The Carol Kramer papers are open for research.
Materials with student grades and social security numbers have been restricted. The dates that the restricted items will be made available for access range from 2047 to 2064. Access to Kramer's computer disks is also restricted. Please consult an archivist for more information.
These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Carol Kramer's sister, Laura Kramer.
The papers of Carol Kramer were received partially organized. The processing archivist kept existing groupings and arrangement and organized the collection into 15 series. Original folder titles were retained with titles assigned by the archivist placed within square brackets. Materials with student grades and social security numbers were separated and have been restricted. Items separated from folders due to restrictions and preservation reasons were replaced with a separation sheet providing a description and new location of the items. Separation sheets were also filed with separated items to indicate original locations.
The processing archivist would like to thank Lee Horne for her assistance in identifying and providing information on items in the collections. Her notes (signed and dated) can be found throughout the collection.
The bulk of these papers document the professional life of Carol Kramer. The collection contains field notes, writings, correspondence, daily planners, teaching files, photographs, sound recordings, maps, computer disks, and botanical specimens. Also in the collection are her notes and grade transcripts as a college and graduate student.
Her ethnoarchaeological research in "Shahabad" (a.k.a. "Aliabad") in Iran and in Rajasthan, India is well-represented in the collection in the form of her notes, maps, writings, and photographs. In addition, there are plant specimens that Kramer collected in Iran. Also among her research files are photocopies of her field notes from her work in Guatemala. Although her field notes from the Hasanlu Project are absent, the collection does contain a few photographs and some notes and correspondence from her research for her article on the Hasanlu Project's excavations at Dalma Tepe. In addition, the collection contains "A System of Pottery Classification According to Shape," a paper by Robert H. Dyson, Jr. and T. Cuyler Young, Jr. for the Hasanlu Project. Materials relating to the Godin Project consist of correspondence from 1996 and 1997 and a 1973 group photo.
Copies of her monographs are present in the collection along with drafts, figures, and correspondence for her published writings and dissertation. Many of the papers that she presented at professional meetings, seminars, and special lectures can also be found in the collection, including her 1994 AAA Distinguished Lecture, "The Quick and the Dead: Ethnography in and for Archaeology." In addition, there are two cassette tape recordings of Kramer presenting her paper, "Ceramics in Two Indian Cities," and the subsequent group discussion at the 1985 School of American Research Advanced Seminar, "Social and Behavioral Sources of Ceramic Variability." Also of special interest are materials documenting her involvement in the 1981 "Resolution to Implement the 1972 American Anthropological Association Resolution on Fair Practices in Employment of Women."
Kramer's professional correspondence is spread throughout the collection, mixed together with other documents, filed by subject. Much of her later correspondence is in the form of e-mail printouts. Letters of reference she wrote can also be found on her computer disks, which consist of several 3.50" and 5.25" floppy disks. Other files on the disks include materials for her books and articles, research data, her performance evaluations files, notes for courses she taught, and her will.
It should be noted that Kramer was briefly married during the 1960s and 1970s to Christopher Hamlin, who was a fellow graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. Thus, she is referred to as Carol Hamlin in some of the documents from that period.
Carol Kramer was a leading figure in ethnoarchaeology, specializing in the Middle East and South Asia. She was also a major advocate for the professional development of women in anthropology and archaeology.
She was born on May 3, 1943 in New York City to Aaron Kramer, a poet and professor of English at Dowling College, and Katherine Kolodny Kramer, a social worker. She attended the High School of Music and Art and earned her B.A. at the City University of New York in 1964. Kramer initially studied archaeology in the graduate program at the University of Chicago, but transferred to the University of Pennsylvania after a year, where she earned her doctorate in 1971. Her dissertation was entitled "The Habur Ware Ceramic Assemblage of Northern Mesopotamia: An Analysis of its Distribution."
In 1968, she was a site supervisor for University of Pennsylvania and Metropolitan Museum of Art's joint archaeological excavations at Dinkha Tepe and Se Girdan, Iran as part of the Hasanlu Project, directed by Robert H. Dyson, Jr. She also served as site supervisor (1967, 1969) and Assistant Director (1971, 1973) for the Royal Ontario Museum's archaeological excavation at Godin Tepe, known as the Godin Project, which was directed by Louis D. Levine and T. Cuyler Young, Jr. In 1970, she conducted her first ethnoarchaeological fieldwork under Ruben Reina, working with an urban potter in Antigua, Guatemala.
Kramer returned to Iran in 1975 to conduct ethnoarchaeological research in a Kurdish village in the Hamadān Province. Her work there resulted in several papers, including "An Archaeological View of a Contemporary Kurdish Village: Domestic Architecture, Household Size, and Wealth," published in Ethnoarchaeology: Implications of Ethnography for Archaeology (1979), which she edited. She expanded upon her paper in her 1982 book, Village Ethnoarchaeology: Rural Iran in Archaeological Perspective.
For her next project, she intended to study pottery communities in Iran, but the outbreak of the Iranian Revolution forced her to change her plans, and she decided to shift her location to India. In 1980 and 1982-1984, she studied ceramic production and distribution in Rajasthan. Articles produced from her research include "Ceramics in Two Indian Cities" (1991), "Ceramics in Rajasthan: Distribution and Scalar Variation" (1992), "A Tale of Two Cities: Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology in Rajasthan" (1994), and "Social and Locational Contexts of Ceramic Distribution in Rajasthan" (1995). She also authored Pottery in Rajasthan: Ethnoarchaeology in Two Indian Cities, published in 1997.
Kramer returned to the field in 1995, serving as site supervisor for archaeological excavations in Gordion, Turkey. She returned the next year to explore the possibility of conducting research in Yassihöyük and other villages near Gordion as an extension of her village ethnoachaeology research in Iran.
In 2001, Kramer further contributed to the field of ethnoarchaeology with the publication of Ethnoarchaeology in Action, which she co-wrote with Nicholas David. The landmark book is the first comprehensive study of ethnoarchaeology.
In addition to her work in ethnoarchaeology, Kramer was also involved in promoting the professional advancement of women in anthropology. In 1980, Kramer and her colleagues (Roger Sanjek, Rayna Rapp, Carole Vance, and Glenn Peterson) drew up a resolution to implement the 1972 Resolution on Fair Practices in Employment of Women. They campaigned to raised funds and support for the resolution, which called for the American Anthropological Association (AAA) to censure universities that hired or promoted a low percentage of women. Due to their work, the resolution passed and AAA censured five departments in 1981. In 1988, she and Miriam Stark published, "The Status of Women in Archeology," a study of gender equity in archaeology. They looked at gender differences in the number of graduate students, PhD recipients, and funding recipients as well as in faculty composition. Kramer was also a member of the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology (COSWA) from 1973 to 1975 and host and discussion leader at the COSWA Roundtable on professional skills and the female archaeologist at the 1998 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA).
In 1999, Kramer was awarded the Squeaky Wheel Award by COSWA in recognition of her contributions to equity for women in anthropology. She also delivered the 1994 Distinguished Lecture to the Archaeology Section for the AAA, "The Quick and the Dead: Ethnography in and for Archaeology." In 2003, she was posthumously awarded the SAA's Award for excellence in Archaeological Analysis.
From 1971 to 1990, Kramer taught at Queens College and later Lehman College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, during which time she was a visiting professor at Yale University (1985). She also taught at the University of Arizona (1986-1988) as a recipient of a National Science Foundation Visiting Professorship for Women. In 1990, she joined the faculty of the University of Arizona, where she taught until her death.
Kramer passed away at the age of 59 on December 3, 2002.
Sources Consulted
Rothschild, Nan A. "Carol Kramer (1943-2002)." American Anthropologist 106.1 (2004): 214-220.
Thompson, Raymond H. and Norman Yoffee. "Carol Kramer." Anthropology News 44.3 (2003): 30.
Arranged into 15 series: (1) Research, 1961-1997; (2) Writings, 1972-2002; (3) Talks, 1972-1999; (4) Grants/Fellowships, 1974-2000; (5) Professional Activities, 1966-2002; (6) Teaching, 1971-2002; (7) Student, 1961-1973; (8) Personal, 1943-2001; (9) Writings by Others, 1949-2001; (10) Photographs, 1967-1996; (11) Card Files; (12) Maps; (13) Botanical Specimens; (14) Sound Recordings, 1985; (15) Computer Disks
Carol Kramer Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Contact repository for terms of use.
This series contains field notes, genealogy charts, data analysis, correspondence and other research notes associated with Kramer's fieldwork in Iran, India, Guatemala, and Turkey. Other materials in the series include notes and data from Lee Horne and Rosalind Howell as well as Kramer's notes on writings by others. Her notes on pottery towards the end of Subseries: Iran may be associated with her dissertation. The field notes for Guatemala are only photocopies, and the materials relating to her work in Turkey primarily document her preparations for her trip. Absent from the collection are her field notes from the Godin Project and the Hasanlu Project. This series does contain, however, some correspondence from 1996 and 1997 relating to the Godin Project and notes and correspondence from Kramer's research for her 1975 article on the Hasanlu Project's excavations at Dalma Tepe. Also in this series are letters from her informants and assistants in Iran.
Other materials relating to her fieldwork can be found in Series 4. Grants/Fellowships, Series 10. Photographs, Series 12. Maps, and Series 13. Botanical Specimens.
This series is arranged in 4 subseries: 1.1 Guatemala; 1.2 Iran; 1.3 India; 1.4 Turkey.
Notes are photocopies; 2 sets
Correspondence
Correspondence with friends in Iran
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[2 of 2]
See Box 9
Not all are photocopies
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[2 of 5]
[3 of 5]
[4 of 5]
[5 of 5]
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[2 of 2]
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[2 of 2]
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Notes on readings
[2 of 2]
Notes on readings
Includes photocopies of pages from Archaeological Ethnography in Western Iran; copy of Expedition, Vol 8, No. 3 Spring 1966 containing "Clues to Iranian Prehistory in Modern Village Life" by Patty Jo Watson
Notes on Baghestan
Letter from Eric
Contains maps; notes on Lauriston Ward Survey 1938-29; and a photocopy of a report on the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq's 1934-1935 archaeological survey of the Habur and Jaghjagha regions of Syria
See Map Drawer --Folder 2
1 of 2 Notes on Hasanlu Project
2 of 2 Notes on Hasanlu Project
Correspondence
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2 of 2
Notes and letters for trip to India
(22.ix-25.xi.82)
(29.xii.82-8.i.83)
Field Notes
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2 of 2
(17.viii-12.ix) xerox
Also contains glossary
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[2 of 2]
Working Copy, 1986
Notes and Data
Photocopies of shop census
Photocopies of potter & vendor inventories and shop census
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See oversize Box
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photocopies
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effective in 1983
Notes on readings and from discussions with colleagues, newspaper clippings
Preparations for trip to Turkey and grant applications
This series contains drafts and published copies of Kramer's articles and books. Also in the series are correspondence and figures for her publications, reviews of her books (filed under Subseries: Monographs), and reviews she wrote for publication (Subseries: Reviews). Under Subseries: Journal is a copy of "Ethnoarchaeology," a special issue of Expeditions, which she edited with W. A. Longacre. Subseries: Miscellaneous contains letters, e-mails, and tables for unidentified publications and lists of her publications sent to colleagues. Folders are arranged chronologically by publication date.
Most of her research notes for her articles and books are filed under Series 1. Research. Papers she presented can be found in Series 3. Talks, while her dissertation is filed under Series 7. Students. More figures for her publications can be found in Series 10. Photographs.
This series is arranged in 5 subseries: 2.1 Monographs; 2.2 Journal; 2.3 Articles; 2.4 Reviews; 2.5 Miscellaneous.
copy of book
Correspondence relating to Ethnoarchaeology: Implications of Ethnography for Archaeology
1 of 2 Correspondence, notes, drafts
2 of 2 Correspondence, notes, drafts
Includes contract for Ethnoarchaeology: Implications of Ethnography for Archaeology
Introduction for Ethnoarchaeology: Implications of Ethnography for Archaeology
2 copies and 1 paste-up of chapter for Ethnoarchaeology: Implications of Ethnography for Archaeology
Copy of Book
Correspondence for Village Ethnoarchaeology: Rural Iran in archaeological perspective
Relating to Village Ethnoarchaeology: Rural Iran in archaeological perspective
Relating to Village Ethnoarchaeology: Rural Iran in archaeological perspective
Figure for Village Ethnoarchaeology: Rural Iran in archaeological perspective
Figure for Village Ethnoarchaeology: Rural Iran in archaeological perspective
Figures for Village Ethnoarchaeology: Rural Iran in archaeological perspective
Figures for Village Ethnoarchaeology: Rural Iran in archaeological perspective
Figures for Village Ethnoarchaeology: Rural Iran in archaeological perspective
Drawings for Village Ethnoarchaeology: Rural Iran in archaeological perspective
copy of book
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2 of 2 Also contains catalog and incomplete proof
Comments from colleagues on Pottery in Rajasthan manuscript, initially titled Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology in Rajasthan
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2 of 2 Pages 199 and 258 are missing
For Pottery in Rajasthan
For Pottery in Rajasthan
For Pottery in Rajasthan; See also Oversize Box and Series 10. Photographs, Subseries: Negatives
Figures for Pottery in Rajasthan
Figures for Pottery in Rajasthan
Figures for Pottery in Rajasthan
Figures for Pottery in Rajasthan
Figures from Appendix 1 in Pottery in Rajasthan
Figures for Pottery in Rajasthan.
Copy of Book
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2 of 2
Was originally part of "[Ethnoarchaeology in Action correspondence]"
"The 1971 Excavations at Seh Gabi, Iran" --letters and plates for article, magazine issue, reprint
"Seh Gabi, 1973" --figures and photo for article, reprint, magazine issue
"Seh Gabi Chipped Stone: Preliminary Observations" --2 typescript copies and photocopy of published article
"The Godin Project: Seh Gabi" --letters, photocopy of annotated typescript draft, clean typescript version, and photocopies of published article
"The Early Second Millennium Ceramic Assemblage of Dinkha Tepe" --correspondence, galley, figures, and reprint
Correspondence, plates, galley, reprints; see also See also Series 10. Photographs for plates and Series 1. Research, Subseries: Iran "Dalma" for notes and correspondence
Figures published in "Dalma Tepe"
Correspondence, notes, reprint
Typescript of "Seh Gabi: The Chipped Stone Assemblage"
Photocopy of typescript
"Spatial Organization in Contemporary Southwest Asian Villages" - correspondence, notes, data, annotated typescript draft
"Spatial Organization in Contemporary Southwest Asian Villages" - correspondence, notes, data, annotated typescript draft
Correspondence, notes, reprint
Two typescript versions of "Ceramics in Two Indian Cities" for School of American Research publication Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology
Typescript manuscript, letter to William Longacre, and photocopies of article from book
"Ceramic Production and Specialization" (published in Paléorient) --typescript drafts, proofs, reprint, and Paléorient issue
"Manmade Animals" --correspondence, typescript drafts, galley proof, and copy of Faces
Agreement, correspondence, tear sheets of entries, photocopies of figures, galleys, and reprints
Mockup, newsprint, and photocopies
Copy of book
"A Tale of Two Cities: Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology in Rajasthan" (published in Living Traditions) --typescript, page proofs, and reprints
Correspondence, agreement, 3 typescript copies, and photocopy of published entry
"Estimating Prehistoric Populations: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach"; "Variability, Complexity and Spatial Organization in Southwest Asian Settlements"; "Ethnographic Households and Archaeological Interpretation"; "Ceramics, Caste, and Kin: Spatial Relations in Rajasthan, India"; "Interaction, Social Proximity, and Distance: A Special Issue"; "Ceramics in Rajasthan: Distribution and Scalar Variation"; "Scale, Organization, and Funciton in Village and Town"; "Social and Locational Contexts of Ceramic Distribution in Rajasthan"
Incomplete typescript manuscript
For University of Arizona's Anthropology Department Chichimera Newsletter?
Review of Patty Jo Watson's book, Archaeological Ethnography in Western Iran
Typescript draft of review of Elizabeth S. Wing's book, Paleonutrition: method and theory in prehistoric foodways
Review of Artefacts as categories: a study of ceramic variability in central India by Daniel Miller
Review of Lennart Edelbergs's book, Nuristani Buildings
Review of Pots and Potters: Current Approaches in Ceramic Archaeology, edited by Prudence M. Rice
2 reprints
Review of Method and Theory for Activity Area Research. An Ethnoarchaeological Approach, edited by Susan Kent; typescript and reprint
Review of William A. Longacre's slide set, Ethnoarchaeology of the Kalinga
Development in the North Jazira, Iraq
This series contains papers Kramer presented at association meetings, seminars, and special lectures. Papers presented by other people at the same sessions can also be found filed with her papers. Of special interest in this series is her 1994 Distinguished Lecture to the Archaeology Section for the AAA, "The Quick and the Dead: Ethnography in and for Archaeology." Folders are arranged chronologically by presentation date.
Since a few of her papers were later published, some materials relating to her talks can also be found in Series 2. Writings. Documents associated with her organization of symposiums and conference sessions are in Series 5. Professional Activities.
"Ceramics of the Early Second Millennium B.C. from Dinkha Tepe, Iran" --paper presented at American Oriental Society Meeting
"Ethnoarchaeology in a Kurdish Village" --Ethnoarchaeology: Implications of Ethnography for Archaeology session
Flier for talk, "Ethnoarchaeology in a Kurdish Village"
possible paper topics
"Ethnoarchaeology and the Reconstruction of Prehistoric Population Parameters: A Case From Southwest Asia"
"Village Ethnoarchaeology: Review and Prospects"
"Variability, Complexity, and Spatial Organization in Southwest Asian Settlements"
"Village Ethnoarchaeology in Iranian Kurdistan"
"Ethnographic Households and Archaeological Interpretation: a Case from Iranian Kurdistan"
Typescript copy of "A Kurdish Village in Archaeological Perspective: Ethnoarchaeology in Iran" with annotations
Includes "Specialization and 'Spatilization': The Archaeology of Ceramic Production" by Philip J. Arnold III; "Late Postclassic Highland Maya Pottery Production and Change: Models from Ethnography and Ethnohistory" by Robert M. Hill, II; "Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology: An Overview by William A. Longacre; "North American Cooking Pots Reconsidered: Some Behavioral Correlates of Variation in Cooking Pot Morphology" by Barbara J. Mills; and "Ethnoarchaeology of Ceramics in Upper Egyptian Villages" by Karen Toor
"Ceramics in Two Indian Cities"
Brooklyn Museum, 8.ii.86
Conference on Conservation of the Environment and Culture in Rajasthan
3 typescript copies of Kramer's paper, "Ceramic 'Catchments' in Rajasthan"
Invitation to speak at seminar
"Ceramics, Caste, and Kin: Spatial Relations in Rajasthan, India"
"The Quick and the Dead: Ethnography in and for Archaeology"
Note by Lee Horne, 1/11/03: "Talk given at Penn when Carol applied for the Near East Archaeology position"
2 unidentified papers plus "Social and Locational Contexts of Ceramic Distribution in Rajasthan" and "Ceramics in Two Indian Cities"
This series contains Kramer's grant applications, reports submitted to grant committees, and correspondence. Folders are arranged by date.
Her grant application for her research trip to Turkey can be found in Series 1. Research, Subseries: Turkey "Gordion, Etc.: 1996." Applications reviewed by Kramer for the National Science Foundation and other organizations are under Series 5. Professional Activities.
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2 of 2
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
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2 of 2
American Institute of Indian Studies
1 of 2, NSF Visiting Professorship for Women
2 of 2, NSF Visiting Professorship for Women
This series reflects Kramer's involvement in professional associations and her work on various review committees, including her reviews of grant applications and manuscripts under consideration for publication. Of special interest in the series is "AAA Resolution 1980/1981," which contains drafts and correspondence that document Kramer and her colleagues' efforts to pass the resolution to implement the 1972 AAA Resolution on Fair Practices in Employment of Women. Kramer's reflections on that experience can be found under Series 8. Personal in "AAA 11/99 (Chicago): Squeaky Wheel Award." Folders are arranged by date.
Reviews of manuscripts for publications, permission to other authors to use photos, and advice to filmmaker
AAA session; See also Series 2. Writings, Subseries: Monographs " Kramer, ed. 1979 correspondence"
Reviews of grant applications
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2 of 2, Includes article by Roger Sanjek, "The American Anthropological Association Resolution on the Employment of Women: Genesis, Implementation, and Disavowal"
Kramer was a discussant at symposium on "The Evolution of Complex Societies in Southwestern Iran"
Symposium organized by Kramer "Spatial Distribution of Ceramics: Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives"; includes papers by Richard Ciolek-Torello, "Household Size and Ceramic Vessel Distributions in a Contemporary Village in Northern India;" Carla Mo. Sinopoli, "Social Organization and Ceramic Distributions at a South Indian Imperial Capital;" William A. Longacre, "Kalinga Pottery in Space and Time";Fekri A. Hassan, "Spatial Range of Modern Egyptian Pottery"; William R. DeBoer, "Where the Pots Are"
Reviews of articles for publication
Letters to newspaper and news articles
Rajasthan Studies Group conference
Rajasthan Studies Group conference; includes paper by Janice S. Hyde, "Women's Village Networks: Marriage Distance and Marriage Related Folksongs"
Planned ethnographic workshop
Includes "Vaddas, Vanniyars and Vernacular Architecture: Reflections on Ethnoarchaeological Research in Sri Lanka" by Senake Bandaranayake
Typescript summary of symposium by Kramer
This series contains Kramer's course materials, student assignments, performance evaluations, department and university files, and correspondence as a professor at CUNY (Queens College, Lehman College, and the Graduate Center) and the University of Arizona and as a visiting professor at Yale and the University of Arizona. Documents containing student grade have been restricted. Course materials are grouped by subject and arranged by university.
Documents relating to the NSF grant that funded her visiting professorship at the University of Arizona are in Series 4. Grants/Fellowships.
This series has been arranged in 11 subseries: 6.1 Human Evolution and Early Civilizations; 6.2 Archaeology; 6.3 Middle East; 6.4 Ethnoarchaeology; 6.5 Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology; 6.6 Subsistence; 6.7 Engendering of the Past; 6.8 Professional Skills; 6.9 Other Course Materials; 6.10 Students; 6.11 Personnel and Administrative Files.
Lehman College
University of Arizona
University of Arizona
University of Arizona
Queens College
Anthro. 71; Queens College
Lehman College
Lehman College
Graduate Center
Graduate center
Graduate center
University of Arizona, 1 of 2
2 of 2
University of Arizona
Queens College
Lehman College
Graduate center
University of Arizona, 1 of 2
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1 of 2
2 of 2
University of Arizona
University of Arizona
University of Arizona
University of Arizona
University of Arizona, 1 of 3
University of Arizona, 2 of 3
University of Arizona, 3 of 3
Graduate center
Graduate center
Graduate center
Yale
Graduate center
University of Arizona
Lehman College
Subsistence Systems
University of Arizona
University of Arizona
Anthro 605
E-mails relating to Center for Middle Eastern Studies
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2 of 2
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This series documents Kramer's undergraduate studies at CUNY and her graduate studies at University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania. In the series are her class notes, assignments, transcripts, diplomas, and dissertation (including drafts, notes, and correspondence). Course files are organized by date.
Notes for her dissertation can also be found in Series 11. Card files and possibly Series 1. Research.
This series has been arranged in 3 subseries: 7.1 CUNY; 7.2 University of Chicago; 7.3 University of Pennsylvania.
Course taught by Professor Landry
Course on Islam taught by Professor Halkin
Prehistory course
Course taught by Helene J. Kantor
Bronze Age in East
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2 of 2
Contains papers by other students, 1 of 2
Contains papers by other students, 2 of 2
Oriental Studies 546
Also contains material from Orien 746
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Includes letter to Peder Mortensen
Jars
Bowls
Pots
Body
B9/10a 5-10
Bases
Misc
Trays
mixed
This series contains miscellaneous correspondence with her parents, friends and colleagues; correspondence relating to her job searches; honors she received; curriculum vitae; appointment books and calendars; grade school transcripts and diplomas; and her passports.
5 passports; international driving permit; and Touring & Automobile Club of Iran membership
Transcripts, certificates, diplomas
This series contains publications by other authors annotated by Kramer, typescript manuscripts sent to Kramer by colleagues, and bibliographies. One of the papers in this series, "A System of Pottery Classification According to Shape," was written by Robert H. Dyson, Jr. and T. Cuyler Young, Jr. for the Hasanlu Project. Also in this series are notes from Steven Kuhn's University of Arizona course on quantitative methods for archaeology, Mesopotamian directories distributed by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, and letters from colleagues sending copies of their books or papers to Kramer. Files are organized alphabetically by folder title.
Notes from University of Arizona course on quantitative methods for archaeology
various articles
For Hasanlu Project
By Henry?
"The Iran Council Grapevine," vol. 2, no. 4; "Resistance," vol. 2, no. 3; "CAIFI Newsletter," vol. 4, no. 2
Notes on talks by N.C. Postgate, David Oates, Walid al-Jadir, and Joan Oates
Annotated
Annotated
"Misc. Lecture Notes / Notes on Readings (Thesis)" & "[Bibliographies for ethnoarchaeology (general), ethnology (India), and ceramics (India)]"
This series is comprised of prints, negatives, 35mm slides, and notes on her photographs. Most of the images are from her field work in Iran and India. There are two notebooks in this series, one containing notes on her Seh Gabi contact prints and the other on some of her India photos. Most of the 35mm slides are labeled by Kramer. A 1973 group photo of the Godin Project can be found in "[Various group photos of Kramer and colleagues]" under Subseries: Prints, while images from the Hasanlu Project are under Subseries: 35mm Slides in "[Iran]." There are also 35mm slides of Gordion excavations and of Yassihöyük. Additional photographs include figures for her publications as well as some personal photographs. This series also contains photos by Bill Sumner, Lee Horne, Pat Mason, and Michael Schiffer. Negatives filed with prints have been separated for preservation reasons.
This series has been arranged in 4 subseries: 1.1 Notes; 1.2 Prints; 1.3 35mm Slides; 1.4 Negatives.
See Oversize Box; negatives separated
Photo stuck to glass frame
Contact sheet with images of village and Kramer
Photos identified as "Aliabad" by Lee Horne January 11, 2003
Photos sent to CMES photo committee; photos with captions by Kramer
Print of household #83 in Village Ethnoarchaeology
Hamadān, Kermanshah, Asadābād, Kangāvār, Malāyer, and Touisserkan
Includes letter from Claus Breede
roll #1
roll #2
roll #3
(6.ix.82) Ramchander/Fatch Sagar
Drawings of pottery
1- 70
Send a set to Jo
Photos of maps for Pottery in Rajasthan
From Michael B. Schiffer
Photo by Pat Mason
Includes photo of the 1973 Godin excavations group
Passport and international driving permit photos of Kramer
Includes photos of Kramer, Robert Dyson, Christoper Hamlin (Kramer's ex-husband), Peter Akkermans, Isobel Heathcote, and Claus Breede.
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yellow notes by Lee Horne
Slides labeled by Nicholas David
Negatives of maps for Pottery in Rajasthan
Image of "Jhanwar: parat manufacture"
This series contains dissertation notes, lecture notes, and her bibliography cards on ethnoarchaeology and India. Oversized materials in Boxes 61 and 62 have been separated and placed at the end of Series 9. Writings by Others.
This series contains maps of Iran and India, some of which were hand-drawn by Kramer and Claus Breede. Maps used for publication can be found in Series 2. Writings and Series 10. Photographs.
Hand-drawn map of excavation site
Village plans drawn with colored markers
Hand-drawn maps adapted from Udaipur town plan, map by B. Kambo
Original and copies of hand-drawn map of Udaipur and the neighborhood of Danta Behru
Hand-drawn and copies of map; source is Master Plan for Jodhpur; Jaipur Gov't of Rajasthan (1977)
Various maps of the Middle East, some hand-drawn and annotated by Kramer; also maps of culture areas of Pacific
Original and copies of hand-drawn maps
Includes hand-drawn maps of Hansulu, Naqadeh village (by Henry T. Wright & Mausur Saddjedi), and a copy of Lee Horne's 1976 map of Baghestan; also notes on Harvey Weiss' aerial photos of Luristan Iran, 1976; some maps are stuck together
Annotated
This series contains botanical specimens collected by Kramer in Iran
The two cassette tapes in this series are recordings from March 25, 1985 of the School of American Research Advanced Seminar, "Social and Behavioral Sources of Ceramic Variability," organized by W.A. Longacre. The recordings are of opening remarks by Longacre, Kramer's presentation, Gloria London's comments on Kramer's paper, and group discussions.
This series is comprised of 5.25" and 3.5" floppies that contain drafts of her publications, letters of recommendation she wrote, files for her performance evaluations, notes for courses she taught, data from her research in Iran and India, and her will. Most of the documents on the 3.5" disks appear to be in WordStar 4 format. The 5.25" floppies have not been examined. According to the labels, they contain data from her research in India, files for courses she taught, files for her article, "The Status of Women in Archaeology," and letters of recommendation. Access to the computer disks is restricted.
Access is Restricted.