Monica L Smith

The Archaeology of Plenitude

Monica L. Smith is professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles, holds the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian Studies, and is the director of the South Asian Archaeology Laboratory at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. She is author of Cities: The First 6,000 Years, A Prehistory of Ordinary People and editor of The Power of Nature, Abundance and The Social Construction of Ancient Cities.

Archaeology and Human-Environmental Dynamics