Jeffrey Hantman                                                                      email
Professor Emeritus | Ph.D. Arizona State University 1983                                                                                       

Jeffrey Hantman (Professor, Anthropology Department) is an anthropological archaeologist who conducts research in the Eastern United States, principally in the Chesapeake Bay/Middle Atlantic region.  In this area he has had a long-term interest in the history of the Monacan Indian people of Virginia.  He has also conducted field research and published on ceramic analysis and demography in the ancestral Pueblo region of the Southwestern United States.  Recent publications include  “Indigenous Archaeologies: The Quiet Revolution Is Here” in  American Antiquity 2009,  “Does Rethinking Indigenous History Reframe the Jamestown Colony” in Across the Great Divide: Continuity and Change in Native North American Societies, 1400-1850,  University of Arizona Press (2010),  and “Monacan Meditation: Individual and Regional Archaeologies in the Contemporary Politics of Indian Identity,” in Places in Mind: Public Archaeology as Applied Anthropology, Routledge Press (2005).  He has co-edited several books including Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark and the Making of America (Virginia 2004).

His field research and teaching seek to explore and expand the application of archaeology to better understand colonial encounters and post-colonial persistence and change in Native America. Professor Hantman is interested in indigenous models of time and landscape and their role in archaeological interpretation. He has worked with the Monacan Indian Nation on writing collaborative histories and the repatriation of human remains and artifact collections to the Monacan Tribal Center in Amherst, Virginia.  Professor Hantman has directed the University of Virginia’s Summer Archaeological Field School in Virginia, focusing on Monacan towns and ritual centers.

Professor Hantman teaches courses in the Archaeology of North America, the Archaeology of Virginia, Archaeology as History, Native America, and an introductory course on Human Origins.  Professor Hantman has received the Monacan Tribal Association Award for Contributions to Monacan Culture, the Virginia Social Science Association Anthropology Scholar of the Year Award, the University of Virginia’s All University Teaching Award, the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Hillel Student Association, and he has served on several state boards and commissions overseeing historic landmarks and preservation planning in Virginia. 

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