Gary Crawford
- Gary Crawford, Shanghai, China, 2008
Gary W. Crawford, FRSC, Ph.D. (North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 1979)
Professor, UTM Campus
(905) 828-3783 (Main)
(416) 946-0653
Office: NB 212A (UTM) and AP 522
Website: http://www.profgarycrawford.ca/
Field: Archaeology, agricultural origins, paleoethnobotany, human ecology; Eastern North America, Japan, China, Korea
Dr. Crawford is an anthropological archaeologist specializing in archaeological botany and environmental archaeology. His field is known as palaeoethnobotany or archaeobotany.
Research
Dr. Crawford's current focus is East Asia where he is investigating the origins and intensification of agriculture. He has also investigated human and plant interactions in eastern North America (mainly Ontario and Kentucky with his first field experience being a foray into the wilds of Wisconsin). His work is informed by a comparative approach. The similarities and difference between Eastern North America and East Asia between 10,000 and 1000 years ago are especially intriguing.
Recent Publications
2009 Haviland, William, A. and Gary W. Crawford Human Evolution and Prehistory: Second Canadian Edition. Nelson Education Ltd. (436 pages).2008 Crawford, G. "The Jomon in Early Agriculture Discourse: Issues Arising from Matsui, Kanehara, and Pearson." World Archaeology 40(4): 445-465
2008 Crawford, G.W. and H. Takamiya. Japanese Archipelago-Prehistoric Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers. In Encyclopedia of Archaeology, pages 637-641. Ed. by D. Pearsall. N.Y. : Academic Press.
2007 Lee, G-A, G. W. Crawford, L. Liu, and X. Chen. Plants and people from the Early Neolithic to Shang periods in North China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). Published January 9, 2007, Download© National Academy of Science
2006 Crawford, G. W., D. Saunders and D. G. Smith. Pre-contact Maize from Ontario, Canada: Context, Chronology, Variation, and Plant Association. In Histories of Maize: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize, edited by J. Staller, R. Tykot and B. Benz, pp. 549-559. Elsevier, Amsterdam. Download
