Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan (1997)
Research
Urbanism, economic networks, consumption and material culture, anthropology of food, comparative historical archaeology; South Asia, Mediterranean, Southwestern U.S.
Articles
2016 (with Thomas W. Gillespie, Scott Barron, Kanika Kalra and Corey Rovzar) Predictive Modeling for Archaeological Sites: Ashokan Edicts from the Indian Subcontinent. Current Science 110(10):1916-1921. PDF
2016 Historical and Medieval Period Archaeology. In A Companion to South Asia in the Past, edited by Subhash Walimbe and Gwen Robbins Schug, pp. 332-343. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
2016 (with Thomas W. Gillespie, Scott Barron, and Kanika Kalra) Finding History: The Locational Geography of Ashokan Inscriptions in the Indian Subcontinent. Antiquity 90:376-392. PDF
2016 Urban Infrastructure as Materialized Consensus. World Archaeology 48:164-178. PDF
2015 (with Jaharul Hoque) Excavations at Bhasu Vihara. In Mahasthangarh: Fouilles du Rempart Est, edited by Jean-François Salles, pp. 427-438. Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium.
2015 Towns and Cities: A Commentary on ‘Performing Towns.’ Invited commentary, Archaeological Dialogues 22(2):146-149. PDF
2015 Consumption. In The Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia, edited by Mary C. Beaudry and Karen Metheny, pp. 113-115. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD.
2015 The Concept of Copies: An Archaeological View of the Terracotta Ornaments from Sisupalgarh, India. West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 22(1):23-43. PDF
2015 The Origins of the Sustainability Concept: Risk Perception and Resource Management in Early Urban Centers. Research in Economic Anthropology 35:215-238. PDF
2015 Feasts and Their Failures. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22(4):1215-1237. PDF
2014 Citizen Science in Archaeology. American Antiquity 79(4):749-762. PDF
2014 The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes. Annual Review of Anthropology 43:307-323. PDF
2014 (with Rabindra Kumar Mohanty and Timothy Matney) Excavations and Geophysical Survey at the Ancient Early Historic Town of Talapada, Odisha 2013. Man and Environment 39(2):53-63. PDF
2014 (with B.B. Lal and Rabindra Kumar Mohanty) Sisupalgarh. In History of Ancient India Vol. III: The Texts, Political History and Administration Till c. 200 BC, edited by Dilip K. Chakrabarti and Makkhan Lal, pp. 617-628. Aryan Books International, New Delhi. PDF
2013 The Substance and Symbolism of Long-Distance Exchange: Textiles as Desired Trade Goods in the Bronze Age Middle Asian Interaction Sphere. In Connections and Complexity, edited by S.A. Abraham, P. Gullapalli, T.P. Raczek, and U.Z. Rizvi, pp. 143-160. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek CA. PDF
2013 Caste as a Cooperative Economic Entitlement Strategy in Complex Societies of the Indian Subcontinent and Subsaharan Africa. In Cooperation and Collective Action, edited by David M. Carballo, pp. 275-297. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. PDF
2013 (with T. Thakuria, T. Padhan, and R.K. Mohanty) Google Earth as an Archaeological Tool in the Developing World: An Example from India. SAA Archaeological Record 13(1):20-24. PDF
2012 Seeking Abundance: Consumption as a Motivating Factor in Cities Past and Present. Research in Economic Anthropology 32:27-51. PDF
2012 What it Takes to Get Complex: Food, Goods, and Work as Shared Cultural Ideals from the Beginning of Sedentism. In “The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies,” edited by Michael E. Smith, pp. 44-61. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. PDF
2011 ‘I discard, therefore I am’: Identity and leave-taking of possessions. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Chacmool Archaeology Conference, edited by L. Amundsen-Pickering et al., pp. 132-142, University of Calgary. PDF
2011 (With James E. Snead and Elizabeth Baker Brite) A life history of Burnt Corn Pueblo. In Conflagration and Conflict: Tano Origins in the Galisteo Basin, A.D. 1250-1325, edited by James E. Snead and Mark W. Allen. Anthropology Papers of the University of Arizona.
2010 A Prehistory of Ordinary People. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2010 (With R.K. Mohanty) Investigations at the Early Historic City of Sisupalgarh, India 2005-07. Proceedings of the 19th Meeting of the European Association of South Asian Archaeology, Ravenna, edited by Pierfrancesco Callieri and Luca Colliva, pp. 337-344. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford.
2009 (with Rabindra Kumar Mohanty) Excavations at Sisupalgarh 2008. Man and Environment 34(1):47-56. PDF
2008 (with Rabindra Kumar Mohanty) Excavations at Sisupalgarh, Orissa. Indian Archaeological Society, New Delhi.
2008 Urban empty spaces: Contentious places for consensus-building. Archaeological Dialogues 15(2):216-231. PDF
2008 Food. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18(1):117-120. PDF
2007 Inconspicuous consumption: Non-display goods and identity formation. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 14:412-438. PDF
2007 Territories, corridors and networks: A biological model for the premodern state. Complexity 12(4):28-35. PDF
2007 (with R.K. Mohanty, T. Matney, A. Donkin and G. Greene) Archaeological research at Sisupalgarh 2007: An Early Historical City in Orissa. Puratattva (Journal of the Indian Archaeological Society) 37:142-154.)
2007 (with R.K. Mohanty and T. Matney) A Preliminary Report of the Archaeological Investigations at Sisupalgarh 2006. Man and Environment 32(1):57-66.
2007 (with R.K. Mohanty) Excavations at Sisupalgarh 2005-06. Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute 66-67:191-198.
2006 The archaeology of South Asian cities. Journal of Archaeological Research 14(2):97-142. PDF
2006 The archaeology of food preference. American Anthropologist 108(3):480-493. PDF
2006 How ancient agriculturalists managed yield fluctuations through crop selection and reliance on wild plants: an example from Central India. Economic Botany 60(1):39-48. PDF
2006 (with R.K. Mohanty) Excavations at Sisupalgarh 2005. Man and Environment 31(1):27-32.
2005 Networks, territories and the cartography of ancient states. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95(4):832-849. PDF
2005 Archaeological research at Sisupalgarh, an Early Historic city in eastern India. South Asian Archaeology 2003, edited by B. Vogt. European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, KAVA, Bonn, pp 291-300.
2004 (with Jaharul Haque and Nilka Dabare) Excavations at the Buddhist Monastic Site of Bhasu Vihara, Bangladesh. Antiquity 78. link
2003 (editor) The Social Construction of Ancient Cities, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
2002 Systematic survey at the Early Historic urban site of Sisupalgarh, Orissa. In Archaeology of Eastern India: New Perspectives, edited by Gautam Sengupta and Sheena Panja, pp. 109-125. Centre for Archaeological Studies and Training, East India, Kolkata.
2002 The role of local trade networks in the Indian subcontinent during the Early Historic period. Man and Environment 27(1):139-151. PDF
2002 The Historic Period at Bandelier National Monument. National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2001 The Archaeology of an Early Historic Town in Central India. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford.
2001 The archaeological hinterlands of Mahasthangarh: Observations and potential for future research. In France-Bangladesh Joint Venture Excavations at Mahasthangarh First Interim Report 1993-1999, edited by Md. Shafiqul Alam and Jean-François Salles, pp. 61-73. Department of Archaeology, Bangladesh. PDF
2001 Integración social, espacial y económica en las antiguas ciudades del subcontinente Indio, translated by M.a Josefa Iglesias Ponce de León and Andrés Ciudad Ruiz. In Reconstruyendo la Ciudad Maya: El Urbanismo en las Sociedades Antiguas, edited by Andrés Ciudad Ruiz, M.a Josefa Iglesias Ponce de León and M.a del Carmen Martínez Martínez, pp. 503-522. Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas, Madrid.
2001 The archaeology of a “destroyed” site: Surface survey and historical documents at the Civilian Conservation Corps camp, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. Historical Archaeology 35(2):31-40. PDF
2001 Excavation of a large building in an area of pottery production on the upper slopes of Dhahret Slama (Site 251). Leptiminus (Lamta) Report No. 2: The East Baths, Cemeteries, Kilns, Venus Mosaic, Site Museum, and other studies, edited by L.M. Stirling, D.J. Mattingly, and N. Ben Lazreg, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series No. 14, pp. 237-249.
2001 A water-collecting area on Dhahret Slama ridge (Site 76). Leptiminus (Lamta) Report No. 2: The East Baths, Cemeteries, Kilns, Venus Mosaic, Site Museum, and other studies, edited by L.M. Stirling, D.J. Mattingly, and N. Ben Lazreg, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series No. 14, pp. 253-258.
2000 Systematic surface survey at the Early Historic site of Kaundinyapura, India. Man and Environment 25(1):75-87. PDF
2000 Bangladesh: Building national identity through archaeology. Antiquity 74:701-706. PDF
2000 Economic and social interactions at an Early Historic site: Recent fieldwork at Kaundinyapura, India. In South Asian Archaeology 1997, volume II, edited by Maurizio Taddei and Giuseppe de Marco, pp. 793-810. Istituto per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Rome.
1999 The role of ordinary goods in premodern exchange. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 6(2): 109-135. PDF
1999 “Indianization” from the Indian point of view: Trade and cultural contacts with Southeast Asia in the early first millennium C.E. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 42(1):1-26. PDF
1997 The dynamic realm of the Indian Ocean: A review. Asian Perspectives 36(2):245-259. PDF