Insights of Anthropology

Dr. James C Chatters

Applied Paleoscience
Bothell
Washington
United States of America
Tel: 425-402-7004

Dr. James C Chatters is an archaeologist and paleontologist who works in the United States and Mexico. He is consultant to Direct AMS, a commercial radiocarbon dating laboratory in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Chatters attended Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, graduating in 1971 with a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology. He then enrolled in the University of Washington in Seattle, where he continued his study of Anthropology, earning his Master's degree and Ph.D in 1975 and 1982, respectively. He has conducted extensive research in hunter-gather prehistory in the North American Northwest, Paleoanthropology of the earliest Americans, Theory of Cultural Macroevolution, late Quaternary palynology and mammalian paleontology. He was personally involved in recovery and first studies of 10 of the continent’s 50 oldest skeletons, and is best known for his discovery of Kennewick Man, one of the most complete early human skeletons in North America.