Elizabeth Barber
Research Associate
Ph.D., Yale University, 1968
E-mail:
barber@oxy.edu
Position and Home Institution
Professor Emerita, Occidental College
Research Summary
Research interests include the interfaces between archaeology and linguistics, cognitive archaeology (archaeology of brain and language; evolution of myth, ritual, dance, writing, dress and other modes of transmitting information), the origin and development of textiles and dress in western Eurasia, and archaeological decipherment. Latest book concerns application of cognitive studies to how the human brain constructs mythology.
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