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Susan D. deFrancesdef@anthro.ufl.eduAssociate Professor Department of Anthropology University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 352-392-2253 x212 |
Office - 1350-B Turlington
Office Hours - Fall 2007
Monday 1:50-3:50 pm
Wednesday 8:30-9:30 and 10:30-11:30 am
and by
appointment
| BACKGROUND | RESEARCH | PUBLICATIONS | COURSES | LINKS |
Background
Susan D. deFrance received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1993 specializing inzooarchaeology. Subsequently she taught at the University of Montana and was a research archaeologist with the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History and adjunct professor at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi. She returned to UF in 1998 and became Assistant Professor of Anthropology in 2001. She has conducted archaeological research in the southeastern United State, the Caribbean, and in Peru and Bolivia spanning from the earliest use of coastal resources to European colonization.
Research
I
am an archaeologist with a specialization in zooarchaeology. My
research
interests are culinary (the human use of animals for food), symbolic
(the ritual and symbolic use of animals), economic (the
non-food
economic uses of animals and trade relations) and environmental
(what do animals tell us about past environments and human use of
environments).
I have conducted zooarchaeological research on sites from several different geographic regions including the Caribbean, Peru, Bolivia, and several areas in the Southeastern United States. These sites range in age from over 10,000 years ago (Quebrada Tacahuay, Peru) to nineteenth century urban contexts in New Orleans.
I have conducted research in the Central Andes on one of
the earliest
coastal occupations in the Americas (Quebrada Tacahauy, Peru). In
addition
to continued research on early Andean coastal adaptations, I am
examining
Middle Horizon food and economic uses of animals in Huari and Tiwanaku
contexts associated with Cerro Baul, Moquegua, Peru. I am also
investigating
food and
symbolic use of animals in Formative, Yaya-Mama period sites
from the Lake Titicaca Basin. My historical research in the Andes
initially
concerned the Spanish colonial wine industry in southern Peru and now
also
concerns Spanish food supply to Potosí, Bolivia and the
surrounding
mining community.
My Caribbean research includes several projects on
Puerto Rico
as well as St. Thomas, St. Eustatius, and sites with the Bahamas island
chain. These projects addressed island biogeography, the human
transport
of animals within the Caribbean, and the emergence of status
differences
in food procurement. I
make extensive use of the research collections at Environmental Archaeology lab
at the Florida Museum of Natural History. I am increasing the UF
collection
of skeletal comparative specimens for teaching zooarchaeology. Many of
these specimens will be used in a new course for undergraduates,
Introduction
to Zooarchaeology – ANT3126
Selected Publications
2005 M. E.
Moseley, D. J. Nash, P.r.
Williams, S.
D. deFrance, A. Miranda, M. Ruales
Burning Down the Brewery:
Establishing
and Evacuating an Ancient Imperial Colony
at Cerro Baul, Peru
pdf of article
2005 Late Pleistocene Marine Birds from Southern Peru: Distinguishing Human Capture from El Niño Induced Windfall. Journal of Archaeological Science 32:1131-1146.
Susan D. deFrance and A. Umire Álvarez, 2004, Quebrada Tacahuay: una ocupación marítima del Pleistoceno Tardío en el sur del Perú (Quebrada Tacahuay: A Late Pleistocene Maritime Stie on the South Coast of Peru).Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena 36(2):257-278.
2003 Diet and Provisioning in the High Andes: A Spanish Colonial Settlement on the Outskirts of Potosí, Bolivia. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 7(2):99-125.
2003 A 38000-year record of floods and debris flows in the Ilo region of southern Peru and its relation to El Niño events and great earthquakes, D.K. Keefer, M.E. Moseley, and S.D. deFrance Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 194:41-77.
2002 Faunal Remains from the Tutu Site, E. S. Wing, S. D. deFrance, and L. Kozuch in The Tutu Archaeological Village Site: A Multidisciplinary Case Study in Human Adaptation edited by E. Righter, Routledge, London.
2001 Late Paleo-Indian Coastal Foragers: Specialized Extractive Behavior At Quebrada Tacahuay, Peru. S. D. deFrance, D. K. Keefer, J. B. Richardson, and A. Umire-Alvarez. Latin American Antiquity 12(4): 413-426.
1999 Zooarchaeological Evidence of Colonial Culture Change: A Comparison of Two Locations of Mission Espiritu Santo de Zuñiga and Mission Nuestra Senora del Rosario, Texas. Bulletin of the Texas Archaeological Society, Vol. 70: 169-188.
1998 Early Maritime Economy and El Niño Events at Quebrada Tacahuay. Keefer, David K., S. D. deFrance, M. E. Moseley, J. B. Richardson, D. R. Satterlee, and A. Day-Lewis Science 281:1833-1835.
1996 The Archaeobotanical, Bone Isotope, and Zooarchaeological Records from Caribbean Sites in Comparative Perspective, S. D. deFrance, L. A. Newsom and W. F. Keegan in Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology, pp. 289-304. Edited by E. J. Reitz, L. A. Newsom, and S. J. Scudder, Plenum Press, New York.
1996 Iberian Foodways in the Moquegua and Torata Valleys of Southern Peru. Historical Archaeology 30 (3): 20-48.
Courses
| Course |
| ANT3126 Introduction to Zooarchaeology |
| ANT3141 Development of World Civilization |
| ANT3181 Anthropological Museology |
| ANT3428 Food and Culture |
| ANG5126 Zooarchaeology |
| ANG5467 Culture and Nutrition |
| ANG6186
Archaeology of Maritime Adaptations |
Links
Department of AnthropologyFlorida Museum of Natural History - Environmental Archaeology
International Council of Archaeozoology
Society for American Archaeology
Society for Historical Archaeology
Museo Contisuyo, Moquegua, Peru
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