Pamela Bowren Vandiver

Professor: MSE and Anthropology Departments
Ph.D. Materials Science and Near Eastern Studies 1985, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The University of Arizona
Materials Science and Engineering
1235 E. North Campus Drive
Tucson, AZ 85721
Phone: (520) 400-2270
Fax: (520) 621-8059
Email: vandiver@mse.arizona.edu

Teaching Interests:

• Materials Science of Art and Archaeological Objects MSE 257A

Current Research Projects

• Application of Materials Research To Archaelology, Conservation and Long-Term Preservation Issues: Characterization of materials, technologies, use-wear and post- depostional changes in plasters, ceramics, pigments, glasses, glazes, enamels, slags, soils and metals. Using of materials analysis, resource survey, replication experiments, landscape archaeology and materials culture theory in order to accurately characterize ancient technologies and practices and to discover what people had to know and use to invent and practice these technologies.
• Pathways to Pottery in the Upper Paleolithic and Early Neolithic Periods in Southwest Asia and East Asia, in which ceramic technologies develop along different trajectories that highlight socio-cultural, environmental and resource variability.
• The Relationship of Complex Societies to Elite Craft Technologies, espcially the beginnings of glass and glaze technologies in Southwest Asia. I study the cross-craft relationships among copper, lead and tin production, the development of blue-green and yellow-green pigments. Includes reconstructing the details of technological practice and the use of special raw materials that link cultural areas heretofore considered distinct and connected only by trickle trade.

Publications: Books and Edited Volumes:

• Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology VI, P.B. Vandiver, M. Goodway, and J. L. Mass, eds., Materials Research Society, Symp. Proc. 712, Pittsburgh, PA (593 pp.) 2002.
• Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology V, P.B. Vandiver, J. Druzik, J. Merkel and J. Stewart, eds., Materials Research Society, Symp. Proc. 462, Pittsburgh, PA (427 pp.) 1997.
• Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology IV, P.B. Vandiver, J. Druzik, J.L. Galvan, G.S. Wheeler, I.C. Freestone, eds., Materials Research Society, Symp. Proc. vol 352, Pittsburgh, PA (960 pp.) 1995.
• Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology III, P.B. Vandiver, J. Druzik, G.S. Wheeler and I.C. Freestone, eds., Materials Research Society, Symp. Proc. vol. 267, Pittsburgh, PA (1101 pp.) 1993.
• Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology II, P.B. Vandiver, J. Druzik and G. Wheeler, eds., Materials Research Society, Symp. Proc. vol. 185, Pittsburgh, PA (844 pp.) 1990.
• Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology I, E.V. Sayre, P.B. Vandiver, J. Druzik and C. Stevenson, eds., Materials Research Society, Symp. Proc. vol. 123, Pittsburgh, PA (321 pp.) 1988.
• Ceramic Masterpieces: Art, Structure and Technology, W.D. Kingery and P.B. Vandiver, Free Press, New York, 1986 (339 p.), accepted for publication by the American Ceramic Society, second edition, 2003.
• Paleolithic Pigments and Processing, M. S. Thesis, M. I. T. (1983), being revised for publication as Paleolithic Pigment Processing: A Soft Stone Technology.

• PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS AND VOLUMES:

• 100. P.B. Vandiver, “Ceramics and Glass: Technology’s Role in Preservation,” Proc. of the N.A.S., in prep.
• 99. P.B. Vandiver, "An Egyptian Blue Bowl from Tell Yi=nan,@ in H. Leibowitz, ed., Excavations at Tell Yin'an, University of Texas Press, Austin, 2003, p. 75-88.
• 98. P.B. Vandiver, "A Preliminary Study of Ninevite 5 Pottery Technology at Tell Leilan," in E. Rova and H. Weiss, eds., The Origins of North Mesopotamian Civilization: Ninevite 5 Chronology, Economy, Society (Subartu IX), Brepols, Turnhout, 2002, pp. 397-421.
• 97. P.B. Vandiver, A. Underhill, Cai F., Yu H., Luan F., Fang H., "Longshan Pottery: Its Manufacture at Liangchengzhen in Southeast Shandong Province (ca. 2600-2000 B.C.), International Symposium on Ancient Ceramics, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Nov. 2002, pp. 574-586.
• 96. P.B. Vandiver and S.A. Vasil'ev, "A 15,000 Year-Old Ceramic Human-Figurine from Maina in South Siberia, Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology VI, ed. Vandiver, Goodway and Mass, Proc. MRS Symposium, 2002, pp. 421-434.
• 95. P.B. Vandiver, "Recovering and Re-Discovering Craft," Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology VI, ed. Vandiver, Goodway and Mass, Proc. MRS Symposium, 2002, pp. 535-544.
• 94. R.C. Henrickson, P.B. Vandiver and M.J. Blackman, "Black Gloss Ware at Gordion, Turkey: A Distinctive Sintered Slip Technology," Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology VI, Proc. MRS Symposium, 2002, pp. 391-400.
• 93. J.J. Hooper and P.B. Vandiver, "The Technological Tradition of Korean Black Ware and the Indigenous Development of Glaze Technology during the First Millennium A.D.," Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology VI, Proc. MRS Symposium, 2002, pp. 357-364.
• 92. Jennifer Hooper and P.B. Vandiver, "Scientific Analysis on the Korean Porcelain from Kwangju Official Kiln Sites," The History and Archaeology of Korean Ceramics, The Millennium World Ceramic Exposition 2001, Kyunggi Provincial Museum and the National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea, 2001, pp. 55-68.
• 91. P.B. Vandiver, "The Role of Materials Research in Ceramics and Archaeology,"Annual Review of Materials Research, 2001, vol. 31, pp. 373-385.
• 90. P.B. Vandiver, guest editor, "Preserving Art Through the Ages," MRS Bulletin, Materials Research Society, vol. 26, no.1, Jan. 2001, pp. 13-14.
• 89. P.B. Vandiver and Jennifer Hooper, "The Development of Pyrotechnology and Glaze Technology in Korean Black and Gray Ware During the First Millennium A.D.," Proc. of the International Symposium on Korea's Third Ceramic Tradition: From Earthenware to Onggi, Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea, 2000, pp.139-142.