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Crown, Patricia L. |
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The University of New Mexico |
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Anthropology |
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Crown is a key leader in the recent transformation of scholarly understandings of the prehistoric American Southwest. Her pioneering archaeological research brings new rigor to the study of the peoples of the Southwest and has led to significant new insights into their social, economic, and ideological activities. |
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Patricia Crown studies the production, consumption, exchange, and discard of artifacts in the past, particularly archaeological ceramics. To understand who made ceramics and how they were used, she has conducted analyses of ceramic composition and residues in collaboration with scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, the Smithsonian Conservation Analytical Laboratory, and the Hershey Company. Her dissertation research focused on the ceramics from a small puebl |
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