Paul F. Reed is a Preservation Archaeologist currently assigned as Chacoan Scholar at Salmon Ruins, New Mexico. Reed has been employed in this position for the last five years. He recently completed work as editor (and author of several chapters) on the three-volume, comprehensive report entitled Thirty-Five Years of Archaeological Research at Salmon Ruins, published in summer 2006 by the Center and the Salmon Ruins Museum.

Reed has written and edited several publications during the last 15 years. He authored The Puebloan Society of Chaco Canyon, published by Greenwood Press in 2004. He wrote several chapters for and edited Foundations of Anasazi Culture: The Basketmaker-Pueblo Transition, published by the University of Utah Press in 2000. He has also published articles in journals and other publications. Other research interests include ancient Puebloan community and social development, Chacoan outlier studies, and the social and economic organization of Early Navajo groups in the Dinétah, New Mexico.

Among his other interests, Reed leads tours to Salmon and Aztec Ruins, Chaco Canyon, the Chuska Valley, and the Navajo Country, and gives public presentations on different topics in southwestern archaeology and history. Reed has conducted fieldwork and research in the Southwest for more than 20 years. From 1993 to 2001, Reed directed a roads archaeology research program for the Navajo Nation Archaeology Department.

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