Donald Hardesty
Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Ph.D., University of Oregon
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Historical archaeology, industrial archaeology, ecological anthropology, comparative frontiers, mining history, and archaeology of North America have been the central focus of my research.
Current Research Projects:
1) Archaeology of colonization, including overland emigration (e.g., the sites of the Donner Party winter camps in the Sierra Nevada Mountains) and the evolution of transportation and communication networks (e.g., the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System in the eastern interior of Alaska).
2) Archaeology of the mining industry in the American West.
3) Archaeology of cultural identity (e.g., ethnicity of 19th century Chinese immigrants in Nevada).
Selected Publications:
Hardesty, D. L. 2003. “Safety and the Ethics of Archaeological Fieldwork.” In Ethical Issues in Archaeology, edited by L. Zimmerman, J. Zimmer, and K. Vitelli, pp. 201-212. AltaMira Press.
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Hardesty, D. L. 2003. “Mining Rushes and Landscape Learning in the Modern World.” In Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes: The Archaeology of Adaptation, edited by M. Rockman and J. Steele, pp. 81-95. Routledge Press, London.
Hardesty, D. L. 2001. "Issues in Preserving Toxic Wastes as Heritage Sites." The Public Historian 23(2):19-28.
Hardesty, D. L., and D. D. Fowler. 2001. "Archaeology and Environmental Changes." In New Directions in Anthropology and Environment: Intersections, edited by C. L. Crumley, A. E. van Deventer, and J. J. Fletcher, pp. 72-89. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek.
Hardesty, D. L. 2001. "Archaeology." In Our Fragile World: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development, Volume II, edited by M. K. Tolba, pp. 1165-1181. Eolss Publishers Co. Ltd, Oxford.
Hardesty, D. L., and B. Little. 2000. Assessing Site Significance: A Guide for Archaeologists and Historians. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek.
Hardesty, D. L. 2000. "Ethnographic Landscapes: Transforming Nature into Culture." In Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America, edited by A. R. Alanen and R. Z. Melnick, pp. 169-185. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Hardesty, D. L. 2000. "Speaking in Tongues: the Multiple Voices of Fieldwork in Industrial Archaeology." IA: The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archaeology 26(2):43-47.
Hardesty, D. L. 1999. "Archaeological Models of the Modern World in the Great Basin: World Systems and Beyond." In Current Models in Great Basin Anthropology, edited by C. Beck, pp. 213-219. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Hardesty, D. L. 1998. "Gender and Archaeology on the Comstock." In Women on the Comstock Lode, edited by E. Raymond and R. James, pp. 282-302. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Hardesty, D. L. 1998. "Power and the Industrial Mining Community in the American West." In Social Approaches to an Industrial Past: the Anthropology and Archaeology of Mining, edited by A. B. Knapp, V. C. Pigott, and E. W. Herbert, pp. 81-96. Routledge Press, London.
Hardesty, D. L. 1997. Archaeology of the Donner Party. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Hardesty, D. L. 1994. "Class, Gender Strategies, and Material Culture in the Mining West." In Those of Little Note: Gender, Race, and Class in Historical Archaeology, edited by E. Scott, pp. 129-145. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Hardesty, D. L. 1992. "The Miner's Domestic Household: Perspectives from the American West." In Toward a Social History of Mining in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by K. Tenfelde, pp. 180-196. Verlag C.H. Beck, Munich.
Hardesty, D. L. 1988. The Archaeology of Mining and Miners. Special Publication Number 6, Society for Historical Archaeology.