Don G. Wyckoff

Don G. Wyckoff is an American archaeologist closely associated with Oklahoma archaeology. The Sam Noble Museum identifies him as Curator Emeritus in archaeology, and notes that he continued working on archaeological and paleoenvironmental research, including projects on Calf Creek sites, proxy records from snails, and early Holocene materials in the Red River Basin.

According to the museum’s history of the archaeology collections, he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in anthropology at the University of Oklahoma, worked with the Oklahoma River Basin Survey Project from 1962 to 1968, and then served from 1968 to 1996 as state archeologist and director of the Oklahoma Archeological Survey. The same source says he joined the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on July 1, 1996, as associate curator of archaeology and also held a University of Oklahoma faculty role.

His research interests have included the Caddoan tradition in the Arkansas and Red River basins, ancient hunter-gatherer camps in eastern Oklahoma, Quaternary studies, and the archaeology of major Oklahoma sites. His publication record listed by the Sam Noble Museum spans many decades and includes work on sites, landscapes, and environmental history, as well as books and reports for both scholars and general readers.