You're missing a photo of Krause Richard A. Krause (PhD Yale, 1967) is an archaeologist with wide ranging theoretical and geographic interests. Krause has taught anthropology at The University of Nebraska, The Ohio State University, and the University of Missouri as well as The University of Alabama. He has conducted field research in the Great Plains of North America, Alaska, South Africa, Yucatán and the Southeastern United States. His primary interests include ethnoarchaeology, pottery manufacture and use from both ethnographic and archaeological perspectives, the articulation of mid-range theory with field and laboratory research and the epistemological precision of basic units of analysis, classification, and interpretation. He has also done ethnographic research among American Indians, and several South African Bantu speaking groups. Krause has a strong commitment to graduate student training as indicated by the field work conducted and the published papers and monographs coauthored with contemporary and former students. He prefers a tutorial approach to graduate study, an approach which emphasizes the critical rethinking of basic concepts and traditional views of field and laboratory research. In 1992 Krause was named a Distinguished Teaching Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Krause has served on the boards of directors of a number of scholarly associations, including the Plains Anthropological Society (1968-70: President 1971-72), the Council on Alabama Archaeology (1980-1990: President 1974-1980),  and the Alabama Historical Commission (1982-1990).  He has also been active in the Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (member Executive Council , 1981-82 and President 1982-83).  Prof. Krause served on the editorial board of the Journal of Mississippi Archaeology (1987-1992).  

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Selected Publications

1999.  The Red Fox Mound (ILI15): An Enigma in Search of A Cipher, with C. Allsbrook and 0. Shinn, Journal of Alabama Archaeology, Vol.43, No.2, pp.115-153.

1999. Kinship, Tradition and Settlement Pattern: An Archaeology of Prehistoric Middle Missouri Community Life. In Bruck and Goodman Eds., Making Places in the Prehistoric World: Themes in Settlement Archaeology.. University College London Press, 1999 pp. 129-144.

1998. The History of Great Plains Prehistory". In W.R. Wood Ed. Archaeology on the Great Plains. The University of Kansas Press. pp.49-86.

1997. Pottery Manufacture. In Vogel Ed., The Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa: Archaeology, History, Languages, Culture, and Environment. AltaMira Press, 1997 pp. 115-125.

1997.  A Production Stage Grammar of Nollmeyer Potting Practices. In Archaeology in Montana, Vol.36, No.2, 1995 (Issued Fall 1996).

1996.  Artifacts, Features and Associations: Observations on the Excavation of a Mississippian Mound. Manifort and Walling Eds. Mounds, Embankments and Ceremonialism in the Midsouth. Arkansas Archaeological Survey Research Series No. 46, 1996 pp. 54-63

1995. Great Plains Mound Building: A Post-Processual View. Wilson and Duke Eds. Beyond Subsistence: Plains Archaeology and the Postprocessual Critique. The University of Alabama Press, 1995.

1995.  Attributes, Modes and 10th Century Potting Practices in Northcentral Kansas.  Plains Anthropologist, Vol 40, No. 154.

1994.  Paper Sacks, Paste-Board Boxes and Intellectual Bins: The River Basin Salvage Program and Archaeological Classification. In Kimball Banks.ed., 40 Something: The River Basin Surveys. North Dakota Archaeology, Vol. 5.

1992. To Illustrate the Practice of Potters" Review Article in American Anthropologist, Vol. 94.

1990. Ceramic Practice and Semantic Space: An Ethnoarchaeological Inquiry into the Logic of Bantu Potting. Antiquity, Vol. 64, No. 245.

1990. "The Death of the Sacred: Lessons From a Mississippian Mound in the Tennessee River Valley". Journal of Alabama Archaeology, Vol. 36, No.2.

1988. The Snodgrass Small Mound and Middle Tennessee Valley Prehistory. Tennessee Valley Authority Publications in Anthropology Number 52.

1987. Archeology and History in Southern Nigeria. Review article in Reveiws in Anthropology, Vol. 14, No. 1.

1986. The Tombigbee Watershed in Southeastern Prehistory. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. (With N.J. Jenkins).

1985. The Clay Sleeps: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Three African Potters. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press.

1984. Modelling the Making of Pots: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach. In van der Leeuw and Prichard Eds. The Many Dimensions of Pottery: Ceramics in Archaeology and Anthropology. University of Amsterdam, Albert Egges van Giffen Instituut voor Prae-en Protohistorie. Cingula VII.

1980. Peoples and Monuments: A Speculative Account of the Organizing Role Played by Mayan Monument Building. In E. Terry and E. Moseley, Eds. Yucatan: A World Apart. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press.

1972. The Leavenworth Site: Archaeology of an Historic Arikara Community. University of Kansas Publications in Anthropology, No. 3.

1971. Toward a Theory of Archaeological Things. Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 16, No. 54, Part 1. (With R. Thorne).