Dr. Kuhn is Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Studies in Anthropology. He is currently conducting collaborative archaeological fieldwork and laboratory projects investigating Paleolithic sites and assemblages in Turkey, Greece and Tucson.
A sampling of recent publication includes
Slimak, L., S. Kuhn, H. Roche, D. Mouralis, H. Buitenhuis, N. Balkan-Atlı, N., Binder, C. Kuzucuoğlu, H. Guillou. 2008 Kaletepe Deresi 3 (Turkey): archaeological evidence for early human settlement in Central Anatolia. Journal of Human Evolution 54(1): 99-111.
Kuhn, S. and M. Stiner 2007 Body ornamentation as information technology: towards an understanding of the significance of early beads. In Rethinking the Human Revolution: New Behavioural and Biological and Perspectives on the Origins and Dispersal of Modern Humans, edited by P. Mellars, Katie Boyle, O. Bar-Yosef and C. Stringer. Cambridge: MacDonald Institute of Archaeology, pp. 45-54.Kuhn, S. and M. Stiner
Kuhn, S. and M. Stiner 2006 What’s a mother to do? A hypothesis about the division of labor among Neandertals and modern humans in Eurasia. Current Anthropology 47(6):953-980.
Kuhn, S. 2004 Upper Paleolithic Raw Material Economies at Üçagizli Cave, Turkey. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 23:431-448.
Kuhn, S. 2004 From Initial Upper Paleolithic to Ahmarian at Üçagizli Cave, Turkey. Anthropologie (Brno). Special issue XLII(3):275-288.
Stiner, M. and S. Kuhn 2006 Changes in the ‘connectedness’ and resilience of Paleolithic societies in Mediterranean ecosystems. Human Ecology 34(5): 693-712.
Hovers, E. and S. Kuhn (eds). 2005 Transitions before the Transition: Evolution and Stability in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. New York: Springer.
