Tom Minichillo (PhD 2005, Washington)
Research Interests:
Lithic technology, Middle Stone Age, modern human origins, public archaeology
"My research focuses on behavioral ecological modeling and lithic technology in the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa (300,000 to 40,000 years ago). This period of time is critical in the understanding of the development of modern humans. My dissertation research was funded by a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. I have additional interests and background in prehistoric eastern North America and Paleolithic and Neolithic Levant. I have an extensive background in Cultural Research Management in both government and the private sector and am currently the archaeologist for King County DOT."
Dissertation Project/Title:
Middle Stone Age Lithic Study, South Africa: An Examination of Modern Human Origins
http://www.paleoanthro.org/dissertation_list.htm
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Selected Publications:
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in press
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Close, Angela E. and Tom Minichillo. "Abu Gedar 2: A Late Neolithic Herding Station in Southwestern Sinai." In Papers in Honor of Fred Wendorf, ed. K. Nelson and J. Phillips, SMU Press, Dallas
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2007
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Marean, Curtis W., Miryam Bar-Matthews, Jocelyn Bernatchez, Erich Fisher, Paul Goldberg, Andy I.R. Herries, Zenobia Jacobs, Antonieta Jerardino, Panagiotis Karkanas, Norbert Mercier, Tom Minichillo, Peter J. Nilssen, Erin Thompson, Chantel Tribolo, Hélène Valladas, Ian Watts and Hope M. Williams. "Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene.” Nature 449:905-908.
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2007
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Bird, Catherine, Tom Minichillo and Curtis W. Marean “Edge damage distribution at the assemblage level on Middle Stone Age lithics: an image-based GIS approach.” Journal of Archaeological Science 34
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2007
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Close, Angela E. and Tom Minichillo. “The Archaeology of Global Expansion 300,000-8000 years ago: Africa.” In, Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, ed. by C. Gamble, Elsevier, Oxford
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2006
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Minichillo, Tom. “Raw Material Use and Behavioral Modernity: Howiesons Poort Lithic Foraging Strategies.” Journal of Human Evolution 50
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