Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida

Archaeologists in the Department of Anthropology

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Steven A. Brandt

Hunter-gatherer ecology, food production, ethnoarchaeology, Africa

James Davidson

Historical archaeology (19th/20th century), african diaspora, mortuary studies, folk beliefs

Susan deFrance

Zooarchaeology, Andes, Caribbean, traditional foodways, historic and prehistoric archaeology

Susan D. Gillespie

Archaeology, ethnohistory, iconography, and epigraphy of Mesoamerica, kinship, kingship, and socio-political organization; cosmology and political ideologies; symbolic, structural, and semiotic anthropology; archaeological and social theory; the anthropology of history; the history of anthropology.

Michael Heckenberger

Brazil, complexity and complex societies, archaeology and history

Michael Moseley

Settlement and subsistence patterns; early agricultural economies; preindustrial urbanism; pre-Hispanic architecture; pre-Hispanic irrigation and water management technology; Colonial Period and Spanish contact settlements; GIS/Remote Sensing; Quaternary geomorphology, climatology and tectonics.

Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo

Prehistoric archaeology, historical ecology, Northern Amazon, Peru, & Columbia, food production, pottery analysis

Kenneth Sassaman

Settlement and community, Southeastern U.S.

Peter Schmidt

Historical Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Ethnoarchaeology/Ethnotechnology/Iron Technology, Symbolic Interpretation, African Archaeology: Tanzania, Eritrea, Gabon, Cameroon, Oral Traditions and Archaeology