Ian Richard Hodder is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology that first took root among his students and in his own work between 1980 and 1990. At this time he had such students as Henrietta Moore,Ajay Pratap,Nandini Rao,Mike Parker Pearson,Paul Lane,John Muke,Sheena Crawford,Nick Merriman,Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley. As of 2002,he is Dunlevie Family Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University in the United States.
Tanoan,also Kiowa–Tanoan or Tanoan–Kiowa,is a family of languages spoken by indigenous peoples in present-day New Mexico,Kansas,Oklahoma,and Texas.
Mogollon culture is an archaeological culture of Native American peoples from Southern New Mexico and Arizona,Northern Sonora and Chihuahua,and Western Texas. The northern part of this region is Oasisamerica,while the southern span of the Mogollon culture is known as Aridoamerica.
Ambos Nogales refers to the two cities of Nogales,Arizona,United States,and Nogales,Sonora,Mexico. They lie 60 miles directly south of Tucson,Arizona,divided by the Mexico–United States barrier. Though divided by the border between their respective nation states,the two municipalities have historically shared a sense of community alluded to in their description as "Ambos Nogales," as well as other sayings and phrases alluding to this camaraderie. The motto of Nogales,Sonora,is Juntos por amor a Nogales,meaning "United by the love of Nogales". Ambos Nogales has become a subject of anthropological and archaeological research due to the ways in which the material presence of the border wall has impacted the lives of those living in these cities. Investigation of community,migration,immigration,drug trafficking,gang violence,and all of the activities associated with these has occurred at Ambos Nogales due to its unique identity and geographic position.
Malcolm Jennings Rogers (1890–1960) was a pioneering archaeologist in southern California,Baja California,and Arizona.
Waldo Rudolph Wedel was an American archaeologist and a central figure in the study of the prehistory of the Great Plains. He was born in Newton,Kansas to a family of Mennonites.
The Arizona State Museum (ASM),founded in 1893,was originally a repository for the collection and protection of archaeological resources. Today,however,ASM stores artifacts,exhibits them and provides education and research opportunities. It was formed by authority of the Arizona Territorial Legislature. The museum is operated by the University of Arizona,and is located on the university campus in Tucson.
John Otis Brew,was an American archaeologist of the American Southwest and director at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University. Many of his publications are still used today by archaeologists that conduct their work in the American Southwest. J.O. Brew was a titan in the world of archaeology for his attempts to "preserve our archaeological heritage".
Robert Norman Zeitlin is an American professor emeritus of anthropology at Brandeis University. He has a B.A. in psychology from Cornell University,a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from Boston University,an M.A. in anthropology from City University of New York,and a M.Phil. and Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale University.
John W. Olsen is an American archaeologist and paleoanthropologist specializing in the early Stone Age prehistory and Pleistocene paleoecology of eastern Eurasia. Olsen is Regents' Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Executive Director of the Je Tsongkhapa Endowment for Central and Inner Asian Archaeology at the University of Arizona in Tucson,Arizona,USA. He is also a Leading Scientific Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian Branch in Novosibirsk and Guest Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing where he is also Co-Director of the Zhoukoudian International Paleoanthropological Research Center. Olsen has been named a Distinguished Researcher of the Nihewan Research Center in Hebei Province,China. He is also a Foreign Expert affiliated with The Yak Museum in Lhasa,Tibet.
Edward Holland Spicer (1906-1983) was an American anthropologist who combined the four-field approach outlined by Franz Boas and trained in the structural-function approach of Radcliffe-Brown and the University of Chicago. He joined the anthropology faculty at the University of Arizona in 1946 and retired from teaching in 1976. Spicer contributed to all four fields of anthropology through his study of the American Indians,the Southwest,and the clash of cultures defined in his award-winning book,Cycles of Conquest. Spicer combined the elements of historical,structural,and functional analysis to address the question of socio-cultural change. He was a teacher,researcher,editor,and practitioner,who applied his perspective to address the issues confronting the people he worked with.
Russell David Gray is a New Zealand evolutionary biologist and psychologist working on applying quantitative methods to the study of cultural evolution and human prehistory. In 2020,he became a co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Although originally trained in biology and psychology,Gray has become well known for his studies on the evolution of the Indo-European and Austronesian language families using computational phylogenetic methods.
Charles Harrison McNutt III was an American archaeologist and a scholar of the prehistoric Southeastern United States. He conducted fieldwork and published works on the archaeology of the American Southwest and the Great Plains in South Dakota. His work emphasized on a strong understanding of cultural history and statistical analysis.
Harry Lourandos is an Australian archaeologist,adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology,Archaeology and Sociology,School of Arts and Social Sciences at James Cook University,Cairns. He is a leading proponent of the theory that a period of hunter-gatherer intensification occurred between 3000 and 1000 BCE.
Judith Chafee nee Davidson Bloom (1932–1998) was an American architect known for her work on residential buildings in Arizona and for being a professor of architecture at the University of Arizona. She was a recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship to the American Academy in Rome during the middle of her career and was the first woman from Arizona to be named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Clara Lee Tanner was an American anthropologist,editor and art historian. She is known for studies of the arts and crafts of American Indians of the Southwest.
Keith W. Kintigh is an American anthropologist and professor emeritus at Arizona State University. He specialises in quantitative archaeology and the archaeology of the Southwestern United States,conducting field research on Ancestral Pueblo sites in the Cibola region of New Mexico. He was one of the founders of Digital Antiquity,an organization supporting the long-term preservation of archaeological data,and its data repository the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR).
William D. Lipe,also known as Bill Lipe,is an archaeologist known for his work in the American Southwest and his Conservation Model. Lipe has contributed to Cultural Resource Management (CRM) and public archaeology. In addition to this,he has done work with the Glen Canyon Project,the Dolores Archaeological Program,and the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.
William A. Longacre II was an American archaeologist and one of the founders of the processual "New Archaeology" of the 1960s.
William Henderson Kelly was an American professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona. He was described in the Journal of Arizona History as "one of the foremost authorities on Southwest Indian tribes". He was a founding member of the Bureau of Ethnic Research in Arizona.
