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Arnold, Jeanne E.

Jeanne E. Arnold, Department of Anthropology, UCLA University of California, Los Angeles Jeanne E. Arnold is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She joined the UCLA faculty in1988. She completed her B.A. at the University of Michigan and received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has researched and published extensively on the later prehistory and early Historic period of the American Pacific Coast, focusing on Native American community and household organization, specialized labor and occupations, and the emergence of hierarchical socioeconomic and political relationships in traditional societies. Arnold's archeological field and laboratory research in western North America has been supported principally by the National Science Foundation. Using a variety of survey, surface collection, excavation, and remote sensing strategies, along with paleoenvironmental reconstruction, technological studies, and the like, Arnold and her students and collaborators have analyzed Chumash villages on the Channel Islands of California to provide a window onto daily household life, specialized craft production, exchange relationships, subsistence, and political evolution. Recent archaeological discoveries support the view that the coastal Chumash were among the most complex hunter-gatherer peoples of the world.

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