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Sophia Perdikaris

Professor   Department: Anthropology and Archaeology   Location: 3301 James Hall   Phone: 718-951-5000 x6641   Fax: 718-951-3169   Email:

Professor Perdikaris is an archaeologist, specializing in the analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean. She has extensive field experience and has participated and directed excavations in many parts of the world. She has been excavating in Norway for the last ten years and in Iceland for five years. Recently she started a Brooklyn College archaeological field school in Barbuda. The field school takes place every January. Professor Perdikaris is also a coordinator of the newly founded NORSEC (Northern Science and Education Center) now based at Brooklyn College. Students interested in Northern Research or in archaeological field experiences in Barbuda are encouraged to contact her directly at sophiap@brooklyn.cuny.edu and can see more details of her work and the zooarchaeology lab at http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/anthro/perdikaris/. Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, GRADUATE SCHOOL & UNIVERSITY CENTER - 1998 (ANTHROPOLOGY) Areas of Expertise: Archaeology, zooarchaeology, Viking, fisheries, polution, Caribbean, Saladoid, environmental archaeology, historical ecology. Books and Publications 2008 (in press) Sophia Perdikaris & Thomas H. McGovern. Viking Age economics and the origins of commercial cod fisheries in the North Atlantic: Louis Sickling & Darlene Abreu-Ferreira (eds) The North Atlantic Fisheries in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: Interdisciplinary Approaches in History, Archaeology, and Biology, Brill Publishers Netherlands. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008 Perdikaris S. & T.H. McGovern . 2008, Codfish and Kings, Seals and Subsistence: Norse Marine Resource Use in the North Atlantic, in: Torben Rick and Jon Erlandson (eds) Human Impacts on Marine Environments, UCLA Press Historical Ecology Series pp 157-190. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008 2007 Perdikaris, S. & T.H. McGovern, Walrus, Cod Fish, and Chieftains : Intensification in the Norse North Atlantic, Thurston, T. L. and C. T. Fisher (eds.). Seeking A Richer Harvest: The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation, and Change. Springer Science+Business Media, New York pp.193-216. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 2007 Dugmore, Andy, Mike J. Church, Kerry-Anne Mairs, T.H. McGovern, Sophia Perdikaris, and Orri Vesteinsson, Abandoned farms, volcanic impacts, and woodland management: revisiting Thórsárdalur, the "Pompeii of Iceland", Arctic Anthropology 44(1): 1-12. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 2007 Thomas H. McGovern , Orri Vésteinsson , Adolf Fridriksson, Mike Church , Ian Lawson, Ian A. Simpson, Arni Einarsson , Andy Dugmore , Gordon Cook , Sophia Perdikaris , Kevin Edwards , Amanda M. Thomson, W. Paul Adderley ,Anthony Newton , Gavin Lucas , Oscar Aldred Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland: Historical Ecology of Human Impact & Climate Fluctuation on the Millennial Scale, invited paper in special issue on the archaeology of global change, American Anthropologist,109(1):27-51. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 Perdikaris, S. and T. H. McGovern 2008 Viking Age Economics and the Origins of Commercial Cod Fisheries in the North Atlantic. In Consequences of the North Atlantic Fisheries in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Interdisciplinary approaches in history, archaeology, and biology L. Sicking (ed.) . Brill Publishers, Holland. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007 T. H. McGovern, O. Vesteinsson, A. Fridriksson, M. Church, I. Lawson, I. A. Simpson, A. Einarsson, A. Dugmore, G. Cook, S. Perdikaris, K. Edwards, A. M. Thompson, W. P. Adderley, A. Newton, G. Lucas, O. Aldred. 2007 Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland; Historical Ecology of Human Impact and Climate Fluctuation of the Millennial Scale. American Anthropologist, Vol. 109, Issue 1, pp 27-51. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 2006 McGovern, T.H., Sophia Perdikaris, Arni Einarsson, Jane Sidell . Coastal Connections, Local Fishing, and Sustainable egg harvesting, patterns of Viking age inland wild resource use in Mývatn District, Northern Iceland, Environmental Archaeology 11.1 : 102-128. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006 Edvardsson, E., S. Perdikaris, T.H. McGovern, N. Zagor, M. Waxman 2004 Coping with hard times in NW Iceland: Zooarchaeology, History and Landscape Archaeology at Finnbogastadir in the 18th Century. R,REV. Archaeologica Islandica 3 (2004) 20-47. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004 Perdikaris, S., T.H. McGovern, Y. Krivogorskaya and M. Waxman 2003 Early modern fisher-farmers at Finnbogastadir and Gjogur in Northwest Iceland. Presencia de la arqueoictiologia en Mexico: Libro de memorias de la 12a reunion del Grup de Trabajo en Restos de Peces de Internations Council for Archaeozoology. Ana Fabiola Guzman, Oscar J. Polaco, Felisa J. Aguilar (editors). 2003: 139-145. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003