Jeanne E. Arnold
PROFESSOR
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara 1983
Office: 318E Haines Hall
Phone: 310-206-5801
Fax:
310-206-7833
E-mail:
jearnold@ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
341 Haines Hall - Box 951553
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553
Subfield
Archaeological Anthropology
Research Interests
Archaeological theory, complex hunter-gatherers, craft specialization, political evolution, exchange systems, the prehistory and early contact era of the Pacific Coast of North America --- California and British Columbia.
Selected Publications
1992 Complex Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers of Prehistoric California: Chiefs, Specialists, and Maritime Adaptations of the Channel Islands. American Antiquity, 57:60-84.
1993 Labor and the Rise of Complex Hunter-Gatherers. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 12:75-119.
1995 Transportation Innovation and Social Complexity among Maritime Hunter-Gatherer Societies. American Anthropologist 97:733-747.
1995 Social Inequality, Marginalization, and Economic Process. In Foundations of Social Inequality, T.D. Price and G.M. Feinman (eds.), pp. 87-103. Plenum, New York.
1996 (editor) Emergent Complexity: The Evolution of Intermediate Societies. International Monographs In Prehistory, Ann Arbor.
1996 The Archaeology of Complex Hunter-Gatherers. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 3:77-126.
2000 Revisiting Power, Labor Rights, and Kinship: Archaeology and Social Theory. In Social Theory in Archaeology. M.B. Schiffer ed. University of Utah Press.
2000 The Origins of Hierarchy and the Nature of Hierarchical Structures in Prehistoric California. In Hierarchies in Action: Cui Bono? (M.W. Diehl, ed.), pp. 221-240. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper 27, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
2001 (editor) The Origins of a Pacific Coast Chiefdom: The Chumash of the Channel Islands. University of Utah Press.
2004 (w/ M. Walsh and S. Hollimon) The Archaeology of California. Journal of Archaeological Research 12:1-73
2004 A Transcontinental Perspective on the Evolution of Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways on the Plateau: Discussion and Reflection. In Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Evolution and Organization of Prehistoric Communities on the Plateau of Northwestern North America (W. Prentiss and I. Kuijt, eds.), pp. 171-181. University of Utah Press.
2004 (editor) Foundations of Chumash Complexity. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA.
2005 (w/ J. Bernard) Negotiating the Coasts: Status and the Evolution of Boat Technology in California. World Archaeology 37:109-131.
2006 Comment on Constraints on the Development of Enduring Inequalities in Late Holocene Australia. Current Anthropology 47:19-20.
2006 Households on the Pacific Coast: The Northwest Coast and California in Comparative Perspective. In Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast (E. A. Sobel, D. A. Trieu Gahr, and K. M. Ames, eds.), pp. 270-285. International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor.
2007 Credit Where Credit is Due: The History of the Chumash Oceangoing Plank Canoe. American Antiquity 72:196-209.
Grants
National Science Foundation: 3 senior awards (1988 - present ), 6 dissertation improvement awards (1993 - present ), 2 NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates awards
UCLA Academic Senate - grant awards: 1989-2007
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: Sr. collaborator w/ PI D. Lepofsky, M. Blake, et al. “Aboriginal Collective Identity: Exploring Interactions among the Sto:lo of Southwestern British Columbia:” 2003-2006
UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Ahmanson Field Research Awards: 2003-2005
Grad Students
Catherine Bailey
Julienne Bernard
John Dietler
Kelly Fong (Archaeology program)
Angela Leggett
Recent PhDs:
Ray Corbett (2007)
Anthony P. Graesch (2006)
Michael Lenert (2007)
Anna C. Noah (2005)
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