Professor of Anthropology & Director, Waring Archaeological Laboratory
Ph.D., University of Florida 

Short Vitae 

Office 330 Pafford & Waring Laboratory
Telephone: 678-839-8456 

Email: rcrook@westga.edu 

Intrests: 

Archaeological Method and Theory
Archaeology of the Southeastern U.S.
Cultural Ecology - Coastal Environments
Gullah Ethnography and Archaeology 

Influential Works: 

The Science of Culture (White, 1949)
The Gift (Mauss, 1950)
Theory of Cultural Change (Steward, 1955)
Cultural Materialism (Harris, 1979)
Anthropology (Wolf, 1964)
Europe and the People without History (Wolf, 1982)
Stone Age Economics (Sahlins, 1972)
The Ecological Transistion (Bennett, 1976)
Human Adaptive Stategies (Bates and Plog, 1991)
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Viru Valley, Peru (Willey, 1953)
Method and Theory in American Archaeology (Willey and Phillips, 1958)
An Archaeology Perspective (Binford, 1972)
Spatial Archaeology (Clarke, ed, 1977)
Reading the Past (Hodder, 1991)
Theories of Culture in Popstmodern Times (Harris, 1999)