I studied under J. Desmond Clark who convinced me of the importance of Anthropology. I graduated from UC Berkeley in 1970 in Anthropology. After graduation I was hired at the California Academy of Science as a Research Assistant to care for the Anthropology and Archaeology collections. There I had the good fortune to work first under Ernest Rook, and then Bob Schenk with guidance from F. Clark Howell. Conversations with Carlo Cipolla at UC Berkeley diverted my attention to comparative studies with animal societies and an introduction to ethologist John Paul Scott. My position at the Academy of Sciences allowed me to study a wide variety of material culture and complex social organization in animals.

Both before and after receiving my MA from SFSU I continued my Museum career working at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, then the De Young Museum and ending at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. My museum work was punctuated by reports of my laboratory work in various scientific journals including Nature and Radiocarbon (on the Dead Sea Scrolls), HOMO on mitochondrial DNA and human evolution, Evolutionary Anthropology (hair in humans and other mammals) Ancient Biomolecules (on the evolution of the genus Homo and the place of Neandertals in it). Since 1995 I have taught a number of classes at SFSU and Biological Anthropology at City College of S.F.Publications2010, chapter number 4, Derivatives and Debt: The Market as God and Marketing as Proselytizing. in Charles V. Karsone ed. Finance and Banking Developments, Nova Publishing, pp.

99-118.2008 Primitive and Modern Economics: Derivatives, Liquidity, Value, Panic and Crises, A Uniformitarian View, Published by Forum for Social Economics: How credit works in the economies of traditional (Primitive) societies and how this is really very similar to the economic behavior we see in our own contemporary society.