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I am an anthropological archaeologist with broad interests in archaeological method and theory, especially (but not exclusively) as applied to the North American Southwest. My work has focused on ceramic analysis as a tool for understanding production, distribution, and consumption but more broadly is my interest in material culture to understand social relations in the past. My research on ceramic technology, craft specialization, and accumulations research led to a series of papers and edited volumes on social inequality, identity, feasting, and migration. These interests were fostered by more than a decade of work in the Silver Creek area of east-central Arizona, including a multi-year collaborative project with the White Mountain Apache Tribe. I also have field and research experience in a number of other areas of the Southwest including Zuni, Chaco, Mimbres, Grasshopper, and most recently the Greater Hohokam area. Outside the U.S. I have research experience in Guatemala (Postclassic Maya), Kazakhstan (Bronze Age), and Turkey (Neolithic). Besides ceramics I am interested in depositional practice, and how that can be used to understand memory, materiality, and relational logics. Currently I am a PI on the Southwest Social Networks Project, which brings together data and a talented group of scholars to apply social network analysis (SNA) to archaeological data to the Southwest. This ongoing project continues my interest in looking at the dynamics of social relations from a multiscalar perspective.

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Courses
  • WA
    World Archaeology

  • FAI
    Foundations of Archaeological Interpretation

  • MLAS
    Migrations and Landscapes of the Ancient Southwest

  • IAA
    Introduction to Archaeological Analysis

  • CCAS
    Clovis to Coronado: Archaeology of the Southwest

  • AM
    Archaeological Methodology

  • PP
    Patterns in Prehistory

  • PA
    Pueblo Archaeology

  • AS
    Archaeology of the Southwest

  • CPAH
    Contesting the Past: Archaeology and Heritage

Grants
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    Collaborative Research: HNDS-R: Human Networks, Sustainable Development, and Lived Experience in a Nonindustrial Society

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2023

    $25.0K
    Active
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    HNDS-I: From Households to Landscapes: Cyberinfrastructure for Interdisciplinary Research in the Ancient American Southwest

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $85.6K
    Active
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    Doctoral Dissertation Research: Material Reflections of the Emergence of Social Inequality

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $30.3K
    Active
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    Ethnographic Overview and Assessment for Montezuma Castle National Monument and Tuzigoot National Monument

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2019

    $139.9K
    Active
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    Coalescence and Colonialism in New Mexico, AD 1300-1700

    Key Personnel (KP)

    2019

    $1.0K
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    Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: The Processes of Coalescence and Colonialism

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2018

    $19.1K
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    RIDIR: Collaborative Research: cyberSW: A Data Synthesis and Knowledge Discovery System for Long-term Interdisciplinary Research on Southwest Social Change

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2017

    $1.1M
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    Linking Hispanic Heritage Through Archeology - Session 5

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2017

    $327.7K
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    Linking Hispanic Heritage Through Archeology - Session 4

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2016

    $73.4K
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    Linking Hispanic Heritage through Archeology-Phase 3 (UAZDS-439)

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2015

    $61.7K
News
  • The Life and Death of One of America's Most Mysterious Trees

    2020

  • Five UA Faculty Members Named Regents' Professors

    2018

  • Digital Archaeology Project to Use Big Data

    2017

  • School of Anthropology Celebrates Centennial

    2015

  • In a Crisis, the Bigger Your Social Network the Better

    2015

  • UA, Parks Association Invite Public to Discuss Future of National Parks

    2014

  • Artifacts Shed Light on Social Networks of the Past

    2013

  • UA Press Receives 2012 Heritage Award

    2012

  • New UA School of Anthropology Offers Enhanced Opportunities for Students

    2009

  • Anthropology Names New Head

    2008

  • UA Archaeologist Honored

    2006

  • Meet the Finalists for VP Instruction, VP Academic Affairs

    2003

  • Archaeological Field School, White Mountain Apache Tribe Forge New Partnership

    2003

  • UA Archaeology Field School Among Those Evacuated Ahead of Rodeo Fire

    2002

  • NSF Grant to Aid Archaeological Sciences

    2002

  • Speaking Of ... UA Speakers Service Recognition

    2001

  • Speaking of

    2001

Publications (169)
Recent
  • From Frontier to Centre Place: The Dynamic Trajectory of the Chaco World

    2023

  • Reading between the Lines: The Social Value of Dogoszhi Style in the Chaco World

    2022

  • Finding archaeological relevance during a pandemic and what comes after

    2021

  • Assessing the performance of the bootstrap in simulated assemblage networks

    2021

  • Networks in Archaeology

    2021

  • Resolving the migrant paradox: two pathways to coalescence in the late precontact US Southwest

    2019

  • Hope in Dirt: Report of the Fort Apache Workshop on Forensic Sedimentology Applications to Cultural Property Crime, 15—19 October 2018

    2019

  • Processual archaeologists saw diffusion embedded within the culture his-torical paradigm, and considered it “unscientific,” while other explanations for

    2019

  • Hope in Dirt: Report of the Fort Apache Workshop on Forensic Sedimentology Applications to Cultural Property Crime

    2019

  • Resolving the Migrant Paradox: Two Pathways to Coalescence in the Late Precontact U.S. Southwest

    2019

  • Ceramics of Ancient America: Multidisciplinary Approaches

    2019

  • Why do fewer women than men apply for grants after their PhDs?

    2018

  • Reframing diffusion through social network theory

    2018

  • Frontiers of marginality and mediation in the North American Southwest: A social networks perspective

    2018

  • Forum: Why Do Fewer Women than Men Apply for Grants After Their PhDs?

    2018

  • Evaluating Chaco migration scenarios using dynamic social network analysis

    2018

  • What's New in Chaco Archaeology?

    2018

  • What’s new in Chaco research?

    2018

  • Fostering collaborative synthetic research in archaeology

    2018

  • An archaeological perspective on zuni social history

    2018

  • Intermarriage, Technological Diffusion, and Boundary Objects in the U.S. Southwest

    2018

  • Evaluating Chaco Migration Scenarios Using Dynamic Network Analysis

    2018

  • Navigating Mediterranean Archaeology’s Maritime Networks

    2018

  • Social Networks and Similarity of Site Assemblages

    2018

  • A Total Viewshed Approach to Local Visibility in the Chaco World

    2018

  • Classic Period Hohokam

    2017

  • Opinion Piece: Fostering Synthetic Research in Archaeology to Advance Science and Benefit Society

    2017

  • Hopi history prior to 1600

    2017

  • The direct historical approach

    2017

  • On history in Southwest archaeology

    2017

  • The Oxford handbook of Southwest archaeology

    2017

  • Social Network Analysis in Archaeology

    2017

  • ApproAChing An ArChAEology of ChoiCE

    2017

  • Approaching an archaeology of choice: Consumption, resistance, and religion in the Prehispanic Southwest

    2017

  • Fostering synthesis in archaeology to advance science and benefit society

    2017

  • Preclassic Hohokam

    2017

  • Analytical challenges for the application of social network analysis in archaeology

    2016

  • Niches, networks and the pathways to the forager-to-farmer transition in the US Southwest/North-West Mexico

    2016

  • The Big Picture: The National Historic Preservation Act and Regional Syntheses in the U. S. Southwest.

    2016

  • Communities of Consumption

    2016

  • Society for American Archaeology Task Force on Gender Disparities in Archaeological Grant Submissions

    2016

  • Migration, Skill, and the Transformation of Social Networks in the pre-Hispanic Southwest

    2016

  • The big picture: the National Historic Preservation Act and regional syntheses in the US Southwest

    2016

  • Tracing the Relational: The Archaeology of Worlds, Spirits, and Temporalities

    2016

  • Communities of consumption: Cuisines as constellated networks of situated practice

    2016

  • Unpacking the House

    2015

  • Relational Networks and Religious Sodalities at Catalhoyuk

    2015

  • Diabase temper as a marker for Laguna ceramics

    2015

  • The connected past: critical and innovative approaches to networks in archaeology

    2015

  • Multiscalar Perspectives on Social Networks in the Prehispanic Southwest

    2015

  • MULTISCALAR PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL NETWORKS IN THE LATE PREHISPANIC SOUTHWEST

    2015

  • Unpacking the house: ritual practice and social networks at Chaco

    2015

  • Are Social Networks Survival Networks? An Example from the Late Prehispanic U.S. Southwest

    2015

  • Alternative leadership strategies in the prehispanic Southwest

    2015

  • Relational networks and religious sodalities at Çatalhöyük

    2014

  • A manifesto for the study of ancient Mediterranean maritime networks

    2014

  • Identity communities and memory practices: relational logics in the US Southwest

    2014

  • 10 Land, Labor, Bodies, and Objects: Comments on Inalienability and Mesoamerican Social Life

    2013

  • Human-thing theory

    2013

  • Social Networks in the Distant Past

    2013

  • Human-Thing Theory, Review of Hodder's Entangled: An Archaeology of Human-Thing Relations

    2013

  • The dynamics of social networks in the Late Prehispanic US Southwest

    2013

  • Transformation of Social Networks in the Late Pre-Hispanic US Southwest

    2013

  • Networks in Archaeology: Phenomena, Abstraction, Representation

    2013

  • The archaeology of the greater Southwest: Migration, inequality, and religious transformations

    2012

  • Embedded networks? Pigments and long-distance procurement strategies in the late Prehispanic Southwest

    2012

  • Themes and models for understanding migration in the Southwest

    2011

  • Voices in American archaeology

    2010

  • Remembering while Forgetting

    2010

  • From the ground up. Depositional history, memory and materiality

    2009

  • 13 A Regional Perspective on Ceramics and Zuni Identity, AD 200–1630

    2009

  • Archaeological Collaboration with American Indians: Case Studies from the Western U.S.

    2009

  • Report from the SAA board of directors: 74 annual meeting

    2009

  • Archaeological collaboration with American Indians: case studies from the western United States

    2009

  • Budget Cuts as a Chance to Grow: Strengthening Anthropology in Tough Times

    2009

  • Josephine Foard and the Glazed Pottery of Laguna Pueblo

    2009

  • From the Ground Up: Depositional History, Memory, and Materiality.

    2009

  • How the Pueblos Became Global: Colonial Appropriations, Resistance, and Diversity in the North American Southwest

    2008

  • Agents of Change

    2008

  • Field Schools without Trowels Teaching Archaeological Ethics and Heritage Preservation in a Collaborative Context Barbara J. Mills, Mark Altaha, John R. Welch, and TJ Ferguson

    2008

  • Introduction: Memory, materiality, and depositional practice

    2008

  • Animate Objects: Shell Trumpets and Ritual Networks in the Greater Southwest

    2008

  • Calendar Age of Lisakovsky Timbers Attributed to the Andronovo Community of the Bronze Age in Eurasia

    2008

  • Agents of change: Faculty leadership in initiating and sustaining diversity at the University of Arizona

    2008

  • The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon: An Eleventh-Century Pueblo Regional Center

    2008

  • Ceramics and Pottery

    2008

  • Memory work: archaeologies of material practices

    2008

  • Calendar age of Lisakovsky timbers attributed to Andronovo community of Bronze Age in Eurasia

    2008

  • Doing diversity in higher education: Faculty leaders share challenges and strategies

    2008

  • Remembering while forgetting: depositional practices and social memory at Chaco

    2008

  • Are Social Networks Survival Networks? An Example from the Late Pre-Hispanic US Southwest

    2008

  • cultural transmission, agency, and history at zuni pueblo

    2008

  • A method for chronological apportioning of ceramic assemblages

    2008

  • Performing the feast: Visual display and suprahousehold commensalism in the Puebloan Southwest

    2007

  • Multicrafting, migration, and identity in the American Southwest

    2007

  • A diversity of curricula for archaeology graduate programs

    2006

  • Society for the Anthropology of Europe Awards Graduate Students

    2006

  • The social contexts of glaze paint ceramic production and consumption in the Silver Creek area

    2006

  • Committee on curriculum: What skills do I need to get and keep a job in archaeology

    2006

  • Mimbres painted pottery: Revised edition.

    2006

  • How Does the Past Become Present?

    2005

  • Sequence and stratigraphy

    2005

  • prepared by Rafael Vega-Centeno entitled Ritual and Architecture in a Context of Emergent Complexity: A Perspective from Cerro Lampay, a Late Archaic Site in the Central Andes.

    2005

  • Curricular matters: The impact of field schools on Southwest archaeology

    2005

  • on Southwest Archaeology

    2005

  • Handbook of Archaeological Methods

    2005

  • Commensal politics in the Prehispanic Southwest: An introductory review

    2004

  • Robert J. Hard

    2004

  • The establishment and defeat of hierarchy: Inalienable possessions and the history of collective prestige structures in the Pueblo Southwest

    2004

  • Identity, feasting, and the archaeology of the Greater Southwest: proceedings of the 2002 Southwest symposium

    2004

  • Key debates in Chacoan archaeology

    2004

  • Identity, Feasting, and the

    2004

  • Migration, factionalism, and the trajectories of Pueblo IV period clusters in the Mogollon Rim region

    2004

  • Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Practice.

    2003

  • Examining the Course of Southwest Archaeology: The Durango Conference, September 1995. David A. PhillipsJr. and Lynne Sebastian, editors. 2001. New Mexico Archaeological …

    2003

  • Examining the Course of Southwest Archaeology: the Durango Conference, September 1995 & Chaco Society and Polity: Papers from the 1999 Conference

    2003

  • From compositional to anthropological: fourteenth-century red-ware circulation and its implications for Pueblo reorganization

    2002

  • Acts of resistance: Zuni ceramics, social identity, and the Pueblo Revolt

    2002

  • Recent research on Chaco: Changing views on economy, ritual, and society

    2002

  • Archaeology in 2001: Current research based on the SAA Annual Meeting Program

    2001

  • Archaeology in 2001: Current research Based on the SAA Annual Meeting Program.: Current research Based on the SAA Annual Meeting Program.

    2001

  • Annual Metting Highlights

    2001

  • Leadership at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico

    2000

  • Alternative Models, Alternative Strategies

    2000

  • Gender, craft production, and inequality

    2000

  • The social and historical context of short-term stylistic replacement: a Zuni case study

    2000

  • Ceramic production and distribution

    1999

  • Living on the edge of the rim: Excavations and analysis of the Silver Creek Archaeological Research Project, 1993-1998

    1999

  • Ceramics and the social contexts of food consumption in the northern Southwest

    1999

  • Chronology of the Mogollon Rim region

    1999

  • Job Satisfaction and Parity for Women

    1998

  • Migration and Pueblo IV community reorganization in the Silver Creek area, east-central Arizona

    1998

  • Preservation and research of sacred sites by the Zuni Indian tribe of New Mexico

    1998

  • Sourcing Chuskan ceramic production: Petrographic and experimental analyses

    1997

  • Forum on Women's Equity and Anthropological Praxis

    1997

  • Accumulations research: Problems and prospects for estimating site occupation span

    1997

  • The Social Dynamics of Pottery Style in the Early Puebloan Southwest

    1996

  • First COSWA Roundtable Luncheon for Graduate Students

    1996

  • The archaeological field school in the 1990s: Collaboration in research and Training

    1996

  • The organization of prehistoric southwestern communities: Economic, ideological, and spatial approaches

    1996

  • The organization of protohistoric Zuni ceramic production

    1995

  • Ceramic Production in the American Southwest

    1995

  • Gender and the reorganization of historic Zuni craft production: Implications for archaeological interpretation

    1995

  • Assessing Organizational Scale In Zuni Ceramic Production: A Comparison of Protohistoric and Historic Collections

    1995

  • Ceramic production in the American Southwest: An introduction

    1995

  • Silver Creek Archaeological Research Project: 1994 Field Report

    1994

  • Community dynamics and archaeological dynamics: Some considerations of middle-range theory

    1994

  • Acoma and Laguna Pottery

    1994

  • Patricia L. Crown. Ceramics and ideology: Salado Polychrome pottery. viii+254 pages, 98 figures, tables. 1994. Albuquerque (NM): University of New Mexico Press …

    1994

  • ARCHEOLOGY: Ceramic Production and Distribution: An Integrated Approach. George J. Bey IIIand Christopher A. Pool, eds

    1993

  • Interpretation of ceramic artifacts

    1993

  • Archeology--Ceramic Production and Distribution: An Integrated Approach (Westview Special Studies in Archaeological Research) edited by George J. Bey III and Christopher A. Pool

    1993

  • Abandonment at Zuni farming villages

    1993

  • Early Prehistoric Agriculture in the American Southwest. WH Wills. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1988. xii+ 184 pp., figures, tables, references. $27.50 (cloth).

    1993

  • Excavations at Three Prehistoric Sites Along Pia Mesa Road, Zuni Indian Reservation, McKinley County, New Mexico. Patricia A. Ruppe, Ramona Alam-Perry, and …

    1993

  • Spatial patterning in ceramic vessel distributions

    1992

  • An assessment of the research potential of museum collections: The Babbitt collection at the Museum of Northern Arizona

    1991

  • Contemporary Zuni architecture and society

    1990

  • Integrating functional analyses of vessels and sherds through models of ceramic assemblage formation

    1989

  • Ceramics and settlement in the Cedar Mesa area, southeastern Utah: a methodological approach

    1989

  • The Casamero and Pierre's Outliers Survey: An Archaeological Class III Inventory of the BLM Lands Surrounding the Outliers

    1988

  • Settlement and growth of Zuni Pueblo: an architectural history

    1987

  • Ladder Ranch Research Project: A Report of the First Season

    1984

  • Addendum to" Fence Lake Coal Exploration II: An Archeological Survey Near Quemado, New Mexico, for Salt River Project

    1984

  • Archaeological Investigations at Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, 1977-1980

    1982

  • 2 Borrow Areas In Vicinity of Lasiloo Subdivision For Zuni Housing Authority

    1981

  • Archaeological Survey of the BIA-Jones Ranch Road & Chi Chil Tah Spur McKinley County, New Mexico

    1980

  • Archaeological Clearance Investigation Zuni Young Adult Conservation Corps Lonjose Reseeding Project Upper Nutria Drainage Zuni Indian Reservation McKinley County, New Mexico

    1979

  • The Built Environment of Zuni Pueblo: The Bounding, Use, and Classification of Space

    1978

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