Barbara J Mills

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• Brughmans, T., Mills, B. J., Munson, J., & Peeples, M. A. (2024). The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
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  Online version published November 2023
• Mills, B. J., & Fowles, S. (2017). The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Mills, B. J., Ashmore, W., & Lippert, D. (2010). Voices in American Archaeology. Society for American Archaeology.
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  ;Your Role: Invited to edit, selected participants, co-edited volume.;Full Citation: Ashmore, Wendy, Dorothy Lippert, and Barbara J. Mills (editors)2010 Voices in American Archaeology. SAA Press, Washington, D.C. (75th Anniversary Volume of the Society for American Archaeology.);Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Two colleagues, one at UC Riverside and one in Smithsonian.;
• Mills, B. J., & Walker, W. H. (2008). Memory Work: Archaeologies of Material Practice. School for Advanced Research Press.
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  Published in the Advanced Seminar Series of SAR.;Your Role: Senior organizer of proposal for seminar, coordination of seminar, editing of book chapters, presentations at meetings.;Full Citation: Mills, Barbara J., and William H. Walker (editors)2008Memory Work: Archaeologies of Material Practice. School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe. ;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Collaborative with a former Ph.D. student from the UA, who graduated before I arrived.;

Chapters

• Mills, B. J., & Peeples, M. A. (2024). Migration and Archaeological Networks Research. In The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research(pp 492-511). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Munson, J., Mills, B. J., Brughmans, T., & Peeples, M. A. (2024). Anticipating the Next Wave of Archaeological Network Research. In The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research(pp 664-674). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Peeples, M. A., Munson, J., Mills, B. J., & Brughmans, T. (2024). Introduction. In The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research(pp 1-14). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Mills, B. J. (2022). Building Murals, Ritual Clothing, and Stages for Ritual Performance in the Greater Cedar Mesa Area. In Linda Cordell: Detail, Passion, and Innovation in Archaeology and Beyond(pp 111-122). Albuquerque: Museum of New Mexico Press.
• Borck, L., & Mills, B. J. (2015). Approaching Precolonial Consumption: Exploring Participation and Resistance to Salado Ideology through Spatially Embedded Social Networks. In Indigenous People and Foreign Things: Archaeologies of Consumption in the Americas. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
• Peeples, M., & Mills, B. J. (2014). Frontiers of Marginality and Mediation in the U.S. Southwest: A Social Networks Perspective. In Social Identity in Frontier and Borderland Communities of the Norther American Southwest. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
• Fowles, S., & Mills, B. J. (2017). On History in Southwest Archaeology. In The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Mills, B. J., & Ferguson, T. J. (2017). Archaeological Perspectives on Zuni Social History. In Puebloan Societies: New Perspectives across the Subfields. School for Advanced Research and University of New Mexico Press.
• Mills, B. J., & Peeples, M. A. (2019). Reframing Diffusion through Social Network Theory. In Interaction and Connectivity in the Greater Southwest. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
• Vint, J., & Mills, B. J. (2016). Niches, Networks, and the Pathways to the Forager to Farmer Transition. In Settlement Dynamics: The Forager-Farmer Transition, Origins of Food Production, and the World Heritage Convention. UNESCO.
• Mills, B. J. (2018). Navigating Mediterranean Archaeology's Maritime Networks. In Networks of Maritime Connectivity in the Ancient Mediterranean(pp 238-256). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Mills, B. J., & Ferguson, T. J. (2018). Archaeological Perspectives on Zuni Social History. In Puebloan Societies. School for Advanced Research and University of New Mexico Press.
• Peeples, M., & Mills, B. J. (2018). Frontiers of Marginality and Mediation in the U.S. Southwest: A Social Networks Perspective. In Social Identity in Frontier and Borderland Communities of the Norther American Southwest. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
• Fowles, S., & Mills, B. J. (2016). On History in Southwest Archaeology. In The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Mills, B. J. (2016). Communities of Consumption: Cuisines as Networks of Situated Practice. In Learning and Doing: Communities of Practice in Scalar Perspectiv. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
• Peeples, M., Mills, B. J., Roberts, J. M., Clark, J. J., & Haas, W. R. (2014). Analytical Issues in the Application of Network Analyses in Archaeology. In The Connected Past: Challenging Networks in Archaeology and History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Borck, L., & Mills, B. J. (2017). Approaching Precolonial Consumption: Exploring Participation and Resistance to Salado Ideology through Spatially Embedded Social Networks. In Indigenous People and Foreign Things: Archaeologies of Consumption in the Americas. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
• Mills, B. J. (2015). Challenges and Opportunities for Network Approaches to Interregional Interaction: Perspectives from the North American Southwest. In The Lapita Cultural Complex in Time and Space: Expansion Routes, Chronologies, and Typologies. Taipai, Taiwan: Institute of Archaeology of New Caledonia and the Pacific and Center for Archaeological Studies, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica.
• Mills, B. J. (2015). Unpacking the House: Ritual Practice and Social Networks at Chaco. In Current Research on Chaco, A.D. 850-1150.
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  Prepared for Amerind Seminar held in October, 2010. Revisions for UA Press book due summer.;Full Citation: Mills, Barbara J.Unpacking the House: Ritual Practice and Social Networks at Chaco. Revision of paper prepared for Amerind Seminar, Current Research on Chaco, A.D. 850-1150, organized by Steve Plog and Carrie Heitman, due summer 2011 for Amerind Seminar Series of University of Arizona Press, Tucson;Status: Paper in Preparation;
• Mills, B. J. (2014). Land, Labor, Bodies, and Objects: Comments on Inalienability and Mesoamerican Social Life.. In The Inalienable in the Archaeology of Mesoamerica(pp 142-149). Washington, D.C.: AAAPA Papers, Archeology Division, American Anthropological Association, Wash., D.C.
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  In The Inalienable in the Archaeology of Mesoamerica, edited by Brigitte Kovacevich and Michael Callahan. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. (in press);
• Mills, B. J. (2014). Relational Networks and Religious Sodalities at Catalhoyuk. In Religion as the Basis for Power and Property at Catalhoyuk(pp 159-186). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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  Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference; published book.
• Mills, B. J., & Panyushkina, I. (2013). Analysis of Ceramics from Lisakovsk Cluster of Sites: Alakul and Fyodorovo Chronology and Interaction. In (in Russian and English). Kazakhstan: Karagan State University.
• Mills, B. J., Mills, B. J., Roberts, Jr., J. M., Roberts, Jr., J. M., Clark, J. J., Clark, J. J., Haas, Jr., W. R., Haas, Jr., W. R., Huntley, D., Huntley, D., Peeples, M. A., Peeples, M. A., Borck, L., Borck, L., Ryan, S. C., Ryan, S. C., Trowbridge, M., Trowbridge, M., Breiger, R. L., & Breiger, R. L. (2013). The Dynamics of Social Networks in the Late Prehispanic U.S. Southwest.. In Network Analysis in Archaeology: New Approaches to Regional Interaction (ed. Karl Knappett)(pp 181-202). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
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  We conduct social network analysis (SNA) on two case studies from the late pre-Hispanic US Southwest. We take a diachronic perspective, so that we can look at network dynamics over a 200-year period (AD 1200 to 1400). By highlighting methodological issues in the archaeological application of SNA, our case studies also have implications beyond the Southwest. Several issues that we discuss are archaeological methods for defining connectivity, what these connections mean in terms of network flow, the choice of statistics to measure network properties, and how to assess the robustness of these statistics.
• Murray, W. F., & Mills, B. J. (2013). Identity Communities and Memory Practices: Logics of Material Deposition in the U.S. Southwest. In Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, and Things(pp 135-153). London: Routledge.
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  In Relational Archaeologies, edited by Christopher Watts. Routledge, London. (in press);Your Role: co-author;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;
• Mills, B. J. (2012). The Archaeology of the Greater Southwest: Migration, Inequality, and Religious Transformation. In Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology(pp 547-560). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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  The Archaeology of the Greater Southwest: Migration, Inequality, and Religious Transformation. In Oxford Encyclopedia of North American Archaeology, edited by Timothy Pauketat. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ;Your Role: Author;
• Mills, B. J. (2012). The Archaeology of the Greater Southwest: Migration, Inequality, and Religious Transformation. Oxford University Press.
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  ;Your Role: lead author;Full Citation: . In The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology, edited by Timothy Pauketat, pp. 547-560. Oxford University Press, Oxford.;
• Mills, B. J., Huntley, D., Thomas, F., & Habicht-Mauche, J. (2012). Embedded Networks? Pigments and Long-Distance Procurement Strategies in the Late Prehispanic Southwest.. In Potters and Communities of Practice: Glaze Paint and Polychrome Pottery in the American Southwest.
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  ;Your Role: co-author;Full Citation: In Potters and Communities of Practice: Glaze Paint and Polychrome Pottery in the American Southwest, A.D. 1250 to 1700, edited by Linda S. Cordell and Judith A. Habicht-Mauche, pp. 8-18. Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Co-author with faculty member at UC Santa Cruz and archaeologist at Archaeology Southwest;
• Mills, B. J., Roberts, J. M., Clark, J. J., Huntley, D., Peeples, M. A., Borck, L., & Breiger, R. L. (2012). Late Prehispanic Social Dynamics in the Southwest U.S., A.D. 1200-1500.. In Regional Network Analysis in Archaeology.
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  In Regional Network Analysis in Archaeology, edited by Carl Knappett and Ray Rivers. Oxford University Press, Oxford.;Your Role: Lead author;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: co-author with faculty at UC Berkeley, U of New Mexico, and archaeologists at Archaeology Southwest;
• Mills, B. J. (2011). Themes and Models for Understanding Migration in the Southwest. In Movement, Connectivity, and Landscape Change in the Ancient Southwest.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Themes and Models for Understanding Migration in the Southwest. In Movement, Connectivity, and Landscape Change in the Ancient Southwest, edited by Margaret C. Nelson and Colleen Strawhacker, pp. 345-359. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. ;
• Mills, B. J., Ashmore, W., & Lippert, D. (2010). Introduction. Society for American Archaeology.
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  ;Your Role: Co-authored chapter.;Full Citation: Introduction. In Voices in American Archaeology, edited by Wendy Ashmore, Dorothy Lippert, and Barbara J. Mills, pp. 1-7. SAA Press, Washington, D.C. (75th Anniversary Volume of the Society for American Archaeology.);Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Two colleagues, one at UC Riverside and one in Smithsonian.;
• Mills, B. J. (2008). Agents of Change: Faculty Leadership in Initiating and Sustaining Institutional Change at the University of Arizona (with Jeni Hart, Lindy Brigham, Mary K. Good, and Jan Monk). In Doing Diversity in Higher Education: Faculty Leaders Share Challenges. Rutgers University Press.
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  ;Your Role: Lead PI for proposal and grant.;Full Citation: Hart, Jeni, Lindy Brigham, Mary K. Good, and Jan Monk2008Agents of Change: Faculty Leadership in Initiating and Sustaining Institutional Change at the University of Arizona In Doing Diversity in Higher Education: Faculty Leaders Share Challenges and Strategies, edited by Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude, pp. 166-183. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick. ;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;
• Mills, B. J. (2008). Colonialism and Cuisine: Cultural Transmission, Domestic Practice, and Agency at Zuni Pueblo. University of Arizona Press.
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  ;Full Citation: Mills, Barbara J.2008Colonialism and Cuisine: Cultural Transmission, Domestic Practice, and Agency at Zuni Pueblo. In Cultural Transmission and Material Culture: Breaking Down Boundaries, edited by Lee Horne, Brenda Bowser, and Miriam Stark, pp. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. ;
• Mills, B. J. (2008). Remembering while Forgetting: Depositional Practice and Social Memory at Chaco. In School for Advanced Research Press.
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  Results of a SAR Seminar;Your Role: Sole Author;Full Citation: Mills, Barbara J.2008 Remembering while Forgetting: Depositional Practice and Social Memory at Chaco. In Memory Work: Archaeologies of Material Practices, edited by Barbara J. Mills and William H. Walker, pp. 81-108. School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe. ;
• Mills, B. J., & Walker, W. H. (2008). Introduction: Memory, Materiality, and Depositional Practice. School for Advanced Research Press.
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  Results of seminar at SAR.;Full Citation: Mills, Barbara J., and William H. Walker2008 Introduction: Memory, Materiality, and Depositional Practice. In Memory Work: Archaeologies of Material Practices, edited by Barbara J. Mills and William H. Walker pp. 3-23. School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe. ;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Collaboration with former PhD from our department, who graduated soon after I arrived.;
• Mills, B. J., Altaha, M., Welch, J., & Ferguson, T. J. (2008). Field Schools Without Trowels: Teaching Archaeological Ethics and Heritage Preservation in a Collaborative Context. University of Arizona Press.
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  Invited paper for Society for American Archaeology session which won the SAA/Amerind Seminar Award and resulted in a seminar at the Amerind Foundation.;Your Role: PI on project, Director of Field School, and senior author and cooridanator for project. Wrote 60% of chapter.;Full Citation: Mills, Barbara J., Mark Altaha, John Welch, and T. J. Ferguson2008Field Schools Without Trowels: Teaching Archaeological Ethics and Heritage Preservation in a Collaborative Context In Collaborating at the Trowel's Edge: Teaching and Learning in Indigenous Archaeology, edited by Stephen W. Silliman, pp. 25-49. Amerind Foundation and University of Arizona Press, Tucson.;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Collaborative with head of Heritage Preservation Program of White Mountain Apache Tribe, former Ph.D. student in department (now Asst. Prof at Simon Fraser U), and collaborators on a 3-year NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grant.;

Journals/Publications

• Mills, B. J. (2019). Hope in Dirt: Report of the Fort Apache Workshop on Forensic Sedimentology Applications to Cultural Property Crime. International Journal of Cultural Property.
• Altschul, J. H., Doelle, W. H., Hays-Gilpin, K. A., Herr, S. A., Kintigh, K. W., Klein, T. H., Kohler, T. A., Mills, B. J., Nelson, M. C., Montgomery, L. M., Ortman, S. G., Parker, J. N., Peeples, M. A., & Sabloff, J. A. (2018). Fostering Collaborative Synthetic Research in Archaeology. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 6(1), 19-29.
• Goldstein, L., Mills, B. J., Herr, S. A., Burkholder, J., Aiello, L., & Thorton, C. (2018). Forum: Why Do Fewer Women than Men Apply for Grants After Their PhDs?. American Antiquity, 83(3), 367-386.
• Mills, B. J. (2018). Intermarriage, Technological Diffusion, and Boundary Objects in the U.S. Southwest. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 25(4), 1051-1086.
• Mills, B. J. (2018). What's New in Chaco Archaeology?. Antiquity, 92(364), 855-869.
• Mills, B. J., Dungan, K., White, D., Safi, K., & Dederix, S. (2018). A Total Viewshed Approach to Local Visibility in the Chaco World. Antiquity, 92(364), 905-921.
• Mills, B. J., Habiba, H., Athenstadt, J. C., & Brandes, U. (2018). Social Networks and Similarity of Site Assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science, 92, 63-72.
• Mills, B. J., Peeples, M. A., Clark, J. J., Aragon, L., Bellorado, B., Giomi, E., & Windes, T. C. (2018). Evaluating Chaco Migration Scenarios Using Dynamic Network Analysis. Antiquity, 92(364), 922-939.
• Ware, J. A., Borck, L., Lyons, P. D., Peeples, M. A., Gauthier, R., Dean, J., Ortman, S. G., Glowacki, D. M., Mills, B. J., Hegmon, M., Birch, J. A., & Clark, J. J. (2019). Resolving the Migrant Paradox: Two Pathways to Coalescence in the Late Precontact U.S. Southwest. JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 53, 262-287.
• Altschul, J. H., Doelle, W. H., Hays-Gilpin, K. A., Herr, S. A., Kintigh, K. W., Klein, T. H., Kohler, T. A., Mills, B. J., Nelson, M. C., Montgomery, L. M., Ortman, S. G., Parker, J. N., Peeples, M. A., & Sabloff, J. A. (2017). Opinion Piece: Fostering Synthetic Research in Archaeology to Advance Science and Benefit Society. PNAS, 114(42), 10999-11002.
• Mills, B. J. (2017). Social Network Analysis in Archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology, 46, 379-397.
• Mills, B. J., Clark, J. J., & Peeples, M. A. (2016). Migration, Skill, and the Transformation of Social Networks in the pre-Hispanic Southwest. Economic Anthropology.
• Mills, B. J., Peoples, M., Doelle, W., Clark, J., & Laurenzi, A. (2016). The Big Picture: The National Historic Preservation Act and Regional Syntheses in the U. S. Southwest.. Journal of Arizona Archaeology, 4(1), 1-9.
• Pailes, M., Killick, D. J., Ferguson, T. J., & Mills, B. J. (2016). Diabase temper as a marker for Laguna ceramics. KIVA.
• Borck, L., Mills, B. J., Peeples, M. A., & Clark, J. J. (2015). Are Social Networks Survival Networks? An Example from the Late Prehispanic U.S. Southwest. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 22(1), 33-57.
• Collar, A., Coward, F., Brughmans, T., & Mills, B. J. (2015). Networks in Archaeology: Phenomena, Abstraction, Representation. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 22(1), 1-32.
• Mills, B. J., & Hodder, . (2015). Relational Networks and Religious Sodalities at Catalhoyuk. RELIGION AT WORK IN A NEOLITHIC SOCIETY: VITAL MATTERS, 159-186.
• Mills, B. J., Borck, L., Clark, J. J., Haas, W. R., Peeples, M. A., & Roberts, J. M. (2015). Multiscalar Perspectives on Social Networks in the Prehispanic Southwest. American Antiquity.
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  ;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Please specify if you select "Other collaborative" : co-author with archaeologsts at Archaeology Southwest and faculty at U of New Mexico;Full Citation: Mills, Barbara J., Lewis Borck, Jeffery J. Clark, Wm. Randall Haas, Jr., Matthew Peeples, and John M. Roberts, Jr.Multiscalar Perspectives on Southwest Social Networks, A.D. 1200-1500.;
• Mills, B. J., Peeples, M. A., Haas, W. R., Borck, L., Clark, J. J., & Roberts, J. M. (2015). MULTISCALAR PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL NETWORKS IN THE LATE PREHISPANIC SOUTHWEST. AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, 80(1), 3-24.
• Collar, A., Coward, F., Brughmans, T., & Mills, B. J. (2013). Networks in Archaeology: Phenomena, Abstraction, Representation. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY, 22(1), 1-32.
• Mills, B. J. (2007). Performing the feast: Visual display and suprahousehold commensalism in the Puebloan Southwest. American Antiquity, 210-239.
• Mills, B. J. (2013). Human-Thing Theory, Review of Hodder's Entangled: An Archaeology of Human-Thing Relations. Current Anthropology, 54(4), 515-516.
• Mills, B. J., Clark, J. J., Peeples, M. A., Haas, W. R., Roberts, J. M., Hill, J. B., Huntley, D. L., Borck, L., Breiger, R. L., Clauset, A., & Shackley, M. S. (2013). Transformation of social networks in the late pre-Hispanic US Southwest. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 110(15), 5785-5790.
• Mills, B. J., Mills, B. J., Clark, J. J., Clark, J. J., Peeples, M. A., Peeples, M. A., Haas, Jr., W. R., Haas, Jr., W. R., Roberts, Jr., J. M., Roberts, Jr., J. M., Hill, J. B., Hill, J. B., Huntley, D. L., Huntley, D. L., Borck, L., Borck, L., Breiger, R. L., Breiger, R. L., Clauset, A., , Clauset, A., et al. (2013). Transformation of Social Networks in the Late Pre-Hispanic US Southwest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 110(15), 5785-5790 (plus 11 pages of supporting materials).
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  The late pre-Hispanic period in the US Southwest (A.D. 1200-1450) was characterized by large-scale demographic changes, including long-distance migration and population aggregation. To reconstruct how these processes reshaped social networks, we compiled a comprehensive artifact database from major sites dating to this interval in the western Southwest. We combine social network analysis with geographic information systems approaches to reconstruct network dynamics over 250 y. We show how social networks were transformed across the region at previously undocumented spatial, temporal, and social scales. Using well-dated decorated ceramics, we track changes in network topology at 50-y intervals to show a dramatic shift in network density and settlement centrality from the northern to the southern Southwest after A.D. 1300. Both obsidian sourcing and ceramic data demonstrate that long-distance network relationships also shifted from north to south after migration. Surprisingly, social distance does not always correlate with spatial distance because of the presence of network relationships spanning long geographic distances. Our research shows how a large network in the southern Southwest grew and then collapsed, whereas networks became more fragmented in the northern Southwest but persisted. The study also illustrates how formal social network analysis may be applied to large-scale databases of material culture to illustrate multigenerational changes in network structure.
• Mills, B. J., Roberts, J. M., Clark, J. J., Haas, W. R., Huntley, D. L., & Trowbridge, M. A. (2012). A Method for Chronological Apportioning of Ceramic Assemblages. J of Archaeological Science, 39, 1513-1520.
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  ;Your Role: Second author, responsible for designing research and significant conceptual and writing responsibilities.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Senior author is Professor of Sociology at U of New Mexico.;
• Mills, B. J. (2009). From the Ground Up: Depositional History, Memory, and Materiality.. Archaeological Dialogues.
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  (commentary on P. McAnany and I. Hodder, “Social Stratigraphy”).;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Mills, Barbara J. 2009. From the Ground Up: Depositional History, Memory, and Materiality. Archaeological Dialogues 16(1):38-40. ;
• Mills, B. J., Murray, W. F., Laluk, N., & Ferguson, T. J. (2009). Archaeological Collaboration with American Indians: Case Studies from the Western U.S.. Collaborative Anthropologies.
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  Highlights M.A. and Ph.D. research of two of our students.;Your Role: Co-Author;Full Citation: Wendi Field Murray, Nicholas Laluk, Barbara J. Mills, and T. J. Ferguson. 2009. Archaeological Collaboration with American Indians: Case Studies from the Western U.S. Collaborative Anthropologies 2:65-86.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;
• Panyushkina, I. P., Mills, B. J., Usmanova, E. R., & Cheng, L. (2009). CALENDAR AGE OF LISAKOVSKY TIMBERS ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRONOVO COMMUNITY OF BRONZE AGE IN EURASIA. RADIOCARBON, 50(3), 459-469.
• Borck, L., Mills, B. J., Peeples, M. A., & Clark, J. J. (2008). Are Social Networks Survival Networks? An Example from the Late Pre-Hispanic US Southwest. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY, 22(1), 33-57.
• Mills, B. J. (2008). Animate Objects: Shell Trumpets and Ritual Networks in the Greater Southwest. J of Archaeological Method and Theory.
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  ;Your Role: Senior author, responsible for 60% of writing;Full Citation: Mills, Barbara J., and T. J. FergusonAnimate Objects: Shell Trumpets and Ritual Networks in the Greater Southwest. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 15(4):338-361.;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;
• Mills, B. J. (2008). Calendar Age of Lisakovsky Timbers Attributed to the Andronovo Community of the Bronze Age in Eurasia. Radiocarbon, U of Arizona.
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  Results of a National Geographic Society Grant.;Your Role: Second author, responsible for 50% of grant, 50% of field work, 10% of lab work, and 30% of article.;Full Citation: Panyushkina, Irina P., Barbara J. Mills, Emma R. Usmanova, and Li Cheng2008Calendar Age of Lisakovsky Timbers Attributed to the Andronovo Community of the Bronze Age in Eurasia. Radiocarbon 50(3):459-469.;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;
• Mills, B. J. (2008). How the Pueblos Became Global: Colonial Appropriations, Resistance, and Diversity in the North American Southwest. ARCHAEOLOGIES-JOURNAL OF THE WORLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS, 4(2), 218-232.
• Mills, B. J. (2008). How the Pueblos Became Global: Colonial Appropriations, Resistance, and Diversity in the North American Southwest. Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress.
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  ;Full Citation: Mills, Barbara J.2008How the Pueblos Became Global: Colonial Appropriations, Resistance, and Diversity in the North American Southwest. Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress. 4(2):218-232.;
• Roberts, J. M., Mills, B. J., Clark, J. J., Haas, W. R., Huntley, D. L., & Trowbridge, M. A. (2008). A method for chronological apportioning of ceramic assemblages. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 39(5), 1513-1520.

Presentations

• Mills, B. J. (2020, January). Making a Space for Collaborative Synthesis. 17th Biennial Southwest Symposium. Arizona State University, Tempe: Southwest Symposium.
• Mills, B. J. (2019, December). Keynote Address: The Roots of Urbanism in the U.S. Southwest: How Migration, Coalescence, and Inequality Created the Chaco World. 4th Shanghai Archaeology Forum. Shanghai, China: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
• Roberts, J. M., Peeples, M., Mills, B. J., & Breiger, R. L. (2016, April). Filtering methods in the archaeological context. International Network for Social Network Analysis annual conference (INSNA 2016). Newport Beach, CA: International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA).
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  Research on archaeological networks often involves analysis of site-by-site networks based on continuous measures of the similarity between sites’ artifact assemblages. While the weighted (and possibly complete) ties in such networks make it difficult to produce satisfactory network diagrams, such displays may be a primary attraction of network research for archaeologists who are not steeped in network analytic methods. Therefore it is important to consider how to best display such data. A variety of “filtering” methods have been developed to address similar situations in other substantive areas. After noting how archaeologists have tackled this problem to date, we consider the applicability and effectiveness of some of these filtering methods in the archaeological context. We use ceramic similarity data from Southwest Social Networks project of Mills and colleagues to investigate these methods.
• Mills, B. J. (2012, 2012-04-01). Discussant Comments for The Networked Feast. Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, TN.
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Mills, B. J. (2012, 2012-09-01). Macroregional Migration and Ceramics: Examples from the Southwest Social Networks Project, A.D. 1200-1500.. International Conference on Cross-regional Comparison of Ancient Migration and Exchange Patterns. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
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  ;Invited: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Mills, B. J. (2012, 2013-03-01). How Migration Transformed Social Networks in the Prehispanic Southwest. William D. Lipe Distinguished Lecturer. Washington State University.
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  Distinguished Lecture to faculty and students; also ran a theory seminar.;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Mills, B. J., & Dungan, K. (2012, 2012-01-01). Religious Diversity, Density, and Transformation: Archaeological Perspectives from the Greater Southwest.. “Sacred Spaces and Places,” organized by Suzanne Villanueve and Brian Hayden, Simon Fraser University.. Simon Fraser U, Canada.
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  ;Your Role: Senior author.;Invited: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
• Mills, B. J., Borck, L., Clark, J. J., Mills, B. J., & Peeples, M. A. (2012, 2012-04-01). The Structural Setting of Migration: Network Organization and the Kayenta Area Depopulation of the Late 13th Century. Society for American Archaeology. Memphis TN.
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  ;Your Role: Directed research and wrote portions of paper;Invited: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Archaeologists at Archaeology Southwest;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Mills, B. J., Jeffery, C., Lewis, B., & John, M. (2012, 2012-04-01). The Topology of Persistence: Network Analysis and Southwest Settlement Stability, A.D. 1200-1500.. Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, TN.
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  ;Your Role: lead author;Invited: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Archaeologists at Archaeology Southwest and faculty at U of New Mexico;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Mills, B. J., Lewis, B., Wm., R., Matthew, P., Roberts, J. M., & Jr., . (2012, 2012-01-01). Multiscalar Perspectives on Southwest Social Networks, A.D. 1200-1500.. Southwest Symposium. U of New Mexico.
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  ;Your Role: Senior author;Submitted: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Authored with faculty at U of New Mexico, UC Berkeley, and archaeologists at Archaeology Southwest.;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Mills, B. J., Murray, W. F., & Mills, B. (2012, 2012-04-01). Identity Communities and Material Practices: Relational Logics in the U.S. Southwest. Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, TN.
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  ;Your Role: Wrote half of paper.;Invited: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Mills, B. J., R., W., & Mills, B. (2012, 2012-04-01). Ceramics as Agents: Ware Affiliation Networks in the U.S. Southwest. Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, TN.
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  ;Your Role: 2nd author, helped design and carry out research;Invited: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Mills, B., Matthew, P., Jr., L. B., Deborah, H., Brett, H., & John, M. (2012, 2012-03-01). Dynamic Network Analysis: Stability and Collapse in U.S. Southwest, A.D. 1200-1500. The Connected Past. U of Southampton, UK.
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  ;Your Role: Lead author and presenter;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Also with archaeologists at Archaeology Southwest, U of New Mexico, U of California Berkeley, and Hendrix College.;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Mills, B. J. (2011, 2011-11-01). Discussants Comments for Pathways to Power in the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, organized by Gil Stein, Yorke Rowan, and Abbas Alizadah. Oriental Institute,. Pathways to Power in the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, organized by Gil Stein, Yorke Rowan, and Abbas Alizadah. Oriental Institute. University of Chicago.
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Mills, B. J. (2011, 2011-11-01). From Communities of Practice to Social Networks: Thinking Relationally in Archaeology. .. Patty Jo Watson Distinguished Lecture, Archeology Division, American Anthropological Association, Montreal. Montreal, Canada.
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Mills, B. J. (2010, 2010-03-01). The Archaeology of Social Networks in the Prehispanic Southwest.. Distinguished Lecturer. University of New Mexico.
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  Invited by Graduate Students for their annual conference.;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Mills, B. J. (2010, 2011-02-01). Unpacking the House: Ritual Practice and Social Networks at Chaco. Seminar on Recent Research on Chaco. Amerind Foundation.
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Mills, B. J. (2009, 2009-02-01). The Archaeology of Migration in the Greater Southwest. Scientific Research Committee, National Geographic Society. Washington D.C..
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Mills, B. J. (2009, 2009-02-01). The Archaeology of Social Networks and Memory Practices at Chaco Canyon, NM.. U of Colorado.
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  Distinguished Speaker;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Mills, B. J. (2009, 2010-02-01). Embedded Networks? Pigments and Long-Distance Procurement Strategies in the Late Prehispanic Southwest. Society for American Archaeology. Atlanta.
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  ;Your Role: co-author - authored several sections.;Invited: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Other co-authors are a Visiting Scholar and archaeologist at Center for Desert Archaeology, and a faculty member at UC Santa Cruz.;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;

Poster Presentations

• Mills, B. J. (2019, Aprin). cyberSW: A Data Synthesis and Knowledge Discovery System for Long-Term Interdisciplinary Research on Southwest Social Change. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting. Albuquerque: SAA.

Reviews

• Mills, B. J. (2015. Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things(pp 515-+).
• Mills, B. J. (2014. The archaeology of Chaco Canyon: An eleventh-century Pueblo regional center(pp 121-122).
• Mills, B. J., & Ferguson, T. J. (2012. Animate Objects: Shell Trumpets and Ritual Networks in the Greater Southwest(pp 338-361).
• Mills, B. J. (2008. Josephine Foard and the Glazed Pottery of Laguna Pueblo(pp 146-147).
• Mills, B. J. (2008. Book Review: The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon: an Eleventh-Century Pueblo Regional Center. Stephen H. Lekson, ed..
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  ;Your Role: Author of review;Full Citation: Mills, Barbara J.2008 Book Review, The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon: an Eleventh-Century Pueblo Regional Center. Stephen H. Lekson, ed. American Anthropologist 110(1):121-122. ;

Others

• Justin, L., Knappett, C., Arnaud, P., Arthur, P., Broodbank, C., Blake, E. C., Brughmans, T., Evans, T., Graham, S., Green, E. S., Kowalzig, B., Mills, B. J., Rivers, R., Tartaron, T. F., & de Noort, R. V. (2014, May). A Manifesto for the Study of Ancient Mediterranean Maritime Networks. Antiquity - website. http://journal.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/leidwanger342
• Mills, B. J. (2009, JUN). From the ground up. Depositional history, memory and materiality. ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIALOGUES.