Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches

Contributors

Babatunde Agbaje-Williams (PhD, University of Ibadan) is at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. His work focuses on Yoruba historical archaeology and cultural resource management. His books include Cultural Resources in Ijesaland Western Nigeria (with A. O. Ogundiran, 1992) and Archaeological Investigation of Itagunmodi Potsherd Pavement Site in Ijesaland, Osun State, Nigeria (1995). Articles include “Archaeology and Yoruba Studies,” Yoruba Historiography (1991); “Potsherd Pavements and Early Urban Sites in Yorubaland, Nigeria: An Interim Report” (2001); and “Yoruba Urbanism: The Archaeology and Historical Ethnography of Ile-Ife and Old Oyo” (2004). Roger S. Bagnall is Professor of Classics and History at Columbia University. Among his books are Egypt in Late Antiquity (1993), The Demography of Roman Egypt (with Bruce Frier, 1994), and Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History (1995). He will be Sather Professor of Classical Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, in the fall of 2005. Deborah E. Blom is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont. She has been working in the Andean region of Bolivia and Peru since 1993. Her areas of specialties include human osteology, paleopathology, mortuary practices, migration, and ethnicity and identity. Articles she has published on these topics include “Tiwanaku ‘Colonization’: Bioarchaeological Implications for Migration in the Moquegua Valley, Peru,” with others, World Archaeology (1998); “Making Place: Humans as Objects of Dedication in Tiwanaku Society,” with John W. Janusek, World Archaeology (2004); and “Embodying Borders: Human Body Modi¤cation and Diversity in Tiwanaku Society,” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (2005). She is currently codirecting a project at the site of Tiwanaku, Bolivia, with Nicole Couture of McGill University. Contributors Jesper L. Boldsen is Head of the Department of Anthropology, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense. He has studied the Danish population during the Middle Ages for nearly 30 years on the basis of excavated skeletons. His main research interests are paleodemography, paleoepidemiology , medieval population structure, and the evolution of patterns of mortality in Holocene Europe. He has published more than 100 scienti¤c papers. Recent examples include “Estimating Patterns of Disease and Mortality in a Medieval Danish Village,” in R. R. Paine, ed., Integrating Archaeological Demography: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Prehistoric Population (1997); “Patterns of Childhood Mortality in Medieval Scandinavia,” Revista di Antropologia (1997); “Epidemiological Approaches to the Paleopathological Diagnosis of Leprosy,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2001); and “Transition Analysis: A New Method for Estimating Age from Skeletons,” with G. R. Milner, L. W. Konigsberg , and J. W. Wood, in R. D. Hoppa and J. W. Vaupel, eds., Paleodemography: Age Distributions from Skeletal Samples (2002). L. J. Goren®o holds the position of Director in the Center for Applied Biodiversity Science’s Human Dimensions Program at Conservation International. With advanced degrees in anthropology (MA) and geography (PhD), Goren®o focuses on issues involving regional adaptation in prehistoric, historic, and modern contexts . He has conducted research and published on a range of topics associated with human settlement and demographics, including studies of settlement patterns in the prehispanic Basin of Mexico, regional settlement and historical demography throughout Micronesia, and the impacts of human settlement and land use on biodiversity conservation at both regional and global scales. John Wayne Janusek is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University . He has conducted archaeological research in the Bolivian Andes since 1987, investigating urban and rural dimensions of complex societies in the region. He is author of Identity and Power in the Ancient Andes: Tiwanaku Cities through Time (2004) and Ancient Tiwanaku: Civilization in the High Andes (2006). Laura Lee Junker is Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago. She specializes in the political economy of prehispanic chiefdoms in the Philippines. Her publications include Raiding, Trading, and Feasting: The Political Economy of Philippine Chiefdoms (1999) and Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia: Long-Term Histories (edited, 2002). Chapurukha Kusimba is Associate Curator of African Archaeology and Ethnology at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his doctorate in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylva410 contributors nia, in 1993. He has published extensively on African archaeology and anthropology . His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Fulbright Fellowship, and the Field Museum. His most recent books are East African Archaeology: Foragers, Potters, Smiths, and Traders (edited with Sibel Kusimba, 2003) and Unwrapping a...