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John J. Shea

ProfessorJohn Shea
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1991

Email: john.shea@stonybrook.edu

Teaching

Courses taught include ANT104 Introduction to Archaeology, ANT 268 Archeology of Human Origins, ANT 273 The Unstoppable Species, ANT418 Stone Tools in Human Evolution, ANT511 Paleolithic Archaeology.

Research Interests

The archaeology of human evolution, primarily in Eastern Africa and Southwest Asia.  My main areas of topical expertise include the following:

Lithic analysis -interpreting variation among stone tools.
Hominin geographic dispersals, especially those of Homo sapiens.
Survival Archaeology -using insights from bushcraft and wilderness survival skills to develop hypotheses about past human behavior.
Neanderthals -how they survived, why they became extinct.

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