Martin Welker
- Assistant Curator
- Assistant Curator, Zooarchaeology
- Assistant Professor, Anthropology
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
- (520) 621-6281
- Raymond H. Thompson Building, Rm. 312
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- mwelker@arizona.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D. Anthropology
- Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States
- M.A. Anthropology
- Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States
- B.S. Anthropology
- Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States
Work Experience
- Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania (2018 - 2019)
Interests
Research
Zooarchaeology, Domestication, Human Behavioral Ecology, Animal Management, Skeletal Morphometrics
Courses
2025-26 Courses
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Domestication
ANTH 326 (Fall 2025)
2023-24 Courses
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Domestication
ANTH 326 (Spring 2024) -
Honors Thesis
ANTH 498H (Spring 2024) -
Honors Thesis
ANTH 498H (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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Senior Thesis
ANTH 498A (Spring 2023) -
Zooarchaeo+Taphonomy:Lab
ANTH 472 (Spring 2023) -
Zooarchaeo+Taphonomy:Lab
ANTH 572 (Spring 2023) -
Independent Study
ANTH 499 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Domestication
ANTH 326 (Spring 2022)
2020-21 Courses
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Zooarchaeo+Taphonomy:Lab
ANTH 472 (Spring 2021)
Scholarly Contributions
Journals/Publications
- Welker, M. H., & Semanko, A. (2023).
Revisiting Harold S. Colton’s 1970 Analysis of Dogs in the Southwest
. KIVA, 89(3), 403-421. doi:10.1080/00231940.2023.2214431 - Hughes, J. E., McClure, S. B., & Welker, M. H. (2022).
Cooperation and Cattle Herding in Eighteenth Century Acadia: Implications for Archaeological Studies of Agropastoralism
. Journal of Ethnobiology, 42(1), 69-85. doi:10.2993/0278-0771-42.1.69 - Jovic, J., Kennett, D. J., Mcclure, S. B., Podrug, E., Triozzi, N., Welker, M. H., & Zavodny, E. (2022).
A wolf in sheep’s clothing: The development of livestock guarding dogs in the Adriatic region of Croatia
. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 42, 103380. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103380 - Quintana Morales, E. M., & Welker, M. H. (2022).
The North Atlantic cod trade: A meta-analysis of the North American and European archaeological records
. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 1-23. doi:10.1080/15564894.2022.2035856 - Byers, D. A., McClure, S. B., & Welker, M. H. (2021).
“I wanna be your dog”: Evaluating the efficacy of univariate and multivariate methods for differentiating domestic and wild canids in North America
. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 31(2), 196-206. doi:10.1002/oa.2939
