Mark Aldenderfer

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Mark S. Aldenderfer (born 1953) is an American anthropologist and archaeologist. He is currently an anthropology professor at the University of Arizona, and he has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Penn State University in 1977. He is known in particular for his comparative research into high altitude adaptation, and for contributions to quantitative methods in archaeology. He has also served as editor of several journals in anthropology and archaeology.

1 Research Contributions
2 Editorial Work
3 Major Publications
4 External links

[edit] Research Contributions

His research themes include the origins of settled village life, human adaptation to high altitude environments, hunting and gathering, and early plant and animal domestication. Aldenderfer has made important contributions to understanding the Archaic and Formative period peoples of the south-central Andes through active field projects in southern Peru. He has directed excavation projects at the sites of Asana, Qillqatani, and Jiskairumoko, and survey projects in the Osmore valley (Moquegua, Peru) and in river valleys in the Lake Titicaca Basin. Since 1997 he has also conducted research on Buddhist and pre-Buddhist occupations in the Himalaya through field research in far western Tibet. He has also done fieldwork in Mesoamerica, Ethiopia, and in the United States.

[edit] Editorial Work

Beginning in 2008, Aldenderfer is the editor of the journal Current Anthropology, and he has been the editor of Latin American Antiquity and the Society for American Archaeology Bulletin (now the SAA Archaeological Record).

[edit] Major Publications

Aldenderfer, Mark S.; Roger K. Blashfield (1984). Cluster Analysis. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications. ISBN 0803923767.

Aldenderfer, Mark S. (1993). "Ritual, Hierarchy, and Change in Foraging Societies". Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 12 (1): 1-40.

Aldenderfer, Mark S. (1998). Montane Foragers: Asana and the south-central Andean Archaic. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. ISBN 0877456216.

Aldenderfer, Mark S. (1999). "The Pleistocene/Holocene transition in Peru and its effects upon human use of the landscape". Quaternary International 53-4: 11-19.

Aldenderfer, Mark S. (2003). "Moving Up in the World: Archaeologists seek to understand how and when people came to occupy the Andean and Tibetan plateaus". American Scientist 91 (6): 542-550.

Aldenderfer, Mark (2006). "Modelling Plateau Peoples: The early human use of the world's high plateaux". World Archaeology 38 (3): 357-370.

Aldenderfer, Mark; N. Craig, R. J. Speakman & R. S. Popelka-Filcoff (2008). "4000-year Old Gold Artifacts from the Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105: 5002-5005.