VITA
Kathryn A. Kamp
1517 Elm
Grinnell, Iowa 50112
(641) 236-6775
Department of Anthropology
Grinnell College
Grinnell, Iowa 50ll2
(641) 269-3140
Education:
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Arizona 1982
M.A. Anthropology, University of Arizona 1977
M.A. Psychology, University of Oregon 1974
B.A. Psychology, Carleton College 1972
Dissertation Title:
Architectural Indices of Socio-economic Variability: An Ethnoarchaeological Case Study from Syria
External Grants and Awards:
Luce Foundation Grant: “Four Thousand Years of Environmental Change in a Maya Forest” (with David
Campbell and John Whittaker); $500,000 over 5 years—Feb. 2001
Consortium trip to Turkey—June 2000
National Science Foundation Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grant (with John Whittaker)Equipping an Undergraduate Archaeology Lab—August 1999
National Forest Service Challenge Grant--For partial support of Grinnell's Summer Archaeological Field
School--May 1992; May 1994 with supplement August 1994
National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations Malone Fellow--March 1989--Middle East Study Tour to Iraq and
United Arab Emirates
National Science Foundation Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grant--For Computerization of
Archaeological Field School and Field Methods Classes -- May 1988
Agnes Lindley Foundation grant in support of Grinnell College Field School, 1985 season.
University of Arizona: Graduate College Fellowship for Academic Excellence; Graduate Research
Development Fund Grant; Graduate Tuition Scholarship
University of Oregon: NIMH Behavioral Biology Traineeship
Publications:
Books
Kamp, Kathryn, ed.
2002. Children in the Prehistoric Puebloan Southwest. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Kamp, Kathryn and John Whittaker
1999. Surviving Adversity: Life in an Elden Phase Sinagua Village. University of Utah Anthropological Papers
No. 121, Salt Lake City.
Kamp, Kathryn
1998 Life in the Pueblo: Understanding the Past Through Archaeology. Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, Ill.
1981 Lithic Procurement at Lake Mead: The Collection of 26CK2375. Western Archeological and Conservation
Center Publications in Anthropology #19. National Park Service, Tucson. (Also available National Technical
Information Service.)
Articles
Kamp, Kathryn, John Whittaker, Rafael Guerra, Kimberly McLean, Beter Brands, and Jose V. Guerra Awe
Submitted Gender, Production, and Ritual: Examining Spinning among the Late Classic Maya. Latin American
Antiquity.
Kamp, Kathryn A.
In Press Dominant Discourses; Lived Experiences: Studying the Archaeology of Children and Childhood. In
Constructing Prehistoric Childhoods, edited by Jane Baxter. American Anthropological Society, Washington,
D.C.
Kamp, Kathryn A.
2003 Review of Pueblo Pottery Figurines: The Expression of Cultural Perceptions in Clay. Journal of
Anthropological Research 59: 361-363.
2002. Working for a Living: Childhood in the Prehistoric Puebloan Southwest. In Children in the Prehistoric
Puebloan Southwest, edited by K.A. Kamp, pp. 71-89. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2002. Review of Homol’ovi III: A Pueblo Hamlet in the Middle Little Colorado River Valley (edited by E.
Charles Adams). Journal of Anthropological Research 58: 573-4.
Kamp, Kathryn A. and John C. Whittaker
2002. Prehistoric Puebloan Children in Archaeology and Art. In Children in the Prehistoric Puebloan
Southwest, edited by K.A. Kamp, pp. 14-40. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Kamp, Kathryn A.
2001. Prehistoric Children Working and Playing: A Southwestern Case Study in Learning Ceramics. Journal of
Anthropological Research 57: 427-450.
2001. Review of Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia (edited by S. T. E
vans and T. L. Webster). Latin American Antiquity 12(3): 340-341.
2001. Review of The Constructed Past: Experimental Archaeology, Education and the Public (edited by P.G.
Stone and P.G. Planel). American Antiquity 66: 537-538.
2001. Where Have All the Children Gone?: The Archaeology of Childhood. Journal of Archaeological Method
and Theory 8 (1): 1-34.
2000. From Village to Tell: Household Ethnoarchaeology in Syria. Near Eastern Archaeology 62(4).
1999. Archaeology. In Encyclopedia of Tourism, edited by Jafar Jafari, pp. 52-53. Routledge: London.
Caulkins, D. Douglas, Jonathon G. Andelson, Vicki Bentley-Condit and Kathryn A. Kamp
1999. Discovery-Mode Teaching Using the Electronic Human Relations Area Files for Cross-Cultural
Comparison. Cross-Cultural Research 33:277-296.
Kamp, Kathryn A., Nicole Timmerman, Greg Lind, Jules Graybill, and Ian Natowsky
1999. Discovering Childhood: Using Fingerprints to Find Children in the Archaeological Record. American
Antiquity 64 (2): 309-315.
Whittaker, John, Douglas Caulkins, and Kathryn Kamp
1998 Evaluating Consistency in Typology and Classification. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 5
(2): 129-164.
Kamp, Kathryn
1998 Social Hierarchy and Burial Treatments: A Comparative Assessment. Cross-Cultural Research 32(1): 79115.
1998 Review of Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest. American Antiquity 63:504- 506.
1997 Understanding the Past by Examining the Present: Studies from a Syrian Village. In Anthropology
Matters: Essays in Honor of Ralph A. Luebben, edited by Jonathon G. Andelson, pp.64-79. Grinnell College
Sesquicentennial Publication.
1995 A Use-Wear Analysis of the Function of Basalt Cylinders. Kiva, The Journal of Southwestern
Anthropology and History, 61(2): 109-119.
1993 Toward an Archaeology of Architecture: Clues from a Modern Syrian Village. Journal of Anthropological
Research 49(4): 293-316.
Whittaker, John and Kathryn Kamp
1992 Sinagua Painted Armbands. Kiva, The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History,. 58(2):177187.
Kamp, Kathryn A.
1992 Review of Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East. Journal of Developing Societies 8(1-2).
Kamp, Kathryn A., Rebecca Wallace, and Gerrit Saylor
1991 A Functional Interpretation of Two Sinagua Brownwares. Pottery Southwest 18(4):1-5.
Kamp, Kathryn A.
1991 Waste Disposal in a Syrian Village. In Ethnoarchaeology of Refuse Disposal, edited by Livingston Sutro
and Edward Staski. Arizona State University Press Anthropological Research Papers No. 42.
Kamp, Kathryn A. and John C. Whittaker
1990 Lizard Man Village: A Small Site Perspective on Hierarchical Sinagua Social Organization. Kiva, The
Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History, 55(2): 99-125.
Kamp, Kathryn A.
1987 Affluence and Image:Ethnoarchaeology in a SyrianVillage. Journal of Field Archaeology 14:283-296.
Kamp, Kathryn A. and John C. Whittaker
1986 Unproductive Lithic Resources at Lake Mead. American Antiquity 51(2):383-388.
Whittaker, John C. and Kathryn A. Kamp
1985 Drained Lakes and Small Sites: Rock Creek Lake. Journal of the Iowa Archaeological Society 32:91-102.
Kamp, Kathryn A.
1982 Architectural Indices of Socio-economic Variability: An Ethnoarchaeological Case Study from Syria.
University of Arizona Ph.D. dissertation. University of Michigan Microfilms.
Kamp, Kathryn A. and Norman Yoffee
1980 Ethnicity in Ancient Western Asia during the Early Second Millennium B.C.: Archaeological
Assessments and Ethnoarchaeological Prospectives. Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research
237:85-103.
Kamp, Kathryn A.
1979 Ethnicity in the Archaeological Record: Second Millennium B.C. Mesopotamia, A Case Study.
Preliminary Paper on file at the Arizona State Museum Library; Tucson. 132 pp.
Kamp, Kathryn A. and John C. Whittaker
1979 A Cultural Resources Survey of Mineral King, Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks, Tulare County,
California. Report on file, National Park Service, Western Archeological and Conservation Center. Tucson.
(Also available through National Technical Information Service).
Whittaker, John and Kathryn Kamp
1979 Collection of Proposed Sewage Complex, Site 26WP740, Lehman Caves National Monument, White Pine
County, Nevada. Report on file, National Park Service, Western Archeological and Conservation Center,
Tucson.
Papers Presented:
Kamp, Kathryn and John Whittaker
2004 Wind and Walls: Understanding Architecture and Space Use at New Caves Pueblo. Poster Presented at
the Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Montreal, April 2004.
Kamp, Kathryn A.
2003 Steps Toward an Archaeology of Children and Childhood. Paper Presented at the American
Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago, November 2003.
2000 Child Labor in the Prehistoric Southwestern Pueblos: Necessary, Not Evil. Paper Presented at the Society
of American Archaeology Meetings, Philadelphia, April 2000.
John C. Whittaker, Barrett Brenton and Kathryn A. Kamp
1998 Corn Storage in Simple Pits. Paper Presented at the Central States Anthropological Society Meetings,
Kansas City, April 1998.
Kamp, Kathryn A.
1998 Prints on Pots. Paper Presented at the Society of American Archaeology Meetings, Seattle, March 1998.
1998 Hands-on Research as a Teaching Technique. Paper Presented at the Central States Anthropological
Society Meetings, Kansas City, April 1998
1996 Production and Specialization: New Insights from Cyprus. Paper Presented at the Society of American
Archaeology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 1996.
Kamp, Kathyrn A. and John C. Whittaker
1990 View from the Trenches: The Dirt About Sinagua Social Organization. Paper presented at the Society of
American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, May 1990.
Kamp, Kathryn A.
1987 Excavations at Lizard Man Village: The Archaeological Interpretation of an Ancient Sinagua Farming
Hamlet. Grinnell Alumni College, June 1987.
Kamp, Kathryn A.
1986 The View from the Village. Paper presented at the Society of American Archaeology Annual Meeting,
New Orleans, May 1986.
Kamp, Kathryn A. and John C. Whittaker
1985 Small Site Economic Integration Among the Sinagua. Paper presented at the Society for American
Archaeology Annual Meeting, Denver, May 1985.
Kamp, Kathryn A.
1984 Ethnoarchaeology of Waste Disposal in Darnaj. Syria. Paper presented at the Society for American
Archaeology Annual Meeting, Portland, April 1984.
1984 Using the Present to Discover the Past. Paper in Iowa Humanities Board "Public Archaeology Series".
1983 Unproductive Lithic Resources at Lake Mead: An Evaluation of Two Techniques. Paper presented at
Southwestern Anthropological Society Meetings, San Diego, March 1983.
Whittaker, John C. and Kathryn A. Kamp
1983 The Ethnoarchaeological Study of Stone Tools. Paper presented at the Society of American Archeology
Meetings, Pittsburg, April 1983.
Kamp, Kathryn A.
1981 Ethnoarcheological Perspectives on the Interpretation of Mudbrick Domestic Architecture. Paper
presented at the Society for American Archaeology Meetings, San Diego, May 1981.
1979 Ethnicity in the Archaeological Record. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology: Vancouver, B.C.
Teaching Experience:
Dept. of Anthropology, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Professor--Fall 1997-Present
Associate Professor--Fall 1988-Spring 1997
Assistant Professor--Fall 1982-Spring 1988
Have taught one or more semesters of:
Introduction to Anthropology; Human Evolution; Human Evolution and Prehistory; Archeological Field
Methods; Archeology of the Middle East; Hunters and Foragers; Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas; Introduction to
Statistics; Freshman Writing Tutorials: "Childhood and Youth in Anthropological Perspective," "Archaeology:
Myth and Reality"; "Becoming Human: Evolutionary & Anthropological Perspectives"; "Images of the Arab";
Gender and Women's Studies Capstone: Feminist Critiques of the Liberal Arts Human Evolution; Archaeology
of North America; Peoples of the Middle East; Cultures in Contact; Archaeological Field Methods; Symbols of
Power; Archeological Field School; Engendering Archaeology; Experimental Archaeology and
Ethnoarchaeology.
Participant: Faculty Development Seminars in Teaching Statistics
Teaching Writing, and Teaching Oral Communication Skills, Noun
Women's Studies Reading Group, Faculty Statistics Seminar, Faculty-Faculty Tutorial on Archaeological
Chemistry, Ford Bridging Project.
Co-director, Grinnell College Archaeological Field School
Instructor, Dept. of Anthroplogy, University of Arizona. Teaching Introductory Cultural Anthropology.
Summer 1982.
Associate Faculty, Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona. Teaching Introductory Cultural Anthropology.
Spring 1979.
Teaching Assistant and Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson. Total of six
semesters. Have assisted with one or more semesters of Introductory Physical Anthropology/Archeology,
Cultural Anthropology, Old World Pre-history, and Archeology of the Prehistoric Near East.
Field Experience and other Employment:
Directed Hewlett Grant Project on Tourist Development in Cyprus; Summer 1995
Co-director with J. Whittaker, Grinnell Archaeological Field School. Excavation of a Sinagua pithouse and
pueblo village, training students. Summer 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1994, continuing.
Directed (with J. Whittaker) Survey of Rock Creek Lake State Park in cooperation with Iowa Conservation
Commission.
Field Supervisor, Tell El-Hayyat, Jordan, preliminary field season of University of Arizona excavation. Duties:
responsible for one excavation area of an early to middle Bronze Age site. Jointly responsible (with John
Whittaker) for lithic analysis. Winter 1982.
Archeologist, Western Archeological and Conservation Center (National Park Service), Tucson. Duties: Issuing
archeological clearances for construction projects conducted on Park lands, conducting library research to aid in
mangement decisions, some small field projects. ( time). Spring 1981 - Spring 1982.
Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson. Duties: Reading,
summarizing and evaluating literature on the collapse of civilization for Dr. Noman Yoffee. Fall 1981 - Spring
1982.
Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork in a Syrian village. Dissertation research on material correlates of the
sociodemographic variables, wealth, household size, and number of co-residing nuclear family units. Summer
1980.
Archaeologist (GS-07), Western Archeological Center (National Park Service), Tucson, Arizona. Work on a
variety of small projects, involving fieldwork, analysis, and write-up. Summer 1979.
Research Assistant, Arizona State Museum, Tucson, Arizona. Duties: Computer coding information about
historic and prehistoric Arizona archaeological sites. Fall 1979.
Area Supervisor, Joint American Expedition to Syria, Archeological Institute, UCLA. Duties: All notetaking,
drawing, and field report writing for one excavation area; supervision of 2-8 local workmen and 1-2 students;
preliminary processing of artifacts. Under Drs. Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati at the site of
Terqa. Fall-Winter 1977.
Assistant Archaeologist, Arizona State Museum, Tucson, Arizona. Duties: Writing site summaries for cultural
resource management contract, drafting maps for report. Summer 1977.
University of Arizona Grasshopper Field School, Cibecue, Arizona. Training concentrated on excavation of
masonry pueblo, but also included survey and surface collection. Summer 1976.
Interviewer, Consumer Research Inc.; Minneapolis, Minn. Duties: Interviewing and supervising interviewing
for market research company. Summer 1974 to Summer 1975.
Research Assistant, Dept. of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene. Duties: Construction of lab equipment,
conditioning of monkeys, perfusion, implantation of electrodes, electro-physiological single-cell recording.
Summer 1973.
In Progress:
Analysis of material recovered by the Field School excavations at Fortress Hills Pueblo and New Caves Pueblo,
Sinagua sites excavated by the Grinnell Archaeological Field School.
Research Project on fingerprint analysis.
Childhood and the Archaeological Record
Geographic Information Systems Analysis of Survey Data from the Coconino National Forest
Research Interests:
Ethnoarchaeology, Experimental Archaeology, Prehistoric American southwest, Complex Societies, Cultural
Anthropology of Western Asia.