Peter E. Siegel
Chairperson
Anthropology
Montclair State University
United States of America
Biography
Peter E. Siegel, professor and chair, received his PhD from the Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Binghamton. He is a New World archaeologist, with work conducted in eastern North America, the West Indies, and lowland South America. Siegel’s research interests include origins and development of social inequality, historical ecology, ethnoarchaeology, and stone-tool analysis. His work has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Heinz Family Foundation for Latin American Archaeology. He teaches courses in general archaeology, experimental archaeology, North American archaeology, Caribbean archaeology, and Native North Americans.
Research Interest
Historical ecology, Ethnoarchaeology, Stone-tool analysis, Social inequality
Publications
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Siegel PE. Continuity and change in the evolution of religion and political organization on pre-Columbian Puerto Rico. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 2010 Sep 30;29(3):302-26.
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Siegel PE, Hofman CL, Bérard B, Murphy R, Hung JU, Rojas RV, White C. Confronting Caribbean heritage in an archipelago of diversity: Politics, stakeholders, climate change, natural disasters, tourism, and development. Journal of Field Archaeology. 2013 Nov 1;38(4):376-90.
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Siegel PE, Jones JG, Pearsall DM, Dunning NP, Farrell P, Duncan NA, Curtis JH, Singh SK. Paleoenvironmental evidence for first human colonization of the eastern Caribbean. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2015 Dec 1;129:275-95.
