David Anthony Faculty Site Index David W. Anthony Associate Professor of Anthropology B.A., History, Princeton University M.A., Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania Dr. Anthony specializes in Prehistoric Archaeology Areas of Interest Northeastern North America, Prehistoric Native American Archaeology Dr. Anthony has conducted archaeological excavations in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia as a cultural resource management consultant, working on archaeological investigations associated with the Federally funded construction projects. He and his wife, Dorcas Brown, have directed Hartwick field excavations on prehistoric camp sites dated from 2500 BC to AD 1600 at the Pine Lake environmental campus. Dr. Anthony also serves as Curator of the Native American collection in the Museums at Hartwick. The Native American collection contains more than 10,000 artifacts from the Upper Susquehanna Valley, the American Southwest, Mexico, Peru, and the Amazon.
Students work and conduct research with the collections.
Their research has been supported by grants from agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. Anthony and Brown invented this technique to identify the bones of horses that were used for riding or driving, and they discovered bit wear on the teeth of a horse in Ukraine dated to 4000 BC the earliest horse known to have been ridden anywhere in the world. Anthony and Brown are currently conducting excavations in the steppes near Samara, Russia, with the support of the National Science Foundation. See the online article on the Samara Valley Project . Also see the online article Excavations at Krasnaya Samarka .