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Mark McCoy

Mark D. McCoy
Assistant Professor
PhD - UC Berkeley, 2006

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Mark D. McCoy is an archaeologist who studies the development of complex, hierarchical societies on Pacific islands, especially the Hawaiian Islands. His research interests include social landscapes, agriculture, and paleodemography, and his methodological expertise is in the use of spatial technology, digital archaeology, and lithic analysis.

Dr. McCoy received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He has chaired sessions at meetings of the Society for American Archaeology and the Society for Hawaiian Archaeology and presented, or co-authored presentations, for meetings of the American Anthropology Association and International Congress of Easter Island and Pacific Studies. Papers on his research have appeared in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Geoarchaeology, and the Journal of the Polynesian Society and he has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the Arizona Memorial Museum Association.


Dr. McCoy’s most recent research centers on paleodemography and social change in the Hawaiian Islands. For more information on current projects, research opportunities, and courses offered by Dr. McCoy, please follow the link to the right.

Office: CH 469A

Phone: (408) 924-5542

Email: mdmccoy@email.sjsu.edu

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       Mark D. McCoy, PhD.