E. Charles Adams
Professor of Archaeology and Head of Research
Arizona State Museum
Curriculum Vita
Revised: 11/04
Personal Information:
E. Charles Adams
Head of Research Division and Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State Museum
Professor, Department of Anthropology
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0026
Email Dr. Adams
(520) 621-2093
Education:
B.A. Anthropology University of Colorado 1970
Graduated cum laude
M.A. Anthropology University of Colorado 1973
Thesis: Dead Horse Site: a Basketmaker III and Pueblo II Site in the Klethla
Valley, Northeastern Arizona.
Ph.D. Anthropology University of Colorado 1975
Dissertation: Causes of Prehistoric Settlement Systems in the Lower Piedra District,
Colorado.
Major Field: Archaeology
Areas of Expertise:
Ethnoarchaeology, Southwest archaeology, prehistoric ritual & social
organization, Southwest protohistoric and historic, Hopi Indians, public archaeology.
Employment History:
2001-present Head, Research Division, Arizona State Museum. Responsibilities
include administering finances of the division, representing the division on
the museum's Executive Committee, chairing the ASM Archaeology Research Advisory
Council.
1992-present Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State Museum Responsibilities
include developing and conducting research on state land. Currently, Director
of the Homol'ovi Research Program which involves a multi-year research program
conducting excavations in several sites in the vicinity of Winslow, Arizona
dating A.D. 1250-1400. These sites are ancestral to the Hopi Indians.
1998-present Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona,
teach upper division and graduate level courses on various aspects of Southwest
Archaeology.
1994-present General Editor, Arizona State Museum, Archaeological Series.
Publishes one to two monographs per year, which are distributed by the UA Press.
Service:
Intramural:
1990-1992 Member, Academic Professional Continuing Status and Promotion
1997-2002 Committee, Arizona State Museum. Chair: 1992, 2001
1991-1992 Member, Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, Univ. Of Arizona
1993-1995 Chair, 1994-1995.
1994-present General Editor, Archaeological Series, Arizona State Museum
1996-1998 Member, Executive Committee, Arizona State Museum
2001-present
2003-present Member, University of Arizona Committee on Continuing Status
and Promotion
Extramural:
1991-1999 Member, Board of Trustees, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff.
Executive Committee, 1995-1999
1991-1992 Member, Environmental Education Guidelines Committee, Department
of Education, Arizona
2002-present Member, Governor's Archaeology Advisory Commission to Arizona
State Historic Preservation Office.
Publications:
[All the publications can be obtained either through the UA
Press
or Amazon.com]
Books, Monographs, and Edited Volumes:
Adams, E. Charles
1991 The Origin and Development of the Pueblo Katsina Cult. The University
of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Adams, E. Charles and Kelley Ann Hays, editors
1991 Homol'ovi II: Archaeology of an Ancestral Hopi Village, Arizona.
Anthropological Papers 55. The University of Arizona. Press, Tucson. Coauthored
two chapters
Adams, E.Charles, editor
1996 River of Change: Prehistory of the Middle Little Colorado River Valley.
Archaeological Series 185, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona,
Tucson. Authored one chapter.
Adams, E. Charles, editor
2001 Homol'ovi III: A Pueblo Hamlet in the Middle Little Colorado River Valley,
Northeastern Arizona. Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series 193. The University
of Arizona, Tucson. Authored eight chapters.
Adams, E. Charles
2002 Homol'ovi: An Ancient Hopi Settlement Cluster. University of Arizona
Press, Tucson.
Adams, E. Charles and Andrew I. Duff, editors
2004 The Protohistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1275-1600. University of Arizona
Press, Tucson.
Authored or coauthored three chapters.
Adams, E. Charles, editor
2004 Homol'ovi IV: The First Village. Arizona State Museum Occasional
Electronic Papers No. 1. University of Arizona. Tucson.
Authored nine chapters.
Chapters or Articles in Edited Volumes:
Adams, E. Charles and Kelley Ann Hays
1992 Iconography and Community Integration in the American Southwest: A Comparative
and Contextual Approach. In Ancient Thought, Ancient Images: the Archaeology
of Idealogy, edited by A. Sean Goldsmith, pp. 141-150. The Archaeological
Association of the University of Calgary, Calgary.
McGuire, Randall H., E. Charles Adams, Ben A. Nelson, and Katherine Spielmann
1994 Drawing the Southwest to Scale: Perspectives on Macroregional Relations.
In Themes in Southwest Prehistory, edited by George J. Gumerman, pp.
239-265. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.
Adams, E. Charles
1994 The Katsina Cult: A Western Pueblo Perspective. In Kachinas in the Pueblo
World, edited by Polly Schaafsma, pp. 35-46. The University of New Mexico
Press, Albuquerque.
1996 Understanding Aggregation in the Homol'ovi Pueblos: Scalar Stress and
Social Power. In River of Change: Prehistory of the Middle Little Colorado
River Valley, Arizona, edited by E. Charles Adams, pp. 1-14. Archaeological
Series, no. 185. Arizona State Museum ,University of Arizona, Tucson
1996 The Pueblo III - Pueblo IV Transition in the Hopi Area, Arizona. In
The Prehistoric Pueblo World: A.D. 1150-1350, edited by M. A. Adler, pp.
48-58. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
1998 Late Prehistory in the Middle Little Colorado River Area, A Regional
Perspective. In Migration and Reorganization: The Pueblo IV Period in the
American Southwest, pp. 53-63, edited by K. A. Spielmann. Arizona State
University Anthropological Research Papers.
Walker, William H., Vincent M. LaMotta, and E. Charles Adams
2000 Katsinas and Kiva Abandonment: A Deposit-Oriented Perspective on Religion
in Southwest Prehistory. In The Archaeology of Regional Interaction: Religion,
Warfare, and Exchange Across the American Southwest and Beyond, edited by
Michelle Hegmon, pp. 341-360. University Press of Colorado.
Adams, E. Charles
2000 Salado: The View from the Colorado Plateau. In Prehistoric Salado Culture
of the American Southwest, edited by Jeffrey S. Dean, pp. 263-274. Amerind
Foundation Publication. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
2004 Homol'ovi: A 13 th -14 th Century Settlement Cluster in Northeastern
Arizona. In The Protohistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1275-1600, edited by
E. Charles Adams and Andrew I. Duff, pp. 119-127. University of Arizona Press,
Tucson.
Adams, E. Charles and Andrew I. Duff
2004 Settlement Clusters and the Pueblo IV Period. In The Protohistoric Pueblo
World, A.D. 1275-1600, edited by E. Charles Adams and Andrew I. Duff, pp.
3-16. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Adams, E. Charles, Vincent M. LaMotta, and Kurt Dongoske
2004 Hopi Settlement Clusters Past and Present. In The Protohistoric Pueblo
World, A.D. 1275-1600, edited by E. Charles Adams and Andrew I. Duff, pp.
128-136. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Journal Articles:
1983 The Architectural Analogue to Hopi Social Organization and Room Use,
and Implications for Prehistoric Northern Southwestern Culture. American
Antiquity 48:44-61.
Adams, E. Charles, Miriam T. Stark, and Deborah S. Dosh
1993 Ceramic Distribution and Exchange: Jeddito Yellow Ware and Implications
for Social Complexity. Journal of Field Archaeology 29(1):3-21.
Adams, E. Charles, and M. Nieves Zedeño
1999 BAE Scholars as Documenters of Diversity and Change at Hopi, 1870-1895.
Journal of the Southwest 41:311-334
Adams, E. Charles, and Charla Hedberg
2002 Driftwood Use at Homol'ovi and Implications for Interpreting the Archaeological
Record. Kiva 67(4):363-384.
Grants and Contracts:
2000 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant with Vincent LaMotta entitled: "Understanding
Ritual Organization in Late Prehistoric Western Pueblos: A Case Study on Homol'ovi."
Total: $11,992.
2001 Wenner-Gren Foundation for: "Jeddito Yellow Ware: Chronology and
Sociopolitical Organization at Homol'ovi I, An Ancient Hopi Village." Total:
$20,000.
2002 National Science Foundation for: "Sociopolitical Organization of
Chevelon Ruin and the Homol'ovi Settlement Cluster, Northeastern Arizona."
Total: $230,357.
2002 Grant from Earthwatch through the Center for Field Research to continue
Homol'ovi Research. Total: $18,310
2003 Grant from Earthwatch through the Center for Field Research to continue
Homol'ovi Research. Total: $18,640
2004 Grant from Earthwatch through the Center for Field Research to continue
Homol'ovi Research. Total: $16,660
2004 Student Challenge Grant from the Durfee Foundation administered by Earthwatch
to support continued Homol'ovi Research. Total: $14,432
