Talk:David W. Anthony

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Career

Anthony received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania.[1] Anthony has been a Professor of Anthropology at Hartwick College since 1987.[1][2]

Samara Valley project Anthony and spouse/collaborator Dorcas Brown co-directed, with Russian colleagues, the Samara Valley Project 1995-2001, an archaeological survey and excavation project that focused on the organization of Bronze Age pastoral economies and the spatial relationships of Bronze Age settlements and herding camps in the northern Russian steppes near the modern city of Samara. The project team, supported by funding from the US National Science Foundation and the Russian Academy of Sciences, discovered and excavated a Late Bronze Age (LBA) settlement, associated seasonal cattle-herding herding camps, and a cemetery of three kurgans (burial mounds) dated 1900-1700 BC. They found that the settled pastoralists of the LBA had no detectable agriculture although they lived permanently in year-round homes, conducted widespread copper mining and metallurgy, and maintained a complex political and social organization. The final report on the project was published in 2016 in UCLA’s Cotsen Institute monograph series.3

Animal bones from a series of winter-season dog and wolf sacrifices were discovered during the Samara Valley Project in the LBA settlement at Krasnosamarskoe. Remains from canid-themed ritual events were discarded repeatedly inside one excavated structure, amounting to 36% of the animal bones found in the site. At least 64 winter-killed canids, 90% of them dogs, were roasted, fileted, chopped into small standardized pieces, and apparently were eaten. Anthony and Brown argued that the repeated consumption of dogs and wolves represented an intentional and repeated inversion of normal behavior because neither dogs nor wolves were eaten in other sites of this culture and period. Inversions of normal behavior are typical in rites of passage and in few other regularly occurring cultural contexts. DNA analysis showed that 90% of the sacrificed dogs were males, supporting the interpretation that this was a male-directed rite of passage. Myths in Latin, Greek, Celtic, Germanic, and the Indo-Iranian languages referred to boys who were initiated into war bands designated with dog and wolf names in which they wore dog and wolf skins. Anthony and Brown suggested that the canid-centered seasonal rituals at Krasnosamarskoe were the remains of ceremonies in which boys were initiated into groups symbolized by transformation into dogs and/or wolves, possibly the war bands referenced in Indo-European myths.4

Since 2015 Anthony has co-authored studies of ancient human and horse DNA from archaeological sites in the Eurasian steppes, published in Nature and Science. 5,6

Bibliography[edit source] His published works include: • The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (2007) Awarded the 2010 Best Scientific Book prize by the Society for American Archaeology 7 • The Lost World Of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000 - 3500 BC (2009, co-editor)8 • A Bronze Age Landscape in the Russian Steppes: The Samara Valley Project (2016, co-editor) 3 • “The Indo-European Homeland from Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives,” Annual Review of Linguistics 1: 199-219 (co-author)9

References 1. "David Anthony, Professor of Anthropology", www.hartwick.edu, retrieved 26 Aug 2017 2. Jump up^ [1] 3. http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/press/samara 4. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02784165/48 5. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14317 6. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16152 7. http://www.saa.org/Portals/0/SAA%20Book%20Award%202018-Info%20Sheet.pdf 8. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01arch.html?_r=0) 9. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-linguist-030514-124812

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