
Adam T. Smith
(PhD, U Arizona 1996) Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College is an archaeologist specializing in the Bronze and Iron Ages of the South Caucasus, Southwest Asia and central Eurasia; complex societies, state formation, and politics; archaeological theory; space and landscape; representation and aesthetics.
email: atsmith@uchicago.edu
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Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Selected Recent Publications:
Books and Edited Volumes:
(In review) The
Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies I: Regional
Survey in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia (with Ruben
Badalyan). Monograph under review with the Oriental Institute
Publications (OIP) series.
(In press) Social
Orders and Social Landscapes: Proceedings
of the 2005 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology.
Co-edited with Laura
Popova and Charles Hartley.
Cambridge
Scholars Press.
2006 Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian
Archaeology. Co-edited with David Peterson and Laura Popova.
Colloquia Pontica Series. Brill, Leiden.
2003 The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex
Polities. The University
of California Press,
Berkeley.
2003 Archaeology in the Borderlands: Investigations in Caucasia
and Beyond. Co-edited with Karen
Rubinson. The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Publications at UCLA, Los Angeles.
Articles and Book Chapters:
(In review) Village, Fortress, and Town in Bronze
and Iron Age Southern Caucasia: A Preliminary Report on the 2003-2006
Investigations of Project ArAGATS on the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia
(with R. Badalyan, I. Lindsay, L. Khatchadourian, and P. Avetisyan).
Under review by Eurasia Antiqua.
(In press) The Failures of the Present: The Impact
of Archaeology on Village Life (with L. Khatchdourian). Ararat Quarterly.
2006 A History of Archaeological
Practices in the Republic
of Armenia (with Ian Lindsay). Journal
of Field Archaeology 31(2):165-184.
2006 Prometheus Unbound: Southern Caucasia in Prehistory. Journal of World Prehistory 19(4):
229-279.
2006 Undisciplined Theory. Archaeological Dialogues 13(2): 158-163.
2006 Representational Aesthetics and
Political Subjectivity: The Spectacular in Urartian Images of
Performance. In Spectacle,
Performance, and Power in Premodern Complex Society edited by T.
Inomata and L. Coben, pp. 103-134. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.
2005 Svyatilishche Pozdnego
Bonzovogo Veka Gekharota (with R. Badalyan and P. Avetisyan). In Kul’tura Drevnej Armenii, XIII: Materialy
Respublikanskoj Nauchnoj Sessii, pp. 109-115. Armenian Academy
of Sciences, Yerevan.
2004 The End of the Essential
Archaeological Subject. Archaeological
Dialogues 11(1): 1-20.
2004 Early Complex Societies in
Southern Caucasia: A Preliminary Report on the 2002 Archaeological
Investigations by Project ArAGATS in the Tsakahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia (with
Ruben Badalyan, Pavel Avetisyan, and Mkrtich
Zardaryan). American
Journal of Archaeology 108(1): 1-41.
2003 The Emergence of
Socio-Political Complexity in Southern Caucasia
(with Ruben Badalyan and Pavel Avetisyan). In Archaeology in the Borderlands: Investigations in
Caucasia and Beyond, edited by Adam T. Smith and Karen S. Rubinson. The Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology Publications at UCLA, Los
Angeles.
2001 The Limitations of Doxa: Agency
and Subjectivity from an Archaeological Point of View. Journal of Social Archaeology. 1(2): 155-171.
2000 Preliminary Report on the 1998
Archaeological Investigations of Project ArAGATS in the Tsakahovit Plain, Armenia (with Ruben Badalyan and Pavel
Avetisyan). Studi
Micenei ed Anatolici 42(1): 19-59.
2000 Rendering the Political
Aesthetic: Political Legitimacy in Urartian Representations of the Built
Environment. Journal of
Anthropological Archaeology 19: 131-163.
1999 The Making of an Urartian
Landscape in the Ararat Plain: A Study of State Architectonics. American Journal of Archaeology 103(1):
43-69.
1995 The Production of Space and the
House of Xidi Sukur (with Nicholas David). Current Anthropology
36(3): 441-471.
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