Jacob Freeman

School of Social Sciences

Professor | Program Director


Jacob Freeman

Contact Information

Office Location: Logan (MAIN 245A)
Phone: +1 435 797 1636
Email: jacob.freeman@usu.edu

Educational Background

PhD, Anthropology, Arizona State Univeristy, 2014

Expertise

Courses taught: North American Archaeology, Anthropological Inquiry, Cross-cultural Approaches to Diversity and Change; Graduate Seminar in Southwest Archaeology and Adjacent Regions

    Publications | Book Chapters

  • Freeman, J., (2017). Diversity,reciprocity and the emergence of equity-inequity tradeoffs: The Give and Take of Sustainability: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspective. University of Cambridge Press

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

  • Freeman, J., Robinson, E., (2025). Long-term population dynamics following innovations in food production. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Accepted
  • Freeman, J., (2024). Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion and Intensification: Malthusian and Boserupian Dynamics. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
  • Freeman, J., Robinson, E., Beckman, N., Bird, D., Baggio, J.A, Anderies, J.M, (2020). The global ecology of human population density and interpreting changes in paleo-population density. Journal of Archaeological Science, 120, 105168.
  • Bird, D., Freeman, J., Robinson, E., Maughan, G., Finley, J.B, Lambert, P.M, Kelly, R.L, (2020). A First Empirical Analysis of Population Stability in North America Using Radiocarbon Records. The Holocene, 30:9, 1345-1359.
  • Strawhacker, C., Snitker, G., Peeples, M.A, Kinzig, A.P, Kintigh, K.W, Bocinsky, K., Butterfield, B., Freeman, J., Oas, S., Nelson, M.C, Sandor, J.A, Spielmann, K.A, (2020). A Landscape Perspective on Climate-Driven Risks to Food Security: Exploring the Relationship between Climate and Social Transformation in the Prehispanic U.S. Southwest. American Antiquity, 85:3, 427-451. doi: 10.1017/aaq.2020.35
  • Freeman, J., Byers, D.A, Robinson, E., Kelly, R.L, (2018). Culture process and the Interpretation of Radiocarbon Data. Radiocarbon, 60, 453--467. doi: 10.1017/RDC.2017.124
  • Freeman, J., Baggio, J., (2017). The effect of ownership on ecosystem management among human foragers. Quaternary International, doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.12.004
  • Freeman, J., Keith, J., Roberts, M., Owens, A., (2017). The Effects of Revenue and Social Capital on Collective Governance: Implications for Political Complexity. Cross-Cultural Research, 52, doi: 10.1177/1069397117732278
  • Freeman, J., Hard, R.J, Mauldin, R.P, (2017). A theory of regime change on the Texas Coastal Plain. Quaternary International, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.12.029
  • Freeman, J., Coyle, T.R, Baggio, J., (2016). The functional intelligences proposition. Personality and Individual Differences, 99, 46–55.
  • Freeman, J., (2016). The socioecology of territory size and a work-around hypothesis for the adoption of farming. PLoS One, 11:7, doi: e0158743.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0158743
  • Freeman, J., (2016). Marking and making difference: Representational diversity in the US Southwest. American Antiquity, 81, 253--272.
  • Freeman, J., Anderies, J.M, (2015). The socioecology of hunter–gatherer territory size. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 39, 110–123.
  • Freeman, J., Peeples, M., Anderies, J.M, (2015). Toward a Non-linear Theory of the Transition from Foraging to Farming. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 40, 109-122.

Professional Journal

    An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

    Publications | Other

    An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

    Teaching

    ANTH 3350 - Archaeology of Ancient Civilizations (DSS), Fall 2025
    ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH 5340, 5340, 5340, 5340, 5340, 5340, 5340, 5340, 5340, 5340, 5340, 6340, 6340, 6340, 6340, 6340, 6340, 6340, 6340, 6340, 6340, 6340 - Archaeology of the Desert West, Fall 2025
    ANTH 4980 - History and Theories of Anthropology, Spring 2025
    ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980 - History and Theories of Anthropology, Spring 2025
    ANTH, ENVS 4210, 6210 - Anthropological Perspectives on Conservation, Fall 2024
    ANTH 1030 - World Archaeology (BSS), Fall 2024
    ANTH 4980 - History and Theories of Anthropology, Spring 2024
    ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980, 4980 - History and Theories of Anthropology, Spring 2024
    ANTH 6410 - Writing for Archaeologists, Spring 2024
    ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH, ANTH 6410, 6410, 6410, 6410, 6410, 6410, 6410, 6410, 6410, 6410, 6410 - Writing for Archaeologists, Spring 2024
    ANTH 5300 - Archaeology Field School, Fall 2023
    ANTH 3350 - Archaeology of Ancient Civilizations, Fall 2023
    ANTH 1030 - World Archaeology, Fall 2023
    ANTH 4980 - History and Theories of Anthropology, Spring 2023
    ANTH, ANTH, ANTH 4980, 4980, 4980 - History and Theories of Anthropology, Spring 2023
    ANTH 6950 - Archaeology Special Topics/Seminar, Fall 2022
    ANTH 1030 - World Archaeology, Fall 2022
    ANTH 1030 - World Archaeology, Summer 2022
    , Spring 2022
    ANTH 4980 - History and Theories of Anthropology, Spring 2022
    ANTH 4980 - History and Theories of Anthropology, Spring 2022
    ANTH 4980 - History and Theories of Anthropology, Spring 2021
    ANTH 4110, 6110 - Southwest Indian Cultures, Past and Present, Spring 2021
    ANTH 1030 - World Archaeology, Fall 2020
    ANTH 6950 - Archaeology Special Topics/Seminar, Spring 2020
    ANTH 4980 - History and Theories of Anthropology, Spring 2020
    ANTH 3350 - Archaeology of Ancient Civilizations, Fall 2019
    ANTH 5900 - Independent Studies, Fall 2019
    ANTH 4980 - History and Theories of Anthropology, Spring 2019
    ANTH 4110, 6110 - Southwest Indian Cultures, Past and Present, Spring 2019
    ANTH 3350 - Archaeology of Ancient Civilizations, Fall 2018
    ANTH 6950 - Archaeology Special Topics/Seminar, Fall 2018
    ANTH 6950 - Archaeology Special Topics/Seminar, Spring 2018
    ANTH 4980 - History and Theories of Anthropology, Spring 2018
    ANTH 3350 - Archaeology of Ancient Civilizations, Fall 2017
    ANTH 5900 - Independent Studies, Fall 2017
    ANTH 6360 - Research Design and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Fall 2017
    ANTH 4980 - History and Theories of Anthropology, Spring 2017
    ANTH 4110, 6110 - Southwest Indian Cultures, Past and Present, Spring 2017
    ANTH 6950 - Archaeology Special Topics/Seminar, Fall 2016
    ANTH 6370 - GIS in Archaeology, Spring 2016
    ANTH 4980 - History and Theories of Anthropology, Spring 2016
    ANTH 6360 - Research Design and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Fall 2015

    Graduate Students Mentored

    Clancy Gonzales, School of Social Sciences, August 2024
    Michael Young, School of Social Sciences, December 2023
    Josh Clements, School of Social Sciences, August 2023
    Stan Rhodes, Environment & Society, January 2019 - December 2023
    Gideon Maughan, School of Social Sciences, August 2018 2021
    Aaron larson, School of Social Sciences, August 2016 2021
    Paige Dorsey, School of Social Sciences, January 2019 - August 2021
    Darcy Bird, School of Social Sciences, August 2017 - August 2019
    Lauren Merchent, Environment & Society, August 2017 - April 2019