What makes us different is what makes us human..
Bryan K. Hanks
Assistant Professor
Bryan K. Hanks received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2003. He is an archaeologist whose interests focus on the examination of Old World complex societies with a particular emphasis on the Eurasian steppe region.
Research interests include: tribal societies, settlement archaeology, nomadic pastoralist socio-political organization, zooarchaeology funerary studies and ritual practices, and archaeological method and theory.
Current projects include field excavations on Iron Age sites in West Siberia, and radiometric dating and stable isotope research on the Bronze Age period in the Southern Ural Mountain Region, Russian Federation. More information about his research can be found at: web.mac.com/bkhanks.
bkh5@pitt.edu
Research
Bronze/Iron Age Siberia
Faculty
- Kathleen M. S. Allen
Archaeology, Iroquois, ethnoarchaeology
- Joseph S. Alter
Cultural, India, medical anthropology
- Marc Bermann
Archaeology, Andes, households
- Nicole Constable
Cultural, China, modernity
- Olivier de Montmollin
Archaeology, Maya, states
- Kathleen M. DeWalt
Cultural, Latin America, medical anthropology
- Robert D. Drennan
Archaeology, Latin America, complex societies
- Bryan K. Hanks
Archaeology, Russia, zooarchaeology
- Robert M. Hayden
Cultural, Eastern Europe, law
- Margaret Judd
Physical, Near East, paleopathology
- Terrence Kaufman
Linguistic, Mesoamerica, writing systems
- Katheryn M. Linduff
Archaeology, China, nomads
- Gabriella Lukacs
Cultural, Japan, media
- Emily McEwan-Fujita
Linguistic, Scotland, ethnolinguistic revitalization
- Mark P. Mooney
Physical, comparative anatomy
- Hugo G. Nutini
Cultural, Mesoamerica, social structure
- Leonard Plotnicov
Cultural, US, urban studies
- James B. Richardson III
Archaeology, Andes, ecology
- Harry Sanabria
Cultural, Andes, economic anthropology
- Richard Scaglion
Cultural, Pacific, conflict
- Jeffrey H. Schwartz
Physical, hominids, evolution
- Michael I. Siegel
Physical, functional anatomy, craniofacial
- Andrew J. Strathern
Cultural, Pacific, ethnography