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Faunal AnalysisMortuary Analysis

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ARCHAEOLOGY

GRADUATE STUDIES

IN ARCHAEOLOGY

AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

MASTER OF ARTS IN ANTHROPOLOGY

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN ANTHROPOLOGY

For further information, contact:Graduate Coordinator

Department of AnthropologyArizona State UniversityTempe, AZ 85287-2402

(480) 965-6213Fax: (480) 965-7671

email: [email protected]

July 2003

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 3

Admissions and Student Support ........................................................................................................... 4

Facilities and Resources ............................................................................................................................ 5

The Academic Program ............................................................................................................................ 9

Faculty ......................................................................................................................................................... 20

Graduate Courses ...................................................................................................................................... 29

Please see the Graduate College Home Pagehttp://www.asu.edu/graduate/

An electronic application is available athttp://www.asu.edu/gradapp/

Department of Anthropology Home Pagehttp://www.asu.edu/clas/anthropology

Archaeological Research Institute Home Pagehttp://www.archaeology.asu.edu

Teotihuacan Project Home Pagehttp://www.archaeology.la.asu.edu/vm/mesoam/teo

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INTRODUCTIONThe archaeology program invites applicants aspiring toward the Ph.D., although M.A.requirements are normally met along the way. It emphasizes a solid foundation in

anthropological and archaeological method and theory, coupled with a practical approach to field andlaboratory applications. Courses in theory and related methodology are given in settlement patternsand intrasite analysis, mortuary and style analysis, bioarchaeology, geoarchaeology, ethnoarchaeology,cultural ecology, and the archaeology of gender, the household, complexity, and ideation. Regularofferings in analytical techniques include quantitative and formal methods; ceramic, lithic, faunal, andpollen analysis; and survey and excavation procedures. Related courses are available in ecological andeconomic anthropology, and ethnohistory. The location of the university within an archaeologicallyrich area has resulted in a strength in Southwestern research; the department also offers concentrationsin Mesoamerican, Old World, and Eastern U.S. studies.

Students are encouraged to take advantage of opportunities for archaeological research offeredthrough field schools, faculty research programs, the Office of Cultural Resource Management(OCRM), the Archaeological Research Institute (ARI), the Institute for Human Origins (IHO), andindependent research. Supporting these activities are ceramic, pollen, faunal, and general purposelaboratories, computer equipment, and computerized data bases and collections. Other facilities oncampus provide a wide range of support in chemistry, statistics, computer science, physics, biologicalsciences, geography, and engineering.

Frequent anthropology colloquia, with presentations by faculty members, students, and visitingspeakers, afford students a forum for discussion of current issues in the field and an opportunity forthe development of mutual interests. Student interactions are further enhanced by an active localgraduate student group, the Association of Anthropology Graduate Students (AAGS), an ASU chapterof Lambda Alpha, the national anthropology honor society, and the Department's Anthropology Club.

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ADMISSIONS ANDSTUDENT SUPPORT

Prospective students are encouraged to correspond with faculty who share their interests. Applicationsand general information can be acquired by contacting the Department at the address and telephonenumbers listed on the title page of this booklet. Persons who are interested in visiting the campus areencouraged to do so. If we are given some advance notice of the visit, we will be best able to arrangeappointments with appropriate faculty members and with graduate students.

Admission to the program is based on procedures and policies of the Graduate College and theDepartment of Anthropology and is highly selective. Applicants must submit transcripts fromprevious universities attended, GRE scores, three letters of recommendation, and a statement ofpurpose. Foreign applicants must submit TOEFL scores, while GRE scores are optional.

With the approval of the student's Supervisory Committee, the Department Chair, and the Dean of theGraduate College, a maximum of nine semester hours of coursework completed before admission maybe applied to the program of study. Of these nine, only six hours from another institution can beapplied.

The Department awards approximately 30 academic year, one-third time (13.4 hours per week) andone-half time teaching assistantships on a competitive basis. Stipends for these assistantships varyaccording to graduate standing and include remission of out-of-state tuition. Teaching assistantshipsfor the following academic year are awarded annually on the basis of applications which are submittedby an announced deadline. A variable number of research assistantships are offered, depending oncurrent research programs. A variable number of scholarships waive the out-of-state tuition or in-statefees.

Depending upon the availability of funds, student research may be supported through the Department'sResearch Incentive Fund for up to $1,000 for Ph.D. candidates and $500 for M.A. candidates. TheDepartment also offers the possibility of employment in the Office of Cultural Resource Management(OCRM). In addition to these resources, the University also offers loan programs. Applicants shouldconsult the Graduate College for information on these sources of support.

Each year the department awards the Ruppé Prize for an outstanding graduate student paper inarchaeology and the Thompson Award for outstanding graduate student work in Socioculturalanthropology. Endowments fund cash awards that are given with both Prizes .

Applicants who do not have an Anthropology Bachelor's degree or who are applying after receivingan M.A. from another institution in anthropology or a related field may have some deficiencies notedon their admission letter from the Department. Students who are accepted into the graduate programwith limited background in anthropology are generally required to make up deficiencies by takingcourses in one or more subdisciplines. A student may fulfill a deficiency requirement by taking twoundergraduate courses or one graduate-level course approved by his or her program head. Subdisci-plines and programs may have additional or overlapping course requirements outside the student'smain subdiscipline. Further policy information will be provided upon entrance to the program.

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FACILITIES AND RESOURCESBUILDINGS

Anthropology has a three-story building in the central part of campus which housesa museum, classrooms, offices, collections, and laboratories. A reading room is maintained for studentuse, and many course readings are kept on reserve there. The Community Services Building (CurryRoad Facility) is located in Papago Park about one mile north of the main ASU campus. It offers acomplex of facilities for the Office of Cultural Resource Management, additional faculty and studentlaboratories, and collections storage. ARI, located in the Tempe Center on the western edge of campus,contains another series of labs, collections and other resources.

FIELDWORK

Field research in the Southwest, Mesoamerica, and around the Mediterranean is an active element inthe archaeology graduate program. Summer field schools, academic year field courses, culturalresource management investigations, and individual research projects in the Southwest, some of themin the urban area, provide graduate students excellent training relatively close to Phoenix. Anarchaeological research center at Teotihuacan, Mexico houses more than a million objects and provideslaboratory and living facility for up to ten persons. Similar facilities in Veracruz and Zacatecas, Mexicoserve as the headquarters for the Mixtequilla Archaeological Project and the La Quemada-MalpasoValley Archaeological Project.

The Department's summer ethnographic field school in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico providesopportunities for individual and collaborative research on a wide variety of topics. Students interestedin applied anthropology gain field experience in the Phoenix area as part of a Practicum course.Sociocultural faculty research projects elsewhere in Arizona and the Southwest, Mexico, and thePhilippines frequently involve students as well. Physical anthropologists are conducting research inEgypt, Poland, Malaysia, Siberia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, and South Africa, as well as the AmericanSouthwest.

LABORATORIES AND EQUIPMENT

Laboratories and equipment available for student instruction and use include camera and videoequipment, tape recorders, darkroom and drafting facilities, and map and records files. Archaeologicalfacilities include ceramic study collections; palynology laboratory; faunal collections and laboratory;wet laboratory; processing and conservation laboratories; equipment for microscopic examination ofceramics and other materials, including a thin section saw, petrographic and binocular microscopes,an image analysis camera with a computer link; field vehicles and tools; and surveying equipmentincluding CPS units and a total station. The Archaeological Research Institute curates extensivearchaeological collections and has artifact laboratories and information technology facilities for relatedresearch. The physical anthropology program maintains well-equipped dental, DNA, osteology, andcomparative anatomy laboratories, as well as an x-ray facility. The Department has a full-time researchspecialist for physical anthropology who oversees the diverse operations of the laboratories andpreparation of the collections and who also assists students with projects involving these resources.

LIBRARIES

The Hayden and Noble (Science and Engineering) Libraries have grown steadily to more than 2 millionvolumes and 2 million microfilm units, and ASU's collections appear on the list of the top 50 researchlibraries in the United States. Anthropological literature has enjoyed a high priority in the University

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library budget, both in regard to new books and in the purchase of back holdings. ASU is a memberof the Association of American College and Research Libraries and has an active interlibrary loanprogram.

COMPUTER RESOURCES

A powerful array of computing resources is available to anthropology students at ASU. The Universityhas a policy of open access to computing resources and universal e-mail for students. University-wideresources include UNIX servers and IBM mainframes, and a campus-wide microcomputer networkwith statistical and data management programs, e-mail, news and information, and software archives.The University supports microcomputer labs with DOS/Windows, Macintosh, and Unix workstations,along with printers, scanners, digitizers, and other equipment. The Anthropology Departmentmaintains a graduate student computer lab, and an in-house local area network (LAN). All worksta-tions in university and departmental labs are networked, with direct Internet access. The Department'sgraduate computer lab and LAN provide a wide variety of computer-based tools for anthropologicalresearch. The lab includes DOS/Windows and Macintosh workstations and dot matrix and laserprinters.

All workstations in the lab are connected to the departmental and university-wide network. Softwaremaintained for departmental use includes word processing, statistical analysis, GIS, CAD, datamanagement, image analysis, and Internet tools.

In addition, an extensive computing lab is available for student use at the Archaeological ResearchInstitute. Resources include SQL and GIS data servers, 15 workstations, a large format digitizing tablet,a wide format plotter, flatbed and slide scanners, a microscopic scanner and (through a partnershipwith the PRISM lab) 3-dimensional laser scanners. Software includes GIS, data management, applica-tion development, statistics, CAD, graphics and web design, and office software. A growing archiveof digital GIS and archaeological data is available for research use.

COLLECTIONS

The Department maintains archaeological collections estimated to number more than two million speci-mens, obtained in the course of systematic research at thousands of sites. Most of these materials areSouthwestern, primarily from Arizona. There are also significant research collections from other areas ofNorth America, Mesoamerica, and the Near East. The Department houses more than 7,000 slides of Adena,Hopewell, and other Eastern Woodlands art, as well as copies of original field notes and field photographsfrom many Hopewellian sites. In addition to archaeological materials, there are substantial ethnologicaland physical anthropological collections. Facilities for curation and study of these materials are availablein the Anthropology Building. In addition to scholarly publications and technical reports, more than 100theses and dissertations have been based wholly or in part on the archaeology collections to date. Physicalanthropology resources include skeletal and worldwide dental cast collections, the Albert A. Dahlbergcollection of Pima Indian dental casts, and access to a collection of chimpanzee skeletons through thePrimate Foundation of Arizona.

OFFICE OF CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

The Office of Cultural Resource Management (OCRM) is an archaeological research unit under thedirection of Glen Rice that exists to serve archeological and cultural resource management needs of thepublic and private sectors, and to provide education and research opportunities for the students andfaculty of the University. Since 1977 the Office has obtained nearly $13,000,000 of contracts, conductingnumerous projects in the Hohokam, Sinagua, and Mogollon regions. These projects provide practicalexperience along with a wealth of research opportunities for archaeology graduate students. Archae-ologists have also been employed by OCRM following completion of their doctoral programs at ASU.

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The OCRM's Roosevelt Platform Mound Study, completed in 1998, has had a major impact on theunderstanding of Hohokam and Salado social organization and settlement strategies as well asgenerating a massive database and significant artifact collection which will be used in many futurestudies. The Office has its own publication series, Anthropological Field Studies, and reports are alsopublished on occasion in the Department's Anthropological Research Papers, as well as in majorprofessional journals.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

The Archaeological Research Institute (ARI) is a repository and research unit that curates extensivearchaeological collections, preserves archaeological materials and related data, pursues researchactivities associated with the archaeological record, and conducts educational programs to disseminateknowledge of the past to Arizona's citizens. ARI encourages and facilitates Native Americaninvolvement and training in curation management and museum operation. ARI curates more than70,000 specimens from excavations in central Arizona (Bureau of Reclamation-sponsored CentralArizona Project; dam modification projects for Roosevelt, Bartlett, and Horseshoe Dams). ARI supportsa post-doctoral fellowship and several research assistantships for graduate students that involve assistingthe Senior Staff with collections management, archive and database management, and materials analysisand environmental research. Several reference collections, including ceramic type collections and faunalcomparative collections, are available for use in research.

THE INSTITUTE OF HUMAN ORIGINS (IHO)The Institute of Human Origins is dedicated to the study of paleoanthropology. Institute staff,including Donald Johanson, William Kimbel, Kaye Reed, Anne Stone, and Curtis Marean, have facultyappointments in the Department of Anthropology and are actively engaged in graduate education. TheInstitute provides ASU students with opportunities to participate in field research at fossil sites inAfrica, the Middle East and elsewhere; to conduct laboratory research on the "hard" evidence for humanevolution, employing its collection of more than 1,000 casts of fossil primates and its 3,200+ volumelibrary; and to create self-motivated "hands-on" experience through volunteer opportunities inresearch and public outreach activities. The Institute is involved in a number of overseas field projects,including the IHO/University of Witwatersrand summer field school at the Makapansgat cave site,South Africa.

MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY

The Museum of Anthropology, established in 1961, is located in the Department of Anthropology. Themuseum plays a major instructional role in the Museum Studies Program. It includes a 2,650 squarefoot exhibit gallery in which Museum Studies students are encouraged to curate exhibitions, developeducational programs, and conduct visitor behavior studies. In addition to the main gallery, exhibitsconcerning faculty and student research are located throughout the entire building. A workshopprovides space for exhibit design and planning and is used for exhibit construction.

DEER VALLEY ROCK ART CENTER

The Deer Valley Rock Art Center is a publicly accessible archaeological site and research center in NorthPhoenix managed by ASU's Department of Anthropology. The Rock Art Center preserves andinterprets the Hedgpeth Hills petroglyph site, the largest concentration of prehistoric rock art in thePhoenix area. Visited by more than 17,000 people each year, it includes a museum, an interpretive trailto the site, and a research library. The research resources include the library and archives of theAmerican Rock Art Research Association. Students from the Department of Anthropoogy are involvedin all aspects of the Rock Art Center's operation, from research to delivering public programs andadministration.

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OTHER CAMPUS MUSEUMS

The University Art Museum presents a wide array of changing exhibits, drawing from both its excellentpermanent collection and from other sources. Collections are housed and exhibited in the Nelson FineArts Center and Matthews Center. The Museum of Geology, in the Physical Science Complex, displaysminerals, gems, fossils, and shells from around the world. A variety of other exhibits can be found inthe Mars Laboratory, the Arboretum, the University Libraries, the Archives, the Memorial Union,Grady Gammage Auditorium, and other campus locations.

PUBLICATIONS

Scholarly monographs have been edited and published by the Department since 1969. They includetwo series: Anthropological Research Papers (ARP) and Anthropological Field Studies (AFS). ARP publishesoriginal scholarly work in all branches of anthropology and has a wide range of contributors, both fromASU and other institutions. The AFS is devoted primarily to publishing OCRM research. For severalyears the Dental Anthropology Newsletter has been produced and published at ASU by present EditorSue Haeussler. Many students participate in production and article-writing.

RESEARCH CENTERS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS

The University contains a number of interdepartmental programs and research centers that serve theinterests of both students and faculty. Those of greatest interest to anthropologists include:

Center for Environmental StudiesCenter for Solid State ScienceArizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesInstitute for Studies in the ArtsCenter for Asian StudiesCenter for Latin American StudiesHispanic Research CenterCenter for Bilingual/Bicultural EducationCenter for Indian EducationWomen's Studies ProgramProgram for Southeast Asian Studies

Descriptions of all these centers and programs can be found in the University's General Catalog. Ofspecial interest to anthropologists are the research grants and fellowships awarded on a competitivebasis by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Program for Southeast Asian Studies. A numberof these awards have gone to anthropology graduate students in recent years.

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THE ACADEMIC PROGRAMIN ARCHAEOLOGY

Students are admitted to a Ph.D. program in archaeology. To obtain the degree, students without anM.A. are required to pass through M.A.-level training. The master's program is designed to developprofessional competence in field, laboratory, and library research, with a strong foundation intheoretical concepts. On a Ph.D. level, students are trained to make significant research contributionsthrough application of archaeological method and theory to specific bodies of archaeological informa-tion. Departmental steps in these programs are summarized below. In addition, students must fulfillthe Arizona State University Graduate College requirements concerning the number of credit hours,deadlines, and submission of various forms. For further details, see the "Archaeology GraduateProgram Requirements and Procedures" guide on line at the department web site.

PHASE ONE

The Master's Degree

For full-time students, the Master’s program is designed to occupy two to two-and-a-half years,culminating in a publishable paper. By the end of the second semester, a student should select aSupervisory Committee consisting of a Chair, and two other members, and with the committee, shouldformulate an individual program of study. Prior to selection of a committee, the subdisciplinary headordinarily serves as the student’s advisor.

Courses in the program of study reflect the student’s interests. For students other than those focusingon bioarchaeology, courses must include the four core requirements, plus electives and research hours.Three graduate courses each semester normally make up a full-time academic schedule. A full courseload for students with teaching and research assistantships is two graduate courses.

CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS AT THE MASTER’S LEVEL

A minimum of 30 hours is required for a M.A. degree. Core courses that must be taken at the Master’s level:

ASB540: Method and Theory IASB542: Method and Theory II

or ASB555: Complex Societiesor ASB591: Chiefdoms

ASB543: Method and Theory IIIASB565: Quantitative and Formal Methods in Archaeology

Additional courses:

4 courses approved by the student’s Master’s committee. The courses can be any within theDepartment of Anthropology or other departments, as approved by the committee. Note the coremodules required for completion of doctoral course work (see below). Students may take courses fromthese modules at the Master’s level to fill out their 30 hours of course work for the Master’s degree.

Thesis:

Thesis research (6 credit hours)

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Field Problem:

The field problem requirement can be satisfied by taking the Graduate Field Anthropology course (ASB532) or with appropriate documentation from a relevant field experience.

The first semester of the method and theory series is a Departmental core course, taught jointly byarchaeology and sociocultural faculty for students in archaeology, bioarchaeology, museum studies,and sociocultural anthropology. In the third semester, Masters’ students prepare a research proposalin Method and Theory III. Completion of this proposal followed by a meeting with the Masters’committee can suffice as a defense of the proposal. This “informal defense” is only possible if a student1) forms a committee before or early in the semester during which they register in M&TIII and 2)includes the entire committee in the formulation of the proposal during the semester in which M&T IIIis taken. A more formal defense may be required if the student does not formulate a committee insufficient time. When the publishable research paper is completed, a defense of it is scheduled as thefinal step in the Masters’ program.

CURRICULUM AREAS AT THE MASTER’S LEVEL FOR STUDENTS INTERESTED IN

BIOARCHAEOLOGY

Students intending to focus on bioarchaeology, in either the archaeology or physical anthropologysubdisciplines, take a curriculum in phase one that is especially tailored to integrate fundamentals ofarchaeology and physical anthropology in a broad, bioarchaeological perspective. The student’sprogram of study includes 6 required core courses plus two electives, followed by thesis research hours,for a minimum of 30 hours. The curriculum is as follows:

ASM591 PaleopathologyASM591 Human OsteologyASM591 Mortuary AnalysisASB540/542 Archaeological Method and Theory I or IIASM591 Prehistoric DietA course in statisticsElective in physical anthropology (selected with the approval of the student’s advisor)General elective (inside or outside of the Anthropology Department, advisor-approved)Thesis research (6 credit hours)

Archaeology students interested in bioarchaeology normally take ASB 565, Quantitative and FormalMethods, for their statistics course. (Physical Anthropology students focusing on bioarchaeologynormally take BIO 415, Biometry). Electives in the curriculum are selected to meet the student’sparticular topical interests, as well as their bent toward either archaeology, which stresses culture andbehavior, or physical anthropology, which stresses human biology in relation to culture and behavior.Archaeology students focusing on bioarchaeology should choose electives from the core curriculumcourses and modules at the Masters’ or doctoral levels for archaeology. (Physical anthropologystudents with interests in bioarchaeology do similarly, taking electives from the Physical AnthropologyMasters’ or doctoral requirements; see brochure for Physical Anthropology.) Selection of electives inconsultation with the Archaeology Advisor in Bioarchaeology is strongly suggested.

PHASES TWO AND THREE

The Doctoral DegreePhase two of the program is tailored to meet the individual’s professional and intellectual goals throughadvanced field and laboratory research. Normally, the program centers on a geographic area in whichthe student plans to develop advanced competence and on selected topics of anthropological concern.A Supervisory Committee of at least three members is selected (including one person from outside the

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regional focus of the student) and must be approved by the departmental Graduate Committee. Inconsultation with the Supervisory Committee, the student develops a program of study designedaround his or her interests.

PHASE TWO: CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS AT THE DOCTORAL LEVEL

The university requires 30 hours of course work beyond the M.A., along with 24 hours of dissertationand research credit, for a total of 54 credit hours beyond the completion of a 30 hour Masters’ degree.Courses taken during phase two to meet the university requirement of 30 hours must include at leastone course from each of the following four core curriculum modules.

Core courses must be taken at the doctoral level in these areas:Theoretical TopicsCulture Historical Issues, Within Student’s Primary Geographic AreaCulture Historical Issues, Out of Student’s Primary Geographic AreaAnalysis of Archaeological Materials

Students should select courses in consultation with their committee. In addition, doctoral studentsmust take a course in Sociocultural anthropology, an advanced course in quantitative methods, andmay be required to demonstrate foreign language proficiency, if this language is needed to pursueresearch interests. If students have not completed M&T I, M&T II, M&T III, Quantitative Methods, anda complex societies course or the equivalent of these courses in the Master’s program (Phase One), theymust be completed during this second phase of the program.

Additional courses:A course in Sociocultural AnthropologyA course in advanced quantitative methods (beyond ASB 565)Additional electives, which fill out the university’s 30 hour course work requirement, will reflect thestudent’s particular geographic area and/or topics of interest. These courses may be any from the listbelow, other subfields in Anthropology, or outside of Anthropology, selected with the approval of thestudent’s committee.

Theoretical TopicsASB 591 Archaeological Perspectives on LandscapesASB 559 Archaeology and the Ideational RealmASB 591 Archaeology of the Social RealmASB 591 ChiefdomsASB 555 Complex SocietiesASB 550 Economic ArchaeologyASB 591 HouseholdsASB 591 Human Impacts on the EnvironmentASB 563 Hunter-Gatherer AdaptationsASB 547 Issues in Old World Domestication EconomicsASB 591 Modern Human OriginsASB 591 Mortuary AnalysisASB 546 Pleistocene PrehistoryASB 591 Prehistoric and Recent Population IssuesASB 551 Prehistoric DietASB 544 Settlement PatternsASB 591 Issues in Urban Ecology

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Culture Historical IssuesASB 591 Archaeology of Highland Central MexicoASB 591 Archaeology of North AmericaASB 591 Archaeology of North and West MexicoASB 591 Near Eastern Complex SocietiesASB 567 Southwestern ArchaeologyASB 591 The Stone Age of AfricaASB 537 Topics in Mesoamerican ArchaeologyASB 591 Topics in North American ArchaeologyASB 591 Topics in Southwestern Archaeology

Analysis of Archaeological MaterialsASM 555 Advanced Human OsteologyASM 591 Archaeological CeramicsASM 435 Archaeological Pollen AnalysisASB 591 Ceramic TheoryASM 452 Dental AnthropologyASB 591 EthnoarchaeologyASB 591 Faunal AnalysisASB 548 GeoarchaeologyASM 573 Lithic AnalysisASM 591 Subadult Osteology

Sociocultural Anthropologydetermined by student doctoral committee

Advanced Quantitative MethodsASM 566 Advanced Quantitative MethodsBIO 415 BiometryASB 591 Geographic Information SystemsASB 568 Intrasite Research StrategiesSTP 420 Introductory Applied StatisticsASB 591 Simulation and Modeling Archaeology

The courses listed above do not exhaust the course offerings in archaeology within the above modules.New courses are offered from time to time and students should inquire about these from theArchaeology Subdiscipine Head. Students who come to ASU with a Masters’ degree from elsewheremust demonstrate completion of courses equivalent to those required for our MA degree.

For students who took the bioarchaeology curriculum at the Master’s level, the required courses inPaleopathology and Prehistoric Diet meet the archaeology modular requirement in Theoretical Topics;Human Osteology meets the modular requirement in Analysis of Archaeological Materials; andMortuary Practices and Analysis generally meets the modular requirement in Sociocultural Anthropol-ogy, pending approval by the student’s doctoral committee. Bioarchaeology students must take eachof the five core courses in the Master’s curriculum and a course from each of the six core modules in thedoctoral curriculum by the end of their doctoral course work. Archaeological field experiences arestrongly recommended during phase one or two for students focusing on bioarchaeology.

Normally, following two or three semesters of advanced coursework, the student prepares a researchbibliography reflecting his or her selected interest areas and topics. Subsequently, the ComprehensiveExamination is scheduled, which is a two-day written exam formulated by the student’s committee andfocused on the student’s research interests.

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PHASE THREE

The next step in the program is preparation of a dissertation proposal and its defense, which constitutesthe oral segment of the Comprehensive Examination sequence. Upon completion of the dissertationproposal, the student enters phase three of the program. Preparation of the dissertation and its defensecomplete the requirements for a Ph.D. degree.

PROGRAM STRENGTHS

Southwestern ArchaeologySouthwestern archaeology is one of the major strengths of the department. Seven regular faculty(Hegmon, Kintigh, M. Nelson, Redman, Rice, and Spielmann) and one member of the research faculty(Simon) have major research commitments in the Southwest, as do six adjunct faculty (Brunson-Hadley, Doelle, Doyel, James, Lindauer, and Ravesloot) and three emeritus faculty (Dittert, Gaines, andSchoenwetter). Recent and on-going field projects have been directed by Hegmon, Kintigh, Nelson,Redman, Rice, and Spielmann, and this level of field activity is one of the distinguishing characteristicsof the program. Rice has conducted a number of large CRM projects in the Hohokam and Salado areas.OCRM historically has taken on medium-sized and very large contracts with substantial researchpotential, which have benefited students intellectually as well as offering them employment.

Redman's primary research interests include human impacts on the environment, in past andcontemporary settings, and multidisciplinary approaches. Kintigh is studying social and politicaldevelopments in the Zuni area of west-central New Mexico from A.D. 900 through the protohistoricperiod. Dramatic changes in social integration are indicated by population aggregation and movementculminating in the establishment of very large planned towns about A.D. 1275. Spielmann hasresearched trade between Southwestern farming and Plains hunting populations. Her current researchis focusing on the development of craft specialization and long-distance exchange in the Rio Grandearea. Gran Quivira, Pueblo Colorado, and Quarai have been the foci of several seasons of study thatreveal their involvement in extensive exchange networks. Hegmon and Nelson co-direct a project inthe Mimbres area of New Mexico. They focus on economic and social changes associated with theClassic (A.D. 1000-1150) to Postclassic (A.D. 1150-1250) Mimbres transition. Among the issuesaddressed by this project are human impact and sustainability of various agricultural strategies, thetransfer of technological style, and regional reorganization.

McCartney's research activities in the Southwest have included a GIS study of agricultural potential incentral Arizona, development of chronological methods for dating ceramic assemblages and theimplementation of a state-wide cultural resource inventory for Arizona. Through course work and asdirector of the ARI computing lab, McCartney has supported a variety of student research projectsinvolving settlement pattern studies and GIS methods. Simon uses ceramic compositional analysis andquantitative methods to delineate social networks and examine issues of gender in the prehistoricSouthwest. She is a faculty associate of the Goldwater Center for Solid State Science and facilitatesstudent use of the analytical instruments there. Gaines' research focuses on the detailed simulation ofpueblo agriculturalists living in small villages. Schoenwetter’s pollen research has refined intra- andinter-site dating and reconstructed paleoenvironments pertinent to such processes as the establishmentof agricultural economy and sedentary lifeways and Puebloan abandonment.

Students interested in the Southwest would generally start with the core "Southwestern Archaeology"graduate seminar jointly taught by a number of the Southwestern faculty. On a rotating basis, thefaculty offer "Topics in Southwestern Archaeology," each of which is oriented toward a current issueof concern to both students and faculty.

Social anthropology faculty including Bahr, Brandt, and Martin conduct southwestern ethnographicresearch and offer courses in a variety of subjects concerning Southwestern Indians.

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Mesoamerican ArchaeologyFaculty in archaeology, social anthropology, literature, and art history develop complementary aspectsof Mesoamerican studies. Cowgill's research deals with long-term patterns of development andcollapse of early state societies. Much of his research focuses on the Mesoamerican urban center ofTeotihuacan---its demography, households, political organization, developmental history, iconogra-phy and ideology, and role in Mesoamerica. Ben Nelson has been investigating frontier dynamics innorthern Mesoamerica. His research at La Quemada, Zacatecas, examines the political economy of thefrontier as well as ancestor veneration, ritualized warfare, and the attributes of elite residences. Starkspecializes in the archaeology of Mesoamerica, especially the development of tropical lowlandcivilizations. Her long-term settlement pattern project in the Veracruz Gulf coast of Mexico addresseseconomic and political change on a regional basis. Schoenwetter has contributed to studies of sites inthe western and southern Mexican highlands through pollen and environmental analyses. Umberger(Art History) is an Aztec specialist emphasizing sculpture but including architecture and othericonographic materials. Her most recent research examines the material evidence for Aztec imperialexpansion.

In social anthropology, Chance concentrates on ethnohistorical evidence concerning social organiza-tion in the southern and central highlands of Mexico. He has published research on cargo systems andcurrently is pursuing the role of native elites in the colonial period.

Students with a Mesoamerican or complex societies focus in their program of study may wish to includecourses such as Aztec Art, Ethnohistory of Mesoamerica, Topics in Mesoamerican Archaeology,Archaeology of Highland Mexico, Archeology of West Mexico, Complex Societies, and SettlementPatterns.

Old World ArchaeologyFive faculty members conduct research in this area, and their interests range from egalitarian tocomplex societies. For ancient time ranges, Clark and Barton are interested in human biological andcultural evolution in 'deep time'--the Plio/Pleistocene and Holocene of Africa, Europe and the NearEast. Redman has contributed research on domestication economies in western Asia and theemergency of sociopolitical complexity at a medieval city in Morocco. Falconer examines Bronze Agevillage organization in the Levant and the changing roles of smaller settlements in regional systems.Emeritus Professor Schoenwetter has undertaken historic archaeology/pollen studies of land usechange in the pre-Alps region of southwest France. Adjunct faculty Glass has experience in the westernEuropean Upper Paleolithic.

Depending on the time ranges of interest and research issues, students with an Old World focus maywish to consider courses such as Pleistocene Prehistory, Issues in Old World Domestication Economies,Lithic Analysis, Hunter-gatherer Adaptations, Fossil Hominids, Prehistoric Diet, Complex Societies,and Near Eastern Complex Societies. Several physical anthropologists have research areas that maybe of interest to graduate students in archaeology. As described in the Bioarchaeology section of thisbrochure, they are engaged in Old World archaeology-related projects in Egypt, Ethiopia, and SouthAfrica.

Eastern Woodlands ArchaeologyThree faculty in archaeology and physical anthropology have long-standing interests in the prehistoryof the Eastern Woodlands of the United States. Carr focuses on the social and political organization andthe religion of Late Archaic through Woodland Period peoples of the Midwestern, Midsouthern, andGreat Lakes regions of the United States, with emphasis on Hopewellian peoples. Regional mortuarylandscapes, sites, and art are the primary material remains he studies to address such issues.

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Spielmann's interests are more economically oriented and currently focus on the development of craftspecialization and long-distance exchange within ritual contexts for northern Hopewellian communi-ties. She is systematically comparing the prehistoric records of the Eastern and Southwestern UnitedStates for these developments, along with ethnohistorical accounts in these regions, in order to developgeneral anthropological models on these topics. Baker's research centers on the effects of change insettlement patterns, subsistence, demography, and economic exchange on the health of peoples in theNortheast and regions of Spanish exploration and colonization during the late Prehistoric and ContactPeriods. She also studies the impact of European contact with Native Americans on their demography,social organization, and health. As a physical anthropologist with a bioarchaeological orientation, shetakes a broad, ecological view of late Eastern Woodlands prehistory.

Major archaeological and bioarchaeological collections of museums in the Eastern United States havebeen extensively and regularly used by Carr, Baker, and their students over the past fifteen years.Access to these collections is a strong point for students of Eastern Woodlands prehistory at ASU.

Students focusing their graduate studies on the prehistory of the Eastern United States may wish to takecourses or regularly offered independent studies on North American prehistory, Eastern U.S. Prehis-tory, Hopewell Archaeology, and Native North American Art (in the College of Fine Arts), as well asmethodological courses such as Mortuary Analysis and Bioarchaeology, which involve the analysis ofEastern Woodlands archaeological and bioarchaeological data.

Ecological Anthropology and Hunter-Gatherer AdaptationsA number of faculty members contribute research on ecological anthropology, most with a focus onhunter-gatherer adaptations. Clark is interested in long-term change in the human diet and howdemographic stress and past environments affect choices in use of food resources. His field researchdeals with the late-Pleistocene/early Holocene in north coastal Spain and with Middle Paleolithic toEpipaleolithic foragers in west-central Jordan. Barton has investigated adaptive responses to UpperPleistocene and Holocene environmental changes in eastern and southern Spain. Margaret Nelsonresearches hunter-gatherer and agriculturalist shifts in lifeways in the U.S. Southwest. Reed's workfocuses on reconstructing the habitats of hominids. Spielmann's research concerns later dietary change,particularly as it relates to interaction and trade between hunter-gatherer and farming populations,especially for groups in the U.S. Southwest and Plains. Schoenwetter brings his palynological expertiseto issues of paleoenvironmental reconstruction in the Southwest and Europe. Carr studies the long-term evolution of trade and interaction in developing tribal and rank societies of the EasternWoodlands. Stark contributes research on coastal adaptations in Mesoamerica. Redman currently issupervising a large interdisciplinary project studying ecosystemic relations in contemporary CentralArizona. As a part of that study, anthropology students are being supported to investigate historicland-use patterns, paleoecological reconstructions, and aspects of ancient irrigation societies.

Eder, a social anthropologist, concentrates on the rapidly changing adaptations of contemporaryhunter-gatherer populations within state societies. His fieldwork is in southeast Asia. Martininvestigates hunter-gatherer demography and its impact on social organization, including kinshipsystems and inheritance patterns.

Students with an interest in ecological anthropology and hunter-gatherers have a variety of coursesavailable, including Ecological Anthropology, Hunter-gatherer Adaptations, Prehistoric Diet, Pleisto-cene Prehistory, Economic Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, and Demography and SocialOrganization. Laboratory courses such as Faunal Analysis and Pollen Analysis train students in thestudy of particular types of data relevant to paleoecological studies.

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Quantitative ApplicationsQuantitative analysis and computerized data management increasingly characterize archaeologicalresearch. ASU has a strong program in quantitative methods, with seven faculty active in this area.Barton is interested in microcomputer applications, morphological analysis, and data management.Carr researches intrasite spatial analysis, the philosophy and logic of analysis, multivariate statistics,and image processing and filtering methods, and has developed various spatial statistics. Clark'sinvestigations include spatial analysis and statistical applications. Cowgill's work includes quantita-tive research design, spatial analysis of complex sites, exploratory data analysis, and probabilisticreasoning, including Bayesian methods. Gaines specializes in computer applications and datamanagement, including geographic information systems and mapping. Kintigh publishes on spatialanalysis, simulation, diversity measures, and subsurface sampling strategies, and has developedanalytical computer programs for archaeology. Redman publishes on sampling and archaeologysurvey methods. Research faculty member McCartney has research interests in quantitative methods,the analysis of geographical data, and data base management.

Colleagues in other departments work cooperatively with our faculty and graduate students, includingAldrich (Geography), who is interested in geographic information systems and computer mapping,and Young (Mathematics), who is an applied statistician specializing in multivariate analyses andlinear models. In the closely related topical area of settlement pattern research, Barton, Carr, Clark,Cowgill, Falconer, Hegmon, Kintigh, Ben Nelson, Margaret Nelson, Redman, Spielmann, and Stark areall actively involved in various scales of survey and settlement pattern investigations.

Students interested in developing expertise in quantitative applications would normally include aseries of advanced courses in statistics and such courses as Quantitative and Formal Methods inArchaeology, Simulation in Archaeology, Quantitative Analysis, Advanced Topics in QuantitativeArchaeology, and courses in the related topics of Intrasite Research Strategies, and Settlement Patterns.

Ideation and Material Culture StudiesIdeation and its expression in material culture are active areas of faculty research and teaching in theAnthropology Department and School of Art. This realm of study includes the reconstruction of pastworld view and belief systems, the "politically interested" use of beliefs, ideational factors in sociocul-tural change, cognitive landscapes and culturally constructed environments, material style, materialsymbols of social organization and exchange, craft organization and production, and ethnoaesthetics.Some media for which these topics have been addressed by ASU faculty and students includeiconography, rock art, architecture, various crafts (e.g., ceramics, textiles), and burials.

In Anthropology, Carr works on the theory and analysis of material style and mortuary practices, worldview, cross-cultural symbols of shamanic beliefs, and the reconstruction of religious beliefs in theprehistoric Eastern U.S. Cowgill investigates the political use of ideation through architecture andother material items, especially in Mesoamerica. He uses and critiques "post-processual" approaches.Hegmon researches style analysis, interpretive approaches, and ceramic technology, with applicationto the Southwestern U.S. Kintigh is interested in the symbolization of sociopolitical organization andpower in the architectural landscapes of the Southwestern U.S. Welsh uses visual anthropology,exchange theory, semiotics, and cultural property theory to study rock art and other material forms inthe Southwest and Great Basin. Bahr is interested in art and anthropology, ethnopoetics, andhumanistic approaches, applied to the Southwest. Brandt researches Native American world view,cultural landscapes, and sacred sites protection, centering on the Pueblo and Apache. Also supportingthe focus on material culture studies, Falconer and B. Nelson investigate pottery manufacture and use,and Barton and M. Nelson study lithic technology. Redman investigates ceramic style in the Southwest,and Stark researches ceramic style in Mesoamerica.

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In the School of Art, Duncan studies many material culture forms, material style, and the use of styleas an indicator of cultural affiliation. Her areas of expertise include the Subarctic, Northwest Coast, andPlateau regions of North America. Umberger investigates iconography and style and their relation tobelief systems, politics, and historical thought in prehistoric Mesoamerica (especially Aztec), colonialMexico, and the Andes.

More than 18 courses are offered in Anthropology and the School of Art that relate to ideational studies.Examples include Archaeology and the Ideational Realm, Style Analysis, Material Culture Analysis,Mortuary Analysis, Visual Anthropology, Art and Anthropology, Language and Culture, Mind andIdeology, Cultural Property, related museum studies topics, and the native prehistoric art of six non-Western regions.

Complex SocietiesThe rise, functioning, and decline of complex societies (those large in scale, heterogeneous andhierarchical in form) furnish perennial questions for archaeologists. Several courses are periodicallyoffered on this topic, including Chiefdoms, Complex Societies, Near Eastern Complex Societies, andArchaeology of Highland Central Mexico. Complexity is a major topic in broad areal surveys such asthe Archaeology of Mesoamerica, Southwestern Archaeology, and Archaeology of the Old World, aswell as various topical courses in each of those areas. ASU is a member of the Southwestern ComplexSocieties Group, which sponsors biennial conferences in the archaeology of complexity.

Faculty and graduate student research projects provide many field and laboratory opportunitiesrelated to this topic. Cowgill and his associates have active projects in ancient Teotihuacan, the secondlargest city in the Precolumbian New World, centering on the topics of political and economicorganization, demographic processes, households, iconography, ideology, and religion. Stark studiesClassic period settlement organization and regional development in Veracruz, where the famousOlmec civilization arose. B. Nelson works in the north-central frontier zone where the Mesoamericantradition reached its maximum northward extent. Redman has investigated complexity in NorthAfrica and the Near East, while Falconer explores bronze age village economy and ecology during therise and collapse of early cities in Jordan. In the Eastern United States, Carr researches the social andpolitical organization and the religion of Hopewellian mound builders, and Spielmann studies theirritual exchange and craft production systems. In the Southwest, Kintigh works on organizationalissues in the Cibola (Zuni) area from Chacoan times through the protohistoric period; Spielmann’sresearch focuses on the late prehistoric confederacies of the Rio Grande region. In addition to work onfaculty projects, graduate students have recently developed dissertation projects of their own oraffiliated themselves with other projects in the Arctic, Northwest Coast of North America, theAmerican Southwest, the Maya Lowlands, the Levant, India, and other areas.

BioarchaeologyBioarchaeology is the excavation and study of human skeletal remains and associated artifacts andfaunal remains in order to reconstruct past biological, behavioral, cultural, historical, and environmen-tal conditions and processes. Toward these ends, it integrates both archaeology and physicalanthropology. Topics of study include prehistoric diet and health, paleodemography, populationaffinity, mortuary rituals and what they tell us of the social organization and religion of past peoples,ecosystem structure, and human biodiversity and evolution. Bioarchaeology is an embracing field,which uses ecological , macroevolutionary, microevolutionary, and cultural anthropological theoriesof several paradigms to interpret human skeletal and associated remains. The Bioarchaeology programat Arizona State is designed to train students specifically in the synthesis – rather than simply thejuxtaposition – of archaeological and physical anthropological methods and theories for studying pastcultures and human adaptation..

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Bioarchaeology is one of the major strengths of the Department. Eleven regular faculty in archaeologyand physical anthropology (Baker, Carr, Clark, Cowgill, Merbs, B. Nelson, M. Nelson, Reed, Spielmann,Stark, Turner), one regular research specialist (Hawkey), and one research faculty associate (Sugiyama)have research programs that focus on or include bio-archaeological endeavors. Merbs and Turner werepioneers in the development of bioarchaeology as an academic discipline, and continue to moveforward the edge of the field. Bioarchaeological excavations currently are undertaken by ASU facultyin diverse places around the world, including Egypt; the central highlands, Gulf Coast, and northwesternregions of Mexico; South and East Africa, and the Southwestern U.S. Long-term studies of majormuseum collections from the Eastern U.S., the eastern Arctic, the western Arctic and Siberia, andEurope also take ASU faculty and bioarchaeology-oriented students away from campus for study.

For example, Cowgill and Sugiyama, through intensive excavations, have unearthed elite and sacrifi-cial burials at the famous Pyramid of the Moon and the Temple of Quetzalcoatl at Teotihuacan, Mexico.They and students are now studying the mortuary practices, paleodemography, and political activitiesof Teotihuacanos. Carr is studying the mortuary structures, artifacts, art, and skeletal data of Adenaand Hopewellian peoples of the Eastern U.S. in order to reconstruct their sociopolitical organization,religion, and changes of these through time. From museum records and artifact collections, Carr hasassembled a detailed data base of nearly all excavated Hopewellian mortuary remains in Ohio, whichstudents are now studying. Baker is excavating and studying the cemetery and settlement componentsof the major ancient Egyptian site of Abydos to reconstruct Egyptian social organization, health, anddemography. Spielmann uses bone chemistry, faunal, and floral data to reconstruct prehistoric dietsin the Southwestern U.S., exchange patterns between Plains and Southwestern peoples, and the role ofritual in exchange in societies of middle-range complexity. Reed is examining ecological andenvironmental change through the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa through faunal analysis of hominid sitesin Ethiopia and South Africa. Turner is investigating biological affiliations between Asian and NativeAmerican populations, as well as issues of institutionalized violence and cannibalism among peoplesof the American Southwest and Mesoamerica. Merbs is analyzing the burial practices of Inuit and pre-Inuit peoples of the eastern Arctic in order to shed light on their beliefs about the afterlife and changesin these over time.

Students wishing to concentrate in bioarchaeology during Phase One of the doctoral program inAnthropology can do so in either the archaeology or physical anthropology subdisciplines, dependingon the student's inclination. Bioarchaeologically-oriented students in both subdisciplines follow thesame curriculum, tailored to their needs (see above). For a list of the many kinds of courses availableto students interested in bioarchaeology, please request a brochure describing the BioarchaeologyProgram from the Graduate Coordinator. For more detailed information on the BioarchaeologyProgram, please contact the Bioarchaeology Student Advisor in Archaeology and/or the BioarchaeologyStudent Advisor in Physical Anthropology.

Museum Studies

The Department offers several opportunities for combining anthropological graduate work withmuseum anthropology. Museum anthropology forges theoretical, methodological, and practical linksbetween anthropology and museums. Museum anthropology begins with issues and concerns centralin contemporary anthropological theory — such as representation, materiality, visual culture, global-ization, and post-colonial encounters — and investigates how they are revealed in museums of alltypes. In addition, museum anthropology explores how anthropologically informed perspectives,methods, and insights can refine contemporary museum practice.

There are two avenues for study. Students can take a Master’s degree in anthropology with aconcentration in museums, or they can complete the requirements for a Certificate in Museum

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Anthropology. Both the degree and the certificate tracks include an internship in a museum. Both alsoinclude courses in the histories and theories that have influenced the development of museums, andboth offer opportunities to take courses in the functional areas of museums, such as collectionsmanagement, exhibit development, and museum administration. The masters degree track is explicitlyand fundamentally anthropological, academically rigorous, and research focused. Students complet-ing the program are well prepared either to enter the museum profession in curatorial and administra-tive positions, or to continue on for a PhD. The certificate is available to students in all subdisciplinesof anthropology, and can be tailored to each student’s particular area of interest. Students are admittedto the degree program every other year; students in graduate degree programs are admitted to thecertificate program every year.

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FACULTYProspective students are encouraged to correspond with faculty who share their

interests. General information can also be acquired by writing to the chair of the subdiscipline. Personswho are interested in visiting the Arizona State University campus are encouraged to do so. If we aregiven some advance notice of the visit, we will try to arrange appointments with appropriate facultymembers and with graduate students.

ARCHAEOLOGY FACULTY

C. Michael Barton (Ph.D. Arizona 1987; Prof./Curator). Barton has primary research interests inhuman paleoecology, with current projects in the Mediterranean (Paleolithic through Neolithic) andSouthwestern (Archaic) U.S. His specialties include hunter/gatherer societies, geoarchaeology, lithictechnology, and evolutionary theory, with an emphasis on human/environmental interaction, land-scape dynamics, and techno-economic change. Quantitative aspects of his research involve spatialtechnologies (including GIS and remote sensing), exploratory data analysis, and morphologicalanalysis. He also serves as curator for the department’s extensive archaeological and ethnographiccollections. Barton has worked in Spain and Bosnia, as well as the U.S. Southwest and Midwest. Selectedpublications include: The Human Settlement of the American Continents: a Multidisciplinary Approach toHuman Biogeograpy (2004); Dynamic landscapes, artifact taphonomy, and landuse modeling in thewestern Mediterranean, Geoarchaeology (2002); A taphonomic perspective on Neolithic beginnings:theory, interpretation, and empirical data in the western Mediterranean, Journal of Archaeological Science(2001); Landscape dynamics and socioeconomic change: an example from the Polop Alto valley,American Antiquity (1999); Rediscovering Darwin: Evolutionary Theory in Archaeological Explanation (1997);Beyond the graver: reconsidering burin function, Journal of Field Archaeology (1996); Art as information:explaining Paleolithic art in Europe, World Archaeology (1994); A new approach to interpreting Late-Pleistocene microlith industries in southwest, Antiquity (1994); Cultural and natural formation pro-cesses in late Quaternary cave and rock shelter sites of western Europe and the Near East, in SiteFormation in Context (eds. M.D. Petraglia, D.T. Nash, and P. Goldberg, 1994); Retouched tools: fact orfiction? Paradigms for interpreting chipped stone, in Perspectives in Prehistory (ed. G.A. Clark, 1991);Beyond style and function: a view from the Middle Paleolithic, American Anthropologist (1990)

Christopher Carr (Ph.D. Michigan 1979; Prof.) has primary research experience in anthropologicalarchaeology, the archaeology of sociopolitical organization and belief systems, mortuary practices,iconography, style in material culture, material technological analyses, quantitative methods, andEastern U.S. prehistory. His theoretical work currently focuses on the development of tribal and ranksociopolitical organization, and the role of ritual and religion in these developments, as well as thecosmology of simple societies. Application has been to the Woodland sequence of Ohio and the EasternU.S., especially Adena and Hopewell art, cemeteries, and ceramics. Carr also works on developinggeneral theory for interpreting mortuary practices and material style in social and religious terms, andlaboratory methods for analyzing artifacts. His technical studies have involved the analysis of ceramicswith electron microprobe, X-radiography, petrography, and AMS carbon dating; metals and pigmentswith EDX spectrometry, microprobe, and Raman microspectrometry; art with color and infrared digitalimaging and image enhancement; and many soil physical and chemical tests. Selected publicationsinclude: Style, Society, and Person (with J. Neitzel, 1995); For Concordance in Archaeological Analysis (1985);Toward an Analysis of Exchange of Meteoritic Iron in the Middle Woodland (with D. Sears, 1986),Southeastern Archaeology; and Identifying the Mineralogy of Rock Temper in Ceramics Using X-Radiography, American Antiquity (with J.C. Komorowski, 1995).

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Geoffrey A. Clark (Ph.D. Chicago 1971; Regents’ Prof.) has published mainly on various aspects ofUpper Pleistocene hunter-gatherer adaptations in the Mediterranean Basin, a subject he approachesfrom a regional paleoecological perspective. His archaeological fieldwork has principally been in Spainand Jordan, but he has also worked in Cyprus, France, Turkey, and the New World. Theoreticalinterests include paradigmatic change in Old World prehistory, research designs in prehistoricarchaeology and human paleontology, and quantitative methods. The recipient of twelve NSF andNGS awards, he is currently the Editor of ASU’s Anthropological Research Papers (ARP) and the foundingeditor of the American Anthropological Association’s Archeological Papers (AP3A), and former Chair ofits Archaeology Division (1997-99) and of the Anthropology Section (H) of the American Associationfor the Advancement of Science (2001-03). Selected publications include: Paradigmatic Biases andPaleolithic Research Traditions (with J. Lindly), Current Anthropology (1991); Continuity or Replace-ment? Putting Modern Human Origins in an Evolutionary Context, in The Middle Paleolithic: Adaptation,Behavior and Variability (eds H. Dibble and P. Mellars, 1992); Paradigms in Science and Archaeology,Journal of Archaeological Research (1993); Migration As an Explanatory Concept in Paleolithic Archaeol-ogy, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (1994); Modern Human Origins - Highly Visible,Curiously Intangible, Science (1999); Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research (ed., with C.Willermet, 1997), and Rediscovering Darwin (ed., with C.M. Barton, 1997),

George L. Cowgill (Ph.D. Harvard 1963; Prof.) is interested in the comparative study of ideational,political, and material aspects of early complex societies (especially the interactions between individu-als and their social and material contexts and how change is generated and resisted), statisticalapplications in archaeology, paleodemography, and factors affecting behavior that has fertilityconsequences for humans in the contemporary world. He has worked mainly in Mesoamerica,including the Maya Lowlands and, especially, at Teotihuacan in central Mexico, where he directs aresearch center that houses large collections of the Teotihuacan Mapping Project and other projects. Hehas carried out or supervised spatial and statistical studies of the city, based on computerized data fromthe Mapping Project; has co-directed excavations at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid; and is interestedin Teotihuacan ceramics, households, urban structure, political and religious symbolism, and relationswith the rest of Mesoamerica. Grants from NSF, NEH, NGS, and other organizations have supportedhis work. He is on the editorial board of Ancient Mesoamerica and has served as consulting editor formathematics and statistics for American Antiquity and as advisory editor for archaeology for CurrentAnthropology. He has held a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.Publications include The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations (co-ed. with N. Yoffee, 1988);Distinguished Lecture in Archeology: Beyond Criticizing New Archeology, American Anthropologist(1993); State and Society at Teotihuacan, Annual Review of Anthropology (1997); The Central MexicanHighlands from the Rise of Teotihuacan to the Decline of Tula, The Cambridge History of the Native Peoplesof the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica (ed. R. Adams and M. MacLeod, 2000); and “Rationality” andContexts in Agency Theory, Agency in Archaeology (ed. M.-A. Dobres and J. Robb, 2000).

Steven E. Falconer (Ph.D. Arizona 1987; Assoc. Prof.) specializes in the prehistory and history ofSouthwestern Asia and the Mediterranean Basin, focusing on the growth and dissolution of complexsocieties. His current research concentrates on village and household economies in early urbanizedsocieties and the long-term impacts of agrarian systems on the natural environment. He has directedsix seasons of excavation at four Bronze Age villages in the Jordan Valley and Dead Sea Plain, fundedby NSF, NEH, NGS, Wenner-Gren, and the Australian Research Council, and further fieldwork isplanned. Recent publications include: Agricultural Intensification and the Secondary ProductsRevolution in the Southern Levant, Human Ecology (with P. Fall and L. Lines, 2002); Spatial andStatistical Inference of Late Bronze Age Polities in the Southern Levant. Bulletin of the American Schoolsof Oriental Research (with S. Savage, 2003); Bronze Age Rural Economic Transitions in the Jordan Valley.Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research (with P. Fall, M. Metzger and L. Lines, in press);Environmental Impacts of the Rise of Civilization in the Southern Levant, in Prehistoric Human Impact:

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Global Perspectives on Environmental Degradation, edited by C.L. Redman, et al. (P. Fall, M. Metzger andL. Lines, in press).

Michelle Hegmon (Ph.D. Michigan 1990; Professor) is interested in the archaeology of the social realm,particularly in the American Southwest. Her early work focused on the northern part of the Southwest,particularly the Mesa Verde region. She is currently engaged in a long-term research program in theeastern Mimbres area of southwest New Mexico, a project that is investigating the social and economicreorganization associated with the end of the Classic Mimbres occupation. Analytically, Hegmon’sresearch focuses on ceramics, including both stylistic and technological analyses. Her theoreticalorientation is broad, and includes an interest in social and feminist theory. Selected publicationsinclude: The Archaeology of Regional Interaction (2000); Style as a Social Strategy in the Early PuebloanSouthwest (1995); The Architecture of Integration in Prehistoric Pueblos (1989), co-ed. with W. D. Lipe;Setting Theoretical Egos Aside: Issues and Theory in North American Archaeology, American Antiquity2003; Archaeological Research on Style, Annual Review of Anthropology (1992); Risk Reduction andVariation in Agricultural Economies: A Computer Simulation of Hopi Agriculture, Research inEconomic Anthropology (1989); Scale and Time-Space Systematics in the Post-A.D. 1000 MimbresRegion, The Kiva, (1999); and Abandonment and Reorganization in the Mimbres Region of theAmerican Southwest (with M. Nelson), American Anthropologist (1998).

Keith W. Kintigh (Ph.D. Michigan 1982; Prof.) is currently investigating social and economicorganization in the Zuni area of west-central New Mexico and east- central Arizona. The Arizona StateArchaeological Field School has been incorporated into his long-term Zuni research. In addition, heconducts wide-ranging research on quantitative methods in archaeology. Current quantitativeresearch topics include intrasite spatial analysis, archaeological diversity, and the application ofMonte-Carlo methods to archaeology. He is a recent past-President of the Society for AmericanArchaeology and has had long involvement in repatriation issues for the Society. He is a member ofCommission 5 of the International Union of Pre- and Protohistoric Sciences. Selected publicationsinclude: Settlement, Subsistence, and Society in Late Zuni Prehistory (1985); Measuring ArchaeologicalDiversity by Comparison with Simulated Assemblages, American Antiquity (1984); Ethics and theReburial Controversy (with L. Goldstein), American Antiquity (1990); and Post-Chacoan Social Orga-nization at the Hinkson Site, New Mexico (with T. Howell and A. Duff, 1996).

Curtis W. Marean (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley 1990; Professor; member of the Instituteof Human Origins) has research interests on the origins of modern humans, the prehistory of Africa,and the study of animal bones from archaeological sites. In the area of the origins of modern humans,he is particularly interested in questions about foraging strategies, for example when humans becameeffective hunters of large antelope, and the timing and processes underlying the evolution of modernhuman behavior. Marean has a special interest in human occupation of grassland and coastalecosystems. Marean’s primary methodological approach to investigating these questions iszooarchaeology, the study of animal bones, and taphonomy, the study of how bones become fossils.In particular, he focuses on experimental taphonomy and the replication of bone destruction processeswith the goal of refining zooarchaeological methods. His work in this area has had a profound impacton zooarchaeological methodology and our understandings of Neanderthals and early modernhuman hunting behavior. He has recently developed, with Yoshiko Abe, a novel image-analysiszooarchaeological recording system that utilizes GIS software. His recent research projects, all fundedby the National Science Foundation, include zooarchaeological studies of the fauna from Die KeldersCave 1 in South Africa, the fauna from the Zagros Mountains in Iran, and currently field research atMossel Bay in South Africa. Recent publications include “Estimating the Minimum Number of SkeletalElements (MNE) in Zooarchaeology: a Review and a New Image-analysis GIS Approach” (with Y. Abe,P. Nilssen, and E. Stone, American Antiquity 2001); The Middle Stone Age at Die Kelders Cave 1, SouthAfrica (ed., published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Evolution 2001, 233 pages);

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“Zooarchaeological evidence for Neandertal and Early Modern Human faunal exploitation” (withZelalem Assefa, Evolutionary Anthropology 1999); and “A critique of the evidence for scavenging byNeandertals and early modern humans: new data from Kobeh Cave (Zagros Mousterian) and DieKelders Cave 1 Layer 10 (South African Middle Stone Age)” (Journal of Human Evolution 1998).

Ben A. Nelson (Ph.D. Southern Illinois 1980; Prof.) conducts research in Mesoamerica and theAmerican Southwest. Among his interests are frontier dynamics, social power in the past, Mesoamerican-Southwestern interaction, and ethnoarchaeology. His professional service includes appointments oncommittees and panels of the SAA, AAA, NSF, the American Anthropologist, and Latin AmericanAntiquity. His publications include Decoding Prehistoric Ceramics (ed. 1985); Short-Term Sedentism in theAmerican Southwest: The Mimbres Valley Salado (with S. LeBlanc 1986); Mortuary Practices and the SocialOrder at La Quemada, Zacatecas, Latin American Antiquity (with J. Darling and D. Kice, 1992);Complexity, Hierarchy, and Scale: A Controlled Comparison of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, and LaQuemada, Zacatecas, American Antiquity (1995); Stratigraphy and Chronology at La Quemada, Zacatecas,Journal of Field Archaeology (1997); and Aggregation, Warfare, and the Spread of the MesoamericanTradition, in The Archaeology of Regional Interaction: Religion, Warfare, and Exchange Across the AmericanSouthwest and Beyond (ed. M. Hegmon, 2000), and Elite Residences in West Mexico, in Ancient Palacesof the New World: Form, Function, and Meaning, (ed. J. Pillsbury and S. T. Evans), in press.

Margaret C. Nelson (Ph.D. University of California at Santa Barbara 1981; Prof.) conducts research onthe organization of land use and technology and various perspectives on landscape. Her currentinterest is on changing economic and social strategies associated with population aggregation anddispersion among pueblo dwellers of the 11th through 14th centuries in the Mogollon region. Over 20years of fieldwork have been completed and four more are planned. This research has been funded byNGS, NIH, U.S. Department of Education, and private foundations. In addition, she has examinedaspects of the current status of women in archaeology. She recently served on the Executive Board ofthe Society for American Archaeology and as Treasurer for the Archaeology Division of the AmericanAnthropological Association. She is a member and past chair of the Society for American Archaeology’sCommittee on the Status of Women in Archaeology. Recent publications include Mimbres During theTwelfth Century: Abandonment, Continuity, and Reorganization (1999), Equity Issues for Women in Archae-ology (ed. with S. Nelson and A. Wylie, 1994), and the Study of Technological Organization, Archaeo-logical Method and Theory (ed. M. Schiffer, 1991).

Charles L. Redman (Ph.D. Chicago 1971; Virginia M. Ullman Professor Natural History and theEnvironment; Co-Director, IGERT) has a long-term interest in the development of complex societiesboth in the Near East/Mediterranean area and the American Southwest. More recently he has becomeinterested in human impacts on the environment. Having directed projects at late prehistoric andhistoric sites in several countries of the Old World, Redman has focused his field investigations inCentral Arizona since joining the ASU faculty. He is Director of the Archaeological Research Instituteand ASU’s Center for Environmental Studies and Co-Director of the Central Arizona-Phoenix LongTerm Ecological Research Project. Methodological interests include research design, sampling,ceramic interpretation, and use of architecture. He has served as chair of the Governor’s ArchaeologyAdvisory Commission and Advisory Council on Environmental Education, Board of Trustees of theMuseum of Northern Arizona and the Nature Conservancy, advisory council member of the Wenner-Gren Foundation and Biosphere 2, Archaeology Editor for the American Anthropologist, and programofficer at the National Science Foundation. Selected publications are: The Rise of Civilization: From EarlyFarmers to Urbanized Society in the Ancient Near East (1978); Archaeological Explanation (with P. Watson,S. Leblanc, 1984); Qsar es-Seghir: An Archaeological View of Medieval Life (1986); Surface Collection,Sampling, Research Design: A Retrospective, American Antiquity (1987); People of the Tonto Rim:Archaeological Discovery in Prehistoric Arizona (1993); and Human Impact on Ancient Environments (1999).

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Glen Rice (Ph.D. Washington 1975; Assoc. Prof.) is a Southwestern archaeologist who has directedlarge excavation and survey projects in the Hohokam and Mogollon regions. Among his interests arefield strategies and tactics and methods for the spatial analysis of archaeological deposits. Rice’sinvestigations have dealt with the emergence of sedentism, the operation of community systems, theorganizational strengths of tribal societies, and the processes involved in the transition from tribes tomore complex forms of social organization. Rice heads the Office of Cultural Resource Management,and he founded and edits ASU’s Anthropological Field Studies. Selected publications include: PlatformMounds of the Arizona Desert, Expedition (with C. Redman, 1993); Power in the Past, Native Peoples(with C. Redman, 1992); La Ciudad: A Perspective on Hohokam Community Systems, in The HohokamVillage: Site Structure and Organization (ed. D. Doyel, Am. Assn. for Adv. of Sci., 1987); and The HohokamCommunity of La Ciudad (ed., AFS, 1987)..

Katherine Spielmann (Ph.D. Michigan 1982; Prof.) Economic specialization, diet and health, andpolitical organization in middle range societies have been the focus of her NSF-funded field andlaboratory analysis projects involving a series of late prehistoric pueblos in central New Mexico andHopewell earthworks in southern Ohio. This research focuses on craft specialization and exchangewithin the Rio Grande area, between Pueblo farmers and Plains hunters, and among the OhioHopewell. The role of ritual in craft specialization and exchange, and comparisons between theeconomic practices of prehistoric Southwestern and Eastern Woodlands regions, are among her currentinterests. Spielmann recently chaired the Society for American Archaeology Committee on the Statusof Women in Archaeology and is secretary of the Archaeology Division of the AAA. Selectedpublications include: Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists: Interaction between the Southwest and SouthernPlains (1991); Interdependence in the Prehistoric Southwest: An Ecological Analysis of Plains-Pueblo Interac-tion (1991); Clustered Confederacies: Sociopolitical Organization in the Protohistoric Rio Grande, inThe Ancient Southwestern Community: Models and Methods for the Study of Prehistoric Social Organization(eds. W. H. Wills and Robert Leonard, 1994); Hunters and Farmers: Then and Now, Annual Review ofAnthropology 23 (with James Eder, 1994); Reorganization: The Pueblo IV Period in the American Southwest(ed., 1998); Gender and Exchange in the Prehistoric Southwest. In Women and Men in the PrehispanicSouthwest, (ed. Patricia Crown); and Feasting, Craft Specialization, and the Ritual Mode of Production.American Anthropologist 104:195-207 (2002).

Barbara L. Stark (Ph.D. Yale 1974; Prof.) specializes in the origins and developmental trajectories ofcomplex societies in Mesoamerica. Prehistoric economy and sociopolitical organization in tropicallowland areas have been the focus of field projects on the Pacific coast of Guatemala and the Gulf coastof Mexico. Her publications have dealt with coastal adaptations, settlement patterns, economic andpolitical change, and ceramics. She has served as a member of the Executive Boards of the AA and SAAand as Editor for Archaeology, American Anthropologist. Her long-term settlement pattern study of theMixtequilla region in Central Veracruz, Mexico, has received NSF, Wenner-Gren, and NGS support.Recent publications include: Olmec to Aztec: Settlement Pattern Research in the Ancient Gulf Lowlands (co-edited, 1997); People with Cloth: Mesoamerican Economic Change from the Perspective of Cotton inSouth-central Veracruz (with others), Latin American Antiquity (1998); Classic Period Mixtequilla,Veracruz, Mexico: Diachronic Inferences from Residential Investigation (edited 2001).

RESEARCH FACULTY ASSOCIATE

Saburo Sugiyama (Ph.D. ASU 1995; Prof. at Aichi Prefectural University and Assoc. Research Prof.,ASU) has had extensive field experience in Mesoamerica and is especially interested in Teotihuacaniconography, architecture, symbolism, and worldview. Most recently he has co-directed excavationsat the Feathered Serpent Pyramid and is Principal Investigator of excavations at the Pyramid of theMoon, supported by NSF, NEH, NGS, and the Japanese government. He has published extensively inSpanish, Japanese, and English. Recent English publications include The Templo de Quetzalcoatl

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Project at Teotihuacan: a Preliminary Report, Ancient Mesoamerica (with R. Cabrera and G. L. Cowgill,1991), The Temple of Quetzalcoatl at Teotihuacan: Its Possible Ideological Significance, AncientMesoamerica (with A. López A. and L. López L., 1991), Worldview Materialized in Teotihuacan, Mexico,Latin American Antiquity (1993), and Termination Programs and Prehispanic Looting at the FeatheredSerpent Pyramid in Teotihuacan, The Sowing and the Dawning (ed. S. Mock, 1998).

OTHER FACULTY IN THE DEPARTMENT

OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Donald M. Bahr (Ph.D., Harvard 1969; Prof.) Social anthropology, religion, linguistics; U.S. Southwest,Mesoamerica.

Brenda J. Baker (Ph.D., Massachusetts, Amherst 1992; Asst. Prof.). Bioarchaeology, human osteology,paleopathology, paleonutrition, North America, Egypt and Nubia.

Elizabeth A. Brandt (Ph.D., Southern Methodist 1970; Prof.) Cultural anthropology, linguistics,sociolinguistics, native American languages, literacy, field methods, social anthropology; U.S. South-west.

John K. Chance (Ph.D. Illinois 1974; Prof.) Social anthropology, ethnohistory, political economy;colonial societies, Mesoamerica.

James F. Eder, Jr. (Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara 1974; Prof.) Social anthropology, ecological anthropology,development; Southeast Asia, Philippines.

Nora Haenn (Ph.D. Indiana 1998; Asst. Prof.) Cultural ecology, political and household economy,development anthropology, migration, and questions of justice in Mexico, Latin America, and Phoenix.

Thomas Hudak (Ph.D., Michigan 1981; Prof.) Linguistics, Southeast Asian languages and literature,Thai, Indonesian.

Donald C. Johanson (Ph.D. Chicago 1974, Prof.). Paleoanthropology, Plio-Pleistocene hominidevolution and dentition; Africa, Asia, and Middle East.

Hjorleifur Jonsson (Ph.D. Cornell 1996; Asst. Prof) Social and cultural anthropology, cultural/socialchange, sports culture, religion/rituals, ideas about nature, state-minority relationships, and SoutheastAsia; Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

William H. Kimbel (Ph.D. Kent State 1986, Assoc. Prof.). Paleoanthropology, Plio-Pleistocene hominidevolution, Late Pleistocene human evolution, evolutionary theory, systematics; Africa, Middle East.

Joan Koss-Chiomo (Ph.D. Pennsylvania 1965; Prof.) Medical anthropology, psychological anthropol-ogy.

John F. Martin (Ph.D. Chicago 1967; Prof.). Social anthropology, social organization, population andgroup interaction studies; U.S. Southwest.

Mary W. Marzke (Ph.D., UC Berkeley 1964; Prof.) Physical anthropology, comparative primateanatomy, paleoanthropology, growth and development, skeletal pathology.

Charles F. Merbs (Ph.D., Wisconsin 1969; Prof.). Physical anthropology, human osteology,paleopathology, forensic anthropology, skeletal symbolism, North and South America, NortheastAfrica.

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Leanne T. Nash (Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1973; Prof.). Primatology, ecology and social behavior of primates,feeding strategies, socialization, chimpanzees, galagos, experimental analysis of behavior.

Kaye E. Reed (Ph.D., SUNY—Stony Brook 1996; Asst. Prof.). Early hominid paleoecology, humanevolution, primate evolution, functional morphology, community ecology, faunal analysis; fieldworkin Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Africa.

Lyle B. Steadman (Ph.D., Australian National 1972; Asst. Prof.) Social anthropology, sociobiology,religion, kinship; New Guinea, Baja California.

Anne C. Stone (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University 1996; Associate Professor) Human and chimpan-zee population genetics, evolution, disease genetics, ancient DNA, mortuary studies.

Christy G. Turner II (Ph.D. Wisconsin 1967; Regents’ Prof.). Dental anthropology, bioarchaeology,peopling of the Americas, origin of modern humans; skeletal analysis and cultural relationships; U.S.Southwest, Alaska, Siberia, East Asia, Pacific Basin.

Peter Welsh (Ph.D. Pennsylvania 1986; Assoc. Prof. and Director of the Deer Valley Rock Art Center).Cultural anthropology, ethnohistory, material culture, museum studies, North American Indians.

Robert C. Williams (Ph.D., Michigan 1976; Prof.) Physical anthropology, human genetics, immuno-genetics, mechanics of evolution, HLA.

Michael Winkelman (Ph.D., UC Irvine 1985; M.P.H., U of A 2002; Senior Lect.) Medical andpsychological anthropology, shamanism, cross-cultural relations, cross-cultural, research methodsand theory.

EMERITUS FACULTY

John L. Aguilar (PhD. U.C. San Diego 1997, Prof. Emeritus). Political anthropology, anthropology ofeveryday life, social relations, ethnicity, impact of economic change on class and ethnic relations, andsocial relations in rural Mexico.

Alfred E. Dittert, Jr. (Ph.D. Arizona 1959; Prof. Emeritus). Archaeology, cultural inventory methods,laboratory methods and techniques, ceramics, conservation of collections, museology; New World,U.S. Southwest.

Melvin M. Firestone (Ph.D. Washington 1967; Prof. Emeritus). Psychological anthropology, maritimeanthropology, religion, Newfoundland, Devon, Sephardim.

Sylvia W. Gaines (Ph.D. Arizona State 1973; Prof. Emerita). Computer applications, data banks, datamanagement systems; North America, U. S. Southwest.

Donald H. Morris (Ph.D. Arizona 1965; Prof. Emeritus). Physical anthropology, human origins,dentition, archaeology; U.S. Southwest, Africa.

James Schoenwetter (Ph.D. Southern Illinois 1967; Prof.Emeritus). Archaeology, archaeological pollenanalysis, method and theory of cultural ecology, cultural resource management, historical archaeology;U.S. Southwest and Midwest, Mesoamerica, England, France.

RESEARCH FACULTY

Arleyn Simon (Ph.D. Arizona State 1988; Assoc. Research Prof.). Ceramic technology and analysis,quantitative methods, U.S. Southwest, Great Plains.

ADJUNCT FACULTY

Hamdallah Béarat (Ph.D. Caen University, France, 1990). Archaeometry; conservation science;provenance, characterization and technical studies of inorganic artifacts, corrosion, alteration anddegradation of artifacts, applied mineralogy, ceramic science.

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Graciela Cabana (Ph.D. Michigan 2002). Migration theory, hunter-gatherers, transitions to ariculture,ancient DNA, mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome studies, archaeological theory and humanevolution.

J. Andrew Darling (Ph.D. Michigan 1998). Frontier expansion, Pre-Columbia complex societies in theAmericas, human and bio-cultural diversity, settlement patterns. Southwest and Northern Mexico.

William H. Doelle (Ph.D. Arizona 1980). Tucson Basin, Tohono O'Odham and Hohokam research,archaeological preservation, conservation archaeology.

David Doyel (Ph.D. Arizona 1977). Southwest archaeology, historic preservation; North America, U.S.Southwest.

Michael S. Foster (Ph.D. Colorado-Boulder 1978). Archaeology of Mesoamerica, Northwest and WestMexico, and U.S. Southwest; prehistoric exchange systems, lithics, ceramic technology, ecologicalanthropology.

Laura C. Fulginiti (Ph.D. Arizona 1993). Forensic anthropology, skeletal age indicators, blunt andsharp force injury patterns, jurisdictional issues concerning human remains.

Ruth L. Greenspan (Ph.D. Oregon 1985). Zooarchaeology, coastal adaptations, environmentalreconstruction, archaeological method and theory, Pacific Northwest Coast and Great Basin.

Alice Marie (Sue) Haeussler (Ph.D. Arizona State 1996). Dental anthropology of ancient to contem-porary Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Central Asia.

Philip C. Hammond (Ph.D. Yale 1957). Middle Eastern archaeology, Syro-Palestinian ancient history,the Nabataeans.

Susan Howell (Ph.D. Arizona State 2000). Primates, applied primatology, environmental enrichmentfor captive chimpanzees, social behavior, primate conservation.

Margaret A. Lindauer (Ph.D. Arizona State 2002). Museum theory and practice, museum politics,exhibition planning and design, museum culture and function.

Janet Montoya (M.A. University of Houston, Clear Lake 1994). Mesoamerican archaeology, ethnohistory,religion and culture, ceramic figurines.

Bethel Nagy (Ph.D. Arizona State 2000). Physical anthropology and bioarchaeology, particularlyhealth status and habitual activity patterns within prehistoric culture groups. North America,especially Midwest (Ohio/Kentucky) and Southwest.

Michael A. Ohnersorgen Ph.D. Arizona State 2001). Archaeology, interregional political and economicinteraction, ancient empires, ethnohistory, settlement patterns. Mesoamerica, Gulf Coast lowlands,Northwest Mexico.

Ana C. Pinto (PhD. Universidad de Oviedo, Spain 2001). Zooarchaeology and taphonomy inPaleolithic cave sites, dental microwear analysis of omnivores, Spain,

Bruce D. Ragsdale (M.D. UC San Francisco 1969). General anatomic and clinical pathology, skeletaland soft tissue pathology, paleopathology, ballistics research.

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John C. Ravesloot (Ph.D. Southern Illinois 1984). Archaeology, mortuary analysis; U.S. Southwest,Northwest Mexico.

Catherine Ribic (Ph.D. Arizona State 1999). Ethnicity (ethnic relations in the U.S., ethnic relations inthe Balkans), gender, and religion. Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Macedonia.

Ian Robertson (Ph.D. Arizona State 2001). Complex societies, economic and social variability, quanti-tative research methods, GIS technology. Prehispanic Mesoamerica,

Scott C. Russell (Ph.D. Arizona State 1983). Economic anthropology, Native American studies,Southwestern cultural ecology, applied anthropology, ethnohistory, ethnoarchaeology.

Steven H. Savage (Ph.D. Arizona State 1995). Mortuary and spatial analysis; geographic informationsystems; cultural resource management; Old World complex societies; northeast Africa and southwestAsia; quantitative methods, computer applications; Chalcolithic/Bronze Age urbanism, trade.

Henry J. Walt (Ph.D. New Mexico 1990), Archaeology,petroglyphs, ceramic analysis, museums, arthistory. Southwest U.S., China.

ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN OTHER DEPARTMENTSMadelaine Adelman (PhD. Duke 1997, Asst. Prof. of Justice Studies). Anthropology of law, conflict andviolence, nationalism and identity, Middle East and U.S.

Kristine Koptiuch (Ph.D. Texas-Austin 1989, Asst. Prof. of Social and Behavioral Sciences, ASU West).Sociocultural anthropology, social theory, transnational culture, postmodernity, gender/race/class,colonial discourse, urban space; Middle East, U.S.

Jack Kugelmass (Ph.D. New School for Social Research 1980, Professor of Humanities and JewishStudies). Urban anthropology, folklore, vernacular culture, performance studies, visual, East Europeanand American Jews.

Peter McCartney (Ph.D. Calgary 1990; Research Prof. Center for Environmental Studies). Hunter-gatherers, quantitative methods, analysis of geographic data, Southwestern U.S., Arctic, Europeanpaleolithic.

Kelly Nelson (Ph.D. Brandeis 2000, Lecturer, BIS). Sports, spectators, gender, urban. United States.

Kathleen M. Sands (Ph.D. Arizona 1977, Prof. of English). Folklore, American Indian literatures, U.S.Southwest.

Juliane Schober (Ph.D. Illinois 1989, Assoc. Prof. of Religious Studies). Social anthropology, Burmesereligion and culture, religion and rituals in Southeast Asia; Southeast Asia.

Mark Woodward (Ph.D. Illinois 1985, Assoc. Prof. of Religious Studies). Social anthropology, Javanesereligion and culture, religious revitalization movement, medical anthropology.

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GRADUATE COURSES

ARCHAEOLOGY

Archaeological Research on Southwestern Abandonments (ASB 591)Examines the causes and processes of prehistoric abandonments in the North American Southwest.Attention will be paid to the scale of abandonment and the relationship of scale to explanation andinterpretation.

Advanced Topics in Quantitative Archaeology (ASM 566)On a rotating basis, examines special topics related to quantitative and formal methods in archaeology.One recent offering was devoted to Bayesian methods, seriation, and advanced multivariate tech-niques. Another, devoted to simulation in archaeology, is offered on a regular basis.

Archaeological Ceramics (ASM 591)Considers the identification of salient stylistic and technological attributes of ceramics and inferencesusing ceramic data. Covers basic laboratory techniques, stylistic analysis, methods of analyzingceramic data, and the relevance of ceramic information to anthropological questions.

Archaeological Perspectives on Landscapes (ASM 591)This seminar takes a "deep time" perspective on human occupation of varied landscapes. Issues ofhuman-resource interaction, resiliency and stability of ecosystems, and human perspectives onlandscape are addressed. Students conduct landscape-scale research using archaeological and environ-mental data.

Archaeological Pollen Analysis (ASM 591)Emphasizes development of the laboratory skills used by pollen analysts with special consideration ofthe problems encountered when dealing with archaeological site-context samples. Students concen-trate on hands-on activities of pollen extraction, pollen identification, data recovery, and data analysis-interpretation

Archaeology and the Ideational Realm (ASB 559)Various approaches to ideational and symbolic aspects of ancient and prehistoric cultures, includingrecent "postprocessual" literature. Approaches to inferring ancient mental phenomena will beexamined, as well as diverse views about the role of such phenomena in causing sociocultural change.

Archaeology and the Social Realm (ASB 591)Considers how social organization and human society can be understood and how these understand-ings can be applied archaeologically. Topics include kinship, households, scalar stress and hierarchy,practice theory, structure and agency, and Marxism. About half the class will consider general socialtheory, the other half will focus on archaeological applications.

Archaeology of Highland Central Mexico (ASB 591)The pre-Hispanic complex societies of central Mexico including the Valley of Oaxaca, but emphasizingthe Basin of Mexico and nearby regions. Topics include ecological approaches, households, settle-ments, ceramics, means and relations of production, art, iconography, and symbolism.

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Archaeology of North America (ASB 591)Examines the evolution of prehistoric societies in North America from Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherersthrough protohistoric chiefdom-level societies. Emphasis is placed on explaining the increasingcultural diversity and complexity documented by the archaeological record. Eastern Woodland, Plains,and Southwestern data are covered in some depth.

Archaeology of North and West Mexico (ASB 591)Treats the issues that have preoccupied students of the region, including core-periphery relations andfrontier dynamics; West Mexican strategies for the establishment and maintenance of social inequality;warfare, human sacrifice, and other forms of institutionalized violence; the shaft-tomb tradition,metallurgy, mining, and mineral exchange.

Bioarchaeology (ASM 450/591)Provides an overview of key bioarchaeological issues and topics, most importantly, an appreciation ofthe interface between archaeology and physical anthropology. Covers the uses of skeletal, cultural, andenvironmental information to study biocultural adaptation and evolution.

Ceramic Theory (ASB 591)Considers how plausible behavioral, social, and technological inferences are derived from archaeologi-cal ceramic data. Discusses ceramic production and distribution processes, the roles of pottery in social,symbolic, and economic systems, and the applicability of ethnographic analogies.

Chiefdoms (ASB 591)Includes archaeological and ethnographic examples of emergent and intermediate sociopoliticalcomplexity and the associated explanatory theory. Cases are drawn from Polynesia, the Circum-Caribbean, various parts of North and Middle America, the Mediterranean Basin, and Africa.

Complex Societies (ASB 555)Examines comparative and theoretical interpretive issues concerning "chiefdoms" and ancient states,including developmental causes, social dynamics, demography, and exchange.

Economic Archaeology (ASB 550)Covers a range of topics relating to prehistoric economies in hunter-gatherer, tribal, and complexsocieties. The topics include models of subsistence strategies, agricultural production, craft productionand specialization, and exchange.

Environmental Archaeology (ASB 591)Surveys character of physical, biological and social science techniques used to assess the biophysicalcontexts of prehistoric cultures. Emphasis on potentials, limitations, and explicit and implied theory.Incorporates critiques and discussions of ways the techniques are normally applied, examinesexamples of multidisciplinary archaeological research programs.

Ethnoarchaeology (ASB 591)Ethnoarchaeology encompasses several strategies for strengthening archaeological inference by ob-serving material culture in action, including experimentation, replication, cross-cultural research, andethnographic techniques. Students learn to use ethnoarchaeological approaches to develop inferencesconcerning subsistence, mobility, ethnicity, gender, the acquisition of social power and prestige, as wellas the functions of artifacts such as pottery and chipped stone.

Faunal Analysis (ASB 591)Theoretical and methodological topics in faunal analysis, including taphonomy, identification, quan-tification, and interpretive models. Students analyze a prehistoric faunal assemblage.

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Geoarchaeology (ASB 548)A review of the geologic context relevant to archaeological research. Topics include sediments and theirdepositional environments, soil genesis and features, anthropogenic and biogenic deposits, andQuaternary chronology and dating methods.

GIS and Remote Sensing in Anthropological Research (ASB 591)Fundamentals of geographic information systems and remote sensing; using GIS and remote sensingin anthropological research; spatial analysis using GIS; image analysis in remote sensing. Focus onhands-on training and practical applications.

Historical Archaeology (ASB 591)Principles, techniques, and important sites. Use of ethnohistory, laboratory techniques, and artifactanalysis.

Household Archaeology (ASB 591)Approaches to analyzing relationships among households including economic and social strategieswithin households, communities and regions.

Human Impacts (ASB 591)This seminar attacks and critically analyzes an integrative multidisciplinary issue and, more impor-tantly, uses that forum to learn how to overcome barriers generated by disciplinary traditions. Thesubject of this seminar will change each year. Topics could include discussions of Jared Diamond’sGuns, Germs and Steel; William Cronon’s On Common Ground; Gunderson and Holling’s Panarchy; orother topics related to urban ecology and interdisciplinary studies. This seminar is meant primarily forstudents who are participating in the IGERT program, and may be open to others only by permissionof the instructors.

Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations (ASB 563)Examines the evolution of prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies in the Old and New Worlds from themost ancient times through protohistoric chiefdom-level societies. Emphasis on relationships betweenarchaeological data and theoretical models. Both ethnographic and archaeological perspectives.

Intrasite Research Strategies (ASB 568)Deals with research issues in a single site context. Topics include site definition, sampling programs,distributional analysis, and substantive interpretations. Examples are drawn from various regions ofthe world and from sites representing different levels of cultural development, with special emphasison the Southwest.

Issues in Old World Domestication Economies (ASB 547)Focus on the archaeological evidence in the Old World for the transition from subsistence economiesdependent upon hunting and gathering to those dependent upon domesticated plants and/or animals.Impact of this shift in subsistence on local groups and on sedentism in both "nuclear" and "non-nuclear"areas.

Lithic Analysis (ASM 573)Stone materials, production technology, uses, and discard are considered in relation to subsistence,land use, social organization, and political development.

Method and Theory of Sociocultural Anthropology and Archaeology I (ASB 540)First part of a three-semester course sequence. The sequence considers basic information, concepts, andrelationships important to archaeology. Topics usually covered in the first course include basic issuesin conceptualizing social and ethnic groups, sociological theory, and the nature of anthropologicalresearch.

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Method and Theory of Archaeology II (ASB 542)An introduction to issues in several problem domains, including models of human evolution, culturechange and interaction, and interpretation of hunter-gatherer and tribal societies. Consideration ofresearch issues involving lithic and faunal materials. Second semester of a three-part sequence.

Method and Theory of Archaeology III (ASB 543)Course covers topical issues related to social complexity as well as general problems related toarchaeological research design. Third semester in a three-part sequence.

Modern Human Origins (ASB 591)Epistemological aspects of the "continuity" and "replacement" paradigms in molecular biology, humanpaleontology, and palaeolithic archaeology.

Mortuary Analysis (ASB 591)An overview and critique of the anthropological theories and archaeological methods used toreconstruct the social organization, leadership roles, world views and beliefs, alliance and tradenetworks, and warfare and territorial patterns of past peoples. Ethnographic and archaeological datafrom a broad range of societies are used to illustrate the concepts.

Near Eastern Complex Societies (ASB 591)Considers issues relating to the rise and collapse of urbanism and state-level complex society inSouthwestern Asia. Concentration on Late Neolithic and early literate societies, particularly inMesopotamia and the Southern Levant.

Pleistocene Prehistory (ASB 546)Biocultural evolution of hominids in the Old World during the Pleistocene epoch, emphasizing ecologyand systematics, technological change through time and the relationship of foragers to their environ-ment.

Prehistoric and Recent Population Issues (ASB 591)Basic concepts of demography including simple computations. Methods for inferring fertility, age-specific mortality, and rates of natural increase from prehistoric materials. The role of populationgrowth as a cause and/or consequence of sociocultural changes, including broader problems ofsocioeconomic development in the present-day world.

Prehistoric Diet (ASB 551)This course will cover a variety of topics concerning prehistoric human diet. These include: 1) a criticalreview of techniques for recovering dietary information, such as faunal and floral analyses, andchemical analysis of human bone, and 2) theoretical models concerned with predicting and explainingprehistoric subsistence strategies. The primary focus of the course is on the relationship between thedata we collect and the questions we are asking of these data.

Research Design and Grant Proposal Writing (ASB 591)Anthropology as a "science-like" discipline, how to structure a proposal, different kinds of proposals,tailoring proposals to funding agency requirements, reasons for rejection.

Quantification and Analysis for Anthropologists (ASB 598)Introduces a variety of strategies for envisioning and searching for patterns in quantitative anthropo-logical data. Data from archaeology, physical anthropology, and bioarchaeology are used. Methodscovered range from simple displays of data to multivariate methods. Easy-to-visualize, geometricanalogs of mathematical procedures are emphasized.

Quantitative and Formal Methods in Archaeology (ASM 565)An overview of formal and quantitative approaches useful for the design of archaeological research andthe management and interpretation of archaeological data. Simpler technologies, computer capabili-ties for data management, statistical analysis, and graphics will be covered as well.

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Settlement Patterns (ASB 544)Spatial arrangement of residences, activity sites, and communities over the landscape. Emphasis onnatural and cultural factors influencing settlement patterns from a regional perspective. Coversarchaeological survey, history of settlement pattern studies and models derived from economicgeography.

Simulation and Modeling in Archaeology (ASB 591)The course includes consideration of the literature on archaeological simulation and teaches thefundamentals of programming simulations. Students develop an in-depth conceptual understandingof simulation, an appreciation of the potential of this technique, and a mastery of the mechanics ofprogramming simple simulations.

Southwestern Archaeology (ASB 567)Introduction to the archaeology of the American Southwest. A broad coverage of contemporaryunderstandings of Southwestern cultural developments is supplemented by a consideration of thehistorical development of these ideas, and a focus on the rigorous use of archaeological data in makingcultural inferences.

The Stone Age of Africa (ASB 591)An examination of the evidence for the behavioral and biological evolution of humans on the Africancontinent. Integrates the archaeological, paleontological, and paleoenvironmental record of Africa inan attempt to provide a synthetic paleoanthropology.

Style Analysis (ASB 591)An introduction to anthropological and archaeological approaches to analyzing and interpreting stylein material culture of several media. Many factors that determine style are considered, includingtechnofunctional constraints; social organizational, religious, and other cultural and ethnic constraints;social-psychological and depth-psychological factors; motor skills and habits; drift through time; anddiffusion and trade.

Topics in North American Archaeology (ASB 591)Examines a variety of data quality, analytic/methodological and theoretical issues arising in NorthAmerican research in greater depth than a survey course. Detailed critical analyses of key publishedstudies.

Topics in Mesoamerican Archaeology (ASB 537)On a rotating basis, examines selected topics in Mesoamerican archaeology in greater depth than ispossible in a survey course. One example is the Archaeology of Lowland Mesoamerica.

Topics in Southwestern Archaeology (ASB 591)On a rotating basis, examines restricted topics in Southwestern Archaeology in greater depth than ispossible in a survey course. A recent offering of the course was devoted to Hohokam Archaeology.

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A SELECTION OF RELATED COURSES

ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT:Physical Anthropology

Fossil Hominids ............................................................................................................. ASM 344/591Human Osteology ......................................................................................................... ASM 341/591Advanced Human Osteology .............................................................................................. ASM 555

Sociocultural AnthropologyPolitical Anthropology .................................................................................................. ASB 417/591Indians of the Southwest ........................................................................................................ ASB 591Ethnohistory of Mesoamerica ............................................................................................... ASB 536Indians of North America ...................................................................................................... ASB 591Economic Anthropology ........................................................................................................ ASB 591Ethnographic Methods ........................................................................................................... ASB 591Ecological Anthropology ....................................................................................................... ASB 530Culture and Political Economy ............................................................................................. ASB 529

Museum StudiesMuseum Principles ................................................................................................................. ASB 571Museum Collection Management ........................................................................................ ASB 572Computers and Museums...................................................................................................... ASB 575Principles of Conservation ..................................................................................................... ASB 577Seminar in Textile Analysis ................................................................................................. ASM 591

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:Art History

Precolumbian Art History I (Mesoamerica) ....................................................................... ARS 462Special Topics: Aztec Art ..................................................................................................... ARS 598

Foreign LanguagesIndigenous Literatures of Spanish America ........................................................................FLA 570

GeographyQuantitative Methods in Geography ................................................................................. GCU 495Geographic Information Systems ........................................................................................GPH 471Computer Mapping and Graphics ......................................................................................GPH 571Geographic Applications of Remote Sensing ....................................................................GPH 575Paleoecology ...........................................................................................................................GPH 591Quaternary Environments ....................................................................................................GPH 598

HistoryHistorical Resources Management ........................................................................................HIS 525Historians and Preservation ...................................................................................................HIS 526Historical Research and Writing ............................................................................................HIS 501

MathematicsIntroductory Applied Statistics ............................................................................................. STP 420Applied Regression Analysis ................................................................................................ STP 530Applied Analysis of Variance ............................................................................................... STP 531Applied Nonparametric Statistics ........................................................................................ STP 532Applied Multivariate Analysis .............................................................................................. STP 533Applied Discrete Data Analysis ............................................................................................ STP 534

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