WSUPartnership in Ethiopia Cross-CulturalChild Development Drs. Barry and Bonnie Hewlett, faculty members at the WSU Vancouver campus, both received Fulbright scholar awardsfor 2O7O-2O|Iand taught at Hawassa University (HU) in the Rift Valley of the Southern Nations, Nationalities,and People'sRegion in Ethiopia. Bonnie taught medical anthropology and gendercourses, while Barry taught environmental and development courses. The region is known for its cultural, linguistic, and human biological diversity and the Rift Valley is the home of the earliest humans (the oldest Homo sapiensfossils were found at Omo-Kibish).In part due to this rich history and diversity, HU established an undergraduate anthropology program in2OO6.The program took the unprecedented step of implementing a comprehensive(holistic) anthro- pology program, which means students are trained in all subdisciplines,as they are at WSU. It is the only com- prehensiveprogram in Ethiopia (all other programsonly provide training in socialanthropology) and it is one of the few comprehensiveanthropology programsin all of Africa.The Hewlettswere brought in to help develop a News new master'sprogram in anthropology,which will begin WINTER2011 in September2012. DEPARTMENTOF ANTHROPOLOCY While at HU last year, the Hewletts and HU faculty applied for and receiveda grant from the U.S.State Depart- ment to initiate a partnershipbetween the anthropology departmentsat HU and WSU. As part of this partnership, Adam Boyette, a graduatestudent in the evolutionary pro- gram/ went to HU in September20L1, to help cover classes in human biological diversity and faculty member Dr. Rob Quinlan traveledto HU in November 2011 ltll to exploreresearch and collaboration lll,l, ,,. possibilities. In tnls lssue irllr In another dimension of this partner- Facultyupdates ship, samuel Dilo, a faculty member at HU, Barryand BonnieHewlett applied and was acceptedto the doctoral CoastalBritish Columbia program in at WSU. Alumni profile He receiveda teaching assistantshipfrom the WSU anthropology department and an award from the Wenner-GrenFoundation to conduct researchin Ethiopia in 2072. While in Ethiopia, Bonnie starteda researchproiect on orphanages.Ethiopia, with a population of around 85 Barryand BonnieHewlett with their Hawassa million, is poisedto overtakeChina, population 3 billion, Universityanthropology students at the Lalibela as the leading country from which children are adopted. monolithicchurches in northernEthiopia. While there are over 5 million orphans in Ethiopia, a scar- city of researchexists into the meansby which children are separatedfrom their biological parents and extended families,and passedthrough fosterfamilies, transition homes, and orphanagesbefore ending up at adoption cen- ters, where they wait for final adoption processing. Bonnie was also able to complete most of two books: Listen, Here WasnmcroxSrarn is a Story:Ethnographic Life Naratives from Aka and Ngandu w@ Womenof the CongoBasin (Oxford University Press)and World Clsss.Fsce to Face. Continuedon poge 5 From the Recent Faculty Publications Chair's Desk WilliamAndrefsky Andrew Duff Andrefsky Jr., Williom Duff, Andrew L In press. Raisingthe Bar:Lithic Analysis and 2011 Connectivity,Landscape, and Scale.In This academicyear brought a record 4,100+ ArchaeologicalResearch in the Southeast.In Movement, Connectivity,ond LondscopeChonge undergraduatefreshman to Pullman. ContempororyLithic Anolysis in the Southeostern: in the AncientSouthwest, edited by Margaret nearly 2,300 Anthropology will introduce Problems,Solutions ond lnterpretotions,edited Nelsonand ColleenStrawhacker, pp. 467-479. the field in Anthropology 101 studentsto by PhilJ. Carr, Andrew P Bradbury,and SarahE. UniversityPress of Colorado,Boulder. coursesduring the 2O77-I2 academicyear, Price,University of AlabamaPress. Schochner, Gregson, Deboroh L. Huntley, ond a 170 percentincrease in the number nearly Andrefsky lr., Williom Andrew L Duff of Anthropology 101 seatswe normally offer. ln press. Reviewin Kivo of Towordo Behoviorol 2O11 Changesin regionalorganization and We have also seensignificant increases in sev- Ecologyof Lithic Technology:Cases from Poleoin- mobility in the Zuni region of the American eral other anthropology classes,something dion Archoeology.By Todd Surovell,University of Southwestduring the Pueblolll and lV periods: likely to result in more studentsopting to ArizonaPress, Tucson. insightsfrom INAA studies.Journol of Archaeologi- col Science38(9):2261 -2273. major in anthropology in the yearsto come. Goodale, Nothon, ond Williom Andrefsky Jr. (editorc) This year'sgrowth in demand for anthropol- ColinGrier ln press. Lithic TechnologicolSystems: Stone, Humon ogy classeshas alsohelped us to fund nearly Angelbeck, Bill, ond Colin Grier Behovior,Evol ution. Cambridge University Press, all of our current and incoming graduate In press. Anarchismand the Archaeologyof Cambridge,UK. studentswith teaching assistantships-a AnarchicSocieties: Resistance to Centralizationin Andrefsky positive changewe are activelyworking Ferris, lennifer M., ond William lr. the CoastSalish Region of the PacificNorthwest In press. TransportDamage and LithicAnalysis: to make more permanent.We continue to Coast. Cur rent Anth ropology. New lnsights. ln ArchoeologicolPopers from the attract talented graduatestudents to WSU Grier, Colin, ond Jongsuk Kim New Cround AustralianConference, edited by incoming gradu- In press. ResourceControl and the Development and, this year,welcomed an BenlaminMarwick and AlexanderMcKay, pp. of PoliticalEconomies in Small-ScaleSocieties: ate classof 17. The employment outlook BritishArchaeological Reports, Oxford, UK. for anthropology degreeholders, especially ContrastingPrehistoric Southwestern Korea and Andrefsky Jr., William, and Nathon Goodale the CoastSalish Region of NorthwesternNorth thosewith advanceddegrees, is promising ln press. InterpretingLithic Technology Under America. Journalof AnthropologicolReseorch. accordingto a recent report by the Bureauof the EvolutionaryTent. In llthrc Technologicol Labor Statistics(bls.gov/oco/ocos315.htm). Systems:Stone, Humon Behovior,Evolution, ediled Ed Hagen The report estimatesthat " by Nathan Goodaleand WilliamAndrefsky Jr., Hagen,E.H. and archaeologistscan expect28 percent CambridgeUniversity Press. In press. Evolutionarytheories of depression:a employment growth" between2008 and Goodole, Nothon, Williom Andrefsky Jr., Brion criticalreview. Conodion Journol of Psychiatry. 2018. Severalof our recent graduateshave Connolly, Curtis Osterhoudt, lan Kuijt, and Loro EdwardH. Hogen, NickChoter, C. RandyGal- taken academicpositions or been hired by Cueni listel,Alosdoir Houston, Alex Kacelnik, Tobias public agenciesand private consulting flrms In press. CulturalTransmission and the Production Kalenscher,Graham Loomes, Daniel Nettle, of Notched Points:Evolutionary Patterns and around the country. We look forward to Donny Oppenheimer,ond David W Stephens EarlyNeolithic Social Networks in Southwest Decision-making:What can continuing to provide anthropology students Forthcoming. Asia. ln lithlc TechnologicalSystems: Stone, Humon evolution do for us? ln Evolvingthe Mechonisms at WSU with the skillsneeded to succeed, Behovior,Evolution, edited by Nathan Coodale of DecisionMoking, Peter Hammerstein and lef- gain employment, and becomeleaders. and WilliamAndrefsky Jr., Cambridge University frey R.Stevens, eds. / -r // Press. Willioms, Justin, ond William Andrefsky Jr. BarrvHewlett Hewfett, Barry 5. (editor) AJ-J)4 // 2O11 DebitageVariability Among Multiple Flint Knappers. of ArchoeologicolScience 2011 Fother-ChildRelotions: Culturol ond Bioso- Andrew Duff / / Journal 38:865-872. ciol Contexts.Hawthorne. NY: Aldine de Gruyter. Chair, Department of Anthropology Revisedversion of previousbook publishedin 1992. Fouts,.H.N.,Hewlett,8.5., and M.E. Lamb Yourdonations work in many In press. A bio-culturalapproach to breastfeeding interactionsin central Alrica.Americon Anthro- waystoward scholarship, research, pologist. travel,and developmentin the Hill, K.R., R. Wolker, M. Mozicevic, I. Eder, T. Heodland, B. Hewlett, A.M. Hurtodo, F. Marlowe, Departmentof Anthropology P. Wiessner, and B. Wood 2011 Coresidencepatterns in hunter-gatherer . LipeVisiting Scholar Program societiesshow unique human socialstructure. . DepartmentalDevelopment Fund Science331 : 1 286-1 289. -UndergraduateScholarships Hewlett, 8.5., H.N. Fouts, A.H. Boyette, ond B.L. -CraduateStudent Scholarships Hewlett 2011 Sociallearning among Congo Basin -Craduate StudentTravel and Research hunter-gatherers. Ph ilosophicol Tra n saction s of the . MuseumDevelopment Fund RoyolSociety B (U.K.)366: 1168-1178. . lanetFriedman Memorial Fund Hewlett,8.5., ond l.M. Fancher . HarveyRice Memorial Fund In press. CentralAfrican hunter-gatherer research traditions. ln Oxford Hondbook of the Archoeology Formore information,visit our websiteat ond Anthropologyof Hunter-Cotherers,V. Cum- mings, P.Jordan, and M. Zvelebil,(eds.) Oxford libarts.wsu.edu/anthro UniversityPress. Book Publication Hewlett, 8.5., and B.L. Hewlett Kohler, Timothy A., and Chorles Reed JeannetteMageo 2010 Sexand searchingfor childrenamong 2011 Explainingthe Structureand Timing of Dreams seem the most private terri- Formationof PuebloI Villagesin the Northern Aka foragersand Ngandu farmersof Central tory of experience.Yet Dreaming Culture Africa.Africon Study Monogrophs 31:107-125. U.5. Southwest. ln SustoinobleLifewoys: Culturol arguesthey are a spacein which we prac- Becker, N.S.A., Verdu, P., Hewlett, 8., ond S. Persistencein on Ever-changingEnvironment, tice, consider, Pavord edited by Naomi F.Miller, Katherine M. Moore, pp.150-179. question, and 2O1O Can life historytrade-offs explain the and KathleenRyan, University PennsylvaniaMuseum Archaeologyand evolutionof short staturein human pygmies? of of adapt cultural A responseto Miglianoand colleagues.Humon Anthropology,Philadelphia. models of the Biology82: 17-27 . self, gender, JeannetteMageo Hess, N.H., C. Helfrecht, E.H. Hogen, ond B.S. 2011 Empathyand 'As-if'Attachmentin Sa- sexuality/ Hewlett moa. ln TheAnthropology of Empothy:Experienc- relationships, 2O1O Interpersonalaggression among Aka ing the Livesof Others,edited by DouglasHollan and agency. hunter-gatherersof the CentralAfrican Republic: and JasonThroop, pp. 69-93.Berghahn. Through Assessingthe effectsof sex,strength and anger. Dreaming Culture an innova- HumonNoture 21 :330-35+. LukePremo Meanings, Models and Power in U.S-American Dreams tive "dream Kochel, A.F., ond L.S. Premo BrianKemp ethnography" In press. Disentanglingthe evolutionof earlyand JeannetteMaile Mageo Lipe WD, Motson RG, and Kemp BM late life history trails. ln Human EvoDevo:The :,,1 from college 2O11 New Insightsfrom Old Collections:Cedar Evolutionof Humon Development,edited by P students in Mesa,Utah, Revisited.Southw estern Lore 7 7 : 103-111 . Mitteroeckerand P.Cunz. MIT Press. the northwestern ,this Wilson BJ,Crockford Sl, Malhi RS, lohnson lW, Kochel, A.F., L.S. Premo, and l-1. Hublin book contributes to recent researchin ond Kemp BM 2011 The effectsof weaning age on length of psychology on dreaming and the brain 2011 Ceneticand archaeologicalevidence for a female reproductiveperiod: lmplicationsfor the former breedingpopulation of Aleutiancackling and continuing researchon dreaming evolutionof human life history.American Journal goose, and the self in clinical psychology and Brontohutchinsii leucoporeio, on Adak of HumonBiology 23:479-487. lsland, central Aleutians, Alaska.Canadian Journol psychological anthropology. Dreaming Kochel, A.F., L.S. Premo, ond l-1. Hublin of Zoology89: 732-743. 2011 Crandmotheringand naturalselection. Cultureuses critical theory to understand Winters M, Barta JL, Monroe C, ond Kemp BM Proceedingsof the RoyolSociety, B 278:384-391. power relations embedded in cultural 2011 To clone or not to clone: Method analysis Kachel, A.F., L.S. Premo, ond Hublin models, a perspectiveoften lacking in for retrievingconsensus sequences in ancient J-J. 2011 Crandmotheringand naturalselec- cognitive anthropology and in psy- DNA samples.PLoS One 6(6): e21247. tion revisited. Proceedingsof the RoyalSociety, B chological studies of self and mind. Kemp BM, ond Schurr TG 278:1939-1941. 2010 Ancient and Modern CeneticVariation in Premo, L.S. the Americas.Auerbach BM (ed.): Biologicolond In press. Localextinctions, connectedness, and ArchoeologicolVoriotion in the New Worldpp . 1 2-50 . culturalevolution in structuredpopulations. JohnJones Advoncesin ComplexSystems. Kennett, D.J., D. Piperno, J.G. lones, H. Neff, B. Premo, L.S. Voorhies, M. Walsh, ond B.J. Culleton 2010 Equifinalityand exploration:The roleof 2010 Pre-PotteryAgriculturalists on the Pacific agent-basedmodeling in postpositivistarchaeol- Coast of Southwest Mexico. lournolof Archoeologi- ogy. ln SimulatingChange: Archaeology into the col Science37 (1 2): 3401 -3411 . Twenty-firstCentury, edited by A. Costopoulos and M. Lake,pg.28-37. Universityof Utah Press, Jones, lohn G., Cloudette A. Casile, Peter E. Siegel, Nicholas P. Dunning, ond Deboroh M. Pearsall SaltLake City. 2010 Analysepr6liminaire de pr6ldvements Premo,L.5., and S.L.Kuhn s6dimentairesen provenancede Marie-Calante. 2O10 Modeling effectsof localextinctions on Bilon Scientifique,region Cuodeloupe. culturechange and diversityin the Paleolithic. PloSONE 5(1 2):e1 5582. Tim Kohler Premo, L.5., and l.B. Scholnick Kohler, Timothy A., Denton Cockburn, Paul 2011 The spatialscale of sociallearning affects Hooper, R. Kyle Bocinsky, ond Ziod Kobti cultural diversity.Americo n Antiquity 76:1 63-1 7 6. ln press. The Coevolutionof Croup Sizeand Lead- ership:An Agent-BasedPublic Coods Model for MarshaB. Quinlan PrehispanicPueblo Societies. Advonces in Complex 2010 Ethnomedicineand Ethnobotanyof Systems. Fright,a CaribbeanCulture-bound Psychiatric Kohler, Timothy A. Syndrome. Journolof Ethnobiologyond Ethnomedi- In press. Une troisibmevoie pour l'arch6ologie: cine 6(9) une mod6lisationmulti-agents dans le Sud-Ouest 2O11 Ethnomedicine.ln A Componionto Medi- des Etats-Unis.ln Arch1ologieen mouvement,edited calAnthropology. P Erickson& M. Singer,Eds. by SophieArchambault de Beauneand Henri- Malden, MA; Oxford: Blackwell/Wiley PaulFrancfort. CNRS Editions, Paris Kohler, Timothy A. 2012 ComplexSystems and Archaeology.In ArchoeologicolTheory Today ll, edited by lan Hod- der. PolityPress, Cambridge.

w nlcr ?O11 2O12| 3 AGO Notes Graduate Student News CharlesSnyder RyanSzymanski Currently,I am involved in two research The secondproiect is being undertakenln It's a greatyear to be involved in the AGO! proiects,both centeredon analysisof collaborationwith Dr. Craig Morris, director Lastyear we enjoyed engagingguest speak- botanical remains.The first project, super- of the USDAARS Western Wheat Quality ers, a fantastic banquet at Banyans on the visedby Dr. John G. Jones,pertains to my Laboratorymaintained here at WSU. In an Ridge, and fruitful collaboration throughout dissertationresearch. We areconducting experimentalstudy, analogs of carbonized the departmentto accomplishAGO goals. a palynologicalsurvey of sedimentsfrom wheat recoveredfrom archaeologicalsites in variousregions of were producedby charring severalwheat vari- This year we will be building on last year's freshwaterswamps Kenya.Lack of understandingof pre- etiesat varioustemperatures. The endosperm successwith new speakers,new engage- colonial agriculturaleconomies has been a of thesespecimens was then imagedusing ment and serviceoppoltunities, and more thorn in the sideof archaeologistswork- F'ieldH,mission Scanning Electron Micros- a healthy work-life balance eventsto support ing in EastAfrica for over forty years.We copy.The goai of this study is to characterize for graduate students. We also have some hope to usernicroscopic pollen, phytolith the endospermmorphology of thesewheat new off,cers this year and many new faces and fungal evidencein new ways to track varietiesafter exposureto heat. Ultimately, among our members-which means new the temporal and geographicalexpres- we hope to devisea more exactmethodol- ideas,new energy,and new opportunities. sion and developmentof agricultural ogy for speciationbetween archaeological and pastoraleconomies, and articulation wheat varieties.The resultsof this research Here are the 2O17-2O12AGO officers: betweenthese lifeways in this region. Dur- will be presentedat the upcoming meet- 'l'ennessee. ing summer 2011, severalwetland areas ing of the SAAin Memphis, President: CharlesSnyder in westernKenya were cored.We aim to Vice President: Natalie Fast return next year to samplelocations in southern,central, and coastalKenya. Secretary: Jenna Battillo Treasurer: Katie Harris

Faculty Advisor: MelissaGoodman-Elgar Recent Graduates Strearn Representatives: Nichole Bettencourt, 2011 Masterof ArtsDegree Amy Speargas:Making Connections: Memory, Angela Sulfaro,Alissa Miller, and Emotion,and Social Bonds in the Dreamsof Caity Placek Kyle Bocinsky: ls a Birdin HandReally Worth U.S.College Students. Two in the Bush?Models of TurkeyDomesti- GPSA Senater Angeia Sulfaro,Alissa Miller, cationon the ColoradoPlateau. Angela Sulfaro: Oil, Salt,and Water:A Life and Katie Harris Historyof a Mexican-AmericanCurandera. Rhonda Crate: LimeansConstructing ldentity Professionaldevelopment, community ThoughFood Consumption: A PeruvianTest Ryan Swanson:A ComprehensiveAnalysis of engagement,and academicenrichment are of EconomicModels of Behavior. the SwallowShelter (4280268) Faunal the primary focus of AGO this year.We are Assemblage. activelypursuing additional opportunities Mark Caudell:Dimensions of WildYam Forag- for guestspeakers, outreach and recruitment ingAmong a CongoBasin Forager Population. events,and collaborationswith other orga- nizations toward achievingcommon goals. Kathryn Harris: HumanLandscape Use at Site 2011 Doctorof PhilosophyDegree 10-BT-8, Butte County, ldaho. Furthermore, we are exploring new avenues Michelle Fiedler: The Cajunldeology: Negotiat- for servicein order to make a meaningful Sean Hawks: MultipleCaretaking and Attach- ing ldentityin SouthernLouisiana. and lasting impact in our community. ment Amongthe AkaForagers of the Central The AGO is always interested in work- AfricanRepublic. Rick Knight: The LongWait: African Migrant ing with others in support of our mission Communitiesand the Productionof Local to fosterprofessional development and Sarah lenkins: An Analysisof the Faunal ldentityin lstanbul,Turkey. engagementin the WSU, Iocal, and global Remainsfrom Windust Cave C (45FR46), community. Pleasecontact the AGO if . Troy Wilson: CulturalScale and FoodSystem you are interested in getting involved. Sustainabilityin the PacificNorthwest: Alissa Miller: Sleep-WakeState Tradeoffs, ColumbiaBasin Case Studies. lmpulsivityand LifeHistory Theory Aaron Wright: HobohamRock Art, Ritual Caitlyn Placek: Religionas an AdaptiveSystem: Practice,and SocialTransformation in Thelmpact of ReligiousParticipation on PhoenixBasin. CooperationWithin a RuralCaribbean Community.

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Faculty News CulturalStudy of Diet Feastingand its Rolein feasting is a critical mechanism through which in Contemporary EarlyVillage Life in Coastal individual statusis constructed,group solidarity reinforced, and NativeAmericans BritishColumbia extralocal alliances establishedand reaffirmed. As such, it is an The rate of type 2 diabetes(associated with bv Colin Crier important socialpractice in small-scale being overweight) among PacificNorthwest Occasionally in archaeologyone comes across societies. Native Americans is more than twice the rate something of truly remarkableinterpretive As we continued to excavatethe feature,we in non-Native populations. Obesity among potential. Over the last 15 years,I have been came acrossthe atlas and axis vertebraeof a sea Native Americans has been attributed to investigating the remains of some of the lion, suggestingsea mammals were also on the unhealthy food behaviors and the rapid earliest-known menu for the change from active to sedentarylifestyles. large plank- inferred feast. Contemporary Native American diets are housesat the Curiously, we higher in fat and caloriesthan traditional Dionisio Point encountered other Native American diets. site (DgRv-3)in partsof sealions in Marsha Quinlan, with SusanGiven- coastalsouth- different areasof Seymour and VanessaCooper at the western British the house. Putting Nolthwest Indian College,received a grant Columbia. This on a speculative from the United StatesDepartment of Agricuiture and National Institute of Food has been slow hat, one might and Agriculture to conduct cultural and and steadybut envision this nutritional researchamong the ultimately pattern as the result Indian Nation, a Coast Salishtribe located in productive of the sharingout northwestern Washington State.The work. From intervention follows a social-ecological thesedata we model to implement healthy food behaviors. have learned The overall goal of this researchis to develop much: that early a health program rooted in individual-level large households and cultural-level empowerment through werecomposed of multiple families,that exposureto traditional and local foods, individual families specializedin various nutritional education, and food-oriented subsistencetasks, and that the surplus these education with emphasison increased households produced fueled the emergenceof sovereignty in food acquisition and prepara- significant social inequalities. We now have a tion. Impacts of the researchand interven- much better senseof the wide-sweeping tion will include a multi-systemic change in changesthat accompaniedthe emergenceof Lummi nutrition, multigenerational settled village life in the Coast Salishregion knowledge sharing, infrastructure develop- around 1,500years ago (seeGrier 2006). of a roastedsea lion to other householdersor ment acrosstribal, local, and state agencies, In 2010,I initiated investigationof a invited guests.As the excavation of the feature and scientific advancement in the food and plankhouse at an adiacent site (DgRv-6)that progressed,we remained critical of our nutrition fields related to Native North Americans. dates somewhat later, to roughly 650 yearsago. interpretations. Were we truly being presented Marsha the WSU PI in this SinceCoast Salishplankhouses typically have with evidenceof some singular and unusual Quinlan, proiect, will direct research.She will conduct some sort of central hearth feature,we feasting event that unfolded 650 yearsago, onsite field researchand rapport-building somewhat picked a spot in the perhaps similar to the famous Northwest Coast iudgmentally within the Lummi communiry conduct approximate center of the house and excavated potlatch? Was this household home to high interviews, adviseNWIC partners on issues a 1 x 1 m pit. To our excitement, we found in statusfamilies with preferential accessto related to data collection and analysis,and this large resources? exact spot a roasting feature lined consult with NWIC on best practicesof with boulder sized-rocksand fiIled with sea Now, after the field, the fine-grained analysis community-based participatory research. urchin remains. Further excavation in 2O71 begins. Foremost,radiocarbon datesare revealedthis feature to be a 2 m diameter needed.We are also commencing the unenvi- roasting pit in which an unfathomable amount ous task of sorting and counting screenloads of Cross-CulturqlChild Development... of seaurchin remains-a difficult-to-procure seaurchin remains, minute fishbone, and other Continuedfrom poge 1 resourcefound primarily in sub-tidal envi- faunal materialsto estimate the quantity of the edited vofume Adolescentsin the World: rons-was cooked in what may have been a resourcesconsumed and human labor hours Cultural, Developmentaland Evolutionary singular, large consumption event. represented.Whatever turns up, the feature This situation brings to mind some grand remains unlike anything seenelsewhere in the Perspective s (Routledge Press). feastin which an unusual resoulcewas archaeologicalrecord of large plankhouses. Barry conductedpreliminary research collected, prepared,and consumed by the Thankfully, I have three yearsof funding from with Hamar pastoralistson children's household itself or perhaps invitees from afar. the National ScienceFoundation to figure out medical knowledgeand submitted papers Feastinghas been on the minds of archaeolo- this and many other intriguing pt-tzzles to iournals on allomaternalnursing and gists for some time, as describedaptly by last concerning the nature of early settledvillage grandparentsexual abstinence. References year'sWilliam D. Lipe visiting scholar,Brian life in the CoastSalish world. for some of thesepapers can be found on (see Hayden Hayden 2001; Hayden and pages2-3. Villeneuve2011). It hasbeen arguedthat Continuedon page 8 winter201 1-2012 I 5 Faculty Updates PeteMehringer Tim Kohler Jones John When interdisciplinary archaeologist This last summer I spent a month in the field During the past year I have been on sabbati- Pete Mehringer retired from Washing- with three WSU anthropology graduate stu- cal. Never asproductive asyou might like, I at ton StateUniversity in 2OO4he went dents (Kyle Bocinsky, Stefani Crabtree, and Ieastwas able to get caughtup on someproj- to Oregon to run a ranch. However, KelseyReese), along with Donna Glowacki ects,and managedto completemy research he never truly left archaeology.He was (Notre Dame) and two of her undergradu- (conductedin 2009) on Tikal; with co-authors, presentedthe Rip Rapp Archaeological ates,mapping and characterizing surface we are submitting our researchto the journal Geology Award in 2OO6and this fall ceramicsat largesites in the MesaVerde Science.I also completed my researchon phy- returned to WSU temporarily to gather National Parkbackcountry. This is part of toliths at the Maya site of Cerenin El Salva- data, sort collections, and generally tie the NSF-fundedVillage Ecodynamics Project dor. An article on our archaeobotanicalwork up looseends. After leaving Pullman (VEP)II. A comprehensiveleport on VEPI is now in pressin Latin AmericanAntiquity. again he'll head north of the Arctic is in presswith the University of California In a completechange from the normal, Circle to live with his wife in Norway. Press.I'll be working hard on all aspectsof I decidedto not travel (much) during my VEP II during my current sabbaticalyear. sabbatical,but I did again journey to Monti- I'm alsoa co-PIon another successful cello to participatein their field school and BillAndrefsky NSFproposal establishing a researchcol- to collect sedimentsfrom Mont Aito and I returnedto Pullman after a year of profes- laboration network for archaeologists,other Site6. In July, I travelledto Antigua, Guate- sional leaveconducting tesearchin Australia, anthropologists,and physical scientists, mala,to presentmy findingson pre-ceramic South Carolina,and on the Owyhee River entitled Global Long-term Human Ecody- agriculturein Mesoamerica.Four dayslater, I in Oregon.While in AustraliaI worked with namics ResearchCoordination Network: was in Kenya with my doctoral student Ryan colleaguesat the AustralianNational Univer- AssessingSustainability on the Millennial Szymanski coring a number of wetlandsin sity and alsoat the University of Queensland Scale.This collaborationbegins in Decem- the westernhighlands. We managedto collect conducting investigationson the evolution of ber and extendsfor the next flve years. four cores,and were given another,so Ryan's human cognition via stone tool analysis.My researchis off and running. I am currently work in South Carolina was in coniunction servingas the coordinator for the graduate with ProfessorAlbert Goodyearon the Top- archaeologystream, supervising three gradu- per Site-a Paleoindianand pre-Paleoindian ate committees.At somepoint this semester occupationamong the earliestin North I hope to find a few hours so that I can rest. America. Work on the Onyhee River included an archaeologicalfield school occupation at the Birch Creeksite during summer 2010 and a chert tool-stonesurvey during sum- mer 2011. SeeRecent Faculty Publications on pages2-3 for recent published research.

JeannetteMageo Lemelson/Societyfor PsychologicalAnthropology Conference:Rethinking Attachmentand Separationin Cross-CulturalPerspective The sun shonewarmly, the Spokane river surged wildly, the crab trees, do-gwoods,and lilacsbloomed all at once (reailyl).In this setting,Naomi Quinn and I brought togetheran interdisciplinaryconversation on the ethnocentrismof attachment theory in westernhuman developmentresearch, which has been a theme in my publica- tions on Samoasince the early 1990s. This conference was probably the first gathering at which the funda- mental assumptions of attachment theory were thoroughly scrutinized and questioned.Much discussion

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Alumni ltoflle BenedictColombi This work has been influential in guid- RepresentativePublications ln 20O61completed my doctorateunder ing future avenuesof research.I have been In press John H. Bodley. My graduatetraining contactedby severalcolleagues from the Colombi,Benedict J.. and JamesF. Brooks, edi- provided me with a strong foundation for United States,, and Russiawho torc. KeystoneNotions: lndigenous Peoples ond a researchand teaching career,which, to are interestedin applying this perspec- Solmon ocrossthe Nofthern Pocific. Santa Fe, a significantdegree, has allowed me to tiveto theirown work.With partnersT NM: Schoolfor AdvancedResearch Press. examine a wider classof problemsthan have alsosubmitted grant proposalsto Salmonand the AdaptiveCapacity of Nimiipuu more traditional forms of researchat the National ScienceFoundation and (Nez Perce)Culture to Cope with Abrupt Change. Americonlndion the intersectionof anthropology,natu- Environmental ProtectionAgency. Quofterly. ral resources,and indigenousstudies. In 2010 I co-chairedwith JamesBrooks The Economicsof Dam Building:The Nez Perce Tribeand GlobalCapitalism. Americon lndion After completing my degreeI was an an advancedseminar, in partnership Cultureond ReseorchJournal. assistantprofessor at Idaho StateUniversity with the Wild Salmon Centerand Pacific 'Salmonand HisPeople': Nimiipuu Encounters for a year beforebeginning at the Univer- Environment, titled Keyston e N atio n s : with ClobalCapitalism. ln KeystoneNotions: sity of Arizona with joint appointments IndigenousPeoplcs and Salmonacross the lndigenous Peoplesond Solmon ocross the in the American Indian StudiesProgram, NorthernPacific. The seminar explored how NofthernPocific. Benedict J. Colombi and James indigenoussocieties across the northern Schoolof Anthropology, and Schoolof F.Brooks (editors). Santa Fe, NM: Schoolfor Natural Resourcesand Environment. I also Pacificllim built their distinctivecultures AdvancedResearch Press. around wild salmon and examinedthe servein the newly formed Institute of the SalmonMigrations, Nez PerceNationality, and the Environment. I am past program chair of negotiation of local identitiesacross time. World Economy. Notion-Stotesond the Clobol the American AnthropologicalAssociation, Beyondmy researchon salmon and Environment:New Approachesto lnternotionol Anthropology and Environment section,a indigenouspeoples, I am involved on EnvironmentolHistory. Mark Atwood Lawrence, fellow with the Societyfor Applied Anthro- a numberof levelsin conductingfield ErikaMarie Bsumek,and David Kinkela(edi- pology, and a 2010-11 faculty fellow with researchwith indigenouscommunities in tors).Oxford UniversityPress. the Udall Center for Studiesin Public Policy. the American Southwest.For example,my ln revtew For the last decadeI have been working 2010 chaptertitled "lndigenous Peoples, A Small-ScaleIndigenous Community vs. Global- with the Nez PerceTribe. This researchhas LargeDams, and Capital-lntensiveEnergy ScaleDevelopment: Challenges to Regional identified the reasonsfor declining salmon Development:A View from the Lower Socialand EnvironmentalSustainability. populations in the Nez Percewatersheds of ColoradoRiver," stems from my research Current Anthropology. the Snakeand Columbia rivers,and placed of bi-national indigenousgroups on the 2011 the evolution of the Nez Percenation in Lower ColoradoRiver. This chapterappears DecliningSalmon, Large Dams, and Power a largercontext by exploring the roots of in the book /n dians and Energy:Exploita- Plays:A CaseStudy of BioculturalDiversity Nez Perceparticipation in a modern global tion and Opportunity,published by the in the Nez PerceHomeland. Water,Culturol Diversity & Clobal EnvironmentolChonge: economic system.This approachilluminates Schoolfor AdvancedResearch Press. EmergingTrends, Sustoinoble Futures? Barbara Nez Percestrategies for indigenousself- I alsoco-chaired a panel on SalmonFish- R.johnston (editoD, International Hydrologi- ing and Whaling Peoplesof the North Pacific governanceand self-determinationas they cal Programme,United Nations Educational, at the SeventhInternational Congressof negotiatewith varioustransnational actors. Scientific,and CulturalOrganization (UNES- Arctic SocialSciences (ICASS VII), held in This researchalso reveals that in order CO), Jakartaand Springer-Netherlands. Akureyri, Iceland,in 2011.My casestudy of for the Nez Perceto survive,so must the 2010 the Nez PerceTribe and salmon fisherieswas salmon,and the developmentof large IndigenousPeoples, Large Dams, and Capital- alsoon displayin Kyoto, at the 2009 dams contributesto the concentrationof Japan, IntensiveEnergy Development: A View wealth and power in the presentglobal meeting of the UnitedNations Efurcational, from the Lower Colorado River.lndians ond economy.This latter discoveryshows that Scientificand CulturalOrganization to dem- Energy:Exploitotion ond Opportunity in the largedams arerelated to the broaderissue of onstratethe ways in which culture affects, AmericonSouthwest. Sherry Smith and Brian externalities,or external socialand envi- and is affectedby, the interactionsbetween Frehner(editors), pp. 89-109.Santa Fe, NM: ronmental coststhat negativelyimpact the peopleand water.This casestudy arguesfor Schoolfor Advanced ResearchPress. survival of salmon-centriccultures and the the importance of culture (i.e.Nez Perce)in 2009 resiliencyof salmon-basedecosystems. bringing forth solutionsto water problems SalmonNation: Tribal Sovereignty and Climate and the sustainabilityof thesesolutions. Change. Anthropologyand ClimoteChonge: From Encountersto Actions. Susan Crate and Mark Nuttall(editors), pp. 186-196.Walnut Creek:Left Coast Press.

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