Don D. Fowler is the Mamie Kleberg Professor of Historic Preservation and Anthropology, Emeritus, at the University of Nevada, Reno. He took a BA from the University of Utah in 1959 and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1965. From 1957 to 1962 he was a staff archaeologist on the Glen Canyon Project. He has directed archaeological research projects in the Great Basin since 1966, including the $1,000,000 Sundance Archaeological Research Fund program from 1994 to 2001. He has been a Research Associate in Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution since 1970. He was President of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in 1985-87 and received the SAA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. He was awarded a Distinguished Graduate Medal from the University of Pittsburgh in 1986, held a University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) Foundation Professorship from 1988 to 1991, and was named UNR Outstanding Researcher of the Year in 2003.