Curator of Environmental Archaeology

 Research Interests: Mesoamerican, Andean, Near Eastern archaeology; origins of agriculture,  origins of the state, evolution

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Curator Emeritus

 Research Interests: ethnobotany, paleoethnobotany,  Southwest archaeology, prehistoric ecology; rock art

 E-mail: riford@umich.edu

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 Joyce Marcus          Ph.D. Harvard University, 1974

 Curator of Latin American Archaeology

 Research Interests: Mesoamerican archaeology (especially Maya and Zapotec) and Andean  archaeology; origins of writing, art, religion and ritual, origins of the state, sociopolitical organization,  comparative states and empires

E-mail: joymar@umich.edu

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 John O'Shea                                         Ph.D. Cambridge 1978

 Curator of Great Lakes Archaeology

 Research Interests: Prehistoric economics, theory and method; Old World  archaeology, North America, Underwater archaeology in the Great Lakes

 E-mail: joshea@umich.edu

 Jeffrey R. Parsons                       Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1964

 Curator Emeritus

 Research Interests: Archaeology and ethnohistory of Mesoamerica and  Andean South America; regional studies in archaeology; archaeological  ethnography.

 E-mail: jpar@umich.edu

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Richard Redding      Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1981

Curator of Zooarchaeology Laboratory

Research Interests: Human subsistence behavior in the evolution of culture; Shift from hunting and gathering to food production and the shift to complex societies; Middle East, Egypt, and China.

E-mail: rredding@umich.edu

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 Carla M. Sinopoli                Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1986

 Director, Museum of Anthropology; Curator of Asian Archaeology

 Research Interests: Material culture, gender, states and  empires, political economy, South Asia

 E-mail: sinopoli@umich.edu

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 John D. Speth                           Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1971

 Curator of North American Archaeology

 Research Interests : Hunter-gatherers, small-scale farmers,  cultural evolution, diet and subsistence, economic intensification,  Middle Paleolithic of the Near East, forager-farmer interaction in the  American Southwest, zooarchaeology.

 E-mail: jdspeth@umich.edu

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Robert Whallon              Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1966

Curator of European Archaeology

Research Interests: Ecology and evolution of hunter-gatherers, quantitative methods, prehistory; Europe, Middle East

E-mail: whallon@umich.edu

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 Henry T. Wright          Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1971

 Curator of Middle East Archaeology

 Research Interests: Origins of the state, political and economic  operation of developed chiefdoms and archaic states; Middle  East, Africa, Indian Ocean, Eastern USA

 E-mail: hwright@umich.edu

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