Bauer, Andrew
Andrew Bauer is an anthropological archaeologist whose research and teaching interests broadly focus on the archaeology of human-environment relations, including the socio-politics of land use and both symbolic and material aspects of producing spaces, places, and landscapes. Andrew's primary research is based in South India, where he co-directs fieldwork investigating the relationships between landscape history, cultural practices, and institutionalized forms of social inequalities and difference during the region’s Neolithic, Iron Age, Early Historic, and Medieval periods. As an extension of his archaeological work he is also interested in the intersections of landscape histories and modern framings of nature that relate to conservation politics and climate change.
Books
2015 Before Vijayanagara: Prehistoric Landscapes and Politics in the Tungabhadra Basin. New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies and Manohar
2011 The Archaeology of Politics: The Materiality of Political Practice and Action in the Past. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (coedited with P. Johansen)
Recent Articles and Book Sections
2016 (forthcoming) Welfare and the politics and historicity of the Anthropocene. South Atlantic Quarterly 115 (1). (coauthored with M. Bhan)
2015 (forthcoming) Prehistoric mortuary practices and the constitution of social relationships: Implications of the first radiocarbon dates from Maski on the occupational history of a South India "type-site." Radiocarbon 57 (5). (coauthored with P. Johansen).
2015 Iron Age settlement and land use in Southern India: Recent survey evidence from Koppal District, Karnataka. In South Asian Archaeology 2012, vol. Man and environment in Prehistoric and Protohistoric South Asia: New Perspectives, edited by V. Lefèvre, B. Mutin & A. Didier., pp. 35-48. Turnhout: Brepols (Serie Indicopleustoi).
2015 Beyond culture history at Maski: Ancient land use, settlement, and social differences in Neolithic through Medieval South India. Archaeological Research in Asia 1: 6-16. (coauthored with P. Johansen)
2014 Landscapes of heritage and landscapes of practice: Contextualizing the megaliths of Hire Benakal. In Indian World Heritage Sites in Context, edited by H.P. Ray and M. Kumar, pp. 45-71. New Delhi: National Monuments Authority and Aryan Books International.
2014 Impacts of Mid- to Late-Holocene land use on residual hill morphology: A remote sensing and archaeological evaluation of human-related soil erosion in Central Karnataka, South India. The Holocene 24 (1): 3-14.
2013 Mapping the political landscape: Toward a GIS analysis of environmental and social difference. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 20: 61-101. (coauthored with S. Kosiba).
2013 Assessing anthropogenic soil erosion with multi-spectral satellite imagery: An archaeological case study of long-term land use in Koppal District, northern Karnataka. In South Asian Archaeology 2007, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of The European Association of South Asian Archaeology, Volume I: Prehistoric Periods, edited by D. Frenez and M. Tosi, pp. 67-75. Oxford: Archaeopress-BAR International Series. (coauthored with Kathleen Morrison).
2013 Contextualizing megalithic places: survey, mapping, and surface documentation in the environs of Hire Benakal. Man and Environment 38(2): 46-61. (coauthored with M. Trivedi).
2013 The Maski Archaeological Research Project: Investigating the long term dynamics of settlement, politics, and environmental history in ancient South India. Antiquity 87 (336). (coauthored with P. Johansen)
2011 Producing the political landscape: Monuments, labor, water, and place in Iron Age central Karnataka. In The Archaeology of Politics: the Materiality of Political Practice and Action in the Past., edited by P.G. Johansen and A.M. Bauer., pp. 83-113. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2011. Reconfiguring 'politics' in the reconstruction of past political production. In The Archaeology of Politics: the Materiality of Political Practice and Action in the Past., edited by P.G. Johansen and A.M. Bauer, pp. 1-28. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.