Mark Becker Ph.D., RPA - Selected Publications
Becker, Mark S.
2003 Spatial Patterning in the Upper Palaeolithic: A perspective from the Abu Noshra Sites. In More than Meets the Eye: Studies on Upper Palaeolithic Diversity in the Near East, edited by Nigel Gorring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen, pp. 134-150. Oxbow Books, Oxford.
Becker, Mark, and Fred Wendorf
1993 A Microwear Study of a Late Pleistocene Qadan Assemblage from Southern Egypt. Journal of Field Archaeology 20:389-398.
Bamforth, Douglas B., and Mark Becker
2009 Microwear, Tools, and Handles: A Pilot Functional Investigation of the Chipped Stone Assemblage. In Hell Gap: A Stratified Paleoindian Campsite at the Edge of the Rockies, edited by Mary Lou Larson, Marcel Kornfield, and George C. Frison, pp. 285-299. University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Bamforth, Douglas B., and Mark S. Becker
2007 Spatial Structure and Refitting of the Allen Site Lithic Assemblage. In The Allen Site: A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska, edited by Douglas B. Bamforth, pp. 123-147. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
2007 The Allen Site Lithic Assemblage. In The Allen Site: A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska, edited by Douglas B. Bamforth, pp. 148-183. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Bamforth, Douglas B., Mark S. Becker, and Jean Hudson
2005 Intrasite Spatial Analysis, Ethnoarchaeology, and Paleoindian Land-use on the Great Plains: The Allen Site. American Antiquity 70:561-580.
Bamforth, Douglas B., and Mark S. Becker
2000 Core/Biface Ratios, Mobility, Refitting, and Artifact Use-Lives: A Paleoindian Example. Plains Anthropologist 45(173):273-290
Mark Becker Ph.D., RPA

Dr. Becker has over twenty years of professional and academic experience in archaeological fieldwork, research, and publication in the American Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, Upper South, Southeast, Plains, Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, Southern California, Southwest Asia, and North Africa.
He earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology with an emphasis in archaeology, hunter-gatherers, methodology, and lithic analysis. His ongoing research centers on prehistoric settlement systems and how mobility is reconstructed from the archaeological record, through an examination of technology, function, and spatial analysis.

A stacked model of shell density at SDI-811 showing archaeological deposits in strata A through C1.A The rig used in mechanical coring.
