Agricultural Intensification and Political Control (?) in the Classic Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz (~AD 200-800) Dr. Read more about Agricultural Intensification and Political Control (?) in the Classic Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz (~AD 200-800)
Conservation, Cooperation and Carbon Credits: The challenge of REDD+ on Pemba Zanzibar Monique Borgerhoff Mulder is a human behavioural ecologist working on projects relating to life history, conservation, and global patterns of cultural variation. HBE-ers explore the big “Why“ questions about our species, such as why do people marry, what is the basis of gender roles in economic and social behaviour, why has fertility dropped so radically in most parts of the world, why are people such poor conservationists of natural resources, and many others. Read more about Conservation, Cooperation and Carbon Credits: The challenge of REDD+ on Pemba Zanzibar
Good government: Past and present Since joining Purdue in 1976, Professor Emeritus Blanton has done approximately 36 months of archaeological fieldwork over many field seasons in Guatemala, Mexico, and Turkey, and has also completed several cross-cultural comparative research projects. He has reported on this research in twelve books and 67 articles and chapters published through diverse outlets, including Cambridge University Press, Science, American Anthropologist, American Antiquity, Journal of Field Archaeology, and Current Anthropology. B Read more about Good government: Past and present
ANTH 4290/6290 Environmental Archaeology Image or Flier: Credit Hours: 3 Students will become informed users of the historical record of human resource use and of environmental change and stasis that is available from archaeological sites with emphasis on biological data from archaeological sites, the dynamic relationships between humans and their environments, and current environmental issues. Semester Offered: Spring Level: Graduate Undergraduate Read more about ANTH 4290/6290
Fields of Study Biological Anthropology is the study of human variation, adaptation, and evolution. Read more about Fields of Study
Suzanne Pilaar Birch Interviewed in Nature Magazine Faculty member Suzanne Pilaar Birch is interviewed about her experience of doing fieldwork while pregnant in this issue of Nature magazine. She shares the factors that went into her making that decision and relates the support she received. Along the way she initiated similar stories from women anthropologists on the website she runs as part of a team: trowelblazers.com. Read the Nature article here. Read more about Suzanne Pilaar Birch Interviewed in Nature Magazine
Geoarchaeology Laboratory The Geoarchaeology Laboratory is located in Barrow Hall 14. It is primarily a sedimentological and and pedological laboratory with analytical facilities to include particle-size determination and petrologic analysis using an Olympus stereo-microscope for hand samples and thin sections. More detailed petrographic microscopic analysis is done using an Olympus B20 research microscope located in GG307. The Laboratory has access to elemental and mineralogic analytical instrumentation such as a JEOL electron microprobe capable of EDS and WDS located in the GG Building. Read more about Geoarchaeology Laboratory
Suzanne Pilaar Birch and an international research team awarded significant funding for an ancient Near East project An international research team that includes assistant professor of anthropology and geography Suzanne Pilaar Birch has been awarded Arts and Humanities Research Council UK funding for their four-year project on Radical Death and Early State Formation in the Ancient Near East. Read more about Suzanne Pilaar Birch and an international research team awarded significant funding for an ancient Near East project
Listening to the Dead: Biocultural Anthropology, Violence Studies, and the Political Lives of Dead Bodies “The body is parchment where violence is written.” Read more about Listening to the Dead: Biocultural Anthropology, Violence Studies, and the Political Lives of Dead Bodies
