David Browman

Title:	Professor of Anthropology Director, Archaeology Program
Degree:	PHD, Harvard University MA, University of Washington BA, University of Montana - Missoula
Dept:	American Culture Studies Anthropology Archaeology
Office:	McMillan Hall 118
Mailbox:	Campus Box 1114 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Hide Full Mailing Address
Phone:	(314) 935-5231
E-mail:	dlbrowma@wustl.edu

Courses
First Americans: Prehistory of North America; Practicing Archaeology; Ancient Civilizations of the New World

Research Interests
Professor Browman holds a particular interest in the high Andes of Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. His current research focus is upon the issues and implications of increasing sedentism, including such questions as the origins of plant and animal domestication, and the formation of the pristine state. For example, in the Andean altiplano, plant agriculture is a critical supplement to the exploitation of patchy resources through mobility, early on through hunting and fishing, and later via herded animals. Hence Professor Browman's interest in camelid pastoralism is one component of research on the longitudinal interrelatedness of management techniques related to production and reproduction in areas where aridity and altitude limit cultural options. While the central Andes are his primary regional focus, the topical questions investigated are not limited by geography. Professor Browman has active research interests in local regional prehistoric and also historic archaeological questions. In addition, he has recently increased his focus on the intellectual origins of the field.

Selected Publications:

Browman, David L. and James N. Gundersen. Altiplano comestible earths: Preshistoric and historic geophagy of highland Peru and Bolivia. Geoarchaeology, Vol. 8, No. 5., 1993.

Browman, David L. and S. Williams. New perspectives on the Origins of Americanist Archaeology. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.

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

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, 1997.

(with S. Williams) New Perspectives on the 0rigins of Americanist Archaeology. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001.