John H. Blitz
Professor Emeritus
- email: jblitz@ua.edu
- phone (205) 348-4074
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Bio
Research Interests
- Theoretical: Anthropological archaeology, origins of rank, class, and complex societies, sociopolitical differentiation and integration, political economy of households and communities, material correlates of social memory and collective identity, technological change
- Methodological: regional and site settlement analysis, pottery chronology and function, analysis of monumental architecture
- Regional and Temporal: U.S. Southeast, especially Mississippian and Woodland periods (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia), Maya Lowlands (Belize)