Dr. Jane Peterson

Dr. Jane PetersonMarquette University

Lalumiere Hall, 376

MilwaukeeWI53201United States of America(414) 288-7917jane.peterson@marquette.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Professor

Social and Cultural Sciences

Education

Ph.D., 1994, Arizona State University

Research Interests

Near Eastern archaeology, Archaeology of the Prehispanic SW, Bioarchaeology, Lithic technology

Professional Experience

Public archaeology, Rise of agriculture, Gender in cross-cultural perspective, Experimental and ethnographic approaches in archaeology

Publications

• 2023       Preserving Chicago’s Great Migration Legacy through Archaeology and Public            Engagement.  Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage.  Published on-line 16 May 2023 (with M. Gregory)     https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21619441.2023.2205701
• 2021       History beneath our feet:  Archaeology in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood.  Illinois Antiquity 56:8-20 (with M.Gregory and N. Hincha).
• 2017       Survey and excavation of Stone Age sites in Jordan’s Wadi al-Hasa:  Quaternary of the Levant:  Environments, Climate Change, and Humans, edited by U. Enzel and O. Bar-Yosef, pp. 315-328.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (with GA Clark, NR Coinman, JB Hill, MP Neeley, DI Olszewski, and J. Schuldenrein).  

• 2016    Woman’s share in Neolithic society:  A view from the southern Levant. Near Eastern Archaeology 79(3): 132-140.