DAVID L. BROWMAN Professor, Archaeology Ph.D., Harvard University, 1970 314-935-5231 dlbrowma@artsci.wustl.edu

My enthusiasm for the study of anthropology has its roots in my youth, when my family lived adjacent to groups of First Nations in western Montana. My interest in the cultures of the First Americans continues, with a particular focus upon the peoples of the high Andes of Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

One focus of my continuing research is upon the events that gave rise to the origins of plant and animal domestication, ultimately resulting in the formation of the pristine state. In the Andean altiplano, for example, plant agriculture evolved as a critical supplement to the exploitation of patchy resources through mobility, first through hunting and fishing, and later shifting to the utilization of herded animals. Thus my interest in all components of camelid pastoralism is but one component of the research on the longitudinal interrelatedness of management techniques associated with production and reproduction in zones where aridity and altitude limit other cultural options.

A second major focus recently has been upon the evolution of the philosophical approaches that Americanist archaeologists have created to investigate the development of socio-political complexity over time, that is, in the intellectual history of the discipline. Attention to historical archaeology and the history of archaeology continually reveal empire building in the field, as well as long-term biases regarding various gendered and regional groups.

I currently serve as the director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology, coordinating the activities of seven archaeologists from Anthropology two from Art History, one from Classics, and one from Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Graduate Courses

Aztecs, Mayas and Incas; First Americans; Nomadic Pastoralism; Historical Archaeology; Historical Contexts of Archaeology; Practicing Archaeology; Archaeological Research Techniques; and various seminars on selected topics in Americanist archaeology.

Selected Publications

Browman, David L.

2005 Thoughts on the theater state aspects of Tiwanaku. In: Tiwanaku: aproximaciones a sus contextos históricos y sociales, M. A. Rivera and A. L. Kolata, eds., pp. 301-319. Santiago: Editorial Universidad Bolivariana.

2005 Origins of food-producing economies in the Americas (with G. J. Fritz and P. J. Watson). In The Human Past, Chris Scarre, ed., pp. 306-349. London: Thames and Hudson.

2002 The Peabody Museum, Frederic W. Putnam, and the rise of U.S. anthropology, 1866-1903. American Anthropologist 104(2):508-519

1998 Pastoral risk perception and risk definition for altiplano herders. Nomadic Peoples 38:22-36.

1997 Political institutional factors contributing to the integration of the Tiwanaku state. In Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies, L. Manzanilla, ed., pp. 229-243.

1994 Titicaca Basin archaeolinguistics: Uru, Pukina and Aymara AD 750-1450. World Archaeology 26(2):234-250.

1994 Información y manejo de riesgo para fleteros de llama en los Andes Centro-Sur. Zooarqueologia de Camélidos 1:23-42.

Browman, David L. and S. Williams

2002 New perspectives on the Origins of Americanist Archaeology. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.