Darla Dale

Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

Lecturer, Archaeology

Degrees:

Ph.D. Washington University, 2007

E-mail:

dddale@artsci.wustl.edu

Phone:

(314) 935-4937

Fax:

(314) 935-5875

Office:

205 South Brookings Hall

Office Hours:

Monday 2-3 & Wednesday 1-2

Mailbox:

Campus Box 1117
209 South Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130

Research Interests

I am interested in studying variation in hunter-gatherer socio-economic organization, possible causes for this variation, and ways we might recognize socio-economic variation in the archaeological record. My research focuses on a prehistoric, East African hunter-gatherer group, known as the Kansyore. Kansyore hunter-gatherers are of considerable anthropological interest because they are associated with highly decorated and abundant ceramics, a relatively intensive lacustrine subsistence, and relatively intense occupation episodes.

In the summer of 2001, I spent time in the National Museums of Kenya analyzing ceramics and other Kansyore material recovered from excavations I conducted in 2000. In addition to my hunter-gatherer research, I have also undertaken an ethnoarchaeological study of Ugandan potters, which included a petrological study of the ceramic temper, and other archaeological projects in East Africa.

Selected Publications

Dale, Darla

2000 Recent Archaeological Investigation of Kansyore Sites in Western Kenya. Azania XXXV, p.. 204-207.

Dale, Darla, Marshall, Fiona, and T. Pilgram

Dale, D., Marshall F. and T. Pilgram. 2004 Delayed-Return Hunter-Gatherers in Africa? Historic Perspectives from the Okiek and Archaeological Perspectives from the Kansyore. In Hunters and Gatherers in Theory and Archaeology. G. Crothers Ed. Chapter 15, pp. 340-375. Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper 31, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Dale, Darla and Ashley, Ceri Z.

Dale, Darla and Ashley, Ceri Z.(2010) 'Holocene hunter-fisher-gatherer communities: new perspectives on Kansyore Using communities of Western Kenya', Azania:Archaeological Research in Africa, 45:1, 24-48.