Peter E. Siegel

Tel. (973) 655-3415

Education

Ph.D.      State University of New York - Binghamton   Anthropology                                                      1992

M.A.       State University of New York - Binghamton   Anthropology                                                      1982

B.A.        University of Delaware, Newark                        Anthropology                                                      1978

B.S.         University of Delaware, Newark                        Entomology and Applied Ecology                    1978

Professional Interests

Dr. Siegel is an archaeologist with interests in the evolution of complex society and chiefdoms, lithic analysis, spatial analysis, quantitative methods, ethnoarchaeology, historical ecology, and heritage and cultural resource management. His primary areas of archaeological and ethnographic field work are in the Caribbean, lowland South America, and eastern North America.

Research Funding

Dr. Siegel has received funding for his research from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the John Heinz III Charitable Fund of the Heinz Family Foundation for Latin American Archaeological Field Research.

Sample Publications

Siegel, Peter E.

2007        Dynamic Dualism: A Structural Analysis of Circular Communities. Proceedings of the International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology 21(2):525-536. University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

Siegel, Peter E. (editor)

2005        Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico.  University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

Siegel, Peter E.

2004        What Happened After A.D. 600 on Puerto Rico? Corporate Groups, Population Restructuring, and Post-Saladoid Social Changes. In Late Ceramic Age Societies in the Eastern Caribbean, edited by André Delpuech and Corinne Hofman, pp. 87-100. Paris Monographs in American Archaeology No. 14. BAR International Series. Archaeopress, Oxford.

Siegel, Peter E., Robert G. Kingsley, and Tod L. Benedict

 2001       Oberly Island: Trend and Tradition in the Lower Lehigh Valley. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 71(2):16-59. 

Siegel, Peter E.

  1999      Contested Places and Places of Contest: The Evolution of Social Power and Ceremonial Space in Prehistoric Puerto Rico.  Latin American Antiquity 10:209-238.

Siegel, Peter E.

  1997      Ancestor Worship and Cosmology among the Taínos.  In Taíno: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean, edited by Fatima Bercht, Estrellita Brodsky, John Alan Farmer, and Dicey Taylor, pp. 106-111. The Monacelli Press and El Museo del Barrio, New York.

Siegel, Peter E.

  1996      Ideology and Culture Change in Prehistoric Puerto Rico:  A View from the Community. Journal of Field Archaeology 23:313-333.