Darrell G. Creel
Professor Emeritus — Ph.D., University of Arizona
Director of Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory (TARL); Associate Professor Emeritus

Contact
- E-mail: dcreel@tarl.utexas.edu
- Phone: (512) 471-6007
- Office: PRC BLDG 5
- Campus Mail Code: R7500
Interests
Archeology; Texas, Plains, Southwest, Southeast U.S.
Biography
In the past ten years, most of my research has been focused on the prehistoric Mimbres culture in southwestern New Mexico. Additional areas of research interest that overlap to a varying extent with my Mimbres research include (1) use of ceramic compositional analysis to address questions of exchange, interaction, and migration, and (2) more recently, use of near surface geophysical sensing technologies in archeological research. Each of these areas of research is represented by publications and by presentations at numerous professional meetings.
Courses taught: 2006-07 On leave during Fall semester, Ant 322K Southwestern Archaeology
2005-06 Ant 322K Southwestern Archaeology (both semesters), Ant 376P Research Internship
2004-05 Ant 322K Southwestern Archaeology, Ant 462M Archaeological Techniques, Ant 698A, B Thesis (both semesters)
2003-04 Ant 322K Southwestern Archaeology, Ant 462M Archaeological Techniques, Ant 376P Research Internship, Ant 384M The American Southwest, Ant 662 Archaeological Field Methods
Ant 679HA Honors Tutorial Course (both semesters)
Courses
ANT 322K • Southwestern Archaeology
30975 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM UTC 3.134
ANT 462M • Archaeological Techniques
31400 • Spring 2011
Meets W 2:00PM-6:00PM T5D 1.101
ANT 362K • Archaeol Of Texas And Vicinity
30210 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM EPS 2.136
ANT 462M • Archaeological Techniques
30460 • Spring 2010
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM T5D 1.101
ANT 322K • Southwestern Archaeology
30420 • Fall 2009
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM GSB 2.124
ANT 322K • Southwestern Archaeology
30565 • Fall 2008
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM WAG 101
ANT 322K • Southwestern Archaeology
30903 • Fall 2007
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM EPS 2.136
ANT 322K • Southwestern Archaeology
29880 • Spring 2007
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM RAS 218
ANT 322K • Southwestern Archaeology
29060 • Spring 2006
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM UTC 3.110
ANT 322K • Southwestern Archaeology
28545 • Fall 2005
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM EPS 2.136
ANT 322K • Southwestern Archaeology
27645 • Spring 2005
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM BUR 116
ANT 322K • Southwestern Archaeology
26840 • Fall 2003
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM UTC 3.124
ANT 322K • Southwestern Archaeology
26555 • Fall 2002
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM EPS 2.136
ANT 322K • Southwestern Archaeology
26355 • Spring 2002
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM EPS 2.136
ANT 322K • Southwestern Archaeology
26360 • Spring 2002
Meets MWF 2:00PM-3:00PM EPS 2.136
ANT 322K • Southwestern Archaeology
26655 • Spring 2001
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM EPS 2.136
ANT 324L • Archaeological Lab Analysis
27180 • Fall 2000
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM PRC
ANT 322K • Southwestern Archaeology
26270 • Spring 2000
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM EPS 2.136
Publications
Recent Publications
2006 Excavations at the Old Town Ruin, Luna County, New Mexico, 1989-2003. Volume 1. US Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, Santa Fe
2006 Environmental Variation and Prehistoric Culture in the Mimbres Area. In Culture and Environment in the Ancient Southwest, edited by David Doyel and Jeffrey Dean. University of Utah Press.
2006 Evidence for Mimbres Social Differentiation at the Old Town Site. In Mimbres Society, edited by Valli Powell and Patricia Gilman, University of Arizona Press.
2005 D. Creel, D. Hudler, S. Wilson, C. Schultz, and C. Walker A Magnetometer Survey of Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site. Technical Report 51. Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin.
2005 (C. Descartes, Darrell Creel, R. Speakman, S. Wilson, and M. Glascock) Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Pottery from the George C. Davis (41CE19) Site, Texas. North American Archaeologist 25(2):121-138.
2004: A Magnetometer Survey of Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site. Technical Report 51. Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin. Coauthored with Roger Anyon.
2003 (with Roger Anyon) New Perspectives on Mimbres Communal Pitstructures and Implications for Ritual and Cultural Developments. American Antiquity 68:67-92.
2003 Darrell Creel, Tiffany Clark, and Hector Neff, Production and Long Distance Movement of Chupadero Black-on-white Pottery in New Mexico and Texas. Chapter 6, in Geochemical Evidence for Long Distance Exchange, edited by Michael Glascock, pp 109-132. Bergin and Garvey, Westport, Connecticut.
2002 Darrell Creel, Matthew Williams, Hector Neff, and Michael Glascock. Neutron Activation Analysis of Black Mountain Phase Ceramics and Its Implications for Manufacture and Exchange Patterns. In Chemical Sourcing in the Southwest, edited by Donna Glowacki and Hector Neff. UCLA Press.
1999 The Black Mountain Phase in the Mimbres Area. In The Casas Grandes World, edited by Curtis Schaafsma and Carroll Riley, pp.107-120. University of Utah Press.
1999 S. Decker, S. Black, T. Gustavson, D. Creel, and H. Iceland. The Woodrow Heard Site, 41UV88: A Holocene Terrace Site in the Western Balcones Canyonlands of Southwestern Texas. Studies in Archeology 33, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin. 1997 Stephen Black, Linda Ellis, Darrell Creel, and Glenn Goode. Hot Rock Cooking on the Greater Edwards Plateau: Four Burned Rock Midden Sites in West Central Texas. Texas Archeological Research Laboratory Studies in Archeology 22 and Texas Department of Transportation Archeology Studies Program, Report 2.
1999 (M. Hegmon, M. Nelson, R. Anyon, D. Creel, H. Shafer, and S. LeBlanc) Systematics of Late and Post Mimbres Occupations in the American Southwest. The Kiva 65:143-166.
1997 Ceremonial Cave: An Overview of Investigations and Contents. In The Hueco Mountain Cave and Rockshelter Survey: A Phase I Baseline Inventory in Maneuver Area 2D on Fort Bliss, Texas, by Federico Almarez and Jeff Leach. Appendix A. pp 75-88. Archaeological Technical Reports No. 10. Anthropology Research Center, The University of Texas at El Paso.
1994 (with Charmion McKusick) Prehistoric Macaws and Parrots in the Mimbres Area, New Mexico. American Antiquity 59:510-524.
1991 The Importance of Bison Hides in Late Prehistoric Exchange in the Southern Plains. American Antiquity 56:40-49.
1990 (with Robert Scott and Michael Collins) A Faunal Record from West Central Texas and Its Bearing on Late Holocene Bison Population Changes in the Southern Plains. Plains Anthropologist 35:55-69.
1989 A Primary Cremation at the NAN Ranch Ruin, Grant County, New Mexico, with Comparative Data on other Cremations in the Mimbres Area. Journal of Field Archaeology 16:309-329.
1989 Anthropomorphic Rock Art Figures in the Middle Mimbres Valley, New Mexico. The Kiva 55:71-86.