Patricia L. Crown

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Patricia Louise Crown is an American archaeologist and anthropologist . Her main research focus is the archeology of the North American Southwest.

Life

Crown studied anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia , where he received a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in 1974 . She then continued her studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson . Here she received a Master of Arts in anthropology in 1976 and did her doctorate in 1981 with Emil W. Haury with the dissertation Variability in Ceramic Manufacture at the Chodistaas Site, East-Central Arizona .

After working as an Archaeological Specialist in the Cultural Resource Management Section of the University of Arizona State Museum from 1979 to 1980 , Crown was an Assistant Archaeologist in the same from 1980 to 1985 . From 1985 to 1990 she taught as an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University . She then taught at the Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University , first from 1991 to 1992 as an assistant professor, then from 1992 to 1993 as an associate professor. In 1993 Crown moved to the University of New Mexico. At the Department of Anthropology there , she taught from 1993 to 1998 as Associate Professor, from 1998 to 2008 as Professor and since 2008 as Distinguished Professor . In 2014 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

In 1994 she received the Society for American Archeology's Award for Excellence in Ceramic Studies . In 1998 she received the Gordon R. Willey Prize from the Archaeological Department of the American Anthropological Association . In 2015 she received the Presidential Award of Distinction from the University of New Mexico and the Heritage Preservation Award from the State of New Mexico in the Individual Achievement category .

Crown is a member of the American Anthropological Association , the Archaeological Society of New Mexico , the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society , the New Mexico Archaeological Council, and the Society for American Archeology .

Publications (selection)

  • with W. James Judge (Ed.): Chaco and Hohokam. Prehistoric Regional Systems in the American Southwest. (1991, School of American Research Press, Santa Fe)
  • Ceramics and Ideology. Salado Polychrome Pottery. (1994, University of New Mexico Press)
  • with Barbara J. Mills (Ed.): Ceramic Production in the American Southwest. (1995, The University of Arizona Press)
  • (Ed.): Women and Men in the prehispanic Southwest. Gendered perspectives on labor, power, and prestige in the American Southwest (2000, School of American Research Press, Santa Fe)
  • with Deborah L. Nichols (Ed.): Social Violence in the Prehispanic American Southwest (2008, University of Arizona Press, Tucson)
  • (Ed.): The Pueblo Bonito Mounds of Chaco Canyon. Material Culture and Fauna (2016, UNM Press, Albuquerque)

Web links

  • Entry on the website of the University of New Mexico

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis , Society for American Archeology website
personal data
SURNAME Crown, Patricia L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crown, Patricia Louise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American archaeologist and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century