Archaeology
Stephen Acabado
Professor, Chair of Archaeology Interdepartmental Program, Director of Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Historical ecology, landscape archaeology, agricultural systems, settlement patterns, emergent complexity, indigenous peoples; Southeast Asia, Philippines, Guam, Micronesia
Subfield:Archaeology
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Email: acabado@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 370 Haines Hall
Paleoanthropology, simulation modeling, carnivore ecology, hunter-gatherers, stone technology, evolutionary theory; China; Mongolia; Tibet
Subfield:Archaeology
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Email: branting@ucla.edu
Office: 368 Haines Hall
Violence; materiality; Latino migration; forensic science; archaeology of the contemporary; photoethnography
Subfield:Archaeology and Sociocultural Anthropology
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Email: jdeleon@ucla.edu
Office: 364 Haines Hall
Historical Archaeology of Africa and the African Diaspora, Atlantic and Indian Ocean Slave Trade, Oral History, Community-Based Archaeology, Maritime Archaeology, Black Geographies
Subfield:Archaeology
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Email: jdunnavant@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 387 Haines Hall
Archaeology of early village societies; sociopolitical dynamics and the origin of social inequality; Mesoamerica
Subfield:Archaeology
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Email: lesure@ucla.edu
Office: 324B Haines Hall
Social archaeology and cultural history of continental East Asia focusing on emergence early civilizations in Neolithic and Bronze Age China. Historical anthropology, material culture, and conceptions of the past in early modern China. Landscape archaeology, integrating systematic survey, analysis of archaeological ceramics, remote sensing imagery, traditional studies of stone inscriptions and numismatics
Subfield:Archaeology
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Email: limin@humnet.ucla.edu
Office: 304 Haines Hall
Archaeology
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North American archaeology; population movement; origins of villages and leadership in agricultural societies; settlement systems and analysis; ceramic analysis; social context of archaeological practice; American Southwest
Subfield:Archaeology
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Email: gschachner@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 302 Haines Hall
Urbanism, economic networks, consumption and material culture, anthropology of food, comparative historical archaeology; South Asia, Mediterranean, Southwestern U.S.
Subfield:Archaeology
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Email: smith@anthro.ucla.edu
Office: 329B Haines Hall
Archaeological and zooarchaeological research along the eastern Pacific Rim; food and ethnicity; development of social complexity; Caribbean Panama; neotropical archaeology; historical archaeology; natural history; human paleoecology; paleoenvironmental reconstruction; comparative osteology
Subfield:Archaeology
Contact Information
Email: twake@ucla.edu
Office: A357 Fowler