Dr. Mary C. Stiner | | Title | | Professor of Anthropology, Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Curator of Zoorchaeology (ASM) | | Profile | BOOKS: 2005 The Faunas of Hayonim Cave (Israel): A 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography & Society. Peabody Museum Press, Bull. 48, Harvard University (314 pp, 147 figs, 105 tabs & appendixes) // 1994 Honor among Thieves: A Zooarchaeological Study of Neandertal Ecology. Princeton University Press (447 pp, 148 figs, 121 tabs & appendixes) // 1991 Human Predators and Prey Mortality. Westview Press. // SELECTED RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES: Kuhn & Stiner 2006 What’s a mother to do? A hypothesis about the division of labor and modern human origins. Current Anthropology 47(6):(in press) // Stiner & Kuhn 2006 Changes in the ‘Connectedness’ and Resilience of Paleolithic Societies in Mediterranean Ecosystems. Human Ecology 34(5): (in press) // Stiner 2004 A comparison of photon densitometry and computed tomography standards of bone density in ungulate body part profiles. J Taphonomy 2(3):117-145 // Stiner 2003 Zooarchaeological evidence for resource intensification in Algarve, southern Portugal. Promontoria 1(1):27-61 // Stiner et al. 2003 Mesolithic to Neolithic transitions: New results from shell-middens in the western Algarve, Portugal. Antiquity 77(295):75-86 // Stiner 2002 Carnivory, coevolution, and the geographic spread of the genus Homo. J Archaeol Ressearch 10(1):1-63 // Stiner et al. 2001 Outside Africa: middle pleistocene Lycaon from Hayonim Cave, Israel. Boll. Soc. Paleontologica Italiana 40(2):293-302 // Stiner 2001 Thirty years on the “Broad Spectrum Revolution” and Paleolithic demography. PNAS 98(13):6993-6996 // Stiner et al. 2001 Bone preservation in Hayonim Cave (Israel): a macroscopic and mineralogical study. J Archaeol Science 28:643-659 // Stiner et al. 2000 The tortoise and the hare: small game use, the Broad Spectrum Revolution, and Paleolithic demography. Current Anthropology 41(1):39-73 //
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| | Degrees | | MARY C. STINER is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Curator of Zooarchaeology at the Arizona State Museum of the University of Arizona (P.O. Box 210030, Tucson, Arizona 86731-0030, U.S.A [mstiner@email.arizona.edu]). She earned B.A. and B.F.A. degrees in Anthropology and Fine Arts, respectively, in 1980 from the University of Delaware. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 1990. Her book, "Honor among Thieves" (1994, Princeton University Press), won the first Society of American Archaeology book prize awarded in 1996. She is an Associate Editor for Journal of Anthropological Research, Journal of Human Evolution, and SAA Press. She has done archaeological fieldwork at Paleolithic sites in Italy, Israel, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, and France, and sites of diverse ages in the United States. Current projects include zooarchaeological research on pan-Mediterranean trends in Paleolithic diet, predator-prey dynamics & human ecology. | | Research Interests | Her professional interests include coevolutionary processes involving Paleolithic humans, forager economics and technology, the forager-farmer transition, population ecology, behavioral ecology, zooarchaeology of vertebrates and mollusks, and taphonomy, bone diagenesis, animal domestication.
Visit the Ucagizli project in Turkey at http://web.arizona.edu/~hatayup/
Visit the Qesem Cave project in Isreal at http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/archaeology/projects/qesem/index.html
Visit the Asikli Höyük project in Turkey at http://www.asiklihoyuk.org
| | Geographic Areas of Interest | Turkey & Anatolia
Southwest Asia (Middle East)
Western Europe
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