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Professor, Anthropology; Curator of Mediterranean Prehistory, Museum of Anthropology
4040 Museum of Anthropology, 1109 Geddes Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079
Office Location(s): 4040 Museums Phone: 734.764.7570 whallon@umich.edu
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.
