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Virginia S. Popper VIRGINIA S. POPPER Fiske Center for Archaeological Research University of Massachusetts at Boston Boston, MA 02125 (617) 287-6866 [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Michigan, Anthropology, 1995 Nahua Plant Knowledge and Chinampa Farming in the Basin of Mexico: A Middle Postclassic Case Study. R. I. Ford, Chair. M.A. University of Michigan, Anthropology, 1979 B.A. Harvard University, 1977, Anthropology, magna cum laude Prehistoric Cultivation in the Puna de Atacama, Chile. RESEARCH INTERESTS Paleoethnobotany and Archaeology of California, Mesoamerica, and the Andes. Agricultural intensification. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction and change. Ethnobotany. PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 2007- present Research Associate, Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, University of Massachusetts at Boston. 2007- present Visiting Scientist, Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1992-2007 Senior Museum Scientist. Director, Paleoethnobotany Laboratory, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California at Los Angeles. 1982-1992 Research Collaborator, Institute of Archaeology, University of California at Los Angeles. TEACHING EXPERIENCE UCLA Department of Anthropology Spring quarter 1995 Instructor: Paleoethnobotany Winter quarter 1997 Instructor: Paleoethnobotany Winter quarter 1999 Instructor: Plants in Prehistory Spring quarter 2002 Instructor: Plants in Prehistory Winter quarter 2004 Instructor: Plants in Prehistory Spring quarter 2006 Instructor: Plants in Prehistory GRANTS AND AWARDS 2001 UC MEXUS-CONACYT Collaborative Grant with Luis Morett Alatorre: “The Origin and Evolution of Chinampa Agriculture, Basin of Mexico” The University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States, Riverside, CA ($24,928). 2001 Ahmonson Field Research Grant: “Formative Economy and Environment in Apizaco, Tlaxcala” Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA ($1000). 1977 University of Michigan, Rackham First Year Fellowship 1976 Radcliffe-Dupont Summer Internship, Radcliffe College PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2008- Journal Co-editor, Journal of Ethnobiology. 1999-2002 Secretary/Treasurer, Society of Ethnobiology. PUBLICATIONS Ms. Popper, V. and L. Klug. Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples from CA-LAN-2630, Los Angeles County, California. Submitted to Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly. Ms. Popper, V. S. and S. Martin. Analysis of Plant Remains from Emeryville Shellmound (CA- ALA-309 and CA-ALA-310), Alameda County, California. In Final Report on the 1999 Excavations at the Emeryville Shellmound, edited by S. Morgan. Submitted to Archives of California Prehistory. In prep: Popper, V., and R. Lesure. Chapter 8: Macrobotanical Remains from El Varal, with a Comparison to Inland Sites.” In: Settlement and Subsistence in Early Formative Soconusco: El Varal and the Problem of Inter-Site Assemblage Variation, edited by R. G. Lesure. 2006 Lesure, R. G., A. Borejsza, J. Carballo, C. Frederick, V. Popper, and T. A. Wake. Chronology, Subsistence, and the Transition to the Formative in Central Tlaxcala, Mexico. Latin American Antiquity 17(4):474-492. 2005 Frederick, C., B. Winsborough, and V. S. Popper. Geoarchaeological Investigations in the Northern Basin of Mexico. In Production and Power at Postclassic Xaltocan, Arqueología de México, No. 6, edited by E. Brumfiel, pp. 71-115. University of Pittsburgh Latin American Archaeology Publications and Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México, D.F. 2002. Martin, S. and V. Popper. Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples from the Rainer Hotel, Pantheon Saloon, and Fasel Pioneer Paint Store, Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, Alaska. In Archaeological Investigations in Skagway Alaska, Volume 9, Excavations at the Pantheon Saloon Complex, edited by T. A. Kardatzke, Appendix M. National Park Service, Anchorage, Alaska. 2001 Martin, S. and V. Popper. Paleoethnobotanical Investigations of Archaeological Sites on Santa Cruz Island, California. In Origins of a Pacific Coast Chiefdom, edited by J. E. Arnold, pp. 145-159. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. 2001 Martin, S. and V. Popper. Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples from the Moore House Site. Appendix 9 of A Century at the Moore/Kirmse House, Archeological Investigations in Skagway, Alaska, Volume 8, by D.C. Cooper. Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. 2000 Popper, V. Investigating Chinampa Farming Backdirt: Newsletter of the Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles Fall/Winter: 1, 4-5. 1988 Hastorf, C. and V. Popper., editors. Current Paleoethnobotany: Analytical Methods and Cultural Interpretations of Archaeological Plant Remains. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1988 Popper, V. Selecting Quantitative Measurements in Paleoethnobotany. In Current Paleoethnobotany: Analytical Methods and Cultural Interpretations of Archaeological Plant Remains, edited by C. Hastorf and V. Popper, pp. 53-71. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1985 Parsons, J. R., M. H. Parsons, V. Popper and M. Taft. Chinampa Agriculture and Aztec Urbanization in the Valley of Mexico. In Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the Tropics, edited by I.S. Farrington, pp .49-96. BAR International Series 232. 1982 Restos Botanicos: Analisis general de las muestras. In Los Gavilanes: mar, desierto y oasis en la historia del hombre, edited by D. Bonavia, pp.148-156. Corporacion Financiera de Desarollo S.A., Lima. 1980 H. E. Jackson and V. Popper. Coastal Hunter-Gatherers: The Yahgan of Tierra del Fuego. In The Archaeological Correlates of Hunter-Gatherer Societies: Studies from the Ethnographic Record. Michigan Discussions in Anthropology 5(1-2):40-61. REPORTS 2008 Analysis of Macrobotanical Remains from the Dobron Project (CA-RIV-5211/H), La Quinta, Riverside County, California. Report prepared for Applied Earthworks, Inc. (19 pages) 2008 Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples from Site CA-VEN-1797, Ventura County, California. Report prepared for Compass Rose Archaeological, Inc. (8 pages). 2007 Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples and Plant Specimens from the Santa Barbara I Manufactured Gas Plant Site, CA-SBA-3505H, Santa Barbara County, California. Report prepared for Applied Earthworks, Inc. (20 pages) 2007 Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples from CA-SBR-6791 and FS 53-134, San Bernardino County, California. Report prepared for San Bernardino National Forest, Front Country Ranger District. 2007 Macrobotanical Analysis of Seed and Charcoal Samples from Site CA-ORA-90, Orange County, California. Report SWCA Environmental Consultants and Viejo California Associates. 2007 Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples from Sites CA-KER-188H and CA-KER-6789, Kern County, California. Report prepared for Julienne Bernard 2007 Macrobotanical Analysis of Flotation Samples from the Taylor Street Privies, San Francisco County, California. Report prepared for The Presidio Trust. 2007 Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples from a "section house" on Echo Mountain (ANF ECHO 2006), Los Angeles County, California. Report prepared for Stacey Camp. 2007 Macrobotanical Analysis of One Soil Sample from CA-ORA-882, Orange County, California. Report prepared for Archaeological Resource Management Corporation 2006 Macrobotanical Analysis of Two Soil Samples from CA-ELD-1248 El Dorado County, California. Report prepared for ECORP Consulting, Inc. 2006 Macrobotanical Analysis of One Soil Sample from CA-SBR-12336 San Bernardino County, California. Report prepared for Applied Earthworks, Inc. Report prepared by Paleoethnobotany Lab, Institute of Archaeology, UCLA. 2006 Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples from the Mt. Trumbull area, Arizona. Report prepared for Desert Research Institute. 2006 Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples from Metini Village (CA-SON-175), Sonoma County, California. Report Prepared for Dr. Kent G. Lightfoot. 2006 Macrobotanical Analysis of Samples from CA-SDI-4638, San Diego County, California. Report prepared for Recon Environmental Inc. 2006 Macrobotanical Analysis of Coprolites from Myoma Dunes, Riverside County, California. Report prepared for Kish La Pierre. 2006 Identification of Wood and Wood Charcoal Samples from CA-RIV-7121, Riverside County, California. Report prepared for Applied Earthworks, Inc. 2006 Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples from Site CA-LAN-192 (Lovejoy Springs), Los Angeles County, California. Report prepared for Applied Earthworks, Inc. 2006 Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples from Site CA-VEN-1693, Ventura County, California. Report prepared for LSA Associates, Inc. 2006 Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples from CA-ORA-1055, Orange County, California. Report prepared for LSA Associates, Inc. 2006 Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples from the Torrey Pines State Reserve (CA-SDI- 10637, CA-SDI-14448, CA-SDI-16404, CA-SDI-16407, and CA-SDI-16409), San Diego County, California. Report prepared for State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation. 2006 Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples from CA-SDI-9595 San Diego County, California. Report prepared for Dr. Lynn Gamble. 2005 Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples from CA-SBA-1145H, Santa Barbara County, California. Report prepared for Applied Earthworks, Inc. 2005 Macrobotanical Analysis of Two Soil Samples from CA-MNO-3575/H, Mono County California. Report prepared for Pacific Legacy, Inc. 2005 Macrobotanical Analysis of Soil Samples from CA-ORA-149, Orange County, California. Report prepared for Professional Archaeological Services. 2005
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