Ideologies in Archaeology

About the Contributors

393 About the Contributors Susan M. Alt is an assistant professor of anthropology at Indiana University. She is an archaeologist studying Mississippian societies with a particular focus on the central Mississippi and lower Ohio valleys . Her research is centered on the reconstruction of the histories of past peoples and places, with the goal to understand how societies transform themselves, both intentionally and unintentionally, via processes involving gender, ritual, memory, traditions, identity formation, and hybridity. She is currently part of a project seeking to test the movement of people at and around Cahokia through the use of ancient DNA and archaeological evidence. Current and active field projects include excavating at Yankeetown-phase sites in Posey County, Indiana, as well as conducting magnetometry at Trempeleau, Wisconsin, at Eveland, Illinois, and at various Posey County sites. Her most current writing project, an edited book Ancient Complexities : New Perspectives in Pre-Columbian America, was released in 2010. Bettina Arnold is a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Her area of expertise is early Iron Age Europe , but she has participated in archaeological projects ranging from the middle Bronze Age through the Roman period. Her research interests include prehistoric Europe, Celtic Europe, the archaeology of gender, mortuary analysis, material culture as a system of communication , and the history of archaeology, particularly the use and abuse of the past for political purposes. Recent publications include “Beasts of the Forest and Beasts of the Field: The Master of Animals in Iron Age Continental Europe” (2010) and “‘Reading the Body’: Geschlechterdifferenz im Totenritual der frühen Eisenzeit” (2008). Uzi Baram is an associate professor of anthropology at New College of Florida. As a historical archaeologist, his research interests include the archaeology of the Ottoman Empire; the role of nationalism and tourism in the commemoration, and the amnesias, of the modern 394 about the contributors Middle East; and race, heritage, and the cultural landscape in southwest Florida. Since coediting Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past (2004), Baram has explored community-based anthropological research into heritage. A series of successful publicarchaeology projects led New College of Florida to build a facility for preserving regional heritage. The New College Public Archaeology Lab’s program focuses on archaeology and civic engagement, seeks to contribute to the growing discussions in archaeology on social justice, and offers a framework for training undergraduates at New College in contemporary anthropological ethics. Matthew David Cochran is a PhD candidate at University College London and a senior archaeologist for Greenhorne and O’Mara, Inc., in Laurel, Maryland. With over twelve years of professional archaeological experience in the mid-Atlantic region, he has worked in both the public and private sectors conducting Cultural Resource Management projects. He has directed and managed archaeologicalsurvey and -mitigation projects of both historic and prehistoric Native American archaeological sites for the University of Maryland, the National Park Service, and the Maryland–National Capital Park and Planning Commission. His research and professional interests focus on landscape archaeology and the development of historic urban centers . Matthew has taught archaeological field schools and introduction to archaeology at the college level and regularly presents lectures and publishes research papers regarding his research in the midAtlantic region. Jean-Paul Demoule is a professor of later European prehistory at Paris 1 University (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He has excavated in the course of the regional rescue project in the Aisne Valley, as well as in Greece and Bulgaria. Particularly interested in issues related to rescue archaeology, he participated in the drawing up of rescue-archaeology law in France, as well as in the establishment of the Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives (Inrap), of which he served as president from 2001 to 2008. His research has focused on the Neolithization of Europe, on Iron Age society, on the history of archaeology and its social role, and on the construction of ideologies, including the “Indo-European problem.” His main pub- About the Contributors 395 lications as author, editor, or coeditor include Chronologie et société des nécropoles celtiques de la culture Aisne-Marne (1999), Guide des méthodes de l’archéologie (third edition, 2009), La France archéologique: Vingt ans d’aménagements et de découvertes (2004), La révolution néolithique en France (2007), L’archéologie préventive dans le monde (2007), Naissance de la figure: L’art du paléolithique à l’âge du Fer (2007), The...