 PAM
CRABTREE
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Sheep
horn core are from the Middle Saxon
site of
Brandon in eastern England |
Position:Associate
Professor of Anthropology
Education: B.A.
1972, Barnard
M.A.
1975, University
of Pennsylvania
Ph.D.
1982, University of Pennsylvania
E-mail: pc4@nyu.edu, PamCDougC@comcast.net
Phone: 212-998-8573
Research Sites: Dún
Ailinne, Ireland; Brandon, England;
Delaware
Water Gap, NJ
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Excavating at the Delaware Water Gap during the 1998 field
season |
Research Focus: Pam
Crabtree is a zooarchaeologist
whose
research interests center broadly on the uses of faunal
remains to study
past animal husbandry patterns, hunting practices, and diet.
She is also interested in the use of archaeological-recovered animal
remains to study trade, social status, ethnicity, and prehistoric
ritual. Crabtree’s primary area of interest is later
prehistoric and early medieval Europe, but she has also worked
on Natufian
settlement and subsistence in the Southern Levant and 18th-
and 19th-century sites in eastern North America.
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Excavating at the Delaware Water Gap during the 1998 field
season |
Crabtree
is currently completing three major research projects. The
first is the study of the animal remains from the Iron
Age site of Dún Ailinne
in Ireland. Dún Ailinne is a large, ceremonial site located southwest
of Dublin in County Kildare that was traditionally associated with the kings
of Leinster. Excavations were carried out at the site in the late 1960s and
1970s under the direction of Prof. Bernard Wailes of the University of Pennsylvania.
The site produced over 18,000 animal bones and fragments, the largest Iron
Age
faunal collection in Ireland. Pam Crabtree and Doug Campana are also studying
the worked bones and bone implements from Dún Ailinne.
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Crew chief, Mary
Socci, excavating at Salibiya in the West Bank |
Pam
Crabtree and Doug Campana are also completing the analysis of the mammal
and bird remains
from
the Middle Saxon site of Brandon in eastern England. Brandon is
a high-status residential site that was excavated over nine seasons
in the
1980s. The Brandon excavations yielded over 150,000 bird and mammal remains,
including exotic species such as grey seal, dolphin, and peregrine falcon.
The vast majority of the remains were sheep, which appear to have been kept
primarily
for their wool. Crabtree and Campana are currently preparing the final report
on the Brandon faunal remains.
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Exacavating
at the Delaware Water Gap during the 1999 field season
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Pam Crabtree has just completed a five-year study of
the
archaeological potential of French-and-Indian-War-period sites
in the Delaware Water Gap National
Recreation Area in northwest New Jersey. The study was carried out in conjunction
with John
Wright and Doug Campana of the National Park Service. The project included
four seasons of archaeological survey and excavation, including an extensive
program
of archaeological excavation at Fort Johns, archaeological testing a Fort
Naminock, and archaeological survey and mapping of an 18th- and 19th-century
African American
burial ground. Many NYU undergraduates and graduate students have taken part
in the excavation program at the Water Gap. We are currently preparing the
artifacts and faunal remains from the Water Gap for final publication.
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Harold Fuess excavating at Salibiya in the West Bank |
Crabtree’s
future research plans include the study of faunal remains recovered
from slave cabins in South Carolina, as part of an on-going survey and excavation
project. Crabtree regularly teaches graduate courses in faunal analysis,
the history of archaeological theory, and medieval archaeology.
She has also taught
contemporary archaeological theory, Near East I, and environmental archaeology,
and she recently co-taught Paleoanthropology 1 with Terry Harrison and Eric
Delson. Her undergraduate courses include Barbarian Europe, human
ecology, prehistoric
hunters and gatherers, and archaeology: early societies and cultures.
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Recent
and Selected Publications:
- Crabtree,
P.J. 2006. Diet and health in past animal populations:
Current research and future directions. Journal of Anthropological
Research, 62: 142-143
- Campana,
D. V. and P. J. Crabtree. 2003. Soldiers’ Diet
at Valley Forge: An Analysis of the Faunal Remains from the 2000
Excavation
Season. Bulletin
of the Florida
Museum of Natural History 44 (1): 199-204.
- Crabtree,
P.J. 2002. Ritual
Feasting in the Irish Iron Age: Re-examining the Fauna
from Dún
Ailinne in Light of Contemporary Archaeologcal Theory. In Behaviour
Behind Bones: The Zooarchaeology of Ritual,
Religion, Status and Identity, edited by Sharyn Jones O’Day,
Win Van Neer, and Anton Ervynck, pp. 62-65. Proceedings
of the 9th ICAZ Conference, Durham. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Crabtree,
P., D. V. Campana and J. R. Wright. 2002.
Exploring
the archaeological potential of French and Indian War Fortifications.
Culture Resource Management 25(3): 21-22.
- Campana,
D. V. and P.
J. Crabtree. 2002. The
diet of Washington's Soldier's at Valley Forge during
the winter of 1777-78. In Integrating
Zooarchaeology, ed M. Maltby, pp. 28-32. Oxbow
publishing.
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