Clark L. Erickson
Penn Museum room 436
Archaeology; South America and New World; historical ecology; archaeology of landscapes; archaeology of everyday life, agricultural; technology;social organization; analogy; experimental and applied archaeology.
Anthropology Department Faculty, Associate Curator, American Section, Penn Museum; Latin American Cultures Program, Historic Preservation Program, Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean World.
2009 Landscapes of Movement: The Anthropology of Trails, Paths, and Roads. Edited by James Snead, Clark Erickson, and Andy Darling, Penn Museum Press, Philadelphia.
2009 Agency, Roads, and the Landscapes of Everyday Life in the Bolivian Amazon. IN Landscapes of Movement: Trails, Paths, and Roads in Anthropological Perspective. Edited by Clark Erickson, James Snead, and Andy Darling, Penn Museum Press and the University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, pp. 204-231.
2009 (with James Snead and Any Darling) Making Human Space: Trails, Paths, and Roads in Anthropological Context. IN Landscapes of Movement: Trails, Paths, and Roads in Anthropological Perspective. Edited by Clark Erickson, James Snead, and Andy Darling, Penn Museum Press and the University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, pp. 1-19.
2009 (with John Walker) Pre-Columbian Causeways and Canals as Landesque Capital. IN Landscapes of Movement: Trails, Paths, and Roads in Anthropological Perspective. Edited by Clark Erickson, James Snead, and Andy Darling, Penn Museum Press and the University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, pp. 232-252.
2008 Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape. IN The Handbook of South American Archaeology, Edited by Helaine Silverman and William Isbell, Springer, New York, pp. 157-183.
2008 (with Patricia Alvarez and Sergio Calla) Zanjas circundantes: Obras de tierra monumentales de Baures en la Amazonia Bolivia. Report about the 2007 fieldwork of the Agro-Archaeological Project of the Beni, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Unidad Nacional de Arqueología, La Paz.
2006 Intensification, Political Economy, and the Farming Community; In Defense Of A Bottom-Up Perspective Of The Past. IN Agricultural Strategies. Edited by Joyce Marcus and Charles Stanish, Cotsen Institute, Los Angeles, pp. 233-265.
2006 The Domesticated Landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon. IN Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands. Edited by William Balée and Clark Erickson, Columbia University Press, NY, pp. 235-278.
2006 [with William Balée] The Historical Ecology of a Complex Landscape in Bolivia. IN Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands. Edited by William Balée and Clark Erickson, Columbia University Press, NY, pp. 187-234.
2003 Historical Ecology and Future Explorations. IN Amazonian Dark Earths: Origins, Properties, Management. Edited by J. Lehmann, D. Kern, B. Glaser, and W. Woods, Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 455-500.
Clark's On-line Publications (PDF format)
Recent News about Clark's research:
Nichols, Peter 2009 Domesticated Landscapes. Penn Arts & Science Magazine. Spring-Summer, p. 3, 2009.
Mann, Charles 2008 Ancient Earthmovers of the Amazon. Science 321:1148-1152. (29 August 2008),
Hvistendah, Mara 2008 Amazonian Harvest: Can Prehistoric Farming Methods lead us to a Sustainable Future? Archaeology 61(4):20-25. (July/August 2008).
Olszewski, Deborah 2008 Meet the Curators: Clark L. Erickson. Expedition 50(2):4-5.
Mann, Charles 2005 Holmberg's Mistake. A View from Above in the Beni. IN 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Alfred Knoff, New York.
Courses:
ANTH 144: Native Peoples and the Environment (Freshman Seminar)
ANTH 258: Visualizing the Past: Peopling the Past (New Studio-Seminar)
ANTH 254: Archaeology of the Inca
ANTH 433: Andean Archaeology
ANTH 557: Archaeology of Landscapes (Seminar)