Instructor of Anthropology
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8128

E-mail: whiteheadw@ripon.edu

Education

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, May 2007
• M.A., University of California, Berkeley
• B.A., B.A., Washington University in St. Louis

Areas of Interest

• South American paleoethnobotany, domestication of South American plants, isotope chemistry and human diet
• Archaeology of the formative and middle horizon time periods in South America
• Archaeometry and experimental archaeology
• Large-scale databases for excavations and combining information across South America

Recent Publications and Lectures

• "A Preliminary Study on Botanical Remains from the 2004 Excavations by PAPA, Tiwankau, Bolivia," paper presented at the 70th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, 2005.
  
• "Preliminary Report of the Paleoethnobotanical Remains from El Palmillo, Oaxaca Valley, Mexico," report submitted to Dr. Gary Feinman, chair, Department of Anthropology, The Field Museum, Chicago, 2005.
  
• "Late Prehistoric Wood Use in an Andean Intermontaine Valley," Christine A. Hastorf, William T. Whitehead and Sissel Johannessen, "Economic Botany," 59(4):337-355, 2005.
  
• "Informe de las Excavaciones de la Temporada del 2004 in los Sitios de Kumi Kipa, Sonaji y Chiripa," by Christine A. Hastorf, Matthew Bandy, William T. Whitehead, Lee Steadman, Katherine Moore, Jose Luis Paz, Soledad Fernandez, Katy Killacky and Emily Stovel, submitted to the Unidad Nacional de Archqeologia de Bolivia, La Paz, May 2005.
  

• "Plant use, public architecture and early village life on the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia," paper presented by Maria Bruno and William T. Whitehead at the 70th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2005.
  
• "The Movements of Maize: The Path of Maize at Middle Horizon Tiwanaku, Bolivia," Christine A. Hastorf, William T. Whitehead and Maria C. Bruno, in the volume "Histories of Maize II," edited by John Staller, Bruce Benz and Michael Cohen, Academic Press/Elvesier Press, San Diego, 2006.
  
• "Report of the 2005 excavation season of the Taraco Archaeological Project," Christine A. Hastorf, Matthew S. Bandy and William T. Whitehead, editors, manuscript submitted to Instituto Nacional de Arqueología. La Paz Bolivia, June 2006.
  

• "Modeling Diet at Chiripa, a Formative Village in the Altiplano, Using Isotopic and Paleoethnobotanical Evidence," in the sponsored session for Bruce D. Smith, Fryxell Award recipient, 71st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2006.
  
• "Redefining Plant Use at the Site of Chiripa, Bolivia: A Formative Site in the Lake Titicaca Basin, " in "Andean Archaeology III," edited by William Isbell and Helaine Silverman, Kluwer Press, New York, 2006.
  
• "Domesticated plant remains from Conchopata, a Wari ceremonial site in the Ayacucho valley," Kelsey Green and William T. Whitehead, Poster Session in South American Archaeology, 71st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2006.
  
• "Middle and Late Formative Ceremonialism: the 2003 through 2006 Field Seasons of the Taraco Archaeological Project," paper presented by Christine Hastorf, Matt Bandy, Emily Dean, Ruth Fontenla, Kathryn Killackey, Eduardo Machicado, Katherine Moore, Andy Roddick, Lee Steadman and William T.  Whitehead, 47th annual meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Jan. 12 and 13, 2007.

Current Courses Taught

• Archaeological Field School
• Ecological Anthropology
• Experimental Archaeology
• Anthropology of Food
• Archaeological Methods
• Independent Studies in Archaeology
• North American Prehistory
• Introduction to Anthropology
• Introduction to Archaeology