Michael J. Kolb

Michael J. Kolb (born c. 1960s) is an American anthropologist. He currently holds the position of Presidential Teaching Professor at Northern Illinois University. He also serves as Associate Vice Provost.

Kolb received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991. Kolb has done field work in Polynesia, Europe, and Africa. Most of his recent contributions have been in the area of "social stratification and the political economy of the Maui Kingdom in Hawaii, and the rise of complexity in early Iron Age Sicily."

At NIU Kolb teaches courses in archaeology as well as in "field methods, ethnohistory, quantitative analysis, and method and theory."

Kolb is the currently director of the Na Heiau O Maui, NIU's archaeological field school in Hawaii for student research, and international co-director of the Elymi Project, which aims to "describe human landscape transformations around three hilltop settlements" in western Sicily.

Kolb discovered what may be a medieval mosque in Sicily while investigating the Norman castle of Salemi.[1] Kolb has also conducted an extensive study of ancient Maui temples published in Current Anthropology which suggested that the temple system was 400 years older than previously thought.[2]

References

  1. ↑ NIU archaeologist, students uncover possible medieval mosque in Sicily - NIU - Office of Public Affairs Archived 15 December 2010 at WebCite
  2. ↑ Discovery Channel :: News - History :: Maui Temples Reveal Polynesian Past Archived 15 December 2010 at WebCite

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