Barbara J. Mills

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Barbara J. Mills (* 1955 ) is an American archaeologist and anthropologist . Her main research focus is the archeology of the North American Southwest.

Life

Barbara Mills studied anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania , where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1976 . She then continued her studies at the University of New Mexico , where she received a Master of Arts in anthropology and archeology in 1983 . In 1989, also in anthropology and archeology, there their promotion to Ph.D. In the same year she received the Ruth E. Kennedy Dissertation Award from the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico for her dissertation .

From 1989 to 1991 she taught as an assistant professor at Northern Arizona University . Mills then moved to the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona , where he taught from 1991 to 1996 as an assistant professor, from 1996 to 2002 as an associate professor and since 2002 as a professor. She was also director of the university's archaeological field school from 1993 to 2004 . In this role, she led excavations and surveys in eastern central Arizona and initiated the Silver Creek Archaeological Research Project . On belonging to the University of Arizona State Museum it from 2000 to 2004 Associate Curator of Archeology and there since 2004. Curator of Archeology. Since 2008 she has been head of the Department of Anthropology and the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, which emerged in 2009 .

Mills has been on the Editorial Advisory Board of Kiva , a journal published by AltaMira Press , since 1999 . Journal of Southwest Archeology and History . She was also Editorial Advisor to the University of Arizona Anthropological Papers at the University of Arizona Press from 2000 and Associate Editor of the Journal of Anthropological Research at the University of New Mexico from 2005 .

In 2006 she received the Gordon R. Willey Prize from the Archaeological Department of the American Anthropological Association . In 2015 she received the Society for American Archeology's Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis in the Ceramic Studies category .

Mills is a member of the American Anthropological Association , the Arizona Archaeological Council , the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society , the New Mexico Archaeological Council , the Register of Professional Archaeologists , the Society for American Archeology, and the World Archaeological Congress .

Publications (selection)

  • with Thomas John Ferguson: Archaeological Investigations at Zuni Pueblo, 1977-1980 (= Zuni Archeology Program Report No. 183). Pueblo of Zuni 1982.
  • with Christine E. Goetze, Nieves Zedeño: Across the Colorado Plateau: Anthropological Studies Along the Transwestern Pipeline Route, Volume XVI, Interpretation of Ceramic Artifacts. Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and Office of Contract Archeology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 1993.
  • with Patricia L. Crown (Ed.): Ceramic Production in the American Southwest. University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1995.
  • with Sarah A. Herr, Scott Van Keuren (Ed.): Living on the Edge of the Rim. The Silver Creek Archaeological Research Project, 1993-1998 (= Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series No. 192). 2 volumes, University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1999, ISBN 1-889747-70-X .
  • (Ed.): Alternative Leadership Strategies in the Prehispanic Southwest. University of Arizona Press, Tucson 2000, ISBN 0-8165-2028-3 .
  • (Ed.): Identity, Feasting, and the Archeology of the Greater Southwest. 2004, University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2004, ISBN 0-87081-762-0 .
  • with William H. Walker (Ed.): Memory Work. Archaeologies of Material Practice. School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe 2008, ISBN 978-1-930618-88-6 .
  • with Wendy Ashmore, Dorothy T. Lippert (Eds.): Voices in American Archeology . Society for American Archeology Press, Washington, DC 2010, ISBN 978-0-932839-39-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b History of the School of Anthropology , University of Arizona website.
  2. ^ Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis , Society for American Archeology website
personal data
SURNAME Mills, Barbara J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American archaeologist and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955