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Robert Whallon

Robert Whallon is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Curator of Mediterranean Prehistory at the Museum of Anthropology, and Director of the Museum of Anthropology. He earned his Ph. D from the University of Chicago. His research focus on several important issues in European and Middle-eastern Prehistory, the Ecology and evolution of Hunter-gatherers, quantitative methods and spatial analysis, and the Prehistory of Languages. He has been involved during the years in field work in different Europeans countries, with a focus on the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic as well as Mesolithic, in Dordogne in France, Keban Dam (East central Turkey), in Netherlands, Boznia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. He is currently involved in a new project in the Abruzzo Province in Italy. He is the founder and editor for more than a decade of the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Selected Publications

2000 Anthropological Archaeology in Theory and Practice. Revista di Anthropologia (in press)

1999 The lithic Tool Assemblages at Badanj within their regional context. In the Palaeolithic Archaeology of Greece and Adjacent Areas: Proceedings of the ICOPAG Conference, Ioannina. Edited by G.N. Bailey, Bailey, E. Adam, E. Panagopoulou, C. Perles, and K. Zachos, pp. 330-342; British school of Athens.

Evidence of fourth Millennium BC silver production at Fatmal-Kalecik, East Anatolia. Metallurgica Antiqua, der Anschnitt. Beiheft 8: 39-50 (with K. Hess, A. Hauptmann, H. Wright).

   

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