 Michael
J. Kolb
Ph.D., UCLA, 1991
Professor
Professor Kolb is an archaeologist whose research interests include
complex societies, monumental architecture, and the archaeology
of power and ritual. He has conducted field work in Polynesia, Europe,
and Africa. His most recent fieldwork has focused on social stratification
and the political economy of the Maui Kingdom in Hawaii, and the
rise of complexity in early Iron Age Sicily. Professor Kolb teaches
courses in archaeology, field methods, ethnohistory, quantitative
analysis, and method and theory.
He is currently the director of the Na
Heiau O Maui and one of the international co-directors of The
Elymi Project.
Selected Publications
The origins of monumental architecture in ancient Hawai'i. Current
Anthropology 46(4):657-664, 2006.
(PDF 416k)
Elymian regional interaction in Iron Age western Sicily: a preliminary
neutron
activation study of incised/impressed tablewares. (M. J. Kolb and
R. J. Speakman)
Journal of Archaeological Science 32(5): 795-804, 2005. (PDF
341k)
The genesis of monuments among the Mediterranean islands. In: The
Prehistoric Archaeology of the Mediterranean. Edited by B. A.
Knapp and
E. Blake. Blackwell, London, pp. 156-179, 2005.
(PDF 884k)
Landscape of War: Rules and Conventions of Conflict in Ancient
Hawaii (and elsewhere).With B. Dixon. American Antiquity
67(3): 514-34, 2002. (PDF
3561k)
Early human activity at a leeward coastal pondfield near Kalepolepo,
Maui.
(J. Pepalis and M. J. Kolb) Hawaiian Archaeology 8:32-41, 2002 (PDF
1730k)
The late Bronze Age and early Iron Age landscape of interior western
Sicily. (M. Kolb and S. Tusa) Antiquity 75:503-504, 2001.
(PDF
313k)
Monumental grandeur and political florescence in pre-contact Hawaii.:
Excavations at Piilanihale Heiau, Maui. Archaeology in Oceania
34:71-82, 1999.
Pig sacrifice and the archaeology of ritual in the Hawaiian kingdom.
In, Complex Polities in the Ancient Tropical World, Archaeological
Papers of the American Anthropological Association 9. Edited
by E. A. Bacus and L. J. Lucero, pp. 89-107, 1997.
Labor, space, and boundary maintenance: Examining the archaeological
community. (M. J. Kolb and J. Snead). American Antiquity
62(4):609-628, 1997.
New approached to combining the archaeological and historical records:
Current research in the New and Old Worlds. (S. Kepecs and M. J.
Kolb, editors). Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory,
special issue, 1997.
Monumentality and the rise of religious authority in precontact
Hawaii. Current Anthropology 35(5):521-547, 1994.
Contact Information:
Website: http://dig.anthro.niu.edu
Dr. Michael J. Kolb
Department of Anthropology
Stevens Building 102
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
Voice: 815-753-7037
Fax: 815-753-7027
Email: aloha@niu.edu
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