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James L. Boone
Associate Professor of Anthropology (Archaeology)
At UNM since Fall 1987
jboone@unm.edu
505.277.6558

Web site http://www.unm.edu/~jboone


Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM since 2002
  • Introduction to Anthropology (Anth 101)
  • Archaeological Method and Theory (121L)
  • Later European Prehistory (326)
  • Medieval Archaeology (420)
  • Iron Age Europe (420)
  • Current Debates (579)
  • Evolution of Sociality (667)

Education:

University of Texas at Austin, English, BA 1972
State University of New York, Binghamton, Anthropology, MA 1977, PhD 1980
Dissertation: “Artifact Deposition and Demographic Change: A Case Study of Medieval Colonialism in the Age of Expansion”


iResearch

Complex societies, evolutionary ecology; Europe, Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, Medieval Period


Selected Publications:

(and F. S. Worman) “Rural Settlement and Soil Loss from the Late Roman through the Medieval Islamic Period in the Lower Alentejo of Portugal,” Journal of Field Archaeology 32 (2007): 115-32
“Subsistence Strategies and Early Human Population History: An Evolutionary Ecological Perspective,” World Archaeology 34 (2002): 6-25
(and Karen Kramer) “Why Do Intensive Agriculturalists Have Higher Fertility? A Household Labor Budget Approach,” Current Anthropology 43 (2002): 511-17
“Status Signaling, Social Power, and Lineage Survival,” pp. 84-110 in Michael Diehl, ed., Hierarchies in Action: Qui Bono? (Carbondale, IL: Center for Archeological Studies, 2000)
(and Nancy L. Benco) “Islamic Settlement in North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula,” Annual Reviews in Anthropology 28 (1999): 51-71
(and Karen Kessler) “More Status or More Children: Social Status, Fertility Reduction, and Long-term Fitness,” Evolution and Human Behavior 20 (1999): 257-77
(and Eric A. Smith) “Is It Evolution Yet?: A Critique of Evolutionary Archaeology,” Current Anthropology 39 (1998): S141-S173
“The Evolution of Magnanimity: When Is It Better to Give Than to Receive?,” Human Nature 9 (1998): 1-21


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