David B. Small
 Professor of Anthropology

  Department of Sociology and Anthropology
  Lehigh University
  681 Taylor Street
  Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015-3169

  Office phone: 610-758-3787
  Fax: 610-758-6552
  E-mail: dbs6@lehigh.edu

Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge, England, 1983

My personal Web site

Research Interests
State Formation
Complex Society
Theoretical Approaches in Archaeology
Economic Archaeology
Historical Ecology
Mesoamerican Archaeology
Texts and Archaeology
Architecture and Society
Mediterranean Archaeology
Mortuary Archaeology
Heterarchy

Courses taught
General Anthropology
Environment and Culture
Intro. Physical Anthropology
General Archaeology
Social Evolution of Complex Organizations
Greek Archaeology
Roman Archaeology
Archaeology of Mesoamerica
Archaeological Method and Theory
Archaeological Field Methods
Archaeology of Interaction
Ancient Technology
Greek and Roman Cultures
Ancient Cities
Anthropology of Death and Dying
Social Theory
Comparative Early Civilizations
Archaeology of Death
Analysis of Archaeological Materials
Archaeology and the Media
Ancient Architects at Work
Historical Archaeology
Elementary Ancient Greek
Intermediate Ancient Greek
Blood, Pyramids, and the Tree of Life
Archaeological Field School

Recent Publications
Factoring the Countryside into Urban Populations, in Populations and Preindustrial Cities: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, edited by G. Storey, University of Alabama Press. 2006.

Reconstructing the Diet of Rancho del Rio’s Inhabitants by Paleoecological and Archaeological Methods, Alison Diefenderfer, David Small, Zichen Yu, Aaron Shugar. 34th International Symposium of Archaeological Sciences. 2006.

The Space and Place of Death. With H. Silverman. American Anthropological Association. 2002.