Bradford Andrews
Director, Anthropology Program
Phone: 253-535-8389
Email: andrewbw@plu.edu
Office Location: Xavier Hall - 142
Curriculum Vitae: View my CV
- Professional
- Biography
Additional Titles/Roles
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
Education
- Ph.D., Anthropology, Penn State University, 1999
- M.A., Anthropology, Penn State University, 1995
- B.A., Anthropology, Ft. Lewis College, Durango, CO, 1986
Areas of Emphasis or Expertise
- Craft Production
- Lithic Technology
- Cultural Ecology
- New World Complex Societies
- Great Basin and Montane Foragers & Semi-Sedentary Farmers
Selected Publications
- Lithic tool provisioning in the western Aztec provinces: A view from Calixtlahuaca
- La economía de la lítica tallada y las Élites en Mesoamérica Prehispánica: El caso de Xochicalco durante el Epiclásico (The Flaked Stone Economy and the Elites in Prehispanic Mesoamerica: the Case of Xochicalco)
- Berkeley Rockshelter Lithics: Understanding the Late Holocene Use of the Mount Rainier Area
- La habilidad de los artesanos de navajas prismáticas y su relación con la intensidad productiva: un análisis comparativo de datos del periodo clásico en Teotihuacán y del periodo epiclásico en Xochicalco (The Skill of Prismatic Blade Making Craftsmen and its Relationship to Productive Intensity: A Comparative Analysis of Data from Classic Period Teotihuacan and Epiclassic Period Xochicalco)
- Obsidian Craft Production in Ancient Central Mexico; Archaeological Research at Xochicalco
- Sayil Revisited: Inferring Terminal Classic Population Size and Dynamics in the West-Central Yucatan Peninsula ́
- Approaching the Hatch Jasper Quarry From a Technological Perspective: A Study of Prehistoric Stone Tool Production in Central Pennsylvania
- Lithic tool provisioning in the western Aztec provinces: A view from Calixtlahuaca
Books
- Pathways to Prismatic Blades: A Study in Mesoamerican Obsidian Core-Blade Technology co-edited with Kenneth Hirth (The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press 2002) : View Book
Selected Presentations
- 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Getting to the Point: Evidence for the Bow at Epiclassic Xochicalaco, Portland, OR (2023)
- 87th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Imperial Impacts: Calixtlahuaca’s Stone Tool Economy Before and After Aztec Conquest, Chicago, IL (2022)
- Invited talk given at the Franke Tobey Jones Senior Living Community, Prehistoric Use of the Mt Rainier Area: A Seasonal Paradise in the High Country, Tacoma, WA (2022)
Professional Memberships/Organizations
Biography
Bradford W. Andrews is an anthropological archaeologist with Mesoamerican and North American research interests. He received his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University in 1999. As an anthropological archaeologist with an ecological focus, his specific research interests include the comparative investigation of societal complexity, urbanism, political economy, and craft production.
His primary methodological specialty is the study of flaked stone tool production; this approach provides a useful means for reconstructing ancient economic systems, which provide a basis for making inferences about other aspects of society including social organization and ideology. He has published an edited volume with Kenneth Hirth, Pathways to Prismatic Blades, and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters relating to Mesoamerican stone tool production and consumption. He has also published
journal articles on the prehistory of peoples who lived in Colorado, Utah, and Pennsylvania, and an article on reconstructing the pre-Hispanic population at the Mayan site of Sayil on the Yucatan Peninsula.