Dorothy Hosler
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Professor of Archeology and Ancient Technology
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BA Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1966 PhD Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1986 Prof. Hosler's research focuses on the production and use of copper and copper based alloys in the Ancient Americas (in Ecuador and Mexico) and the relation of those indigenous technologies to each other through long distance trade along the Pacific coast. The data collection takes place in Mexico and South America and laboratory-analytic research takes place at MIT. Prof. Hosler is currently carrying out fieldwork in the archaeologically unknown area of Guerrero, Mexico, where she has identified and will excavate sites where people were smelting ore and fashioning metal artifacts. Apart from metal production, her research also includes investigations of the production and functionality that archaeological pottery, stone, and bone objects and artifacts made from other materials, as well as materials/design reserach on ancient pyramids and other structures. Selected Publications"Copper Sources, Metal Production and Metals Trade in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica," Science 273 (5283): 1819-1824 (1996) (with A. Marcfarlane). The Sounds and Colors of Power: The Metallurgical Technology of Ancient West Mexico. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (1994). "The Huastec Region: A Second Locus for the Production of Bronze Alloys in Ancient Mesoamerica," Science 257 (5074): 1215-1220 (1992) (with G. Stresser-Pean). "The Development of Ancient Mesoamerican Metallurgy," J. of Metals 42(5): 44-47 (1990). Axe-Monies and Their Relatives. Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology No. 30, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. (1990). 2000-2001 Teaching Involvements Fall 2000 3.983 Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization Spring 2001 3.981 Materials in Human Experience For more information, click here |