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Robert Drennan

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Archeology

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#670

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Robert Drennan's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Robert D. Drennan is an archaeologist who specializes in the development of sociopolitical complexity for prehistoric societies. He has carried out fieldwork in Mexico, Colombia, and China. He received his Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Michigan and in 2004 was admitted into the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Pittsburgh.

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Grand challenges for archaeology (2014) (346)
Statistics for Archaeologists: A Commonsense Approach (1998) (145)
Communities, Settlements, Sites, and Surveys: Regional-Scale Analysis of Prehistoric Human Interaction (2005) (127)
Long-Distance Transport Costs in Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica (1984) (126)
Comparing archaeological settlement systems with rank-size graphs: a measure of shape and statistical confidence (2004) (122)
Patterned variation in prehistoric chiefdoms. (2006) (100)
Chiefdoms in the Americas (1989) (99)
Long-Distance Movement of Goods in the Mesoamerican Formative and Classic (1984) (96)
Early Complex Societies in NE China: The Chifeng International Collaborative Archaeological Research Project (2002) (77)
Archaeology as a social science (2012) (74)
Degrees and Kinds of Inequality (2010) (56)
Fabrica San Jose and Middle Formative Society in the Valley of Oaxaca (1976) (55)
Statistics For Archaeologists (1996) (54)
Regional Settlement Demography in Archaeology (2015) (48)
Chiefdoms in northern South America (1995) (42)
The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies: Patterned Variation in Regional Trajectories of Community Growth (2011) (37)
Hongshan chiefly communities in Neolithic northeastern China (2010) (36)
Chiefdoms and states in the Yuncheng Basin and the Chifeng region: A comparative analysis of settlement systems in North China (2010) (35)
Statistics for Archaeologists, 2nd Edition (2009) (34)
A Refinement of Chronological Seriation Using Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling (1976) (32)
The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies: Challenges for Comparative Study of Early Complex Societies (2011) (30)
Regional Dynamics of Chiefdoms in the Valle de la Plata, Colombia (1991) (25)
Social Inequality and Agricultural Resources in the Valle de la Plata, Colombia (1995) (25)
The Economic Systems of Ancient Oaxaca: A Regional Perspective [and Comments and Reply] (1983) (24)
Centralized Communities, Population, and Social Complexity After Sedentarization (2008) (23)
Betwixt and between in the intermediate area (1996) (19)
The Comparative Study of Chiefly Communities in the Eurasian Steppe Region (2011) (18)
Hongshan households and communities in Neolithic northeastern China (2017) (17)
A place of pilgrimage? Niuheliang and its role in Hongshan society (2017) (14)
Comparative archaeology: A commitment to understanding variation (2011) (12)
Games, Players, Rules, and Circumstances (2000) (10)
Chiefdoms of Southwestern Colombia (2008) (9)
Porters, Pots, and Profit: The Economics of Long-Distance Exchange in Mesoamerica (1985) (9)
Environmental risk buffering in Chinese Neolithic villages: Impacts on community structure in the Central Plains and the Western Liao Valley (2020) (8)
What is the Archaeology of Chiefdoms About (1992) (7)
Comparative Analysis of Neolithic Household Artifact Assemblage Data from Northern China (2016) (7)
Prehistoric social, political, and economic development in the area of the Tehuacan Valley : some results of the Palo Blanco project (1979) (7)
Ancient Civilization and Trade (1976) (6)
What Can Be Learned by Estimating Human Energy Costs? (1994) (6)
The environmental context of human habitation (1989) (4)
Samples and Populations (2009) (4)
Letting the Gini Out of the Bottle: Hazards of Measuring Inequality Archaeologically (2016) (4)
Forum: Grand Challenges for Archaeology (2014) (3)
Environment and human occupation = El medioambiente y la ocupación humana (1989) (3)
Similarities between Cases (2009) (2)
Local economies and household spacing in early chiefdom communities (2021) (2)
STATISTICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY (2008) (2)
Comparing Proportions of Different Samples (2009) (2)
Tales from the Crypt: Learning from Mortuary Evidence in Archaeology (2001) (1)
The leap of faith: From data to conclusions in Maya studies (1980) (1)
Multivariate Approaches and Variables (2009) (0)
Title page (2010) (0)
Archaeology of the Cañada de Cuicatlán, Oaxaca. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; no. 80 (1997) (0)
The Shape or Distribution of a Batch (2009) (0)
How to Succeed in Seriation without Really Trying (1979) (0)
Archeology: Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Southern Valley of Mexico: The Chalco‐Xochimilco Region. Jeffrey R. Parsons, Elizabeth Brumfiel, Mary H. Parsons, and David J. Wilson. (1983) (0)
Sampling without Finding Anything (2009) (0)
Relating a Measurement Variable to Another Measurement Variable (2009) (0)
The Spread or Dispersion of a Batch (2009) (0)
Monte albán: Collecting, analyzing, and publishing information about a prehistoric city (1981) (0)
Comparing Two Sample Means (2009) (0)
The Level or Center of a Batch (2009) (0)
Lower Xiajiadian period demography and sociopolitical organization: some results of collaborative regional settlement patterns research in NE China (2009) (0)
Elite Ambitions, Public Works, and Political Consolidation: A Comparative View (2015) (0)
Confidence and Population Means (2009) (0)
Marine Shell Trade and Classic Teotihuacan, Mexico. Charles C. Kolb. International Series 364. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford, 1987. xv + 227 pp., figures, appendices, biblio. £15.00 + $8.00 (paper). (1990) (0)
Sampling a Population with Subgroups (2009) (0)
Sampling and Reality (2009) (0)
Patterned variation in emergence of early chiefdoms (2006) (0)
Comparing Means of More than Two Samples (2009) (0)
Categories and Population Proportions (2009) (0)
LAQ volume 24 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (2013) (0)
Different Samples from the Same Population (2009) (0)
Patterns of Household Refuse and Socioeconomic Differentiation: A Comparative Analysis (2015) (0)
SETTLEMENT SYSTEM ANALYSIS (2008) (0)
Medians and Resampling (2009) (0)
Batches of Numbers (2009) (0)
David C. Grove (ed.). Ancient Chalcatzingo . 581 pages, 228 plates, 243 figures, 91 tables, 52 maps. 1987. Austin: University of Texas Press; ISBN 0-292-70372-4 hardback $75. (1988) (0)
Pathways from Farmers to States around the Globe (2019) (0)
The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States (review) (2007) (0)
Corrigendum to “Hongshan households and communities in Neolithic northeastern China” [J. Anthropol. Archaeol. 47 (2017) 50–71] (2019) (0)
Sampling a Site or Region with Spatial Units (2009) (0)
Principal Components Analysis (2009) (0)

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