REINHARD W. BERNBECK

Email: rbernbec@binghamton.edu

(PhD Freie Universität Berlin 1991), Professor of Anthropology, is a Near Eastern archaeologist with interests in the economic organization of prehistoric and historic societies. He is particularly concerned with rural-urban migration and nomadism in the past and their impact on social and economic structures. He has conducted fieldwork in Syria, Jordan and Turkey (Kazane and Fistikli Höyük).

2003 "The Biography of an Early Halaf Village: Fžstžklž Höyük 1999-2000". Istanbuler Mitteilungen 53: 9-77. Contributions by Susan Allen, Ana Gabriela Castro Gessner, Sarah Kielt Costello, Robert Costello, Melissa Foree, Margarita Y. Gleba, Marie Goodwin, Sarah Lepinski, Carolyn Nakamura, Sarah Niebuhr.

2003 "Krieg, Imperialismus und Archäologie. Zur Zukunft der Vergangenheit Afghanistans". Das Altertum 48(4): 279-312.

2004 "The Past as Fact and Fiction. From Historical Novels to Novel Histories." To appear in Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck, eds.: Archaeologies of the Middle East: Critical Perspectives. Oxford: Blackwell.

2004 "The Foraging Mode of Production: The Case of the Green River Archaic Shell Middens". In George Crothers, ed.: Hunters and Gatherers in
Theory and Archaeology, pp. 401-422. (With George Crothers). Center for
Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper 31. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

In press "An Archaeology of Multi-Sited Communities." To appear in Willeke
Wendrich and Hans Barnard, eds.: The Archaeology of Mobility. Los Angeles:
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.

In press "Heritage Politics: Learning from Mullah Omar??" To appear in a
volume edited by Ran Boytner and Lynn Swartz Dodd, Filtering the Past,
Building the Future. Archaeology, Tradition and Politics in the Middle
East. To appear with University of Arizona Press.

On Leave for the Spring 2008 Semester

 

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