Dr. Walter E. Klippel, Professor

Ph.D. 1971, Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia
M.A. 1965, Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia
B.A. 1963, Sociology, Central College, Pella, Iowa

Research Interests

American Archaeology, Archaeological Method and Theory, Cultural Ecology, North American, Caribbean and Mediterranean Zooarchaeology

Selected Publications

Klippel, W.E. and Sichler, J.A. 2004. North Atlantic fishes in inland context: pickled mackerel (Scombre scombrus) in the Historic Period. Historical Archaeology 38(4):12-24.

Klippel, W. E. and C.R. Falk 2002. Atlantic cod in the Missouri River: Gadus morhua from the Steamboat Bertrand. Archaeofauna 11:23-44

Klippel, W.E. 2001. Sugar monoculture, bovid skeletal part frequency, and stable carbon isotopes: Interpreting enslaved African diet at Brimstone Hill, St. Kitts, West Indies. Journal of Archaeological Science 28:1191-1198

Klippel, W.E. and G.F. Schroedl 1999. African slave craftsmen and single-hole bone discs from Brimstone Hill, St. Kitts, West Indies. Post-Medieval Archaeology 33:222-232

Klippel, W.E. and L.M. Snyder 1999. Harvest profiles, domestic ovicaprids, and Bronze Age Crete. In, The Practical Impact of Science on Aegean and Near Eastern Archaeology, edited by S. Pike and S. Gitin. Archetype, London

Stafford, T.W., H.A. Semken, R.W. Graham, W.E. Klippel A. Markova, N. Smirnov, and J. Southon 1999. First accelerator mass spectrometry 14C dates documenting contemporaneity of nonanalog species in late Pleistocene mammal communities. Geology 27(10):903-906