David G Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3606596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David G Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | David G |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON D G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5263-5118 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 96 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 498 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 92 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
How archaeologists can respond to the climate crisis
Climate change is erasing the record of past and present human culture at an alarming rate. This essay advances strategies for addressing the crisis, using archaeological data from the Southeastern United States. Major challenges include determining what will be lost, deciding what can be saved, and collaboratively developing appropriate responses. Large archaeological projects in the region provide examples of how to proceed. Archaeological site…
Exploring settlement distribution and demographic change in the early through late Holocene Southeast
The Timing of Sea-Level Rise Impacts to Cultural Heritage Sites along the Georgia Coast, USA, through Fine-Grain Ecological Modeling
Large datasets, combined with modeling techniques, provide a quantitative way to estimate when known archaeological sites will be impacted by climatological changes. With over 4,000 archaeological sites recorded on the coast of Georgia, USA, the state provides an ideal opportunity to compare methods. Here, we compare the popular passive “bathtub” modeling with the dynamic Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM) combined with the Marshes Equilib…
The oldest house in the Southeast? Identifying a probable Clovis domestic structure at the Topper site, South Carolina
Proxies and partial connections in an anthropologist's archive
This article examines the role of primary ethnographic materials – of field notes, letters and photographs – and even of the shelves and bookcases – in building accounts of the human condition. We trace the lives of incomplete and not-yet-found manuscripts, which have been treated as representative of whole archives, as well as closely held convictions and ideas in the history of anthropology. In so doing, we employ the notion of a ‘proxy’, or a …
Building a Foundation to Unify the Language of Climate Change in Historical Archaeology
“Vacant Quarters” and Population Movements
A Large-Scale Appraisal of Paleoindian Spatial Demography in the East ern Woodlands
Domestication as Enskilment
Paleoindian Projectile-Point Diversity in the American Southeast
Paleoindian projectile points occur in high numbers in the American Southeast, and when compared to other regions of the East, the Southeast has the greatest projectile-point diversity. In this paper, we trace changes in elements of projectile-point design in the region to reconstruct the different evolutionary histories of specific point attributes and how these changes affected Paleoindian point design through time. With this approach, we consi…
The Etnos Archipelago
The concept of etnos-one of the more controversial anthropological concepts of the Cold War period-is contextualized by looking at its "life history" through the biography of one of its proponents. Sergei Mikhailovich Shirokogoroff was a Russian/Chinese anthropologist whose career transected Eurasia from Paris to Beijing via Saint Petersburg and the Siberian borderlands of the Russian Empire. His transnational biography and active correspondence …
Animal domestication in the high Arctic
The history of animal domestication in the Arctic is often represented as marginal or a weak copy of more complex pastoral situations in southern climes. This article re-assesses the classic archaeological site of I͡Arte 6 on the I͡Amal Peninsula of Northwest Siberia for markers of early Rangifer and dog taming and the emergence of transport reindeer husbandry at the start of the Iron Age. We critically examine published and unpublished Russian l…
The Digital Index of North American Archaeology
Humans and Animals in Northern Regions
This review weighs the importance of human–animal sociality in Northern ethnographies through an examination of key concepts such as totemism, ideas of the entitlement, and domestication. It shows how classic narratives of cultural evolution are linked to conservation discourse, whereas current theoretical conversations such as the “ontological turn” are rooted in older idioms of liberal egalitarianism. Using a broad comparative approach with lit…
Mississippian Beginnings
The emergence of the complex societies of the late prehistoric era in Eastern North America has been the subject of extensive research in recent years, resulting in a new appreciation for how these changes played out at specific sites and across the region. Concern with variation within local historical trajectories, the movements and practices of peoples, and detailed site reconstructions have replaced the broad general neoevolutionary approache…
Sea-level rise and archaeological site destruction
The impact of changing climate on terrestrial and underwater archaeological sites, historic buildings, and cultural landscapes can be examined through quantitatively-based analyses encompassing large data samples and broad geographic and temporal scales. The Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) is a multi-institutional collaboration that allows researchers online access to linked heritage data from multiple sources and data sets. T…
Pidba (Paleoindian Database of the Americas)
The organizers of PIDBA (the Paleoindian Database of the Americas) ask for help in updating information
Architectures of domestication
This article explores human-animal relationships in the North by calling for a fresh examination of the infrastructures and architectures which inscribe them. We draw attention to the self-limiting quality of Arctic architectures which are designed to emphasize mutual autonomy. This approach challenges models that would create a crisp, clear separation between domestication as constituting a form of domination or a type of mutualism. By describin…
Hunter-gatherer situations
"The Construction of Soviet Ethnography and "The Peoples of Siberia
The multi-generation book project "The Peoples of Siberia" enabled a group of Leningrad-based scholars to reshape their museum into a Soviet ethnographic community. This article analyses the face-to-face performances, the legalistic stenographic documentation, the collective crafting of a single authoritative style, and a unique temporal frame as an important background to understand a hallmark volume in Siberian studies. The authors argue that t…
The Initial Colonization of North America
Testing for Evidence of Paleoindian Responses to Environmental Changes During the Younger Dryas Chronozone in Georgia
For the Southeast, it has been proposed that climate changes during the Younger Dryas period triggered a human population decline and/or substantial reorganization. We use the Georgia point record in the Paleoindian Database of the Americas to test for evidence of changes in landscape use through the Paleoindian period and consider these changes in the context of the Georgia paleoenvironmental record spanning the Younger Dryas. Based on differenc…
Pleistocene Human Settlement in the Southeastern United States
Research into the earliest occupations in the southeastern United States has been underway since the 1930s, when a pattern of large-scale excavations combined with the reporting of surface finds was initiated that continues to this day. Work at Macon Plateau and Parrish Village, excavated during the New Deal, was followed by a series of stratigraphic excavations in floodplains, rockshelters, and other locales from the 1940s onward. These early st…
Documenting Early Lithic Technologies in South America
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Fort San Juan and the limits of empire
Paleoindian Colonization of the Americas
GIS-based, least-cost analyses employing continental scale elevation data, coupled with information on the late glacial location of ice sheets and pluvial lakes, suggest possible movement corridors used by initial human populations in colonizing the New World. These routes, demographic evidence, and the location of Paleoindian archaeological assemblages, support the possibility of a rapid spread and diversification of founding populations. Initia…
Architectures of domestication
This article explores human-animal relationships in the North by calling for a fresh examination of the infrastructures and architectures which inscribe them. We draw attention to the self-limiting quality of Arctic architectures which are designed to emphasize mutual autonomy. This approach challenges models that would create a crisp, clear separation between domestication as constituting a form of domination or a type of mutualism. By describin…
Pleistocene Human Settlement in the Southeastern United States
Research into the earliest occupations in the southeastern United States has been underway since the 1930s, when a pattern of large-scale excavations combined with the reporting of surface finds was initiated that continues to this day. Work at Macon Plateau and Parrish Village, excavated during the New Deal, was followed by a series of stratigraphic excavations in floodplains, rockshelters, and other locales from the 1940s onward. These early st…
Palaeoindian artefact distributions
The distribution of projectile points over broad geographic areas yields important insights about Palaeoindian settlement pattern and history. While traditionally viewed as a Great Plains adaptation, the data show that fluted points are far more common in Eastern North America. These artefacts are not evenly spread across the landscape, furthermore, but occur in distinct concentrations. Within some of these areas distinct cultural traditions quic…
Early Archaic Settlement in the Southeastern United States
Surveys and excavations conducted within the Savannah River watershed in recent years have yielded a wealth of information about organization and adaptive strategies of Early Archaic populations, both within the drainage and across the region. Specifically, excavations at Rucker's Bottom (9EB91) and the G. S. Lewis site (38AK228) have yielded large, complementary assemblages indicating watershed-extensive adaptation employing a mixed collector-fo…
Animal domestication in the high Arctic
The history of animal domestication in the Arctic is often represented as marginal or a weak copy of more complex pastoral situations in southern climes. This article re-assesses the classic archaeological site of I͡Arte 6 on the I͡Amal Peninsula of Northwest Siberia for markers of early Rangifer and dog taming and the emergence of transport reindeer husbandry at the start of the Iron Age. We critically examine published and unpublished Russian l…
"The Construction of Soviet Ethnography and "The Peoples of Siberia
The multi-generation book project "The Peoples of Siberia" enabled a group of Leningrad-based scholars to reshape their museum into a Soviet ethnographic community. This article analyses the face-to-face performances, the legalistic stenographic documentation, the collective crafting of a single authoritative style, and a unique temporal frame as an important background to understand a hallmark volume in Siberian studies. The authors argue that t…
Paleoclimate and the Potential Food Reserves of Mississippian Societies
Precipitation reconstructions based on bald cypress (Taxodium distichum L. Rich) annual growth ring data collected from locations near the Savannah River valley, coupled with a series of simple models of storage capability, are used to calculate the agricultural food reserves potentially available each year from A.D. 1005 to 1600 to local prehistoric Mississippian populations. The resulting food reserve estimates suggest that interannual variatio…
Domestication as Enskilment
Paleoindian Projectile-Point Diversity in the American Southeast
Paleoindian projectile points occur in high numbers in the American Southeast, and when compared to other regions of the East, the Southeast has the greatest projectile-point diversity. In this paper, we trace changes in elements of projectile-point design in the region to reconstruct the different evolutionary histories of specific point attributes and how these changes affected Paleoindian point design through time. With this approach, we consi…
The Savannah River Chiefdoms
Landscape Agency and Evenki-Iakut Reindeer Husbandry Along the Zhuia River, Eastern Siberia
Testing for Evidence of Paleoindian Responses to Environmental Changes During the Younger Dryas Chronozone in Georgia
For the Southeast, it has been proposed that climate changes during the Younger Dryas period triggered a human population decline and/or substantial reorganization. We use the Georgia point record in the Paleoindian Database of the Americas to test for evidence of changes in landscape use through the Paleoindian period and consider these changes in the context of the Georgia paleoenvironmental record spanning the Younger Dryas. Based on differenc…
Building a Foundation to Unify the Language of Climate Change in Historical Archaeology
Pidba (Paleoindian Database of the Americas)
The organizers of PIDBA (the Paleoindian Database of the Americas) ask for help in updating information
Is Siberian Reindeer Herding in Crisis? Living with Reindeer Fifteen Years after the End of State Socialism
Most commentators on Siberian reindeer herding conclude that the dramatic drop in the numbers of domestic reindeer after the collapse of state socialism point to a crisis in reindeer husbandry. This article argues that instead of focusing on numbers we should focus on the way people form new relationships with reindeer in order to take advantage of opportunities thrown up by the post-Soviet landscape. By making reference to two case studies in th…
Fort San Juan and the limits of empire
Paleoindian Interaction and Mating Networks
How early human populations in North America maintained reproductive viability is a question that has shaped our research for over a decade. The concept of staging areas, mechanisms for band-macroband interaction, and an examination of how interaction networks could have formed and evolved over the course of the Paleoindian era are all solutions that we have presented
Dwellings, Storage and Summer Site Structure among Siberian Orochen Evenkis
(2006). Dwellings, Storage and Summer Site Structure among Siberian Orochen Evenkis: Hunter‐Gatherer Vernacular Architecture under Post‐Socialist Conditions. Norwegian Archaeological Review: Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 1-26
Contested Arctic
Contested Arctic: Indigenous Peoples, Industrial States, and the Circumpolar Environment. Eric Alden Smith and Joan McCarter. eds. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998.156pp
The Etnos Archipelago
The concept of etnos-one of the more controversial anthropological concepts of the Cold War period-is contextualized by looking at its "life history" through the biography of one of its proponents. Sergei Mikhailovich Shirokogoroff was a Russian/Chinese anthropologist whose career transected Eurasia from Paris to Beijing via Saint Petersburg and the Siberian borderlands of the Russian Empire. His transnational biography and active correspondence …
The Digital Index of North American Archaeology
Indigenous Peoples and Demography
Picturing Central Siberia
The Turukhansk Polar Census Expedition of 1926–1927 at the Crossroads of Two Scientific Traditions
This article gives an overview of the primary records of the 1926-1927 Turukhansk Polar Census Expedition. The author argues that rather than being an exercise in statistical surveillance, the expedition can be better characterized as a classical expedition of discovery. The article describes the structure of the expedition and the documents that were collected, places the expedition in a history of the surveillance of aboriginal peoples, and pre…
More on Australopithecine Sexual Dimorphism
Early Archaic Settlement on the Southeastern Atlantic Slope
In 1981 and 1982 a 160 m 2 block was opened into the Early Archaic deposits at the Rucker's Bottom site in northeast Georgia along the upper Savannah River. An assemblage dominated by Palmer points, expedient flake tools, and debitage was recovered, and is compared to Early Archaic assemblages from elsewhere on the southeastern Atlantic slope. While there is considerable variability in the quantity of material recovered from individual sites over…
L'Archéologie du secteur privé aux Etats-Unis
Approaches to participation in rural development
Pour la défense des principes
On Elevating the Commonplace
Octavio Paz
Early Archaic Settlement in the Southeastern United States
Surveys and excavations conducted within the Savannah River watershed in recent years have yielded a wealth of information about organization and adaptive strategies of Early Archaic populations, both within the drainage and across the region. Specifically, excavations at Rucker's Bottom (9EB91) and the G. S. Lewis site (38AK228) have yielded large, complementary assemblages indicating watershed-extensive adaptation employing a mixed collector-fo…
Pablo Neruda
Turning Hunters into Herders
The construction of the Baikal-Amur railway corridor through the northern raioni of the Buriat Autonomous Republic and Amurskaia oblast' (R.S.F.S.R.) has had a marked impact on the traditional hunting, trapping, and herding activities of the aboriginal Evenk population. Traditional occupations have been adapted to support large numbers of migrant labourers and a burgeoning urban population. The effects of industrial development range from the ard…
Factional competition and the political evolution of Mississippian chiefdoms in the Southeastern United States
Introduction From AD 900 to AD 1600 a complex and changing constellation of chiefdoms occupied much of the Southeastern United States. Called the Mississippian, after the central Mississippi alluvial valley where extensive remains from this culture were identified in the nineteenth century, this way of life was characterized by sedentary communities, intensive maize agriculture, platform mounds, and a hierarchical society. The subsistence economy…
British Rearmament and the 'Merchants of Death
The Novosibirsk Stock-Market Boom of 1993
The aboriginal peoples of the lower Yenisey valley
The author, an anthropologist having special familiarity with the problems and development of the indigenous peoples of the Russian North, surveys the impacts of modernization and post‐Soviet social, economic, and political change on the native peoples of the lower Yenisey River valley. The survey combines insights gained from one and one‐half years of field work on the Taymyr Peninsula, an extensive review of the literature, and ongoing research…
Paleoclimate and the Potential Food Reserves of Mississippian Societies
Precipitation reconstructions based on bald cypress (Taxodium distichum L. Rich) annual growth ring data collected from locations near the Savannah River valley, coupled with a series of simple models of storage capability, are used to calculate the agricultural food reserves potentially available each year from A.D. 1005 to 1600 to local prehistoric Mississippian populations. The resulting food reserve estimates suggest that interannual variatio…
The Pleistocene—Holocene Transition in the Eastern United States
From Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite, by Marybelle Mitchell
When the North Was Red
This short book is the culmination of a decade of work by two Canadian anthropologists who pioneered research into the lives of Siberian Aboriginal scholars and intellegentsia. In contrast to the recently growing list of ethnographic work by Western scholars of Siberia, their work is not based upon long-term, on-site, field research in an isolated rural setting nor an intimate familiarity with languages. However, with the exception of Humphrey (1…
Contested Arctic
Contested Arctic: Indigenous Peoples, Industrial States, and the Circumpolar Environment. Eric Alden Smith and Joan McCarter. eds. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998.156pp
Sacred Lands
Identity and ecology in Arctic Siberia
"This is a first-hand account of a reindeer-herding collective in the remote Taimyr peninsula of Siberia. The author gives an intimate description of the day-to-day lives of a little-known group of Evenkis as they face both economic and ecological challenges. His book therefore fills a gap in our understanding of the historical and political dynamics of northern Asia, and traces the changes caused in the region by the formation of, and the recent…
Spirit of Siberia
Palaeoindian artefact distributions
The distribution of projectile points over broad geographic areas yields important insights about Palaeoindian settlement pattern and history. While traditionally viewed as a Great Plains adaptation, the data show that fluted points are far more common in Eastern North America. These artefacts are not evenly spread across the landscape, furthermore, but occur in distinct concentrations. Within some of these areas distinct cultural traditions quic…
Paleoindian Colonization of the Americas
GIS-based, least-cost analyses employing continental scale elevation data, coupled with information on the late glacial location of ice sheets and pluvial lakes, suggest possible movement corridors used by initial human populations in colonizing the New World. These routes, demographic evidence, and the location of Paleoindian archaeological assemblages, support the possibility of a rapid spread and diversification of founding populations. Initia…
Inuit, Whaling and Sustainability
Inuit, Whaling and Sustainability. Milton M.R. Freeman. Ingmar Egede. Lydmila Bogoslovskaya. Igor I. Krupnik. Richard A. Caulfield. and Marc G. Stevenson. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1998. 208 pp., maps, photographs,figures,appendixes,index
Archaeology (59 works) · Geography (52 works) · History (45 works) · Sociology (33 works) · Political science (28 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (27 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (24 works) · History (22 works) · Computer Science (20 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (20 works)