Professor, California State University, Sacramento
David Zeanah is Professor of Anthropology at Sacramento State, where he has taught since 1999. He is trained as a prehistoric archaeologist, with geographic expertise in the Great Basin region of the United States, but has broad interests in evolutionary theory, hunter-gatherer organization and subsistence, ethnoarchaeology, and the transition to agriculture. He has been a member of three international, collaborative research projects.
Martu Ecological Anthropology project- a long-term ethnographic and ecological collaboration with the Martu people of Western Australia on the social relationships, land use and resource values of a contemporary hunter-gatherer economy.
Barrow Island Archaeological Project- archaeological investigations of the Pleistocene (Ice Age) occupation and hunter-gatherer adaptations in Western Australia.
Grass Valley Paleoindian Archaeological Project survey and investigation of Late Pleistocene sites in Grass Valley Nevada,
We have revealed a unique time capsule of Australia’s first coastal people from 50,000 years ago
Mar 25, 2024 05:04 am UTC| Insights & Views
Barrow Island, located 60 kilometres off the Pilbara in Western Australia, was once a hill overlooking an expansive coast. This was the northwestern shelf of the Australian continent, now permanently submerged by the...
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