David Zeanah is the Department Chair and Associate Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Sacramento. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Utah for his dissertation entitled Predicting Settlement Patterns and Mobility Strategies: An Optimal Foraging Analysis of Hunter-Gatherer Use of Mountain, Desert, and Wetland Habitats in the Carson Desert. His research on human behavioral ecology focuses on hunter-gatherers in California and the Great Basin. Zeanah has brought an interesting and important perspective to the application of behavioral ecology by considering sexual division of labor with respect to subsistence strategies in the Great Basin. He also sees human behavioral ecology as a management tool in places like the Carson Desert.
Selected Works
2004 Zeanah, David W. Sexual Division of Labor and Central Place Foraging Strategies; a Model for the Carson Desert of Western Nevada. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 23(1): 1-32.
2002 Elston, R.G. and D.W. Zeanah. Thinking Outside the Box: A New Perspective on Diet Breadth and Sexual Division of Labor in the Prearchaic Great Basin. World Archaeology 34(1):103-130
The Application of Behavioral Ecology to the Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherers
