Pamela 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
The archaeology of later prehistoric and early medieval Europe and zooarchaeolog in addition to the archaeological study of forts of the French and Indian War period in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, a cooperative project between New York University and the National Park Service. Professor Crabtree and Peter Bogucki (Princeton University) are currently editing an encyclopedia of the Barbarian world, to be published by Charles Schribner's Sons.
External Affiliations
Member - Center for the Study of Human Origins
Publications
Archaeology and Prehistory. Pam J. Crabtree and Douglas V. Campana, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Medieval Archaeology: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 2000.
"Production and Consumption in an Early Complex Society": Animan Use in Middle Saxon East Anglia World Archaeology,
28(1):58-75, 1996.
"Zooarchaeology and Complex Societies: Some Uses of Faunal Analysis for the Study of Trade, Social Status, and Ethnicity". In Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 2, edited by M.B. Schiffer, pp. 155-205. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1990.
"Early Animal Domestication and Its Cultural Context." Pam J. Crabtree, Douglas V. Campana, and Kathleen Ryan, eds. University of Pennsylvania Museum, MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology, Supplement to Vol. 6, 1989.
Current News / Projects
Updated July 2009
Another academic year has come to an end, and the weather is finally starting to warm up. I hope that everyone reading this newsletter had a wonderful school year and is looking forward to a productive summer. Here's what I have been working on since last June.
I spent a third summer as part of the Dun Ailinne archaeological project, carrying out magnetometer and topographic survey on this Iron Age royal site in Ireland. Z. Susanne Garrett, one of out PhD students in archaeology, is also a member of the project. We completed the magnetometer and selected topographic survey last August, and, if all goes well, we will begin a program of excavation in the summer of 2010. I was part of the original Dun Ailinne excavation team in the early 1970s.
I spent spring break in the UK, working on some new faunal remains from the early Anglo-Saxon site of West Stow in Suffolk (eastern England). As many of you know, I analyzed the fauna from the original West Stow excavations as part of my PhD research. The original interpretation of West Stow was that it was a small, nucleated village that was probably home to 3-4 extended families. The discovery of four new buildings on the site of the future interpretive center shows that the village is much larger than was originally thought.
I also completed the identification of the faunal remains from the site of late Roman (4th century) site of Icklingham. Icklingham is located near West Stow along the Lark River in northwest Suffolk. I reported on the results of this research at the SAA meetings in Atlanta in April. I was also delighted to serve as the faculty advisor for the wonderful NYU Ethics Bowl team of Susanne Garrett, Adam Green, Sneh Pater, and Parry Hamrick. Our team made it all the way to the finals this year, and we defeated UC-Berkeley in the first round! The Berkeley team included Katie Chiou, an NYU alumna.
Doug Campana, Susan deFrance, Justin Lev-Tov, Alice Choyke, and I completed the editing of Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology: Colonialism, Complexity and Animal Transformations. The volume grew out of three sessions at the 2006 ICAZ conference in Mexico City and will be published by Oxbow in the spring of 2010. Brad Adams and I also published Comparative Skeletal Anatomy: A Photographic Atlas for Medical Examiners, Coroners, Forensic Anthropologists, and Archaeologists last year. I also served as the general editor of the Facts on File Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Medieval World, which was published last June.
