ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION (ANTH 120)-- FALL 2008 -- GREAT FUN!!
Work at a 3000-5000 year old Archaic Period Luiseņo Indian Site (SDI-12510/H)
on Vallecitos Water District property in San Marcos. Early 20th century homestead
site is also present.
Meets Saturdays 9-12; 1-4:20; Hour Lunch Break. No formal exams, just
basic field skills.
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, Rome, Naples,
Pompeii, Hadrian's Villa, Orvieto, Siena, Florence, Etruscan tombs at
Tarquinia, and more); March 2008 - Burkina Faso, especially Ouagadougou
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
Frčres,
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
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
Director of Cultural Resources at
Chambers Group, Irvine, California (1985-1994)
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology,
Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA (1985-1994)
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.
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.
Article entitled, "The Bassar Chiefdom in the Context of Theories
of Political Economy." It developed out of a paper given at the Society
for American Archaeology in Puerto Rico, April 2006
Working on a paper
entitled, "Dekpassanware: A Surprising Early Iron Age Site in the Bassar Region
of Northern Togo."
Just completed an archaeological
expedition to the Bassar region of Togo, January-April 2008.
