Hastorf, Christine Ann

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HASTORF, Christine Ann

HASTORF, Christine Ann. American, b. 1950. Genres: Archaeology/Antiquities, Anthropology/Ethnology. Career: US Geological Survey, Division of Western Regional Geology, Menlo Park, CA, archaeologist, 1977-79, 1980-82; University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, assistant professor, 1983-90, associate professor of anthropology, 1990-93, director of Archaeobotany Laboratory, 1983-93; University of California, Berkeley, associate professor of anthropology, 1994-. Guest lecturer at universities. Conducted extensive field work in the Peruvian Andes; adviser to field teams in Bolivia and Denmark. Publications: (ed. with V. Popper, and contrib.) Current Paleoethnobotany: Analytical Methods and Cultural Interpretation of Archaeological Plant Remains, 1988; (ed. with M.W. Conkey, and contrib.) The Uses of Style in Archaeology, 1990, 2nd ed, 1993; Agriculture and the Onset of Political Inequality before the Inka, 1993; (ed. with S. Johannessen, and contrib.) Corn and Culture in the Prehistoric New World, 1994. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor of articles and reviews to professional journals. Address: Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.

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