Miriam T. Stark

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Miriam T. Stark (born September 14, 1962 ) is an American archaeologist . Her research focus is on the archeology of Southeast Asia, focusing on aspects of political economy and state formation. She is also interested in the development of technologies, for example in the manufacture of ceramics .

Life

Studies and academic teaching

Miriam Stark studied at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor , where she received a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology and English in 1984 . She then studied at the University of Arizona in Tucson , where she received a Master of Arts in anthropology in 1987 , and a Ph. D. in anthropology in 1993 with the dissertation Pottery Economics: A Kalinga Ethnoarchaeological Study . The archaeologist William A. Longacre was her doctoral advisor . During her studies she worked variously at the Arizona State Museum . In 1992, and again in 1994, she took part in the Thailand Archaeometallurgical Project at the University of Pennsylvania in Lopburi , Thailand . From 1990 to 1994 she worked as a Research Archaeologist for Desert Archeology, Inc. in Tucson. From 1994 to 1995 she was a Materials Analysis Postdoctoral Fellow at the Conservation Analytical Laboratory of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC Since 1995 she has taught at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa . From 1995 to 2000 as Assistant Professor , from 2000 to 2006 as Associate Professor and since 2006 as Professor. She has also been a Research Associate at the BP Bishop Museum in Honolulu since 1995 . Stark was Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University in 2011 .

From 2000 to 2006 she was the editor of the journal Asian Perspectives . Since 2008 she has been a member of the editorial board of the journal Ethnoarchaeology .

Stark is a member of the American Anthropological Association , the American Association of University Women , the American Women in Science , the Archaeological Institute of America , the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, and the Society for American Archeology .

Archaeological field research

Stark's ethnoarchaeological research began in the second half of the 1980s as a member of the Kalinga Ethnoarchaeological Project led by William A. Longacre . In the course of this, she spent an academic year from 1987 to 1988 in the Philippine community of Pasil , where she carried out ceramic examinations in the Barangay Dalupa . The knowledge gained in this way was later incorporated into her dissertation.

In 1996 she became co-director of the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project , an archaeological project in collaboration with the Cambodian Ministry of Culture, which focuses on research into the early state formation in the Mekong Delta in southern Cambodia. In the course of this, she was co-director of nine excavations in and around Angkor Borei between 1996 and 2009 .

Since 2010 she has participated in the Greater Angkor Project of the University of Sydney under the direction of Roland Fletcher and Jeffrey Riegel , which dealt with the decline of Angkor . Research here concentrated on Angkor Wat , Bayon and Ta Prohm .

Publications (selection)

  • with James M. Heidke (Ed.): Ceramic Chronology, Technology, and Economics. The Roosevelt Community Development Study. (1995, Anthropological Papers No. 14, Volume 2. Center for Desert Archeology, Tucson)
  • with Mark D. Elson, David A. Gregory (Eds.): Synthetic Perspectives from the Roosevelt Community Development Study. (1996, Anthropological Papers No. 15. Center for Desert Archeology, Tucson)
  • (Ed.): The Archeology of Social Boundaries. (1998, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC)
  • with James M. Bayman (Ed.): Exploring Archeology. (2000, Carolina Academic Press, Durham, North Carolina)
  • (Ed.): Archeology of Asia. (2006, Blackwell Publishing Inc., Malden, Massachusetts)
  • with James M. Skibo , Michael W. Graves (Eds.): Archaeological Anthropology: Perspectives on Method and Theory. (2007, University of Arizona Press, Tucson)
  • with Lee Horne, Brenda J. Bowser (Eds.): Cultural Transmission and Material Culture: Breaking Down Boundaries. (2008, University of Arizona Press, Tucson)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Atlas Longacre, II (December 16, 1937 – November 18, 2015) , obituary on the University of Arizona School of Anthropology website
personal data
SURNAME Stark, Miriam T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1962