Lynne Goldstein

Goldstein received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1976 with a dissertation titled Spatial Structure and Social Organizations: Regional Manifestations of Mississippian Society.[3]

Goldstein's research focuses on mortuary analysis[4] and she was influential in the development of US policy on the repatriation of human remains.[5] She also works on campus archaeology,[6] digital archaeology, public archaeology,[7] archaeological ethics, spatial analysis and statistics. Regionally, Goldstein is known for her work in the Midwest, especially the Aztalan site in Wisconsin,[8] and for her work on the historic cemetery at Fort Ross, California.[9]

Goldstein served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University from 1996 to 2006. During her time as chair she ran a field school at the Aztalan site. In 2005 Goldstein, along with fellow archaeologists J. O’Gorman and K. Lewis, contributed to the sesquicentennial celebration of MSU by conducting a public field school that excavated the first dormitory on campus known as Saints’ Rest.[10]

After stepping down as chair, Goldstein became the department's Graduate Program Director, a position she held from 2010 to 2017. In 2007 she launched the Campus Archaeology Program to promote public awareness of heritage and the value of archaeology, as well as provide student training in public archaeology.[11][12] Goldstein jointly received the AT&T Instructional Technology Award for the use and integration of social media with an on-campus field school in 2012.[13]

• 2015 Distinguished Career Award, Midwest Archaeological Conference.
• 2010 Curator Emeritus, Board of Curators, Wisconsin Historical Society.
• 2000 President's Award for Exceptional Service to the Profession, Society for American Archaeology.
• 1995 President's Award for Exceptional Service to the Profession, Society for American Archaeology.
• 1991 President's Award for Exceptional Service to the Profession, Society for American Archaeology.
• 1992 President's Award for Exceptional Service to the Profession, American Anthropological Association

• 2016 Reflections on Intersections of Mortuary Archaeology and Contemporary Society. In Archaeologies of Cremation Death and Fire in Europe's Past edited by M. Giles and H. Williams, pp. 433–451. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• 2016. Timelessness and the Legacy of Archaeological Cartography. Sissel Schroeder and Lynne Goldstein. In Archaeological Variability and Interpretation in Global Perspective edited by A. P. Sullivan III and D. I. Olszewski, pp. 153–174. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
• 2016 Review: Agatha Christie Mallowan. Come Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir. Clues: A Journal of Detection 34 (2016): 155-157.
• 2016 Comments on Violence and Perimortem Signaling among Early Irrigation Communities in the Sonoran Desert by James T. Watson and Danielle O. Phelps. Current Anthropology 57(5): 586-609.
• 2015 Blogging the Field School: Teaching Digital Public Archaeology. T. P. Brock and Lynne Goldstein. Internet Archaeology 39 https://dx.doi.org/10.11141/ia.39.8
• 2015 The Politics of Archaeology: Repatriation. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition edited by James Wright. Elsevier.
• 2014 Transformation and Metaphors: Thoughts on Cremation Practices in the Pre-Contact Eastern United States. Lynne Goldstein and Katy Meyers. In Transformation by Fire: The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context edited by G. Cooney and C. Quinn, p. 25-32. University of Arizona Press.
• 2014 Review of Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoples: Historical and Evolutional Dimensions of Intracemetery Bioarchaeology in Spanish Florida by Christopher Stojanowski. American Antiquity 79(3): 584-585.
• 2014 Repatriation: Overview. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology edited by Claire Smith. Springer.
• 2013 Reburial Ethics: Svestad's Analysis of the Neiden Sámi Case. SARC: Norwedgian Archaeological Review 46 (1): 3-5.
• 2013 On Ethics, Sustainability, and Open Access in Archaeology. Eric Kansa, Sarah Kansa, and Lynne Goldstein. SAA Archaeological Record 13(4): 15-22.
• 2013 Negotiation the Gateway: Working with Multiple Lines of Evidence to Determine Identity in The Dead Tell Tales: Essays in Honor of Jane E. Buikstra edited by Maria C. Lozada and Barra O’Donnabhain, pp. 32–42. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Monograph 76, University of California, Los Angeles.
• 2013 Lunch with Peg. Lynne Goldstein, Jodie O’Gorman, and Helen Pollard. The Michigan Archaeologist 54(2008) 217-220.
• 2012 The Cemetery at Fort Ross: What Does It Tell Us About those Who Lived Here? Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology 26(2012): 234-242.
• 2012 Cultural Affinity, Identity, and Relatedness: Distinguishing Individuals and Cultural Groups. Lynne Goldstein, Joseph T. Hefner, Kristin J. Sewell, and Michael Heilen in Uncovering Identity in Mortuary Analysis: Community-Sensitive Methods for Identifying Group Affiliation in Historical Cemeteries edited by M. Heilen, pp. 91–103. Left Coast Press.
• 2012 Deathways and Tucson's Living Population 1860-1880. Kristin J. Sewell, Michael Heilen, and Lynne Goldstein. In Uncovering Identity in Mortuary Analysis: Community-Sensitive Methods for Identifying Group Affiliation in Historical Cemeteries edited by M. Heilen, pp. 165–183. Left Coast Press.
• 2012 Mortuary Synthesis. Lynne Goldstein, Kristin J. Sewell, Michael Heilen, and Joseph T. Hefner. In Uncovering Identity in Mortuary Analysis: Community-Sensitive Methods for Identifying Group Affiliation in Historical Cemeteries edited by M. Heilen, pp. 185–226. Left Coast Press.
• 2012 The Alameda-Stone Cemetery and Mortuary Archaeology. In Uncovering Identity in Mortuary Analysis: Community-Sensitive Methods for Identifying Group Affiliation in Historical Cemeteries edited by M. Heilen, pp. 227–249. Left Coast Press.
• 2012 Cemeteries, Consultation, Repatriation, Reburial, and Sacred Spaces Today. Lynne Goldstein and Roger Anyon. In Uncovering Identity in Mortuary Analysis: Community-Sensitive Methods for Identifying Group Affiliation in Historical Cemeteries edited by M. Heilen, pp. 251–263. Left Coast Press.
• 2010 Aztalan Mortuary Practices Revisited. In Mississippian Mortuary Practices: Beyond Hierarchy and the Representationist Perspective edited by Lynne P. Sullivan and Robert Mainfort, pp. 90–112. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.
• 2010 Review of the National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations. Great Plains Quarterly 30(2):158-159.
• 2008 The Context of the Cemetery at Fort Ross: Multiple Lines of Evidence, Multiple Research Questions. Lynne Goldstein and Robert Brinkmann. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 39(4):1-21.
• 2008 Observations of an Anthropologist on Plastinated Bodies Exhibits. Medical Humanities Report 29(2):1-2.
• 2008 Comment on the Regeneration of Life: Neolithic Structures of Symbolic Remembering and Forgetting. Current Anthropology 49(2)189-190.
• 2006 Mortuary Analysis and Bioarchaeology. In Bioarchaeology: The Contextual Analysis of Human Remains edited by Jane E. Buikstra and Lane A. Beck, 375-387. Elsevier, Burlington, MA.
• 2005 Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town. Robert A. Birmingham and Lynne Goldstein. University of Wisconsin Press and Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison.
• 2004 An Analysis of Plummets in the Lower Illinois River Valley. In Aboriginal Ritual and Economy in the Eastern Woodlands: Essays in Memory of Howard Delton Winters, Kampsville Studies in Archaeology and History, Volume 5, edited by Anne-Marie Cantwell, Lawrence Conrad, and Jonathan E. Reyman, pp. 73–112. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers, Springfield.
• 2004 A Nineteenth Century Rural Irish Cemetery in McDonough County, Illinois. Lynne Goldstein and Jane E. Buikstra. In An Upper Great Lakes Archaeological Odyssey: Essays in Honor of Charles E. Cleland edited by William A. Lovis, pp. 43–63. Cranbook Institute of Science, Wayne State University Press.
• 2004 Archaeological Perspectives on the NAGPRA: Underlying Principles, Legislative History, and Current Issues. William A. Lovis, Keith W. Kintigh, Vincas P. Steponaitis, and Lynne Goldstein. In Legal Perspectives on Cultural Resources edited by Jennifer R. Richman and Marion P. Forsyth, pp. 165–184. Alta Mira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
• 2003 Commentary: Robert L. Hall at the Edge of Knowledge. The Wisconsin Archaeologist 84(1&2): 261-264.
• 2003 Teaching Ethics by Example: Archaeological Research and Graduate Training. In Theory, Method, and Practice in Modern Archaeology edited by Robert J. Jeske and Douglas Charles, pp. 301–308. Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut.
• 2002 Recasting the Past: Examining Assumptions About Aztalan. The Wisconsin Archaeologist 83(2)98-110.
• 2002 Afterword – Visible Death: Mortuary Site and Mortuary Landscape in Diachronic Perspective. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No 11; pp. 201–206.
• 2001 The Politics of Archaeology (NAGPRA Related Issues). International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences edited by P. Kirch and M. Conkey, Volume 3.2, article 41. Elsevier.
• 2001 Ancient Southwest Mortuary Practices: Perspectives from Outside the Southwest. In Ancient Burial Practices in the American Southwest: Archaeology, Physical Anthropology, and Native American Perspectives edited by Douglas R. Mitchell and Judy L. Brunson-Hadley, pp. 249–253. University of New Mexico Press.
• 2000 Mississippian Ritual as Viewed through the Practice of Secondary Disposal of the Dead. In Mounds, Modoc, and Mesoamerica: Papers in Honor of Melvin L. Fowler edited by Steven R. Ahler, pp. 193–205. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers, Volume XXVIII, Springfield.
• 2000 The Future of New World Archaeology. Discovering Archaeology 2(1): 74.
• 2000 Ethics and the Reburial Controversy. Lynne Goldstein and Keith Kintigh. In Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? Edited by Devon A. Mihesuah, pp. 180–189. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. Reprinted.
• 2000 Accountability: Responsibilities of Archaeologists to Other Interest Groups. Joe Watkins, Lynne Goldstein, Karen Vitelli, and Leigh Jenkins. In Ethics in American Archaeology (Second Revised Edition) edited by Mark J. Lynott and Alison Wylie, pp. 40–44. Society of American Archaeology, Washington DC. Reprinted.
• 2000 The Potential for Future Relationships Between Archaeologists and Native Americans in Ethics in American Archaeology (Second Revised Edition) edited by Mark J. Lynott and Alison Wylie, pp. 118–125. Society of American Archaeology, Washington DC. Reprinted.
• 1998 Aztalan in Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia edited by Guy Gibbon, pp. 41–43. Garland Publishing, Inc.
• 1997 Aztalan: A Middle Mississippian Village. Lynne Goldstein and Joan Freeman. Wisconsin Archaeologist 78(1/2):223-248.
• 1997 Exploring Aztalan and Its Role in Mississippian Societies. In Research Frontiers in Anthropology: Archaeology (Volume 2) edited by Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Peter N. Peregrine, pp. 159–186. Prentice Hall, New York.
• 1996 Repatiration and Reburial. In The Oxford Companion to Archaeology edited by Brian Fagan, pp. 589–590. Oxford University Press.
• 1996 Book Review: The Archaeology of Rank by Paul K. Wason. American Anthropologist 98(2):428-429.
• 1995 Accountability: Responsibilities of Archaeologists to Other Interest Groups in Ethics. In American Archaeology: Challenges for the 1990s. Joe Watkins, Lynne Goldstein, Karen Vitelli, and Leigh Jenkins. Edited by Mark J. Lynott and Alison Wylie, pp. 33–37. Society for American Archaeology.
• 1995 Politics, Law, Pragmatics, and Human Burial Excavations: An Example from Northern California. In Bodies of Evidence: Reconstructing History Through Skeletal Analysis edited by Anne L. Grauer, pp. 3–17. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
• 1995 Landscapes and Mortuary Practices: A Case for Regional Perspectives. In Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis edited by Lane Anderson, pp. 101–121. Plenum Press, New York.
• 1994 Relationships, Affiliations, Recriminations, & Lessons Learned: Comments on the Larsen Bay Repatriation Case. In Reckoning with the Dead: Kodiak Island Archaeology and the Larsen Bay Repatriation Case edited by T. Bray and T. Killion, pp. 175–179. Smithsonian Institution Press.
• 1994 Archaeology. In Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia edited by Mary B Davis, pp. 50–54. Garland Publishing, Inc.
• 1993 Fort Ross Clothing: New Data from Old Sources. In Clothing at Fort Ross and in Colonial Russian America: A New Look edited by John Middleton, pp. 104–110. Fort Ross Interpretive Association, Fort Ross, California.
• 1992 Excavating Burials in the 1990s. In Archaeology: Discovering Our Past edited by Robert J. Sharer and Wendy Ashmore, pp. 602–605. Mayfield Publishing Company.
• 1992 The Potential for Future Relationships Between Archaeologists and Native American. In Quandaries and Quests: Visions of Archaeology's Future edited by L. Wandsnider, pp. 59–71. Southern Illinois University Press.
• 1991 The Implications of Aztalan's Location. In New Perspectives on Cahokia: Views from the Periphery edited by James B. Stoltman, pp. 209–227. Prehistory Press.
• 1991 The Mysteries of Aztalan. Wisconsin Academy Review 1991: 28-34.
• 1991 Ancient Aztalan: The Cultural and Ecological Context of a Late Prehistoric Site in the Midwest, Lynne Goldstein and John D. Richards. In Cahokia and the Hinterlands: Middle Mississippian Cultures of the Midwest edited by Thomas E. Emerson and Barry L. Lewis, pp. 193–206. University of Illinois Press.
• 1990 Ethics and the Reburial Controversy, Lynne Goldstein and Keith Kintigh. American Antiquity 55(3): 585-591.
• 1990 A Soil-Geomorphic Analysis of the Midden Deposits at the Aztalan Site, Wisconsin, Michael Kolb, Norman Lasca, and Lynne Goldstein. In Archaeological Geology of North America edited by N. P. Lasca and J. Donahue, pp. 199–218, Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado.
• 1990 The Panel for National Dialogue on Museum/Native American Relations: A Minority View, Lynne Goldstein, Michael Moratto, and Douglas Ubelaker. Museum Anthropology 14(1): 15-16.
• 1998. A Guide to Common Prehistoric Projectile Points in Wisconsin. Sannie K. Osborn and Lynne Goldstein. Milwaukee Public Museum
• 1987 The Context of the Hensler Petroglyphs and Its Implications. Wisconsin Archaeologist 68(4): 412-418.
• 1986 The Art of Understanding Data. Wheels for the Mind 2(4): 42-49.
• 1985 Prehistoric Indians of Wisconsin (Revised Third Edition). Milwaukee Public Museum.
• 1981 One-dimensional Archaeology and Multi-dimensional People: Spatial Organization and Mortuary Analysis. In The Archaeology of Death edited by Chapman, Kinnes, and Randsbord, pp. 53–69. Cambridge University Press.
• 1980 Mississippian Mortuary Practices: A Case Study of Two Cemeteries in the Lower Illinois Valley Northwestern University Archaeology Program Scientific Papers #4.