Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. 2003, M.A. 2000, B.A. 1996, University of Connecticut

Research Interests:

Archaeological and geological methods to explore the behavioral evolution of Middle and Later Pleistocene hominins and the origin of Homo sapiens.

Selected Works:

The Middle Stone Age of the northern Kenyan Rift: Age and context of new archaeological sites from the Kapedo Tuffs. Journal of Human Evolution.

Approaches for understanding flake production in the African Acheulean. In (G. Tostevin, ed.) Reduction Sequence, Chaîne Opératoire, and Other Methods: The Epistemologies of Different Approaches to Lithic Analysis. New York: Springer.

Building a tephrochronological framework for the central Anatolian Paleolithic. Poster presented at the Annual Meetings of the Paleoanthropology Society, Vancouver, Canada.

'Early’ Middle Stone Age lithic technology of the Kapthurin Formation (Kenya). Current Anthropology 47: 367-375.

Tephrostratigraphy of the Bedded Tuff Member (Kapthurin Formation, Kenya) and the nature of archaeological change in the later Middle Pleistocene. Quaternary Research 65:492-507.

From Acheulian to Middle Stone Age in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya. In (E. Hovers & S. Kuhn, eds) Transitions before the Transition. New York: Springer, pp. 257-277.

Investigating the destructive potential of earthworms for the archaeobotanical record. Journal of Field Archaeology 31:199-202.

Le concept Levallois en Afrique. Annales Fyssen 20:132-145.

Levallois lithic technology from the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya: Acheulian origin and Middle Stone Age diversity. African Archaeological Review 22:199-229.

Bluff-top sand sheets in northeastern archaeology: A physical transport model and application to the Neville Site, Amoskeag Falls, New Hampshire. In (D.L. Cremeens & J. Hart, eds) Geoarchaeology of Landscapes in the Glaciated Northeast. Albany:NY State Museum Bulletin 497, pp.61-73.

Tephrostratigraphy and the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 42:211-235.

Possible sources of mylonite and hornfels debitage from the Cooper Site, Lyme, Connecticut. Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut 60:3-12.

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