Matthew Sanger

PhD, M.Phil Anthropology, Columbia University, New York

MA, Anthropology, Hunter College, CUNY, New York

BA, Anthropology & Religious Studies, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• community engagement, Indigenous philosophy, incipient social inequality, anarchy theory
•  landscape use and modification, environmental change, 
• computer vision and learning, LiDAR, geophysics, remote sensing

Journal Article

• Cajigas, Rachel, Sanger, Matthew C., Semon, Anna M., Thompson, Victor D., Garland, Carey J., Blair, Elliot H., and Thomas, David Hurst. 2024. "Sequential villages and settling down on the southeast U.S. coast." Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2024.1358614.
• Davis, Dylan S., Cook Hale, Jessica W., Hale, Nathan L., Johnston, Trevor Z., and Sanger, Matthew C. 2024. "Bathymetric LiDAR and Semi‐Automated Feature Extraction Assist Underwater Archaeological Surveys." Archaeological Prospection, https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1939.
• Lambert, Shawn P., Shane Miller, D., Sanger, Matthew C., Baumgartel, Olivia, Hale, Madeleine, Raymond, Tiffany, Neff, Hector, and Dussubieux, Laure. 2024. "Copper on the Mississippi coast: Assessing provenance of a copper bead at the Claiborne site (22HA501) through LA-ICP-MS compositional analysis." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104366.
• Sanger, Matthew C. 2024. "The Archaeology of Awe: Monumental Architecture, Communal Ritual, and Community Formation at Poverty Point, USA." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-024-09645-w.
• Thompson, Victor D., Sanger, Matthew, Smith, Karen Y., Garland, Carey J., Howland, Matthew D., Andrus, C. F., Holland-Lulewicz, Isabelle, Hadden, Carla, Alexander, Clark, Cajigas, Rachel, Blair, Elliot, Semon, Anna, and Thomas, David Hurst. 2024. "Shellfishing, sea levels, and the earliest Native American villages (5000–3800 yrs. BP) of the South Atlantic Coast of the U.S." Scientific Reports, 14, (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-72567-w.
• Thompson, Victor D., Smith, Karen Y., Sanger, Matthew, Garland, Carey J., Pluckhahn, Thomas J., Napora, Katharine, Bedell, Jennifer Dodd, Hadden, Carla, Cherkinsky, Alex, Cajigas, Rachel, Blair, Elliot H., Semon, Anna M., and Thomas, David Hurst. 2024. "The dynamics of fishing villages along the South Atlantic Coast of North America (ca. 5000–3000 years BP)." Scientific Reports, 14, (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55047-z.
• Hale, Jessica W. Cook, Davis, Dylan S., and Sanger, Matthew C. 2023. "Evaluating the Archaeological Efficacy of Bathymetric LiDAR across Oceanographic Contexts: A Case Study from Apalachee Bay, Florida." Heritage, 6, (2) 928–945. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6020051.
• Davis, Dylan S. and Sanger, Matthew C. 2021. "Ethical challenges in the practice of remote sensing and geophysical archaeology." Archaeological Prospection, 28, (3) 271–278. https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1837.
• Sanger, Matthew C., Seeber, Katherine, Bourcy, Samuel, Galdun, Jaclyn, Troutman, Michele, Mahar, Ginessa, Pietras, Jeffrey T., and Kelly, Caleb. 2021. "Revelatory locales: The ritual reuse of a Late Archaic shell ring in South Carolina." Journal of anthropological archaeology, 64 1–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101356.
• Davis, Dylan S., DiNapoli, Robert J., Sanger, Matthew C., and Lipo, Carl P. 2020. "The Integration of Lidar and Legacy Datasets Provides Improved Explanations for the Spatial Patterning of Shell Rings in the American Southeast." Advances in Archaeological Practice, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2020.18.
• Thompson, Victor D., Rick, Torben C., Garland, Carey J., Thomas, David Hurst, Smith, Karen Y., Bergh, Sarah, Sanger, Matt, Tucker, Bryan, Lulewicz, Isabelle, Semon, Anna M., Schalles, John, Hladik, Christine, Alexander, Clark, and Ritchison, Brandon T. 2020. "Ecosystem stability and Native American oyster harvesting along the Atlantic Coast of the United States." Science Advances, 6, (28). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba9652.