Research Interests
- Geographic: lowland South America, Central Andes, Central
Mexico, Mexican tropical lowlands, lower Central America,
Equatorial Africa
- Theoretical: human ecology, cultural evolution, human
biology, method and theory
- Topical: tropical environment, human-environment interaction,
agriculture, hunter-gatherers,
- peopling of the Americas, demography, social complexity,
ritual and ideology
- Technical: interdisciplinary approaches, savanna/rainforest
ecology, paleodiet, paleoecology,
- chronology, lithics, pottery, iconography, ethnoarchaeology,
geoarchaeology, computers
- Museological: collection management, object conservation,
public education, public parks
- Ethical: human rights, education, resource conservation,
sustainable development
Fieldwork
- Project director, Congo Basin Project, Central African
Republic, Republic of Congo ( Brazzaville), Democratic Republic
of Congo ( Kinshasa) 1996-present, 15 participants
- Project director, Lower Amazon Project, Brazil –
Santarem, Marajo, Curua, 1986-present, 30 participants
- Project member, Venezuelan Academy of Sciences/Boston
U. Dimensions of Environmental Change in Northern South
America, 1992, 15 participants
- Project director, Museum of the American Indian/Museu
Goeldi Marajo Archaeological-Geophysical Project, Brazil,
1982-85, 19 participants
- Principle investigator, Museum of the American Indian
Pilot Ecology and Site Reconnaisance, Lowland Mexico, Guatemala,
1985
- Project director, Museum of the American Indian Middle
Orinoco Archaeological Project, Venezuela, 1974-81, 11 participants
- Field supervisor, Queens College, City U. Archaeological
Project on Formative Central Mexico, Valley of Mexico, 1971-72
- Field supervisor, Peabody Foundation Archaeological/Botanical
Project, Ayacucho, Peru, 1970
- Trainee, Stanford U. Field School, Patterson Shellmound,
Alameda County, California, 1967
Languages
- French, Spanish, and Portuguese: speaking and reading
knowledge
- Italian and ancient Greek: basic reading knowledge
- Other languages studied: Latin, Hebrew, Akkadian
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