Dale Croes

  1. Adjunct Professor
Email Addressdcroes444@gmail.com

Biography

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Dale R. Croes received his BA in anthropology from the University of Washington (UW). He did his PhD dissertation research on basketry and cordage artifacts from the Ozette Village wet site (Croes 2019, 2021); conducted post-doctoral research with the Makah Tribal Nation at the Hoko River wet site (Croes 1995) and Hoko Rockshelter shell midden (Croes 2005); directed the first-ever archaeological excavations at the National Historic Landmark wet site of Sunken Village with the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Indians (Croes et al. 2009); and co-directed excavations of the Qwu?gwes wet and dry site with the Squaxin Island Tribe (Croes et al. 2013). As seen above Croes is a Northwest wet archaeological site specialist who encourages others to pursue investigating these well-preserved archaeological sites, where approximately 90% of the ancient material culture is preserved (Croes 2023).

In retirement he is working with Ed Carriere, Suquamish Elder and Master Basketmaker, and they together wrote Re-Awakening Ancient Salish Sea Basketry, Fifty Years of Basketry Studies in Culture and Science, Memoir 15, Journal of Northwest Anthropology (Carriere and Croes 2018). This book highlights their work analyzing and replicating 2,000-year-old Biderbost wet site basketry housed at the UW Burke Museum. They define this work as a new approach called Generationally-Linked Archaeology (Croes et al. 2018).

In large part from Ed Carriere’s work in replicating archaeological baskets from Northwest museums, he was awarded a national Community Spirit Award (2022) from the Native American-based First Peoples Fund program. Recently Carriere was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) 2023 National Heritage Fellowship. And, on the science side, Croes and Carriere received the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) 2023 Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis. These awards demonstrate that the synergy of science and culture produces much more together than separately.

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