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Department of Anthropology

Dr Rogers
Dr. Rogers in his office
 
 

 

J. Daniel Rogers

Curator


Division: Archaeology

Area of Specialization:
North American Archaeology

Phone:
 202-633-1895
Fax:  202-357-2208
E-mail Address: rogersd@si.edu

Department of Anthropology Mailing Address


Education:

Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Chicago (1987)
M.A. in Anthropology, University of Oklahoma (1982)
B.A. in Anthropology, minor in Zoology, University of Oklahoma (1976)

Research Interests/Profile:

Analysis and interpretation of patterns of social change using ethnohistorical and archaeological methodologies; theories of meaning and the role of the individual; the rise of states and empires with emphasis on Central Asia; comparative analysis of culture contact in the North America Great Plains, the Southeastern United States, the Caribbean, and Mexico; technical analysis of ceramics.

Recent Publications:

Rogers, J. Daniel 2007. The Contingencies of State Formation in Eastern Inner Asia. Asian Perspectives 46(2): 249-274.

Rogers, J. Daniel, Erdenebat Ulambayar, and Mathew Gallon 2005.  Urban Centres and the Emergence of Empires in Eastern Inner Asia. Antiquity 79:801-818.

Redman, Charles L., Paul Fish, Steven James, and J. Daniel Rogers (editors)
2004. The Archaeology of Global Change: The Impact of Humans on Their Environment.
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.

Rogers, J. Daniel 2004.  Archaeology and the Interpretation of Colonial Encounters. In The Archaeology of Colonies, edited by Gil Stein.  School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.

Rogers, J. Daniel 1999.  Culture Contact and the Analysis of Change in Artifact Assemblages: The Arikara Case.  Cuadernos de Arqueología Mediterránea 3:83-95.

Rogers, J. Daniel 1995. The Archaeological Analysis of Domestic Organization. In Mississippian Communities and Households, edited by J. Daniel Rogers and Bruce D. Smith. pp.7-31. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

Rogers, J. Daniel and Samuel M. Wilson (editors) 1993. Ethnohistory and Archaeology: Approaches to Postcontact Change in the Americas.  Plenum Press, New York.

Rogers, J. Daniel 1990. Objects of Change: The Archaeology and History of Arikara Contact with Europeans. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

 

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