Adria LaViolette
Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program · College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences · University of Virginia
⭐ Not accepting advisees, but available as a committee member
Research interests
Archaeology of Africa; Iron Age; Swahili archaeology and history; precolonial urbanism; colonialism; household archaeology; craft specialization; collaborative heritage management.
Selected publications (since 2023)
2023 - A. LaViolette. Ethnoarchaeology. In A. Ogundiran and C. Gokee (eds.), Forum: The Future of African Archaeology, 2023 Perspectives. African Archaeological Review 40(4): 811-814.
2023 - A. LaViolette and N. Norman. The Archaeology of Portuguese Agricultural Outposts in the 17th-Century Zanzibar Countryside. In M. Hauser and J. J. Haines (eds.), The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean, pp. 128-151. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
2023 - E. Baužytė, A. LaViolette, J. Fleisher, A. Juma, M. Horton, B. Mapunda, and S. Wynne-Jones. An Archaeometallurgical Investigation of Iron Smithing in Swahili Contexts and its Wider Implications. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 15, 100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01768-7
2023 - A. LaViolette, J. Fleisher, and M.
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