Jane Darden Peterson

Associate Professor

Marquette University
Lalumiere Hall, 424
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881

(414) 288-7917
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Education

	Ph.D.	Arizona State University: Anthropology: 1994 Dissertation: Changes in the Sexual Divisions of Labor in the Prehistory of the Southern Levant
	M.A.	Arizona State University: 1988. Thesis: A Preliminary Analysis of the Lithic Collections from the Bally Lough Project, Ireland
	B.A.	University of Virginia: Philosophy: 1982

Academic Experience

	2003 - present	Associate Professor, Marquette University Milwaukee, WI
	1997 - 2003	Assistant Professor, Marquette University Milwaukee, WI
	1995 - 1997	Visiting Assistant Professor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
	1991	Instructor, Arizona State University Tempe, AZ

Project Director Experience

	1999	Director, Khirbet Hammam Archaeological Project, Jordan
	1994 - 1995	Project Director, William and Mary Center for Archaeological Investigations, Williamsburg, VA
	1992 - 1993	Co-Director, Wadi Asa Paleolithic Project, Jordan

Honors and Scholarships

	1989 -	Phi Kappa Phi
	1988 -	Sigma Xi
	1986 - 1991	Regents' Scholarship, Arizona State University
	1982	BA cum Laude, University of Virginia
	1979 - 1980	President's Scholarship, Boston College

Research Interests

	Prehistoric archaeology of the New East and American Southwest
	Computer applications, bioarchaeology, lithic technology

Grants and Fellowships
Received:

	Marquette University Summer Faculty Fellowship and Regular Research Grant: Prehistoric Village Life in the Holy Land, 2004
	American Schools of Oriental Research and United States Information Agency Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Research in Jordan: Mapping and preliminary testing at Khirbet Hammam. Awarded for summer 1998 (receipt delayed until summer 1999).
	National Science Foundation Dissertation Aid Grant No. SBR-9302853. Arizona State University: Tracking organization changes in gender roles across the transition to domestication economies: 1993.
	American Schools of Oriental Research and United States Information Agency Grant for Research in Jordan: Activity-induced skeletal changes in Levantine populations resulting from the transition to agriculture: 1993
	Arizona State University, Graduate College Dissertation Fellowship: 1992-93.

Publications

Books - Single Author

2002

Peterson, Jane. Sexual Revolutions: Gender and Labor at the Dawn of Agriculture. In Gender and Archaeology Series. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.

Edited Volumes

1998

Peterson, Jane and Hawkey, Diane (eds). Special Issue of the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 8(5). Proceedings from the 1997 symposium entitled: Musculosketetal Stress Markers: An Integrative Approach to Bioarchaeological Questions, presented at the 66th annual meeting American Association of Physical Anthropology

Referred Articles and Chapters

In Press

		Peterson, Jane. Gender in early farming societies. In Handbook of Gender in Archaeology, edited by S.M. Nelson, AltaMira.
		Peterson, Jane. New insights from old stones: a survey of grinding stone studies. In Not the Same old Grind: Studies of Ground Stone Artifacts in the Southern Levant, edited by J.R. Ebeling and Y.M. Rowan. Equinox.

Published

	2004	Peterson, Jane. Khirbet Hammam (WHS 149): A Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B settlement in the Wadi el-Hasa, Jordan. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 334: 1-17.
	2000	Peterson, Jane. Labor patterns in the Southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age. In Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record, edited by A. Rautman, Pp. 38-54, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
	2000	Peterson, Jane. Groundstone as an inferential tool: an example from To Al-Tareeq, Jordan. In The Archaeology of the Wadi- Al-Hasa, West-Central Jordan, Volume 2: Excavations at Middle, Upper and Epipaleolithic sites, edited by N.R. Coinman, Pp. 327-340, Arizona State University, Anthropology Research Papers No. 52, Tempe, AZ.
	2000	Neeley, M.P., Peterson, J.D., Clark, G.A., and Fish, S.K. WHI 1065 (Tor al-Tareeq), an Epipaleolithic site in the Wadi al-Hasa. West-central Jordan. In The Archaeology of the Wadi Al-Hasa, West-Central Jordan, Volume 2: Excavations at Middle, Upper and Epipaleolithic Sites, edited by N.R. Coinman, Pp. 245-279, Arizona State University Anthropological Research Papers No. 52, Tempe, AZ.
	1999	Peterson, Jane, Early Epipaleolithic settlement patterns: insights from the study of ground stone tools. Levant 31: 1-17,
	1998	Neeley, M.P., Peterson, J.D., Clark, G.A., Fish, S.K., and M. Glass. Investigations at Tor al-Tareeq: an Epipaleolithic site in the Wadi el-Hasa, Jordan. Journal of Field Archaeology 25(3):295-317.
	1998	Peterson, Jane. The Natufian Hunting Conundrum: Spears, Atlatls, or Bows. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, special Issues on Musculosketetal Stress Markers. 8:378-389.
	1998	Peterson, Jane and Hawkey, Diane. Preface. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. Special Issue on Musculoskeletal Stress Markers 8:303-304.
	1997	Peterson, Jane. The social and economic contexts of litchi procurement: obsidian from the Classic Period Hook sites. American Antiquity 62:231-259.
	1997	Peterson, Jane. Tracking activity patterns through skeletal remains: a case study from Jordan and Palestine. In Prehistory of Jordan II edited by H. G. Glebe, Z. Kafka, and G. O. Roles, Pp. 475-492. Ex oriental, Berlin
	1997	Neeley, M.P, Clark, G.A. Schuldenrein, J., and Peterson, J.D.. WHS 1065 (Tor al-Tari1): An Epipaleolithic site in its regional context. In Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan, Vol VI edited by G. Bisheh et al, Pp. 219-229. Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Amman.
	1994	Peterson, J., Mitchell, D, and Shackley, S., Obsidian from Pueblo Grande, AZ: Modelling social and economic patterns in lithic procurement Archaeometry and Technology of Pre-Columbian Sites and Artifacts, edited by D. A. Schoo and P. Meyers, Pp. 161-173. Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles.
	1990	From foraging to food production in southeastern Ireland; some lithic evidence. Proceedings of the Prehistoric society 56: 89-99.

Other Publications

	2003	Peterson, Jane. The 1999 test excavations at Khirbat al-Hammam (WHS 149), Wadi al-Hasa, Jordan. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 47:117-128.
	2000	Peterson, Jane. Khirbet Hammam, Wadi el-Hasa. American Journal of ARchaeology 104(3):570.
	2000	Peterson, Jane. Test excavations at PPNB/PPNC Khirbet Hammam, Wadi el-Hasa, Jordan. Leo-lithics 9(1):4-5.
	2000	Peterson, Jane. The origins and development of an early agricultural village in West-Central Jordan: mapping and preliminary test excavations at Khirbet Hammam in the Wadi el-Hasa. American Schools of Oriental Research Newsletter 50:24.
	1996	Peterson, Jane. The "other" lithics: ground stone from Tor al-Tareeq, Jordan, New-Lithics 4(1):7-8.
	1994	Peterson, Jane. Analysis of the 'Ain Ghazal skeletal collection. American Journal of Archaeology 98:530-531.
	1990	Peterson, Jane. Assessing variability in the Late Mesolithic of Ireland. In Proceedings of the IV International symposium on the Mesolithic in Europe, edited by P.M. Vermeersch and P. Van Peer, pp. 369-376. Leaven University Press, Belgium.

Book Reviews

	2004	Review of "Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture" by Josef Garfinkel. Near Eastern Archaeology. 67(3) 177-8.
	1997	Review of "Ceramic Production in the American Southwest", edited by B. J. Mills and P. L. Crown. Technology and Culture July:747-8.
	1991	Review of "Problems in Neolithic Archaeology" by Alistair Whittle. American Antiquity 56(2):381.
	1989	Review of "the Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines", edited by G. Bailey and J. Parking ton. American Anthropologist 9(3): 783-4.

Research Reports

	1995	Phase II Archaeological Evaluation of Site 44WR339 associated with the Proposed Route 622 Project, Warren County, Virginia. Report prepared for the Virginia Department of Transportation by William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research. On file at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond.
	1995	Tenant Lifestyles" An Extraordinary Example from Twentieth, Radford, Virginia. Phase III Data Recovery at 44MY463 Associated with the Route 611 Project of Radford, Virginia. Report prepared for the Virginia Department of Transportation by William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research. On file at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond.
	1995	Phase II Archaeological Evaluation of Site 44HN91: Civil War Era Earthworks and 20th Century Mill Complex associated with the Proposed Route 609 Project, Hanover County, Virginia. Report prepared for the Virginia Department of Transportation by William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research. On file at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond.
	1994	Saldado Polychromes from Pueblo Grande: Indices of ceramic production systems. In Ceramics and the Production and Exchange of Pottery in the Central Phoenix Basin, edited by D.R. Abbot, pp. 371-405. Soil Systems Publications in Archaeology No 20, Volume 3, Soil Systems, Inc., Phoenix.
	1994	Chipped Stone. In The Pueblo Grande Project: Material Culture, edited by M.S. Foster, pp. 49-118. Soil Systems Publications in Archaeology No. 20, Volume 4, Soil Systems, Inc., Phoenix, AZ.
	1994	A Phase 1 Cultural Resource Survey of the Proposed Route 609 Project, Hanover County, Virginia. Report prepared for the Virginia Department of Transportation by William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research. On file at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond.
	1994	Phase II Archaeological Evaluations of Nine Sites associated with the Proposed Route 58. Improvement Project--Penning ton Gap and Dryden, Lee County, Virginia. Report prepared for the Virginia Department of Transportation by William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research. On file at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond
	1994	A Phase I Cultural Resource Survey of the Proposed Route 58 Improvement Project, Wise and Lee Counties, Virginia. Report prepared for Anderson and Associates by William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research. On file at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond
	1993	Lithic raw material analysis. In Pinnacle Peak Village, edited by P.A. Gillman, pp. 35-20. Anthropological Field Studies No. 31. Arizona State University, Tempe

Professional Meetings

Symposia Organized and/or Chaired:

	2004	Near Eastern Studies. 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, ON
	1997	Activity patterns and musculoskeletal stress markers: an integrative approach to bioarchaeological questions 66th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, St. Louis

Respondent/Discussant:

	2004	Symposium: Labors of Life and Death: Engendering Archaeological Investigations of Production. Chacmool conference, Calgary, AL.
	2002	Symposium: Leaving No Stone Unturned: Recent Studies of Ground and Chipped Stone Tools in the Southern Levant. Annual conference of the American Society for Oriental Research, Toronto, ON.

Papers Presented:

	2005	Domesticating gender: Neolithic women in the Southern Levant. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Philadelphia, PA
	2004	Around the house. The use of space in Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B villages in the southern Levant. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, ON.
	2002	Social spaces: Investigating Neolithic architectural variability in Jordan. Paper presented at Prehistory Conference, Toronto, ON.
	2001	Behavioral insights from ground stone: case studies from the Epipaleolithic and Early Bronze Age of the Levant. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Society for Oriental Research. Boulder, CO.
	2000	Where the water flows: Neolithic settlement at Khirbet Hammam, Jordan. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, PA
	1998	Alternative approaches to Early Bronze Age household economy: ground stones from the southern Levant. Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, WA.
	1997	The Natufian hunting conundrum: spears, atlatis, or bows? Musculoskeletal and armature evidence. 66th Annual Meeting of the American Meeting of the American Association for Physical Anthropology, St. Louis, MO
	1996	Musculoskeletal stress markers and sexual labor patterns. Fourth Gender and Archaeology Conference. Michigan State University. East Lansing, MI
	1995	WHS 106 (Tor al-Tareqq): an epipaleolithic site in its regional context (with Neely et al). Sixth International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan, Torino, Italy.
	1995	Farm to foundry: African American transitions in Montgomery County, Virginia. Virginia Academy of Sciences, Lexington Virginia.
	1994	Social Investigations into the forager/farmer transition: sexual division of labor in the Levant. 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, CA.
	1993	The American Southwest and the Hohokam Indians. Guest Lecture, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
	1993	Archaeology and gender. Guest Lecture, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
	1993	Modelling patterns of lithic procurement and production: regional and intrasite applications of obsidian XRF data 57th Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh, PA.
	1992	Osbidian x-ray fluorescence data from Pueblo Grande, AZ: Modelling social and economic patterns in lithic procurement. International Symposium on Archaeometry. Los Angeles, CA.
	1992	Indices of Salado polychrome production from Pueblo Grande, Arizona. 56th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA
	1990	Assessing variability in the Late Mesolithic of Ireland. IV International Symposium on the Mesolithic in Europe, Leuven, Belgium.
	1989	The transition from foraging to domestication economics: a preliminary assessment from southeastern Ireland. 53rd Annual Meeting for the Society for American Archaeology Phoenix, AZ.

Professional Societies

	1982 -	American Anthropological Society
	1986 -	Society for American Archaeology
	1987 -	Society for Archaeological Sciences
	1992 -	American Schools of Oriental Research
	1994 -	Paleoanthropology Society
	1994	Archaeological Society of Virginia
	1995	Wisconsin Archaeological Society
	1997	Archaeological Institute of America

University/College Service

	2005	Faculty Mentor Program
	1998 - present	Haggerty Museum Advisory Committee
	2001 - 2002	Gender Equity Implementation Task Force
	1999 - 2000	University Search Committee for Dean, Arts and Sciences

Departmental Service

	2000 - present	Anthropology Major Committee (Chair)
	2003 - present	Teaching Excellence Committee
	2003 - present	By-Laws Committee
	2000 - 2003	Faculty Development Committee
	2000 - 2003	Social Welfare and Justice Major Planning Committee
	2001 - present	Course Load Reduction Committee (ad hoc)
	1999 - 2000	Chair's Advisory Committee

Professional Service

	March, 2004	Professional lecture, Anthropology Department, Field Museum of Natural History
	March, 2004	Public Lecture Wisconsin Archaeological Society, March 2004
	2001 - Present	Reviewer - Grant proposals for National Science Foundation
	2000 - Present	Reviewer - Journal submissions for American Anthropologist
	2002 - Present	Reviewer - Journal submissions for American Journal of Physical Anthropology
	2002 - Present	President, Archaeological Institute of American, Milwaukee Chapter
	1999 - 2002	Vice President, Archaeological Institute of America, Milwaukee Chapter
	1995 - Present	Public lectures provided for a variety of elementary and middle school groups in Milwaukee County
	1998 - 1999	Provided public lectures James Lovel Discovery World Science Museum
	1997	Public lecture for Ice Age Interpretive Center, Kettle Moraine State Park, WI
	1996	Public lecture for Archaeological Institute of America, Milwaukee Chapter

Courses Taught at Marquette

Currently Taught

	Introductory Anthropology	Undergraduate four-filed survey and introduction to anthropology
	Archaeology and Prehistory Cultures	Undergraduate majors' course focusing on basic principles of archaeological method, theory, and systematics.
	Prehistory of North American	Undergraduate course designed to survey major culture areas and prehistoric adaptations of indigenous North Americans.
	Men and Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective	Interdisciplinary undergraduate course aimed at examining the roles of men and women, as well as gender ideologies in selected societies around the world. Includes contemporary American society.
	People and Cultures of the Middle East	Area study course covering cultural variations in the Middle East, drawing on a variety of perspectives: East vs. west, rural and urban, settled and nomadic, male and female, etc.
	The Rise of Agriculture	Special topics seminar outlining developments in theory-building and methodology relative to the transition to domestication economies from a worldwide survey perspective.
	The Rise of Civilization	Special topics seminar outlining the patterns of processes involved in the development of complex societies.
	Bioarchaeology: Linking Bones and Behavior	Special topics seminar highlighting current theory, methods, and technologies integrating biological and archaeological data sets.
	Archaeology in Action: Ethnographic and Experimental Approaches	Special topics seminar exploring the role experiment and ethnography play in archaeological interpretations of material culture and behavior

 

Past Offerings

	Introduction to Biological Anthropology	Undergraduate introduction to the history and mechanisms of evolutionary processes, and human evolution.
	Human Evolutionary Processes	Undergraduate majors' and natural science core course that focuses on development and critiques of Darwinian models of evolution with reference to macroevolutionary process and microevolutionary events.
	Cultural Anthropology	Undergraduate introduction to the fundamentals of ethnology and the comparative study of cultures through a survey of anthropological examples and case studies
	People and Cultures of Europe	Undergraduate seminar discussion the culture areas of Europe and the Mediterranean; including urban, farming, and pastoral groups
	Development of Anthropological Theory	Senior capstone course includes a history of ideas in anthropological theory as well as an examination of the connections anthropological knowledge has for their college experience and future.