BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Christyann M. Darwent
Department of Anthropology
330 Young Hall, One Shields Avenue
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616-8522
cmdarwent@ucdavis.edu
http://anthropology.ucdavis.edu/people/christyann-m.-darwent-1
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION:
University of Calgary, Canada
Simon Fraser University, Canada
University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Archaeology
Archaeology
Anthropology
Bachelor of Science, 1992
Master of Arts, 1995
Doctor of Philosophy, 2001
APPOINTMENTS:
July 2008–present:
Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of California, Davis
September 2010–June 2011: Visiting Researcher, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic
Studies Center, Bowdoin College, Maine
July 2001–2008:
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of California, Davis
August 1999–May 2001:
Instructor, Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Darwent, C. M. (2011) Archaeological and ethnographic evidence for indigenous hunting and
fishing economies in the North American Arctic and Subarctic. In North American Indigenous
Subsistence Economies (B. Smith, ed.) Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Publications, Rowman &
Littlefield, Lanham, MD. (In press)
LeMoine, G. L., and C. M. Darwent (2010) The Inglefield Land archaeology project: introduction and
overview. Danish Journal of Geography 110(2). (In press)
Darwent, C. M. and J. C. Foin (2010) Taphonomic comparison of faunal remains from a Late Dorset
and an Early Thule dwelling at Cape Grinnell, Northwest Greenland. Danish Journal of
Geography 110(2). (In press)
Darwent, J., H. Lange, G. LeMoine, and C. Darwent (2008) The longest longhouse in Greenland.
Antiquity 82(315): March 2008 Project Gallery
http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/darwent/index.html
Darwent, J., C. Darwent, G. LeMoine, and H. Lange (2007) Archaeological survey of eastern
Inglefield Land, northwestern Greenland. Arctic Anthropology 44(2):51–86.
Darwent, C. M. (2007) Lagomorpha (Mammalia) from Late Miocene deposits at Lemudong’o
southern Kenya. Kirtlandia 56:112–120.
Darwent, C. M. (2006) Reassessing the Old Whaling locality at Cape Krusenstern, Alaska. In:
Dynamics of Northern Societies. Proceedings of the SILA/NABO Conference on Arctic and North
Atlantic Archaeology, Copenhagen, May 10th–14th, 2004, edited by Jette Arneborg and Bjarne
Grønnow, pp. 95–102. PNM, Publications from the National Museum, Studies in Archaeology
and History, Vol. 10, Copenhagen.
Darwent, J., and C. M. Darwent (2005) The occupational history of the Old Whaling site at Cape
Krusenstern. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 3(2):135-153
Darwent, C. M. and J. Darwent (2004) Where the muskox roamed: biogeographic distribution of
tundra muskox (Ovibos moschatus) in the Eastern Arctic. In: Zooarchaeology and Conservation
Biology (R. L. Lyman and K. P. Cannon, eds.). Pp. 61-87. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
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Darwent, C. M. (2004) The highs and lows of high Arctic mammals: temporal change and regional
variability in Paleoeskimo subsistence. In: Colonisation, Migration, and Marginal Areas: A
Zooarchaeological Approach. (M. Mondini, S. Munoz & S. Wickler, eds.). Pp. 62-73. Oxbow Books,
Oxford, UK.
Darwent, C. M., and J. E. Gilliland (2001) Osteological Analysis of domestic dogs from burials in
southern Missouri. Missouri Archaeologist 62:149–169.
CURRENT GRANTS:
Inglefield Land Archaeology Project, IPY Initiative—Dynamic Social Systems at the Entrance to
Greenland (NSF-OPP #0732850), co-PI with Genevieve LeMoine, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum,
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine (2008-11).
International Polar Year: Human Response to Climate Change at Cape Espenberg, Alaska, AD 800–
1400 (NSF-OPP #0755725), subaward with PIs John Hoffecker and Owen Mason, INSTAAR,
University of Colorado-Boulder (2009-12).
GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL ADVISORS:
R. Lee Lyman, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia (PhD advisor)
Jonathan Driver, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Canada (MA advisor)
THESIS ADVISOR AND POSTGRADUATE SCHOLAR SPONSOR:
Sarah Brown, current postdoctoral researcher, 2011 (sponsor)
Jessica Burton, MA in Anthropology, 2004 (major professor)
Won Choi*, PhD Candidate (committee member)
Jeremy Foin, current PhD Student in Anthropology (major professor)
Joanne Goodsell, MA in Anthropology, 2009 (major professor)
Trine Johansen, MA in Anthropology, 2007; current PhD Candidate (major professor)
Diana Lawrence, M.S. in Forensic Science, 2006 (committee member)
Allika Ruby, MA in Anthropology, 2005 (major professor)
Simone Sebalo, MS in Environmental Engineering, 2009 (committee member)
Andy Tremayne, current PhD Student in Anthropology (major professor)
Adrian Whitaker, PhD in Anthropology, 2008 (co-major professor)
Greg White, PhD in Anthropology 2003 (committee member)
* passed away August 2009
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