The Falls Creek Rock Shelters

Dawn Mulhern is a professor of anthropology and associate dean of arts & sciences at Fort Lewis College. She previously worked in the Repatriation Osteology Laboratory at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. With Mona Charles, she has a chapter on Basketmaker mortuary patterns in Ancient Southwestern Mortuary Practices. Mona Charles works in the collections at the La Plata County Historical Society's Animas Museum, where she has been the project grant director for two IMLS grants and one national NAGPRA grant. Her articles have appeared in KIVA and Southwestern Lore. She is the owner of the archaeological consulting firm Powderhorn Research, LLC.