Coordinator, A.A. Degree &
Certificate Programs in Archaeology, 1996-present
Member,
Learning Outcomes Council, 2004-present
Advisor, Palomar College
Archaeology Club (PCAC), when active. Would you like to serve as
President?
DVD shown on Palomar College
Cable TV entitled, Evolution, Science and Religion (available upon
request)
Organizer, Exploring Darwin Conferences at
Palomar College, November 2007-2009. Naomi Lowe and I organized the 2010 event;
no event is scheduled for 2011.
Member representing Palomar
College for an NSF-funded National Evos Consortium of colleges focused on the
teaching of evolution in higher education
Member of
Editorial Board for new journal EvoS: Journal of the Evolutionary
Studies Consortium
THE ARCHAEOLOGY
PROGRAM HAS A BRAND NEW ARCHAEOLOGY LAB!!
1150
square feet (twice as large as old lab)
Two new Twin-Basin
Sinks and Three Ultrasonic Cleaners
New Magellan
(formerly Trimble) GPS Datalogger 3.0
Room for new
and old equipment: 10 stackable, divided drying racks; photographic stand; map plotter; and
light table
Six computer
stations with networked laser printer
Two large
artifact processing tables for ANTH 215, now being held in the lab!
Two new
10-drawer map file cabinets (finally enough space for our extensive map
collection!)
Plenty of
bookshelves, lockable cabinets, file cabinets, and gorilla shelving.
PALOMAR ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD EXCAVATION CLASSES
AT RANCHO PENASQUITOS ADOBE, Fall 2011 Meets Saturdays 9-12; 1-4:20; Hour Lunch Break. No formal exams,
basic field skills.
Discoveries in Fall
2010 and 2011
-- collapsed, relatively intact adobe wall feature with some melted adobe bricks
-- large concrete drainage feature (for blood from cattle slaughter?)
-- cement & cobble floor feature in area of 1880s barn once stood
-- largely linear arrangement of large cobbles
-- prehistoric living floors/features with flaked & groundstone tools and
hearth?
Senior Fulbright
Grant Recipient -- to be done in Spring 2013 in Togo, West Africa
Palomar
College Research Award 2010
2010 -- The
Bassar Chiefdom (of Northern Togo, West Africa) in the Context of Theories
of Political Economy (to be published)
2009b
-- How Far Inland Did the Arm of the Slave Trade Reach? An
Overview of the Slave Trade in Togo -- paper given at UCLA in honor of Prof.
Merrick Posnansky (to be published)
2009a
-- A Comparison of Early and Later Iron Age Societies in the Bassar
Region of Northern Togo -- paper given at the World Iron Conference in
London, February 16-20 (to be published)
2008 --
"The Bassar Chiefdom and Africa's Internal Frontier"; to be a chapter in
forthcoming book published by Cambridge UP.
2008 -- "The
Bassar Chiefdom in the Context of Theories of Political Economy," to be
submitted to either American Anthropologist or Current Anthropology.
2007 --
Archaeology Program Web Pages Referenced by the International Center for
Scientific Research (CIRS).
2006, 2nd Ed.
of Grammaire Mina -- Mina
language grammar (Southern Togo) in French,
with Leopold Ako of Togo.
2004 Governor's Historic Preservation Award for the Native
American Programs Committee of the Society for California Archaeology,
1992-1999; served as founder and first chair
Fulbright Grant in
2002 to conduct archaeological research at the Early Iron Age site of
Dekpassanware in the Bassar Region of Northern Togo, West Africa. Found
the second oldest Early Iron Age site in coastal West Africa dating to 400 B.C.
Chapter on the
slave trade and the Bassar iron industry in book West Africa During theAtlantic Slave Trade: Archaeological Perspectives 2001
Major author of
book entitled Ancient African Metallurgy 2000
Palomar College
Research Award in 1996 and 2001
Ahmanson Grant to
conduct research in the Oti River Valley in northern Togo, 1999
Article on
Francophone West Africa in book History of Archaeology in Africa 1990
Wenner-Gren grant
to conduct research at a Late Stone Age rockshelter in Togo, 1988
Article on the
Bassar Ironworking industry from a regional perspective in African
Archaeological Review 1988
Article on the
Bassar Ironworking Industry in Africa 1986
Fulbright Doctoral
Dissertation Research Grant, 1982
Article on Ceramic
Seriation in American Antiquity 1982
Popular (hi-life; rumba;
hybrids) and traditional
music from West and Central Africa
Classical piano
-- Beethoven, Chopin, Haydn, Debussy, Schubert
Science fiction
and action movies
Reading about politics,
globalization, international
relations, evolution, science, and Africa
Traveling to new places --
in 2007 to Versailles (Paris) and Italy (San Felice de Circeo, Roma, Napoli,
Pompeii, Hadrian's Villa, Orvieto, Siena, Firenze, Etruscan tombs at Tarquinia); March 2008 - Burkina Faso, especially Ouagadougou;
Paris August 2008 (Versailles, Giverny, Louvres, Musee d'Orsay; Quais de la
Seine; Orangerie; Tour d'Eiffel). February 2009 -- London
Balboa Park -- its
restaurants, museums, and parks
Born in Los Angeles, California;
lived in Beverly Hills until age 8
Attended
middle and high
school in Palo Alto, California
Attended summer work camps at Hoopa,
Tule, and Round Valley Indian Reservations, California, as a teenager through a joint YMCA
and American Friends Service Committee and later Stanford
University
President of YMCA Club, Les
Frères,
and Chair, YMCA InterClub Council
Boy Scout and Explorer Scout
Student at Stanford-in-France in
Tours, France
European travels: England, France,
West and East Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy,
Yugoslavia, and Greece
North American travels: Mexico
(Ensenada, Rosarito Beach) and Canada
(British Columbia, Calgary, Banff, Jasper, Glacier NP)
U.S. travels: California,
Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio, New Jersey,
New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Missouri,
Pennsylvania, Hawaii, Maryland, San Juan (Puerto Rico)
Peace Corps volunteer teacher and
basketball coach in Togo, West Africa
Peace Corps staff in charge
of teacher training and supervision, Togo
Married Jeannine Affiwa
Kpachavi from southern Togo
Prepared Social Studies
Curricula, K-8, Harbor Day School, Corona del Mar, CA
Student, archaeological field school
near Springerville, Arizona, New Mexico State
Crew chief/ceramic lab
director, Pajarito Project, New Mexico, J.N. Hill Director, NSF funded
Son Jason de Barros born;
currently attending law school at Santa Clara University
Daughter Jillian de Barros
born; currently attending college
Director of Cultural Resources at
Chambers Group, Irvine, California
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology,
Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
Anthropology Professor at Palomar College (1994-present)
Excavations at Late Stone Age
Rockshelter of Agarade, Togo, West Africa (1988)
Shellmound excavations &
archaeological survey in Oti River Valley, Togo (1999-2000), with
ex-Palomar student Aaron Kenney.
Fulbright Award to
Togo, West Africa. Excavations at 4th century
B.C. ironworking site, January to July
2002, with Palomar student, Chris Brandt.
Granddaughter Payton Wilson
born.
Completed
excavations at Dekpassanware in the Bassar Region of Togo, January-March
2008, with a focus on subsistence (yams, pearl millet, cowpea, sorghum, fonio) and
the study of the smelting and smithing industrial areas. Team:
Amanda Logan, Andrew Gurstelle, and Tom Butler, along with seven Togolese
Masters Degree students from the University of Lome and Kara.
Attended and gave paper at eh
World of Iron Conference in London, February 16-20, 2009.
Had paper presented at an
International Conference in France (Aix-en-Provence) on Ironworking and
African Societies, April 2010
Attended Panafrican
Prehistory Congress (once very 5 years) and Society for Africanist
Archaeologists Biannual Meeting in Dakar, Senegal, November 1-7, 2010.
Included visits to Goree Island (slave depot), the 17th c.
colonial/commercial outpost of Saint Louis (later capital of Senegal until
1957), and the Djoudj Migratory Bird Preserve. Gave paper on Bassar
ironworking.
Attended Collaborative Work
Group (12 people from North America, Europe and Africa) in Cape Town, South
Africa (invited participant)
Attending Society for
Africanist Archaeology (SAfA) conference in Toronto, June 20-24; presenting
papers on ironworking and Bassar ironworking in GIS
Preparing to go
into the field in the Bassar Region of Togo, West Africa, in 2013 on a Fulbright
Grant ; will work with European
Research Team from France, Germany and Togo
