Carla Klehm
Biographic Data
| ID | 341729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carla Klehm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carla |
| FAMILY NAME | Klehm |
| SIGNATURE | KLEHM C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2524-5859 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Isotopic and chemical evidence for long-distance trade of copper and tin into east-central Botswana, c. cal. AD 800–1650
The sites of Bosutswe, Khubu la Dintša and Lose in east-central Botswana provide evidence of the presence of an élite (marked by the use of Lose pottery) among commoners (marked by other pottery traditions). Prior work by Denbow and Miller (2007) noted evidence of bronze at Bosutswe. This paper extends their work by inferring the provenance of copper and tin at these three sites, using chemistry, lead isotopes and tin isotopes. Copper came from a…
LiDAR-Based Storytelling About a Historical Industrial Landscape in Southern Middle Tennessee
Industrial landscapes play deep into the imagination of American consciousness, with coal mining rooted in Appalachian culture as both identity and political flashpoint. In Tennessee, coal mining coincided with the convict leasing system that operated across the American South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At the Lone Rock Stockade, located in Grundy Lakes State Park, thousands of primarily African American male prisoners were fo…
Utility of UAS Photogrammetry and Thermal Sensors for Identifying Locations and Understanding Functions of Puebloan Gravel Mulch Fields in Northern New Mexico
This article presents results from an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) aerial remote sensing study to improve understanding of Pueblo agricultural features in the Northern Rio Grande area of New Mexico that were in use by the 13th century ad . It builds on previous archaeological research that has focused on recording precontact and historic Pueblo agricultural practices, pollen analyses and paleoclimatic reconstruction. Evidence suggests that Pueb…
Archaeology, ethnography, and geosciences reveal central role of traditional lifeways in shaping Madagascar's dry forests
Many communities in southwestern Madagascar rely on a mix of foraging, fishing, farming, and herding, with cattle central to local cultures, rituals, and intergenerational wealth transfer. Today these livelihoods are critically threatened by the intensifying effects of climate change and biodiversity loss. Improved understanding of ancient community-environment dynamics can help identify pathways to livelihood sustainability. Multidisciplinary ap…
Mineralogy and Sourcing of a Stone Bead Industry Found in Communal Cemeteries Associated with Eastern Africa's First Pastoralists, ca. 5000 b.p
This article describes the mineralogy and sources for a spectacular stone bead industry associated with the first pastoralists in eastern Africa ca. 5000–4000 cal b.p. Around Lake Turkana, northwest Kenya, early pastoralists constructed at least seven mortuary monuments with platforms, pillars, cairns, and stone circles. Three sites—Lothagam North, Manemanya, and Jarigole—have yielded assemblages of stone and ostrich eggshell beads that adorned i…
The Use and Challenges of Spatial Data in Archaeology
Overview Spatial data, under the broader umbrella of digital data, is becoming increasingly integral to all stages of archaeological research design and dissemination. As archaeologists lean toward reuse and interoperability, with ethics on their minds, how to treat spatial data is of particular importance. This is because of the complexities involved at every life-cycle stage, from collection to publication, including black box issues that may b…
Spatial Approaches in African Archaeology
This book explores the interplay between African archaeology and geospatial methods from three broad perspectives
The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads
Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated methods that analyze the glass composition, a process which can be utilized to trace bead usage through time and across regions. This book publishes open-access compositional data obtained from laser ablation - inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry, from a single analyt…
Recommendations for Safety Education and Training for Graduate Students Directing Field Projects
Graduate schools provide students opportunities for fieldwork and training in archaeological methods and theory, but they often overlook instruction in field safety and well-being. We suggest that more explicit guidance on how to conduct safe fieldwork will improve the overall success of student-led projects and prepare students to direct safe and successful fieldwork programs as professionals. In this article, we draw on the experiences of curre…
Mitigating Chronic Diseases during Archaeological Fieldwork: Lessons from Managing Asthma, Diabetes, and Depression
Chronic diseases and preexisting conditions shape daily life for many archaeologists both in and out of the field. Chronic issues, however, can be overlooked in safety planning, which more often focuses on emergency situations because they are considered mundane, or they are imperceptible to project directors and crews until a serious problem arises. This article focuses on asthma, diabetes, and depression as common medical conditions that impact…
Rethinking Research Sites as Wilderness Activity Sites: Reframing Health, Safety, and Wellness in Archaeology
Field research requires careful preparation so as to protect the integrity of archaeological studies and ensure the health and wellness of our students and field crews. In this special issue, we hope to lay a foundation for securing health and wellness as elements of the ethical practice of archaeology fieldwork through discussions of common hazards and tools to prevent, prepare for, and address safety incidents in the field. Even as archaeology …
Geospatial Analysis in African Archaeology: Current Theories, Topics, and Methods
Camps: Combined Anthropology Medical Preparation Survey, 2018
Field research in archaeology and biological anthropology exists in many different environments, each with implicit hazards to the well-being of the research team. It is considered standard practice for the principal investigator or academic team leader to be responsible for the well-being of the research team. It is not, however, a common requirement that field team leaders have specific training in how to ensure that the team is well prepared t…
The bioarchaeology of mid-Holocene pastoralist cemeteries west of Lake Turkana, Kenya
Early herders in eastern Africa built elaborate megalithic cemeteries ~ 5000 BP overlooking what is now Lake Turkana in northwestern Kenya. At least six 'pillar sites' were constructed during a time of rapid change: cattle, sheep, and goats were introduced to the basin as the lake was shrinking at the end of the African Humid Period. Cultural changes at this time include new lithic and ceramic technologies and the earliest monumentality in easter…
Toward archaeological predictive modeling in the Bosutswe region of Botswana: Utilizing multispectral satellite imagery to conceptualize ancient landscapes
Finding Russia in Botswana: Aids, Archaeology, and the Power of the Ancestors
Local Dynamics and the Emergence of Social Inequality in Iron Age Botswana
Since the earliest class-based societies, social leveling mechanisms have limited, actively as well as unconsciously, social stratification. Understanding how such power structures have operated in the past and present requires the integration of social dimensions to the political economy in a way that does not assume that elites and/or urban centers drive the course of history. Here, the Middle and Late Iron Age in southern Africa (AD 900-1650) …
Iron Age Transformations at Mmadipudi Hill, Botswana: Identifying Spatial Organization Through Electromagnetic Induction Survey
Exploring socioeconomic relationships from surface survey ceramics: New methodologies from Bronze-Age Benta Valley, Hungary
A Phase II survey team collected samples of ceramics from the Benta Valley in the western Carpathian Basin of Hungary to identify secondary (rural) sites, determine their extent and density, and investigate everyday economic and social routines. By comparing ceramic attributes such as function, decoration, and exterior finish, the authors argue that studies of ceramics from plow zone contexts can address nuanced questions of social and economic b…
Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar: Material Signs and Traces of the Dead
Carla KlehmDepartment of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, United States of [email protected]© 2014, Carla Klehm
The glass beads of Kaitshàa and early Indian Ocean trade into the far interior of southern Africa
Bronze Age Ceramic Economy: The Benta Valley, Hungary
We describe the Bronze Age ceramic economy of the Benta Valley in Hungary. In the Bronze Age, long-distance trade in metals, metal objects, and other specialty items became central to expansive prestige goods exchange through Europe. Was that exchange in wealth, however, linked to broader developments of an integrated market system? The beginnings of market systems in prehistory are poorly understood. We suggest a means to investigate marketing b…
Local Dynamics and the Emergence of Social Inequality in Iron Age Botswana
Since the earliest class-based societies, social leveling mechanisms have limited, actively as well as unconsciously, social stratification. Understanding how such power structures have operated in the past and present requires the integration of social dimensions to the political economy in a way that does not assume that elites and/or urban centers drive the course of history. Here, the Middle and Late Iron Age in southern Africa (AD 900-1650) …
The glass beads of Kaitshàa and early Indian Ocean trade into the far interior of southern Africa
The bioarchaeology of mid-Holocene pastoralist cemeteries west of Lake Turkana, Kenya
Early herders in eastern Africa built elaborate megalithic cemeteries ~ 5000 BP overlooking what is now Lake Turkana in northwestern Kenya. At least six 'pillar sites' were constructed during a time of rapid change: cattle, sheep, and goats were introduced to the basin as the lake was shrinking at the end of the African Humid Period. Cultural changes at this time include new lithic and ceramic technologies and the earliest monumentality in easter…
Iron Age Transformations at Mmadipudi Hill, Botswana: Identifying Spatial Organization Through Electromagnetic Induction Survey
Bronze Age Ceramic Economy: The Benta Valley, Hungary
We describe the Bronze Age ceramic economy of the Benta Valley in Hungary. In the Bronze Age, long-distance trade in metals, metal objects, and other specialty items became central to expansive prestige goods exchange through Europe. Was that exchange in wealth, however, linked to broader developments of an integrated market system? The beginnings of market systems in prehistory are poorly understood. We suggest a means to investigate marketing b…
Toward archaeological predictive modeling in the Bosutswe region of Botswana: Utilizing multispectral satellite imagery to conceptualize ancient landscapes
The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads
Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated methods that analyze the glass composition, a process which can be utilized to trace bead usage through time and across regions. This book publishes open-access compositional data obtained from laser ablation - inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry, from a single analyt…
Rethinking Research Sites as Wilderness Activity Sites: Reframing Health, Safety, and Wellness in Archaeology
Field research requires careful preparation so as to protect the integrity of archaeological studies and ensure the health and wellness of our students and field crews. In this special issue, we hope to lay a foundation for securing health and wellness as elements of the ethical practice of archaeology fieldwork through discussions of common hazards and tools to prevent, prepare for, and address safety incidents in the field. Even as archaeology …
Mitigating Chronic Diseases during Archaeological Fieldwork: Lessons from Managing Asthma, Diabetes, and Depression
Chronic diseases and preexisting conditions shape daily life for many archaeologists both in and out of the field. Chronic issues, however, can be overlooked in safety planning, which more often focuses on emergency situations because they are considered mundane, or they are imperceptible to project directors and crews until a serious problem arises. This article focuses on asthma, diabetes, and depression as common medical conditions that impact…
Camps: Combined Anthropology Medical Preparation Survey, 2018
Field research in archaeology and biological anthropology exists in many different environments, each with implicit hazards to the well-being of the research team. It is considered standard practice for the principal investigator or academic team leader to be responsible for the well-being of the research team. It is not, however, a common requirement that field team leaders have specific training in how to ensure that the team is well prepared t…
Geospatial Analysis in African Archaeology: Current Theories, Topics, and Methods
The Use and Challenges of Spatial Data in Archaeology
Overview Spatial data, under the broader umbrella of digital data, is becoming increasingly integral to all stages of archaeological research design and dissemination. As archaeologists lean toward reuse and interoperability, with ethics on their minds, how to treat spatial data is of particular importance. This is because of the complexities involved at every life-cycle stage, from collection to publication, including black box issues that may b…
Recommendations for Safety Education and Training for Graduate Students Directing Field Projects
Graduate schools provide students opportunities for fieldwork and training in archaeological methods and theory, but they often overlook instruction in field safety and well-being. We suggest that more explicit guidance on how to conduct safe fieldwork will improve the overall success of student-led projects and prepare students to direct safe and successful fieldwork programs as professionals. In this article, we draw on the experiences of curre…
Finding Russia in Botswana: Aids, Archaeology, and the Power of the Ancestors
Exploring socioeconomic relationships from surface survey ceramics: New methodologies from Bronze-Age Benta Valley, Hungary
A Phase II survey team collected samples of ceramics from the Benta Valley in the western Carpathian Basin of Hungary to identify secondary (rural) sites, determine their extent and density, and investigate everyday economic and social routines. By comparing ceramic attributes such as function, decoration, and exterior finish, the authors argue that studies of ceramics from plow zone contexts can address nuanced questions of social and economic b…
Archaeology, ethnography, and geosciences reveal central role of traditional lifeways in shaping Madagascar's dry forests
Many communities in southwestern Madagascar rely on a mix of foraging, fishing, farming, and herding, with cattle central to local cultures, rituals, and intergenerational wealth transfer. Today these livelihoods are critically threatened by the intensifying effects of climate change and biodiversity loss. Improved understanding of ancient community-environment dynamics can help identify pathways to livelihood sustainability. Multidisciplinary ap…
Spatial Approaches in African Archaeology
This book explores the interplay between African archaeology and geospatial methods from three broad perspectives
Bronze Age Ceramic Economy: The Benta Valley, Hungary
We describe the Bronze Age ceramic economy of the Benta Valley in Hungary. In the Bronze Age, long-distance trade in metals, metal objects, and other specialty items became central to expansive prestige goods exchange through Europe. Was that exchange in wealth, however, linked to broader developments of an integrated market system? The beginnings of market systems in prehistory are poorly understood. We suggest a means to investigate marketing b…
Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar: Material Signs and Traces of the Dead
Carla KlehmDepartment of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, United States of [email protected]© 2014, Carla Klehm
The glass beads of Kaitshàa and early Indian Ocean trade into the far interior of southern Africa
Iron Age Transformations at Mmadipudi Hill, Botswana: Identifying Spatial Organization Through Electromagnetic Induction Survey
Exploring socioeconomic relationships from surface survey ceramics: New methodologies from Bronze-Age Benta Valley, Hungary
A Phase II survey team collected samples of ceramics from the Benta Valley in the western Carpathian Basin of Hungary to identify secondary (rural) sites, determine their extent and density, and investigate everyday economic and social routines. By comparing ceramic attributes such as function, decoration, and exterior finish, the authors argue that studies of ceramics from plow zone contexts can address nuanced questions of social and economic b…
Finding Russia in Botswana: Aids, Archaeology, and the Power of the Ancestors
Local Dynamics and the Emergence of Social Inequality in Iron Age Botswana
Since the earliest class-based societies, social leveling mechanisms have limited, actively as well as unconsciously, social stratification. Understanding how such power structures have operated in the past and present requires the integration of social dimensions to the political economy in a way that does not assume that elites and/or urban centers drive the course of history. Here, the Middle and Late Iron Age in southern Africa (AD 900-1650) …
The bioarchaeology of mid-Holocene pastoralist cemeteries west of Lake Turkana, Kenya
Early herders in eastern Africa built elaborate megalithic cemeteries ~ 5000 BP overlooking what is now Lake Turkana in northwestern Kenya. At least six 'pillar sites' were constructed during a time of rapid change: cattle, sheep, and goats were introduced to the basin as the lake was shrinking at the end of the African Humid Period. Cultural changes at this time include new lithic and ceramic technologies and the earliest monumentality in easter…
Toward archaeological predictive modeling in the Bosutswe region of Botswana: Utilizing multispectral satellite imagery to conceptualize ancient landscapes
Geospatial Analysis in African Archaeology: Current Theories, Topics, and Methods
Camps: Combined Anthropology Medical Preparation Survey, 2018
Field research in archaeology and biological anthropology exists in many different environments, each with implicit hazards to the well-being of the research team. It is considered standard practice for the principal investigator or academic team leader to be responsible for the well-being of the research team. It is not, however, a common requirement that field team leaders have specific training in how to ensure that the team is well prepared t…
Recommendations for Safety Education and Training for Graduate Students Directing Field Projects
Graduate schools provide students opportunities for fieldwork and training in archaeological methods and theory, but they often overlook instruction in field safety and well-being. We suggest that more explicit guidance on how to conduct safe fieldwork will improve the overall success of student-led projects and prepare students to direct safe and successful fieldwork programs as professionals. In this article, we draw on the experiences of curre…
Mitigating Chronic Diseases during Archaeological Fieldwork: Lessons from Managing Asthma, Diabetes, and Depression
Chronic diseases and preexisting conditions shape daily life for many archaeologists both in and out of the field. Chronic issues, however, can be overlooked in safety planning, which more often focuses on emergency situations because they are considered mundane, or they are imperceptible to project directors and crews until a serious problem arises. This article focuses on asthma, diabetes, and depression as common medical conditions that impact…
Rethinking Research Sites as Wilderness Activity Sites: Reframing Health, Safety, and Wellness in Archaeology
Field research requires careful preparation so as to protect the integrity of archaeological studies and ensure the health and wellness of our students and field crews. In this special issue, we hope to lay a foundation for securing health and wellness as elements of the ethical practice of archaeology fieldwork through discussions of common hazards and tools to prevent, prepare for, and address safety incidents in the field. Even as archaeology …
Spatial Approaches in African Archaeology
This book explores the interplay between African archaeology and geospatial methods from three broad perspectives
The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads
Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated methods that analyze the glass composition, a process which can be utilized to trace bead usage through time and across regions. This book publishes open-access compositional data obtained from laser ablation - inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry, from a single analyt…
Mineralogy and Sourcing of a Stone Bead Industry Found in Communal Cemeteries Associated with Eastern Africa's First Pastoralists, ca. 5000 b.p
This article describes the mineralogy and sources for a spectacular stone bead industry associated with the first pastoralists in eastern Africa ca. 5000–4000 cal b.p. Around Lake Turkana, northwest Kenya, early pastoralists constructed at least seven mortuary monuments with platforms, pillars, cairns, and stone circles. Three sites—Lothagam North, Manemanya, and Jarigole—have yielded assemblages of stone and ostrich eggshell beads that adorned i…
The Use and Challenges of Spatial Data in Archaeology
Overview Spatial data, under the broader umbrella of digital data, is becoming increasingly integral to all stages of archaeological research design and dissemination. As archaeologists lean toward reuse and interoperability, with ethics on their minds, how to treat spatial data is of particular importance. This is because of the complexities involved at every life-cycle stage, from collection to publication, including black box issues that may b…
Utility of UAS Photogrammetry and Thermal Sensors for Identifying Locations and Understanding Functions of Puebloan Gravel Mulch Fields in Northern New Mexico
This article presents results from an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) aerial remote sensing study to improve understanding of Pueblo agricultural features in the Northern Rio Grande area of New Mexico that were in use by the 13th century ad . It builds on previous archaeological research that has focused on recording precontact and historic Pueblo agricultural practices, pollen analyses and paleoclimatic reconstruction. Evidence suggests that Pueb…
Archaeology, ethnography, and geosciences reveal central role of traditional lifeways in shaping Madagascar's dry forests
Many communities in southwestern Madagascar rely on a mix of foraging, fishing, farming, and herding, with cattle central to local cultures, rituals, and intergenerational wealth transfer. Today these livelihoods are critically threatened by the intensifying effects of climate change and biodiversity loss. Improved understanding of ancient community-environment dynamics can help identify pathways to livelihood sustainability. Multidisciplinary ap…
LiDAR-Based Storytelling About a Historical Industrial Landscape in Southern Middle Tennessee
Industrial landscapes play deep into the imagination of American consciousness, with coal mining rooted in Appalachian culture as both identity and political flashpoint. In Tennessee, coal mining coincided with the convict leasing system that operated across the American South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At the Lone Rock Stockade, located in Grundy Lakes State Park, thousands of primarily African American male prisoners were fo…
Isotopic and chemical evidence for long-distance trade of copper and tin into east-central Botswana, c. cal. AD 800–1650
The sites of Bosutswe, Khubu la Dintša and Lose in east-central Botswana provide evidence of the presence of an élite (marked by the use of Lose pottery) among commoners (marked by other pottery traditions). Prior work by Denbow and Miller (2007) noted evidence of bronze at Bosutswe. This paper extends their work by inferring the provenance of copper and tin at these three sites, using chemistry, lead isotopes and tin isotopes. Copper came from a…
Geography (16 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · History (7 works) · Geology (6 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (5 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 works)