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	Jonathan Haas (312) 665-7829 jhaas@fieldmuseum.org jhaas@uic.edu The Field Museum MacArthur Curator of the Americas University of Illinois at Chicago Adjunct Professor B.A. Arizona 1970 Ph.D. Columbia 1979
Archaeology of Peru, Archaeology of the American Southwest archaeology of war, political anthropology.

Personal Statement:: My focus in anthropology and archaeology is on understanding the evolution of complex political systems. My primary interest is on why and how political decision making comes to be transfered from the family to the community, from the community to distinct leaders, from local leaders to state rulers and the bureaucracy of government. I am trying to understand why people cede decision-making authority to others under certain kinds of material conditions, and how some people come to exercise virtually unlimited power over subject populations. These broad theoretical interests have led me to look at the investigation of the causes and effects of warfare in tribal societies in northern Arizona; the nature of political organization in pre- and post-contact Puebloan societies in northern New Mexico; relationships between rulers and respondent populations in the Moche state on the north coast of Peru; and most recently the very initial emergence of hierarchical, complex polities on the Peruvian coast.

Current Reseach - Projecto Arqueológico Norte Chico:: At present, I am working with colleagues Winifred Creamer, Alvaro Ruiz, and Kit Nelson investigating the Late Archaic (ca. 3000-1800 B.C.) occupation of a portion of the coast known as the "Norte Chico". This is a group of 4 valleys, Huaura, Supe, Pativilca and Fortaleza, on the Pacific coast between 140 and 200 km north of Lima. In this area there are more than 20 very large sites, all with monumental architecture, ceremonial structures, and variable residential structures. The sites were all occupied prior to the introduction of pottery on the Peruvian coast, which places their occupation between about 3000 and 1800 B.C. We have spent the past two seasons testing 15 of these sites in two valleys, primarily to extract radiocarbon samples and soil samples for botanical and zoological remains. The Proyecto Arqueológico Norte Chico is planned as a long-term project with a permanent field headquarters in the town of Barranca.

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On-going and potential project elements:

Survey of the Huaura, Pativilca and Fortaleza valleys (under the direction of Kit Nelson, Assistant Professor, Tulane University

Comprehensive GIS database for the Norte Chico

Comprehensive Chronology of site occupation in the Norte Chico Preceramic

All "Post-Late Archaic" occupations in the Norte Chico

Highland occupation of the upper reaches of the Norte Chico valleys

Ethnographic study of farming and irrigation in the Norte Chico

Ethnographic study of artesanal fishing along the Norte Chico coast

Paleo-ethnobotany of the preceramic occupation of the Norte Chico.

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Bibliography:

Books and Monographs
1980
The Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections: A Pilot Study, with Alexander J. Lindsay, Jr. and Glenna Williams-Dean. Cultural Resource Management Series, U. S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
1982a
The Evolution of the Prehistoric State. Columbia University Press. (Translated into Korean and published in Korea in 1989).
1987a
The Origin and Development of the Andean State. Co-editor with Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Cambridge University Press.

1990a
The Anthpology of War, ed. Cambridge University Press.

1993a
Stress and Warfare Among the Kayenta Anasazi of the 13th Century A.D. with Winifred Creamer. Fieldiana Anthropology, n.s. No. 21.

1994a
Standards for Data Collection from Human Skeletal Remains, organizer and contributor. Volume edited by Jane Buikstra and Douglas Ubelaker. Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series No. 44.

2001a
From Leaders to Rulers, ed. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

2003a
Villages before Aggregation: The Merrigan Site (LA 110971), a Developmental Period Hamlet, El Rancho, New Mexico, with Winifred Creamer. Fieldiana Anthropology, n.s. No. 35.

2003b
El Niño in Peru: Biology and Culture over 10,000 years, ed. with Michael Dillon. Fieldiana Botany, n.s. No. 43.

Articles

1977
"On Diffusion, Diffusionism and Cultural Materialism." American Anthropologist, 79(3):649-52.

1981
"Class Conflict and the State in the New World." In The Transition to Statehood in the New World: Toward a Synthesis, edited by Grant D. Jones and Robert Kautz. Cambridge University Press, New York.

1982b
Review of The Early State, edited by Henri Classen and Peter Skalnik, Ethnohistory.

1983a
Review of The Inca and Aztec States, 1400?1800: Anthropology and History, edited by George Collier, Renato Rosaldo and John Wirth, Science 220(4600).

1983b
Review of Chan Chan: Andean Desert City, edited by Michael Moseley and Kent Day, American Antiquity 48(3): 647?649.

1983c
Review of Polities and Power: An Economic and Political History of the Western Pueblo, by Steadman Upham, Southwestern Lore 49(3):45-46.

1983d
"The Other Side of Alexandria: Archeology in an Enduring Black Neighborhood" with Laura Henley and Ann Palkovich. In Approaches to Preserving A City's Past, edited by Pamela J. Cressey, City of Alexandria, VA.

1984
Review of Archaeological Approaches to the Study of Complexity, edited by Sander Van der Leeuw, American Anthropologist 86(2):444-446.

1985a
"Tribe and Chiefdom in Lower Central America," with Winifred Creamer. American Antiquity, 50(4):738-754.

1985b
"Excavations on Huaca Grande: An Initial View of the Elite of Pampa Grande on the North Coast of Peru." Journal of Field Archaeology, 12:391-409.

1985c
Review of Mobility and Adaptation, by Shirley Powell, and Papers on the Archaeology of Black Mesa, Vol. II, edited by Stephen Plog and Shirley Powell, The Kiva 51:52-57.

1986a
"The Evolution of the Kayenta Anasazi." In Tse Yaa Kin: Houses Beneath the Rock, edited by David Noble. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.

1986b
"A Heretic Responds to Price." Reviews in Anthropology 11(3): 251?252.

1987b
"Introduction." In The Origin and Development of the Andean State, edited by Jonathan Haas, Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski, Cambridge University Press, New York.

1987c
"The Exercise of Power in Early Andean State Development." In The Origin and Development of the Andean State, edited by Jonathan Haas, Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.

1987d
"China and the New World: Comparisons and Contrasts." Journal of Collected Papers of Historical Science. Jilin University, People's Republic of China. (Translated into Chinese)

1988
Forward to The Anasazi in a Changing Environment, edited by George J. Gumerman. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.

1989a
"The Evolution of the Kayenta Regional System." In The Sociopolitical Structure of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies, edited by Steadman Upham and Kent Lightfoot. Westview Press, Boulder, CO.

1989b
Foreword to Regional Perspectives on the Olmec, edited by Robert Sharer and David Grove. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.

1990b
Foreword to The Evolution of Political Systems, edited by Steadman Upham. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.

1990c
Foreword to The Emergence of Modern Humans, edited by Erik Trinkhaus. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.

1990d
"Reconsecration of Human Remains at Field Museum." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 61(1):14-15.

1990e
"Preface." In The Anthropology of War, edited by Jonathan Haas, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.

1990f
"Warfare and Tribalization in the Prehistoric Southwest." In The Anthropology of War, edited by Jonathan Haas, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.

1990g
Review of Prehistoric New Mexico: Background for Survey by David E. Stuart and Rory P. Gauthier. In New Mexico Historical Review, July 1990.

1990h
"Repatriation at the Field Museum", Museum Anthropology, 14(3):16-18.

1991a
"Policy and Practice." Museum News 70(1): 46-49.

1991b
"Beetles, Bryophytes and Ancient Bones: the Future of Research at Field Museum." In The Field: the Bulletin of the Field Museum of Natural History. Mar/Apr 1991.

1991c
"Pueblo: Search for the Ancient Ones", with Winifred Creamer. National Geographic. 180(4):84-99.

1991d
"The Current State of American Archaeology." Reviews in Anthropology. 17:173-181.

1992a
"The Causes of War." In the Field: The Bulletin of the Field Museum of Natural History. Mar/Apr 1992.

1992b
"Chemical and Petrographic Characterizations of Ceramic Pastes: Two Perspectives on a Single Data Set," with James B. Stoltman and James H. Burton. In Chemical Characterization of Ceramic Pastes in Archaeology, edited by Hector Neff, pp. 85-92. Prehistory Press, Madison, WI.

1992c
"The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Prospects for New Partnerships between Museums and Native American Groups," with Thomas Boyd, Arizona State Law Journal, 24(1): 253-282.

1002d
"Demography of the Protohistoric Pueblos of the Northern Rio Grande, A.D. 1450-1680," with Winifred Creamer. In Current Research on the Late Prehistory and Early History of New Mexico, edited by Bradley J. Viera. New Mexico Archaeological Council, Albuquerque.

1993b
Review of "Ancient Americas" traveling exhibit, with Winifred Creamer. Museum Anthropology.

1993c
"Repatriation in a Global Context for Natural History Museums." In Current Issues, Initiatives, and Future Directions for the Preservation and Conservation of Natural History Collections, Vol. 3, edited by Carolyn Rose, Stephen Williams and Julio Gilbert. Proceedings of the International Symposium and First World Congress on the Preservation and Conservation of Natural History Collections, Madrid.

1994b
"Historical Processes in the Prehistoric Southwest" with Edmund J. Ladd, Jerrold E. Levy, Randall H. McGuire and Norman Yoffee. In Understanding Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest, edited By George Gumerman and Murray Gell-Mann. Addison Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA.

1994c
"The Scream of the Butterfly: Competition and Conflict in the Prehistoric Southwest," with David Wilcox. In Themes in Southwestern Prehistory. edited by George Gumerman. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.

1995a
"Museum Criticism and Exaltation of the Object". Review of Museum Culture, edited by Daniel J. Sherman and Irit Rogoff. Current Anthropology 36(3): 534-536.

1995b
"The Challenge of Repatriation" Yumxilob: Tijdschrift Over de Americas 7(3): 211-215, Netherlands.

1995c
"The Roads to Statehood." In Alternative Pathways to Early State edited by Nikolay N. Kradin and Valeria Al Lynsha, Dal'nauka, Vladivostok. (Published in English and Russian versions.)

1996a
"Power, Objects, and a Voice for Anthropology." Current Anthropology, 37(Supplement):1-22.

1996b
"The Role of Warfare in the Pueblo III Period," with Winifred Creamer. In The Pueblo III Period in the Northern Southwest, edited by Mike Adler. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

1996c
Review of Tribal and Chiefly Warfare in South America by Elsa Redmond. Ethnohistory 43(2): 364-365.

1996d
"War." In Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 4, edited by David Levinson and Melvin Ember, Henry Holt and Co., New York.

1996e
"In an Anasazi Pueblo." In the Field: The Bulletin of the Field Museum of Natural History. September/October, 1996.

1996f
"Theories of the Origins of States" Oxford Companion for Archaeology, edited by Brian Fagan. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

1997a
"Archaeology and Ethnic Warfare." Anthropology Newsletter 38(4):23

1997b
"Applying Photogrammetric Mapping: A Case Study from Northern New Mexico," with Winifred Creamer and Thomas Mann. American Antiquity. 62(2)285-300.

1997c
"Warfare Among the Pueblos: Myth, History and Ethnography," with Winifred Creamer. Ethnohistory 44(2): 235-262.

1998a
"A Brief Consideration of Cultural Evolution: Stages, Agents and Tinkering." Complexity 3(3): 12-21.

1998b
"Warfare and the Evolution of Culture." Working Papers, 98-11-088, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe.

1998c
"Pueblo Political Organization in 1500: Tinkering with Diversity." with Winifred Creamer. Working Papers, 98-11-095, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe.

1998d
"Less Than Meets the Eye: Evidence for Chiefdoms in Protohistoric New Mexico," with Winifred Creamer. In Chiefdoms and Chieftaincy in the Americas, edited by Elsa Redmond, pp. 43-67. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.

1998e
Review of Cowboys and Cave Dwellers: Basketmaker Archaeology in Utah's Grand Gulch by Fred M. Blackburn and Ray A. Williamson. Museum Anthropology 22(2): 70-71.

1998f
Review of How Chiefs Come to Power: The Political Economy in Prehistory by Timothy Earle. American Anthropologist 100(4):1043-1044.

1999a
"The Origins of War and Ethnic Violence." In Ancient Warfare: Archaeological Perspectives, edited by John Carman and Anthony Harding, pp. 11-24. Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire, England.

1999b
"Comment" on "Environmental Imperatives Reconsidered: Demographic Crises in Western North America during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly" by Terry L. Jones, et al. with Winifred Creamer. Current Anthropology 40(2): 160.

2000a
"Anthropology in the Contemporary Museum." National Association of Practicing Anthropologists Bulletin 20, edited by Paula Sabloff, pp. 53-57.

2000b
"Sacred Under the Law: Repatriation and Religion under NAGPRA." In American Archaeology, Native Americans, and Repatriation, edited by Tamara Bray, pp. 117-126. Garland Publishing, New York.

2000c
"Mounds, Myths and Museums: The Hopewell culture of Central Ohio, 100 B.C.-A.D.400," with Stephen E. Nash. In the Field November-December, 2000: 2-5.
2001b
"Warfare and the Evolution of Culture" In Archaeology at the Millennium: A Sourcebook, edited by T. Douglas Price and Gary Feinman, pp. 329-350. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.

2001c
"Dating Caral, a Preceramic Urban Center in the Supe Valley on the Central Coast of Peru," with Ruth Shady and Winifred Creamer. Science 292:723-726.

2001d
"Cultural Evolution and Political Centralization." In From Leaders to Rulers, edited by Jonathan Haas, pp. 3-18. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.

2001e
"Nonlinear Paths of Political Centralization." In From Leaders to Rulers, edited by Jonathan Haas, pp. 235-244. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.

2001f
"Amplifying Importance of New Research in Peru. Response" with Winifred Creamer. Science 294:1652-1653.

2001g
"Early Anasazi." In Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 6: North America, edited by Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember, pp. 34-42. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.

2002
"Ceramic Analysis of Intra- and Intersite Occupation at Protohistoric Pueblos in the Northern Rio Grande" with Winifred Creamer, David Burdick, Patricia Hamlen, Lisa Renken, Aaron Wenzel, and Kit Nelson. In Traditions, Transitions, and Technologies: Themes in Southwestern Archaeology, edited by Saral Schlanger, pp. 59-70. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

2003b
"Gourd Lord" with Winifred Creamer and Alvaro Ruiz. Archaeology May/June 2003, p.9

2003c
"Sobre la Inevitabilidad de la Guerra." Virajes 1(5): 22-31.

2003b
"The Andean Staff God" with Winifred Creamer and Alvaro Ruiz. Chasqui Julio, 2003, p. 14.

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