Biography
Madeline E. Mackie (PhD, University of Wyoming) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University. She is an environmental archaeologist who specializes in forager archaeology with a particular emphasis on North American Pleistocene populations, megafauna hunting, and food systems. Her research frequently uses quantitative methods, spatial analysis, isotopes, and databases to investigate human lifeways in the past. While most of her research is currently centered in the Rocky Mountains and Plains region and behind the computer screen, she has worked in a variety of places including Wyoming, California, Nevada, Alaska, Utah, and Mongolia.
She regularly teaches a variety of archaeology courses including Introduction to Archaeology, Fake Archaeology: Pseudoscience and the Past, Environmental Archaeology, and the Archaeological Toolbox: Analytical Methods in Archaeology.
Works
Select Recent Publications
2026 Doering, Briana N., Madeline E. Mackie, and Molly Herron. Reconstructing Proboscidean Diet and Mobility during the Younger Dryas through Isotopic evidence from the Colby Mammoth Site, Wyoming, USA, Quaternary International 760:110166. 10.1016/j.quaint.2026.110166
2025 Mackie, Madeline E., Todd A. Surovell, Spencer R. Pelton, Paul H. Sanders, Robert L. Kelly, and Matthew O’Brien. Identifying and Investigating a Deeply Buried Activity Area at the La Prele Site, PaleoAmerica 11(3-4):296-299. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2025.2568819
2025 Kelly, Robert L., Madeline E. Mackie, Erick Robinson, and Spencer Pelton. Spatiotemportal Distribution of North American Indigenous Population Prior to European Contact, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122.6: e2419454122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2419454122.
2024 Pelton, Spencer, McKenna Litynski, Sarah A. Allaun, Michael Buckley, Jack Govaert, Todd Schoborg, Matthew O’Brien, Matthew G. Hill, Paul Sanders, Madeline E. Mackie, Robert L. Kelly, and Todd A. Surovell. Early Paleoindian use of fur bearers for bone needle production. PLoS One 19:11:e0313610, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313610.
2024 Surovell, Todd A., McKenna L. Litynski, Sarah A. Allaun, Michael Buckley, Todd A. Schoborg, Jack A. Govaerts, Matthew J. O’Brien, Spencer R. Pelton, Paul H. Sanders, Madeline E. Mackie, and Robert L. Kelly. Use of Hare Bone for the Manufacture of a Clovis Bead, Scientific Reports 14:2937, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53390-9.
2023 Kelly, Robert L., Madeline E. Mackie, and Andrew Kandel. Rapid Increase in Production of Symbol Artifacts After 45,000 Years Ago is Not a Consequence of Taphonomic Bias. Journal of Archaeological Sciences 160:105885, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105885.
2023 Mackie, Madeline E. and Heather Rockwell. Beyond Market Share: Accounting for Program Size in Recent Rates of Anthropology Faculty Job Placement, PLoS One 18(5):e0285330, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285330.
2022 Kelly, Robert L., Madeline E. Mackie, Erick Robinson, Jack Meyer, Michael Berry, Matthew Boulanger, Brian F. Codding, Jacob Freeman, Carey James Garland, Joseph Gingerich, Robert Hard, James Haug, Andrew Martindale, Scott Meeks, Myles Miller, Shane Miller, Timothy Perttula, James Railey, Ken Reid, Ian Scharlotta, Jerry Spangler, David Hurst Thomas, Victor Thompson, and Andrew White. A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States. American Antiquity 87:581-590, 10.1017/aaq.2021.157.
2022 Kitchel, Nathaniel and Madeline E. Mackie. Plants and Subsistence During the Fluted Point Period of the Northeast, American Antiquity 87:368-376, 10.1017/aaq.2021.125.
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