Dr. N’omi Greber

Curator of Archaeology
e-mail: ngreber@cmnh.org
phone: (216) 231-4600, ext. 3302
B.A., mathematics, Smith College
M.A., mathematics, Harvard University
Ph.D., anthropology, Case Western Reserve University

Expert on Hopewell collections and fieldwork at Hopewell sites; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anthro-pology, Case Western Reserve University; Member, Executive Board, Cleveland Archaeological Society, Archaeological Institute of America; Member, Advisory Board, Midwest Region, the Archaeological Conservancy; Research Associate, Ohio Historical Society

Areas of specialization or interest:
Prehistory of Eastern North America with particular emphasis upon Early and Middle Woodland; Hopewell or Adena peoples and their mounds and earthworks; Shawnee ethnohistory; geophysical remote sensing; site preservation; Museum archaeological collections

Current research:
Studying Hopewell collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, The Field Museum, the Ohio Historical Society, Hopewell Culture National Historical Park in Chillicothe and the British Museum; conducting field work in Ross County, Ohio. A major goal of current projects is to obtain chronological data that will enable reliable estimates of the time that major earthworks were built and used in order to better estimate the factors that began and carried on the Hopewell cultural efflorescence.