The Ancient Indus: Urbanism, Economy and Society (2010) - Cambridge University Press

Third Millennium Changing Times (2009) - Archaeological Dialogues 16(2):142-148.

Gendered relations in Ur III Mesopotamia: Kinship, Property and Labor.  In D. Bolger, ed., Gender through Time. (2008) Altamira Press:247-279.

Water Supply and History: Harappa and the Beas Settlement Survey (2008). Co-authoried, R. Wright, R. Bryson and J. Schuldenrein. Antiquity, Vol. 82, 315:37-48.

Prehistory of Urbanism (2002) - Encyclopedia of Urbanism, M. and C. Ember, ed., Grolier Press.

Craft and Social Identity (1998) (with Cathy L. Costin, eds.).  Washington D.C. American Anthropological Association, Archaeology Division Monograph 8.

Gender and Archaeology (1996) (editor) - University of Pennsylvania Press.


Current News / Projects
Updated August 2011

After publication of my book, The Ancient Indus: Urbanism, Economy and Society, (2010) Cambridge University Press,

++I turned to several projects.

*neutron activation analysis of exchange patterns in Middle Asia (eastern Iran, Afghanistan and southern Pakistan) in the third millennium BC with M. James Blackman.
*joint paper with Diane Bolger at Edinburgh University on gender studies in southwest Asia.
*re-analysis of the Kulli culture (Pakistan), a third millennium polity and its exchange networks.
*joint paper with David Lentz and Harriet Beaubien on the analysis of a jute textile.

These projects resulted in three papers now in press or in review

++Other research projects included

* continued research on climate change in the Indus civilization.
* new research on the Cultural Preservation and Heritage of Afghanistan at Mes Aynak and copper sourcing in the third and second millennia BC.

 I presented results of these projects at conferences: in Sante Fe, at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) on Climate Change and Archaeology; in Islamabad, Pakistan at an American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) conference paper on Cultural Heritage and Preservation of Rural Sites in Pakistan; and at the U. S. Embassy in Kabul, Site Preservation and Heritage in Afghanistan.

++At NYU, I will teach four courses this year.  In the Fall an undergraduate MAP course, Cultures in Context: Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt and a graduate course on the prehistory of the Near East and Egypt..  I am a member of the University’s Undergraduate Curriulum Committee (elected) and several departmental committees; an elected member of the American Anthropological Associations (AAA), Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology and on the Executive Board of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA, New York Society).