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

wwills@unm.edu 505.277.5005

Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM since 2002

  • Introduction to Archaeological Method and Theory (121L)
  • World Prehistory (220))
  • Southwest Archaeology (321)
  • Field School (375)
  • Seminar in Chaco Archaeology (420/520)
  • Field Methods in Archaeology (475/573L)
  • Current Debates in Archaeology (579)

Education

University of New Mexico, Anthropology, BA cum laude 1977
University of Michigan, Anthropology, MA 1980, PhD 1985
Dissertation: “Early Agriculture in the Mogollon Highlands of New Mexico”


Research

Foraging and early farming societies, economic organization, religion and emergent social complexity, 19th-century Spanish colonial archaeology; US Southwest


Selected Publications

“Economic Competition and Agricultural Involution in the Precontact North American Southwest,” pp. 41-68 in V. Scarborough, ed., A Catalyst for Idea: Anthropological Archaeology and the Legacy of Douglas W. Schwartz (Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2005)

(George R. Milner and Wills) “Chapter 18: Complex Societies of North America,” pp. 678-715 in Chris Scarre, ed., The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2005)

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

“Ritual and Mound Formation during the Bonito Phase in Chaco Canyon,” American Antiquity 66 (2001): 433-52

“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,” pp. 19-44 in B. J. Mills, ed., Alternative Leadership Strategies in the Prehistoric Southwest (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000)


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