Professor
Archaeology
Contact Information
Denny Hall, 129
Office Hours
By appointment
Biography
PhD, Anthropology, Brown University, 2000
MA, Museum Studies, San Francisco State University, 1995
BA Physics University of New Hampshire, 1985
My research focuses on understanding social change in Island Southeast Asia over the last 5,000 years. I have been particularly interested in island landscapes and seascapes, cross cultural interactions such as trade and warfare, human-environment interactions and climate change. I also have an interest in archaeology practice, cultural resource management and public archaeology in the Seattle area
Research
Selected Research
- Lape, Peter V., John Krigbaum, Jana Futch, Amy Jordan, Emily Peterson. 2020. The Ira Ara Site: A fortified settlement and burial complex in Timor Leste. In Forts and fortification in Wallacea: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investigations. Edited by Sue O’Connor, Andrew McWilliam and Sally Brockwell. Terra Australis 53, ANU Press, Canberra.
- Lape, Peter V., Emily Peterson, Daud Tanudirjo, ChungChing Shiung, Gyoung-Ah Lee, Judith Field, Adelle Coster. (2018). New Data from an Open Neolithic Site in Eastern Indonesia. Asian Perspectives 57(2): 222-243.
- Habu, Junko, Peter Lape, John Olsen, eds. 2017 Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology, Springer Press.
- Field, Julie S., and Peter V. Lape. "Paleoclimates and the Emergence of Fortifications in the Tropical Pacific Islands." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 29.1 (2010): 113-24. Web.
- Lape, Peter V. and Chin-yung Chao. 2008. Fortification as a human response to late Holocene climate change in East Timor, in Climate Change in the Indo Pacific: Human Responses from the Late Pleistocene to the Little Ice Age edited special issue in Archaeology in Oceania 43:11-21.
Research Advised
- Liu, Jiun-Lu. 2021. Rethinking the Emergence of Iron Metallurgy in Taiwan: A Trade Diaspora Model. PhD Dissertation, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Washington
- San Pablo Archaeological Project: Filipino Responses to Spanish Colonialism in Northern Luzon. Pilot Research. 2017.
- Cohen, Anna. Creating an empire: local political change at Angamuco, Michoacan, Mexico. Diss. U of Washington, 2016.
- Huff, Jennifer. Understanding changes in mobility & subsistence from terminal Pleistocene to Late Holocene in the highlands of New Guinea through intensity of lithic reduction, changing site types, and paleoclimate. Diss. U of Washington, 2016.
- Jordan, Amy J. The Price of Spice: Archaeological Investigations of Colonial Era Nutmeg Plantations on the Banda Islands, Maluku Province, Indonesia. Diss. U of Washington, 2016.
- Peterson, Emily J. Insularity and adaptation: investigating the role of exchange and inter-island interaction in the Banda Islands, Indonesi. Diss. U of Washington, 2015.
- Shiung, Chung-Ching. The Implications of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political Interactions for Ceramic Evolution on the Banda Islands, Maluku Province, Indonesia. Diss. U of Washington, 2012.
- Chao, Chin-yung. A Microregional Approach to the Social Dynamics in the Late Prehistoric Manatuto, East Timor, Eleventh - Eighteenth Century. Diss. U of Washington, 2008.
Courses Taught
Spring 2025
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
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