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Curriculum Vitae
David L. Peterson, Ph.D.
297 Dewey Street (847) 331-‐6557 St. Paul, Minnesota 55104 [email protected]
Web: chicago.academia.edu/DavidPeterson www.linkedin.com/in/davidlaurnpeterson/
Education Ph. D. Anthropology, University of Chicago (Chicago), 2007 Intern, SCOPE Museum Presentations in Science Program, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), University of Chicago, 2003-‐2004
Intern, Making of Ancient Eurasia Project, University of Chicago Anthropology Department and Argonne National Laboratory, 2005-‐2007
M.A. Ancient Studies, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), 1993 B.A. Classical Civilizations, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), 1987
Dissertation Changing Technologies and Transformations of Value in the Middle Volga and Northeastern Caucasus, ca. 3000-‐1500 BCE. Committee: Michael Dietler, Adam T. Smith, K. Aslihan Yener, Kathleen Morrison, and Nicholas Kouchoukos.
Investigation of the technology and social role of metalwork in the Middle Volga from the Early to Late Bronze Age, and South Daghestan (northeastern Caucasus) in the Early Bronze Age.
Professional Experience Project Manager, 2014-‐present MoDa Group; St. Paul, MN
Online Instructor, 2013-‐2015 Anthropology and History, Idaho State University; Pocatello, ID
Assistant Professor, 2008-‐2013 Anthropology, Idaho State University
Visiting Lecturer, 2006 Anthropology and Social Sciences, University of Chicago; Chicago
Preceptor, 1999-‐2006 Anthropology Major Program, University of Chicago
Co-‐Owner, Project Manager, 1995-‐1996 MoDa Group/Archaeopaths Consulting; Robbinsdale, MN
Senior Archaeologist, 1993-‐1995 Tellus Consultants, Inc.; Minneapolis
Graduate Research Assistant, 1990-‐1991 Smelt 1991 Archaeological Experiment, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, University of Minnesota; Twin Cities
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Institutional Affiliations and Roles Archaeology Institute, Republic of Kazakhstan National Academy of Sciences, 2013-‐2015
Principal Investigator, Prehistoric Metallurgy on the Silk Road
Idaho State University, 2013-‐2015 Affiliate Faculty, Anthropology
Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory, Richland Washington, 2013 Visiting Researcher, nano-‐SIMS lab
Idaho State University, 2008-‐2013 Affiliate Researcher, Center for Archaeology, Materials and Applied Spectroscopy (CAMAS)
Institute of Geology and Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenian (NAS RA), 2012
Principal Investigator, Marmarik Valley Project
Institute of Geology and Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, NAS RA, 2009-‐2010 Principal Investigator, South Caucasus Archaeometallurgy Project
Argonne National Laboratory, 2005-‐2007 User, SEM and Advanced Photon Source
Institute for the History and Archaeology of the Volga, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Samara State Pedagogical University, and Samara State University, 2001-‐2007
Principal Investigator, Samara Ancient Metals Project
Institute for the History and Archaeology of the Volga, RAS, Samara State Pedagogical University, and Samara State University, 2001-‐2007
Field Supervisor, Samara Valley Project (P.I. David Anthony, Hartwick College)
Daghestan Scientific Center, RAS, 2007-‐2008 Field Supervisor, Daghestani-‐American Velikent Project (P.I. Philip Kohl, Wellesley College)
Courses Designed and Taught Idaho State University eISU online courses ANTH 2237, HIST 2299 The Silk Road ANTH 4413, HIST 4405 The Northern Barbarians In the field ANTH 4486/5586 Archaeology Field School In the classroom and lab ANTH 4499, HIST 4405 Ancient Landscapes ANTH 4492 Senior Seminar ANTH 4481/5581, SOC 4499/5599 Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology: Value, Debt and Society
ANTH 4413/5513 Old World Archaeology: Early Complex Societies in the Caucasus ANTH 4413/5513 Old World Archaeology: Ancient Eurasia ANTH 4413/5513 Old World Archaeology: Ancient Interactions in Eurasia ANTH 4404/5504 Material Culture Analysis, with ANTH 4405/5505 Analytical Techniques Laboratory
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ANTH 4403/5503 Method and Theory in Archaeology ANTH 2237, HIST 2299 Peoples and Cultures of the Old World: Nomads and Pastoralists ANTH 2237, HIST 2299 Peoples and Cultures of the Old World: Ancient Near East ANTH 2237 Peoples and Cultures of the Old World: Ancient States and Empires of Asia University of Chicago ANTH 46910 Archaeometry: New Non-‐Destructive Approaches at Argonne National Laboratory
ANTH 29910 Preparation of the Bachelor’s Essay ANTH 21250 Intensive Study of a Culture: Ancient Eurasian Steppe Societies
Publications Books 2006: Peterson, D., L. Popova and A. T. Smith (eds.). Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
Articles in Books and Journals (* peer reviewed) *n.d.: Peterson, D. , P. Northover. C. Salter, B. Maldonado, and D. Anthony. Bronze Age Metalwork and Settlement Evidence from the Samara Valley Project for Early Metallurgy in the Middle Volga, for The Samara Valley Project: A Bronze Age Landscape in the Russian Steppes, edited by D. Anthony, D. Brown, A. Khokhlov, P. Kuznetsov, and O. Mochalov. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA. (forthcoming)
n.d.: Peterson, D., P. Northover, C. Salter, and B. Maldonado. Early Metal Technology and Related Practices in the Caspian Coastal Plain: Metalwork from the Velikent Cemetery, for Works of the Velikent Archaeological Expedition Volume 1 – The Western Caspian Coastal Plain in the Early and Middle Bronze Age: Investigations at Velikent and Its Environs, edited by Philip Kohl and Rabadan Magomedov. (forthcoming)
n.d.: Peterson, D., J. V. Dudgeon, A. Gevorkyan, M. Tromp, and A. Bobokhyan. LA-‐ICPMS Analysis of Prehistoric Copper and Bronze Metalwork from Armenia. In Recent Advances in Laser Ablation ICP-‐MS for Archaeology, edited by L. Dussubieux, B. Gratuze and M. Golitko (eds). Springer-‐ Verlag, Ltd. (forthcoming)
2014: A. Gevorkyan, Peterson, D., J. V. Dudgeon, M. Tromp, and A. Bobokhyan. LA-‐ICPMS Analysis of Prehistoric Copper and Bronze Metalwork from Armenia. Hushardzan 9: 28-‐42. Yerevan, Armenia.
*2013: C. E. Croney, D. Peterson, and B. Paige. An Early Eighteenth Century Spanish Colonial Coin from Caribou County, Idaho. Idaho Archaeologist 35 (2): 39-‐42
2013: Peterson, D. From the Yenisei to the Yukon: Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene-‐Early Holocene Beringia, edited by Ted Goebel and Ian Buvit. Book Review. Sibirica 12(1).
*2012: Peterson, D. Forging Social Networks: Metallurgy and the Politics of Value in Bronze Age Eurasia. In The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia: Regimes and Revolutions, edited by C.W. Hartley, G.B. Yazıcıoğlu , and A.T. Smith, pp. 283-‐301. New York: Cambridge University Press.
*2011: Peterson, D. Archaeology and Value: Prehistoric Copper and Bronze Metalwork in the Caucasus. Studii de Preistorie 8: 111-‐121.
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2011: Peterson, D. The East European Plain on the Eve of Agriculture, edited by Pavel M. Dolukhanov, Graeme R. Sarson and Anvar M. Shukurov. Book Review. The Holocene 21(2): 374-‐375.
2011: Peterson, D., A. Gevorkyan, K. Meliksetian, A. Bobokhyan, J. Dudgeon, M. Tromp*, S. Hovakimyan, A. Vardanyan, C. Meredith*, and T. Schneyder**. The South Caucasus Archaeometallurgy Project: Investigation of Early Mining and Metal Production on the Armenian Plateau. An Interim Report. International Conference, Archaeometallurgy in Europe III, Abstracts, edited by A. Hauptmann, D. Modaressi-‐Tehrani and M. Prange. Metalla 4: 213.
2010: Peterson, D. Pastoralist Landscapes and Social Interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia, by Michael D. Frachetti. Book Review. American Antiquity 75(3): 702-‐703.
*2009: Peterson, D. Production and Social Complexity: Bronze Age Metalworking in the Middle Volga. In Social Complexity in Late Prehistoric Eurasia: Monuments, Metal, and Mobility, edited by B. Hanks and K. Linduff, pp. 187-‐214. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2009: Peterson, D. The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia, by Philip L. Kohl, 2007. Book Review. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19(1): 139-‐141.
*2006: Peterson, D., P. F. Kuznetsov and O. D. Mochalov. The Samara Bronze Age Metals Project: Investigating Changing Technologies and Transformations of Value in the Western Eurasian Steppes. In Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, edited by D. Peterson, L. Popova and A. T. Smith, pp. 326-‐346. Colloquia Pontica 13, Brill, Leiden.
*2006: Peterson D., L. Popova and A. T. Smith. Introduction. In Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, edited by David Peterson, Laura Popova and Adam T. Smith, pp. xiii-‐xiv. Colloquia Pontica 13, Brill, Leiden.
2006: Friedman, E.S., A. Brody, M.L. Young, D. Peterson, and S. Mini. High Energy Synchrotron Radiation Studies of Tin-‐Bronze Artifacts from Tell en-‐Nasbeh, Northern Judah, ca. 1000-‐586 BCE, 5th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science Conference Proceedings.
*2005: Anthony, D., D. Brown, E. Brown, A. Goodman, A. Kokhlov, P. Kosintsev, P. Kuznetsov, O. Mochalov, E. Murphy, D. Peterson, A. Pike-‐Tay, L. Popova, A. Rosen, N. Russell, and A. Weisskopf. The Samara Valley Project: Late Bronze Age Economy and Ritual in the Russian Steppes. Eurasia Antiqua 11: 395-‐417.
*2005: Kuznetsov, P. F., O. D. Mochalov, D. Peterson, L. Popova, A. P. Semenova, and D. Kormilitsin. Poisk sledov gornorudnogo delo epokhi pozdnei bronzy v srednem Povol’zhe (arkeologicheskie raboty v neissledovanykh raionakh Samarkskoi oblasti). Izvestia Samarskogo nauchnogo tsentra Rossiiskoi akademii nauk 2 (July-‐ December): 332-‐343. (English abstract, “Looking up of the Traits of Ore Mining of Late Bronze Age on the Middle Volga (Archaeological Investigations of Unknown Districts of Samara Region)”)
2004: Peterson, D. Looking Sharp: Knives and Ancient Metal Technology. Natural History 113(1): 68-‐71.
2003: Peterson, D. Ancient Metallurgy in the Mountain Kingdom: The Technology and Value of Early Bronze Age Metalwork from Velikent, Dagestan. In Archaeology in the Borderlands: Investigations in Caucasia and Beyond, edited by K. S. Rubinson and A. T. Smith, pp. 22-‐37. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute for Archaeology Publications, UCLA.
2003: P. F. Kuznetsov, D. Peterson, O. D. Mochalov, and D. V. Kormilytsyn. Arkheologicheskie razvedki rudnykh proyavlenii v lesostepnom Zavolzh'e [Archaeological
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surveys of ore exposures in the foreststeppe of the Transvolga]. In Arkheologicheskie otkrytiya 2002 goda, pp. 284-‐286. Moscow: Institute for Archeology, Russian Academy of Sciences.
1998: M. G. Gadzhiev, R. F. Magomedov, P. L. Kohl, D. Peterson, M. F. Heinsch, and G. Chikovani Issledovaniya na poselenii Velikent II v 1997 g. [Investigations at the Velikent II settlement in 1997]. In Arkheologicheskaya konferentsiya Kavkaza I. Tbilisi: Georgian Academy of Science.
1998: M. G. Gadzhiev, R. F. Magomedov, P. L. Kohl, D. Peterson, M. F. Heinsch, and G. Chikovani Izuchenie zhiloi arkhitektury i drugikh bytovykh sooruzhenii na poselenii Velikent II [Research on domestic architecture and other living structures at the Velikent II settlement]. In Ybilein'ie mezhdunarodnye: XX “Krupnovskie chteniya” po arkheologii Severno Kavkaza. Stavropol’.
1994: Peterson, D. Wagons, Chariots and Celtic Influence in Early Iron Age Denmark. In The Archaeology of Contact: Processes and Consequences. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Chacmool Conference, edited by K. Lesick, B. Kulle, C. Cluney, and M. Peuramaki-‐Brown. Calgary: Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary.
Field Reports 1993-‐1996: Reports for 24 cultural resource management survey and testing projects in Minnesota, Iowa, Oklahoma, and West Virginia conducted for Tellus Consultants, Inc. and Archaeopaths Consulting. (A list is available by request.)
Grants 2013: Idaho State University Humanities and Social Science Research Committee, Prehistoric Metallurgy on the Silk Road: Analysis, Initial Publication, and Continuing Research on Techniques and the Social Role of Technology in Russia and Kazakhstan.
2013: Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory (EMSL) Rapid Access Grant, Interfacial Analysis of Gilding Technology in Prehistoric Jewelry from the Silk Road.
2013: Idaho State University College of Arts and Letters Infrastructure Development Grant, Upgrading Anthroplogy Seminar Facilities for Teaching, Presentations, and Meetings.
2013: Idaho State University College of Arts and Letters Infrastructure Development Grant, Upgrading Student and Researcher Computing Capacities for Microscopy, File Sharing, and Presentation in the Anthropology Department.
2013: Idaho State University College of Arts and Letters Recruitment Development Grant, Acquisition of Display Materials and Equipment for Recruitment Events.
2013: Idaho State University Faculty Development Grant for Professional Travel for Research, Publication and Grant Development.
2013: Idaho State University Faculty Development Grant for Special Projects: Equipment and Supplies to Enhance Research, Teaching, and Granting in Anthropology.
2012: Idaho State University College of Arts and Letters Faculty Enhancement Funds Grant for Survey Equipment to Develop Faculty Research and Improve Teaching and Training in Archaeological Field Methods.
2011: Idaho State University College of Arts and Letters Faculty Enhancement Funds Grant for Purchase of Handheld GPS –GNSS Receiver to Develop Faculty Research and Improve Teaching and Training in Archaeological GIS and Remote Sensing.
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2010: Idaho State University College of Arts and Letters Faculty Enhancement Funds Grant for Software, Equipment and Supplies to Enhance Archaeological Science Research at Idaho State University.
2010: Idaho State University Humanities and Social Science Research Committee Grant for Archaeological and Geoarchaeological Investigation of Early Mining and Metal Production on the Armenian Plateau through the Early Iron Age.
2009: American Councils for International Education NEH Collaborative Research Fellowship for Collaborative Investigations of Early Mining and Metal Production on the Armenian Plateau, ca. 7000-‐800 BC.
2009: Idaho State University Faculty Research Council Grant for Geoarchaeological Investigation of Early Metal Industries and Social Development on the Armenian Plateau.
2004: National Science Foundation, Archaeology Grant 0431940 for The Samara Bronze Age Metals Project.
2001: Wenner-‐Gren Foundation, Individual Research Grant 6760 for Changing Technologies and Transformations of Value in the Eurasian Steppes.
2001: Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation Fund Grant Center for The University of Chicago Eurasian Archaeology Conference. Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Integrating Local and Global Visions, Center for International Studies, University of Chicago.
1992: Block Grant Fellowship for M.A. thesis preparation, Center for Ancient Studies, University of Minnesota.
1990: Travel Fellowship for M.A. thesis research of museum collections in western Germany, Center for Ancient Studies, University of Minnesota.
Selected Research Projects (*foreign travel, and educational and research collaboration) *2013: Prehistoric Metallurgy on the Silk Road (P.I). Application of nanoscale analysis facilities (nano-‐ and time-‐of flight-‐secondary ion mass spectrometry, or nano-‐ and TOF-‐SIMS) at the Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory in Richland, Washington to determine the gilding method used in fabricating ornaments from Late Bronze Age burials in Samara, Russia (January 2013). Travel to the Republic of Kazakhstan in May 2013 (in coordination with Dr. Claudia Chang and Dr. Perry Tourtellotte, Sweet Briar College) to explore possibilities for future analysis of ancient metalwork and an archaeology field school at a Medieval Silk Road urban site with the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
*2012: Marmarik Archaeology Project (P.I.). Collaborative investigation of prehistoric community relations during the Bronze and Iron Age periods in the Marmarik Valley of the Kotayk region of Armenia, including early mining and metal production utilizing the valley’s copper, iron, gold, and marble deposits. Co-‐directed with Dr. Artur Petrosyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia), and Dr. Khachatur Meliksetian (Institute of Archaeological Sciences, NAS RA). Activities in included survey, aerial kite photography, and testing of fortress and burial sites along the valley.
*2009 and 2010: South Caucasus Archaeometallurgy Project (P.I.). Collaborative investigation of early mining and metal production on the Armenian Plateau (ca. 7000-‐800 BC) in collaboration with Dr. Khachatur Meliksetian (Institute of Archaeological Sciences, NAS RA), Dr. Aram Gevorkyan, and Sr. Arsen Bobokhyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, NAS RA). In 2009 and 2010, copper and polymetallic ore deposits were
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documented and samples were taken from 45 areas in 15 different deposits for future lead isotope and trace element source discrimination analysis. Metal artifact samples were also collected from Late Bronze-‐Early Iron Age cromlech burials at Horom and Karashamb and LA-‐ICP-‐MS analyses have been completed and published.
*2007-‐present: Project ArAGATS (Metallurgical Specialist). Collaborative international archaeological research program exploring the roots of early complex societies in present-‐day Armenia (directed by Dr. Adam T. Smith, Cornell University, and Ruben Badalyan, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, NAS RA).
*2009-‐2011: Instrumental analyses (LA-‐ICP-‐MS, SEM-‐EDS) of bone chemistry and isotopy for assessing biological effects of copper production in the Middle Bronze Age II population of the Kammenyi Ambar V cemetery (western Siberia, ca. 2100-‐1800 BC) for Dr. Bryan Hanks, University of Pittsburg (with Dr. John Dudgeon, Idaho State University and Monica Tromp, M.A., University of Otago).
*2005-‐2007: The Making of Ancient Eurasia (Metallurgical Specialist). Collaborative interdisciplinary investigation of early ceramic and metal technologies in the Eurasian steppes, the Caucasus, and Central China, by faculty and students with the Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, and Argonne National Laboratory (P.I. Dr. Adam T. Smith, Co-‐P.I. Dr. William Ellingson).
*2001-‐2007: Samara Ancient Metals Project (P.I.). Systematic archaeological survey and test excavations of Bronze Age copper mining and settlement in Samara, Russia, in collaboration with Dr. Pavel Kuznetsov and Dr. Oleg Mochalov, Institute for the History and Archaeology of the Volga, Russian Academy of Science, and archaeometallurgical analysis of Bronze Age metal artifacts including electron microprobe analysis at the Department of Materials, Oxford University, with Dr. Peter Northover, Dr. Chris Salter, and Dr. Blanca Maldonado.
*1999-‐2001: Samara Valley Project (Field Archaeologist/Metallurgical Specialist). Excavation of Late Bronze Age habitation, herding-‐camp, and mortuary sites in Samara, Russia (directed by Dr. David Anthony and Dorcas Brown, M.A., Hartwick College, and Dr. Pavel Kuznetsov and Dr. Oleg Mochalov, Institute for the History and Archaeology of the Volga, RAS).
*1998: Daghestani-‐American Velikent Expedition (Field Archaeologist). Excavation of Early Bronze Age settlement and mortuary sites on the Caspian coast of Daghestan, Russia (P.I. Dr. Philip Kohl, Wellesley College, and Co-‐P.I.s Dr. Magomed Gadzhiev and Dr. Rabadan Magomedov, Daghestan Scientific Center, RAS).
1993-‐1996: Archaeologist on 24 cultural resource management survey and testing projects for Tellus Consultants, Inc. and Archaeopaths Consulting, most as Director or PI. (A list of projects and technical reports is available by request.)
*1990-‐1991: University of Minnesota Kelheim Expedition (Student Assistant). Excavation of a Late Iron Age urban center in Bavaria, Germany (P.I. Dr. Peter Wells, University of Minnesota).
1987: West River Parkway Project (Archaeological Assistant). Excavations on the Mississippi Riverfront of Minneapolis in preparation for the Mill Ruins Park (P.I. Dr. Robert Clouse).
Conferences and Sessions Organized (*Graduate Student) 2011: Co-‐organizer with A. Greene*, University of Chicago, of the symposium Motion Check: Archaeological Insights on the Circulation of Subjects and Objects at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Society, New Orleans.
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2010: Co-‐organizer with Dr. J. Dudgeon, Idaho State University, of the symposium Social Archaeometry for the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology (with John Dudgeon).
2007-‐2008: Organizing Committee, Third University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology: Regimes and Revolutions. Department of Anthropology, May 1-‐3, 2008.
2007-‐2008: Organizer and Chair of the session Constructing Materialities, 3rd University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology: Regimes and Revolutions. Department of Anthropology, May 1-‐3, 2008.
2004-‐2005: Organizing Committee, Second University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology: Social Orders and Social Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Eurasian Archaeology. Department of Anthropology, April 15-‐16, 2005. 2004: Co-‐organizer with Dr. H. Swyers, Lake Forest College, of the session Word on the Street: Popular Culture as Social Theory for the 81st Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Milwaukee.
2001-‐2002: Organizing Committee, First University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology: Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Integrating Local and Global Visions. Department of Anthropology, May 3-‐4, 2002.
Papers, Invited Talks, and Poster Presentations (*Graduate Student, **Undergraduate Student) 2015: Peterson, D. TBA. Invited talk, Archaeological Institute of America, Minnesota Chapter and Macalester College, September 24.
2015: Peterson, D. “Urartu and its Predecessors: Research on the Early State in the Caucasus.” Invited talk, Department Symposium, Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, May 1.
2014: “Before the Golden Age: Combining Composition and Structure in Analyses of Prehistoric Eurasian Metalwork.” Invited talk, Talking Archaeological Science Symposium, Archaeology Center, Stanford University, May 17.
2014: “Before the Gold Rush: Prehistoric Metallurgy and the Politics of Value in the Volga-‐Ural Steppes.” Invited talk, Four Field Colloquium, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, January 20.
2013: Peterson, D., Z. Zhu, B. Paige**, P. Kuznetsov, M. Tromp*, O. Mochalov, J. Dudgeon. “Gilded Lilies to Filthy Lucre: Technical and Behavioral Changes in Early Gold Technology in Eurasia.” Poster presented at the Northwest Evolution, Ecology and Human Behavior Symposium, Boise State University, April 19.
2012: Peterson, D., J. Dudgeon, A. Petrosyan, A. Bobokhyan, Kh. Meliksetian, and H. Chazin*. “The Marmarik Archaeology Project Season 1: Survey and Aerial Kite Photography in Kotayk.” Invited talk at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia on August 3, sponsored by the American Research Center of the South Caucasus (ARISC).
2012: Peterson, D. “Lunch with Chechens: An American Archaeologist in the North Caucasus.” Invited talk given at the Idaho Museum of Natural History, April 25.
2012: Peterson, D., P. Kuznetsov, J. Dudgeon, M. Tromp*, B. Paige**, and O. Mochalov. “Wrapped by the Sharp-‐Beaked Hounds of Zeus: Gilding Techniques in Late Bronze Age Pendants from the Middle Volga.” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, April.
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2102: Peterson, D. “Before the Argonauts: Early Metallurgy and Interactions in Bronze Age Eurasia.” Invited talk given at the Anthropology Department, Boise State University on April 9.
2102: Peterson, D. “Before the Argonauts: Early Metallurgy and Interactions in Bronze Age Eurasia.” Invited talk given in the Anthropology Department Colloquium, Idaho State University, March.
2011: Peterson, D., and J. Dudgeon. “Archaeometallurgy in the South Caucasus: Technological Artifacts as Historical Documents.” Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain European Scholars Consortium, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, October 20.
2011: Peterson, D., A. Gevorkyan, K. Meliksetian, A. Bobokhyan, J. Dudgeon, M. Tromp*, S. Hovakimyan, A. Vardanyan, C. Meredith*, and T. Schneyder**. “The South Caucasus Archaeometallurgy Project: Investigation of Early Mining and Metal Production on the Armenian Plateau. An Interim Report.” Paper presented at the Archaeometallurgy in Europe III Conference, Deutsches-‐Bergbau Museum, Bochum, Germany on June 28 – July 1.
2011: Peterson, D. “Archaeometry at the Advanced Photon Source (Argonne National Laboratory): Applications for Ancient and Historic Metalwork.” Invited talk given in the Physics Department Colloquium, Idaho State University, February 7.
2011: Meredith, C., D. Peterson, M. Tromp*, J. Dudgeon, A. Gevorkyan and Kh. Meliksetian. “New Standards in the Analysis of Archaeological Metalwork using LA-‐ICP-‐MS: A Case Study from the South Caucasus Archaeometallurgy Project.” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, April.
2011: Rauh, W.*, J. Dudgeon, C. Meredith*, D. Peterson, N. Holmer*, M. Tromp*, and B. Hanks “Comparison of Methodological Approaches for Determining Modes of Trace Metal Uptake in Archaeological Skeletal Remains.” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, April.
2011: Peterson, D. “Anthropology without Science?” Invited talk given in the Anthropology Department Colloquium, Idaho State University, January 21.
2010: Peterson, D. and J. Dudgeon. “The Promise of Social Archaeometry: Building an Anthropologically-‐Relevant Archaeological Science.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, April.
2010: Peterson, D., J. Dudgeon, B. Hanks, M. Tromp*, W. Rau*, N. Holmer*. “You Gotta Move: Metallurgy and Mobility in Prehistoric Eurasia.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November.
2010: Peterson, D. “Comic Books and Politics in American Culture.” Invited talk given in the Anthropology Department Colloquium, Idaho State University, March 5.
2010: Dudgeon, J., D. Peterson, M. Tromp*, B. Hanks, W. Rauh* and N. Holmer*. “Traces of the Trade: Bronze Age Metal Producers in the Eurasian Steppes Determined Through Skeletal Trace Metals.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, April.
2010: Dudgeon, J., D. Peterson, M. Tromp, B. Hanks, W. Rauh* and N. Holmer*. “Traces of the Trade: Bronze Age Metal Producers in the Eurasian Steppes Determined Through Skeletal Trace Metals.“ Paper presented at the Archaeology and History in Eastern Idaho Symposium, Idaho State University, May.
2008: Peterson, D. “Forging Networks of Authority: Early Metal Production in the Middle Volga and the Caucasus.” Paper presented in at the Third University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, May 1-‐3.
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2008: Peterson, D. “Metalworking in the Eurasian Steppes, ca. 2200-‐1800 BC: Composition, Microstructure, and the Organization of Production.” Poster presented at 2008 Annual Meeting of the Idaho Archaeological Society, Pocatello, Idaho, October.
2008: Peterson, D. “Forging Networks in Ancient Eurasia: Early Metal Production in the Steppes and Caucasus.” Invited talk given at the Department of Anthropology, Idaho State University, February.
2008: Peterson, D. “Forging Networks in Ancient Eurasia: Early Metal Production in the Steppes and Caucasus.” Invited talk given at the Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, February.
2007: Greene, A.*, C. Hartley*, A. T. Smith, D. Peterson, L. Khatchadourian, D. Cookson, J. Almer, M. Young, S. Mini, E. Friedman, and C. Segre. “The Making of Ancient Eurasia.” Poster presented at 2007 Users Meetings for DOE/BES User Facilities at Argonne National Laboratory, May.
2006: Peterson, D. “Material Culture Practices and Social Complexity: Making Metal, Social Ties and Difference in the Bronze Age Steppes.” Symposium on New Research Directions in Eurasian Steppe Archaeology: The Emergence of Complex Societies in the Third to First Millennia BCE. Anthropology Department, University of Pittsburgh, February 10-‐11.
2006: Greene, A.*, C. Hartley* and D. Peterson. “The Making of Ancient Eurasia: Preliminary Notes on Incorporating Archaeometry and Anthropology in the Integrated Study of Ceramic and Metal Technologies.” Poster presented at the International Symposium on Archaeometry, Quebec, April.
2006: Friedman, E. S., A. Brody, M.L. Young, D. Peterson, and S. Mini. “High Energy Synchrotron Radiation Studies of Tin-‐Bronze Artifacts from Tell en-‐Nasbeh, Northern Judah, ca. 1000-‐586 BCE.” Poster presented at the International Symposium on Archaeometry, Quebec, April.
2006: Peterson, D. and L. Khatchadourian. “FESEM-‐EDS Analysis of Ancient Eurasian Goldwork: An Early Example of Gilding by Diffusion Bonding.” Poster presented at 2006 Users Meetings for DOE/BES User Facilities at Argonne National Lab, April.
2005: Peterson, D. and P. Northover “Making Metal, Making Value.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Cork, Ireland, September.
2005: Peterson. D., P. Northover, E. Brown*, A. Brown*, and O. D. Mochalov. “Metalwork in the Social and Cultural Landscape of Bronze Age Pastoralists.” Paper presented at the Second University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, April.
2004: Peterson, D., Peter Northover, Nicholas Chamandy*, and Hae-‐Kyung Im*. “Technology and Value: Early Bronze Age Metalwork from Velikent, Dagestan (Northeastern Caucasus).” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, San Antonio.
2004: Peterson, D. “‘A Thief, a Reaver, a Slayer’: The Social Imagery and Politics of the Comic Book Antihero.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Milwaukee.
2003: Peterson, D. “Metalwork in the Cultural Landscape of Late Bronze Age Steppe Pastoralists.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee.
2003: Kuznetsov, P. F., O. D. Mochalov and D. Peterson. “Novye Issledovaniya rudnykh proyavlenii v lesostepnom Zavolzh’e (predvaritel’nye itogi).” Paper presented at the conference on Problems of Ancient Metallurgy in the Bronze Age, Donetsk, Russia.
2002: Peterson, D., P. F. Kuznetsov and O. D. Mochalov. “The Samara Bronze Age Metals Project: Investigating Changing Technologies and Transformations of Value in the
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Western Eurasian Steppes.” Paper presented in the session “Current Research II” at the First University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, May.
2001: Peterson, D. “Production and Consumption of Metalwork during the Bronze Age in Samara, Russia (East European Steppes).” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.
2000: Peterson, D. “Common Ground: Analogies to the Plains and Recent Trends in the Archaeology of the Later Prehistory of the Eurasian Steppes.” Paper presented at the Joint Midwest Archaeological and Plains Anthropological Conference, St. Paul.
1999: Peterson, D. “An Understated Monumentality: The Bronze Age Tombs at Velikent, Lowland Daghestan (Northeastern Caucasus).” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Association, Chicago.
1998: Gadzhiev, M. G., R. F. Magomedov, P. L. Kohl, D. Peterson, M. F. Heinsch*, and G. Chikovani. “Issledovaniya na poselenii Velikent II v 1997 g. [Investigations at the Velikent II Settlement in 1997].” Paper presented at the 1998 Caucasus Archaeological Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia.
1998: Gadzhiev, M. G., R. F. Magomedov, P. L. Kohl, D. Peterson, M. F. Heinsch*, and G. Chikovani. “Izuchenue zhiloi arkhitektury i drugikh bytovykh sooruzhenii na poselenii Velikent II [Research on Domestic Architecture and Other Living Structures at the Velikent II Settlement].” Paper presented at the 20th "Large Recitation" on the Archaeology of the Northern Caucasus. Zheleznovodsk, Russia.
1994: Peterson, D. “Site 13MM67, a Chert Procurement Locality in Montgomery County, Iowa.” Paper presented at the Council for Minnesota Archaeology Symposium, Bemidji, MN.
1992: Peterson, D. “Wagons, Chariots and Celtic Influence in Early Iron Age Denmark.” Paper presented at the 25th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary.
Ongoing Board and Committee Service Scientific Culture (online journal, Editorial Board) New Brighton Area Historical Society, New Brighton, MN (Board of Directors) American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (Programming Committee)
Professional Organizations American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC), American Anthropological Association (AAA), Society for American Archaeology (SAA), Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)
Professional Service 2014: Peer review for the journal Sibirica (Berghahn Books). 2014: Proposal reviews for the Field Museum (Chicago). 2013: Proposal reviews for the National Science Foundation and Field Museum. 2012: Contributor to an American Overseas Research Center (AORC) proposal submitted by the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) to the US Department of Education (resulted in ARISC’s award of $216,000 for overseas activities and establishment of in-‐country centers in the Republics of Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan).
2011: ARISC Graduate Fellowship proposal reviewer. 2010: Interviewer for American Councils for International Education’s Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP), Yerevan, Armenia.
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2010: Grant proposal reviewer for Project Discovery!, a non-‐profit charitable organization supporting archaeological research in Armenia.
2002, 2005, 2008: Organizing committees for three Eurasian Archaeology Conferences at the University of Chicago.
2003: Advisor to the SciTech Hands-‐on Museum (Aurora, Illinois) for the exhibition Bible Times Tech (displayed December 2003 -‐ December 2004).
For Idaho State University 2012-‐2013: Committee for Study of Violence, Conflict and War (hosts invited speakers for special events and a monthly Humanities Café).
2011-‐2013: Curriculum Assessment Coordinator, Department of Anthropology. 2011-‐2013: Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinator, Department of Anthropology. 2011-‐2013: Advisor for 3 Career Path Interns (2 Undergraduate, 1 Graduate). 2009-‐2013: Faculty Advisor, Student Anthropological Society. 2010-‐2013: Preparation of 5 curriculum proposals to the University Curriculum Council and Graduate Council (3 Undergraduate, 2 Graduate) in a major curriculum revision for the Department of Anthropology (resulted in changes to over 20 Anthropology courses).
2009-‐2012: Member of three Tenure and Promotion Committees, Department of Anthropology. 2012: Development of Curriculum Proposal for HIST 2221 Ancient History (with History Department Chair, Kevin Marsh).
2009, 2011, 2012: Archaeological Science workshop leader for Idaho Museum of Natural History’s Science Trek.
2011: Executive Secretary, University Curriculum Council. 2009-‐2011: University Curriculum Council, Social Sciences Representative.
Additional Capabilities Languages: Intermediate Russian, German, and Spanish. Instrumentation: Scanning electron microscopy-‐energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-‐EDS), optical microscopy and metallography, Trimble GeoXT 6000 handheld computer with GPS and global navigation satellite system (GNSS), Nikon DTM-‐322 total station.
Museum exhibit design and evaluation. Windows, Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Moodle (online course design). Social networking: Three websites for non-‐profit research and education maintained on Facebook and WordPress.