Laurie Webster - Latest Findings from the Cedar Mesa Perishables Project

Laurie D. Webster (PhD University of Arizona 1997) is an independent researcher with institutional affiliations at the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, the American Museum of Natural History, and Crow Canyon. Laurie is a leading expert on ancestral Pueblo perishable materials, especially woven objects and textiles, and she consults with Crow Canyon on the perishable materials encountered during the Center’s excavations. Her publications include the edited volume "Beyond Cloth and Cordage: Archaeological Textile Research in the Americas" and the catalog "Collecting the Weaver’s Art: The William Claflin Collection of Southwestern Textiles", as well as numerous articles about pre-Hispanic perishable technologies. In 2011 she initiated the Cedar Mesa Perishables Project to document the large collections of perishable artifacts recovered from southeastern Utah during the 1890s.