  DARLA DALE Lecturer, Archaeology Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences PhD, Washington Univ, 2006 314-935-4937 dddale@artsci.wustl.edu |
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| DARLA DALE Lecturer, Archaeology Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences PhD, Washington Univ, 2006 314-935-4937 dddale@artsci.wustl.edu |
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I am interested in studying variation in hunter-gatherer socio-economic organization, possible causes for this variation, and ways we might recognize socio-economic variation in the archaeological record. My research focuses on a prehistoric, East African hunter-gatherer group, known as the Kansyore. Kansyore hunter-gatherers are of considerable anthropological interest because they are associated with highly decorated and abundant ceramics, a relatively intensive lacustrine subsistence, and relatively intense occupation episodes.
Last summer (2001), I spent time in the National Museums of Kenya analyzing ceramics and other Kansyore material recovered from excavations I conducted in 2000. In addition to my hunter-gatherer research, I have also undertaken an ethnoarchaeological study of Ugandan potters, which included a petrological study of the ceramic temper, and other archaeological projects in East Africa.
For more information see the overview of the department's research in archaeology.
Dale, Darla
2000 Recent Archaeological Investigation of Kansyore Sites in Western Kenya. Azania XXXV, p.. 204-207.
Dale, Darla, Marshall, Fiona, and T. Pilgram
(forthcoming) Delayed-return hunter-gatherers in Africa? Historic perspectives from the Okiek and archaeological perspectives from the Kansyore. In Hunters and Gatherers in Theory and Archaeology, Center for Archaeological Investigations, SIU, Carbondale, Occasional Paper No. 31.
Darla Dale and a crew member from Olorgesailie, an Acheulean site in southern Kenya.