Author: John Schoenfelder

I'm a lecturer at UMass Boston, and I also contribute occasionally to projects of the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research. I've worked on a wide variety of archaeological projects in a wide variety of places: California, Israel, Hawaii, Alaska, Indonesia, Iceland, Greenland, and New England. I earned my PhD at UCLA, where I wrote a dissertation that focused on the archaeology and anthropology of the Indonesian island of Bali, exploring the relationship between the development and spread of irrigated rice agriculture and the evolution of polities (chiefdoms and states) and their monuments. I have also contributed to cultural and genetic anthropology projects regarding Indonesia. I'm interested in cartographic survey (field mapping), and enjoy taking photographs of archaeological sites from kites, poles, and other small things that go up in the sky.