Professor Ofer Bar-Yosef
Peabody Museum 57 D
(617) 495-2252
(617) 495-1279
Research Interests: The origin of modern humans and early farming societies; Near East. e-mail
Professor David Carrasco Wing Chair and Director of Graduate Studies in Archaeology (DGS)
Peabody Museum 57 A
(617) 384-9499
Divinity Hall 304
(617) 384-7953
Research Interests: Urban ecology and ceremonial centers, ritual violence and state organization: Mesoamerica. e-mail
Professor William L. Fash Peabody Museum 24-2
(617) 496-4884
Research Interests: Cultural process, settlement pattern analysis,symbolism and archaeological conservation, Mesoamerica. e-mail website
Assistant Professor Rowan Flad
Peabody Museum 57G
(617) 495-1966
Research Interests: Chinese Archaeology; emergence and persistance of complex societies in the Sichuan Basin; Specialization; Zooarchaeology. e-mail website
Professor C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky Peabody Museum 57 J
(617) 496-8162
Research Interests: The urban process and exchange networks that tie the Near East, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian peninsula, and Central Asia into spheres of economic and political interaction. e-mail
Senior Lecturer Richard H. Meadow Archaeology Wing Tutor
Peabody Museum 35 B
(617) 495-3354
Research Interests: Archaeology of South and West Asia; the Indus Civilization; Zooarchaeology; domestication of animals; origins of agriculture. e-mail website
Senior Lecturer Jeffrey Quilter Peabody Museum 37
(617) 495-9655
Deputy Director Curatorial Affairs & Curator, Intermediate Area Collections, Peabody Museum
Research Interests: Andean South America, The Intermediate Area, and interactions between and shared culture among New World peoples. Social change and transformations. Ancient and Non-Western Art. The limits and potentials of archaeology in understanding the past. e-mail
Lecturer Ann Seiferle-Valencia Peabody Museum 47
(617) 496-8259
Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2, toponymy, Aztec constructions of space/place e-mail
Professor Noreen Tuross
Peabody Museum 58 D
Research Interests: Application of biogeochemical techniques, including immunology and mass spectrometry, to archaeological questions. Ancient DNA and DNA damage. Human impacts on the land, paleodiet, migration and seasonality. e-mail
Assistant Professor Jason Ur Peabody Museum 57F
(617) 495-8920
Research Interests:ancient landscapes, archaeological survey, GIS and remote sensing, early complex society and urbanism, Near East, southern Caucasus e-mail website On leave 2007-08
Professor Gary Urton
Peabody Museum 59 A-C
(617) 496-8534
Research Interests: South American archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnology; ancient accounting and record keeping; state formation; Inka civilization; Peru, Bolivia, Chile e-mail Khipu Database Project
Lecturer Marc Zender
Peabody Museum 35C
(617) 496-7186
Research Interests: Cognitive archaeology, Historical Linguistics, Epigraphy, Comparative Writing Systems, Symbolism; Mesoamerica e-mail