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Home Page Courses Taught Human Origins Fantastic Archaeology The Celtic World The Celtic World (Honors) European Archaeology World Archaeology Archaeology of Gender (Honors) Archaeology of Gender Who Owns The Past? Arch. Professionalism Perspectives on Prehistory Heuneburg Project Research Design Reports 1999 Excavation Report 2000 Excavation Report 2002 Excavation Report Curriculum Vitae 1998 Gender Conference Public Lectures Anthropology Events AIA-Milwaukee Chapter

Co-Director, Center for Celtic Studies Coordinator, Museum Studies Program Editor, e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies Office Hours Sabin Hall, Room 229 Phone: (414) 229-4583 e-mail: barnold@uwm.edu Born Würzburg, Germany Degrees Ph.D., Anthropology, Harvard University B.A., Archaeology,Yale University Research Interests The archaeological interpretation and analysis of complex societies, particularly the transition from chiefdom to state; material culture as a symbolic system and a means of communicating social messages; the role of alcohol and its consumption in establishing and maintaining social relationships in prehistoric and historic societies; the meaning of monuments and their cultural construction; the archaeology of gender; and the history of archaeology, particularly its role in 19th and 20th century political developments in Europe. Current Projects Excavation of burial mounds associated with the Heuneburg hillfort in southwestern Germany. The site is located on the Danube, and is part of an archaeological landscape which has been studied intensively since the 19th century. Concurrent analysis of ancient DNA from excavated skeletal material from the tumulus cemeteries in order to reconstruct social organization of the early Iron Age populations which inhabited this area from 600 to 400 B.C.. Photographs of the site and the surrounding landscape are available in the Archaeological Projects section of the Web site. Selected Publications 2006 Gender in mortuary ritual. In Sarah M. Nelson (ed.) Reader in Gender Archaeology, pp. 137-170. Walnut Creek: AltaMira. 2006 "Arierdämmerung": Race and Archaeology in Nazi Germany. In Chris Gosden (ed.) Race, Racism and Archaeology. World Archaeology 38 (1): 8-31. London: Routledge. 2006 Pseudoarchaeology and nationalism. In Garrett G. Fagan (ed.) Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public, pp.154-179. London: Routledge. 2005 Mobile Men, Sedentary Women? Material culture as a marker of regional and supra-regional interaction in early Iron Age southwest Germany. In Halina Dobrzanska, J.V.S. Megaw and Paulina Poleska (eds.) Celts on the Margin: Studies in European Cultural Interaction 7th c. BC - 1st c. AD. Essays in Honor of Zenon Wozniak, pp. 17-26. Krakow: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of the Sciences. 2004 Dealing with the devil: the Faustian bargain of archaeology under dictatorship. In Michael Galaty and Charles Watkinson (eds.) Archaeology Under Dictatorship, pp. 191-212. New York: Kluwer/Plenum. 2002 Justifying genocide: the supporting role of archaeology in "ethnic cleansing". In Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide, edited by Alex Hinton, pp. 95-116. University of California Press. 2002 "Sein und Werden": Gender as Process in Mortuary Ritual. In In Pursuit of Gender: Worldwide Archaeological Approaches, edited by Sarah Nelson and Myriam Rosen-Ayalon, pp. 239-256. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press. 2001 Gender and the Archaeology of Death, edited by Bettina Arnold and Nancy L. Wicker. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press. 2000 "A transatlantic perspective on German archaeology." In Archaeology, Ideology and Society: The German Experience, edited by Heinrich Härke, pp. 398-422. Series Gesellschaften und Staaten Vol. 7. Bern and Frankfurt: Fritz Lang Verlag. 1999 "Drinking the Feast": Alcohol and the legitimation of power in Celtic Europe. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 9(1): 71-93. 1996 "Honorary males" or women of substance? Gender, status and power in Iron Age Europe. Journal of European Archaeology 3(2): 153-168. Ayrshire: Cruithne Press. 1995 Celtic Chiefdom, Celtic State: The Evolution of Complex Social Systems in Prehistoric Europe, edited by Bettina Arnold and D. Blair Gibson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1992 The past as propaganda: How Hitler's archaeologists distorted European prehistory to justify racist and territorial goals. Archaeology July/August 1992:30-37. 1991 The deposed princess of Vix: The need for an engendered European prehistory. In The Archaeology of Gender: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Chacmool Conference, edited by Dale Walde and Noreen D. Willows, pp. 366-374. Calgary: University of Calgary. 1990 The past as propaganda: totalitarian archaeology in Nazi Germany. Antiquity 64(244):464-478.

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