Douglas H. MacDonald is professor of anthropology at the University of Montana and specializes in Native American archaeology of the Rock Mountains and Great Plains of Montana and Wyoming. The author of Montana Before History: 11,000 Years of Hunter-Gatherers in the Rockies and Plains and coeditor of Yellowstone Archaeology: Northern Yellowstone and Yellowstone Archaeology: Southern Yellowstone and Lithics in the West, he lives in Missoula with his family when not doing fieldwork.