Debra
L. Gold
Professor of Anthropology
I am a North American archaeologist and a bioarchaeologist. I have
conducted research in the Southeastern United States (primarily Virginia)
and Minnesota. In Virginia, I study the Native American people who
lived in interior Virginia prior to the arrival of Europeans. I study
a time period of approximately 700 years, focusing on patterns of diet and
health and how these changed through time. My work is biocultural in
nature, emphasizing the ways in which human biology and human culture interact. In
Minnesota I have directed field research in the Mille Lacs area and on the
St. Cloud State University Campus.
I teach a variety of Archaeology courses, including some (such as Human
Origins and Sickness & Health in Prehistory) that are
explicitly biocultural in focus. Other courses I teach on a regular
basis include Introduction to Archaeology, North American
Archaeology, Archaeological Lab Methods and Archaeological
Analysis and Interpretation. During alternate summers I teach
the Archaeology field school. This is a hands-on class in which
students participate in a research-oriented archaeological excavation. I
also direct the Anthropological Archaeology Lab.
I have published a book about my work in Virginia, The Bioarchaeology of
Virginia Burial Mounds, as well as journal and book articles about my research. Some
of my publications are:
The Bioarchaeology of Virginia Burial Mounds, University of Alabama Press.
(2004)
http://www.uapress.ua.edu/NewSearch2.cfm?id=132502
Mestizaje and Migration: Modeling Population Dynamics in Seventeenth-Century
New Mexico’s Spanish Society by H.B. Trigg and D.L. Gold. In Engaged
Anthropology: Research Essays on North American Archaeology, Ethnobotany
and Museology edited by M. Hegmon and B.Eiselt. Univerity of Michigan
Museum of Anthropology Press. (Forthcoming)
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/umma/publications/list/#APsxxxx
“Of Parsimony and Archaeological Histories: A Response
to Comment by Boyd” by J.L. Hantman, D.L. Gold and G.H. Dunham. American
Antiquity 69(3). (2004)
“Collective Burial in Late Prehistoric Interior Virginia: Excavation
and Analysis of the Rapidan Mound” by G.H. Dunham, D.L. Gold and J.L.
Hantman. American Antiquity 68(1):109-128. (2003)
“The Mid-19th Century Cemetery at St. Cloud State University
(21-SN-0136): Excavation Report” by R.M. Rothaus and D.L. Gold. The
Minnesota Archaeologist 61:23-50. (2002)
“The Woodland in the Middle Atlantic Region” by J.L. Hantman
and D.L. Gold. Pages 270-291 in The Woodland Southeast, edited by
D.G. Anderson and R.C. Mainfort. University of Alabama Press (2002) http://www.uapress.ua.edu/NewSearch2.cfm?id=10809
“‘Utmost Confusion’ Reconsidered: Bioarchaeology and Secondary
Burial in Late Prehistoric Interior Virginia.” Pages 195-218 in Bioarchaeological
Studies of Ljfe in the Age of Agriculture: A View from the Southeast, edited
by P.M. Lambert, University of Alabama Press. (200)
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