Summary
Current Status: MA in progress.
Academic Interest: Great Basin hunter-gatherers of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition.
Lab Associations: Artemisia Archaeological Research Fund
Aiden Hlebechuk is a master's student in the Department of Anthropology and a research assistant with the Artemisia Archaeological Research Fund. Aiden attended the University of Oregon Archaeological Field School at the Connley Caves in 2022 and subsequently took on a research project investigating an assemblage of artifacts collected from the site in the 1960s. This research was presented at the 38th Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Aiden graduated from the University of Oregon in 2023 with his B.S. in anthropology. Prior to graduate school, Aiden worked for two years in cultural resource management on projects across Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and California. In spring of 2024, Aiden presented research on the subsistence strategies and technological organization of southern Paiute peoples occupying the Mormon Mountains in southern Nevada. Aiden is primarily interested in hunter-gatherer archaeology of the Great Basin, peopling of the Western Hemisphere, and historic preservation. For his thesis, Aiden is investigating the early geomorphic and archaeological histories of Macy Flat, a dry pluvial lakebed in northwestern Nevada.
Education
- B.S. Anthropology, University of Oregon, 2023