Pam J. Crabtree
Associate Professor of AnthropologyPh.D. 1982, M.A. 1975, Pennsylvania, B.A. 1972, Barnard.
Office Address: Rufus D. Smith Hall 25 Waverly Place New York, NY 10003
Email:
Phone: 212-998-8573
Fax: 212-995-4014
Areas of Research/Interest
Zooarchaeology; animal domestication and history of domestic animals; archaeology of later prehistoric and early medieval Europe; Iron Age Ireland; historical archaeology of North America.
External Affiliations
Member - Center for the Study of Human Origins
Publications
Pam J. Crabtree. 2010. Agricultural Innovation and Socio-economic Change in Early Medieval Europe: Evidence from Britain and France. World Archaeology 42 (1): 122-136.
Susan A. Johnston, Douglas V. Campana, and Pam J. Crabtree. 2009. A Geophysical Survey at Dún Ailinne, County Kildare, Ireland. Journal of Field Archaeology 34 (4): 385-402.
Pam J. Crabtree. 2009. The Archaeology of Medieval Europe. History Compass 7 (3): 879-893.
Bradley J. Adams and Pam J. Crabtree. 2008. Comparative Skeletal Anatomy: A Photographic Atlas for Medical Examiners, Forensic Anthropologists, and Archaeologists. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.
Pam J. Crabtree. 2007. “Animals as Material Culture in Middle Saxon England: The Zooarchaeological Evidence for Wool Production at Brandon,” in Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages, edited by A. Plushkowski, pp. 161-169. Oxford: Oxbow Press.
Pam J. Crabtree. 2006. Women, Gender, and Pastoralism, in Handbook of Gender in Archaeology, edited by S. M. Nelson, pp. 571-592. Berkeley, CA: AltaMira Press.
Pam J. Crabtree and Douglas V. Campana. 2006. Exploring Prehistory: How Archaeology Reveals Our Past. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Douglas v. Campana and Pam J. Crabtree. 2006. The Diet of Washington’s Soldiers at Valley Forge During the Winter of 1777-78, in Integrating Zooarchaeology, edited by Mark Maltby, pp. 28-32. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Peter I. Bogucki and Pam J. Crabtree, eds. 2004. Ancient Europe 8000 BC--1000 AD: An Encyclopedia of The Barbarian World. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Claudia Milne and Pam J. Crabtree. 2001. Prostitutes, a Rabbi, and a Carpenter—Dinner at the Five Points in the 1830s, Historical Archaeology 35 (3): 31-48.
Pam J. Crabtree, ed. 2000. Medieval Archaeology: An Encyclopedia, New York: Garland Publishing.
Current News / Projects
Updated August 2011
New and forthcoming publications:
Campana, D., Crabtree, P., deFrance, S., Lev-Tov, J & Choyke, A. (2010) Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology: Colonialism, Complexity and Animal Transformations. Oxford: Oxbow (published November 2010).
Adams, Bradley & Crabtree, Pam. (2011) Comparative Osteology: a Laboratory Manual and Field Guide to Common North American Animals. Amsterdam: Elsevier, forthcoming in October 2011.
Crabtree, P. J. (2011) Middle Anglo-Saxon Animal Husbandry in East Anglia. East Anglian Archaeology, forthcoming December 2011.
Field and Laboratory work:
August, 2010. Zooarchaeologist for the Razdolnoe Excavations, eastern Ukraine. We explored the archaeological potential of the Copper Age sites, and I examined the fauna recovered from earlier Late Bronze Age excavations at the site.
January, 2011. Zooarchaeologist for the NYU Amheida Excavations in the Dakleh Oasis, Egypt. I identified the fauna from the 2010 excavations season and also worked on the faunal material from the contemporary rural site of Ain al Gedida.
May-June 2011. Zooarchaeologist for the Moku’ula Excavations in Hawaii. Here is a link to some of the excavation photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mauitime/sets/72157626855349426/show/
