Before Farming: Contact Details

Editorial contacts

Editor
Larry Barham, Liverpool	l.s.barham@liverpool.ac.uk

Associate editors
Michael Alvard, Texas A&M	alvard@tamu.edu
Kenneth Ames, Portland State	amesk@pdx.edu
Alan Barnard, Edinburgh	A.Barnard@ed.ac.uk
Luis Alberto Borrero, Buenos Aires	dipa.imhicihu@conicet.gov.ar
Peter Brosius, Georgia, USA	pbrosius@uga.edu
Kirk Endicott, Dartmouth	Kirk.M.Endicott@Dartmouth.edu
Kazunobu Ikeya, Osaka	ikeya@idc.minpaku.ac.jp
Robert Kelly, Wyoming	RLKelly@uwyo.edu
Lars Larsson, Lund	Lars.Larsson@ark.lu.se
Jerome Lewis, University College London	jerome.lewis@ucl.ac.uk
Sally McBrearty, Connecticut	mcbrearty@uconn.edu
Peter Mitchell, Oxford	peter.mitchell@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
James O’Connell, Utah	james.oconnell@anthro.utah.edu
Sven Ouzman, Pretoria	sven.ouzman@up.ac.za
Mike Petraglia, Oxford	michael.petraglia@rlaha.ox.ac.uk
Paul Pettitt, Sheffield	P.Pettitt@sheffield.ac.uk
John Speth, Michigan	jdspeth@umich.edu
Paul Tacon, Griffith, Australia	p.tacon@griffith.edu.au
Paola Villa, Colorado	villap@buffmail.colorado.edu
Caroline Wickham-Jones, Aberdeen	c.wickham-jones@abdn.ac.uk

Publishing contact

Mary Earnshaw, WASP

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Cover illustration

The editor and publisher would like to thank Nicolai Praslov and Andrei Sinitsyn, former director and director respectively of the Kostenki excavations, for their loan of the Venus image which our designer at BITMAP has used in creating this site. Many thanks to all three of them for helping to produce such an inspiring front cover.

Associate Editors: Biographies

Professor Larry Barham is part of the Human Origins Group in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, at the University of Liverpool. His research interests lie primarily in south central Africa, where he is currently working in the Luangwa Valley (Zambia) on sites ranging in age from the Oldowan to the arrival of early farmers. He has a particular interest in the development of human behaviour in the Middle Pleistocene, but thanks to his training in the USA has an abiding desire to see an increasing affinity between archaeology and anthropology in the field of hunter-gatherer research.

Michael Alvard is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Texas A&M University whose research is focused on the intersection of cultural and biological anthropology. He is interested in behavioral ecology, hunting, hunter-gatherers, social structure and cooperation. His recent fieldwork is with complex hunter-gatherers, the whale hunters of Lamalera, Indonesia.

Kenneth M Ames is Professor of Anthropology at Portland State University. He conducts field research in western North America, particularly the Northwest Coast and Plateau with an emphasis on hunter-gatherers, including, but not limited to, the evolution of social complexity among hunter-gatherers. Other interests include the application of Darwinian theory in archaeology, aquatic hunter-gatherers, the archaeology of East Asia, especially Northern China, Japan and Korea, and hominid evolution and the evolution of modern human cognition and of hunting and gathering itself.

Alan Barnard is Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa at the University of Edinburgh. He has done fieldwork with Naro (Nharo) and other foragers and former foragers of Botswana and Namibia. He has also done research on the history of anthropological ideas; his latest book is Anthropology and the Bushman (Berg 2007), which is a history of San studies. His current research is in the social anthropology of human origins.

Professor Luis Alberto Borrero is especially interested in the archaeology of the late Pleistocene colonisation of Fuego-Patagonia. He is also interested in archaeological site formation processes, with a strong emphasis on vertebrate taphonomy.

Kirk M Endicott, a Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College, is interested in the economies, social practices, gender relations, and religions of hunting and gathering peoples, especially those of Southeast Asia. He has carried out fieldwork with the Batek foragers of Peninsular Malaysia intermittently since 1971. He has published various books and articles on the Batek and on human rights issues concerning tribal peoples of Southeast Asia.

Kazunobu Ikeya is Associate Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. His primary area of research has been in ecological anthropological studies of hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari and Japan. Recently his research has focused also on the historical socioeconomic relationships between hunters and herders.

Robert L Kelly is Professor and Head of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. He is a past-President of the Society for American Archaeology, the author of The Foraging Spectrum, and, with David Hurst Thomas, the textbooks Archaeology and Archaeology: Down to Earth. He has worked on the archaeology, ethnology, and ethnography of foraging peoples since 1973; he has conducted archaeological research in the western US and ethnographic work on Madagascar. He is currently researching pre-10,000 BP use of caves and rockshelters in Wyoming.

Lars Larsson is a Professor at the Department for Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Lund, southern Sweden. He has been doing research in the Mesolithic of Southern Sweden with excavations of bog sites and large coastal sites including cemeteries. His research also includes the Late Palaeolithic of southern Scandinavia, Mesolithic shell middens in southern part of Portugal and the transition Middle and Later Stone Age of Northern Zimbabwe.

Jerome Lewis is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at University College London. Working with central African hunter-gatherers and former hunter-gatherers since 1993, his research focuses on socialisation, play and religion; on egalitarian politics and gender relations; and techniques of communication. Studying the impact of global forces on these groups has led to research into human rights abuses, discrimination, economic and legal marginalisation, and to applied research supporting efforts by forest people to address some of these issues and better represent themselves to outside authorities.

Sally McBrearty is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. She has wide ranging yet specialist interests: human evolution, the origin of Homo sapiens, hominid origins, Palaeolithic archaeology, African prehistory, lithic technology, human osteology, taphonomy, geoarchaeology and geochronology.

Peter Mitchell is a fellow of St Hugh's College Oxford and his interests lie in southern Africa, especially the archaeology of Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, exploitation of riverine resources and cultural resource management. He is also interested in the history of archaeological collections and the development of Stone Age archaeology in Africa.

James O'Connell is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah. He is interested in prehistoric and modern hunter-gatherer ecology, and has undertaken ethnographic and archaeological fieldwork in western North America, Australia and East Africa.

Sven Ouzman is former Head of the Rock Art Department, National Museum, South Africa and now a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Pretoria, via the filter of the University of California at Berkeley, USA. His research interests include indigenous intellectual property rights; intersections of artefacts, places, people and politics; the indigenous experience of colonialism and trans-nationalism; archaeology as storytelling; cross-cultural hierophanies and contemporary uses and abuses of archaeological material culture and places.

Michael D Petraglia is Co-Director of the Centre for Asian Art, Archaeology and Culture, School of Archaeology, Oxford. His research areas include palaeoanthropology, Palaeolithic archaeology, and hunter-gatherer adaptations. Petraglia's fieldwork investigations centre on early human occupations of the Arabian peninsula and south Asia, and the evolution of hunting and gathering populations of eastern North America.

Paul Pettitt is lecturer in Human Origins at the university of Sheffield. His research focuses on the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of Europe and the African Middle Stone Age. He is working in particular on Neanderthal extinction; the origin and spread of modern humans; Mid Upper Palaeolithic burials; Late Glacial human demographies and Magdalenian cave art.

John D Speth, Professor of Anthropology and Curator of North American Archaeology at the University of Michigan, studies hunter-gatherers, past and present, New and Old World. He is interested generally in the evolution of forager diet, subsistence strategies, food processing technologies and, more specifically, in the ways that hunter-gatherers (and small-scale farmers) cope with seasonal and inter-annual unpredictability in their resource base. Largely through fauna, he is also exploring the nutritional and economic basis of Plains-Pueblo interaction in the American Southwest and Neanderthal hunting in the Near Eastern Levant.

Paul SC Taçon is Professor of Anthropology and Prehistory in the School of Arts, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland. He is both an anthropologist and an archaeologist, specialising in 'art' and material culture. Taçon studies hunter-gatherers, past and present, New and Old World but focuses mainly on greater Australia. His specialties include rock-art, landscape marking and attachment, material culture change, body art and the relationship between art and identity.

Paola Villa is Curator Adjoint at the University of Colorado Museum. Her main research interests are in the European Palaeolithic and taphonomy. She has written Terra Amata and the Middle Pleistocene Archaeological Record of Southern France (1983) and several articles on Acheulian lithics, bone modification, prehistoric cannibalism and lithic taphonomy. Since 1995 she has directed the excavation and analysis of an Upper Pleistocene hyaena den in Southern France (Bois Roche) and is a participant in other research projects in Spain and South Africa.