T. Douglas Price 2008
   
  Department of Anthropology (www.anthropology.wisc.edu)

Lab Archaeological Chemistry (www.wisc.edu/larch/aclab/larch)

University of Wisconsin-Madison (www.wisc.edu)

   
  Weinstein Professor of European Archaeology
Director, Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry
Department of Anthropology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison WI 53706-1393
tdprice@wisc.edu
+1 608-262-2575 (US)
+1 608-698-8125 (mobile)
Fax +1 608-265-4216

6th Century Professor in Archaeological Science
Department of Archaeology
University of Aberdeen
St. Mary's, Elphinstone Road
King's College, Aberdeen AB24 3UF
Scotland, United Kingdom

Summer Address
Sandlodsvej 89
4400 Kalundborg Denmark
Phone +45 59501040 (DK)
  Personal Experience
  Inside Class
   
  Education
University of Michigan:
B.A. Anthropology 1968 (cum laude)
M.A. Anthropology 1969
Ph.D. Anthropology 1975

Interests
European prehistory, archaeological chemistry, migration, hunter-gatherers, transition to agriculture, complexity, masks

Recent Publications
• Price, T. Douglas, & Hildur Gestsdóttir. 2006. The First Settlers of Iceland: An Isotopic Approach to Colonization. Antiquity 80: 130-144.
• Sharer, Robert J., David C. Grove, Andrew K. Balkansky, James H. Burton, Gary M. Feinman, Kent V. Flannery, Joyce Marcus, Robert G. Moyle, T. Douglas Price, Elsa M. Redmond, Robert G. Reynolds, Prudence M. Rice, Charles S. Spencer, James B. Stoltman, and Jason Yaeger. 2006. On the Logic of Archaeological Inference: Early Formative Pottery and the Evolution of Mesoamerican Societies. Latin American Antiquity 17: 90-103.
• Price, T. Douglas.2006. Principles of Archaeology. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Price, T. Douglas, Vera Tiesler, & James Burton. 2006. Early African Diaspora in Colonial Campeche, Mexico: Strontium Isotopic Evidence. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 130: 485-490.
• Price, T. Douglas, James H. Burton, Vera Tiesler, Simon Martin & Jane E. Buikstra. 2006. Geographic origin of ‘Janaab' Pakal and the Red Queen: Evidence from strontium isotopes. In ‘Janaab' Pakal of Palenque. Reconstructing the Life and Death of a Maya Ruler, Vera Tiesler & Andrea Cucina (eds), pp. 91-101. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
• Price, T. Douglas, and Gary Feinman. 2006. Images of the Past. 5e. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Price, T. Douglas, James H. Burton, Vera Tiesler, and Jane E. Buikstra. 2006. Evidencia Isotopica de sobre el sitio de Calakmul, Campeche. Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya XIV, pp. 87-94. Campeche: University of Campeche Press.
• White, Chris D., T. Douglas Price, & F.J. Longstaffe. 2007. Residential histories of the human sacrifices at the Moon Pyramid: evidence from oxygen and strontium isotopes. Ancient Mesoamerica 18: 159-172
• Price, T. Douglas, J.H. Burton, & J.B. Stoltman. 2007. Residential change in the Mississippian: Strontium isotope evidence from Aztalan, Wisconsin. American Antiquity 72: 524-538.
• Knudson, Kelly J., and T. Douglas Price. 2007. The Utility of Multiple Chemical Techniques in Archaeological Residential Mobility Studies: Case Studies from Tiwanaku- and Chiribaya- Affiliated Sites in the Andes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132: 25-3.
• Price, T. Douglas, L.E. Wright, C.D. White, and F. Longstaffe. 2007. Victims of Sacrifice: Isotopic Evidence for Place of Origin. In New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society, Vera Tiesler & Andrea Cucina (eds), pp. 263-292. London: Springer Publishers.
• Price, T. Douglas, Pia Bennike, Nanna Noe-Nygaard, Stanley Ambrose, Michael P. Richards, Erik Brinch Petersen, Peter Vang Petersen, & Jan Heinemeier. 2007. The Stone Age graves at Dragsholm: New dates and other data. Acta Archaeologica 78(2): 193-219
• Price, T. Douglas, James H. Burton, Paul D. Fullagar, Lori E. Wright, Jane E. Buikstra & Vera Tiesler. 2008. 87Sr/86Sr Ratios and the Study of Human Mobility in Ancient Mesoamerica. Latin American Antiquity, in press.
• Price, T. Douglas, Joachim Wahl, and R. Bentley. 2008. Isotopic evidence for mobility and group organization among Neolithic farmers at Talheim, Germany, 5000 BC. European Journal of Archaeology 9: 259-284.
• Price, T. Douglas, Klaus Bokelmann, & Anne Pike-Tay. 2008. Late Paleolithic Reindeer on the North European Plain. In Man, Millenia, Environment, Festschrift for Romuald Schild, Z. Sulgostowska & A.J. Tomarazewski (eds), pp. 123-131. Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences.

    
  Courses
General Anthropology
Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
Principles of Archaeology
Prehistoric Europe
Archaeology of Scandinavia
Archaeological Chemistry
Statistics in Archaeology
Undergraduate Seminars
Graduate Seminars
-- Transition to Agriculture
-- Past Hunter-gatherers
-- Research Methods
(see Classroom page)

Current Research
**Excavations in NW Sjælland, Denmark, Stone Age transition sites to study social and economic changes [see Fieldwork page]

**Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry, various studies of the elemental and isotopic composition of archaeological materials (ceramics, stone, bone, soil) with specific current focus on isotopic characterization of enamel and bone for provenience of prehistoric people, various projects in Mesoamerica, Europe, and South America [see Lab Page]

Current Graduate Students
*William Eichmann: Central Europe/ Stone Age
*Carolyn Freiwald: Maya/ Migration/ Isotopes
*Kurt Gron: Archaeozoology/Northern Europe
*David Meiggs: Archaeological Chemistry/ Turkey
*Ken Ritchie: Archaeozoology/ Fish/ Scandinavia
*Vanessa Smolenski: Europe/Portugal/Stone Age
*Terry Slocum: Europe/ Scandinavia/ Bogs
[see Students page]

PhDs
*Peter Gendel, 1983: Mesolithic Social Territories in Northern Europe
*Katherine Stevenson, 1985: Oneota Subsistence-Related Behavior in the Driftless Area
*Joseph Ezzo, 1991: Prehistoric Diet and Change at Grasshopper Pueblo
*Joel Boaz, 1994: Site Utilization in the Dokkfløy, Eastern Norway, 8000-2500 BP
*Michael Stafford, 1995: The Transition to Agriculture in Southern Scandinavia: From Flint to Stone
*Tina Thurston, 1996: The Formation of States in Late Iron Age Southern Sweden
*William Middleton, 1997, Craft Specialization at Ejutla, Oaxaca, Mexico: An Archaeometric Study of Household Craft Production
*Mike Kimball, 1998, The Lough Swilly Archaeological Survey: Investigations into the Neolithic Transition in Eastern Donegal, Ireland
*Michael Galaty, 1998, Nestor's Winecups: Investigating Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Late Bronze Age "Mycenaean" State
*Brian Hoffman, 2001:The Organization of Complexity: A Study of Late Prehistoric Village Organization in the Eastern Aleutian Region, Alaska
*Lisa Frink, 2003: A Tale of Three Villages: Archaeology and History in the Yukon Delta, Alaska
*Jonathan Haws, 2003: Late Upper Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence in Central Portugal
* Lane Fargher, 2004: A Diachronic Analysis of the Valley of Oaxaca Economy from the Classic through the Postclassic
*Kelly Knudson, 2004: Tiwanaku Residential Mobility in the South Central Andes: Identifying Archaeological Human Migration through Strontium Isotope Analysis
*Shawn Sabrina Murray, 2004, The Rise of African Rice Farming and the Economic Use of Plants in the Upper Middle Niger Delta (Mali).
*Caroline Funk, 2005: Evolutionary and Cognitive Influences on Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Location in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of Alaska.
*Alex Dinu, 2006, The Question of Pig Domestication in the Iron Gates Region of the Danube.
[see PhDs page]