DR. KATHRYN WEEDMAN

Anthropological Archaeology

 

 

Contact information:

Anthropology Program

USF St. Petersburg

140 7th Avenue South, Davis 202

St. Petersburg, Florida 33701

phone: 727-873-4858

fax: 727-873-4526

email: kjw@stpt.usf.edu

 

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Vita

Student Projects

Faculty Profile

Courses & Syllabi

Research Opportunites

2008 Gamo Fieldschool

 

RESEACH:

Women & African Archaeology (SaFA)

 

Archaeology of the Horn (SaFA)

 

History of Hideworking in Ethiopia

 

Gamo Stone Tool Ethnoarchaeology

 

Konso Stone Tool & Gender Ethnoarchaeology

 

Bibliography of Stone Tool Ethnoarchaeology

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Film
2006                Tara Belkin, Steven Brandt and Kathryn WeedmanWoman the Tool Maker. (27 minutes). Archaeological Methods and Practice: An Educational Film Series. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek California.

Selected PUBLICATIONS  (click for pdf version)

Publication Topics: Ethnoarchaeology, Stone Tools, Gender, Variation Individual and Culture

2006 (Peer)    Michael Shott and Kathryn Weedman. Measuring Reduction in Stone Tools: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Gamo Hidescaper Blades from Ethiopia.  Journal of Archaeological Science XX (2006):1-20..

2006 (Peer)     Kathryn Weedman. An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Hafting and Stone Tools among the Gamo of southern Ethiopia, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory,13 (3):188-237.

2006                Kathryn Weedman. Gender and Ethnoarchaeology in Handbook of Gender in Archaeology, edited by Sarah Nelson, AltaMira Press: Walnut Creek.

2005                John W. Arthur and Kathryn Weedman. Chapter 7: Ethnoarchaeology. In Handbook for Archaeological Methods, edited by Herbert Maschner and Christopher Chippindale, AltaMira Press: Lanham.  

2005                Kathryn Weedman. Gender and Stone Tools: An Ethnographic Study of the Konso and Gamo Hideworkers of Southern Ethiopia. In Gender and Hide Production, edited by Lisa Frink and Kathryn Weedman, pp. 175-196, AltaMira Press:Walnut Creek.

2002                Kathryn Weedman. An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Stone-Tool Variability among the Gamo Hide Workers of Southern Ethiopia.  In Le Travail Du Cuir de La Prehistoire, edited by S. Beyries and F. Audoin-Rouzeau, pp.131-142, Editions APDCA: Antibes, France.

2002                Steven Brandt and Kathryn Weedman. The Ethnoarchaeology of Hide Working and Stone Tool Use in Konso, Southern Ethiopia: An Introduction. In Le Travail Du Cuir de La Prehistoire, edited by S. Beyries and F. Audoin-Rouzeau, pp. 113-130, Editions APDCA: Antibes, France.

2002 (Peer)    Kathryn Weedman. On the Spur of the Moment: Effects of Age and Experience on Hafted Stone Scraper Morphology. American Antiquity 67(4): 731-744.

2001 (Peer)    Kathryn Weedman. Who’s “That Girl”: British, South African, & American Women as Africanist Archaeologists in Colonial Africa (1860s to 1960s). African Archaeological Review 18(1): 1-45.

1997                Steven A. Brandt and Kathryn Weedman.  The Ethnoarchaeology of Hide Working and Flaked Stone Tool Use in Southern Ethiopia. In  XIIIth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, edited by Fukui, K., Kurimoto, E., and Shigeta, M.,pp.351-361, African Studies Center: Kyoto Japan.

1996                Steven A. Brandt, Kathryn Weedman, and Girma Hundie. Gurage Hide Working, Stone Tool Use and Social Identity: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective. In Essays on Gurage Language and Culture, edited by H. Grover, pp.35-52, Harrassowitz Verlag: Germany.