Office: EPS 1.102
Office Hours: On Leave
Phone: 512 471 7529
neely@mail.utexas.edu

Research interests:
Prehistoric and early historic cultural development and culture change; processes of plant and animal domestication; development of urban life; ancient technology (lithics, ceramics, water control, and irrigation). Mexico, Iran.

Courses taught:
Archaeology
Cultural Ecology
Village Life and the Development of Urbanism
Irrigation/Water Control Systems
Ceramic Technology

Field(s) of Study: Archaeology

Recent Publications:

"Sassanian and Early Islamic Water Control and Irrigation Systems on the Deh Luran Plain, Southwestern Iran." In Production and Exploitation of Resources, edited by M. G. Morony, pp. 21-42.

The Formation of the Classical Islamic World, Vol. 2. Ashgate Publishing Limited. Aldershot, Hampshire, England. 1999.

"A Lat Susiana Society in Southwestern Iran." In The Iranian World: Essays on Iranian Art and Archaeology Presented to Ezat O. Negahban, edited by A. Alizadeh, Y. Majidzadeh, and S. Malek-Shahmirzadi. Iran University Press. Teheran. 1998. 21pp. (with Henry T. Wright).

"Early Settlement and Irrigation on the Deh Luran Plain: Village and Early State Societies in Southwestern Iran." Museum of Anthropology University of Michigan, Technical Reports, No. 26, 234 pp. Ann Arbor. 1994. (with P. Storch) "Friable Pigments and Ceramic Surfaces: A Case Study from Southwestern Iran," Journal of Field Archaeology, 15 (1988).