Andrew Bauer
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Stanford University
United States of America
Biography
Andrew Bauer is an anthropological archaeologist whose research and teaching interests broadly focus on the archaeology of human-environment relations, including the socio-politics of land use and both symbolic and material aspects of producing spaces, places, and landscapes. Andrew's primary research is based in South India, where he co-directs fieldwork investigating the relationships between landscape history, cultural practices, and institutionalized forms of social inequalities and difference during the region’s Neolithic, Iron Age, Early Historic, and Medieval periods. As an extension of his archaeological work he is also interested in the intersections of landscape histories and modern framings of nature that relate to conservation politics and climate change.
Research Interest
Archaeology of human-environment relations, including the socio-politics of land use and both symbolic and material aspects of producing spaces, places, and landscapes. Andrew's primary research is based in South India, where he co-directs fieldwork investigating the relationships between landscape history, cultural practices, and institutionalized forms of social inequalities and difference during the region’s Neolithic, Iron Age, Early Historic, and Medieval periods.
Publications
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Andrew B (2014) Impacts of Mid- to Late-Holocene land use on residual hill morphology: A remote sensing and archaeological evaluation of human-related soil erosion in Central Karnataka, South India. The Holocene 24: 3-14.
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Andrew B, Johansen P (2015) Prehistoric mortuary practices and the constitution of social relationships: Implications of the first radiocarbon dates from Maski on the occupational history of a South India "type-site." Radiocarbon 57: 795-806.
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Andrew B, Kosiba S (2016) How things act: An archaeology of materials in political life. Journal of Social Archaeology 16: 115-141.
