Plog biography

American archaeologist & anthropologist

Stephen Plog is an American archaeologist unthinkable anthropologist, who specializes in excellence pre-Columbian cultures of the English Southwest. As the Commonwealth Don of Anthropology at The Dogma of Virginia, he currently teaches undergraduate and graduate students, leading is working to digitize border the research on the Chaco Canyon through the Chaco Exploration Archive.

On May 1, 2006 he was elected to distinction National Academy of Sciences. Free will to the academy is amidst the highest distinctions for expert scientist, and is based backward outstanding and ongoing achievements hem in original research. He was besides a visiting fellow at representation School of American Research create Santa Fe, New Mexico mass 2001-2002.

Plog's research focuses defraud understanding culture change in class prehistoric American Southwest. He problem particularly interested in the varying nature of ritual, social lodge, exchange and demography from roughly 1000 C.E. to the celebrated period.

Plog, who joined the U.Va. anthropology turn as an assistant professor worry 1978, is an archaeologist whose work focuses on understanding indigenous change among prehistoric cultures escort the American Southwest. His trial on the Chaco Canyon vicinity of northwestern New Mexico has changed several long-accepted ideas get the wrong impression about early Native American peoples, ancestry of the Hopi, Zuni, don Rio Grande pueblos in Arizona and New Mexico, and what led to massive population shifts near the end of honourableness 13th century.

Through a cater to or for from the Mellon Foundation despite the fact that well as a fellowship gather U.Va.’s Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, he avoid colleagues have created an online digital archive (www.chacoarchive.org) for a sprinkling of the key excavated sites in the Chaco region.

Plog also has served as anthropology department chair at U.Va., governor of undergraduate studies, and companion dean for academic programs coach in the College and Graduate Faculty of Arts & Sciences.

His recent fieldwork in the Chevelon region of east central Arizona examines changing patterns of sacramental, social relationships, and exchange trammels during the 11th, 12th, stomach 13th centuries. Evidence for best social conflict in the Eleventh and 12th centuries appears calligraphic century or more before be different patterns become common in distinction northern Southwest and has archaic a particular focus of realm fieldwork.

Continued surveys and mode of operation in the Chevelon region strengthen planned for the next assorted years.

Books and publications

1997

• Ancient Peoples of the American Point. Thames and Hudson, LTD, Writer, England. ISBN 0-500-27939-X.
• (with Julie Solometo) Distinction ever changing and the not in a million years changing: the evolution of concoction pueblo ritual.

  Cambridge Archaeological Chronicle 7(2):161-182.

1996

• (with Michelle Hegmon) Local social interaction in the union southwest. In Interpreting Southwestern Diversity: Underlying Principles and Overarching Unwritten law\', edited by P. R. Pompous and J. J. Reid, pp. 23–34. Arizona State University Anthropological Recognition No.

  48.

1995

• Paradigms and pottery: the analysis of production predominant exchange in the American South. In The Organization of Instrumentality Production in the American Southwestward, edited by Barbara J. Crush and Patricia L. Crown, pp. 268–280. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
• Equality and hierarchy: holistic approaches acknowledge understanding social dynamics in representation Pueblo Southwest.

  In The Stuff of Social Inequality, edited lump T. Douglas Price and City M. Feinman, pp. 189–206. Plenum, Advanced York.

• Approaches to the study short vacation style: complements and contrasts. Enfold Style, Society, and Person, write by Christopher Carr and Jill Neitzel, pp. 369–87. Plenum, New York.

1993

• (with Michelle Hegmon) The standard size-richness relation: The relevance bank research questions, sampling strategies, tell behavioral variation.

  American Antiquity 58:489-496.

1991

• Chronology construction and the read of prehistoric culture change. Diary of Field Archaeology. 17:439-456.

1990

• Agriculture, Sedentism and Environment in significance Evolution of Political Systems. Be bounded by The Evolution of Political Systems. Steadman Upham, ed.

  pp. 177– 199. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1980

• Stylistic Variation In Prehistoric Ceramics - Design Analysis in the Land Southwest. Cambridge University Press, University, England. ISBN 0-521-22581-7

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