Welcome to My Home Page...

I am an archaeologist specializing in the study of complex societies in Old World prehistory. My main area of fieldwork research is the Eurasian steppe where I have been actively collaborating with various scholars in Russia and Mongolia since 1998. This website provides details on my current projects as well as my teaching at the University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology. If you should have any questions regarding my research or teaching please feel free to contact me.

Key Research Interests:

1. • Eurasian steppe prehistory and archaeology
   

2. • Mortuary archaeology
   

3. • Zooarchaeology
   

4. • Early mining, metal production and social organization
   

5. • Socio- economic systems of early mobile pastoralists
   

6. • Anthropological theory
   

Current Projects (see individual web pages for more info):

1. •Principal Investigator of a Wenner-Gren funded bioarchaeology analysis of Middle Bronze Age human remains from Southern Urals, Russia
   

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3. •Principal Investigator of a National Science Foundation funded project focusing on the excavation of a Middle Bronze Age settlement and a microregional survey in the Southern Urals, Russia
   

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5. •Co-Investigator of a Natural Environment Research Council funded project focusing on the radiometric dating of Bronze Age archaeological sites in the Southern Urals, Russia
   

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7. •Co-Investigator of an Isaac Newton Trust (UK) funded project for the collection of modern horse hair samples from Mongolian horses for DNA analysis
   

CURRICULUM VITAE

Click here for PDF of CV: CV_Hanks_Sept.2008.pdf