May) Numic Fires: Ethnography, Biogeography, and Archaeology of Anthropogenic Disturbance in the Intermountain West. Paper presented at the Human Ecological Dynamics Workshop, SMU in Taos, New Mexico, USA. Presentation, Presented, 05/14/2016.
  • Magargal, Kate E., Ashley K. Parker, Will Rath, Kenneth B. Vernon, and Brian F. Codding (2016, April) Food, re, and free space: New tests of the Numic Expansion. Poster presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Atlanta, GA. Poster, Presented, 04/22/2016.
  • Parker, A. K., Magargal, K. E., & Codding, B. F. (2016, February). Burning the West: Biogeography of Foragers and Fire in the Great Basin. Poster presented at the Global Change and Sustainability Center Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah. And presented at (2015) the College of Social and Behavioral Science Student Research Day, Salt Lake City, Utah. And presented at (2015) the the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. And presented at (2014) the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Boise, Idaho. Poster, Presented, 02/11/2016.
  • Magargal, Kate E., Ashley K. Parker, Will Rath, Kenneth B. Vernon, and Brian F. Codding (2016, February) Numic Fires: Modelling the E ects of Anthropogenic Fire on Foraging Decisions in the Great Basin. Poster presentation at the Global Change and Sustainability Center Symposium, SLC, UT. Poster, Presented, 02/11/2016.
  • Magargal, Kate E. (2015, April) Fetching Firewood: Access to fuels as a constraint for prehistoric settlement. Poster presentation at the Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Poster, Presented, 04/18/2015.
  • Magargal, Kate E. (2015, March) A Fire History of Upper Valley near Escalante, Utah. Poster presentation at the 27th Paci c Climate Workshop. Paci c Grove, CA. Poster, Presented, 03/19/2015.
  • Magargal, Kate E. (2015, February) Fetching Firewood: Access to fuels as a constraint for prehistoric settlement. Poster presentation at the Global Change and Sustainability Center Symposium, SLC, UT. Poster, Presented, 02/12/2015.
  • Magargal, Kate E. (2014, April) Fetching Firewood: Exploring the Relationship Between Site Locations and Fuel Sources. Poster presentation at the Society for American Archaeology 79th Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. Poster, Presented, 04/19/2014.
  • Magargal, Kate E. Firewood Collecting and Diet Breadth. (2014, March) Poster presentation at the Northwest Evolution, Ecology, and Human Behavior Symposium, Boise State University. Poster, Presented, 03/20/2014.

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • Northern America
    Great Basin and Colorado Plateau.

Research/Scholarship Projects

  • Lower Dolores Watershed Archaeological Project. PI: Brian Codding. 03/2015 - present.

Stone Tool Use Wear Analysis

An undergraduate project for which I serve as advisor. See this webpage a brief description.

Publications

  • Power, M. J., Codding, B.F., Taylor, A.H., Swetnam, T.W., Magargal, K.E., Bird, D.W. & O'Connell, J.F. (2018). Human Legacies on Ecological Landscapes. Frontiers in Earth Science. Vol. 6. Published, 10/15/2018.
    https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2018.00151
  • Codding, Brian F., Kate E. Magargal, Kenneth Blake Vernon, Paul E. Allgaier, Jesse Valdez & Ron Goode (2018). Preliminary Archaeological Investigations at the Jack Kirk Site, Mariposa Creek, California. CRM Report submitted to North Fork Mono Tribe. Accepted, 07/16/2018.
  • Kate E. Magargal, A.K. Parker, K.B. Vernon, W. Rath & B.F. Codding (2017). The ecology of population dispersal: Modeling alternative Basin-Plateau foraging strategies to explain the Numic Expansion. American Journal of Human Biology. Published, 04/04/2017.
  • L. Louderback, N. Herzog, N. Baker, K. Magargal & B. Pavlik (2016). Archaeobotany of the Sigurd to Red Butte Data Recovery Project, Utah. Report prepared for SWCA Environmental Consultants. Published, 03/14/2016.