Faculty Profile
David L. Peterson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
- Background
- Research Interests
- Ongoing Research and Student Opportunities
- Selected Publications
- Courses Taught
- Grants and Fellowships
- Curriculum Vitae (click for pdf)
- Student Opportunities
Ph.D., University of Chicago (2007)
David Peterson has been a faculty member since 2008, and has affiliations with the Center for Archaeology, Materials and Applied Spectroscopy (CAMAS), and the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Elemental and Isotopic Analysis (ILEIA).
Old World archaeology (South Caucasus, North Caucasus, Eurasia, Southwest Asia), complex societies, nomads and pastoralists, archaeological theory, social theory, material culture, value, social networks, archaeometry, archaeometallurgy
Laboratory research of archaeological materials combining chemical and structural analysis (SEM-EDS, LA-ICP-MS, and optical microscopy)
Ongoing Research (students are invited to inquire about research opportunities in the field and laboratory)
South Caucasus Archaeometallurgy Project (Director), field and laboratory investigations in collaboration with Drs. Khachatur Meliksetian, Arsen Bobokhyan, and Aram Gevorkyan, researchers in the Institute of Geological Sciences, and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (Yerevan)
Gold artifacts from Samara, Russia (Late Bronze Age, mid-2nd millennium BC)
Ancient slags and production debris from Samara, Russia (Late Bronze Age, mid-2nd millennium BC)
(Find PDFs at Academia.edu)
Books
n.d. Peterson, D., and J. Dudgeon (eds.). The Past in Motion: Archaeological Perspectives on the Movement of People and Objects, edited by David Peterson and John Dudgeon. (in preparation)
2006. Peterson, D., L. Popova, and A. T. Smith (eds.). Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology. Brill, Leiden.
Articles
n.d. Peterson, D. Forging Networks of Authority: Early Metal Production in the Middle Volga and the Caucasus. In Regimes and Revolutions: Materiality and Authority across Eurasia from the Present and Past, edited by Charles Hartley, G. Bike Yazicoglu and Adam T. Smith. Cambridge University Press. (in press)
n.d. Peterson, D., P. Northover, C. Salter, and B. Maldonado. Early Metal Technology and Related Practices in the Caspian Coastal Plain: Metalwork from the Velikent Cemetery, for Works of the Velikent Archaeological Expedition Volume 1 – The Western Caspian Coastal Plain in the Early and Middle Bronze Age: Investigations at Velikent and Its Environs, edited by Philip Kohl and Rabadan Magomedov. (forthcoming)
2011. Peterson, D. The East European Plain on the Eve of Agriculture, edited by Pavel M. Dolukhanov, Graeme R. Sarson and Anvar M. Shukurov. Book Review. The Holocene 21(2): 374-375.
2010. Peterson, D. Pastoralist Landscapes and Social Interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia, by Michael D. Frachetti. Book Review. American Antiquity 75(3): 702-703.
2009. Peterson, D. Production and Social Complexity: Bronze Age Metalworking in the Middle Volga. In Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia: Monuments, Metal, and Mobility, edited by Bryan Hanks and Kathryn Linduff, pp. 222-261. Cambridge University Press.
2009: Peterson, D. The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia, by Philip L. Kohl, 2007. Book Review. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19(1): 139-141.
ANTH 4492- Senior Seminar
ANTH 4499/5599 - Ancient Landscapes
ANTH 4413/5513 - Old World Archaeology (topics vary by semester)
ANTH 4404/5504 - Material Culture Analysis, taught concurrently with ANTH 4405 Analytical Techniques Lab
ANTH 4403/5503 - Method and Theory in Archaeology (PDF of syllabus)
ANTH 2237- Nomads, Silk Roads and Steppe Empires: Central Asia 5000 BC - AD 2000 (Peoples and Cultures of the Old World)
ANTH 2237/HIST 2299- The Ancient Near East (Peoples and Cultures of the Old World) (PDF of syllabus)
ANTH 2237- Ancient States and Empires of Asia
Grants and Fellowships for Research and Equipment (since joining the Anthropology Faculty in 2008)
2011-2012 Faculty Development Funds for purchase of a Trimble GeoXT to enhance field research and teaching at Idaho State University ($5k)
2010-2011 Faculty Enhancement Grant: Software, equipment and supplies to enhance archaeological science research at Idaho State University. ($4014)
2010-2011 Humanities/Social Science Research Committee, Idaho State University: Archaeological and Geoarchaeological Investigation of Early Mining and Metal Production on the Armenian Plateau through the Early Iron Age. ($15,396)
2009-2010. Collaborative Research Fellowship in Eurasian and East European Research, National Endowment for the Humanities and American Councils for International Education: Collaborative Investigations of Early Mining and Metal Production on the Armenian Plateau, ca. 7000-800 BC. ($20k)
2009-2010. Faculty Research Council, Idaho State University: Geoarchaeological Research of Ancient Copper Production and Sources in the Republic of Armenia. ($5k)
Department of Anthropology • College of Arts and Letters • Idaho State University
921 S. 8th Avenue, Stop 8005, Pocatello, ID 83209-8005
Tel: (208) 282-2629 • Fax: (208) 282-4944 • Email: clovrebe@isu.edu