Faculty Research

Pamela A. Bunte, Professor
Ethnography of communication, applied anthropology, American Indian languages and societies, languages and culture, Great Basin, US Southwest, Cambodia

Jayne Howell, Professor
Education and employment, gender, migration, urban anthropology, ethnohistory, tourism, Mexico; Mexico, Latin America

Daniel O. Larson, Professor
Archaeology, cultural ecology, evolutionary theory, research design, ethnohistory, climatic change; Western North America, Ireland

Barbara LeMaster, Chair & Professor
Ethnicity and gender, appied linguistics, deaf languages and culture, interpreting and translation, intercultural communication, applied anthropology, anthropology and education, urban anthropology, medical anthropology; Ireland, Southern California

Carl P. Lipo, Associate Professor
Archaeological method and theory, evolutionary theory, complex societies, cultural elaboration, cultural transmission, simulation, ceramics, community structure, stylistic variability, seriation, quantitative methods; Eastern North America, Oceania

Ron Loewe, Associate Professor
Medical anthropology, applied anthropology, Maya language, culture and politics, tourism; Mexico, Latin America

Larry Mai, Associate Professor
Genetics and cytogenetics, biotechnology, medical anthropology

Hector Neff, Professor
Archaeology, archaeometry, evolutionary theory, origins of agriculture, quantitative methods; Mesoamerica, Southwest US, South America
hneff@csulb.edu

Karen Quintiliani, Assistant Professor & Graduate Advisor
Urban and applied anthropology, social welfare, public policy, gender and sexuality; North America, SE Asia

George Scott, Associate Professor
Anthropology and literature, cultural diversity, anthropology of religion, urban anthropology; South Asia and US

R. Scott Wilson, Assistant Professor
Race and ethnicity, transnational media, cultural production; Taiwan, global East Asia

Marcus Young Owl, Professor & Undergraduate Advisor
Primate anatomy, comparative biology, mammalian physiological ecology, evolutionary theory, Archonta: Primates, Chiroptera

Last update: 3/6/08

SPOTLIGHT

Anthropology Student and Faculty Papers at the 71st Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Puerto Rico. April 2006.

(CSULB Participants are in BOLD)

Ileana Bradford, Hector Neff and Bret Plaskey - Laser Ablation ICP-MS for the Chemical Characterization of Glass Beads from the Great Basin Area of Eastern California

Janine Gasco, Hector Neff and Gloria Evins -- Postclassic Ceramics in the Soconusco: Patterns of Production and Exchange

Hector Neff and Sonia Medrano -- Central Mexicans on the Guatemalan Coast

Susana Gonzalez, Gregory Hodgins, George Burr, Jeffrey Dean and Hector Neff—Differences in Measurable Radiocarbon Due to Latitude and Elevation

Maria Masucci and Hector Neff -- Ceramic Production and Societal Change in the Manteno of Coastal Ecuado

Krzysztof Makowski, Ivan Ghezzi and Hector Neff -- LA-ICPMS Analysis of Ceramics from Pueblo Viejo (Lurin, Peru): Discussion of Results

Lisa N. Schaaf, Mary Ann Vicari, Eugene W. Domack, George T. Jones and Michael D. Cannon -- Geoarchaeological Investigations at Smith Creek Cave, White Pine County, Nevada

Mike Cannon -- Efficiency, Risk, and the Evolution of Agricultural Economies

Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo and Sergio Rapu-Haoa -- An Elephant in the Room: Current Problems in Easter Island Archaeology

Carl Lipo and Terry Hunt -- The Cultural Phylogeny of Monumental Statues on Easter Island

Sachiko Sakai -- Investigation of Olivine Tempered Ceramics and Clay Procurement Patterns in the Virgin Branch Anasazi Region

Paul Buck and Sachiko Sakai -- Testing of Virgin Anasazi Sites at Mt. Trumbull, Arizona