W. H. Wills
Professor of Anthropology
At UNM since Fall 1986

Anthropology Courses taught at UNM
Pyramids and Paradoxes (A&S 199)
Introduction to Anthropology (101)
Introduction to Archaeological Method and Theory (121L)
World Prehistory (220)
Southwest Archaeology (321)
Archaeology Field School (375F)
Jr/Sr Proseminar in Archaeology (420)
Honors Seminar (498)
Preceramic Southwest Archaeology (570)
Ritual in Prehistory (570)
Current Debates in Archaeology (579)

Education
University of New Mexico, BA cum laude 1977
University of Michigan, Anthropology, MA 1980
University of Michigan, Anthropology, Ph.D. 1985
Dissertation: Early Agriculture in the Mogollon Highlands of New Mexico

Fieldwork
New Mexico, Southwest U.S.

Selected Publications
(Patricia L. Crown and W. H. Wills) “Modifying Pottery and Kivas at Chaco: Pentimento, Restoration, or Renewal?” American Antiquity 68(2003):511-532.

“Ritual and Mound Formation during the Bonito Phase in Chaco Canyon.” American Antiquity 66(2001):433-452.

“Pithouse Architecture and the Economics of Household Formation in the Prehistoric Southwest.” Human Ecology 29(2001):477-500.

Political Leadership and the Construction of Chacoan Great Houses, A.D. 1020 – 1140. In Alternative Leadership Strategies in the Prehistoric Southwest, edited by B. J. Mills, pp. 19-44. University of Arizona, Tucson. 2000.

“ The Preceramic to Ceramic Transition in the Mogollon Highlands of Western New Mexico.” Journal of Field Archaeology 23(1996):335-359.

(Patricia L. Crown and W. H. Wills) “The Origins of Ceramic Containers: Women’s Time Allocation and Economic Intensification.” Journal of Anthropological Research 51(1995): 173-186.

Archaic Foraging and the Beginning of Food Production in the American Southwest. In Last Hunters – First Farmers: New Perspectives on the Prehistoric Transition to Agriculture, edited by T. D. Price and A. Gebauer, pp. 215-242. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.