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
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 on World Historical Archaeologies. She is in Tucson and applying for positions.
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, and has since returned to California to ride out the recession.
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 forthcoming publications
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, in press.
Killick, D.J. (2009). Cairo to Cape: the spread of metallurgy down the eastern half of Africa. Journal of World Prehistory,22(4), in press.
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.
Thibodeau, A.M., D.J. Killick, J. Ruiz, J.T. Chesley, K. Deagan, J.-M. Cruxent and W. Lyman (2007) The strange case of the earliest extraction of silver by European colonists in the New World. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:3663-3666 (and online supplementary data).
