Courses taught
History of technology, archaeometry, archaeology of Africa, introduction to African studies, optical methods (petrography, metallography, ore microscopy), world archaeology (general education).
Recent doctoral dissertations supervised
Lesley Frame (2009).Technological Change in Southwestern Asia: Metallurgical Production Styles and Social Values during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. Lesley's PhD is in Materials Science and Engineering, and was co-supervised by Pam Vandiver and myself.
Martha Morgan (2009) Reconstructing Early Islamic Maghribi Metallurgy. Martha is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Sarah Cowie (2008) Industrial Capitalism and the Company Town: Structural Power, Biopower and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Fayette, Michigan. Sarah had a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner Gren Foundation in 2008/2009 to revise this; it will appear in the Kluwer series Global Contributions to Historical Archaeology.
Noah Thomas (2008) Seventeenth-Century Metallurgy on the Spanish Colonial Frontier: Transformations of Technology, Identity and Value. Noah had an ACLS/Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2008/2009 to revise his dissertation, which will appear as a monograph in the series Archaeological Papers of the Arizona State Museum.
Khaled al-Bashaireh (2008) Chronology and Technological Styles of Nabataean and Roman Plasters at Petra (Jordan). Khaled has returned to Jordan and is Head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at Yarmouk University.
For podcast of the exhibition Beyond the Naked Eye that I curated with Rachel Freer - click URL at right ........
Recent and in-press publications
Chirikure, S., R.B.Heimann and D.J. Killick (2010). The technology of tin smelting in the Rooiberg valley, Limpopo Province, South Africa, ca. 1650-1850 CE. Journal of Archaeological Science, in press.
Thornton, C.P., J. Golden, D.J. Killick, V.C. Pigott, Th. Rehren and B. W. Roberts (2010). A Chalcolithic error: Rebuttal to Amzallag (2009). American Journal of Archaeology, in press.
Thebe, P., E. N. Wilmsen, D. J. Killick and D. D. Rosenstein (2009). Mmopi le mmopa - potter and clay. Making pottery in Botswana today and long ago. Botswana Notes and Records, in press.
Fenn, T.R., D.J. Killick, J. Chesley, S. Magnavita and J. Ruiz (2009). Contacts between West Africa and Roman North Africa: archaeometallurgical results from Kissi, northeastern Burkina Faso. In Cultural and technological Developments in First Millennium BC/AD West Africa, edited by S. Magnavita, L. Koté, P. Breunig and O. A. Idé, pp. 119-146. Frankfurt am Main: Africa Magna Verlag.
Killick, D.J. (2009). Agency, dependency and long-distance trade: East Africa and the Islamic World, ca. 700-1500 C.E. In Polities and Power: Archaeological Perspectives on the Landscapes of Early States, edited by Steven Falconer and Charles Redman, pp. 179-207. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Killick, D.J. (2009). Cairo to Cape: the spread of metallurgy down the eastern half of Africa. Journal of World Prehistory 22:399-414.
Wilmsen, E.N., D.J. Killick, D.D. Rosenstein, P. Thebe and J. Denbow (2009). The social geography of pottery in Botswana as reconstructed by optical petrography. Journal of African Archaeology 7(1):3-39.
Killick, D.J. and P. Goldberg (2009). A quiet crisis in American Archaeology. SAA Archaeological Record 29(1):6-10.
Killick, D.J. (2008). Archaeological science in the USA and in Britain. In Archaeological Concepts for the Study of the Cultural Past, edited by Alan Sullivan, pp. 40-64. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
