Robert Preucel is James Manning Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University. He received his doctorate in archaeology from UCLA in 1988. He was the 6th Annual CAI Visiting Scholar at SIU Carbondale in 1989 and organized a conference on the Processual/Postprocessual debate. In 1990, he took an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. In 1995, he join the University of Pennsylvania as an Associate Professor. He was appointed the Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor of Anthropology in 2009 and served as Chair of the Department (2009-2012) and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten Curator-in-charge of the American Section at University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology (2010-2012).
Preucel, Robert W. "In defence of representation." World Archaeology, 2021, pp. 1-17. |
Preucel, Robert W. "The Predicament of Ontology." Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2021, pp. 1-7. |
The Continuous Path: Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Becoming. University of Arizona Press, 2020.
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Preucel, Robert W. "Foraging, farming and village formation in the American Southwest." Antiquity, vol. 93, no. 370, 2019, pp. 1092-1095. |
Preucel, Robert W. "Stephen H. Lekson. A study of Southwestern archaeology. 2018. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press; 978-1-6078164-16 $34.95." Antiquity, vol. 93, no. 371, 2019, pp. 1402-1404. |
"Pragmatic Archaeology and Semiotic Mediation." Semiotic Review, vol. 4, 2016, pp. 1-8.
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"Indigenous Archaeology and the Science Question." Archaeological Review from Cambridge, vol. 27, no. 1, 2012, pp. 121-141.
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Preucel, R. W. "An archaeology of NAGPRA: Conversations with Suzan Shown Harjo." Journal of Social Archaeology, vol. 11, no. 2, 2011, pp. 130-143. |
Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism. edited by Preucel, Robert, Mrozowski, Stephen, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
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PREUCEL, ROBERT W. "The Social Life of Pots: Glaze Wares and Cultural Dynamics in the Southwest, AD 1250-1680 by Judith A. Habicht-Mauche, Suzanne L. Eckert, and Deborah L. Huntley, eds." Museum Anthropology, vol. 32, no. 2, 2009, pp. 175-177. |
LIEBMANN, MATTHEW, PREUCEL, ROBERT W. "THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE PUEBLO REVOLT AND THE FORMATION OF THE MODERN PUEBLO WORLD." KIVA, vol. 73, no. 2, 2007, pp. 195-217. |
Preucel, Robert.
Archaeological Semiotics. Blackwell, 2006.
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Preucel, Robert, Pendery, Steven. "Envisioning utopia: Transcendentalist and Fourierist landscapes at Brook Farm, West Roxbury, Massachusetts." Historical Archaeology, vol. 40, 2006, pp. 25-38. |
Liebmann, Matthew, Ferguson, T. J., Preucel, Robert W. "Pueblo Settlement, Architecture, and Social Change in the Pueblo Revolt Era, A.D. 1680 to 1696." Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. 30, no. 1, 2005, pp. 45-60. |
A Companion to Social Archaeology. edited by Meskell, Lynn, Preucel, Robert, Blackwell, 2004.
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Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning and Renewal in the Pueblo World. edited by Preucel, Robert, University of New Mexico, 2002.
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Preucel, Robert, Bauer, Alexander. "Archaeological Pragmatics." Norwegian Archaeological Revs., vol. 34, no. 2, 2001, pp. 85-96. |
Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader. edited by Preucel, Robert, Hodder, Ian, Blackwell, 1996.
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Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past. edited by Preucel, Robert, Center for Archaeological Investigations, 1991.
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Preucel, Robert.
Seasonal Circulation and Dual Residence in the Pueblo Southwest: A Prehistoric Example from the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico. Garland Press, 1990.
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BOOKS
Duwe, Samuel and Robert W. Preucel (eds) 2020. The Continuous Path: Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Becoming. University of Arizona Press, Tucson (winner of the Historical Society of New Mexico’s Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award).
Preucel Robert W. and Stephen Mrozowski (eds) 2010. Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism. 2nd Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, New York.
Preucel, Robert W. 2006. Archaeological Semiotics. Blackwell Press, Oxford.
Williams, Lucy Fowler, William Wierzbowski, and Robert W. Preucel (eds) 2005. Native American Voices on Identity, Art, and Culture: Objects of Everlasting Esteem. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia.
Meskell, Lynn and Robert W. Preucel (eds) 2004. A Companion to Social Archaeology. Blackwell Press, Oxford.
Preucel, Robert W. (ed.) 2002. Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning and Renewal in the Pueblo World. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Preucel Robert W. and Ian Hodder (editors) 1996. Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader. Blackwell Press, Oxford.
Preucel, Robert W. (ed.) 1991. Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Occasional Paper 10. Carbondale.
Preucel, Robert W. 1990. Seasonal Circulation and Dual Residence in the Pueblo Southwest: A Prehistoric Example from the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Preucel, Robert W. 2021b. In Defence of Representation. World Archaeology. DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2021.1924852
Preucel, Robert W. 2021a. The Predicament of Ontology. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. DOI:10.1017/S0959774321000147
Preucel, Robert W. 2016. Pragmatic Archaeology and Semiotic Mediation. Semiotic Review (Special Issue on Im/Materialities) Vol 4:1-8. (available online)
Preucel, Robert W. 2015. Cosmographies in Stone: Polly Schaafsma's Contributions to Southwestern Archeology. New Mexico Historical Review 90(2):153-163.
Preucel, Robert W. 2012. Indigenous archaeology and the science question. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 27(1):121-141.
Preucel, Robert W. 2011. An archaeology of NAGPRA: Conversations with Suzan Shown Harjo. Journal of Social Archaeology 11(2):1-13.
Liebmann, Matthew and Robert W. Preucel 2007. The archaeology of the Pueblo Revolt and the formation of the modern Pueblo World. KIVA: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History 73:197-219.
Preucel, Robert W. and Steven R. Pendery 2006. Envisioning utopia: Transcendentalist and Fourierist landscapes at Brook Farm, West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Historical Archaeology 40:25-38.
Preucel, Robert W. and Lucy F. Williams 2005. The Centennial potlatch. Expedition 47(2):9-19.
Liebmann, Matthew, T. J. Ferguson, and Robert W. Preucel 2005. Pueblo settlement, architecture, and social change in the Pueblo Revolt Era, A.D. 1680-1696. Journal of Field Archaeology 30:1-16.
Preucel, Robert W., Lucy F. Williams, Stacey O. Espenlaub, and Janet Monge 2003. Out of heaviness, enlightenment: NAGPRA and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Expedition 45(3): 21-27.
Preucel, Robert W. and Alexander Bauer 2001. Archaeological pragmatics. Norwegian Archaeological Review 34:85-96.
Preucel, Robert W. 2000. Living on the mesa: Hanat Kotyiti, a Post-revolt Cochiti community in the northern Rio Grande. Expedition 42:8-17.
Preucel, Robert W. 1995. The Postprocessual condition. Journal of Archaeological Research 3:147-175.
Preucel, Robert W. 1987. Settlement succession on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico. KIVA: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History 53:3-33.
Earle, Timothy K. and Robert W. Preucel 1987. Processual archaeology and the radical critique. Current Anthropology 28:501-538.
Preucel, Robert W. 1986. The Pajarito Field House Project. Archaeology at UCLA. Vol 2. No. 19.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Preucel, Robert W. and Samuel Duwe 2019. Introduction: Engaging with Pueblo Movement. In The Continuous Path: Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Being, edited by Samuel Duwe and Robert Preucel, pp. 15-47. Amerind Foundation, University of Arizona Press, Tuscon.
Aguilar, Joseph and Robert W. Preucel 2019. Seeking Strength and Protection: Tewa Mobility during the Pueblo Revolt Period. In The Continuous Path: Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Being, edited by Samuel Duwe and Robert Preucel, pp. 164-179. Amerind Foundation, University of Arizona Press, Tuscon.
Preucel, Robert W. 2019. Arkeolojik Göstergebilim. In Arkeoloji ve Göstergebilim, edited by Yasar Ersoy, Elif Koparal, Günes Duru and Zeynep Aktüre, pp. 3-20. Tematik Arkeoloji Serisi 3, Yavinlari, Istanbul.
Preucel, Robert W. and Joseph Aguilar 2018. Mesa Villages of the Pueblo Revolt Period: Reconstructing Pueblo Alliances and Social Networks. In Puebloan Societies: Cultural Homologies in Time, edited by Peter Whiteley, pp. 207-236. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Liebmann, Matthew, Robert W. Preucel, and Joseph Aguilar 2017. The Pueblo World Transformed: Alliances, Factionalism, and Animosities in the Northern Rio Grande, 1680-1700. In New Mexico and the Primería Alta, edited by John G. Douglass and William M. Graves, pp. 173-197. University of Press of Colorado, Boulder. Winner of the 2017 Arizona Literary Award (Published Nonfiction), Finalist for the 2017 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award.
Preucel, Robert W. and Regis Pecos 2015. Place: Cochiti Pueblo, Core Values and Authorized Heritage Discourse. In Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage, edited by Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Trinidad Rico, pp. 221-241. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Preucel, Robert W. 2015. Shotridge in Philadelphia: Representing Native Alaskan Peoples to East Coast Audiences. In Sharing Our Knowledge: The Tlingit and their Coastal Neighbors, edited by Sergei Kan with Steve Hendrickson, pp. 41-62. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Preucel, Robert W. 2014. Structuralism and its Archaeological Legacy. Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Theory, edited by Andrew Gardner, Mark Lake and Ulrike Sommer, Oxford University Press, Oxford. (also published on-line)
Aguilar, Joseph R. and Robert W. Preucel 2013. Sacred: Mesas: Pueblo Time, Space, and History in the Aftermath of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. In The Death of Prehistory, edited by Peter Schmidt and Stephen A. Mrozowski. pp. 267-289. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Preucel, Robert W. 2012. Of god stones and dance plazas: The material mediation of historical consciousness. In Excavating the Mind: Cross-Sections Through Culture, Cognition and Materiality, edited by Niels Johannsen, Mads Jessen and Helle Juel Jansen, pp. 111-132. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus.
Preucel, Robert W. 2011. Becoming Navajo: Refugees, Identity, and Tradition in the Dinétah. In Enduring Conquests: Rethinking the Archaeology of Resistance to Spanish Colonialism in the Americas, edited by Matthew Liebmann and Melissa Murphy, pp. 223-242. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.
Preucel, Robert W. and Craig Cipolla 2008. Indigenous and Postcolonial archaeologies. In Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique, edited by Matthew Liebmann and Uzma Rizvi. Pp. 129-142. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek.
Preucel, Robert W. and Frank G. Matero 2008. Placemaking on the Northern Rio Grande: A view from Kuaua. In Archaeologies of Placemaking: Monuments, Memories, and Engagement in Native North America, edited by Patricia Rubertone. Pp. 81-99. One World Archaeology Series, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek.
Preucel, Robert W. 2005. The journey from Shipap. In The Peopling of Bandelier: New Insights from the Archeology of the Pajarito Plateau, edited by Robert P. Powers, pp. 95-101. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.
Preucel, Robert W. 2005. Ethnicity and Southwestern archaeology. In Southwestern Archaeology in the Twentieth Century, edited by Linda Cordell and Don Fowler, pp. 174-193. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Ferguson, T. J. and Robert W. Preucel 2005. Signs of the ancestors: An archaeology of the mesa villages of the Pueblo Revolt. In Structure and Meaning in Human Settlement, edited by Joseph Rykwert and Tony Atkin, pp. 185-207. University Museum Press, Philadelphia.
Preucel, Robert W., Lucy Fowler Williams, and William Wierzbowski 2005. The social lives of Native American objects. In Native American Voices on Identity, Art, and Culture: Objects of Everlasting Esteem. Edited by Lucy Fowler Williams, William Wierzbowski, and Robert W. Preucel, pp. 1-26. University Museum Press, Philadelphia.
Meskell, Lynn and Robert W. Preucel 2004. Sections entitled, Identities and Politics. In A Companion to Social Archaeology, edited by Lynn Meskell and Robert W. Preucel, pp. 121-141, 315-334. Basil Blackwell Press, Oxford.
Preucel, Robert W., Loa P. Traxler, and Michael V. Wilcox 2002. "Now the god of the Spaniards is dead:" ethnogenesis and community formation in the aftermath of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. In Traditions, Transitions and Technologies: Themes in Southwestern Archaeology, edited by Sarah H. Schlanger, pp. 71-93. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Preucel, Robert W. 2002. Writing the Pueblo Revolt. In Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning and Renewal in the Pueblo World, edited by Robert W. Preucel, pp. 3-29. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Capone, Patricia and Robert W. Preucel 2002. Ceramic semiotics: women, pottery, and social meanings at Kotyiti Pueblo. In Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning and Renewal in the Pueblo World, edited by Robert W. Preucel, pp. 99-113. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Joyce, Rosemary and Robert W. Preucel 2002. Writing the field of archaeology. In The Languages of Archaeology: Dialogue, Narrative and Writing, by Rosemary A. Joyce, pp. 18-38. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Preucel, Robert W. 2000. Making pueblo identities: architectural discourse at Kotyiti, New Mexico. In An Archaeology of Communities in the Americas, edited by Jason Yaeger and Marcello Canuto, pp. 58-77. Routledge, London.
Snead, James E. and Robert W. Preucel 1999. The ideology of settlement: Ancestral Keres landscapes in the Northern Rio Grande. In Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Wendy Ashmore and A. Bernard Knapp, pp. 169-197. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Preucel, Robert W. 1998. Learning from the elders. In Excavating Voices: Listening to Photographs of Native Americans, edited by Michael Katakis, pp. 17-25. University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, Philadelphia.
Preucel, Robert W. 1996. Cooking status: Hohokam ideology, power, and social reproduction. In Interpreting Southwestern Diversity: Underlying Principles and Overarching Patterns, edited by Paul Fish and J. Jefferson Reid, Arizona State University, Anthropological Research Papers No. 48. pp. 125-131.
Hill, James N., W. Nicholas Trierweiler and Robert W. Preucel 1996. The evolution of cultural complexity: A case from the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico. In Emergent Complexity: The Evolution of Intermediate Societies, edited by Jeanne E. Arnold, pp. 107-127, International Monographs in Archaeology, Ann Arbor.
Preucel, Robert W and Meredith Chesson 1994. Blue corn girls: A herstory of three early women archaeologists at Tecolote, New Mexico. In Women in Archaeology, edited by Cheryl Claassen, pp. 67-84. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
Preucel, Robert W. and John Barker 1993. A social history of maize on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico. In Papers on the Early Classic Period Prehistory of the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico, edited by Timothy Kohler and A. Linse, pp. 105-119. Washington State University, Department of Anthropology Reports of Investigations No. 65. Pullman.
Leone, Mark P. and Robert W. Preucel 1992. Archaeology in a democratic society: A critical theory approach. In Quests and Quandaries: Visions of Archaeology's Future. edited by LuAnn Wandsnider, pp. 115-135. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Occasional Paper No. 20. Carbondale.
Preucel, Robert W. 1991. The philosophy of archaeology. In Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past. edited by Robert W. Preucel, Center for Archaeological Investigations, pp. 17-29. Southern Illinois University, Occasional Paper No. 10. Carbondale.
Preucel, Robert W. 1991. Introduction. In Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past. edited by Robert W. Preucel, pp. 1-14. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Occasional Paper No. 10. Carbondale.
Year | Degree | Institution |
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1988 | PhD | University of California, Los Angeles |
1982 | MA | University of California, Los Angeles |
1979 | MA | University of Chicago |
1978 | BA | University of Pennsylvania |
Faculty Fellow, Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C. 2015
Emeritus Fellow, Louis J. Kolb Society
Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA. 2013-present.
Ethel-Jane Westfield Bunting Fellowship
School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM. 2005.
Visiting Fellow, Churchill College
Cambridge University, Cambridge, England 1993.
Visiting Scholar, Department of Archaeology,
Cambridge University, Cambridge, England 1993.
Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar, Center for Archaeological Investigations
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. 1988-1989.
ANTH 1125 - Indigenous Archaeologies |
ANTH 1901 - Anthropology in/of the Museum |
ANTH 1910I - Material Matters |
ANTH 2501 - Principles of Archaeology |
ANTH 2515 - Material Matters |