Position : Director of the Zooarchaeology Laboratory at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Senior-Lecturer on Anthropology at Harvard, and Project Director of HARP, the Harappa Archaeological Research Project.
Dr. Meadow's technical specialty is the study of the remains of animals found
in archaeological sites (Zooarchaeology). His main research interests include
the domestication and exploitation of animals during the pre- and protohistoric
periods in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, the development of the
Indus Civilization, and the provisioning of ancient urban settlements.
He has carried out or is carrying out analysis of faunal remains from the
following sites: Balakot, Allahdino, Mehrgarh, Nausharo, Sibri, Pirak, Jailpur,
and Harappa (Pakistan); Hajji Firuz and Tepe Yahya (Iran); and Obluang (Thailand).
He is a founder member and a member of the Executive Committee of the International
Council of Archaeozoology. He is also a founder member of the working group
on the Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas and is on the editorial
committees of the journals Paléorient, Archaeozoologica, and Archaeofauna.
He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science in 1995 and is a member of many national and international professional
organisations.
Selected publications :
1997. (with J.M. Kenoyer) Excavations at Harappa 1994-1995: New perspectives
on the Indus script, craft activities, and city organisation. In South Asian
Archaeology 1995 (R and B. Allchin, Eds.). New Delhi: Oxford and IBH.
1997. Review of The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia, by F.R. Allchin
et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), Journal of South Asian
Studies 56: 514-516.
1996. (with J.M. Kenoyer and R.P. Wright) Harappa Archaeological Research
Project: 1996 Excavations, submitted to the Department of Archaeology and
Museums, Government of Pakistan, 17 December, 1996.
1996. The origins and spread of agriculture and pastoralism in northwestern
South Asia, in The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia,
(D.R. Harris, Ed.), pp/ 309-412. London: UCL Press.
1995. (with Hitomi Hongo)
Faunal analysis with a focus on Anatolia. American Journal of Archaeology
99: 96-99.
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