RUTH VAN DYKE

Email: rvandyke@binghamton.edu

http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~rvandyke

(PhD University of Arizona, 1998), Associate Professor of Anthropology, is an archaeologist specializing in the North American Southwest, specifically Chaco Canyon and the Four Corners region.  Her research interests include landscape, architecture, power, memory, phenomenology, and visual representation.   Her current fieldwork investigates social, visual, and political relationships among Chacoan outlier communities in northwest New Mexico.

Selected Publications

2008    Temporal Scale and Qualitative Social Transformation at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.  Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18(1):70-78. 

2007    The Chaco Experience:  Landscape and Ideology at the Center Place.  School of Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe. 

2006    Chaco’s Beginnings, by Richard H. Wilshusen and Ruth M. Van Dyke.  In The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon: An Eleventh-Century Pueblo Regional Center, edited by Stephen H. Lekson, pp. 211-259.  School of American Research Press, Santa Fe. 

2004    Chaco’s Sacred Geography.  In In Search of Chaco Canyon:  New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma, edited by David Grant Noble, pp. 78-85.  School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.
 
2004    Memory, Meaning, and Masonry:  The Late Bonito Chacoan Landscape.  American Antiquity 69(3):413-431.

2003    Archaeologies of Memory, edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke and Susan E. Alcock. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford and Malden, Mass.

2000    Chacoan Ritual Landscapes:  The View from the Red Mesa Valley.  In Great House Communities across the Chacoan Landscape, edited by John Kantner and Nancy Mahoney, pages 91-100.  Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona 65, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

1999    The Chaco Connection:  Evaluating Bonito Style Architecture in Outlier Communities.  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 18(4):471-506.

On Leave Fall 2009

 

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