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Robert G. Elston is an archaeologist who works in arid regions (mainly the Great Basin of North America and western China), where he has pursued an interdisciplinary approach to archaeology encompassing geomorphology and paleoecology, guided by theory from economics and behavioral ecology. Specializing in lithic technology and geoarchaeology, he received a BA (1965) in Anthropology from San Francisco State University, and MA (1971) and PhD (1986) degrees from Washington State University. Elston directed the Nevada Archeological Survey, University of Nevada Reno (1972-1979), and was Curator of the Anthropology Department Museum. Elston served as editor of the Nevada Archeological Reporter, and as editor of the Nevada Archeological Survey Research Reports monograph series. He was Principal and Research Director for the private consulting firm Intermountain Research (1980-1997), and taught in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Davis (1998-2001). In 2004, he received a fellowship from the Fulbright Foundation to conduct archaeological research in the Center for Arid Environment & Paleoclimate Research, Lanzhou University, Gansu, China. In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He currently is a semi-retired Adjunct Professor in the Anthropology Department at UNR, and continues to do research in China. Elston has published numerous papers, monographs and reports on Sierran, Great Basin and northern Chinese prehistory. Elston is a founding member of Hammerstone, a band of grizzled old Great Basin desert rats and archaeologists who play the ancient tones of a timeless, primordial, loud, electric music.