Departments and Programs

• Anthropology
• Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies
• Native American Studies

Related Links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~anthro/faculty/nichols.html

Contact Information

Email: deborah.l.nichols@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3033
Office: 6047 Silsby

Education

B.A. Pennsylvania State University; M.A. Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University

Areas of Expertise

Archaeology; urbanism and state formation; Mesoamerica; U.S. Southwest; cultural ecology

Selected Works

• "Archaeology on Foot: Jeffrey Parsons and Anthropology at the University of Michigan," in Retrospectives: Works and Lives of Michigan Anthropologists, D Brereton, (ed.), (2006).
• "Preindustrial Cities: Demographic Shining Stars or Black Holes?" in Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches, G R Storey (ed.), (2006) 330-340.
• "Settlement Pattern Archaeology in the Teotihuacan Valley and the Northeastern Basin of Mexico A.P. (After Parsons)," in Settlement and Subsistence in Early Civilizations, R E Blanton, (ed.) (2005) 43-62.
• "Rural and Urban Landscapes of the Aztec State," in Mesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice, R Joyce and J Hendon (eds.), (2004) 265-295.
• Archeology is Anthropology, Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, edited with S D Gillespie, no. 13 (2003).

Current Projects

"Multidisciplinary Approaches to Social Violence in the Prehispanic Southwest;" "Urbanism and State Formation;" "Aztec Elites and the Postclassic Political Economy: Neutron Activation Analysis of Museum Collections from Chiconautla Mexico;" "Water Management and Political Economy in Formative Period Central Mexico;" "Collaborative Research at Cerro Portezuelo: Spanning the Classic to Postclassic Transition at a Teotihuacan Region Center"