B.A. in anthropology and geological sciences from the University of Texas, Austin in 1969.

M.S in geological sciences.

Ph.D. in geology at University of Idaho in 1974.

source: Jonathan Ogden Davis

• Davis's Ph.D. dissertation was on Quaternary Tephrochronology of Lake Lahontan, Nevada and California.

• This document remains as an important research tool in archaeology and Quaternary studies.

• Many of his research works are valuable to archeology.

• In 1982, he published the first modern synthesis of lacustrine and paleoclimatic history of the entire Lahonton system.

Quaternary tephrochronology of the Lake Lahontan area, Nevada and California (Nevada Archeological Survey research paper)