Robert S. Weiner is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Dartmouth Society of Fellows and Lecturer in the Department of Religion. His research interests include the archaeology of religion, ritual movement, sacred landscapes, Indigenous North America, Chaco Canyon, Diné (Navajo) oral traditions, monumentality, sensoriality, cross-cultural comparison, and cognition and mind.
His research has been featured on the cover of American Archaeology magazine and in Science magazine. He has also been interviewed for several documentaries on PBS and the History Channel, including most recently Written on the Landscape: Mysteries Beyond Chaco Canyon. Dr. Weiner has directed an archaeological mapping project in the Four Corners since 2019. He has also been a crew member on excavations and surveys in New Mexico, Arizona, and Türkiye. Dr. Weiner is the author of numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. His work has appeared in such journals as Antiquity, American Antiquity, and World Archaeology. A
2025 article details Dr. Weiner’s work using Lidar technology and he identification of a 1,000-year-old sacred road system near Chaco Canyon.
Dr. Weiner received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2023. Dr. Weiner also holds an A.M. in Archaeology and the Ancient World from Brown University and an A.B. in Archaeology and the Ancient World & Anthropology from Brown University.
