User:DHBoggs
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Anthropologist
Appalacian raised scion of an old, Scotch-Irish colonial family of Kentucky (father) and Pennsylvania Dutch(mother) pioneers. Four of my ancestors were Revolutionary War veterans. My wife is from the island of Mindanao.
Growing up, my family's occupation was timber-frame carpentry, real estate and hobby farming; a tradition my brother continues.
BA Communications 1990 Penn State (film, writing, text analysis, and production)
MA Anthropology 2004 SUNY University at Albany
Archaeology and research in ten states, Iceland, Ireland
Curretly: Doctoral program UAlbany focusing on sub arctic community archaeology in the North Atlantic.
Interests: Circumpolar Subarctic archaeology and ethnology, including especially the Symbolic Ecology and Historical Ecology of community and settlement pattern in mixed subsistence systems in adverse, northern environments with an emphasis on islands, particulrly the medieval North Atlantic, the Aluetians, and Hokkaido/Sakhalin/Kurils, and similar interests in the European Paleolithic. I research the day to day lifeways of people, how they fed, clothed, and provided for themselves; organized, warred and fueded; formed communities, hierarchies and heterarchies; and adapted, or failed to adapt to challenging landscapes. My current research is most focused on the role of culture in subsistence/settlement systems involving hay based sheep farming. Related interests include: Material Culture and its recursive psychological effects. Household Archaeology and Folk Technology. Small Community, sense of community, and Evolutionary adaptation. Chaos, Contingency and Dual Inheritance theory. Prehistoric technology and landscape use – particularly of rangifer hunting societies. Neolithic to Viking Age technology and landscape use – particularly of North Atlantic islands. Small farms/circumpolar mixed hunting/sheep farming economies. Philippine, Polynesian, and Mayan Ethnography. Contact and Viking Period living history Horses Hunting and Fishing Archery Cooking and Family
