People - Faculty

Patricia L. Crown
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology (Archaeology)
At UNM since Fall 1993

pcrown@unm.edu
505.277.6689

Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM since 2002
  • Introduction to Archaeological Method and Theory (121L)
  • Seminar in Chaco Archaeology (420/570)
  • Field Methods in Archaeology (475/575)
  • Ceramic Analysis (480/580)
  • Teaching Anthropology (570)
  • Seminar in Southwestern Archaeology (576)
  • Proposal Writing (675)

Education

University of Pennsylvania, Anthropology, AB summa cum laude 1974
University of Arizona, Anthropology, MA 1976, PhD 1981
Dissertation: “Variability in Ceramic Manufacture at the Chodistaas Site, East Central Arizona”


Research

Ceramic analysis, gender studies, archaeology of childhood, learning; US Southwest


Selected Publications

(D. Nichols and Crown, eds.) Social Violence in the Prehispanic American Southwest (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008)

“Life Histories of Pots and Potters: Situating the Individual in Archaeology,” American Antiquity 72 (2007): 677-90

(and W. H. Wills) “Modifying Pottery and Kivas at Chaco: Pentimento, Restoration, or Renewal?,” American Antiquity 68 (2003): 511-32

“Learning and Teaching in the Prehispanic American Southwest,” pp. 108-24 in K. Kamp, ed., Children in the Prehistoric Puebloan Southwest (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2002)

“Learning to Make Pottery in the Prehispanic American Southwest,” Journal of Anthropological Research 57 (2001): 451-69

( C. Jill Minar and Crown) “Learning and Craft Production: An Introduction,” Journal of Anthropological Research 57 (2001): 369-80

“Gendered Tasks, Power, and Prestige in the Prehistoric American Southwest,” pp. 3-41 in P. L. Crown, ed., Women and Men in the prehispanic Southwest (Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2000)

“Women’s Role in Changing Cuisine in the Prehistoric American Southwest,” pp. 221-66 in P. L. Crown, ed., Women and Men in the prehispanic Southwest (Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2000)

“Socialization in American Southwest Pottery Decoration,” pp. 25-43 in J. Skibo and G. Feinman, eds., Pottery and People (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1999)


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