Jeffrey L. Hantman

My research in archaeology is concerned with regional systems, culture change, and the writing of anthropological history. I focus on issues surrounding colonialism in North America and the study of early relations between European colonists and Indians, relations between Native peoples in the centuries just prior to and during European colonization, and longer term effects of colonialism on Native peoples today. I am interested in archaeology's role in describing hierarchical and non-hierarchical indigenous political, economic and ritual structures in the millennia prior to the arrival of Europeans. My earliest (and some recent) publications are concerned with long-term demographic and political processes in the northern Pueblo region of the American Southwest. For the past two decades, my research has focused primarily on the intersection of long-term processes of social change with historic events in the greater Chesapeake region of the Eastern United States.

I am presently focused on writing a long-term history of the Monacan people of Virginia, and identifying the varied responses of the Virginia Monacans and the neighboring Powhatans to European colonization. I work closely with the Monacan Indian Tribal Association and the Monacan Cultural Museum on issues of writing collaborative histories and the repatriation of human remains and museum collections. I am currently assisting the Monacan Tribe in the documentation and analysis of a National Park Service collection of over 24,000 artifacts associated with ancestral Monacan history and now in the process of return to the Monacan Tribal Museum. I am also working with the University of Virginia Art Museum on developing an exhibition of Native American art and photography originally displayed at the Astor Hotel in New York City between 1904 and 1937.

Specializations

Eastern Woodland and Southwestern archaeology, ethnohistory, colonialism, regional systems, archaeological method and theory, critical archaeology and the representation of culture and identity.

Graduate Courses

Method and Theory in Archaeology, Philosophy and History of Archaeology, Archaeology of Virginia, North American Archaeology, Archaeology in Historic Preservation, Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Museums and the Representation of Culture.

Selected Publications

• 2006 - Managing Archaeological Data: Essays in Honor of Sylvia W. Gaines. Anthropological Research Paper No. 57, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. (co-editor w/R. Most)
• 2006 - Regional Population Dynamics in the Northern Southwest. In Managaing Archaeological Data: Essays in Honor of Sylvia W. Gaines, ed. by J. Hantman and R. Most, Anthropological Research Papers No. 57, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
  (with J. Neitzel)
• 2006 - Modeling Site Occupation Span and Developmental History: An Effort to Merge Survey and Excavation Data in the U.S. Southwest. In: Managing Archaeological Data: Essays in Honor of Sylvia W. Gaines, ed. by J. Hantman and R. Most, Anthropological Research Papers #57, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. (with J. Neitzel)
• 2005 - Colonial Legacies and the Public Meaning of Monacan Archaeology in Virginia. SAA Archaeological Record 5(2): 28-32.
• 2005 - American Archaeology (1754-1829). In Encyclopedia of the New American Nation. Charles Scribner's Sons.
• 2004 -- Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark and the Making of America. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville. (co-editor with P. Onuf and D. Seefeldt).
• 2004 - Science, Geopolitics, and Culture Conflicts. In Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark and the Making of America. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville. (with P. Onuf).
• 2004 -- Monacan Meditation: Regional and Individual Archaeologies in the Contemporary Politics of Indian Identity. In Places in Mind: Archaeology and Communities, ed. by Paul Shackel and Erve Chambers. Routledge Press, New York and London.
• 2004 - Of Parsimony and Archaeological Histories: A Response to Comment to Boyd. American Antiquity 69:583-585. (with D. Gold and G. Dunham)
• 2003 -- Collective Burial in Late Prehistoric Virginia: Excavation and Analysis of the Rapidan Mound, American Antiquity 68 (1). (with G. Dunham and D. Gold)
  
• 2003 -- Collective Burial in Late Prehistoric Virginia: Excavation and Analysis of the Rapidan Mound, American Antiquity 68 (1). (with G. Dunham and D. Gold)
• 2002 -- The Woodland in the Middle Atlantic: Ranking and Dynamic Political Stability.  In The Woodland Southeast, ed. by D. Anderson and R. Mainfort, University of Alabama Press, pp. 270 - 291. (with D. Gold).
• 2001 -- Monacan History and Archaeology of the Virginia Interior.  In Societies in Eclipse: Archaeology of the Eastern Woodland, AD 1400-1700, ed. by D.S. Brose and R. C. Mainfort, Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 107 – 124.
• 2000 -- Writing Collaborative History.  Archaeology 53(5): 56-61. (with K. Wood and D. Shields)
• 1995 -- ‘Jamestown’ and ‘Resistance to Foreign Colonies.’ In Invisible America, edited by M. Leone and N. Silberman, pp. 68-69; 74-75.
• 1995 -- Fred Plog: 1944 – 1992. American Antiquity 60(4): 677 – 684. (with M. Schiffer)
• 1994 -- Powhatan's Relations with the Piedmont Monacans. In Powhatan's Foreign Relations. H. Rountree, ed. pp. 94-111, University Press of Virginia.
• 1994 -- To Seek the Peace of the City: Jewish Life in Charlottesville, An Exhibition Catalog, Albemarle County Historical Society. Updated version on-line at: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/seek/early.html
• 1992 -- Caliban's Own Voice: American Indian Views of the European Other in Colonial Virginia. New Literary History 23:69-81.
• 1990 -- Between Powhatan and Quirank: Reconstructing Monacan Culture and History in the Context of Jamestown. American Anthropologist. 92:660-676.
• 1990 -- Chronology Construction and the Study of Culture Change. Journal of Field Archaeology 17(4): 439-456. (with S. Plog)
• 1989 -- Surplus Production and Complexity in the Upper Little Colorado Province, Arizona.  In The Sociopolitical Organization of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies, ed. by S. Upham, K. Lightfoot, and R. Jewett, Westview Press, pp. 419 – 446.