Jelmer W Eerkens
Professor, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, California 95616, USA
Telephone: (530) 752-1348
Fax: (530) 752-8885
Office: 306 Young Hall
Office Hours for SPring 2012:
- Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Education:
- I recieved a B.S. in Computer Science in 1992 from UC Davis, and an M.A. (1996) and Ph.D. (2001) in archaeology from UC Santa Barbara. During my graduate training I spent one semester at the University of Missouri at the Research Reactor (MURR) and a semester at the University of Calgary as a visiting researcher. Prior to coming (back) to UC Davis I served as Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach.
Biography:
Research Interests
My fieldwork has centered on the deserts of California and Nevada, though I have also worked in Northwest Europe and Peru. I am particularly interested in how hunter-gatherers adapt to different social and environmental conditions and how these adaptations affect land tenure practices, resource extraction, and the adoption and modification of various technologies, especially ceramics and stone-tools. Much of this research has incorporated various archaeometric applications such as Gas Chromatography, Electron Microprobe, Neutron Activation, and more recently Stable Isotopes. As well, I have been interested in applying evolutionary models to better understand the changes we in see in the archaeological record, especially ideas from cultural transmission theory.
Recent Publications
See my Personal Homepage for a list of all my publications, including abstracts and PDF's.
