Inscribed Landscapes: Marking and Making Place

Contributors

Dr. Michael Adler is associate professor of anthropology at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. His long-term research focuses on village formation and landscape use in the American Southwest , and he has undertaken fieldwork in southwestern Colorado and New Mexico. He specializes in the archaeology of ancestral pueblo peoples, or Anasazi, of the American Southwest and has published a variety of works on the topic, including The Prehistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1150–1350 (University of Arizona Press, 1996). His interests also include the role of ritual and sacred places in human societies, particularly with respect to the use of ancestral sacred sites by Indigenous peoples. Dr. Michael J. Allen is environmental manager for Wessex Archaeology, Salisbury, England, specializing in the analysis and interpretation of subfossil land snail assemblages, soils, and sediments. His research focuses on the archaeology of landscape formation and human interaction, especially in the chalklands of southern England. Among his many publications are landscape reconstructions and syntheses in Stonehenge in Its Landscape (English Heritage , 1995), The Dorchester Landscape (Wessex Archaeology, 1997), and Langstone Harbour (Council for British Archaeology, 2000). Dr. Chris Ballard is a fellow in the interdisciplinary project on Resource Management in Asia-Pacific at the Australian National University’s Research 285 CONTRIBUTORS School of Pacific and Asian Studies. He has conducted long-term research as an archaeologist, historian , and anthropologist in Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian province of West Papua/Irian Jaya. He is editor of Mining and Mineral Resource Policy in Asia-Pacific (1995); The OkTedi Settlement (1997); Fluid Ontologies (1998); Historical Perspectives on West New Guinea (1999); Myth and History in the New Guinea Highlands (1999); Agricultural Intensification in New Guinea (2001); and Race for the Snow (2001). Professor Paul Carter is an artist and writer. His latest book, True Clairvoyance: Art, Migration, Place is scheduled for 2001 publication. Recent artworks include Relay (Olympic Coordination Authority, Fig Grove, Homebush Bay, 2000) and Nearamnew (Federation Square, Melbourne, 2001). Among his many books are The Road to Botany Bay (Faber and Faber, 1987) and The Lie of the Land (Faber and Faber, 1996). His current book in progress is Repressed Spaces: The Poetics of Agoraphobia. He is professorial research fellow at The Australian Centre , The University of Melbourne. Dr. John Coleman Darnell is assistant professor of Egyptology at Yale University. He has worked for the Demotic Dictionary Project of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, and was epigrapher and senior epigrapher for the Epigraphic Survey of that institute for ten years, based in Luxor, Egypt. He has been Egyptologist and director of theTheban Desert Road and Yale Toshka Desert Surveys. His specialties include Egyptian religion, ancient Egyptian cryptography , lapidary hieratic, and ancient Egyptian political and military history. His publications include The Theban Desert Road Survey, The Rock Inscriptions of theWadi el Hôl, and The Enigmatic Netherworld Books of the Solar-Osirian Unity. Dr. Bruno David is Logan Fellow at Monash University . His major research interests include an archaeology of ontology and of the Dreaming, and the archaeology and ethnography of rock-art and social landscapes. He has undertaken archaeological and ethnographic research in Australia, Vanuatu, and the United States. He is author of Landscapes, Rock-art and the Dreaming (Continuum, 2002) and co-editor of Bridging Wallace’s Line (Catena Verlag, 2002). Dr. Julie Gardiner is an archaeologist and editor of the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Her research interests include the study of Mesolithic-Neolithic landscapes of southern England, with an emphasis on lithic assemblages. Her major projects and publications include contributions to Landscape, Monuments and Society: The Prehistory of Cranborne Chase (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and Stonehenge in Its Landscape (English Heritage, 1995). She is currently reports manager for Wessex Archaeology, Salisbury, England. Professor Marcia Langton is chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at The University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on Native title, land rights, and resource rights in Aboriginal Australia. She is a specialist in Aboriginal land tenure and resource issues, and has published on customary law. She is author of Burning Questions (Centre for Indigenous Natural and Cultural Resource Management, 1998) and Well, I Heard It on the Radio and I Saw It on the Television (Australian Film Commission, 1993) and coeditor of Aborigines, Land and Land Rights (Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1983). She was awarded a Medal of Australia in 1993 for services to anthropology and advocacy of Aboriginal rights. Dr. Georgia Lee received a master’s degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a...