Alexander G. Menaker
PhD, RPA
Principal Investigator and Senior Archaeologist,
Stantec Consulting Services, Inc.
Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology
University of Texas at Austin
Archaeologist, anthropologist and ethnohistorian with research experience and collaborations across the Americas. Co-director of a multidisciplinary and community engaged project in the Peruvian Andes investigating the archaeological history of Andagua, the Valley of Volcanoes, spanning from early human settlements through Inka expansion and Spanish colonialism to the recent past. Experience across academic and professional sectors, serving as Principal Investigator and Senior Archaeologist in Cultural Resource Management, leading projects across Oklahoma and Texas, including an award winning archaeological study of a 19th century blacksmith shop in Texas belonging to Tom Cook, an African American freedman.
Publications
Menaker, Alexander, William Howard Clark, Douglas K. Boyd, Maria Franklin, Halee Clark Wright, and Kevin Hanselka
2023 "At the Intersections of History: Collaborative, Public Archaeology of the Nineteenth-Century Tom Cook Blacksmith Shop along the Chisholm Trail in Bolivar, Texas." Advances in Archaeological Practice. Available first view online, Open Access here
Hartigan Jr., John and Alexander Menaker
2022 "Playing with the Bull": Breeding, Blood, and Ritual in Multispecies Ethnography of Peruvian Bullfighting. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. Available here.
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Menaker, Alexander
2020 Beads at Magdalena de Cao Viejo, in Historical Archaeology of Magdalena de Cao Viejo, J. Quilter ed. Harvard University Peabody Museum Press: Cambridge. Available here.
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Menaker, Alexander
2019 Of Fire and Water: An Archaeology of Social Life in the Valley of Volcanoes, Southern Peru. PhD Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.
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Menaker, Alexander
2019 Becoming “Rebels” and “Idolaters” in the Valley of Volcanoes, Southern Peru, in Status and Identity in the Spanish Imperial Andes, S. Kennedy and S. Norman eds. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Vol. 23(4): 915-946. Available here.
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Menaker, Alexander
2016 Las cuentas durante el colonialismo Español en los Andes Peruanos. In Arqueología Histórica en el Perú, Traslaviña, Abel and Z. Chase, P. VanValkenburgh, B. Weaver eds. Boletín de Arqueología PUCP, Vol. 21: 85-97. Available here.
