Education

B.S. Geology - Tennessee Technological University, 1984

M.S. Geology - Eastern Kentucky University, 1997

Ph.D. Geology - University of Iowa, 2000

 

Research Interests

Archaeological Geology (Geoarchaeology); Soil Geomorphology; Soil/Sediment Micromorphology; Ceramic Petrography; Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology, and Paleoecology; Forensic Geology

 

Courses Taught at UND

 Geol 101: Introduction to Geology

 Geol 303: Introduction to Forensic Geology

 Geol 311: Geomorphology

 Geol 491: Principles of Geoarchaeology

 Geol 525: Weathering and Soils

 Anth 309: Environmental Archaeology

 

Selected Publications   

Josephs, R. L., 2002, Evidence for full-glacial accelerated mass wasting from  Bogus Cave, Jones County, Iowa: Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, v. 64(3), p. 175-179.  Link to .pdf

Josephs, R. L., 2002, A comparison of two numeric dating techniques, OCR and ¹⁴C, employed at a buried archaeological site (15HL21) in Harlan County, Kentucky: Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science, v. 63(2), p. 102-106.

Josephs, R. L., and Bettis, E. A. III, 2003, A practical alternative to Kubiena boxes for the collection of samples for micromorphological analysis: Geoarchaeology,  v. 18(5), p. 567-570.  Link to .pdf

Josephs, R. L., 2003, Geoarchaeological investigations at the Whitfield Site  (15HL21): a buried, multicomponent habitation site in southeastern Kentucky: Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science, v. 64(2), p. 100-107.  Link to .pdf

Josephs, R. L., and Spiess, A. E., 2004, Micromorphological investigations at the Hedden site (4.10): a buried Paleoindian occupation along the southern Maine coast: Current Research in the Pleistocene, v. 21., p. 53-55.  Link to .pdf

Josephs, R. L., 2005, A petrographic analysis of Extended Middle Missouri ceramics from North Dakota: Plains Anthropologist, v. 50(194), p. 111-120.  Link to .pdf

Josephs, R. L., 2005, Applying micromorphological terminology to ceramic petrography: Geoarchaeology, v. 20(8), p. 861-865.  Link to .pdf

Josephs, R. L., 2005, A 20,000-CALYBP caribou mandible from a cave site in east-central Iowa: Current Research in the Pleistocene, v. 22, p. 73-74.  Link to .pdf

Josephs, R. L., 2007, Micromorphology of a Late Woodland cave site, east-central Iowa: Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, v. 32(1), p. 71-88.  Link to .pdf

Josephs, R. L., in press, Micromorphological investigations at the Upper Sandy Cove 3 (GbBi-7) and Porcupine Strand 23 (FkBg-30) archaeological sites, Labrador: North Atlantic Archaeology.

Josephs, R. L., under review, Micromorphology of an early Holocene loess-paleosol sequence, central Alaska, USA: Agroborealis. 

Josephs, R. L., and Neilsen, S. W., under review, Geoarchaeological investigations at two Intermediate Period Amerindian sites in Labrador: implications for late Holocene paleoshoreline reconstruction in western Hamilton Inlet: Journal of the North Atlantic.

Gallagher, J. M., and Josephs, R. L., under review, Using LIDAR imagery to detect cultural resources in a forested environment: an example from Isle Royale National Park, Michigan, USA: Archaeological Prospection.  Link to .pdf (draft copy)