Jonathan Mark Kenoyer,
Professor in Anthropology , teaches archaeology and ancient technology at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has taught at Madison since 1985 and is
currently Chair of the Department of Anthropology. His main focus is on the
Indus Valley Civilization and he has worked in Pakistan and India for the past
26 years. Dr. Kenoyer was born in India and lived there until he came to the
U.S. for college. He has a BA in Anthropology from the University of
California at Berkeley and completed his MA and PhD (1983) in South Asian
Archaeology from the same university. He speaks several South Asian languages
and is fluent in Urdu/Hindi, which is the major language used in Pakistan and
northern India. He has conducted archaeological research and excavations at
both Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, two of the most important early sites in
Pakistan, and has also worked in western and central India. He has a special
interest in ancient technologies and crafts, socio-economic and political
organization as well as religion. These interests have led him to study a
broad range of cultural periods in South Asia as well as other regions of the
world.
Since 1986 he has been the Co-director
and Field Director of the Harappa Archaeological Research Project in Pakistan,
a long term study of urban development in the Indus Valley. He was Guest
Curator at the Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison for the exhibition on the
Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, which toured the U.S. in
1998-1999. His work is most recently featured in the June 2000 issue of
National Geographic Magazine and on the website
www.harappa.com. Some of his most
recent publications are provided below.