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William Parkinson, Ph.D.

Graduate Coordinator
Phone: (850) 644-7021
Fax: (850) 645-0032
Email: wparkins@mailer.fsu.edu
Office Hours: By appointment

Research Interests and Activities

  • Social Organization: Comparing long-term trajectories of economic and political change within "middle-range" societies and archaic states.
  • Prehistoric Europe: The prehistory of Central Europe and the Balkans
  • Regional Analysis: The analysis of settlement patterns and artifact distributions at the regional scale using GIS.
  • Theory and Method: Teaching archaeological theory and method via hands-on research and lab experience using modern educational technology
  • Other Interests: Mycenaean state economics. The prehistory of the midwestern United States (Great Lakes Region). Pastoral societies.

Teaching Specializations

  • Archaeological Theory and Methodology
  • The Evolution of Human Societies
  • Regional Analysis
  • European Prehistory

Dr. Parkinson's Graduate Students

Select Publications and Writing Projects

Books and Edited Volumes
In Press Galaty, Michael L., and William A. Parkinson (eds.) Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II: Revised and Expanded Edition. Submitted to UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California, Los Angeles, May, 2007. Accepted June, 2007.
2006 Parkinson, William. The Social Organization of Early Copper Age Tribes on the Great Hungarian Plain BAR International Series 1573. Oxford: Archaeopress.
2002 Parkinson, William, editor. The Archaeology of Tribal Societies. Archaeological Series , Number 15. Ann Arbor: International Monographs in Prehistory.
1999 Galaty, Michael, and William Parkinson, editors. Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces: New Interpretations of an Old Idea. Monograph Series, Number 41. Los Angeles: UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
In Press Parkinson, William A., and Gyucha Attila. A kés Neolitikum-Kora Rézkor Átmeneti Idszakának Társadalomszerkezeti Változásai az Alföldön. Rekonstrukciós Kísérlet (Changes in Social Organization During the Transition from the Late Neolithic to the Early Copper Age Periods on the Great Hungarian Plain: An Attempt at a Reconstruction). Archaeológiai Értesít, Accepted, January, 2006.
2007 Yerkes, Richard, W., William Parkinson, Apostolos Sarris, Attila Gyucha, Meredith Hardy, and Luigi Catanoso. Geophysical and Geochemical Investigations at Two Early Copper Age Settlements in the Körös River Valley, Southeastern Hungary. Geoarchaeology 22(8):845-871.
2007 Gyucha, Attila, Gábor Bácsmegi, Ottó Fogas, and William A. Parkinson. Építéstechnikai és Településtörténeti Megfigyelések egy Alföldi Kora Rézkori Lelohelyen (Observations on Construction Technology and Settlement History at an Early Copper Age Settlement on the Great Hungarian Plain). Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 30 (2007):67-110
2007 Parkinson, William A., and Paul R. Duffy. Fortifications and Enclosures in European Prehistory: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Journal of Archaeological Research 15:97-141.
2007 Parkinson, William A., and Michael Galaty. Secondary States in Perspective: An Integrated Approach to State Formation in the Prehistoric Aegean. American Anthropologist 109(1)113-129.
2006 Gyucha, Attila, Gábor Bácsmegi, Ottó Fogas, and William A. Parkinson. House Construction and Settlement Patterns on an Early Copper Age Site in the Great Hungarian Plain. Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungariae 2006:5-28.
2006 Parkinson, William A. Tribal Boundaries: Stylistic Variability and Social Boundary Maintenance During the Transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 25(2006):33-58.
2004 Attila, Gyucha, William A. Parkinson, and Richard Yerkes. El ozetes Jelentés A Körös Regionális Régészeti Program 1998-2002 Között Végzett Munkájáról. Studia Archaeologica X(2004):25-52.
2004 Parkinson, William A., Attila Gyucha, Richard W. Yerkes, Meredith Hardy, and Margaret Morris. Settlement Reorganization at the End of the Neolithic in Central Europe: Recent Research in the Körös River Valley, Southeastern Hungary. Journal of Eurasian Prehistory 2(2):57-73.
2004 Sarris, Apostolos, Michael Galaty, Richard Yerkes, William Parkinson, Attila Gyucha, Doc Billingsley, and Robert Tate. Geophysical Prospection and Soil Chemistry at the Early Copper Age Settlement of Vésztö-Bikeri, Southeastern Hungary, With Apostolos Sarris, Michael L. Galaty, Richard W. Yerkes, Attila Gyucha, Doc M. Billingsley, and Robert Tate. Journal of Archaeological Science 31(7):927-939.
2004 Parkinson, William A., Richard Yerkes, and Attila Gyucha. The Transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain: The Körös Regional Archaeological Project Excavations at Vésztö-Bikeri and Körösladány-Bikeri, Hungary, 2000-2002. Journal of Field Archaeology, Volume 29, Nos. 1 and 2, Spring and Summer, 2002-2004: 101-121.
2002 Parkinson, William, Attila Gyucha, and Richard Yerkes. The Neolithic-Copper Age Transition on the Great Hungarian Plain: Recent Excavations at Vésztö-Bikeri, a Tiszapolgár Culture Settlement Site. Antiquity 76(2002):619-620.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
2003a Parkinson, William. The Late Neolithic and Copper Age in Southeastern Europe. In Ancient Europe, 8,000 B.C. to A.D. 1,000: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, edited by P. Bogucki and P. Crabtree, pp. 334-340. Farmington, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons.
2003b Parkinson, William. The Copper Mines at Rudna Glava and Aibunar. In Ancient Europe, 8,000 B.C. to A.D. 1,000: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, edited by P. Bogucki and P. Crabtree, p. 322. Farmington, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons.
2003c Parkinson, William. Early Metallurgy in Southeastern Europe. In Ancient Europe, 8,000 B.C. to A.D. 1,000: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, edited by P. Bogucki and P. Crabtree, pp. 317-321. Farmington, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons.
2003 Cherry, John, and William Parkinson. Lithic Artifacts from Surveys: A Comparative Evaluation of Recent Evidence from the Southern Aegean. In Written in Stone: The Multiple Dimensions of Lithic Analysis, edited by N. Kardulias and R. Yerkes, pp. 35-58. The Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago, IL, December, 1997. New York: Lexington Books.
2002a Parkinson, William. Integration, Interaction, and Tribal 'Cycling': The Transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain. In The Archaeology of Tribal Societies, edited by W. Parkinson, pp. 391-438. Ann Arbor: International Monographs in Prehistory.
2002b Parkinson, William. Introduction: Archaeology and Tribal Societies. In The Archaeology of Tribal Societies, edited by W. Parkinson, pp. 1-12. Ann Arbor: International Monographs in Prehistory.
Books and Articles in Progress
Edited Volume Parkinson, William A., Attila Gyucha, and Richard Yerkes (editors). Bikeri: Two Copper Age Villages on the Great Hungarian Plain. To be submitted to the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA Monumenta Archaeologica Series, Fall, 2008.
Edited Volume Parkinson, William A., and Michael L. Galaty (editors). Putting Aegean States in Context: Interaction in the Eastern Mediterranean During the Bronze Age. The Proceedings of an SAR Advanced Seminar, March 11-13, Santa Fe, New Mexico. To be submitted to the School for Advanced Research, Fall, 2007.
Journal Article Parkinson, William A. The Extended Household and the Origins of Social Inequality: A European Perspective. To be submitted to Journal of World Archaeology, Spring, 2008.

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