Dr. Heather M.-L. Miller
Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Department of Anthropology, UTM
& Graduate Faculty, St. George
University of Toronto
Primary Office: 346 Health Sciences
Complex (HSC), UTM
Phone: 905-828-3741
FAX: 905-828-3837
Email: heather.miller "at"
utoronto.ca (check below first -
the information you need may be provided!)
Mailing Address:
Anthropology,
UTM
3359 Mississauga Road North
Mississauga, ON
L5L1C6
Canada
Office
Hours
for
Fall
2011:
UTM: For ANT312, Wed 5-6 in North
Building Rm 217
For ANT316, Thurs 3-4, location TBD
All
others, by appointment in Health
Sciences (HSC) Rm 346 (my office)
St. George: by
appointment, some Fridays
TEACHING
RESEARCH
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
EDUCATION
Teaching
FALL
2011
ANT312H
Archaeological
Analysis (Fall
2011
syllabus - coming soon!)
NOTE: we
will be using the same textbooks as last year, as listed
below;
these will be available
in the bookstore, or you may purchase used copies from other
students or online book dealers
REQUIRED BOOKS:
(1) Barber, R.J.,
1994. Doing
Historical Archaeology. Prentice Hall/Pearson.
ISBN 978-0-13-176033-2 (paperback)
(2) Sutton, M. and B.
Arkush, 2009. Archaeological
Laboratory Methods, An Introduction, FIFTH edition.
(be sure to
get this edition!) Kendall Hunt
Publishers. ISBN 0-7575-5974-3 (paperback)
(if
you already bought an older edition, you may be able to copy a
few chapters out of the library copy and get by,
but it may be extra work to keep track of
differences)
ANT316H Archaeology of South Asia (Fall 2011 syllabus - coming soon!)
NOTE: no textbooks
or reading packet needs to be purchased for this course
SPRING 2012
ANT101H: Introduction
to
Biological
Anthropology
and
Archaeology
(syllabus to be posted)
Selection of
syllabi
for other recently
taught courses
ANT101H
Introduction
to
Biological
Anthropology
and
Archaeology
(Summer 2006 syllabus)
(Summer 2007 syllabus)
ANT102H
Introduction to Sociocultural
and
Linguistic Anthropology (Summer
2006
syllabus) (Summer 2007 syllabus)
ANT310H Complex Societies
(Fall 2005 Syllabus)
ANT310H
Complex Societies (Spring
2008
syllabus) (Link
to Essay
Instructions)
Link
to
library
reference
page
-
seaches
&
encyclopedias (helpful
for
other classes too!)
ANT312H
Archaeological
Analysis (Fall
2004
syllabus)
ANT316H Archaeology of South Asia (Fall 2006 syllabus)
(Fall 2004 syllabus)
ANT320H:
Approaches to
Archaeological Technology
(Syllabus Fall 2010 - PDF)
(Handouts)
ANT405Y
Technology,
Society
and
Culture (2008-09
syllabus - year long course)
ANT416H Advanced
Archaeological
Analysis (Spring
2009
syllabus - PDF)
ANT1000
Theoretical Paradigms
and Case Studies (required Masters course) (Fall 2007 syllabus)
(Fall
2008
syllabus - PDF)
ANT4038
Archaeology
of Urbanism
(graduate course)
(Fall 2005 syllabus)
ANT4068 Ancient Technology /Archaeology of
Technology
(graduate
course)
(Fall 2004
syllabus) (Fall 2006 syllabus)
(Spring
2011 syllabus)
SAS 2004H: Issues in South
Asian
Studies (Link to Spring 2008
yllabus
- PDF)
(Link to Assignment
Instructions
- PDF)
Information for Students: Careers in
Anthropology
Applying to graduate
school?
See
this link for information on what you need to do
(including how to write a CV)
Want to know
more about non-academic careers in anthropology?
(1) Look at the
web site for the National Association for Practicing Anthropologists
(NAPA)
(part of
the
American Anthropological Association): www.practicinganthropology.org
(2) Or the
web site for the Society for Applied
Anthropology: www.sfaa.net
Research
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ancient
Technology
-
Material
Culture
Social Aspects of
Technology,
Craft Production, Manufacturing Techniques & Materials
Complex/Urban Societies
Comparative; South
Asia,
including Indus Valley Civilization, Mughal & Historic period
Regional Inter-connections
Transportation &
Communication, Cultural Contact
Human Ecology / Cultural Geography
Resource & Subsistence
Systems - Human/Plant Interrelations
I've done much of my research on high-temperature pyrotechnologies
in
the Indus civilization, particularly at the site of Harappa.
This
research has been conducted through my involvement with the
Harappa
Archaeological Research Project (HARP), whose work is featured at
www.harappa.com. You can
learn more
about the archaeology of the ancient city of Harappa and other
aspects
of the Indus civilization at this web site. My publications on Indus craft production,
agricultural systems, and social/political structures are listed
below.
My newer research is currently centred around the medieval/Islamic
period trade and communication routes through northwestern
Pakistan,
particularly through the city of Peshawar. I am working
with a number of Pakistani and international scholars on a
long-term
project,
the Caravanserai Networks Project, to examine economic, political,
and
social aspects of the contact between people along these
routes.
A major part of this endeavour is the development of a database of
travel amenity locations based on both textual and archaeological
data,
which will eventually be available to the research community as a
searchable internet database (we hope).
My field research at the moment is the development of a pottery
typology for both glazed and unglazed ceramics from the
excavations at
Gor Khuttree in the centre of Peshwar, work being conducted by the
Directorate for Archaeology and Museums of the Northwest Frontier
Province (NWFP). My
graduate student, Jennifer Campbell, is conducting architectural
analysis of the Gor Khuttree and other Mughal period serais in the
region, including the creation of a flexible typology for the
recording
of standing architecture.
This
research has been funded by the Social Science and Humanities
Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Connaught Foundation
at the
University of Toronto, with great assistance from Prof. Ihsan Ali,
formerly Director of the NWFP Directorate and now Vice-Chancellor
of
the University of Hazara, Pakistan.
I was the CotsenVisiting Scholar at the Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology at UCLA in 2001-2002, and there are two articles
about
my interests in the Newsletter of the Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology
at UCLA. For my general approach to ancient technology and
my research project on caravanserai networks between South
& Central Asia, see Backdirt
Fall
2001. For my last season of work at Harappa, see the
lead
article in Backdirt
Spring 2002.
Finally, in the summer of 2005 I spent six weeks in Papua New
Guinea
as the material culture consultant for a new project on
imagination and perception among
the Asabano, directed by Prof.
Roger Lohmann of Trent University. More information on this
project is posted on Dr.
Lohmann's
website.
Sharon McCartan (BA 2006 from UTM), Roger Lohmann, and I have been
cataloguing and analyzing materials previously collected from the
Asabano by
Dr. Lohmann (wooden drums, wooden arrows, string bags, shell and
fiber
ornaments, bamboo smoking tubes, grass skirts, etc.).
I am also
currently a member of the Archaeology Centre at the University of
Toronto (website in progress), TUARC,
the
Trent
University
Archaeology
Research
Centre, and the Centre
for South Asian Studies
at the University of Toronto.
Selected Publications - Heather M.-L. Miller
2007 Archaeological
Approaches to Technology.
formerly by Academic
Press/Elsevier, now Left Coast Press (in paperback!)
in press Types of Learning
in
Apprenticeship. In: Apprenticeship
in
Archaeology,
ed. Willeke Wendrich. University of Arizona
Press.
in
press Weighty
Matters: Evidence for unity and regional diversity from the
Indus Civilization
weights. In S. Abraham et al. (eds)
Connections and Complexity: New Approaches to the
Archaeology of
South and Central Asia.
Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
2010 Heather
M.-L. Miller and Ihsan Ali. Pottery
Classification and Activities in a City Centre: First
Results from Pottery Analysis of Mughal to Modern
Period Excavations at Gor Khuttree, Peshawar, Pakistan. Ancient
Pakistan XXI: 89-106.
2009 Brett Hoffman and Heather M.-L. Miller. Production and Consumption of
Copper-base
Metals in the Indus Civilization. Journal of World Prehistory 22(3):
237-264.
2008 Issues in the Determination of Ancient
Value Systems: The Role of Talc (Steatite) and Faience in
the
Indus Civilization. For forthcoming Intercultural
Relations Between South and Southwest Asia. Studies in
Commemoration
of E.C.L. During-Caspers (1934-1996). ed. Eric Olijdam.
pp.
145-157. BAR
International Series. Archaeopress.
2008 The Indus Talc-Faience
Complex:
Types of Materials, Clues to Production. In: South
Asian
Archaeology 1999, ed. Ellen M.
Raven. pp. 111-122. International Institute of
Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, Netherlands. (PDF courtesy of the publisher, for
individual use only)
2007 Jonathan Mark Kenoyer and Heather M.-L.
Miller. Multiple Crafts and
Socio-Economic Associations in the Indus Civilization: New
Perspectives from Harappa, Pakistan. In: Rethinking
Craft Production: The Nature of Producers and Multi-craft
Organization,
ed.
Izumi
Shimada.
pp.
152-183.
University
of
Utah
Press.
2007 Associations
and
Ideologies in the Locations of Urban Craft Production at Harappa,
Pakistan (Indus Civilization). In: Rethinking Specialization in Complex
Societies: Archaeological Analysis of the Social Meaning of
Production,
ed.
Zachary
X.
Hruby
&
Rowan
K.
Flad.
pp.
37-51.
Archaeological
Paper of the American
Anthropological Association (AP3A), Number 17. American
Anthropological Association and University of California-Berkeley
Press.
2006 Comparing
Landscapes of
Transportation: Riverine-oriented and land-oriented systems
in
the Indus Civilization and the Mughal Empire. In:
Space and Spatial
Analysis in
Archaeology, ed. E.C. Robertson et al. pp. 281-292.
University of Calgary Press and University of New Mexico Press.
2006 Water Supply,
Labor Organization and Land Ownership in Indus Floodplain
Agricultural
Systems. In: Agriculture
and
Irrigation
in
Archaeology,
ed. Charles Stanish & Joyce Marcus. Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology Press. (PDF
courtesy of the publisher, for individual use only.)
2005 Investigating Copper Production at
Harappa:
Surveys, Excavations and Finds. In: South Asian
Archaeology 2001, ed. Catherine Jarrige and Vincent
Lefevre.
pp. 245-252. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les
Civilisations.
2000 Reassessing the Urban Structure of
Harappa: Evidence from Craft Production Distribution.
In:
South Asian Archaeology 1997, ed. Maurizio Taddei
& Giuseppe De Marco. Rome: Istituto Italian per l’Africa e
l’Oriente (IsIAO) & Istituto Universitario Orientale,
Naples.
Pp. 77-100.
2000 Massimo Vidale & Heather M.-L.
Miller.
On the development of Indus technical virtuosity and its relation
to
social structure. In: South Asian Archaeology
1997,
ed.
Maurizio
Taddei
&
Giuseppe
De
Marco.
Rome:
Istituto
Italian
per
l’Africa e l’Oriente (IsIAO) & Istituto Universitario
Orientale, Naples. Pp. 115-132.
1999 Jonathan M. Kenoyer & Heather M.-L.
Miller. Metal Technologies of the
Indus Valley Tradition in Pakistan and Western India.
In: The Archaeometallurgy of the Asian Old World, ed.
Vincent C. Pigott. University of Pennsylvania Museum Monograph
89. University Museum Symposium Series Volume VII. MASCA
Research Papers in Science and Archaeology Volume 16.
Philadelphia: University Museum Publications, University of
Pennsylvania.
Pp. 107-151.
1997 Pottery Firing Structures (Kilns) of the
Indus Civilization During the Third Millennium B.C. In:
Prehistory & History
of Ceramic Kilns, ed. Prudence Rice & W. David
Kingery.
Ceramics & Civilization Series, Volume VII. Columbus, OH:
American Ceramic Society. Pp. 41-71.
1994 Metal Processing at Harappa and
Mohenjo-daro: Information from Non-Metal Remains.
In: South Asian Archaeology 1993, ed. Asko Parpola
&
P. Koskikallio. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae; Series
B,
Vol. 271. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. Pp.
497-510.
1991 Urban Palaeoethnobotany at Harappa.
In:
Harappa Excavations 1986-1990: A Multidisciplinary
Approach to Third Millennium Urbanism, ed. Richard H.
Meadow.
Madison, WI: Prehistory Press. Pp. 121-126.
Education
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
U.S.A. 1999
Archaeology Concentration; Minor in
Geography
Dissertation: Pyrotechnology
and
Society
in
the
Cities
of
the
Indus
Valley
Advisor: Dr. J. M. Kenoyer
M.A. Anthropology, University of
Wisconsin-Madison 1989
M.Sc. Bioarchaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University
College London, U.K. 1988
Archaeobotany Concentration
M.Sc. Project:
"Preliminary
Analysis of the Plant Remains from Tarakai Qila, Pakistan"
with Distinction; Sir Flinders Petrie Award
B.A. Honors Anthropology, William Marsh Rice University,
Houston,
Texas, U.S.A. 1987
B.A. Biology
Honors Thesis:
"Environmental Aspects of the Decline of the Indus Civilization"
Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
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