Research Associate Professor and Curator
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Collections Assistant
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Assistant
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James Gunnerson
Professor and Curator Emeritus
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Professor and Curator Emeritus.
(402) 472-5044

B.A. Beloit College (1963); Ph.D. University of Illinois (1970).
Research interests include upper Amazon archaeology, ethnohistory and material culture as well as North American plains Indian archaeology, ethnohistory and material culture.


Publications:
1998
Trade and Alliance in the Trans-Missouri West. In Explorations in American Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Wesley R. Hurt, edited by Mark G. Plew, pp. 70 - 101. University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland.


1999
Cerámica Prehistórica del Río Chambira, Loreto (with Bartholomew Dean). Amazonia Peruana 26: 255-288.


2000
Mollusks and Marginal Utility (with Keith Perkins III). Central Plains Archaeology 8(1): 49-68.


2001
"Ecuadorian Highlands." In Encyclopedia of Prehistory, vol. 5: Middle America, pp. 162-203 edited by Peter Peregrine and Melvin Ember. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.


2002
Investigations at the Clary Ranch site, Nebraska. Antiquity 76(2002): 311-2. (with Matthew Glenn Hill, Matthew E. Hill, David W. May, David J. Rapson, Frederic Sellet, James L. Theler, and Lawrence C. Todd).

Art and Artifacts in Amazonia edited by Thomas P. Myers and María Susanna Cipoletti, Bonn American Studies 36, Verlag Anton Saurwein, Markt Schwaben, Germany.

The Many Ramifications of Material Culture in Amazonía (with María Susanna Cipoletti. In Art and Artifacts in Amazonia edited by Thomas P. Myers and María Susanna Cipoletti, pp. 1-9. Bonn American Studies 36, Verlag Anton Saurwein, Markt Schwaben, Germany.

Looking Inward: The Forescence of Conibo/Shipibo Art During the Rubber Boom. In Art and Artifacts in Amazonia edited by Thomas P. Myers and María Susanna Cipoletti, pp. 127-142. Bonn American Studies 36, Verlag Anton Saurwein, Markt Schwaben, Germany.

Investigations at the Clary Ranch Site, Nebraska. Current Research in the Pleistocene 19: 32-4 (with Matthew Glenn Hill, Matthew E. Hill, David W. May, David J. Rapson, Frederic Sellet, James L. Theler, and Lawrence C. Todd).


2003
Face Painting and Clothing of a Capulí Coquero (with Karrie Porter Brace). Journal of Latin American Lore 21(2): 221-38.

D.C. Kern, G. D’Aquino, T.E. Rodrigues, F.J.L. Frazão, W. Sombroek, and E.G. Neves). In Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties, Management edited by Johannes Lehmann, Dirse C. Kern, Bruno Glaser, and William I. Woods pp. 51 – 76. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.

Historical Perspectives on Amazonian Dark Earths (with W.M. Denevan, A. Winklerprins, A. Porro). In Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties, Management edited by Johannes Lehmann, Dirse C. Kern, Bruno Glaser, and William I. Woods pp. 15 - 28. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.


2004
Cambios culturales y demográficos en el Solimões, 1542 - 1700. In Los mundos de abajo y los mundos de arriba: Individuo y sociedad en las tierras bajas y en los Andes edited by M.S.Cipolletti, pp 219 - 239. Abya Yala, Quito.

Dark Earth in the Upper Amazon. In Amazonian Dark Earths: Exploration in Space and Time edited by B. Glaser and W. I. Woods, pp. 67-94. Springer-Verlag GmbH & Co., Heidelberg.

Evidencias Arqueológicas en las Cuencas de los Ríos Aichiyacu y Morona, Alto Amazonas, Loreto [with Santiago Rivas Panduro]. Unay Runa 7: 83-122

Variación regional y cultural en cerámica jívaro. Unay Runa 7:137-151