{"id":530,"date":"2015-04-06T18:13:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T18:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthropology.uncg.edu\/?page_id=530"},"modified":"2024-08-15T18:19:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T22:19:54","slug":"gunn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anthropology.uncg.edu\/faculty-staff\/gunn\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel D. Gunn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-361\" src=\"http:\/\/anthropology.uncg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Gunn.jpg\" alt=\"Joel Gunn\" width=\"100\" height=\"140\">Lecturer<br \/>\nEthology and Archaeology<br \/>\nPh.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1974<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:jdgunn@uncg.edu\">jdgunn@uncg.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.uncg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/gunn-vitae.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Global Climate Change Impacts on Local Cultures and Hydrology<\/li>\n<li>Sustainability in Maya Lowlands<\/li>\n<li>Regional Landscape Studies<\/li>\n<li>Numerical Analysis<\/li>\n<li>Lithic Analysis<\/li>\n<li>Complex Systems Theory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Courses Taught<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>FMS 171 The Hungry Coyote: Anthropologists Look at Megacities, Freshman Seminar<\/li>\n<li>ATY-212 How to Human<\/li>\n<li>ATY-153 The Human Species<\/li>\n<li>ATY-230 Cultures of Native North Americans<\/li>\n<li>ATY 235 Cultures of Africa<\/li>\n<li>SSC-400 BLS Capstone<\/li>\n<li>ATY 363 History of Anthropological Theory<\/li>\n<li>ATY-434 Archaeology of South America<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Personal Statement<\/h3>\n<p>My background includes teaching at major universities, administration, pure research, and applied anthropology\/archaeology.&nbsp; My field experience encompasses cultures in the southeastern United States, Mesoamerica, Southern Europe and Cyprus.&nbsp; Special areas of emphasis include global climate change as it affects local cultures, ecologies, and landscapes.&nbsp;&nbsp; I am especially interested in complex systems modeling of cultural change processes.&nbsp; I have undertaken the study of modern global climate in order to support anthropological investigations of local environments and to apply knowledge of current and past climates to the future of global environmental policy, especially as it relates to sustainability issues.<\/p>\n<h3>Books<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Tracing A.D. 536 and Its Aftermath: The Years Without Summer.<\/em>&nbsp; (British Archaeological Reports 872, Oxford, 2000)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Articles<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>JW Day, Jr., <strong>JD Gunn<\/strong>, WJ Folan, A Y\u00e1\u00f1ez-Arancibia and BP Horton (2012) The Influence of Enhanced Post-Glacial Coastal Margin Productivity on the Emergence of Complex Societies.&nbsp; <em>Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology<\/em> 7:23\u201352. (<a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.uncg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Day-et-al-2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">view PDF<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>JD Gunn,<\/strong> CL Crumley, Elizabeth Jones, and BK Young (2004) A Landscape Analysis of Western Europe during the Early Middle Ages.&nbsp; In <em>The Archaeology of Global Change: The Impact of Humans on their Environment<\/em>, edited by Charles L. Redman, Steven R. James, Paul R. Fish, and J. Daniel Rogers, pp. 165-185, Smithsonian Books Washington DC. (<a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.uncg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Gunn-et-al-2004.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">view PDF<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Visit Joel&#8217;s UNCG NC Docks page for more publications&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/libres.uncg.edu\/ir\/uncg\/clist.aspx?id=3465\">https:\/\/libres.uncg.edu\/ir\/uncg\/clist.aspx?id=3465<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Current Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"x_elementToProof\"><strong>IHOPE-Maya Website<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Since 2009 when it was organized at the Santa Fe School for Advanced Research a working group of Mesoamerican archaeologists organized by Vernon Scarborough have been studying the impact of climate change on the Classic Period cultures. &nbsp;IHOPE-Maya is affiliated with IHOPE International (IHOPEnet.org), Integrated History and Future of People on Earth. The list of publications by this work group now includes the following.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Chase, Arlen F., and Vernon L. Scarborough. 2014. The Resilience and Vulnerability of Ancient Landscapes: Transforming Maya Archaeology through IHOPE. Vol. 24. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association. worldcat.org\/title\/893894572.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Gunn, Joel D., ed. 2025. 536 CE: A Historical Ecology of Mesoamerica during the Late Antique Little Ice Age. Provo, Utah: University of Utah Press.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Gunn, Joel D., and IHOPE-Maya Collaboration. 2024. \u201cThe Gods Are Angry: The Impact of the 536 CE Little Ice Age on Mesoamerica.\u201d The Atlander: Magazine of the Americas 4 (6): 3\u20138.&nbsp;<a class=\"ms-outlook-linkify\" href=\"https:\/\/publuu.com\/flip-book\/288247\/1191573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/publuu.com\/flip-book\/288247\/1191573<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Gunn, Joel D., Vernon L. Scarborough, William J. Folan, Christian Isendahl, Arlen F. Chase, Jeremy A. Sabloff, and Beniamino Volta. 2017. \u201cA Distribution Analysis of the Central Maya Lowlands Ecoinformation Network: Its Rises, Falls, and Changes.\u201d Ecology and Society 22:20.&nbsp;<a class=\"ms-outlook-linkify\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5751\/ES-08931-220120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5751\/ES-08931-220120<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Isendahl, Christian, Nicholas P Dunning, Liwy Grazioso, Scott Hawken, David L Lentz, and Vernon L Scarborough. 2024. \u201cGrowth and Decline of a Sustainable City: A Multitemporal Perspective on Blue-Black-Green Infrastructures at the Pre-Columbian Lowland Maya City of Tikal.\u201d Urban Studies, 00420980231224648.&nbsp;<a class=\"ms-outlook-linkify broken_link\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00420980231224648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00420980231224648<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Torrescano-Valle, Nuria, William J. Folan, Alfredo Yanez-Montalvo, and Joel D. Gunn. 2023. \u201cClimate and Agricultural History from the Pet\u00e9n Campechano in the Late Holocene Maya Lowlands of Southern Mexico.\u201d Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.&nbsp;<a id=\"LPlnk\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00334-023-00914-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00334-023-00914-4<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>Human-planetary interactions in Biophysical Economics: <a href=\"https:\/\/rdcu.be\/bGlki\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/rdcu.be\/bGlki&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1597172939696000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGvor2gKW79IxFrFAx66exU3bw6MQ\">https:\/\/rdcu.be\/bGlki<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cultural transformation of&nbsp;Maya information networks :&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecologyandsociety.org\/vol22\/iss1\/art20\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.ecologyandsociety.org\/vol22\/iss1\/art20\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1597172939696000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHH4ohCGFw7wlaJwE5M7ZRIl8NDVQ\">http:\/\/www.ecologyandsociety.org\/vol22\/iss1\/art20\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maya Lithics:&nbsp;<strong><em>The Stones of Calakmul, Informaci\u00f3n&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>17 2020 PDF available on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/340536027_The_Stones_of_Calakmul_Gunn_et_al_2020_Informacion_17_1st_Ed\/references\" saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/340536027_The_Stones_of_Calakmul_Gunn_et_al_2020_Informacion_17_1st_Ed\/references&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1597172939696000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEdO2Ra_snOQfOJBC4yUym0lLmjaw\" class=\"broken_link\">ResearchGate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Photo Gallery<\/h3>\n<p><!-- default-view.php -->\n<div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview default-view\n\t 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