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Michael W. Graves
Professor of Anthropology (Archaeology)
Chair, Department of Anthropology
At UNM since January 2007

mwgraves@unm.edu
505.277.4524

Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM since 2002

  • History of Archaeological Theory (570)
  • Science in Archaeology (571)

Education

University of Washington, Anthropology, BA cum laude 1974
University of Arizona, Anthropology, PhD 1981
Dissertation: “The Ethnoarchaeology of Kalinga Ceramic Design”


Research

Evolution of prehistoric agriculture, social organization and complexity; geospatial studies; architectural and ceramic stylistic analysis; history of archaeology; Oceania (Hawai’i, Micronesia), US Southwest


Selected Publications

(T. N. Ladefoged, C. Lee and Graves) “Modeling Life Expectancy and Surplus Production of Dynamic Pre-contact Territories in Leeward Kohala, Hawai’i,” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 27 (2008): 93-110

(J. Skibo, Graves and M. T. Stark, eds.) Archaeological Anthropology: Perspectives on Method and Theory (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007)

(P. V. Kirch, O. A. Chadwick, S. Tuljapurkar, T. N. Ladefoged, Graves, S. Hotchkiss and P. Vitousek) “Human Ecodynamics in the Hawaiian Ecosystem, from 1200-200 yr B.P.,” pp. 121-40 in T. Kohler and S. Van der Leeuw, eds., Modeling Long-Term Cultural Change (Santa Fe, NM: Santa Fe Institute Publication, 2007)

(T. N. Ladefoged and Graves) “Modeling Agricultural Development and Demography in Kohala, Hawai’i,” pp. 70-89 in P. V. Kirch and J-L. Rallu, eds., Long-Term Demographic Evolution in the Pacific Islands (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007)

(T. N. Ladefoged and Graves) “The Formation of Hawaiian Community Boundaries,” pp. 259-83 in I. Lilley, ed., Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands (London: Blackwell, 2006)

(P. M. Vitousek, T. N. Ladefoged, O. A. Chadwick, A. C. Hartshorn, Graves, S. C. Hotchkiss, S. Tuljapurkar and P. V. Kirch) “Soils, Agriculture, and Society in Precontact Hawai’i,” Science 304 (2004): 1665-69

(T. N. Ladefoged and Graves, eds.) Pacific Landscapes: Archaeological Approaches to Oceania (Los Osos, CA: Easter Island Foundation, 2002)

(T. N. Ladefoged and Graves) “Evolutionary Theory and the Historical Development of Dry Land Agriculture in North Kohala, Hawai’i,” American Antiquity 65 (2000): 423-48

“The Study of Prehistoric Puebloan Pottery Designs: The Intellectual Tradition of Southwestern Archaeology,” The Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 5 (1998): 309-43


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