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I am a Professor in the School of Anthropology. My research interests center on the evolution of human technological and social behavior. My primary research tool is the study of stone artifacts. I am currently involved in collaborative archaeological fieldwork and laboratory projects investigating Paleolithic sites and assemblages in Serbia, Morocco and China as well as the Levant.
I received my Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 1990. After a brief stint at Loyola University in Chigao I joined the faculty at the University of Arizona in 1994. I have been a visiting professor at the Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing (2015/2016, 2019), sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a resident scholar at the University of Cologne in 2009/2010, funded by a Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. In 2017 I received the Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis (Lithics) from the Society for American Archaeology Show Less
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Courses
- AQMArchaeological Quantitative Methods
- OHDOrigins of Human Diversity
- OWPOld World Prehistory
- PAPrinciples of Archaeology
- AMArchaeological Methodology
Grants
- Aterian Lithic Technological Variability: Implications for MSA Land-Use in Morocco
Key Personnel (KP)
2019
$11.4K
Active - Exploring Aterian Variability at Bizomoune Cave (Essaouira, Morocco)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$19.1K
- DDIG: Settlement-Size Scaling and Economic Transformation in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru
Principal Investigator (PI)
2013
$25.2K
Books
- Transitions Before the Transition
2006
News
- Those Earrings Are So Last Year – But the Reason You're Wearing Them is Ancient
2021
- A Woman's Dying Wish Leads to Returning a Piece of History
2021
- Radiocarbon Dating Gets a Postmodern Makeover
2017
- School of Anthropology Celebrates Centennial
2015
- UA Center Studies the Link Between Climate and Civilization
2015
- Anthropology, Near Eastern Studies Offering Dual Doctorate
2008
- Ancient Chimpanzees Offer Insights Stone Tools
2007
Publications (81)
Recent
- Deep ancestry of collapsing networks of nomadic hunter–gatherers in Borneo
2022
- Velika Pećina: Zooarchaeology, taphonomy and technology of a LGM Upper Paleolithic site in the central Balkans (Serbia)
2022
- Arthur J. Jelinek (1928–2022)
2022
- From Hafting to Retooling: Miniaturization as Tolerance Control in Paleolithic and Neolithic Blade Production
2022
- Connections between the Levant and the Balkans in the late Middle Pleistocene: Archaeological findings from Velika and Mala Balanica Caves (Serbia)
2022
- Did the cultural communities of Homo evolve as evolutionary individuals via a cultural Evolutionary Transition in Individuality?
2021
- Introduction to special issue The Lower to Middle Paleolithic boundaries: Evolutionary threshold or continuum?
2021
- Early Middle Stone Age personal ornaments from Bizmoune Cave, Morocco
2021
- The evolution of raw material extraction: a view from the deep sequence of Tabun Cave, Israel.
2020
- Moving on: the future of mobility thinking in Paleolithic archaeology. Invited article, Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology h
2020
- Intra-assemblage variation in the macro-blade assemblage from the 1963 excavation at Shuidonggou locality 1, northern China, in the context of regional variation.
2020
- Beyond the Bounds of Western Europe: Paleolithic Art in the Balkan Peninsula
2020
- A refutation of reported Levallois technology from Guanyindong Cave in South China
2019
- The Initial Upper Paleolithic: a global phenomenon and a global challenge
2019
- Hearth and home in the Middle Pleistocene.
2019
- Morphological and functional variation in points from the Ahmarian layers at Üçağızlı Cave, Turkey
2019
- Abundant blade segments at Shuidonggou, Locality 1: Intentional or accidental?
2019
- History, Chronology and Techno-Typology of the Upper Paleolithic Sequence in the Shuidonggou Area, Northern China
2019
- Hearth and home in the Middle Pleistocene. Invited feature article
2018
- The easternmost Middle Paleolithic (Mousterian) from Jinsitai Cave, North Chi
2018
- Forager mobility in constructed environments
2018
- The toolkit in the core: There is more to Levallois production than predetermination.
2017
- Investigating the scale of prehistoric social networks using culture, language, and point types in western North America
2017
- la Grotte de Bizmoune (region d’Essaouira): une nouvelle séquence Atérienne au Maroc atlantique
2017
- Are we missing the sweet spot between optimality and niche construction theories in archaeology?
2016
- What moves us? How mobility and movement are at the center of human evolution.
2016
- Raw material economies and mobility patterns at Shuidonggou locality 2, North China.
2016
- Handaxe manufacture and re-sharpening throughout the Lower Paleolithic Sequence of Tabun Cave.
2016
- The Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition and the diversification of Levallois technology in the Southern Levant: Evidence from Tabun Cave, Israel.
2016
- Mousterian lithic assemblages of Merdivenli Cave
2016
- Paleolithic Occupations of the Göllü Dağ (Central Anatolia, Turkey).
2015
- Artifact densities and assemblage formation in the Paleolithic: evidence from Tabun Cave
2015
- Labor costs for prehistoric earthwork construction: experimental and archaeological insights from the Lower Yangzi Basin, China.
2015
- The Middle Paleolithic occupations of Üçağızlı II Cave (Hatay, Turkey
2015
- The forager-herder trade off, from broad spectrum hunting to sheep management at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey
2014
- Signaling theory and technologies of communication in the Paleolithic
2014
- Predetermined flake production at the Lower/Middle Paleolithic boundary: Yabrudian scraper-blank technology
2014
- Preface to CMATE Special Issue
2014
- Rethinking the Initial Upper Paleolithic
2014
- Disparate technological evolution of West and East: Lithic technological variability and population relations in North China during MIS 3.
2014
- Roots of the Middle Paleolithic in Eurasia
2013
- Measuring complexity in lithic technology
2013
- Questions of complexity and scale in explanations for cultural transitions in the Pleistocene: a case study from the early Upper Paleolithic
2013
- Re-examination of the dates of large blade technology in China—a comparison of Shuidonggou Locality 1 and Locality 2.
2013
- Early Mousterian Levallois Technology in Unit IX of Tabun Cave.
2013
- Introduction to special issue #8220
2013
- Early Upper Paleolithic shell beads at Üçagizli Cave I (Turkey): Technology and the socioeconomic context of ornament life-histories.
2013
- The development of Upper Palaeolithic China: new results from the Shuidonggou Site
2013
- To Whom Does Culture Belong?
2012
- Questions of complexity and scale in explanations for cultural transitions in the Pleistocene: a case study from the early Upper Paleolithic.
2012
- Klissoura I Cave and the Upper Paleolithic of southern Greece in cultural and ecological context.
2011
- In Memoriam: Lewis R. Binford
2011
- GĂ–LLĂś DAG SURVEY 2010
2011
- Radiocarbon dating results from the Early Upper Paleolithic of Klissoura I Cave.
2011
- Are social and operational explanations incompatible?
2011
- Apport des analyses minerologiques (en spectrometrie infrarouge a transformee de Fourier) a l'interpretation des structures anthropiques: les concentrations osseuses dans les niveaux mousteriens des grottes de Kebara et Hayonim (Israel).
2010
- Radiocarbon Dating Results for the Early Upper Paleolithic of Klissoura 1 Cave.
2010
- Scale in tephrostratigraphic correlation: An example from Turkish Pleistocene archaeological sites.
2010
- Klissoura Cave I and the Upper Paleolithic of southern Greece in cultural and ecological context.
2010
- Modelling the effects of local extinctions on culture change and diversity in the Paleolithc
2010
- GĂ–LLĂś DAG SURVEY 2009
2010
- Göllü Dağ 2008 Survey
2009
- The Lower Pleistocene Lithic Assemblage from Dursunlu (Konya), central Anatolia, Turkey.
2009
- The Early Upper Paleolithic Occupations at Üçağizli Cave (Hatay, Turkey).
2009
- 2008 Excavations at Kaletepe Deresi 3
2009
- Building a tphrochronological famework for the central Anatolian Paleolithic.
2009
- Was Anatolia a bridge or a barrier to early hominin dispersals?
2009
- Early Man: A tribute to F. Clark Howell
2008
- Kaletepe Deresi 3 (Turkey): archaeological evidence for early human settlement in Central Anatolia.
2008
- Response to Wynn Coolidge
2008
- Göllü Dağ 2007
2008
- Hayonim Cave: a TL-based chronology for this Levantine Mousterian sequence
2007
- 4300 year old chimpanzee sites and the origin of percussive stone technology.
2007
- 150 Years of Neanderthal Discovery: Early Europeans, Continuity and Discontinuity.
2007
- Kaletepe Deresi 3: de â€
2007
- The Pleistocene Peopling of Anatolia: evidence from Kaletepe Deresi 3.
2006
- What's a mother to do? A hypothesis about the division of labor among Neandertals and modern humans in Eurasia
2006
- Changes in the â€
2006
- Kaletepe (dere 3), Rechereches sur les premiers peuplements d'Anatolie. La campagne de 2005.
2006
- Les parures au Paléolithique
2006
- The trouble with ham steaks: a reply to Morrow
1996