Graduate Student, Anthropology-Archaeology
PhD candidate
Thesis Title: Social Diversity in the Prehispanic Southwest: Learning, Weaving and Identity in the Chaco Regional System, A.D. 850-1140
About
Edward A. Jolie is a mixedblood Oglala Lakota/Hodulgee Muscogee Indian Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of New Mexico. He received his B.A. in anthropology from Mercyhurst College in 2001 and an M.A. in anthropology from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2004. He is interested in North American prehistory, perishable technologies (e.g., textiles, baskets, mats, sandals), social diversity, social learning, cultural transmission and innovation, anthropological ethics, and Native American-anthropologist relations. He has worked on a number of collections of perishable artifacts from throughout the United States, Mexico, Peru, and Jordan. For his dissertation research he is using basketry to examine social diversity in the Chaco regional system (AD 850–1140) in the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest. A secondary project being conducted with Phil Geib examines the role of basketry in the shift to intensive use of small seed resources in the Southwest nearly 10,000 years ago.
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