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Ian Kuijt Updated January 7, 2014 CURRENT POSITION__________________________________________________________________

Professor of Anthropology

Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. 46556-5611 Phone: (574) 631-3263

E-Mail: [email protected]

RESEARCH INTERESTS________________________________________________________________

The Archaeology of the Irish Famine

The Emergence of Social Differentiation

The Origins of Agriculture

The Materialization of Identity

Mortuary Analysis

Prehistoric Technologies and Stone Tool Analysis

Landscape Archaeology

The Economies of Food Storage

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS____________________________________________________________

2010 - Present Professor, Department of Anthropology, Univ. of Notre Dame

2011 - Present Fellow, Nanovic Institute of European Studies, Univ. of Notre Dame

2009 - Present Fellow, Medieval Institute, Univ. of Notre Dame

2007 - Present Fellow, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, Univ. of Notre Dame

2010 - 2011 Kaneb Faculty Fellow, Univ. of Notre Dame

2003 - 2010 Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Anthropology, Univ. of Notre Dame

2001-3 Associate Professor (without tenure), Department of Anthropology, Univ. of Notre Dame

2000 Visiting Assistant Professor, Univ. of Notre Dame, Department of Anthropology

1999 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography, The Univ. of Lethbridge

1997-9 Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, Brandeis University

1997-9 Lecturer, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Tufts University

1997-8 Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard University

1995-6 Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of California, Berkeley

1989 Lecturer, Dept. of Geography, The Univ. of Lethbridge

HONORS AND AWARDS________________________________________________________________

2011 Selected to Irish Voice’s Education 100. The list highlights 100 leading figures in education

across the United States.

2010 Dockweiler Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising, University of Notre Dame

2009 Drawing from over 2,500 publications in the journals Nature, Science and the Proceedings of

the National Academy of Sciences, Discovery Magazine identifies Kuijt and Finlayson (2009)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences publication as 24th of the top 100 research

stories of 2009.

2009 Naughton Distinguished Visiting Professor, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies

2009-11 Selected as Templeton Foundation research fellow for Çatal Höyük, Turkey

2009 Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of

Notre Dame

2008 Selected as working group member, Tara – From the Past to the Future, University College,

Dublin, Ireland

2008 Selected as member of the working group on The Emergence of Permanent Economic

Inequality and Political Hierarchy, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA

2006-10 Selected as member, Amerind Foundation, Arizona, selection committee for the Society for

American Archaeology

2005 The National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship

2004 British Academy Visiting Professor, Reading University, United Kingdom

2004 Kaneb Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Notre Dame

1999 Distinction in Teaching, Brandeis University

1994 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

1992 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

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1988 Honorable Mention, Weetaluktuk Award selection, Canadian Archaeology Association

1984 Dieter Mueller Memorial Scholarship in History, University of Lethbridge

EDUCATION__________________________________________________________________________

Ph.D., Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1995.

“New Perspectives on Old Territories: Ritual Practices and the Emergence of Social Complexity in the

Levantine Neolithic”. Committee members: O. Bar-Yosef., C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky., R. W. Preucel., R.

A. Joyce.

A.M., Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1991.

M.A., Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada, 1988

“Subsistence Resource Variability and Culture Change: An Alternative Interpretation of the Middle-Late

Prehistoric Cultural Transition on the Canadian Plateau”. Committee members: J. C. Driver, K. R.

Fladmark, and D. L. Pokotylo.

B.A., History, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 1984.

BOOKS______________________________________________________________________________

In Press Transformation by Fire: The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context. Kuijt, I., C.

Quinn and G. Cooney (eds.) University of Arizona Press, Accepted Nov. 2013.

In Press Island Places, Island Lives: Exploring Inishbofin and Inishark Heritage, Co. Galway, Ireland.

Ian Kuijt, Ryan Lash, William Dunaruma, Katie Shakour, Tommy Burke. Keough-Naughton

Institute for Irish Studies, Univ. of Notre Dame, Accepted September 2013.

2012 People of the Middle Fraser Canyon: An Archaeological History. University of British

Columbia Press, Vancouver. Co-authored with A. Prentiss. 235 pages.

2011 Life in Early Bronze Age Communities: Papers in Honor of Walter Rast and R. Thomas

Schaub. Co-edited by Chesson, M.S. (ed.), and I. Kuijt and W. Aufrecht (Associate eds.)

Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake. 297 pages

2009 Macroevolution in Human Prehistory, Co-edited with A. Prentiss and J. C. Chatters. Springer Verlag,

New York. 324 pages.

2004 Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Evolution and Organization of Prehistoric Communities on the Plateau of

Northwestern North America, Co-edited with W. Prentiss. Salt Lake, The University of Utah Press.

219 pages.

2000 Life in Neolithic Farming Communities: Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation. Edited by

Kuijt. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, New York. 325 pages.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES_______________________________________________

Kuijt, I., M. Conway, K. Shakour, C. McNeill, and C. Brown

(In Press) Vectors of Improvement: The Archaeological Footprint of 19th and 20th century Irish National Policy,

Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Accepted, March 2013.

Kanjou, Y., Erdal, Y. S., Kuijt, I., and O. Kondo

(2013) Early Human Decapitation, 11,700 to 10,700 Cal BP, within the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Village of

Tell Qaramel, North Syria. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.

Goodale, N. H. Otis, W. Andrefsky Jr., I. Kuijt, B. Finlayson, and K. Bart

(2012) Reaping “Rewards” in sickle use-wear analysis. The Journal of Archaeological Science. 39: 1908-1910.

Kuijt, I.

(2012) Home is where we keep our food: The Origins of Agriculture and visibility of Late Pre-Pottery

Neolithic food storage. Solicited article for publication in Paleorient. J. Cauvin memorial addition 37(1):

137-152.

Finlayson, B, I. Kuijt, S. Mithen, and S. Smith

(2012) New Evidence from Southern Jordan: The role of architecture in changing societies at the beginning

of the Neolithic process. Solicited article for publication in Paleorient. J. Cauvin memorial addition 37(1):

123-135.

Kuijt, I., E. Guerrero Vila, M. Molist, and J. Anfruns

(2011) The Changing Neolithic Household: Household Autonomy, Integration and Mortuary Practices, Tell Halula,

Syria. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 30(4): 502-522.

Guerrero Vila, E., M. Schurr, I. Kuijt, M. Molist. and J. Anfruns

(2011) Timing the Neolithic Transition: The application of floride dating at Tell Halula, Syria. The Journal of

Archaeological Science. 38(7): 1496-1501.

Kuijt, I, R. Lash, M. Gibbons, J. Higgins, N. Goodale, and J. O’Neill

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(2011) Reconsidering Early Medieval Seascapes: New Insights from Western Ireland. Journal of Irish Archaeology.

(19): 51-71.

Carlson, E., A. Prentiss, I. Kuijt, N. Crossland, and A. Adolph.

(2010) Visually reconstructing Mid-Fraser Prehistory: Redefining a Process. The SAA Archaeological

Record. 10(1): 29-33.

Goodale, N. H. Otis, W. Andrefsky Jr., I. Kuijt, B. Finlayson, and K. Bart

(2010) Sickle Blade Life-history and the Transition to Agriculture: An Early Neolithic Case Study from Southwest

Asia. The Journal of Archaeological Science, 37(1):1192-1201.

Kuijt, I.

(2009) What do we really know about Food Storage, Surplus and Feasting in Pre-Agricultural

Communities? Current Anthropology, 50(5): 641-44, 711-12.

Kuijt, I.

(2009) Neolithic Skull Removal: Enemies, Ancestors and Memory. Paléorient, 35(1): 117-120.

Kuijt, I., and N. Goodale

(2009) Daily Practice and the Organization of Space at the Dawn of Agriculture: A Case Study from the Near East.

American Antiquity, 74(2): 403-422.

Guerrero Vila, E., M. Molist, I. Kuijt, and J. Anfruns

(2009) Seated Memory: New Insights into Near Eastern Neolithic Mortuary Variability from Tell Halula, Syria.

Current Anthropology, 50(3): 379-391.

Kuijt, I, and B. Finlayson

(2009) Evidence for Food Storage and Predomestication Granaries 11,000 years ago in the Jordan Valley.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 106(27): 10966-10970.

Kuijt, I.

(2008) The Regeneration of Life: Neolithic Structures of Symbolic Remembering and Forgetting. Current

Anthropology, 49(2): 171-197.

Kuijt, I., Finlayson, B. and J. McKay

(2007) Pottery Neolithic Landscape Modification at Dhra‘. Antiquity, 81:1-13.

Kuijt, I. and N. Goodale

(2006) Chronological Frameworks and Disparate Technology: An Exploration of Chipped Stone

Variability and the Forager to Farmer Transition at ‘Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan. Paléorient, 32 (1): 27-45.

Chesson, M., Makarewicz, C., Kuijt, I., and Whiting, C.

(2005) Results of the 2001 Kerak Plateau Early Bronze Age Survey. Bulletin of the American Schools of

Oriental Research, 1-49.

Kuijt, I.

(2004) Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Late Natufian at ‘Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan. The Journal of Field

Archaeology. 29(3,4): 291-308.

Finlayson, B., Kuijt, I., Arpin, T., Chesson, M., Dennis, S., Goodale, N., Kadowaki, S. Maher, S. Smith, S.,

Schurr, M., and McKay, J.

(2003) Dhra‘ Excavation Project, 2002 Interim Report. Levant, 25:1-38.

Kuijt, I.

(2003) Between Foraging and Farming: Critically Evaluating the Archaeological Evidence for the Southern

Levantine Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Period. Turkish Academy of Sciences Journal of Archaeology, (6):

7-25.

Kuijt, I. & M. S. Chesson

(2002) Excavations at ‘Ain Waida‘, Jordan: New insights into Pottery Neolithic Lifeways in the Southern

Levant. Paléorient, 28(2): 109-122.

Kuijt, I. & N. Goring-Morris

(2002) Foraging, Farming, and Social Complexity in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant: A

Review and Synthesis. Journal of World Prehistory, 16(4): 361-440.

Goodale, N. B., I. Kuijt, & B. Finlayson

(2002) The Chipped Stone Assemblage of Dhra‘, Jordan: Preliminary Results on Technology, Typology, and Intra-

Assemblage Variability. Paléorient, 28(1): 125-140.

Kuijt, I.

(2001) Reconsidering the Cause of Cultural Collapse in the Lillooet Area of British Columbia, Canada: A

Geoarchaeological Perspective. American Antiquity, 66(4): 693-704.

Kuijt, I.

(2001) Lithic Inter-assemblage Variability and Cultural-Historical Sequences: A Consideration of the Pre-Pottery

Neolithic A Period Occupation of Dhra‘, Jordan. Paléorient, 27(1): 107-126.

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Kuijt, I.

(2000) People and Space in Early Agricultural Villages: Exploring Daily Lives, Community Size and

Architecture in the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 19:75-102.

Kuijt, I & H. Mahasneh

(1998) Dhra‘: An Early Neolithic site in the Jordan Valley. Journal of Field Archaeology, 25: 153-161.

Kuijt, I.

(1996) Negotiating Equality through Ritual: A Consideration of Late Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A

Period Mortuary Practices. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 15(4): 313-336.

Kuijt, I., W. Prentiss, & D. Pokotylo

(1995) Bipolar Reduction: An Experimental Study of Debitage Variability. Journal of Lithic Technology, 20(2):

116-127.

Chesson, M., M. Flender, H. Genz, F. Hourani, I. Kuijt and G. Palumbo

(1995) Tell es-Sukhne North: An Early Bronze Age II Site in Jordan. Paléorient, 21(1): 113-122.

Kuijt, I

(1994) Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Period Settlement Variability: Evidence for Sociopolitical Developments in the

Southern Levant. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 7(2): 165-192.

Kuijt, I. & K. Russell

(1993) Tur Imdai Rockshelter, Jordan: Debitage Analysis and Historic Bedouin Lithic Technology. The Journal of

Archaeological Science, 20: 667-680.

Kuijt, I., J. Mabry, & G. Palumbo

(1991) Early Neolithic Use of Upland Areas of Wadi El-Yabis: Preliminary Evidence from the Excavations of ‘Iraq

ed-Dubb, Jordan, Paléorient, 17(1): 99-108.

Nicholson, B. & I. Kuijt

(1990) Field Report and Initial Interpretations on the 1988 Archaeological Excavations at the Lovstrom Site (DjLx

1), Southwestern Manitoba, North Dakota Archaeological Association Journal, 4: 166-205.

Kuijt, I.

(1989) Subsistence Resource Variability and Culture Change During the Middle-Late Prehistoric Period on the

Canadian Plateau. Canadian Journal of Archaeology, 13(1): 97-118.

BOOK CHAPTERS (*=PEER REVIEWED)__________________________________________________

I. Kuijt,

(*In press) Clay Ideas: Levantine Neolithic Figurine Trajectories and Intellectual Threads. In Insoll, T.

(ed.) Oxford Hanbook of Prehistoric Figurines. Oxford University Press.

N. Goodale, W. Andrefsky, C. Osterhaudt, L. Cueni, and I. Kuijt,

(*In press) Cultural Transmission and the Production of Material Goods: Evolutionary Pattern and

Measuring Morphology. In Goodale, N. and W. Andrefsky (eds.) Lithic Technological Systems: Stone,

Human Behavior, Evolution. Cambridge University Press.

Kuijt, I. and C. Quinn

(*2013) Biography of the Neolithic Body: Tracing Pathways to Cist II, Mound of the Hostages, Tara. In

M. O’Sullivan, C. Scarre, and M. Doyle (eds.) Tara-From the Past to the Future. Towards a new research

agenda. pp. 170-183. Wordswell and UCD School of Archaeology: Bray, Co. Wicklow.

Quinn, C. and I. Kuijt

(*2013) The tempo of life and death during the Early Bronze Age at the Mound of the Hostages, Tara. In

M. O’Sullivan, C. Scarre, and M. Doyle (eds.) Tara-From the Past to the Future. Towards a new research

agenda. pp. 196-206. Wordswell and UCD School of Archaeology: Bray, Co. Wicklow.

Kuijt, I, and A. M. Prentiss

(*2009) Niche Construction, Macroevolution and the Late Epipaleolithic in the Near East. In Prentiss, A.

M., I. Kuijt, and J. C. Chatters (eds.) Macroevolution in Archaeology. pp. 253-271. Springer Verlag: New

York.

Prentiss, A. M., I. Kuijt and J. C. Chatters

(*2009) Introduction to Macroevolution and Human Prehistory. In Prentiss, A. M., I. Kuijt, and J. C.

Chatters (eds.) Macroevolution in Archaeology. pp. 1-19. Springer Verlag: New York.

Kuijt, I.

(*2008) Population, Socio-political Simplification and Cultural Evolution of Levantine Neolithic Village.

In Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution S. Shennan (ed.). pp. 315-328. University of California Press:

Berkeley.

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(*2008) Demography and Storage Systems during the Southern Levantine Neolithic Demographic

Transition. In: The Neolithic Demographic Transition and Its Consequences. Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel

and O. Bar-Yosef (eds.) Springer Verlag: New York. pp. 287-313.

Goodale, N. B., I. Kuijt, and A. Prentiss

(*2008) The Demography of Prehistoric Fishing-Hunting People: A Case Study of the Upper Columbia Area. In:

Recent Advances in Paleodemograph. Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel (ed.). pp. 179-207. Springer Verlag: New York.

Quinn, C. P., W. Andrefsky, I. Kuijt, and B. Finlayson.

(*2008) Perforation with Stone Tools and and Retouch Intensity: A Neolithic Case Study. In: Lithic

Technology: Measures of Production Use and Curation. W. Andrefsky (ed.). pp. 150-174. Cambridge

University Press: Cambridge.

Goodale, N. B., I. Kuijt, S. Macfarlan, C. Osterhoudt, and B. Finlayson

(*2008) Lithic Core Reduction Techniques: Modeling Expected Diversity. In: Lithic Technology:

Measures of Production Use and Curation. W. Andrefsky (ed.). pp. 317-335. Cambridge University Press:

Cambridge.

Kuijt, I. and M. Chesson

(*2007) Imagery and Social Relationships: Shifting Identity and Ambiguity in the Neolithic. In: Image and

Imagination: A Global Prehistory of Figurative Representation. C. Renfrew and I. Morley (eds.). pp. 211-226.

McDonald Institute Monographs: Cambridge.

Kuijt, I. and M. Chesson

(*2004) Lumps of Clay and Pieces of Stone: Ambiguity, Bodies, and Identity as Portrayed in Neolithic Figurines.

In: Archaeologies of the Near East: Critical Perspectives, R. Bernbeck and S. Pollock (eds.), pp. 152-183. Basil

Blackwell, London.

Prentiss, W., and I. Kuijt

(*2004) The Archaeology of the Plateau Region of Northwestern North America: Background and Approaches to

the Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers. In: Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Evolution and Organization of

Prehistoric Communities on the Plateau of Northwestern North America, W. Prentiss & I, Kuijt (eds.), pp. vii-xvii.

Salt Lake, The University of Utah Press.

Kuijt, I., and W. Prentiss

(*2004) Villages on the Edge: Pithouses, Culture Change, and the Emergence of Complex Forager-Fishers. In:

Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Evolution and Organization of Prehistoric Communities on the Plateau of

Northwestern North America, W. Prentiss & I, Kuijt (eds.), pp. 155-168. Salt Lake, The University of Utah Press.

Goodale, N., W. Prentiss, and I. Kuijt

(*2004) Cultural Complexity: A New Chronology of the Upper Columbia Drainage Area. In: Complex Hunter-

Gatherers: Evolution and Organization of Prehistoric Communities on the Plateau of Northwestern North America,

W. Prentiss & I, Kuijt (eds.), pp. 36-48. Salt Lake, The University of Utah Press.

Prentiss, W., and I. Kuijt

(*2004) The Evolution of Collector Systems on the Canadian Plateau In: Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Evolution and

Organization of Prehistoric Communities on the Plateau of Northwestern North America, W. Prentiss & I, Kuijt

(eds.), pp. 49-63. Salt Lake, The University of Utah Press.

Kuijt, I.

(*2001) Place, Death, and the Transmission of Social Memory in Early Agricultural Communities of the

Near Eastern Pre-Pottery Neolithic. In: Social Memory, Identity, and Death: Intradisciplinary Perspectives

on Mortuary Rituals. M. S. Chesson (ed.). American Anthropological Association, Archaeology Division,

Vol 10. pp. 80-99. American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

Kuijt, I.

(*2000) Life in Neolithic Farming Communities: An Introduction. In: Life in Neolithic Farming Communities:

Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation. I. Kuijt (ed.). pp. 3-11. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, New

York.

Kuijt, I.

(*2000) Keeping the Peace: Ritual, Skull Caching and Community Integration in the Levantine Neolithic. In: Life

in Neolithic Farming Communities: Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation. I. Kuijt (ed.). pp. 137-163.

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, New York.

Kuijt, I.

(*2000) Near Eastern Neolithic Research: Directions and Trends. In: Life in Neolithic Farming Communities:

Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation. I. Kuijt (ed.). pp. 311-322. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, New

York.

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(1998) Trying to Fit Round Houses into Square Holes: Re-examining the Timing of the south-central

Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Cultural Transition. In: The Prehistory of

Jordan II: Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment. H.G. Gebel, Z. Kafafi,

and G.O. Rollefson (eds.), pp. 193-202, Ex oriente, Berlin.

Kuijt, I. & O. Bar-Yosef

(*1994) Radiocarbon Chronology for the Levantine Neolithic: Observations and Data. In: Late Quaternary

Chronology and Paleoenvironments of the Eastern Mediterranean. O. Bar-Yosef and R. Kra (eds.) pp. 227-245,

Radiocarbon, Tucson.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS________________________________________________________

Kuijt, I.

(2008) What mean these Bones: Considering Scale and Neolithic Mortuary Variability. In Proceedings of

the 5th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. J. M. Córdoba, M. Molist, M.

C. Pérez, I. Rubio and S. Martínez (eds.). pp. 591-602. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: Madrid.

Kuijt, I., and N. Goodale

(2007) Lithic Technology of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Late Natufian Occupations of ‘Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan.

In: Proceedings of the 5th Neolithics Workshop, Fréjus, France (2004) L. Astruc, D. Binder, and F. Briois (eds.), Ex

oriente, Berlin. pp. 51-62.

Goodale, N., I. Kuijt, and B. Finlayson

(2007) Chipped Stone Variability: An Overview of the PPNA Lithic Assemblage from Dhra‘, Jordan. In:

Proceedings of the 5th Neolithics Workshop, Fréjus, France (2004) L. Astruc, D. Binder, and F. Briois (eds.), Ex

oriente, Berlin. pp. 63-74.

Kuijt, I.

(2004) When the Walls Came Down: Social Organization, Ideology and the End of the Aceramic Neolithic. In:

Central Settlements in Neolithic Jordan. H. D. Bienert, H. G. K. Gebel and R. Neef (eds.) Studies in Early Near

Eastern Production, Subsistence and Environment. Volume 5, pp. 183-199. Ex oriente, Berlin.

Kuijt, I.

(2004) Reflections on Ritual and the Transmission of Authority in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant.

In: Magic Practices and Ritual in the Near Eastern, H.G. K. Gebel, B. D. Hermansen & C. Hoffmann. Jensen,

(eds.), Neolithic: Studies of Production, Subsistence and Environment, Vol. 8, pp. 81-90. Ex oriente, Berlin.

Bienert, H-D., M. Bonogofsky., H-G. Gebel., I. Kuijt., and G. Rollefson

(2004) Where are the Dead? In: Central Settlements in Neolithic Jordan. H. D. Bienert, H. G. K. Gebel and R. Neef

(eds.) Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence and Environment. Volume 5, pp. 157-177. Ex oriente,

Berlin.

Kuijt, I.

(1989) Refuse Pattering or Activity Areas: An Examination of the Jack Harkey site 1, New Mexico. In Households

and Communities. Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Chacmool Conference, S. MacEachern, D. Archer, and

R. D. Garvin (eds). pp. 209-217. University of Calgary, Calgary.

REVIEW ARTICLES AND BOOK REVIEWS_____________________________________________

Kuijt, I.

(2011) Comment on So Fair a House: Göbekli Tepe and the identification of Temples in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of

the Near East, by E.B. Banning, Current Anthropology 52(5): 646-647.

Kuijt, I.

(2009) Neolithic Skull Removal: Enemies, Ancestors and Memory. Review of Des Crânes et des Vautours ou la

Guerre Oublée, by A. Testart. Paléorient, 35(1): 117-120.

Kuijt, I.

(2009) Book review, The Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New World Nomadism. H. Barnard and

W. Wendrich (eds.). Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. 2008. American Anthropologist.

111(2): 252.

Kuijt, I.

(2003) Comment on Cultural Diversification and Decimation in the Prehistoric Record, by W. C. Prentiss and J. C.

Chatters, Current Anthropology 44(1): 49-50.

Kuijt, I.

(1998) Material Culture and Identity in Death. Review of Villagers of the Maros: A Portrait of an Early Bronze Age

Society, by J. O’Shea. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 8(1): 106-109.

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(2004) Book review, Sha’ar Hagolan 1: Neolithic Art in Context. By Yosef Garfinkel and Michele A.

Miller. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 2002. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 336: 68-71.

RESEARCH REPORTS___________________________________________________________________

Kuijt, I., M. Conway, C. McNeill, K. Shakour, P. Lettieri, and C. Brown.

(2011) The Cultural Landscape of the Irish Coast: Results from preliminary excavations of House 20, a 19th / 20th

century residence, Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland. Report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University

of Notre Dame.

Kuijt, I.

(2011) Overview of the Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast (CLIC) 2011 research year and field season. Report

on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame. 17 pages.

Goodale, N., A. Nauman, A. M. Prentiss, L. Smith, and I. Kuijt

(2011) 2009 Archaeological Investigations at the Slocan Narrows Pithouse Village (DkQi-1, 2, 17),

Southeastern British Columbia. Manuscript on file with the Archaeology Branch, Victoria British

Columbia.

Kuijt, I., A. Nauman, R. Lash, N. Goodale, and J. O’Neill

(2011) Faith Along the Water: Report on the Heritage Survey of Early Medieval Island Settlements, Northwest

Galway, Ireland. Report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame.

Kuijt, I.

(2010) Overview of the Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast (CLIC) 2010 field season. Report on file with the

Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame. 19 pages.

Kuijt, I., and Meagan Conway

(2009) The Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast: 2009 report on Streamstown Village Vernacular Architecture

and landscape, Co. Galway, Ireland. Report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre

Dame. 83 pages.

Kuijt, I.

(2009) Highlights of the University of Notre Dame Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast (CLIC) 2009 field season.

Report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame. 3 pages.

Kuijt, I.

(2008) Highlights of the University of Notre Dame Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast (CLIC) 2008 field season

and participation in the World Archaeological Congress. Report on file with the Department of Anthropology,

University of Notre Dame. 3 pages.

Kuijt, I., A. Nauman, N. Goodale, L. Moore-Shay, and E. Elliott

(2008) Vernacular Architecture and Land-Use on Inis Airc, Co. Galway, Ireland: Cultural Landscapes of the Irish

Coast 2008 Report. Report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame. 79 pages.

Kuijt, I., A. Nauman, N. Goodale, and C. P. Quinn

(2008) Preliminary heritage assessment of the stone cachel on the property of J. Killian-Gallagher, near Formoyle,

Co. Longford, Ireland. Report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame. 10 pages.

Kuijt, I., C. P. Quinn, E. Carlson, E. Elliott, N. Goodale, and L. Plis

(2008) The Cultural Landscape of the Irish Coast: 2007 Vernacular Architecture Heritage Survey. Report on file

with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame. 145 pages.

Kuijt, I., A. Nauman, J. O’Neill, C. P. Quinn, M. Schurr and N. Goodale

(2007) The Cultural Landscape of the Irish Coast: 2007 Omey Island Heritage Research. Report on file with the

Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame. 181 pages.

Kuijt, I., and L. Plis

(2007) Report on the 2006 Irish Cultural Landscapes Project: Aerial Photography and Landscape Interpretation.

Report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame. 61 pages.

Prentiss, W. C., I. Kuijt, N. Goodale, and M. Burns.

(2001) Report of the 2000 Investigations at the Slocan Narrows Village (DkQi1 and DkQi2) British Columbia

Report on file with the Ministry of Small Businesses, Tourism and Culture, Archaeology Branch. British Columbia

Provincial Government. 161 pages.

Kuijt, I.

(1991) Blagotin, Yugoslavia, 1991 preliminary report: An examination of the surface distribution of Neolithic and

Iron Age lithic items. Report on file with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Kuijt, I.

(1991) Preliminary report of the 1991 Archaeological Excavations of ‘Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan. Report on file with the

Department of Antiquities of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.

Nicholson, B. and I. Kuijt

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(1988) Preliminary Field Report on the 1988 Archaeological Excavations at the Lovstrom Site, (DjLx 1,

Southwestern Manitoba. Report on file with the Heritage Resources Branch, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Kuijt, I.

(1986) Archaeological research at J. Harkey site #1, CL-8, New Mexico, 1986. In: Preliminary results of the

Capitan North archaeology project, New Mexico, 1986. Report on file with the Social Sciences and Humanities

Research Council.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS____________________________________________________________

Kuijt, I.

(In Press) Jericho. In: C. Smith and J. Smith (eds.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New

York. Accepted September 2012. 4 pages.

Kuijt, I.

(2012) Standing in their footprints. Notre Dame Magazine. Autumn: 26-27.

Kuijt, I.

(2008) Els ‘Grans’ recorden: estructures neolitiques del record i l’oblit symbólic (The Great Ones

Remember: Neolithic Structures of Symbolically Remembering and Forgetting). Cota-Zero, 23: 131-139.

Guerrero Vila, E. and I. Kuijt

(2008) Translation from Spanish to English, Tell Halula (Valle del Éufrates, Siria): dos décadas de

investigaciones arqueológicas. M. Molist. Seminari d’Arqueologia Prehistórica del Próxim Orient.

Univeritat Autónoma de Barcelona: Barcelona.

Finlayson, B. & I. Kuijt

(2006) Dhra‘ Excavation Project 2005. Newsletter of the Council for British Research in the Levant. 1:24-

25.

Kuijt, I.

(2005) The Materiality of Ritual on the Social Landscape: Questions and Issues. Neo-Lithics: Southwest

Asian Neolithic Research. 2: 35-37.


(2005) Dhra‘ Excavation Project 2004. Newsletter of the Council for British Research in the Levant. 1:36-

38.

Kuijt, I.

(2004) Cyprus as a Regional Neolithic Entity: Do Researchers Need to Revisit the Concept of the

Levantine PPNB Interaction Sphere? Neo-Lithics: Southwest Asian Neolithic Research. 1(4): 8-9.


(2003) Adh-Dhra‘. Munjazt 2001: 63.


(2003) Dhra‘ Excavation Project. Newsletter of the Council for British Research in the Levant. 1:17.

Kuijt, I and B. Finlayson

(2002) The 2002 Excavation Season at Dhra’, Jordan: Preliminary Excavation Results from the Jericho IX

and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period Components. Neo-Lithics: Southwest Asian Neolithic Research. 2(2):

17-21.


(2002) Dhra‘ Excavation Project. Newsletter of the Council for British Research in the Levant. 1:14-15.

Kuijt, I and B. Finlayson

(2001) The 2001 Excavation Season at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Period Settlement of Dhra’, Jordan:

Preliminary results. Neo-Lithics: Southwest Asian Neolithic Research. 2(1): 12-15.

Kuijt, I.

(1997) Interpretation, Data, and the Khiamian of the south-central Levant. Neo-Lithics: Southwest Asian

Lithic Research 3: 3-6.

Kuijt, I.

(1997) Jericho. In: The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. Beck, C., Michaels, G., Scarre, C., and N.A. Silberman

(eds.) pp. 363-364. Oxford University Press, New York.

Kuijt, I.

(1996) Where are the Microlithics?: Lithic Technology and Neolithic Chronology as Seen from the PPNA

Occupation at Dhra‘, Jordan. Neo-Lithics: Southwest Asian Neolithic Research 2: 7-8.

Kuijt, I & H. Mahasneh

(1995) Preliminary Excavation Results from Dhra‘ and ‘Ain Waida‘, Jordan. American Journal of Archaeology 99:

508-511.

Kuijt, I. & M. Chesson

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(1994) Investigations at Jebel Queisa, Jordan (1993): A Reconsideration of Chronology and Occupational History.

The Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. 38: 33-39.

Kuijt, I.

(1994) A Brief Note on the Chipped Stone Assemblage from ‘Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan. Neo-Lithics: Southwest Asian

Neolithic Research 2: 2-3.

Chesson, M. & I. Kuijt

(1994) Report on the 1993 Excavations at Tell el-Handaquq South, Jordan. American Journal of Archaeology 98:

534.

Kuijt, I.

(1994) Foeni, Romania, 1992 Preliminary Report: Analysis of Chipped Stone Tools. Analele Banatului, Muzeul

Banatului Timisoara. 3: 86-93.

Greenfield, H.J., F. Drasovean, with a contribution by I. Kuijt

(1994) Preliminary Report on the 1992 Excavations at Foeni-Salas: An Early Neolithic Starcevo-Cris settlement in

the Romanian Banat. Analele Banatului, Muzeul Banatului Timisoara. 3:45-85.

Kuijt, I., G. Palumbo, & J. Mabry

(1992) Report on the 1990 Excavations of ‘Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan. American Journal of Archaeology 96: 507-508.

Banning, E., R. Dods., J. Field., I. Kuijt., J. McCorriston., J. Siggers., H. Taani., and J. Triggs

(1992) Tabaqat al-Buma: 1990 Excavations at a Kebaran and Late Neolithic Site in Wadi Ziqlab. Annual of the

Department of Antiquities of Jordan. 36: 43-69.

Palumbo, G., J. Mabry, & I. Kuijt

(1991) Report on the 1989 Excavation and Survey of the Wadi el-Yabis, Jordan. American Journal of Archaeology

95: 256-257.

Palumbo, G., J. Mabry, & I. Kuijt

(1990) The 1989 Wadi Yabis Survey and Excavation Project. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan.

34: 95-118.

WORKS IN PROGESS________________________________________________________________

Salazar, J. and I. Kuijt

(In Review) Dynamic Places, Durable Structures: Early Formative Agro-Postoral Settlements, Southern Andes,

Argentina. Under review with Antiquity, December 2013.

Oka, R. and I. Kuijt

(In Review) Introducing an Inquiry into the Social Economics of Greed and Excess. Under review with Journal of

Economic Anthropology, November 2012.

Oka, R. and I. Kuijt

(In Review) Greed is Bad, Neutral and Good: A Historical Perspective on Excessive Accumulation and

Consumption. Under review with Journal of Economic Anthropology, November 2012.

Kuijt, I.

(Under Prep.) Defining an Idea: Extended Household autonomy, House Groups and Spatial Organization at

Çatalhöyük, Turkey. For submission to American Antiquity, October 2013.

C. Quinn, I. Kuijt, J. O’Neill, and N. Goodale

(Under Prep.) Living on the Margins: Early Bronze Age landscape modification on Inishark, Ireland. To be

submitted to Antiquity, June 2013.

I. Kuijt, R. Lash, A. Nauman, J. O’Neill, and N. Goodale

(Under Prep.) Faith on the Water: New Perspectives on Medieval Worlds, Northwestern Connemara, Ireland. To be

submitted to Irish Archaeology, September 2013.

P. Letterti, I. Kuijt, and T. Burke

(Under Prep.) Smoke that Kills: Human Health and the Rural Adaptation of the Chimney in 19 th century, Ireland.

To be submitted to Journal of Archaeological Archaeology, September 2013.

Kuijt, I.

(Under Prep.) The Dynamic Village: Exploring Neolithic Social Complexity. Under contract with Rutledge, to be

submitted Dec. 2013.

Harris, L., E., I. Kuijt, B. Finlayson, and A. Pantos

(Under Prep.) Preliminary Report on the PPNA Burials from the 2001-2005 Excavations at Dhra‘, Jordan.

Manuscript to be submitted to Neo-Lithics: Southwest Asian Neolithic Research.

FILM AND SOUND RECORDINGS____________________________________________________________

Kuijt, I.

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(In Production) Producer. Passing Tides, Passing Times. Sound recording of 15 musical tracks to be used

for three 30 min Island Voices documentary films funded by Office of Research, University of Notre

Dame.

K. Concannon and I. Kuijt.

(In Production) Co-Director and producer. The Gas: How New Technology Changed the Irish Islands. 30

min Island Voices documentary film funded by Office of Research, University of Notre Dame.

W. Donaruma and I. Kuijt.

(In Production) Co-Director and producer. Líonta na Cuimhne (Nets of Memory): Loss and Immigration.

30 min Island Voices documentary film funded by Office of Research, University of Notre Dame.

K. Concannon and I. Kuijt.

(In Production) Co-Director and producer. Homecoming: Returning to Inishark. 20 min Island Voices

documentary film funded by Office of Research, University of Notre Dame.

GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS_______________________________________________________________

2013 The University of Notre Dame, Center for Computing, Island Voices Web Development ($4,000)

The University of Notre Dame, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Henkel’s Speakers Grant ($2,000)

2012 The University of Notre Dame, Faculty Research Support Program (Jan. 2012-Jan. 2015), Island Voices:

Interdisciplinary Research of Ireland’s Coastal Heritage. ($99,974)

2012 Awards to Scholarly Publication Program, subsidy awarded by Canadian Federation for the Humanities and

Social Sciences for publication of People of the Middle Fraser Canyon: An Archaeological History ($8,000)

2011 The Amerind Foundation, Arizona, Workshop grant, Fire and the Body: Cremation as a Context for Social

Meaning ($15,000)


The University of Notre Dame, Center for Computing, Video Ethnography ($4,000)

The University of Notre Dame, Learning Beyond the Classroom ($1,500)

2010 The University of Notre Dame, Annual Pilot for Social Science Research, Understanding the Irish Famine as a

Social Process ($10,000)

2009 The Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. Workshop grant, To Have and To Hold: Food

Storage and the Emergence of Social Differentiation ($7,900)

The University of Notre Dame, Annual Pilot for Social Science Research, Uncovering Irish Christianity: The

Notre Dame Early Monastic Ireland Project ($14,000)

The University of Notre Dame, Faculty Research Program, Uncovering Irish Christianity: The Notre Dame

Early Monastic Ireland Project ($10,000)

The University of Notre Dame, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Publication Subvention ($1,800)


2008 The J. Tynan Foundation (Jan. 2008-Jan. 2012), The Cultural Landscapes of Rural Ireland. ($250,000)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation-Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, Spain. (Oct.

2008 – Oct. 2009). Las prácticas funerarias durante el PPNB en el Levante Mediterráneo de Próximo Oriente.

Diferenciación social y reproducción social. (The PPNB mortuary practices in the Mediterranean Levant of

Near East: Social differentiation and social reproduction). Post-doctoral grant for Dr. Emma Gurrero-Vila,

held in the Anthropology Department, University of Notre Dame (17,600 Euros / $28,200).

The University of Notre Dame, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Materials Grant ($1,000)

The University of Notre Dame, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, International Travel Grant ($1,425)


2007 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation-Spanish Agency for International Cooperation,

Spain. (Oct. 2007 – Oct. 2008). Las prácticas funerarias durante el PPNB en el Levante Mediterráneo

de Próximo Oriente. Diferenciación social y reproducción social. (The PPNB mortuary practices in the

Mediterranean Levant of Near East: Social differentiation and social reproduction). Post-doctoral

grant for Dr. Emma Gurrero-Vila, held in the Anthropology Department, University of Notre Dame

(17,600 Euros / $28,200).

The J. Tynan Foundation (August 2006-August 2007), The Cultural Landscapes of Rural Ireland. ($52,000)

The University of Notre Dame, Office of Development, The Cultural Landscapes of Rural Ireland ($14,00)

The Sweetman Family Foundation (August-Dec. 2007), The Archaeology of Ireland ($25,000)


2006 The University of Notre Dame, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, The Cultural Landscapes of Rural

Ireland. ($2,000)

The University of Notre Dame, The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, The Cultural Landscapes of

Rural Ireland. ($800)

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2005 The National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship (August 2005-August 2006), Early Village

Social Organization and Food Production. ($40,000)

2004 The British Academy, Early Village Social Organization and Food Production. ($5,000)

The University of Notre Dame, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Career Enhancement Grant.

($6,588).

The University of Notre Dame, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Creative Research Grant. ($4,000)


2002 The National Science Foundation (May 2002 - May 2006), Social and Economic Context of Early Village Life.

($189,000)

The University of Notre Dame, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, International Course Development,

The Archaeology of Ireland. ($21,000).

The University of Notre Dame, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Early Food Production in the Near

East. ($15,000)

The University of Notre Dame, College of Arts and Letters, Dean’s Fund, Early Food Production in the Near

East. ($10,000)

The University of Notre Dame, Graduate School, Early Food Production in the Near East. ($10,000)



2001 The University of Notre Dame, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Early Food Production in the Near

East. ($14,500)


2000 Chinook Research Summer Award, Research grant for student employment. ($4,000)

Alberta Learning Research Excellence Envelope, Research grant. Context and Transformation of Human

Communities: Understanding Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Interfaces. ($20,000)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Prehistoric Core-Periphery Interaction within the

Arrow Lakes/West Kootenay Region, British Columbia. ($4,500)

The University of Lethbridge (Jan. 2000-July. 2001). Prehistoric Core-Periphery Interaction within the Arrow

Lakes/West Kootenay Region, British Columbia. ($4,500)


1997 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, (95 - 97) Postdoctoral fellowship. Social

Complexity in the Levantine Neolithic. ($28,000)

Irene Levi-Sale Care Archaeological Foundation, Lithic analysis of Levantine Neolithic materials. ($3,000)

1996 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, (95 - 97) Postdoctoral fellowship. Social

Complexity in the Levantine Neolithic. ($28,000)

1994 Mellon Foundation, Research grant for analysis of Levantine Neolithic architectural systems. ($3,000)

Fredrick Sheldon Foundation, Harvard University, Social Systems of the Levantine Neolithic. ($10,000)

1993 National Sciences Foundation, (1991-1993) Dissertation improvement fellowship. Economic Strategies and

Human Interaction in the Levantine Early Neolithic. ($12,000)

American School of Oriental Research, Excavations at Jebel Queisa, Jordan. ($1,500)

1992 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, (90 - 93) Doctoral fellowship. Lithic

Interassemblage Variability and Culture Change in the Early Neolithic of Syria-Palestine. ($12,000)

National Sciences Foundation, (1991-1993) Dissertation improvement fellowship. Economic Strategies and


Mellon Foundation, Analysis of chipped stone materials from ‘Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan. ($3,000)



National Sciences Foundation, (1991-1993) Dissertation improvement fellowship. Economic Strategies and


Sigma Xi Foundation, Radiocarbon dating of ‘Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan. ($1,500)

Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Excavations of ‘Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan. ($1,500)



Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Excavations of ‘Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan. ($1,500)

Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Excavations of ‘Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan. ($1,500)

American School of Oriental Research, Excavations of ‘Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan. ($1,500)

Mentored Grants

2013 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, Irish Cultural Landscape, ($2,700), C. Walsh.

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Nanovic Institute Irish Cultural Landscape ($2,700), S. Kenny.

2012 Nanovic Institute ($3,100), P. Lettieri.

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, Yamasee War Excavation, ($1,700), L. Cooey.

2011 Nanovic Institute ($3,500), P. Lettieri, and C. Brown.

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, Irish Cultural Landscape, ($3,500), A. Elonzi.

2010 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, Irish Cultural Landscape, ($3,500), R. Lash, and C. Brown.

2009 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, Irish Cultural Landscape, ($3,500), C. McNeill, and J. Brems.

2008 Learning Beyond the Classroom, University of Notre Dame, 6th World Archaeological Congress, ($4,500), R.

Lash, M. Conway, C. McNeill, and J. Brems.

2008 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, Irish Cultural Landscape, ($7,500), R. Lash, L. Moore-Shay, C.

Binder, C. McNeill, and J Brems.

2008 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, Society for American Archaeology meetings, ($5,000), R. Lash,

L. Holcomb, F. Vento, L. Moore-Shay, and E. Elliott.

2008 Learning Beyond the Classroom, Society for American Archaeology meetings, ($500), T. Hulett.

2007 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, Irish Cultural Landscape, ($7,500), R. Lash, L. Moore-Shay, L.

Plis, F. Vento, and E. Elliot.

2006 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, Irish Cultural Landscape, ($1,500), L. Plis.

2004 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, Arch. Excavations at Dhra‘, Jordan, ($1,500), D. Updike.

2003 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, Transforming Celtic Cultures, ($5,000), C. Quinn.

2003 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, Society for American Archaeology meetings, ($5,000), M.

Grant, S. Bergin, D. Updike, and L. Gregoricka.

2002 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, Archaeological Excavations at Dhra‘, Jordan. ($5,000), M.

Cochrane, K. Schoenig, L. Kattan, J. Stahl, and M. Zawada.

2002 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (April 2003) Society for American Archaeology meetings.

($5,000), S. Bergin, M. Cochrane, C. Reiser, J. Stahl, and M. Zawada.

2001 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, Archaeological Excavations at Dhra‘, Jordan. ($5,000), M.

Johnston, K. Schoenig, S. Smyth, J. Stahl, and A. Mackiewicz.

CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED____________________________________________

2013 Symposium co-organizer: One Step Further: Community Archaeology, Descendant Communities

and the Public. 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association. Chicago, Il,

November 2013.

2013 Symposium co-organizer: Hidden Island Histories: Narratives of Transformation, Emigration and

Interaction within 18-20th Century Irish Coastal Communities. Meeting of the Society for Historic

Archaeology, Leicester, England. January 2013.

2012 Symposium co-organizer: Coastal Landscapes of the Irish Coasts: Multi-scalar archaeology,

dynamic communities and changing life. 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology, Memphis, Tenn. April 2012.

2012 Conference organizer. To Have and to Hold: Food Storage and the Emergence of Social

Differentiation. Amerind Foundation, Tucson, AZ. February 24-25, 2012.

2011 Conference co-organizer. Fire and the Body: Cremation as a Social Context. Amerind Foundation,

Tucson, AZ. November 10-12, 2011.

2011 Conference co-organizer. Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology. Social

Economics of Greed and Excess: Lessons from Recessions, Past and Present. University of Notre

Dame, IN. March 10-12, 2011.

2011 Symposium co-organizer. Along a Watery Road: Understanding18-20th Century Irish Coastal

Communities and Household Organization. Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical

Archaeology, Austin, TX. January 2011.

2010 Symposium organizer: New perspectives on land, space, and identity along coastal Ireland. 75th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Illinois. April 2010.

2009 Symposium co-organizer: Methodological and Analytical Concerns of Investigating Prehistoric

Communities: The “How” and “Why” behind Community Research. Annual Meeting of the Schools

of American Research. New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2009.

2008 Symposium organizer and chair: Perspectives on Land, Space, and Practice along Coastal Ireland. Poster

exhibition, 6th World Archaeological Congress, Dublin, Ireland, July 2008.

2007 Symposium organizer and chair: Bridging the Atlantic: Undergraduate Perspectives on Irish-American

Heritage. Poster exhibition, University of Notre Dame, October 2007.

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2005 Symposium co-organizer and chair: Macro Evolution and Archaeology: Concepts and Applications. 70th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, Utah. April 2005.

2003 Symposium co-organizer and chair: Social and Economic Dynamics among Old World Middle-Range

Societies: Changing Food Systems and New Power Structures. 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. April 2003.

2003 Symposium co-organizer and chair: Social and Economic Dynamics among New World Middle-Range

Societies: Changing Food Systems and New Power Structures. 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. April 2003.

2001 Symposium co-organizer and chair: The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherer Communities on the

Canadian Plateau. 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. New Orleans, Louisiana.

April 2001.

1999 Symposium organizer and chair: The Social Context of Food Storage: Comparative Perspectives. 64th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chicago, Illinois. March 1999.

1997 Symposium co-organizer and co-chair: Social Memory, Identity, and Death: Intradisciplinary Perspectives on

Mortuary Rituals. 96th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington D.C.

November 1997.

1995 Symposium organizer and chair: Social Configurations of the Near Eastern Early Neolithic: Community

Identity, Heterarchical Organization and Ritual. 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology. Minneapolis, Minnesota. May 1995.

1988 Symposium co-organizer and chair: Paleoenvironment and Culture Change on the Canadian Plateau. 21st

Annual Canadian Archaeology Association Meetings. Whistler, Canada. May 1988.

1987 Symposium co-organizer and chair: Recent Plateau Research. 20th Annual Canadian Archaeology

Association Meetings. Calgary, Canada, May 1987.

INVITED LECTURES______________________________________________________________________

(All 50-60 minutes presentation time, *=Travel/accommodation/ subsistence funded by host)

2013* Lecture. Farming Friendly Property Rights in the Early Holocene?: Neolithic Food Storage, Surplus

and Social Differentiation. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, September 2013.

2013* Lecture. The Forage-Farmer Transition: Comparative New and Old World evolutionary perspectives

on property, food storage, and demography. The First Peopling of the New World. UNESCO

Convention, Puebla, Mexico, September 2013.

2012* Leland Ferguson Lecture on Historic Archaeology. The Footprint of Improvement: Exploring the

linkages between Property, Landscape and National Policy, 19th to 20th century Inishark, Ireland.

University of South Carolina, October 2012.

2012* Lecture. Grains of Wrath? Neolithic Food Storage, Excess and Social Inequality. Harvard

University, Cambridge, MA. April 2012.

2012* Lecture. The Neolithic refrigerator on a Friday night: honey, how many people are coming to dinner,

and just what should I do with the slimy veggies in the back of the fridge? Amerind Foundation,

Tucson, AZ. February 24-25, 2012.

2011* William D. Lipe Visiting Scholar and Lecture in Archaeological Method and Theory. Carved

Pumpkins and Plastered Human Skulls: The Origins of Agriculture and Ritual Life in Near Eastern

Neolithic Villages. Washington State University, September 2011.

2011* Lecture. Reconsidering the Neolithic Household at Çatal Höyük, Turkey. Presentation for Templeton

Foundation workshop on Religion as the Basis for Power and Property in the First Civilizations, Konya,

Turkey, July 2011.

2011* T. W. Purcell Memorial Lecture. These Days are Gone Now: Video Ethnography and Community

Archaeology on 1900-1960 Inishark, Co Galway, Ireland, University of South Florida, February

2011.

2010* Lecture. Well Boys, Looks like Grain is Back on the Menu: Neolithic Food Storage, Surplus and

Social Inequality. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, December 2010.

2010 Lecture. Looking in from the Periphery: New Archaeological Research on 5th-12th century Western

Irish Seascapes. Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame. September 2010.

2010* Workshop presenter, A Biography of the Neolithic Body at Çatal Höyük, Turkey. Presentation for

Templeton Foundation workshop on Religion as the Basis for Power and Property in the First Civilizations,

Konya, Turkey, July 2010

2010 Lecture. Searching for Bridget O’Malley: An Interdisciplinary study of InisAirc, Co. Galway,

Ireland, 1907. Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin, Ireland. April 2010.

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2010* 2010 Inaugural lecture, School of Archaeology. University College Dublin. Carved Pumpkins and

Plastered Human Skulls: The Origins of Agriculture and Ritual Life in Near Eastern Neolithic

Villages. Dublin, Ireland. March 2010.

2010* Lecture. Faith on the Water: New Archaeological Research on Early Medieval Coastal Settlements,

Western Connemara, Ireland. School of Geography and Archaeology, New University of Ireland,

Galway, Ireland. March 2010.

2009* Members Lecture Series, Oriental Institute. Headless Ancestors and Ghouls: Understanding the

Plastered Human Skulls of Jericho and the Origins of Agriculture. Members Lecture Series, Oriental

Institute, University of Chicago. December 2009.

2009* Lecture. Biography of the Neolithic Body: Tracing Pathways to Cist II, Mound of the Hostages,

Tara. Presentation at the international symposium Tara-From the Past to the Future. University

College Dublin, Ireland. October 2009 (With Colin Quinn).

2009* Lecture. Patterns, Variability, Information Exchange, and Dynamic Social Processes in the Past: An

Early Bronze Age Case Study At Tara. Presentation at the international symposium Tara-From the

Past to the Future. University College Dublin, Ireland. October 2009 (With Colin Quinn).

2009* Workshop presenter, Heirlooms, Religion and Neolithic Social Memory. Presentation for Templeton

Foundation workshop on Religion as the Basis for Power and Property in the First Civilizations, Konya,

Turkey, July 2009

2009* Workshop Chair and Presenter, Heirlooms, Bodily Circulation and the Hill of Tara. Presentation for

International Colloquium on Tara. School of Archaeology, University College, Dublin, Ireland. March 2009

2009* Lecture. Reconsidering Emergent Inequality and Domestication. Presentation for the working group, The

Emergence of Permanent Social Inequality and Political Hierarchy, Santa Fe Institute. Santa Fe, New

Mexico. February 2009.

2008* Lecture. Bound by the Shore and Tied to the Sea: Tempo of Life on Inis Airc Island, Co. Galway, Ireland.

Hamilton College, New York, September 2008.

2008* Lecture. Headless ancestors and wild barley: Thinking about the Forager-Farmer Transition and Neolithic

“Inequality” from the ground up. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, February 2008.

2007* Lecture. Food storage and risk in early agricultural communities. Workshop presentation for A Conversation

on the Origins of Agriculture, SUNY Plattsburgh. October 2007.

2007* Lecture. Dhra‘: PPNA Village Architecture. 10th International Conferences on the History and Archaeology

of Jordan, George Washington University, Washington D.C., May 2007 (With B. Finlayson).

2006* Lecture. Demography and Storage Systems during the southern Levantine Neolithic Demographic Transition.

International Conference titled The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences, Harvard

University, Massachusetts. December 2006.

2006 Lecture. Homes of the Living Dead: Life Cycles and Common Differences within Neolithic Households.

Workshop presentation for Houses for the Living and a Place for the Dead, III International Congress on the

Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Madrid, Spain. April 2006.

2006* Lecture. The Future of the Past: Recent Work on the Neolithic of the Near East. SUNY-New Paltz, New

York, March 2006.

2005* Lecture. Images and Social Relationships: Shifting Identity and Ambiguity in the Neolithic. International

Conference titled Image and Imagination: Material Beginnings, McDonald Institute for Archaeological

Research, Cambridge University, United Kingdom. September 2005. (With M. Chesson).

2005* Lecture. Reconsidering Neolithic Farming: Cultural Revolution or Failed Social Experiment? International

Conference titled Patterns and Process in Cultural Evolution, Institute of Archaeology, London, United

Kingdom. September 2005.

2005* Lecture. Shifting Practices in Graduate Teaching and Near Eastern Archaeology Field Research, University

of Durham, UK, June, 2005

2004 Lecture. Reflection on Rights, Ownership and Obligations in Neolithic Communities, Reading University,

UK, October 2004.

2004* Lecture. The Earliest Farmers in Jordan. 9th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of

Jordan, Wadi Musa, Jordan. May 2004 (With B. Finlayson).

2004* Plenary lecture, the Creation of Symbolic Worlds. The Taphonomy of Memory in Neolithic Ritual: Symbolic

Remembering and Forgetting, Annual meeting of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology,

Reading University, UK, March 2004.

2003* Lecture. The Taphonomy of Memory: Neolithic Heirlooms and Mythically Activated Objects. Excavating

Memories: The Archaeology of Remembering and Forgetting, Columbia University, New York. April 2003.

2003 Lecture. Rich Farmer, Poor Villager, and Feasting Thief: Near Eastern Neolithic Social Inequality? The

Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, March 2003

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2003* Lecture. Reconciling Neolithic Society with Models for the Emergence of Social Inequality. Maison de

l'Orient, Lyon, France. March 2003

2002* Lecture. Social and Economic Explanations for the Origins of Food Production: Expectations, Data, and

Challenges in Modeling the Near Eastern Neolithic. Transitions: Perspectives from Anthropology speaker

series. Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University. January 28, 2002.

1999* Lecture. Reassessing "Cultural Collapse" in the Interior of British Columbia: Climatic Change, Paleodiets,

and Shifting Settlement Patterns in the Prehistoric Lillooet Region. Department of Geography, University of

Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. March 1999.

1997* Lecture. Creating Communities and Identities in Life and Death: Levantine Neolithic Agricultural Villages

and Mortuary Practices. University of New Hampshire, Department of Anthropology, Durham, New

Hampshire. February 1997.

1996* Lecture. Blades, Burials, and Buildings: Integrating Neolithic Stone Tool Technology and Social

Interpretation. University of Toronto, Department of Anthropology, Toronto, Canada. April 1996.

1993* Lecture. The Earliest Food Producers of the Levantine Neolithic: An Archaeological Consideration of the

Social and Economic Context. Invited Conference: New Approaches to the Past, Archaeology in the Holy

Land in the 1990's and Beyond. University of California, San Diego. January 1993.

1989 Lecture. Sampling Problems and Preservation Conditions in Wet Sites: A Case Study of Hoko River.

Abbotsford Archaeological Society. Vancouver, Canada. March 1989.

1988 Lecture. Tells of the Middle East and Archaeological Sampling: No Guts-No Glory. Dept. of Anthropology

and Sociology, Medicine Hat College. Medicine Hat, Canada. November 1988.

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS (all 50-60 min presentation time)

2012 From Dark Wet Rocks: Using Archaeology and History to Understand Life on 19th century

Inishark, Connemara, Ireland. Clinton Historical Society, Clinton, MA. April 2012.

2011 Ethnoarchaeology on Inishark, Ireland. Washington State University. September 2011.

2011 Bridging the Atlantic: The Struggles of an Abandoned 19th century Irish Village. University of

Notre Dame, Saturday Scholars Lecture Series. September 2011.

2009 Untangling a Mess: Food storage, Surplus and Social Inequality in Near Eastern Pre-Pottery

Neolithic communities. University of Arizona, Tucson, October 2009.

2009 The Death of an Irish Coastal Village and Irish-American Histories. Keough-Naughton Centre, Dublin,

Ireland. March 2009.

2009 To Have and to Hold: Food Storage and the Emergence (Maybe) of Near Eastern Neolithic Social

Differentiation. School of Archaeology, University College, Dublin, Ireland. March 2009.

2002 Models of Agriculture: A Critical Examination of Neolithic Food Storage and Mortuary Practices. Paper

presented to Prehistory Department, Faculty of Letters, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey. March 2002.

2002 Population Pressure, Social Inequality, and Early Agricultural Communities. Paper presented to Centre

National De La Recherche Scientifique, Sophia Antipolis, France. February 2002.

2002 Workshop participant: Global Dimensions – 2nd meeting of the Chicago School of Complex Society

Archaeology. Chicago. February 2002.

2001 Socioeconomic Competition and the Transition to Agriculture in the Southern Levant: Reflections,

Archaeological Data and Grunts from the Audience. Marching and Chowder-East Coast Archaeological

Society. Baltimore, USA, October 2001.

2001 The 2001 excavation season at Dhra‘, Jordan: Preliminary Results. Friends of Archaeology of Jordan.

Amman, Jordan. July 2001. (With B. Finlayson).

2000 Urbanism and Household Structure: Early Bronze Age life at Bab ed-Dhra‘, Jordan. Department of

Anthropology, The University of Montana, Missoula. March 2000. (With M. Chesson).

1999 Pithouses, Cultural Complexity, and Landscapes in Central British Columbia, Canada. Alberta Archaeology

Society, Lethbridge Chapter. October 1999.

1994 The Levantine Natufian-Neolithic Transition: Material Change and Chronology. University of Toronto,

Department of Anthropology, Toronto, Canada. February 1994.

1994 Social Complexity, Settlement Systems, and Population Demographics of the Levantine Early Neolithic

Period. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. January 1994.

1992 Preliminary Results of the 1989-1991 Excavations of ‘Iraq ed-Dubb, Northern Jordan.

Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. October 1992.

1986 A consideration of lithic interassemblage variability at Skoglund's Landing (FlUa 1) and Blue Jacket Creek

(FlUa 4), Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University,

April 1986, Vancouver, Canada.

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1984 Archaeological research at Hoko river: An example of hydraulic excavation. Archaeology Society of Alberta,

April 1984, Lethbridge, Alberta.

SYMPOSIUM AND CONFERENCE DISCUSSANT____________________________________________

2013 Symposium Discussant, Food: It’s What’s for Dinner. 112th Annual Meeting of the American

Anthropology Association. Chicago, Il, November 2013.

2008 Symposium Discussant, Integrating Social Worlds at Çatalhöyük. 73st Annual Meeting of the Society

for American Archaeology. Vancouver, Canada, April 2008.

2006* Synthetic Issues related to the Formation, Maintenance and Abandonment of Villages. Discussant for Early

Village Society in Global Perspective workshop. The Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona. November

2006.

2006 Symposium Discussant, Early Village Society in Global Perspective. 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology. San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2006.

2004* Conference Discussant. Nationalism, Ideology and Ownership of the Past: Recent Changes in the

Archaeology of the Near East. Filtering the Past, Building the Future: Archaeology, Tradition and Politics in

the Middle East Salt Lake City, Utah. April 2004.

2001 Symposium Discussant: Social Stratification, Complexity, and Archaeology. The Fifth Millennium BC in the

Near East Conference. Liverpool, United Kingdom. November 2001.

1998 Symposium Discussant, Beyond the Lithics: Mesolithic People in Europe. 63rd Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology. Seattle, Washington. March 1998.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (all 15 minutes presentation time)

2013 On a Snail’s Back: Ethnoarchaeology, Residential Mobility, and Homemaking in 1950’s Inishark,

Co. Galway, Ireland. 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association. Chicago, Il,

November 2013.

2013 The Living Past: Multiple Voices, Video-ethnography, and Collaborative Research at Inishark, Co.

Galway. 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association. Chicago, Il, November

2013. (With W. Donaruma)

2013 The New Necessities: Community Archaeology Practices on Inisbofin, Co. Galway, Ireland. 112th

Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association. Chicago, Il, November 2013. (With K.

Shakour, M. Conway, T. Burke)

2013 Daily Materiality, Memory and Social Reproduction in South Andean Formative Households and

Communities. 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association. Chicago, Il,

November 2013. (With J. Salazar)

2013 Pathways of Colonialism: Cultural Continuity and Community Change in Western Ireland, 1600-

1850. 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association. Chicago, Il, November

2013. (With M. Conway and T. Burke)

2013 Seeing Things: Visions of 19th & 20th Century Immigration, Inishark, Ireland. Theoretical

Archaeology Group. Chicago, IL, May 2013. (With B. Donaruma)

2013 Quiet Voices and Silent Houses: Videoethnography, Inishark, Ireland. Meeting of the Society for

Historic Archaeology. Leicester, England, January 2013. (With K. Concannon)

2013 The Living Village: Time Slices and Residential Shifts, 1800-1960, Inishark, Ireland. Meeting of the

Society for Historic Archaeology. Leicester, England, January 2013. (With M. Conway, A. Nauman,

K. Shakour, C. Brown and J. O’Neill)

2013 Hidden Histories of an Island Village: Ethnoarchaeological Exploration of Westquarter Village,

Inishbofin, Ireland. Meeting of the Society for Historic Archaeology. Leicester, England, January

2013. (With K. Shakour and T. Burke)

2013 Exploring Transatlantic Connections: Sustaining Irish Island Communities in Early 20th Century

America. Meeting of the Society for Historic Archaeology. Leicester, England, January 2013. (With

M. Conway, and C. McNeill, K. Shakour)

2012 At the Bronze Age World’s End? Challenging Marginality through Island Adaptations and

Seascapes along the Western Ireland Coast. Cultural Mobility in Bronze Age Europe, Aahus,

Denmark. June 2012. (C. Quinn and I. Kuijt)

2012 A Vita in Stone: The Archaeology of St. Leo’s Cult, Inishark, Ireland. 47th International Congress on

Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 2012. (With J. O’Neill, T. O’Hagan, R. Lash, E. Alonzi,

and M. Chesson)

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2012 Stories Shared Over Tea: Community Archaeology and Heritage in a 19th Century Irish Fishing

Village. 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN. April 2012.

(With K. Shakour, C. McNeill and M. Conway)

2012 Ritual Economies and medieval Irish gravestones: A case study in Metamorphic and Sedimentary

rock sourcing. 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN. April

2012. (With K. Shakour, C. McNeill and M. Conway)

2012 Pilgrims Progress: Settlement Variety in Connemara’s Early Medieval Seascape. 77th Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN. April 2012. (With R. Lash, A.

Nauman, J. O’Neill and T. O’Hagan)

2012 Beneath the ‘Silent’ Stones: Excavations at the McGreal House, Inishark, Co. Galway. 77th Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN. April 2012. (With M. Conway, C.

McNeill)

2012 Empty School Seats: Tracing the 1907 Epidemic, Inishark, Ireland. 77th Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN. April 2012. (With P. Lettieri and B. Ridenhour)

2012 The Politics of Enclosure: Land use and Property on Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland. 77th Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN. April 2012. (With C. Brown and

C. McNeill)

2011 Unearthed Potential and Whispered Voices: Community Archaeology on a 19th Century Irish Fishing

Village. 7th Annual Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference, Kalamazo, MI. Sept. 2011. (With

K. Shakour, M. Conway, C. McNeill and M. Chesson)

2011 Transatlantic Irish Immigration: A Case Study of Early 20th Century, Inishark. 7th Annual Midwest

Historical Archaeology Conference, Kalamazo, MI. Sept. 2011. (With M. Conway, C. McNeill and

K. Shakour)

2011 Raiders of the Lost Shark: Rediscovering St. Leo’s Church, Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland. 76th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, CA. April 2011. (With R.

Lash, J. O’Neill, and T. O’Hagen)

2011 Transatlantic Irish Immigration: A Case Study of Early 20th Century, Inishark. 76th Annual Meeting

of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, CA. April 2011. (With M. Conway, C.

McNeill and K. Shakour)

2011 Microhistories and Residential Genealogies of Domestic Life on Inishark. 76th Annual Meeting of

the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, CA. April 2011. (With C. McNeill, M.

Conway, and C. Brown)

2011 The Materiality of a 20th Century Village, Inishark. 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology, Sacramento, CA. April 2011. (With A. Nauman, N. Goodale, and C. Brown)

2011 Portable XRF Analysis of Early Medieval Gravestones from Western Ireland. 76th Annual Meeting

of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, CA. April 2011. (With M. Gunter, N.

Goodale, D. Bailey, M. Coles)

2011 Micro Histories and Lifeways: Oral History and the Documentation of Household Daily Life on

Inishark, Ireland. Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Austin, TX. January,

2011. (With C. McNeill, M. Conway, A. Nauman and C. Brown)

2011 Tracing the Soft Footprint of Bridget Malley, 1898-1909, Inishark, Ireland. Annual Meeting of the

Society for Historical Archaeology, Austin, TX. January, 2011.

2011 A Changing Coastal Village: Time Slices and Residential Shifts, 1838-1960, Inishark, Ireland.

Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Austin, TX. January, 2011. (With A.

Nauman, M. Conway, and C. Brown)

2011 Silent Stones of Inishark: Oral History, Film, and Peopling of the Landscape. Annual Meeting of the

Society for Historical Archaeology, Austin, TX. January, 2011. (With N. Goodale, K. Concannon, E.

Kowsz)

2010 Faith on the Water: New Understandings of the Archaeology of Fifth to Ninth-Century Christianity

along Western Connemara, Ireland. 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo,

MI. March 2010. (With R. Lash, A. Nauman, and N. Goodale)

2010 Voices of the Past-Perspectives on the Present: Community Partnership and Research on Inishark,

Co., Galway, Ireland. 109th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, New

Orleans, LA. Nov. 2010.

2010 Portable XRF Analysis of Early Medieval Gravestones Composed of Fine-grained Metamorphic and

Sedimentary Rocks, Western Ireland. Geological Society of America, Denver, CO. Nov. 2010.

(With M Gunter, N. Goodale, D. Bailey, and M. Coles)

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2010 Faith along the water: New Understandings of the Archaeology of 5-9th century Christianity along

western Connemara. 45th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazo, MI. May 2010.

(With R. Lash, A. Nauman, and N. Goodale)

2010 Hunting Down Huts: Multiscalar Approaches to Residential Sites on Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland.

75th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Illinois. April 2010. (With

C. Quinn, J. O’Neill, D. Harrison, B. Thebaudeau)

2010 Chewing on Limpets: Iron Age Coastal Adaption on Omey Island, Co. Galway, Ireland. 75th Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Illinois. April 2010. (With A. Nauman,

R. Lash, N. Goodale, and L. Moore-Shay)

2010 The Dynamic Village: 19/20th cent Organization of Inis Airc, Co. Galway, Ireland. 75th Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Illinois. April 2010. (With C. McNeill,

A. Nauman, and N. Goodale)

2010 Faith on the Water: Documenting the Development of Early Christian Island Settlements, Co.

Galway, Ireland. 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Illinois.

April 2010. (With A. Nauman, N. Goodale, and C. Brown)

2010 Tracking the Dead: Early Christian Gravestone Production and Distribution. 75th Annual Meeting of

the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Illinois. April 2010. (With N. Goodale, M. Gunter,

M. Coles)

2010 Sacred and Secular Space: the Early Christian Settlements of Inis Airc, Co. Galway, Ireland. 75th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Illinois. April 2010. (With R.

Lash, J. O’Neill, Michael Gibbons, and J. Higgins)

2010 Formalizing Space: Patterns of Continuity and Change at Streamstown Bay, Co. Galway, Ireland.

Meeting of the Society for Historic Archaeology. Jacksonville Florida, January 2010. (With M.

Conway)

2009 The Footprint of Early Irish Christianity: New insights from Inis Airc Island, Co. Galway, Ireland.

108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, PA, December

2009. (With R. Lash and N. Goodale)

2009 Choice, intention and consequence in Neolithic settlement development: Why Size Matters. Annual

Meeting of the Schools of American Research. New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2009.

2009 Tempos of Time-Pulses of Life: Inis Airc, Ireland, 1907, through the eyes of Bridget O’Malley. 74th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Atlanta, Georgia, April 2009.

2009 Community and Household Organization during the Irish Famine: Perspectives from Streamstown

Village, Co. Galway. 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Atlanta,

Georgia, April 2009. (With M. Conway)

2009 Disentangling Social Inequality: Human Burials, Fluorine Dating and Household Variation at Tell

Halula (Syria). 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Atlanta, Georgia,

April 2009. (With E. Guerrero, M. Schurr, M. Molist and J. Anfruns)

2009 Cultural Transmission and the Production of Material Goods: A Neolithic Case Study of the Neutral

Model and Identity in Notched Points. 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology. Atlanta, Georgia, April 2009. (With N. Goodale, W. Andrefsky, L. Cueni, and C.

Osterhoudt)

2009 Bioarchaeological Insights into Health and Emerging Social Differentiation at Neolithic Tell Halula

(Syria). American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Chicago. (With E. Guerrero, M. Schurr,

M. Molist and J. Anfruns)

2008 Practice, Materiality and Patterning of Neolithic burials, Tel Halula, Syria. 6th World Archaeological

Congress, Dublin, Ireland. (With E. Guerrero, M. Molist and J. Anfruns)

2008 Identity, representation and the materiality of the body within Natufian communities. 6th World

Archaeological Congress, Dublin, Ireland. (With C. Quinn)

2008 Bronze Age coastal adaptations: Insights from Inis Airc island, Co. Galway, Ireland. 6th World

Archaeological Congress, Dublin, Ireland. (With C. Quinn, and N. Goodale)

2008 Micro-Histories and Land use: 19th century Inis Airc island, Co. Galway, Ireland. 6th World

Archaeological Congress, Dublin, Ireland. (With A. Nauman and N. Goodale)

2008 Breathing Life into Stone: Architecture and Life at Steamstown Village, Co. Galway, Ireland. 6th

World Archaeological Congress, Dublin, Ireland. (With M. Conway, C. Quinn, and N. Goodale)

2008 The Living House: Considering 19th century Vernacular Architecture, Co. Galway, Ireland. 6th

World Archaeological Congress, Dublin, Ireland. (With E. Elliott and E. Carlson)

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2008 Tempos of Life: Changing settlement practices on Omey Island, Co. Galway, Ireland. 6th World

Archaeological Congress, Dublin, Ireland. (With A. Nauman, N. Goodale, J. O’Neill, L. Moore-

Shay, and R. Lash)

2008 Life-History and Taphonomy of a House: Considering 19th century Vernacular Architecture, Co.

Galway, Ireland. 73st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Vancouver,

Canada, April 2008. (With C. Quinn, and E. Elliott)

2008 The Landscape of Abandonment: Archaeological and Historical perspectives on 18th century

Western Connemara. 73st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Vancouver,

Canada, April 2008. (With E. Elliott and L. Plis)

2008 The Traditional Seasonal Round in the Middle Fraser Canyon, British Columbia: Past and Present.

73st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Vancouver, Canada, April 2008.

(With N. Crossland, E. Carlson, A. Prentiss and A. Aduolph)

2008 Visually Reconstructing Prehistoric Life in the Middle Fraser Canyon, British Columbia: The

Process. 73st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Vancouver, Canada, April

2008. (With E. Carlson, A. Prentiss and A. Adolph)

2008 Paleodemography and Cultural Transition: Cycles of Pithouse Village Aggregation and Culture

Change in the Interior Pacific Northwest. 73st Annual Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology. Vancouver, Canada, April 2008. (With N. Goodale, A. Prentiss and A. Nauman)

2008 Changing settlement practices on Omey Island, Co. Galway, Ireland. 73st Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology. Vancouver, Canada, April 2008. (With A. Nauman, J. O’Neill,

L. Moore-Shay, and R. Lash)

2008 New Perspectives on Neolithic Inequality: Mortuary and Isotopic Research at Tell Halula, Syria. 73st

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Vancouver, Canada, April 2008. (With

E. Guerrero, M. Molist and J. Anfruns)

2007 Reconstructing Changing Post-Medieval Land-Use on Inis Aric, Western Ireland. 72st Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology. Austin, Texas, April 2007. (With L. Plis)

2007 Seated Memory: Social Reproduction, Identity and Residential Burials at Tell Halula, Syria. 72st Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Austin, Texas, April 2007. (With E. Guerrero, M. Molist

and J. Anfruns)

2007 Follow the Signs: Signaling Theory and Changing Systems of Natufian Mortuary Adornment. 72st Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Austin, Texas, April 2007. (With C. Quinn)

2007 Revisiting the Chicken and the Egg: Thinking about Neolithic Food Storage and Population Growth. Harvard

University, Boston, April 2007.

2006 Stone Tool Drilling Technology and Retouch Intensity: A Neolithic Case Study. 71st Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology. San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2006. (With C. Quinn and W. Andrefsky,

Jr.)

2006 Tool Production and Maintenance During the Transition to Agriculture: A Case Study from the Near Eastern

Neolithic (With E. Carlson, N. Goodale, and B. Finlayson). 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology. San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2006.

2006 Embodiment, Embedding and Cycles of Time among the Neolithic Living Dead. 71st Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology. San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2006.

2006 New Insights into the Forager-Farmer Transition: Excavation results from Dhra‘, Jordan. III International

Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Madrid, Spain. April 2006. (With B. Finlayson)

2006 People and Place: Impact of the Famine on the Cultural Landscape of Omey Island, Ireland. American

Conference for Irish Studies, St. Louis, April 2006. (With C. Rota and L. Plis)

2005 Chair, Early Ireland session. Ireland Beyond Borders. American Conference for Irish Studies Annual General

Meeting, South Bend, Indiana, April 2005.

2005 Persistence and Extinction of Adaptive Lifeways: Development and Collapse of the Near East Neolithic. 70 th


2005 Early Neolithic Bead Production: Technology and Visibility During the Forager-Farmer Transition. 70st


2004 At the Dawn of Christianity: Changing Archaeological Visibility in Ireland. 69th Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Canada. April 2004 (With C. Quinn).

2004 Lithic Technology Trajectories and the Forager to Farmer Transition: An Examination of Late / Final

Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Occupations at ‘Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan. 69th Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Canada. April 2004 (With N. Goodale).

2004 Exploring Neolithic Population Growth and Settlement Size: How Many Houses make a Community? 69th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Canada. April 2004.

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2004 Trouble in River City: PPNA Core Reduction Systems and Failure Rates. 5th Workshop on Pre-Pottery

Neolithic Chipped Lithic Industries. Fréjus, France. March 2004. (With N. Goodale and B. Finlayson).

2004 Chipped Stone and Technological Organization: Linking Tool Function to Spatial Variability during the Early

Neolithic Occupation at Dhra‘, Jordan. 5th Workshop on Pre-Pottery Neolithic Chipped Lithic Industries.

Fréjus, France. March 2004. (With N. Goodale and B. Finlayson).

2003 Regional Abandonment or Occupational Continuity?: New Research on Pottery Neolithic Settlements on the

Southeast Dead Sea Plain and Southern Jordan. Annual Meeting of American Schools of Oriental Research,

Atlanta, USA, November 2003 (With M. Chesson).

2003 Geomagnetic Surveys at the PPNA site of Dhra‘, Jordan. 5th International Conference on Archaeological

Prospection, Cracow, Poland. September, 2003 (With M. Schurr and B. Finlayson).

2003 Critically Examining Socio-economic Models for the Origins of Food Production in the Near East. 68th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. April 2003.

2003 Taphonomy of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Structure at Dhra', Jordan. 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. April 2003 (With T. Arpin and B. Finlayson).

2002 Excavations at Neolithic Dhra‘, Jordan: New Insights into the Forager-Farmer Transition Along the Dead

Sea. Annual Meeting of American Schools of Oriental Research, Toronto, Canada, November 2002 (With B.

Finlayson).

2002 Scale and Regional Neolithic Landscapes: Population Aggregation, Community Size, and Settlement

Context. Domesticating Space: Landscape and Site Structure in the Prehistoric Near East Conference,

Toronto, November 2002.

2002 Geomagnetic Surveys at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period site of Dhra‘, Jordan: Results and Potential.

International Conference on Science and Technology in Archaeology and Conservation, Amman, Jordan.

August 2002 (With M. Schurr and B. Finlayson).

2002 Constructing a Regional Settlement Pattern Based on Intra-Site Data: A Case Study from the Upper Columbia

Region of the Northwest. 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado.

March 2002 (With W. Prentiss and N. Goodale).

2002 The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period Chipped Stone Assemblage of Dhra‘, Jordan: Preliminary Results on Intra

Assemblage Variation. 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado.

March 2002 (With N. Goodale and B. Finlayson).

2002 Geomagnetic Surveys at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period site of Dhra‘, Jordan: Results and Potential. 67th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado. March 2002 (With M. Schurr

and B. Finlayson).

2001 A Virtual Tale of Life and Death: Archaeologies of the Senses and Ethnographies of the Past II. Annual

Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Boulder, CO. November 2001. (With M. Chesson

and J. Graham)

2001 Contrasts and Contexts: Assessing Lithic Inter-Assemblage Variability from the Perspective of the Pre-

Pottery Neolithic A Period Occupation of Dhra‘ and Wadi Faynan 16. 4th Workshop on Pre-Pottery Neolithic

Chipped Lithic Industries. Nigdé, Tiurkey. June 2001. (With B. Finlayson).

2001 Villages on the Edge: Why were Complex Forager-Fisher Villages Abandoned at c. 1,200 years ago on the

Northern Plateau. 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. New Orleans, Louisiana.

April 2001 (With W. Prentiss).

2001 The Evolution of Collector Systems on the Canadian Plateau. 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology. New Orleans, Louisiana. April 2001 (With W. Prentiss).

2000 A Virtual Tale of Life and Death: Archaeologies of the Senses and Ethnographies of the Past. 99th

Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA. November 2000.

(With M. Chesson and J. Graham)

2000 Landslides and “Cultural Collapse: in the Late Prehistoric Period of Interior British Columbia,

Canada: A Geoarchaeological Perspective. 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology. Philadelphia, PA. April 2000.

1999 After the Harvest: Changing Systems of Food Storage & Social Relations in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. 64th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chicago, Illinois. March 1999.

1998 Analysis of Lithic Technology and Tools from Dhra‘, Jordan. 3 rd Workshop on Pre-Pottery Neolithic

Chipped Lithic Industries. Venice, Italy. November 1998.

1998 The Social Context of Space in Early Agricultural Communities of the Southern Levant. 63rd Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Seattle, Washington. March 1998.

1998 Symposium Discussant, Beyond the Lithics: Mesolithic People in Europe. 63rd Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology. Seattle, Washington. March 1998.

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1997 Meaningful Masks: Death, Social Memory, and Levantine Neolithic Community Identity. 96th Annual

Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington D.C. November 1997.

1997 When the Walls Came Down: Social Organization, Ideology and the End of the Aceramic Neolithic. Invited

Conference: Central Settlements in Neolithic Jordan. German Protestant Institute of Archaeology. Petra,

Jordan. July 1997.

1996 Crafting Social Identities: Ritual, Architecture and the Levantine Neolithic House. 95th Annual Meeting of

the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA. November 1996.

1996 Balancing the Community: Ritual Action and the Built Environment as Social Forces. 61st Annual Meeting

of the Society for American Archaeology. New Orleans, Louisiana. April 1996.

1995 The Emergence of Social Complexity in the Levantine Neolithic: Community Identity, Ritual Practices, and

Village Planning as seen from Jericho. 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Minneapolis, Minnesota. May 1995.

1993 Excavations at ‘Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan: Implications for Settlement and Subsistence Practices of the Early

Neolithic of the Levant. 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. St. Louis, Missouri.

April 1993.

1988 Activities and Refuse Disposal at CL-8, New Mexico. 21st Annual Chacmool Conference. Calgary, Canada.

November 1988.

1988 Paleoenvironment and Culture Change on the Canadian Plateau: A Reappraisal. 21st Annual Canadian

Archaeology Association Meetings. Whistler, Canada. May 1988.

1988 Distinctive Debitage Assemblages and Archaeological Site Formation. 21st Annual Canadian Archaeology

Association Meetings. Whistler, Canada. May 1988 (With B. Prentiss).

1987 Cultural-Ecological Aspects of the Adoption of Pithouses on the Canadian Plateau during the Mid-Holocene.

20th Annual Canadian Archaeology Association Meetings. Calgary, Canada, May 1987.

FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE____________________________________________________________

Historic and Medieval periods, Connemara, Ireland. 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 (41 weeks)

Principle Investigator, of the Cultural Landscape of the Irish Coastal Project (Research partnership between

University of Notre Dame, University College, Dublin, and Hamilton College).

Neolithic of the Near East. 2005, 2004, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1994, 1993, 1991, 1990, 1989 (84 weeks) Co-Principle

Investigator, Principle investigator and/or director of excavations at Levantine Early Neolithic sites of ‘Iraq ed-

Dubb, Dhra‘, and Jebel Queisa, Jordan. In charge of fund raising and administration, project logistics, directing

excavations, analysis of lithic materials, and preliminary and final reports (University of Notre Dame).

Neolithic of Eastern Europe. 1992, 1991 (12 weeks) Director of excavations of the Neolithic sites of Blagotin (Serbia)

and Foeni (Romania). In charge of project logistics, directing excavations, analysis of lithic materials, and select

sections of preliminary and final reports (Univ. of Beograde (Yugoslavia), Museum of History of Alba Iulia

(Romania), and the Univ. of Manitoba).

Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan. 1993, 1990, 1987 (16 weeks) Senior staff at excavations of Epipaleolithic and Pottery Neolithic

sites. Field Archaeologist and Lithic Analyst for excavated materials (Univ. of Toronto).

Wadi el-Yabis, Jordan. 1989, 1987 (6 weeks) Senior staff for archaeological survey and excavations. Field Archaeologist

and Lithic Analyst for excavated materials (Univ. of Rome/ Univ. of Arizona).

Slocan Narrows, B.C. Canada. 2000 (5 weeks) Co-director at three prehistoric pithouse sites. In charge of fund raising

and administration, project logistics, directing excavations, analysis of lithic materials, and preliminary and final

reports (The Univ. of Lethbridge, Notre Dame University & The Univ. of Montana).

Keatly Creek, B.C., Canada. 1987, 1986 (16 weeks) Field Archaeologist and draftsman. Excavations at prehistoric

pithouse village (Simon Fraser Univ.).

Tell el-Handaquq South. 1993 (2 weeks) Co-Director. Excavation of Early Bronze Age site (Harvard Univ.).

Lovstrom site, Manitoba, Canada. 1988 (20 weeks) Director of excavation at the prehistoric Lovstrom Bison kill site.

Responsibilities included organization of project logistics, directing excavations, and contributing sections to

preliminary and final reports (University of Brandon).

Pontnewydd Cave, England. 1987 (2 weeks) Field Archaeologist. Excavation at Lower Paleolithic Cave, England

(National Museum of Wales).

Fraser Canyon, B.C., Canada. 1986 (6 weeks) Field Archaeologist. Survey and excavation of historic and prehistoric

sites along CN Railway (Arcas Associates).

Capitan, New Mexico. 1986 (10 weeks) Field Archaeologist and draftsperson. Excavation at prehistoric Pueblo sites,

New Mexico, USA. (Univ. of Calgary).

Pender Island, B.C., Canada. 1985 (6 weeks) Field Archaeologist. Excavation of prehistoric Northwest Coast shell

midden (Simon Fraser Univ.).

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Stein Valley, B.C., Canada. 1985 (2 weeks) Field Archaeologist. Heritage survey and impact assessment (Arcas

Associates).

Tel Dan, Israel. 1984 (8 weeks) Field Archaeologist. Excavation at Bronze/Iron Age site (Hebrew Union College).

Hoko River, Washington. 1983 (10 week) Field Archaeologist. Excavation of wet site and shell-midden site, Wash.,

USA (Washington State Univ.).

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE________________________________________________________________

Research agencies (membership or reviewer)

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, for the journal Antiquity (2013-2016)

Member, 2013 Human Evolution, Adaptation and Social Development Action Plan Committee, The United

Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Centre.

Member, 2012 Annual Meeting Program Committee, The Society for American Archaeology (2011-2012)

Member, scientific committee, for the Journal Paléorient (2010 onward)

Chair, selection committee, Amerind Foundation, Arizona, for the Society for American Archaeology

workshop/publication series (2010-2012)

Member, selection committee, Amerind Foundation, Arizona, for The Society for American Archaeology

workshop/publication series (2007-2009)

The National Science Foundation (1996, 1997 (x2), 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004 (x2), 2005 (x2), 2006, 2007 (x2), 2008 (x2),

2009 (x2), 2012 (x2))

National Geographic Society (1996, 1998, 2000 (x2), 2002, 2003, 2004 (x2), 2005 (x2), 2008 (x2), 2011, 2013 (x3))

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2004, 2005)

Israel Science Foundation (1996, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008)

L.S.B. Leakey Foundation (1996, 1997)

The John Templeton Foundation (2011 (x2), 2012 (x4))

Reviewer for the following journals

American Anthropologists (2010)

American Antiquity (2002, 2008, 2013, 2013)

American Journal of Archaeology (2009, 2010)

Antiquity (2010, 2013)

Archaeological Dialogues (2005)

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (2001, 2003)

Cambridge Archaeological Journal (2003, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2013)

Current Anthropology (2002, 2005, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2012)

Ethos: The Journal for the Society for Psychological Anthropology (2008)

Human Biology (2009)

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (2012)

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (2005, 2006, 2008, 2012)

Journal of Anthropological Research (2003, 2005)

Journal of Archaeological Research (2003)

Journal of Archaeological Science (2006, 2011, 2012)

Journal of Eurasian Prehistory (2006)

Journal of Field Archaeology (1995, 1999, 2001, 2009)

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology (2012)

Journal of Social Archaeology (2007)

Journal of World Prehistory (2004, 2004)

Levant (2004, 2006, 2010)

National Geographic (2011)

Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences (2008, 2010, 2010, 2012, 2013)

Paléorient (2009, 2010, 2010, 2010, 2011, 2011, 2011)

Science (2004)

World Archaeology (2004)

Served as a reviewer for the following publishers:

Springer Verlag, The Mobile Home – Tracking Neolithic Sedentism, Domesticity and Practice from the

Near East to North-west Europe (2009)(Book)

British Academy, Monographs in Archaeology (2002, 2002) (Book)

Routledge Press, State Origins and Human Nature (2005) (Book)

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CNRS, Mureybet Excavation: Final Excavation report (2006) (Book)

Springer Verlag, Reconsidering Paleodomography: A Global Perspective (2006)(Book)

UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE, DEPARTMENT SERVICE________________________________________

2011 Member, College of Arts and Letters Post-Doctoral Review Committee

2010-12 Member, University Strategic Research Committee

2008-9 Co-Chair, College of Arts and Letters Honesty Code Committee

2009 Speaker, Reilly Research Brunch

2008-9 Member, Strategic Planning Committee, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies

2008-11 Member, College of Arts and Letters Research Committee

2008-11 Member, Arts and Letters College Council

2007 Chair, College of Arts and Letters Joyce Teaching Awards (Social Science)

2007 Member, College of Arts and Letters Honesty Code Committee

2006 Member, College of Arts and Letters Awards of Appreciation

2005 Member, College of Arts and Letters Henkels Lecture selection committee

2007 Member, College of Arts and Letters Journal Committee

2003-6 Member, College of Arts and Letters Journal Committee

2005-7 Member, Arts and Letters College Council

2005 Member, Provost Office, Academic Affirmative Action Committee

2002-5 Member, College of Arts and Letters Research Committee

2002 Member, College of Arts and Letters Freshman Orientation

2012-3 Director of Graduate Studies, Anthropology Department

2011 Chair, Anthropology Department Director of Undergraduate Studies Search

2011 Member, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, NEH selection committee

2008 Chair, Anthropology Department Speakers Series

2008 Member, Anthropology Department Africa Search

2007 Co-Chair, Anthropology Department Undergraduate Expo

2007 Member, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, NEH selection committee

2006 Research Fellow, Keough-Knoughton Institute for Irish Studies

2001-9 Member, Committee on Appointments and Promotion (Anthropology)

2006 Chair, Anthropology Department Archaeology Search

2000-7 Co-Chair, Anthropology Bar-B-Q Goat Roast

2003-6 Member, Anthropology Web Page Development Committee

2003 Member, Anthropology Department Cultural Anthropology Search Committee

2000-4 Member, Anthropology Department Speakers Series

2003 Member, Anthropology Department Cultural Anthropology Search Committee

2001 Member, Anthropology Department Physical Anthropology Search Committee

2000 Co-Chair, Notre Dame New York Firefighters 9-11 visit

2000 Member, Anthropology Department Space Committee

SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY__________________________________________________________

2013 Interview with Irish Times and Connacht Tribune about archaeological research on Inishbofin,

Co. Galway, Ireland

2013 Radio interview with Radio Connemara, Inishbofin, Ireland, about the University of Notre

Dame Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast Project.

2013 Interview with National Public Radio, Washington, about the Neolithic origins of property and

agriculture in the Near East.

2013 Television interview with WNIT, Experience Mishiana, South Bend, about the historical and

cultural importance of St. Patrick’s Day.

2012 Radio interview with WIBC Afternoon News, Indianapolis, about construction and history of

Stonehenge, United Kingdom.

2012 Organization of educational heritage event, focusing on family genealogy and the 19th century

historical connections between Clinton, MA, and western Ireland. Clinton, MA.

2012 Radio interview with Radio Connemara, Inishbofin, Ireland, about the University of Notre

Dame Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast Project.

2012 Organization of educational heritage event, Inishbofin Island, Co. Galway, Ireland.

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2011 Radio interview with Radio Connemara, RTE, Ireland, about the University of Notre Dame

Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast Project.

2011 Career Day, Twin Branch Elementary School, Mishawaka, IN.

2011 Consultant for National Geographic Society, art and text The Birth of Religion. June 2011 issue.

2010 Radio interview with RTE, Ireland, to discuss 50th year evacuation of the island of Inishark,

Ireland.

2010 Co-author of mini-documentary The Silent Stones of Inishark.

2009 Radio interview with BBC, UK, World Service, to discuss new research on the origins of

agriculture in the Near East.

2009 Organization of two days of educational heritage events, Clifden and Inishbofin Island, Co.

Galway, Ireland.

2008 Radio interview with RTE, Ireland, to discuss research focused on western Ireland.

2005 Consultant for Lion Television production of National Geographic Society production of Guns,

Germs and Steel.

2005 Two days of filming and on-camera interviews for National Geographic Society production of

Guns, Germs and Steel.

2002 Co-Organizer of heritage tour to Dhra‘, Jordan, for the Friends of Archaeology, Amman,

Jordan.

2000 Presentation and organization of heritage tours of Slocan Narrows site for 200 primary and elementary level

students, BC. Canada.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS_________________________________________________________

Society of American Archaeology

American Anthropological Association

American Society of Oriental Research

Council for British Research in the Levant

Association for Canadian Studies in the United States

POST-GRADUATE AND GRADUATE LEVEL SUPERVISION / REVIEWS_____________________

2013 External reviewer (promotion to Associate) (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)

2012 External reviewer (promotion to Associate) (Univ. of Hawaii)

2011 External reviewer (promotion to Reader)(Univ. of Liverpool, UK)

2010 External reviewer (3rd year renewal)(Univ. of Indiana)

2010 External reviewer (promotion to Full Professor)(UCLA)

2009 External reviewer (promotion to Associate Professor)(Stony Brook University)

2009 External reviewer (promotion to Associate Professor)(Wake Forest University)

2008 External reviewer (promotion to Full Professor)(Whitman College)

2007-9 Post-Doctorate supervisor. Dr. E. Guerrero Vila (Univ. of Notre Dame)

2009-12 External committee member (Ph.D) E. Rice (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago)

2007-12 External committee member (Ph.D) C. Quinn (Univ. of Michigan)

2004-12 External committee member (Ph.D) M. Kroot (Univ. of Michigan)

2004-12 External committee member (Ph.D) P. Rassman (Univ. of Washington)

2002-9 External committee member (Ph.D) N. Goodale (Washington State Univ.)

2009-11 External committee member (MA) M. Conway (Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston)

2004-6 External committee member (MA) C. Quinn (Washington State Univ.)

2003-5 External examiner (MA) S. Bergin (University of Tulsa)

2000-2 External examiner (MA) S. Kadowaki (University of Tulsa)

1998-9 Graduate supervisor (MA) G. Epstein (Brandeis University)

COURSES TAUGHT____________________________________________________________________ Intro to Anthropology

Intro to Archaeology

Intro to Human Evolution

Topics in Biological Anthropology

Freshman Seminar

Lithic Technology

Forager-Farmer Transition

Archaeology Field School

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Archaeology of Ireland

Myths and Realities in Archaeology

Ancient Technologies

Buried Cities and Lost Worlds

Archaeology of the Pacific Northwest Coast Indians

Prehistoric Archaeology

Human Origins

Archaeology of the American Southwest

Emergence of Social Complexity

The Irish In Us

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