Photo Credit:  Charles Mann

MPPP Project Archaeologist
Dr. Chester Liwosz

     An expert on rock art of the Southwest and well beyond, Dr. Chester Liwosz joined the Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project as the Project Archaeologist starting in spring of 2019. He brings with him a solid background in iconography, database management, and geospatial reasoning to build on MPPP's legacy.  Using currently emerging methods digital archaeology, he is also expanding the scope of research at Mesa Prieta.
     Chester began his career in archaeology as a student participant on a long-established archaeological project studying Classic Period settlements of Honduras in 2008.  In 2009, he earned a

B.A. with honors in Anthropology from Kenyon College.  He attended the University of California Santa Cruz for graduate school, from which he received his M.A. in Anthropology in 2014, and Ph.D. in the same field in 2018.
      Dr. Liwosz’s experiences are diverse, spanning Mesoamerica, the Mojave Desert and Great Basin, and Polynesian Hawai‘i.  He has supported an array of public and non-profit bodies as an archaeologist, including California State Parks, the National Park Service, and the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research.  His current research interests focus on acoustics of rock art landscapes, and archaeological applications of 3D computerized models and virtual reality.
chester@mesaprietapetroglyphs.org

​Check out Dr. Liwosz's guest appearances, interviews, and lectures below.

The Rock Art Podcast feat. Dr. Alan Garfinkel and Chris Webster

NCW Libraries - STEM Interview feat. Esker Ellis