Dean R. Snow

Dean Richard Snow is an archeologist and an American ethnohistorian who is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University who has conducted extensive archeological research on the Iroquois Indian nations of northeastern America, and other indigenous cultures in the highlands of Mexico, and in Spain and France. Snow specializes in ethnohistory and is considered an authority in this field. Snow has conducted archaeological field investigations along the Mohawk Valley and at the Saratoga battlefield. In 1977 he was asked by the U.S. Department of Justice to act as a historical consultant involving Indian land claims against the state of Maine. Snow was raised in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. He married Janet Keller in 1963. They and their three adult children later lived in the Saratoga region in upstate New York. Snow has written many books and journal articles on North American archeology, Indian nations and related subjects.