User:TriNotch

I am an archaeologist.

Evolutionary Biology Class
I am currently teaching a course in Evolutionary Biology, and my students are adding to Wikipedia to expand global access to biological information. Links to follow.


 * Draft:Acanthobunocephalus_scruggsi and User:TriNotch/Acanthobunocephalus_scruggsi
 * Draft:Antaresia_papuensis
 * Attalea dubia
 * Bathycongrus aequoreus
 * Brachiaria deflexa
 * Brassica_rupestris
 * Draft:Brotula_clarkae
 * Dianella ensifolia
 * Draft:Dinobdella ferox and alternate User:TriNotch/Dinobdella_ferox
 * Diporiphora nobbi
 * Garcinia sessilis
 * Draft:Geothermobacterium_ferrireducens
 * Draft:Kendall_Warm_Springs_Dace
 * Draft:Leptopelis_grandiceps
 * Leptopelis_montanus
 * Mahasena corbetti
 * Draft:MRSA ST 398
 * Nimba myotis
 * Phytelephas tenuicaulis
 * Pleurotus_eryngii
 * Draft:Polyphagales
 * Draft:Pteroma_pendula
 * User:TriNotch/Saccharomyces_estauri
 * User:TriNotch/Skookum_(cat)
 * Draft:Smutsia_olteniensis
 * Stygiomedusa
 * Draft:Tursiops_truncatus_ponticus
 * Draft:Ussuri_raccoon_dog
 * User:TriNotch/Zygosaccharomyces_rouxii

Wikipedia Role
I am an (intermittently) active editor on Wikipedia for ethical reasons. Specifically, I believe the taxpayers of the United States (and the rest of the world) fund archaeology ONLY BECAUSE IT IS INTERESTING. We can rationalize our work by saying that we are addressing fundamental human problems, facilitating human inter-cultural understanding, or celebrating our shared heritage- and all that is true. Sometimes, we may be able to offer social critique. But for the most part our contribution is a form of entertainment.

If our essential job, then, is to entertain (albeit in a scientific framework) then our greatest responsibilities are two-fold: Do Good Archaeology, and Distribute The Information to the People.

Where do most people today get their information about archaeology from?

Wikipedia.

TriNotch: My wiki handle is from one of the best known projectile points (arrow heads) of the Mississippian culture, the very classy looking Cahokian tri-notched point (which perhaps I will find an image of one day).

I'm working on a doctorate in the archaeology of the Southeastern United States (UPDATE: I completed my doctorate in 2016). I have done fieldwork in Illinois, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Mexico. I read Spanish fairly well but probably not well enough to make significant contributions.

I created the wiki pages for the following articles and/or stubs:


 * American Antiquity
 * chiefdom
 * Chrétien Le Clercq
 * Classic stage
 * earth lodge
 * Formative stage
 * Glenn Albert Black
 * James Bennett Griffin
 * Latin American Antiquity
 * Little barley
 * Mississippian culture
 * Moundville Archaeological Site
 * Nanih Waiya
 * Philip Phillips
 * platform mound
 * Post-Classic stage
 * Slack Farm
 * Society for American Archaeology
 * Swift Creek culture
 * Walam Olum
 * Wickliffe mounds

I have also edited many pages to add or correct information on Native American prehistory, and intend to do more. I am a member of the WikiProject on Indigenous people of North America and the WikiProject Archaeology.

My To Do List:


 * Anything useful for the WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America or the WikiProject Archaeology
 * Copena culture
 * Marksville culture
 * Little barley (Hordeum pusillum)
 * Coles Creek culture
 * State- Anthropological Theory Definition
 * Warren King Moorehead?
 * fix James A. Ford?
 * greenstone still needs a little work
 * ...other sites and tribes and anthropological terms.

I have been a Wikipedian since 14 December, 2004.