Philip L De Barros
Research Associate
Ph.D., UCLA, 1985
E-mail:
pdebarros@palomar.edu
Position and Home Institution
Professor of Anthropology & Coordinator of the Archaeology Program Palomar Community College, San Marcos, California
Research Interests
Late Stone Age and Iron Age West Africa; climate, technology, and culture change; complex tribes and chiefdoms; ceramic typology and seriation; soapstone production and exchange; public archaeology and archaeopolitics; Indians and archaeology; California hunter-gatherers.
Research Summary
West Africa: Late Stone Age/Early Iron Age transition – subsistence-settlement patterns and material culture, at Agarade Rockshelter in Central Togo and at Dekpassanware (800 B.C. – A.D. 150), a 75-acre site in the Bassar Region of northern Togo. Early and Later Iron Age of the Bassar Region, focusing on settlement patterns, subsistence, and iron age technologies (bellow-driven vs. induced draft furnaces). 2008 fieldwork focused on diet, seeking early evidence of yam, sorghum, and fonio cultivation, and the study of ores, furnace construction, tools, and slag from the Early Iron Age.
Southern California: study of foraging populations in Serrano traditional territory in the Crowder Canyon- Summit Valley Area of San Bernardino County, including yucca roasting pit sites; quarry, lithic-assay and chipping station sites; single/multiple occupation temporary camps during the last 3000-4000 years; and Late Prehistoric housepit village sites (3) and a probable sweatlodge site.
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