Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology

The archaeology faculty at Washington University in St. Louis is engaged in active field research across North and South America, East, Southeast, and Central Asia, and Africa. Although our research intersects with many diverse themes and debates within the field of Anthropology, we have notable strengths in the archaeological study of the following areas:

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Pathways to food production

(Plant and animal domestication and the development of agricultural systems)

Faculty:

David L. Browman

Darla Dale

Michael Frachetti

David Freidel

Gayle J. Fritz

John Kelly

T.R. Kidder

Fiona Marshall

Current Graduate Students

Research Labs:

Geoarchaeology Lab

Mesoamerican Lab

Paleoethnobotany Lab & Lab Botany Guide

SAIE Lab (GIS & Remote Sensing)

Zooarchaeology Lab

 

Research Partners:

Missouri Botanical Gardens

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site

Saint Louis Zoo

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Social complexity

(Societies with and without hierarchy, sedentism and/or agriculture)

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Variability and development among hunter-gatherers and mobile pastoralists

(Specializing in North and South America, Asia, and Africa)

landscape archaeology

Landscape Archaeology

(emphasis on Geoarchaeology, GIS, and archaeological survey)