Dorian Q FULLER B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Research Interests:

• Archaeobotany. Human Plant Use in Prehistory, reconstructing agricultural systems, approaches to interpreting archaeobotanical evidence and its integration with theoretical issues in archaeology.
• Origins and Spread of Agriculture. Plant domestication.
• Later Prehistory/ Protohistory of South Asia, including Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures of India, rise and fall of Harappan Civilisation. South Indian 'Megalithic' Iron Age, and the environmental and climatic prehistory of South Asia.
• Archaeology of Nubia and Sudan, including Meroitic State organisation and the Post-Meroitic Transition in material culture; and the economic basis and social organisation of early ceramic cultures (Early Khartoum Tradition).
• Archaeological theory, in particular the history of thought with regard to Sudanic and South Asian archaeology.
• Contributions to the African Heritage and Archaeology website
  

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Educational Background:

• Lowell High School, San Francisco
• B.A., Yale University, 1995, double major in Anthropology and Organismal Biology.
• Honours thesis (Anthropology). Problems in the Archaeology of Meroitic and Post-Meroitic Nubia:Theoretical and Methodological Issues
• Honours thesis (Org. Bio.). Systematics and Leaf Architecture of Gunnera.
• M.Phil, Cambridge, Archaeology, 1997
• M. Phil thesis. The Emergence of Agricultural Economies in India: A Reconsideration of the Bio-archaeological Evidence
• Ph.D. Thesis submitted Dec. 1999, Cambridge, examined March 2000, approved May 2000.The Emergence of Agricultural Societies in South India: Botanical and Archaeological Perspectives.

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