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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Department of Anthropology and Geography

Anthropology Program

Peter Bleed

Dr. Peter Bleed

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1973

Professor of Anthropology

Office: 822 Oldfather Hall
Email: pbleed@unl.edu
Phone: (402) 472-2439
Fax: (402) 472-9642

Subfield:

Archaeology

Major Research Interests:

Technology, material culture, lithics, historic archaeology, conflict and war, Japan, and North America

Dr. Bleed's primary interest is technology and especially the application of evolutionary approaches to the study of material culture. In addition to traditional excavation, these interests have led him to experimental studies of tool effectiveness, evaluation of prehistoric and ethnographic tools in terms of design principles developed by engineers, and theoretical study archaeological tools assemblages. He is interested in both prehistoric Japan and historic North America and has recently begun investigation of the battlefields of the Spanish Cuban-American War of 1898.

Recent and Representative Publications:

2000. National Treasure. RKLOG Press. Littleton, CO (Finalist, 2001 Independent Book Publishers Awards, Multicultural Fiction)

2001. "Artifice Constrained - What Determines Technological Choice?" Chapter 10 in Anthropological Perspectives on Technology, M.B. Schiffer pp. 151-162. University of New Mexico Press.

2001. "Trees or Chains, Links or Branches: Conceptual Alternatives for Consideration of Sequential Activities." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 8 (1):101-127, March 2001.

2002. "Obviously Sequential, but Continuous or Staged? Cognitive Basis of Lithic Technology in three late paleolithic assemblages from Japan." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (21):329-343.

2003. "Cheap, Regular and Reliable: Implications of Design Variation in of Late Pleistocene Japanese Microblade Technology." Thinking Small, R. Elston and S. Kuhn editors, Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association Number 12, pp 95-102.

2004. "Refitting as Mass Analysis." In Aggregate Analysis in Chipped Stone Studies. Edited by Christopher T.Hall and Mary Lou Larson. pp 184-198. University of Utah Press.