Michael W. Graves

Michael W. Graves (born October 27, 1952 ) is an American anthropologist and archaeologist . His research focus is on the consideration of evolutionary archaeological approaches with regard to the development of agricultural practices, monumental and residential architecture, sociality , maritime utensils and ceramics .

Life

Studies and academic teaching

Michael Graves studied anthropology at the University of Washington in Seattle , where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1974 . He then continued his studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson , specializing in archeology. In 1981 he did his doctorate with William A. Longacre with the dissertation Ethnoarchaeology of Kalinga Ceramic Design and he received a Ph.D. Graves taught from 1981 to 1986 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Guam . During this time he was chairman of the Department of Anthropology from 1983 to 1985 and director of the Micronesian Area Research Center from 1985 to 1986 . In 1986 he moved to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa , where he taught from 1986 to 1989 as an assistant professor, from 1989 to 1995 as an associate professor, and from 1995 to 2007 as a professor. Since 2008 he has been a professor emeritus at the university. Furthermore, Graves was chairman of the Department of Anthropology in the spring of 1995 and again from 2002 to 2006 . In addition to teaching at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, he has been a professor at the University of New Mexico since 2007 and was chairman of the Department of Anthropology there from 2007 to 2014 .

From 1991 to 1997 he was on the editorial board of Isla magazine . The Journal of Micronesian Studies . From 1993 to 1996 he was editor of the Society for American Archeology's American Antiquity journal . He was also editor-in-chief from 1992 to 2000 and a member of the editorial board of the specialist magazine Asian Perspectives from 2000 to 2015 . The Journal of Archeology for Asia and the Pacific .

Archaeological field research

Early in his career, Graves explored the southwestern United States, especially Arizona , and conducted field research there for almost ten years. He then carried out ethnoarchaeological research among the Kalinga in the northwest of the Philippine island of Luzon . Since the beginning of the 1990s, he has devoted himself increasingly to archaeological field research in Oceania and Hawaii . In the course of this, he carried out excavations on the Micronesian islands of Guam , Saipan , Tinian , Pohnpei and Kosrae , as well as on Tahiti , Easter Island and various Hawaiian islands.

Fonts (selection)

• with William A. Longacre, Sally J. Holbrook (Eds.): Multidisciplinary Research at Grasshopper Pueblo. (1982, Anthropological Papers, Number 40. University of Arizona Press, Tucson).
• with Terry L. Hunt (Ed.): Exchange, Interaction, and Social Complexity in Oceania. (1990, Special Issue Asian Perspectives 29, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu).
• The Archeology of Hawaii: Recent Trends. (1991, Special Issue Asian Perspectives 30, University of Hawai 'Press).
• with Roger C. Green (Ed.): The Evolution and Organization of Prehistoric Society in Polynesia (1993, Monograph 19. Auckland: New Zealand Archaeological Association).
• with Thegn N. Ladefoged (Ed.): Pacific Landscapes. Archaeological Approaches to Oceania. (2002, Easter Island Foundation, Los Osos, California).
• with Mike T. Carson (Ed.): Na Mea Kahiko o Kaua'i. Archaeological Studies in Kaua'i. (2005, Special Publication 2nd Society for Hawaiian Archeology, Honolulu).
• with James M. Skibo , Miriam T. Stark (Eds.): Archaeological Anthropology. Perspectives on Method and Theory. (2007, University of Arizona Press, Tucson).
• with Julie S. Field (Ed.): Abundance and Resilience. Farming and Foraging in Ancient Kaua'i. (2015, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu).

Web links

• Entry on the website of the University of New Mexico