Anthony P. Graesch

Research Associate

Ph.D. in Anthropology, UCLA 2006

(Anthony P. Graesch is an anthropological archaeologist who studies the political florescence of intermediate societies in western North America. His recent fieldwork has focused on changes in the organization of Sto:lo-Coast Salish settlements in the last 600 years, with special attention to the large settlement of Welqámex in the upper Fraser Valley of southwestern British Columbia. Recent archaeological investigations at Welqámex have revealed examples of elaborate and substantial residential architecture, multiple building techniques, and evidence for defensive fortification. Home to upwards of 250-300 people, Welqámex expanded quickly in the early-mid nineteenth century and became a center of political and economic interaction in the upper Fraser Valley. High-resolution data emergent from Dr. Graesch’s household archaeological investigations are shedding new light on the spatial organization of socially stratified Sto:lo settlements and the florescence of indigenous political economies at the time of European contact.)

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Curriculum Vitae

Class Websites

Office: 324A Haines
Phone: 310-267-4256
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: anthony.p.graesch@ucla.edu

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Research Interests

Colonialism | Political economy | Intermediate Societies | Labor | Household Economy | Production Practices & Embodiment | Cognition | Pacific Rim Archaeology | Western North America | Historical Archaeology | Relationship of Archaeological Method to Theory | Classification | Ethnoarchaeology | Experimental Archaeology

Selected Publications

--Archaeological Anthropology--

Graesch, A. P., J. Bernard, and A. Noah. (In Press). A cross-cultural study of colonialism and indigenous foodways in western North America. In Across the Great Divide: Continuity and Change in Native North American Societies, A.D. 1400-1900, edited by L. Scheiber and M. Wagner. University of Arizona Press.

Graesch, A. P. (2009). Fieldworker experience and single-episode screening as sources of data recovery bias in archaeology: A case study from the Central Pacific Northwest Coast. American Antiquity 74(4):759-779.

Lepofsky, D., D. M. Schaepe, A. P. Graesch, M. Lenert, P. Ormerod, K. Carlson, J. E. Arnold, M. Blake, P. Moore, and J. Clague. (2009). Exploring Stó:lō-Coast Salish interactions and identity in ancient houses and settlements in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia. American Antiquity 74(4):595-626.

Graesch, A. P. (2009). A Review of New Approaches to Old Stones: Recent Studies of Ground Stone Artifacts, edited by Yorke M. Rowan and Jennie R. Ebeling, Equinox Publishing, London, 2008. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19(3):446-448.

Graesch, A. P. (2009). British colonization of the Northwest Coast and interior drainages. In Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia, Volume 4: West Coast and Arctic/Subarctic, edited by F. McManamon, L. Cordell, K. Lightfoot, and G. Milner, pp. 180-184. Greenwood Publishing, Westport, CT.

Graesch, A.P. (2007). Modeling ground slate knife production and implications for the study of household labor contributions to salmon fishing on the Pacific Northwest Coast. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 26(4):576-606.

Graesch, A. P. (2004). Specialized bead making among Island Chumash households: community labor organization during the Historic period. In Foundations of Chumash Complexity, edited by J. E. Arnold, pp.133-171. Perspectives in California Archaeology Vol. 7, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Arnold, J. E., and A. P. Graesch. (2004). The later evolution of the Island Chumash. In Foundations of Chumash Complexity, edited by J.E. Arnold, pp.1-16. Perspectives in California Archaeology Vol. 7, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Graesch, A. P. (2001). Culture contact on the Channel Islands: Historic-era production and exchange systems. In The Origins of a Pacific Coast Chiefdom: The Chumash of the Channel Islands, edited by J. E. Arnold, pp.261-285. University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City, Utah.

Arnold, J. E. and A. P. Graesch. (2001). The evolution of specialized shellworking among the Island Chumash. In The Origins of a Pacific Coast Chiefdom: The Chumash of the Channel Islands, edited by J.E. Arnold, pp.71-112. University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City, Utah.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
--Mixed-Methods Social Science Research--

Klein, W., A. P. Graesch, and C. Izquierdo. (In Press). Children and chores: A mixed methods study of children’s household work in Los Angeles families. Anthropology of Work Review.

Campos, B., A. P. Graesch, R. Repetti, T. Bradbury, and E. Ochs. (In Press). Opportunity for interaction? A naturalistic observation study of dual-earner families after work and school. Journal of Family Psychology.

Graesch, A. P. (2009). Material indicators of family busyness. Social Indicators Research 93(1):85-94.

Broege, N., A. Owens, A. P. Graesch, J. E. Arnold, and B. Schneider. (2007). Calibrating measures of family activities between large- and small-scale data sets. Sociological Methodology 37(1):119-149.

Ochs, E., A. P. Graesch, A. Mittman, T. Bradbury, and R. Repetti. (2006). Video ethnography and ethnoarchaeological tracking. In The Work-Family Handbook: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches to Research, edited by M. Pitt-Catsouphes, K. Kossek, and S. Sweet, pp. 387-409. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey.

Graesch, A.P. (2004). Notions of family embedded in the house. Anthropology News 45(5).

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