Christine Hastorf


Christine Hastorf is an archaeologist and is currently Professor in the Anthropology department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on agriculture, political complexity, gender, archaeobotany, and the archaeology of the Andes.

Biography

Hastorf received her Phd from UCLA in 1983. Hastorf has worked on the shores of Lake Titicaca, Bolivia since 1992. At Berkeley, Hastorf directs the Archaeological Research Facility as well as the McCown Archaeobotany Laboratory, and is the Curator of South American Archaeology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. In the late 1970s Hastorf undertook research on the stable isotope composition on Andean grains.
She has produced several key volumes in archaeology, including Current Paleoethnobotany with Virginia Popper, The Uses of Style with Margaret Conkey.
Hastorf won the Society for American Archaeology Fryxell Award for Excellence in the Botanical Sciences in Archaeology in 2012. Hastorf is a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, and was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2014. Hastorf has received research grants from the National Science Foundation and the Wenner Gren Foundation for the project 'Multi-Community Formation in the Lake Titicaca Basin Bolivia', and National Geographic.

Selected publications