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Dr. Laura Popova
Honors Faculty Fellow Affiliated Faculty, School of Human Evolution and Social Change Melikian Center Faculty Affiliate Tempe, AZ 85287 |
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Classes:
HON 171 – The Human Event: Part 1 (Fall 2008)
HON 272 – The Human Event: Part 2 (Spring 2009) Office Hours (Spring 2009) Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays: 2-3pm and by appointment
Office: Irish A 232 Email: Laura.Popova@asu.edu
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Recent Publications:
A New Historical Legend: Tracing the Long-Term Landscape History of the Samara River Valley. In Social Orders and Social Landscapes. Edited by Laura M. Popova, Charles Hartley and Adam T. Smith, 2007, Cambridge Scholars Press.
Pastoralism in the Late Bronze Age in Russia: Past Interpretations and New Goals for Future Research. In Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Proceedings of the2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology. Edited by D. Peterson, L. Popova, and A. Smith. Colloquia Pontica Series. Brill, Leiden, 2006, pp. 459-468.
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Current Interests: My dissertation (Political Pastures) rethinks the practice of pastoralism during the Bronze Age (3,300 – 1,300 BC) in Russia by examining the construction, maintenance, and abandonment of pastures using archaeological and paleobotanical methods. Currently, my research focuses on the politics of pastoral land use, past and present, highlighting the ways in which the socio-political, ecological, and cultural orders of pastoral societies shape and restructure global and local environments.
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Upcoming Publications:
Blurring the Boundaries: Uncovering the Complex Interactions between Foragers and Pastoralists in the Volga-Ural Region. In Monuments, Metals, and Mobility: Trajectories of Complexity in the Late Prehistory of the Eurasian Steppe. Edited by Bryan Hanks and Kathryn Linduff, Forthcoming (2009), Cambridge University Press
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Recent Research Projects:
Political Ecology of the Samara River Valley Project Survey - Krasnosamarskoe and Spiridonovka (2008). Project Director Joint Russian-American excavation of Kibit 1, a Late Bronze Age settlement in the Kamishla Region. Samara, Russian Federation. (2004). Project Director
Joint Armenian-American Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian States (ArAGATS) Republic of Armenia. Paleobotanical Specialist and Field Assistant. Directors: Adam T. Smith, Ruben Badalyan. (2005, 2003)
Joint Russian-American Samara Valley Archaeology Project. Samara, Russian Federation. Paleobotanical Specialist and Field Assistant. Directors: David Anthony, Pavel Kuznetsov, and Oleg Mochalov. (2001, 2000, 1999)
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Academic Foci: Old World Archaeology (Eurasia) Archaeological Theory Paleobotanical Analysis Contemporary Social and Political Theory Landscapes and Political Ecology
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NEWS!!!
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Links:
University of Chicago Eurasian Archaeology Conference Samara State Pedagogical University European Association of Archaeology Society for American Archaeology American Anthropological Association
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