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January 2019

KATINA T. LILLIOS

Department of Anthropology

114 Macbride Hall

The University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa 52242

[email protected] 319-335-3023

https://clas.uiowa.edu/anthropology/people/katina-lillios

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Education

1985-1991 Ph.D. Yale University, Anthropology

Dissertation: Competition to Fission: The Copper to Bronze Age Transition

in the Lowlands of West-Central Portugal (3000-1000 BC) Chair: F. Hole

1983-1985 M.A. Yale University, Archaeology

1978-1982 B.A. Boston University, Archaeology; Art History, Magna Cum Laude

Academic Positions (Primary)

2015- Professor, The University of Iowa

2003-2015 Associate Professor, The University of Iowa

2001-2003 Associate Professor, Ripon College

1995-2001 Assistant Professor, Ripon College

Professional and Academic Positions (Secondary)

2009-2012 Director of Graduate Studies, University of Iowa, Department of

Anthropology

2006-2008 Director, European Studies Group, University of Iowa, International

Programs

2001-2002 Research Associate, University of California, Los Angeles, Cotsen Institute

of Archaeology

1997 Tutor, School of Maori Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New

Zealand

1995 Lecturer, Hunter College

1993-1994 Visiting Assistant Professor, Ripon College

1992, 1993 Instructor, The Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth

1992 Lecturer, Brandeis University

1991 Lecturer, Tufts University

mailto:[email protected]


SCHOLARSHIP

Monographs

In production Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula: The Paleolithic through the Early

Bronze Age. Cambridge University Press.

2015 with Mack, J., Waterman, A.J., Artz, J.A, and Nilsson-Stutz, Liv. In Praise of

Small Things: Excavations at the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age Burial of

Bolores (Torres Vedras), Portugal. British Archaeological Reports, International

Series. Oxford.

2008 Heraldry for the Dead: Memory, Identity, and the Engraved Stone Plaques of

Neolithic Iberia. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.

Reviews: Zephyrus LXVII:214-216, Minerva, September/October, pp. 14-15,

Cambridge Archaeological Journal 20(2):277-278, European Journal of

Archaeology 13:255-257, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

(N.S.) 16:405-6, The Times Literary Supplement, February 5, 2010, No.

5575:28, Journal of Anthropological Research 65(4):648-650, Journal of

Field Archaeology 34:357-359, Trabajos de Prehistoria 66(2):193-195,

American Anthropologist 111(2):256-257.

Edited Volumes

2016 with M. Chazan. Fresh Fields and Pastures New: Papers Presented in Honor of

Andrew M.T. Moore. Leiden: Sidestone Press.

Reviews: European Journal of Archaeology 20(3): 576-580.

2011 Comparative Archaeologies: The American Southwest (AD 900-1600) and the

Iberian Peninsula (3000-1500 BC). Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Reviews: European Journal of Archaeology 15(2):341-344, Trabajos de

Prehistoria 69(1):177-178.

2010 with Tsamis, V. Material Mnemonics: Everyday Memory in Prehistoric Europe.

Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Reviews: American Journal of Archaeology 116.3, Archaeological Review

from Cambridge 26(1):151-156.

1995 The Origins of Complex Societies in Late Prehistoric Iberia. Ann Arbor, MI:

International Monographs in Prehistory.

Reviews: L’Anthropologie 100(4):606, American Antiquity 61(3):617-618,

Trabajos de Prehistoria 53(2):178-182, Antiquity 70 (June):478-480,

American Journal of Archaeology 100:609-610.

Digital Media

2016 Death and Life at Bolores and the Sizandro Valley, Portugal.

http://bolores.lib.uiowa.edu.

http://bolores.lib.uiowa.edu/


2004 The Engraved Stone Plaque Registry and Inquiry Tool (ESPRIT).

http://research2.its.uiowa.edu/iberian.

Review: Trabajos de Prehistoria 63(1):191-195.

Journal Articles

In prep. Recent developments in Iberian prehistory (invited article). Annual Reviews in

Anthropology.

2018 Twenty-five years of late prehistoric archaeology in the Iberian Peninsula.

Looking back, looking forward (invited review article). Trabajos de

Prehistoria 75(2):203-222.

2018 Blanco-González, A., Lillios, K.T. López-Sáez, J.A. and Drake, B.L. Cultural,

demographic and environmental dynamics of the Copper and Early Bronze Age

in Iberia (3300–1500 BC): Towards an interregional multiproxy comparison at

the time of the 4.2 ky BP event. Journal of World Prehistory 31(1):1-79. DOI:

10.1007/s10963-018-9113-3

2018 Olalde, I. Brace, S., Allentoft, M., Armit, I., Kristiansen, K., Rohland, N.,

Mallick, S., Booth, T., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Mittnik, A., Altena, E., Lipson,

M., Lazaridis, I., Patterson, N., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Diekmann, Y.,

Faltyskova, Z., Fernandes, D., Ferry, M., Harney, E., de Knijff, P., Michel,

M., Oppenheimer, J., Stewardson, K., Barclay, A., Alt, K., Avilés Fernández,

A., Bánffy, E., Bernabò-Brea, M., Billoin, D., Blasco, C., Bonsall, C.,

Bonsall, L., Allen, T., Büster, L., Carver, S., Castells Navarro, L., Craig, O.,

Cook, G., Cunliffe, B., Denaire, A., Dinwiddy, K., Dodwell, N., Ernée, M.,

Evans, C., Kuchařík, M., Francès Farré, J., Fokkens, H., Fowler, C.,

Gazenbeek, M., Garrido Pena, R., Haber-Uriarte, M., Haduch, E., Hey, G.,

Jowett, N., Knowles, T., Massy, K., Pfrengle, S., Lefranc, P., Lemercier, O.,

Lefebvre, A., Lomba Maurandi, J., Majó, T., McKinley, J., McSweeney, K.,

Balázs Gusztáv, M., Modi, A., Kulcsár, G., Kiss, V., Czene, A., Patay, R.,

Endrődi, A., Köhler, K., Hajdu, T., Cardoso, J.L., Liesau, C., Parker Pearson,

M., Włodarczak, P., Price, T.D., Prieto, P., Rey, P.-J., Ríos, P., Risch, R.,

Rojo Guerra, M., Schmitt, A., Serralongue, J., Silva, A.M., Smrcka, V.,

Vergnaud, L., Zilhão, J., Caramelli, D., Higham, T., Heyd, V., Sheridan, A.,

Sjögren, K.-G., Thomas, M., Stockhammer, P., Pinhasi, R., Krause, J., Haak,

W., Barnes, I., Lalueza-Fox, C., Hałuszko, A., Zanini, A., Bastida Ramírez,

A., Herrero-Corral, A.-M., Valenti, A., Rapiński, A., Neil, B., Heras

Martínez, C., Waddington, C., Keating, D., Kennett, D., Guerra-Doce, E.,

Carnieri, E., Candilio, F., Brown, F., Delibes, G., Brücken, G., Soriano, I.,

Dani, J., Desideri, J., Vega Miguel, J., Lillios, K., Lentini, L., Mackiewicz,

M., Besse, M., Brittain, M., Hoole, M., Luke, M., Dobeš, M., Furmanek, M.,

Cheronet, O., Velemínský, P., Flores Fernández, R., Mortimer, R., Menduiña

García, R., Tusa, S., Leach, S., Szeniczey, T., Harper, T., Galera Olmo, V.,

Bernert, Z. and Reich. D. The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic

transformation of Northwest Europe. Nature.

2017 Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Roth, C. Brandt, G., Rihuete Herrada, C., Tejedor-

Rodríguez, C., Held, P., García-Martínez-de-Lagrán, I., Arcusa Magallón, H.,

Zesch, S., Knipper, C., Bánffy, E., Friederich, S., Meller, H., Bueno Ramírez,

http://research2.its.uiowa.edu/iberian


P., Barroso Bermejo, R., de Balbín Behrmann, R., Herrero-Corral, A.M.,

Flores Fernández, R., Alonso Fernández, C., Jiménez Echevarria, J.,

Rindlisbacher, L., Oliart, C., Fregeiro, M.I., Soriano Llopis, I., Vicente, O.,

Micó, R., Lull, V., Soler Díaz, J., López Padilla, J.A., Jover Maestre, F.J.,

Lomba Maurandi, J., Avilés Fernández, A., Lillios, K.T., Maria Silva, A.M.,

Ramalho, M.M., Oosterbeek, L.M., Goncalves, V.M. dos, Cunha, C., Parreira,

R., Waterman, A., Roig Buxó, J., Martínez, A., Ponce Martínez, J., Hunt

Ortiz, M., Mejías-García, J.C., Pecero Espín, J., Cruz-Auñón Briones, R.,

Tomé, T., Carmona Ballestero, E., Cardoso, J.L., Araújo, A.C., Liesau von

Lettow-Vorbeck, C., Blasco Bosqued, C., Ríos Mendoza, P., Pujante, A.,

Pichler, S.L., Krause, J., Garrido-Pena, R., Kunst, M., Risch, R., Rojo-Guerra,

M.A., Haak. W., Alt, K.W. The maternal genetic make-up of the Iberian

Peninsula between the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age. Scientific

Reports: Nature 7:15644, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-15480-9.

2017 Irish, J.D., Lillios, K.T., Waterman, A.J. and Silva, A.M. ‘Other’ possibilities?

Assessing regional and extra-regional dental affinities of populations in the

Portuguese Estremadura to explore the roots of the Late Neolithic-Copper Age of

Iberia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 11:224-236.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.12.003

2017 Drake, B.L., Blanco-González, A., and Lillios, K.T. Regional demographic

dynamics in the Neolithic transition in Iberia: Results from summed calibrated date

analysis. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 24 (3): 796-812. DOI

10.1007/s10816-016-9286-y

2016 Bodies in space and time: Rethinking the Other in later Iberian prehistory. Setúbal

Arqueólogica 16:65-76.

2016 Lillios, K.T., Blanco-González, A., Drake, B.L., and López-Sáez, J.A. Mid-late

Holocene climate, demography, and cultural dynamics in Iberia: A multi-proxy

approach. Quaternary Science Reviews 135:138-153.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.01.011.

2016 Waterman, A.J., Lillios, K.T., Tykot, R.H., and Kunst, M. Environmental

change and economic practices between the third and second millennia BC using

isotope analyses of ovicaprid remains from the archaeological site of Zambujal

(Torres Vedras), Portugal. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 5:181-

189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.11.017.

2016 Mack, J., Waterman, A.J., Racila, A.-M., Artz, J.A., and Lillios, K.T. Applying

zooarchaeological methods to interpret mortuary behavior and taphonomy in

commingled burials: The case study of the Late Neolithic site of Bolores,

Portugal. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 26(3):524-536.

10.1002/oa.2443.

2015 Practice, process, and social change in third millennium BC Europe: A view

from the Sizandro Valley, Portugal. European Journal of Archaeology 77(2):

245-258.

2014 Lillios, K.T., Artz, J.A., Waterman, A.J., Mack, J., Thomas, J.T., Trindade, L.,

and Luna, I. The rock-cut tomb of Bolores (Torres Vedras): An interdisciplinary

approach to understanding the social landscape of the Late Neolithic/Copper Age

of the Iberian Peninsula. Trabajos de Prehistoria 71(2): 282-304.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.01.011

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.11.017

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oa.2443


2014 Horwath, B., Waterman, A.J., Lillios, K.T., and Irish, J. Assessing change in diet

and biological affinity between the 4th and 3rd millennia cal BCE in the

Portuguese Estremadura: A preliminary dental comparison of Feteira II and

Bolores. HOMO: Journal of Human Comparative Biology 65(2):87-100.

2013 Disciplining bodies, disciplining objects: Museum guards and the Museu

Etnológico Português (1893-1929). Museum Anthropology 36(1):51-65.

2010 Lillios, K.T., Waterman, A.J., Artz, J.A., and Josephs, R.L. The Neolithic-Early

Bronze Age mortuary rockshelter of Bolores, Torres Vedras, Portugal: Results

from the 2007 and 2008 excavations. Journal of Field Archaeology 35(1):16-36.

2009 Thomas, J.T., McCall, G., and Lillios, K.T. Revisiting the individual in

prehistory: Idiosyncratic engraving variation in the Neolithic slate plaques of the

Iberian Peninsula. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19(1):53-72.

2008 La memoria, la diosa madre y los ídolos placa de la Iberia Neolítica (Memory,

megaliths, and the engraved stone plaques of Neolithic Iberia). In Património

Megalítico. Boletín del Instituto Andaluz del Património Histórico, (PH 67).

L.G. Sanjuan, ed., Sevilla: Junta de Andalucía, pp. 62-67.

2004 Lives of stone, lives of people: Re-viewing the engraved plaques of Copper Age

Iberia. European Journal of Archaeology 7(2):125-158.

2002 Some new views of the engraved slate plaques of southwest Iberia. Revista

Portuguesa de Arqueologia 5(2):135-151.

2000 A biographical approach to the ethnogeology of late prehistoric Portugal.

Trabajos de Prehistoria 57(1):19-28.

2000 Read, C., Lillios, K.T., and Alves, F. The axe of the Obidos lagoon (Portugal) -

an uncommon find recovered during an underwater archaeological survey

(1999). Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia 3(1):5-14.

1999 Objects of memory: The ethnography and archaeology of heirlooms. Journal of

Archaeological Method and Theory 6(3):235-262.

1997 Amphibolite tools of the Portuguese Copper Age (3000-2000 BC): A

geoarchaeological study of prehistoric economics and symbolism.

Geoarchaeology 12(2):137-163.

1992 Phosphate fractionation of soils at Agroal, Portugal. American Antiquity

57(3):495-506.

Book Chapters

In press Idols of the Iberian Southwest: Histories, contexts, and practices. (Commissioned

chapter for catalogue of museum exhibition Ídolos. Miradas milenarias at Museo

Arqueológico Regional de Madrid). P. Bueno-Ramírez and J. Soler, eds.

2016 Andrew M.T. Moore: A life in service of archaeology and the academy. In Fresh

Fields and Pastures New: Papers Presented in Honor of Andrew M.T. Moore.

K.T. Lillios and M. Chazan, eds., Leiden: Sidestone Press, pp. 11-20.

2014 Crossing borders: Death and life in the Bronze Age of southern Iberia and North

Africa. In Cambridge Handbook of the Mediterranean World in the Bronze-Iron

Ages. A.B. Knapp and P. van Dommelen, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, pp. 554-570.


2011 Preface and Conclusions (Chapter 17). In Comparative Archaeologies: The

American Southwest (AD 900-1600) and the Iberian Peninsula (3000-1500 BC).

K.T. Lillios, ed. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. ix-xv and 277-291.

2010 Lillios, K.T. and Tsamis, V. Introduction. In Material Mnemonics: Everyday

Memory in Prehistoric Europe. K.T. Lillios and V. Tsamis, eds. Oxford: Oxbow,

pp. 1-9.

2010 Mnemonic practices of the Iberian Neolithic: The production and use of the

engraved slate plaque-relics. In Material Mnemonics: Everyday Memory in

Prehistoric Europe. K.T. Lillios and V. Tsamis, eds. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 40-72.

2009 Lillios, K.T., and Thomas, J.T. Speaking of stone, speaking through stone: An

exegesis of an engraved slate plaque from Late Neolithic Iberia. In Materialitas:

Working Stone, Carving Identity. B.V. O’Connor and G. Cooney, eds., Oxford:

Prehistoric Society Research Papers, pp. 138-146.

2008 Engaging memories of European prehistory. In Prehistoric Europe. A. Jones,

ed., Oxford: Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology, pp. 228-254.

2007 Minds on the move: Mobility and memory in Iberian prehistory. In On the Road.

Studies in Honour of Lars Larsson, B. Hårdh, K. Jennbert, and D. Olausson, eds.,

Acta Archaeologica Lundensia, No 26. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell

International, pp. 220-225.

2007 Crall, D., and Lillios, K.T. The Engraved Stone Plaque Registry and Inquiry

Tool (ESPRIT) and the windfalls and pitfalls of publishing online archaeological

databases. In The World is in Your Eyes: Computer Applications and

Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Proceedings of the 33rd Conference

(Tomar 2005), A. Figueiredo and G. Velho, eds. Tomar, pp. 111-117.

2006 Woods, A.D., and Lillios, K.T. Wearing stone: Experimental use-wear analysis

of the Iberian engraved slate plaques. In Simbolismo, Arte, e Espaços Sagrados

na Pré-história da Peninsula Ibérica. N.F. Bicho, ed., Actas do IV Congresso de

Arqueologia Peninsular (Faro, 14 a 19 de Setembro de 2004). Promontoria

Monográfica 05. Faro: Universidade do Algarve, pp. 29-37.

2006 Liminal animals, liminal people: The barn owl (Tyto alba) and the engraved

plaques of Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia. In Animais na Pré-história e

arqueologia da Península Ibérica. E. Weiss-Krejci, C. Duarte and J. Haws, eds.,

Actas do IV Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular (Faro, 14 a 19 de Setembro

de 2004). Promontoria Monográfica 03. Faro: Universidade do Algarve, pp. 27-

34.

2003 Late Neolithic/Copper Age Iberia. In Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, P.

Bogucki and P.J. Crabtree, eds., Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons,

pp. 456-463.

2003 Creating memory in prehistory: The engraved slate plaques of southwest Iberia.

In Archaeologies of Memory, R. Van Dyke and S. Alcock, eds., Oxford:

Blackwell, pp. 129-150.

2001 The European megalithic tradition; regional subtraditions of the British Isles,

France, Iberia, the central Mediterranean, and north-central Europe; and the sites

of Stonehenge, Skara Brae, Newgrange, Locmariaquer, Bougon, Barnenez,

Carnac, Tarxien, Los Millares, Anta Grande do Zambujeiro. In Encyclopedia of

Prehistory, P.N. Peregrine and M. Ember, eds. New York: Plenum, pp. 157-184.


1999 Symbolic artifacts and spheres of meaning: Groundstone tools from Copper Age

Portugal. In Material Symbols: Culture and Economy in Prehistory, J. Robb, ed.

Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations, pp. 173-187.

1998 Groundstone tools, competition, and fission: The transition from the Copper to

Bronze in the Portuguese lowlands. In Encounters and Transformations: The

Archaeology of Iberia in Transition, M.S. Balmuth and L. Prados Torreira, eds.

Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic

Press, pp. 25-32.

1997 The third millennium BC in Iberia: Chronometric evidence for settlement

histories and socio-cultural change. In Third Millennium BC Abrupt Climate

Change and Old World Social Collapse. H. N. Dalfes, G. Kukla, and H. Weiss,

eds. NATO/ASI Series. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 173-191.

1997 Read, C., Grapes, R., and Lillios, K.T. Petrography and Chemical Analyses of

Prehistoric Amphibolite Artefacts from Portugal and Possible Source Rocks

from Western Iberia. Analytical Facility Publication No. 19. Wellington, New

Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press.

1995 Nationalism and Copper Age research during the Salazar regime (1932-1974). In

Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology. P.L. Kohl and C.

Fawcett, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 57-69.

1995 The historiography of late prehistoric Portugal. In The Origins of Complex

Societies in Late Prehistoric Iberia, K. Lillios, ed. Ann Arbor, MI: International

Monographs in Prehistory, pp. 7-19.

1995 The potentials of phosphate analysis in understanding settlement territory and

land use during the Portuguese Chalcolithic. In Origens, Estruturas e Relações

das Culturas Calcolíticas da Peninsula Ibérica. Actas das 1as Jornadas

Arqueologicas de Torres Vedras, 1987. Torres Vedras: Câmara Municipal de

Torres Vedras, pp. 77-81.

1993 Regional settlement abandonment at the end of the Copper Age in the lowlands

of west-central Portugal. In Abandonment of Settlements and Regions: Ethno-

archaeological and Archaeological Approaches, C. Cameron and S. Tomka, eds.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 110-120.

1993 Agroal and the Early Bronze Age of the Portuguese lowlands. Actas do Io

Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular, Trabalhos de Antropologia e Etnologia

33(3-4):261-281.

1991 Results from the second season of excavations at Agroal (1989). Boletim da

Câmara Municipal de Tomar 14:103-123.

Book Reviews

In press O Arqueólogo Cordial. Rui Gomes Coelho (Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências

Sociais). Journal of Historical Archaeology.

2018 European Archaeology as Anthropology: Essays in Memory of Bernard Wailes.

Pam J. Crabtree and Peter Bogucki, eds. (Philadelphia: University of

Pennsylvania Press. 2017). Journal of Anthropological Research 74(2):270-272.

2017 Montelirio: Un gran monumento megalítico de la Edad de Cobre, A. Fernández

Flores, L. García Sanjuán, and M. Díaz-Zorita Bonilla. eds. (Sevilla: Junta de

Andalucía. 2016). Antiquity 91(359):1394-1396.


2017 Clairvaux et le “Néolithique Moyen Bourguignon,” Volume 1 and 2. P.

Pétrequin and A.-M. Pétrequin, eds. (Besançon, France: Presses Universitaires de

Franche-Comté. 2015). Journal of Anthropological Research 73(2):282-284.

2016 The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman and Medieval Europe,

M. Díaz-Guardamino, L. García Sanjuán, and D. Wheatley, eds. (Oxford: Oxford

University Press. 2015). Trabajos de Prehistoria 73(2):385-386.

2015 Review article of: Material Relations: The Marriage Figurines of Prehispanic

Honduras, J.A. Hendon, R. A. Joyce, and J. Lopiparo (Boulder, University Press

of Colorado. 2014), and Maya Figurines: Intersections Between State and

Household, C. T. Halperin (Austin: University of Texas Press. 2014). Antiquity

89:228-230.

2015 Religion at Work in a Neolithic Society: Vital Matters, I. Hodder, ed.

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2014). American Anthropologist

117(1):189-190.

2013 Jade: Grandes haches alpines du Néolithique européen, P. Pétrequin, S. Cassen,

M. Ererra, L. Klassen, A. Sheridan, and A.-M. Pétrequin, eds. (Besançon:

Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté; Gray: Centre de Recherche

Archéologique de la Vallée de l'Ain. 2012), Journal of Anthropological Research

69:564-565.

2013 The Prehistory of Iberia. Debating Early Social Stratification and the State,

M.C. Berrocal, L.G. Sanjuán, and A. Gilman, eds. (New York: Routledge. 2013),

Cambridge Archaeological Journal 23(3):556-557.

2013 Funerary Practices in the Iberian Peninsula from the Mesolithic to the

Chalcolithic, J. F. Gibaja Bao, A.F. Carvalho and P. Chambon, eds. (Oxford:

British Archaeological Reports. 2012), European Journal of Archaeology

16(4):154-158.

2012 Between Art and Artifact: Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in

Oaxaca, Mexico, R.L. Brulotte (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2012),

Journal of Anthropological Research 68(4):554-555.

2012 Religion, Death, and Dying, L. Bregman, ed. (3 volumes, Denver, CO: Praeger

Perspectives. 2010), Religious Studies Review 38(2):70-71.

2012 Landscapes of Neolithic Brittany, C. Scarre (Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2011), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 18:456-468.

2012 Interpreting Ancient Figurines. Context, Comparison, and Prehistoric Art, R.G.

Lesure (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2011), Cambridge

Archaeological Journal 22(2):291-292.

2011 An Archaeology of the Senses, R. Skeates (Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2010), European Journal of Archaeology 14(1):153-156.

2011 Archaeological Ethnographies, special issue of Public Archaeology (vol. 8, nos.

2-3, August. 2009), Y. Hamilakis and A. Anagnostopoulos, eds.,

Ethnoarchaeology: Journal of Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Experimental

Studies 3(1):107-109.

2010 Body and Image: Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 2., C. Tilley

(Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. 2008), Journal of Anthropological

Research 66:298-300.


2009 Memory Work: Archaeologies of Material Practices, B.J. Mills and W.H.

Walker, eds. (Santa Fe: SAR Press. 2008), American Anthropologist 111(2):257-

258.

2009 Dinâmicas locais de identidade: estructuração de um espaço de tradição no 3o

milénio AC (Fornos de Algodres, Guarda), A.C. Valera (Fornos de Algodres:

Município de Fornos de Algodres. 2007), Trabajos de Prehistoria 66(1):180-

181.

2009 Land, Power and Prestige: Bronze Age Field Systems in Southern England, D.T.

Yates (Oxford: Oxbow Press. 2007), Journal of Anthropological Research

65(1):129-131.

2007 Interacting with the Dead: Perspectives on Mortuary Archaeology for the New

Millennium, G.F.M. Rakita, J.E. Buikstra, L.A. Beck, and S.R. Williams, eds.

(Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2005), American Ethnologist

34(3):3042-3045.

2001 Social Transformations in Archaeology: Global and Local Perspectives, K.

Kristiansen and M. Rowlands (New York: Routledge. 1998), Journal of

Anthropological Research 57(2):239-240.

2001 Human Impact on Ancient Environments, C.L. Redman (Tucson: University of

Arizona Press. 1999), American Antiquity 66(2):382.

1993 Iberia Before the Iberians: The Stone Age Prehistory of Cantabrian Spain, L.G.

Straus (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 1992), American

Anthropologist 95(2):479-480.

1990 Spain at the Dawn of History, R.J. Harrison (New York: Thames and Hudson.

1989), American Journal of Archaeology 74(1):157-158.

Non-refereed Reports

2013 Lillios, K.T., Artz, J.A., Waterman, A.J. Mack, J., and Racila, A.-M.

Archaeological Excavations at the Artificial Cave of Bolores (Torres Vedras,

Portugal), 2012 Season. Report submitted to the Ministério de Cultura, Portugal

(summary in Portuguese). 200+ pages.

2011 Lillios, K.T., Artz, J.A., and Waterman, A.J. Archaeological Excavations at the

Artificial Cave of Bolores (Torres Vedras, Portugal), 2010 Season. Report

submitted to the Ministério de Cultura, Portugal (summary in Portuguese). 200+

pages.

2009 Lillios, K.T., Trindade, L., Willman, L., and Waterman, A. Neolithic-Bronze

Age Funerary Sites Between the Alcabrichel and Sizandro Rivers: Survey and

Testing. Report submitted to the Ministério de Cultura, Portugal (summary in

Portuguese). 20 pages.

2009 Lillios, K.T., Artz, J.A., Waterman, A.J., and Willman, J. Bolóres (Torres

Vedras) rockshelter: Preliminary report of the 2008 excavations. Report

submitted to the Ministério de Cultura, Portugal (summary in Portuguese). 53

pages.

2008 Lillios, K.T., Artz, J.A., Kendall, B., Waterman, A.J., and Willman, J. Bolóres

(Torres Vedras) rockshelter: Preliminary report of the 2007 excavations. Report

submitted to the Ministério de Cultura, Portugal (summary in Portuguese). 91

pages.


FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

External

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, “Prehistoric Archaeology of the

Iberian Peninsula: The Making of a Cultural Mosaic.” 2016-2018 ($50,400)

National Science Foundation Research Grant, “Assessing the Role of Ecological Change on

Economic and Demographic Transformations Between the Late Neolithic and

Early Bronze Age in the Sizandro River Valley, Portugal,” 2012-2015, with 1

year no-cost extension. P.I. K.T. Lillios, Co-P.I. J.A. Artz ($235,534)

Archaeological Institute of America, Archaeology of Portugal Fund Fellowship, for study of

engraved stone plaques of Neolithic Portugal, 2002 ($6,665)

Archaeological Institute of America, Archaeology of Portugal Fund Grant, for collaborative

study with Caroline Read (Monash University, Australia), of groundstone tools

from Copper Age sites in Portugal, 1999 ($7,950)

National Science Foundation Research Grant, “Amphibolite Exchange and Social

Complexity in Copper Age Portugal: Phase 1- Source Characterizations and

Analyses of Archaeological Assemblages,” 1994 ($18,560)

American Philosophical Society Grant-in-Aid, to support study of amphibolite tool

exchange in late prehistoric Portugal, 1994 ($2,000)

American Philosophical Society Grant-in-Aid, to support study of amphibolite tool

exchange in late prehistoric Portugal, 1993 ($3,000)

Wenner-Gren Foundation Predoctoral Grant: The Copper to Bronze Age Transition in the

Nabão Valley, Portugal, 1989 ($7,000)

Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid: Nabão Valley Archaeological Survey, 1989 ($600)

Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid: Land Use at Agroal, Portugal, 1987 ($300)

Luso-American Educational Commission travel grant, to present paper at Primeiras

Jornadas Arqueológicas de Torres Vedras, Portugal, 1987 ($464)

External (as Collaborator)

2016 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia/Foundation for Science and Technology,

Portugal. Origins of the Beaker Culture: Testing the Neolithic expansion

hypothesis using ancient and modern mtDNA. P.I. Martin Richards (University

of Huddersfield, UK). €198.264,00.

Internal (University of Iowa)

2019 Book Subvention Funds, Office of the Vice President for Research, for

Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula: From the Paleolithic through the Early

Bronze Age ($2500)

2018 Global Research Partnership Award ($10,000), to develop collaboration with Dr.

Luis Benítez de Lugo and excavations at Bronze Age site of Castillejo del

Bonete (Terrinches, Ciudad Real)

2018 International Project Special Projects grant, to bring Dr. Rui Gomes Coelho

(Rutgers) as colloquium speaker ($500)


2018 International Programs Travel Grant, for library research in Madrid ($700)

2013 Conference Travel Support, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, to present

paper at American Anthropological Association meeting ($1,000)


paper at the Society for American Archaeology meeting ($1,300)

2011 Curriculum Development Grant, to support visit of Portuguese archaeologist R.

Boaventura ($500)

2011 Student Technology Fee Grant, to support anthropological information systems

and spatial analysis lab in Macbride Hall ($52,012)

2011 ICRU Fellow Academic Year grant, Bog Body Politics: A Comparative Study of

Archaeological Approaches and Public Reactions to Prehistoric Bog Bodies in

Ireland, England, and Denmark, Student: T. Burk ($2,500)


paper at Society for American Archaeology meeting ($1,200)

2010 International Programs Travel Grant, for archaeological fieldwork in Portugal

($1,000)

2010 Study Abroad Grant, to develop Study Abroad program: Archaeological

Excavation at the Neolithic Burial Site of Bolóres, Portugal ($3,000)

2009 Curriculum Development Grant, to support Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula

(113:130) in purchase of library books and visit of Portuguese archaeologist J.

Zilhão ($1,500)

2009 Stanley International Programs-Obermann Center Research Fellowship:

Population Nucleation and Collapse in Late Prehistoric Portugal: A View from

the Mortuary Site of Bolóres (Torres Vedras) ($3,000)

2008 ICRU Fellow Academic Year grant, Dental Evidence for Biological Affinity in

Neolithic Portugal: An Analysis of Two Neolithic Burial Sites, Student: B.

Horwath ($2,500)

2008 International Programs Travel Grant, to conduct archaeological fieldwork in

Portugal ($500)

2008 ICRU Fellow Academic Year grant, Excavations at Bolores, Portugal, Student:

J. Willman ($2,500)

2008 Book Subvention Funds, Office of the Vice President for Research, to prepare

index for Heraldry for the Dead: Memory. Identity, and the Engraved Stone

Plaques of Neolithic Iberia ($850)

2008 International Programs Travel Grant, to present paper at Society for American

Archaeology meetings in Vancouver, BC ($500)

2007 Social Sciences Funding Program (SSFP) Award, for Preliminary Excavation of

the Late Neolithic Burial Site of Bolóres (Torres Vedras), Portugal ($50,000)

2007 International Programs Travel Grant, to present paper at Materialitas conference,

in Dublin, Ireland ($700)

2005 Obermann Summer 2006 Research Seminar, Comparative Archaeologies: The

American Southwest (AD 900-1600) and the Iberian Peninsula (3000-1500 BC),

Co-directed with W.M. Graves (Anthropology) ($45,000)

2004 Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant to prepare The Engraved Stone Plaque

Registry and Inquiry Tool (ESPRIT) for publication on-line ($7,490)


2004 Ida Beam Visiting Professor grant, to support visit of S. James (Leicester, UK),

Co-sponsored with R. Moore (Classics/History)

2004 International Programs Travel Grant ($500)

HONORS AND AWARDS

Research

2018 Corresponding Member of the Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (DAI)

2011-2012 Archaeology of Portugal Lecturer, Archaeological Institute of America

2008 Scholar, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, The University of Iowa

Teaching

2015 Champion for Student Success, Academic Support and Retention

2002 May Bumby Severy Award for Excellence in Teaching, Ripon College

INVITED SYMPOSIA AND LECTURES

2018 What is Portuguese Archaeology? Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses.

Lisbon. April 4.

2018 Beyond Heraldry: The Engraved Plaques of Neolithic Iberia. Sociedade

Geográfica de Lisboa. April 5.

2015 Getting to Know You: Individuals and Social Difference in the Iberian

Prehistoric Past. Ripon College, Ripon, WI. October 30.

2014 Archaeology of Prehistoric Iberia: The State of The Field (Archaeology of

Iberia: State of the Field, L. Gosner and A. Smith, co-organizers), Brown

University, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Providence, RI. February 27-

March 1.

2014 Biographies and Practices at the Third-Second Millennia BC Mortuary

Rockshelter of Bolores (Torres Vedras). Departamento de Antropologia,

Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. April 3.

2014 The Rock-Cut Tomb of Bolores (Torres Vedras): An Interdisciplinary Approach

to Understanding the Social Landscape of the Late Neolithic/Copper Age of the

Portuguese Estremadura. Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon, Portugal.

April 1.

2014 Biographies, Practices and Social Change: multiscalar research at the Late

Neolithic-Early Bronze age collective burial of Bolores, Portugal. Núcleo de

Arqueologia e Paleoecologia da Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal. March

26.

2014 The Lives and Times of the Bolores Dead: Excavations at the Late

Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Artificial Cave of Bolores, Torres Vedras, Portugal.

Departamento de Arqueologia, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain. March 25.

2013 Disciplining Bodies, Disciplining Objects: Museum Guards and the Museu

Etnológico Português (1893-1929). University of Wisconsin-Madison. Oct. 4.


2012 Marks, Art, or Writing? The Engraved Plaques of Neolithic Iberia (Signum Mark

Studies Conference, J. Pim and O. Perrin, co-organizers). Stockholm, Sweden.

October 18-19.

2012 Everyday Practices of Museum Guards in the Early History of the Museu

Etnológico Português (1893-1929). University of Leicester, UK. October 16.

2012 Disciplining Bodies, Disciplining Objects: Museum Guards and the Museu

Etnológico Português (1893-1929). Cambridge Heritage Research Group

Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK. October 15.

2012 Memory Matters: The Social Lives of Objects and the Dead in the Third and

Second Millennia BC of Portugal. Hartford Society of the Archaeological

Institute of America, Trinity College, Hartford, CT. April 9.

2012 Heraldry for the Dead: The Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia. Lubbock

Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, University of Texas-

Lubbock. March 21.

2012 Memory Matters: The Social Lives of Objects and the Dead in the Third and

Second Millennia BC of Portugal. Los Angeles County Society of the

Archaeological Institute of America, Los Angeles, CA. January 29.

2010 Interdisciplinary Excavations at the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age

Rockshelter of Bolóres, and The Engraved Slate Plaques of Neolithic Iberia.

Associação Leonel Trindade, Torres Vedras, Portugal. July.

2008 Histories in Prehistory? The Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia.

Archaeological Institute of America, Iowa City Society. February.

2007 Speaking of Stone, Speaking Through Stone: An Exegesis of an Engraved Slate

Plaque from Late Neolithic Iberia (Materialitas: Working Stone, Carving

Identity, G. Cooney and B.V. O'Connor, co-organizers). University College,

Dublin.

2004 Prehistoric Memories: Analyses of the Engraved Stone Plaques of Copper Age

Iberia. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. April.

2003 Re-Viewing and Re-Thinking the Engraved Plaques of Iberia. Association of

Portuguese Archaeologists, Lisbon, Portugal. In Portuguese. July.

2003 New Perspectives on the Engraved Plaques of Iberia. German Archaeological

Institute, Madrid, Spain. June.

2003 What Did the Engraved Plaques of Late Prehistoric Iberia Mean? Portland,

Oregon Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America Lecture. March.

2003 Writing Without Words? Re-viewing and Rethinking the Engraved Plaques of

Copper Age Iberia. Yale University, Department of Anthropology. January .

2002 Lives of Stone Tools in Late Prehistoric Portugal. Cotsen Institute of

Archaeology. University of California, Los Angeles. February.

2002 New Interpretations of the Iberian Slate Plaques. Cotsen Institute of

Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles. January 2002.

2002 Some New Views of the Iberian Slate Plaques. Instituto Português de

Arqueologia. Lisbon, Portugal. January.

2002 Lives of Stone Tools in Late Prehistoric Portugal. Seminar in History and

Archaeology. Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa. Lisbon, Portugal.

January.


2000 Objects of Sentimentality and Subversion, or Why Heirlooms Matter? University

of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Anthropology. January.

1998 Objects of Memory: The Archaeology of Heirlooms. Archaeological Institute of

America, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. May.

1998 Objects of Memory: The Archaeology of Heirlooms. Archaeological Institute of

America, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. January.

1997 Stone Tools in Prehistoric New Zealand. Victoria University of Wellington,

School of Maori Studies. Wellington, New Zealand. November.

1996 The Social Life of Groundstone Tools in Copper Age Portugal. University of

Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Anthropology. November.

1996 Stones of the Ancestors: Amphibolite Axes of Copper Age Portugal. University

of Sydney, Department of Anthropology. Sydney, Australia. July.

1996 Stones of the Ancestors: Amphibolite Axes of Copper Age Portugal. The

Australian National University, Department of Anthropology. Canberra,

Australia. July.

1995 An Axe to Grind: Slate Plaques of Late Prehistoric Portugal. University of

Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Anthropology. October.

1995 Amphibolite Tools of Copper Age Portugal: Sourcing, Technology, and

Exchange. University of Otago, Department of Anthropology. Otago, New

Zealand. June.

1995 Power Tools of the Portuguese Copper Age. University of Auckland, Department

of Anthropology. Auckland, New Zealand. July.

1994 Power Tools: Amphibolite Exchange in the Portuguese Copper Age.

Northwestern University, Department of Anthropology. Evanston, IL. January.

1993 Resource Selection and Groundstone Artifacts of the Portuguese Copper Age: A

Contextual Approach to Prehistoric Technology. University of Wisconsin,

Madison. Department of Anthropology. October.

1993 Portuguese Nationalism and Copper Age Research during Salazar's Regime.

University of Connecticut, Department of Anthropology, Storrs, CT. October.

1992 Social Fragmentation in Late Prehistoric Portugal: A Journey to the Dark Side of

Cultural Evolution. Brandeis University, Department of Anthropology. Waltham,

MA. March.

1990 Phosphate Analysis at the Site of Agroal. Escola Superior de Tecnologia de

Tomar. Tomar, Portugal. In Portuguese. August.

1986 Recent Thoughts on the Portuguese Chalcolithic. Museu Nacional de

Arqueologia e Etnologia. Lisbon, Portugal. In Portuguese. December.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

International

2018 Lillios, K.T. and P. Díaz-del-Río. Introduction to the Life and Career of Antonio

Gilman, for session Political Matters in Prehistory: Papers in Honor of Antonio

Gilman Guillén. 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of

Archaeologists, Barcelona, Spain. September 5-8.


2018 Lillios, K.T. and S.E. Kohring. Memory and Mimetic Practices in Ancient

Iberia: The Engraved Plaques and Bell Beakers. 24th Annual Meeting of the

European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona, Spain. September 5-8.

2017 Moving Bodies Over Space and Time: Multiscalar Analyses and Critical

Reflections. 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of

Archaeologists, Maastricht, Netherlands. September 1.

2017 Bodies at Contact Zones: Museum Guards, Customs and Immigration Agents,

and the Nation. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Toronto, CA. May

18-20.

2015 Lillios, K.T., A. Blanco-González, B.L. Drake, and A. López-Sáez. Assessing the

4.2 kya event in the Iberian Peninsula and its Relationship to Culture Change

Using a Large Dataset of Radiocarbon Dates and Associated Delta 13C Values.

21st Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Glasgow,

Scotland. September.

2015 Blanco-González, A., B.L. Drake, and K.T. Lillios. The Onset of Agriculture in

Early Neolithic Iberia (5500-3500 cal BC). Fresh Research lines from Summed

Probability Radiocarbon Distributions. 21st Annual Meeting of the European

Association of Archaeologists, Glasgow, Scotland. September.

2014 Lillios, K.T., J. Mack, J.A. Artz, A.J. Waterman, B. Horwath, and L.N. Stutz.

Biographies, Practices, and Social Change: Multiscalar Research at the Late

Neolithic-Early Bronze Age Collective Burial of Bolores, Portugal. 20th Annual

Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Istanbul, Turkey.

September.

2006 Colonizing Portugal: Tensions in Creating the Portuguese Prehistoric Past. Union

Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques Meeting, Lisbon,

Portugal. September.

2006 Crafting Memories of the Iberian Neolithic. Union Internationale des Sciences

Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal. September.

2005 Crall, D. and K.T. Lillios. The Engraved Stone Plaque Registry and Inquiry Tool

(ESPRIT) and the Windfalls and Pitfalls of Publishing Online Archaeological

Databases. Computer Applications in Archaeology Congress, Tomar, Portugal.

March.

2004 Nationalism, Normal Science and the Historiography of the Engraved Plaques of

Iberia. Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular, Faro. Portugal. September.

2004 Liminal Animals, Liminal People: The Barn Owl (Tyto alba) and the Engraved

Plaques of Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia. Congresso de Arqueologia

Peninsular, Faro. Portugal. September.

2004 Lillios, K.T. and C. Read. Vila Nova de São Pedro and Its Role in the Trade of

Amphibolite during the Copper Age. Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular,

Faro, Portugal. September.

2002 Madonna, Mother Goddesses, and Ambiguity in Visual Culture: Re-viewing the

Engraved Slate Plaques of Iberia. 8th Annual Meeting of the European

Association of Archaeologists, Thessaloniki, Greece. September.

2000 Stones of the Ancestors: Axes as Heirlooms? 6th Annual Meeting of the

European Association of Archaeologists, Lisbon, Portugal. September.


1993 Agroal and the Early Bronze Age of the Portuguese Lowlands, Io Congresso de

Arqueologia Peninsular, Porto, Portugal. September.

1989 The Hilltop Settlement of Agroal, 5º Encontro Internacional de Tomar, Portugal.

In Portuguese. July.

1987 The Potentials of Phosphate Analysis in the Understanding of Settlement

Territory and Land Use in the Portuguese Chalcolithic, Ias Jornadas

Arqueológicas de Torres Vedras, Portugal. April.

National

2016 Theft and Other Unsociable Extremes: Alternative Mobilities of the Iberian Slate

Plaques. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Boulder, CO. April 22-24.

2016 Lillios, K.T., J.D. Irish, A.J. Waterman, and A.M. Silva. Regional and Extra-

regional Dental Affinities of Populations Between the Late Neolithic and Copper

Age in the Portuguese Estremadura. 85th Meeting of the American Association

of Physical Anthropologists, Atlanta, GA. April 12-16.

2016 Lillios, K.T., J.D. Irish, A.J. Waterman, and A.M. Silva. Demographic and

Cultural Dynamics of the Portuguese Estremadura in the 4th-3rd Millennia BC:

A Multi-Proxy Approach. 81st Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology, Orlando, FL. April 6-10.

2014 Waterman, A.J., R.H. Tykot, J.T. Thomas, D.W. Peate, and K.T. Lillios. An

Investigation of Human Dietary and Mobility Patterns at the Late Neolithic

Burials of Bolores Using Isotopic Analyses. 79th Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology, Austin, TX. April.

2014 Practice, Process, and Social Change in Third Millennium BC Europe: The Role

of Collective and Commingled Burials. 79th Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology, Austin, TX. April.

2014 Mack, J., J.A. Artz, and K.T. Lillios. Landmark Quantification and the

Taphonomy of the Late Neolithic Rock-Cut Tomb of Bolores, Portugal. 79th

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX. April.

2014 Artz, J.A., J. Mack, and K.T. Lillios. Seeking Individuals in Commingled

Human Remains Using GIS and Osteological Landmarks: Collective Burials

from Bolores, a Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age Mortuary Site in Torres Vedras,

Portugal. Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

January 5.

2013 Heraldry for the Dead, Messages for the Living: Contextualizing the Engraved

Plaques of Neolithic Iberia. American Anthropological Association Meeting,

Chicago, IL. November 24.

2013 Practice, Process, and the End of Collective Burials in the European Neolithic.

Theoretical Archaeology Group, Chicago, IL. May.

2012 Gatekeepers to the Past: Museum Guards, Archaeology, and the Early History of

the Museu Etnológico Português (1893-1929). 8th Meeting of the American

Portuguese Studies Association, Iowa City, IA. October.

2012 Lillios, K.T., and E. Weiss-Krejci. Strangers on a Train: Individuals, Collective

Burials, and Temporality. 77th Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology, Memphis, TN. April.


2011 Interpreting Variability in Late Neolithic Burials in the Sizandro-Alcabrichel

River Valleys. 76th Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,

Sacramento, CA. April.

2010 Museum Guards and the History of Portuguese Archaeology. 75th Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, MO. April.

2009 Excavations at the Neolithic-Bronze Age Burial of Bolóres (Torres Vedras,

Portugal): A Contribution Toward the Study and Analysis of Collective Tombs.

74th Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA. April.

2008 Portuguese Archaeology and Its Colonial Legacy. Encompassing the Globe:

Portuguese Contact, Exchange, and Heritage. University Iowa, April.

2008 Societies Against the State, or the Failure of the State in Iberian Prehistory. 73rd

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC. March.

2008 Waterman, A.J., J. Willman, and K.T. Lillios. Health Status and Diet of the

Human Population at the Late Neolithic Collective Burial of Bolóres (Torres

Vedras), Portugal: Preliminary Results. Poster. 73rd Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC. March.

2008 Waterman, A.J., Willman, J., and K.T. Lillios. The Late Neolithic collective

burial of Bolores (Torres Vedras), Portugal: Preliminary results. Abstract

published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 218.

2007 Body/Object Boundaries in the Neolithic of the Iberian Peninsula. 106th Annual

Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC.

November.

2007 Lillios, K.T. and J.T. Thomas. Engaging Artists in Prehistory: An Application of

the Morellian Method to the Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia. 108th

Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. San Diego, CA.

January.

2005 The Application of GIS Toward Understanding the Function and Meaning of the

Engraved Stone Plaques of Late Prehistoric Iberia. 106th Annual Meeting of the

Archaeological Institute of America. Boston, MA. January.

2003 The Engraved Plaques of Copper Age Iberia: Form, Structure, Context, Patterns

…Meaning? 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological

Association, Chicago, IL. November.

2002 Memory Specialists in Prehistory: A New Interpretation of the Engraved Slate

Plaques of Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia. 101st Annual Meeting of the

American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA. November 2002.

2002 Were the Engraved Slate Plaques of Late Neolithic and Copper Age Portugal

Genealogical Reckoning Systems? 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology, Denver, CO. March 2002.

2001 The Engraved Slate Plaques of Late Prehistoric Portugal - Depictions of Heraldic

Textiles? 19th Annual Conference on Textiles. Decorah, IA. June.

2001 Apprehending Memory in the Prehistoric Past: Heirlooms of Ancient Portugal.

102nd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. San Diego,

CA. January.

1997 Heirlooms, Personhood, and Death in the Copper Age of Portugal. 62nd Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, TN. April.


1996 Anthropological Narratives of Social Collapse: Contradictions between Theory

and Practice. American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA.

November.

1996 Amphibolite, Axes, and Ancestors: the Role of Groundstone Tools as Heirlooms

in Late Prehistoric Portugal. Midwest European Archaeological Diaspora

(MEAD). The University of Iowa. October.

1996 The Mute Stones Speak: Geoarchaeological Evidence for Differential Access to

Amphibolite Tools during the Portuguese Copper Age. 61st Annual Meeting of

the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA. April.

1996 Symbolic Artifacts and Spheres of Meaning: Groundstone Axes from Copper

Age Portugal. Material Symbols: Culture and Economy in Prehistory, 13th

Annual SIU Visiting Scholar Conference, Carbondale, IL. February.

1995 Snyder, H. and K.T. Lillios. The Petrology of Amphibolite Groundstone: A

Petrochemical Approach to Understanding the Procurement, Distribution, and

Technology of a Lithic Resource in Copper Age Portugal. Northeastern Section

of the Geological Society of America, Cromwell, CT. April.

1994 Lillios, K.T. and H. Snyder. The Study of Amphibolite Tools of the Portuguese

Copper Age: A Geoarchaeological Approach to Prehistoric Technology, Science

in Archaeology: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach to Studying the Past,

Harvard University. October.

1994 Lillios, K.T. and H. Snyder. Resource Selection and Groundstone Artifacts of

the Portuguese Copper Age: A Contextual Approach to Prehistoric Technology,

59th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, CA.

April.

1991 European Nationalism and the Historiography of the Portuguese Copper and

Bronze Ages. Social Complexity in Late Prehistoric Iberia, Invited Session,

American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL. November.

1991 Groundstone Tools, Competition, and Fission: The Copper to Bronze Age

Transition in the Lowlands of West-Central Portugal, New Perspectives in

Western Mediterranean Archaeology. Tufts University. October.

1990 Competition to Consolidation: the Third to Second Millennium BC Transition in

the Lowlands of West Central Portugal, 55th Annual Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology, Las Vegas, NV. April.

Media Appearances and Commentaries

2012 Interviewed for audio podcast on the archaeology of heirlooms for textbook: 3rd

edition of World Prehistory and Archaeology, by M. Chazan (Pearson

Publishers).

2011 Interviewed for Iowa Alumni Magazine article: “Rites of Passage”, by K. Howe,

December 2011, pp. 31-35.

http://www.iowalum.com/magazine/digital/dec11.cfm

2011 Interviewed for story on World Trade Center relics for Cedar Rapids Gazette,

September 9. http://thegazette.com/tag/katina-lillios/

2003 Interviewed for BBC Brasil, “Placas de xisto revelam mistérios sobre cultura

ibérica” (Slate plaques reveal mysteries of Iberian culture). July 7.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/ciencia/story/2003/07/030707_portugal.shtml.

http://www.iowalum.com/magazine/digital/dec11.cfm


2003 Interviewed for article in major Portuguese newspaper O Publico, on engraved

plaques research, “Placas de xisto gravadas do Alentejo e Algarve podem ser o

mais antigo sistema heráldico do mundo” (The engraved slate plaques of the

Alentejo and the Algarve could be the oldest heraldic system in the world). July

4. http://www.publico.pt/ciencias/jornal/placas-de-xisto-gravadas-do-alentejo-e-

algarve-podem-ser-o-mais-antigo-sistema-heraldico-do-mundo-203036.

TEACHING (at The University of Iowa)

Students Supervised

Degree Student Years Role Outcome

a. Ph.D. Addison Kimmel 2016- Committee Member in progress

Sonia García Pérez 2013- Co-Supervisor in progress

(Univ. de Sevilla, Spain)

Kyle Harvey 2013-16 Committee Member left program

Tawny Tibbitts (E&ES) 2012-16 Committee Member Graduated

Meredith Anderson 2010-17 Co-Chair left program

Christian Haunton 2010-17 Committee Member Graduated

Sarah Trabert 2010-15 Committee Member Graduated

Alissa Whitmore 2009-13 Committee Member Graduated

Keelin Baine 2008-14 Co-Chair Graduated

Jonathan T. Thomas 2007-14 Chair Graduated

(Lecturer, Department of Rhetoric, University of Iowa)

Anna Waterman 2006-12 Co-Chair Graduated

(Associate Professor, Biology, Mount Mercy University)

Emmanuel Lillios (Ed.) 2004-10 Committee Member Graduated

Erik Filean 2004-06 Committee Member Graduated

b. M.A. Victoria Priola 2018- Chair In progress

Christie Vogler 2012-13 Committee Member Completed

Theodore Marks 2010-11 Committee Member Completed

Briana Horwath

(U Alaska, Fairbanks) 2009-12 Committee Member Graduated

Christopher Kimsey 2009-10 Committee Member Graduated

Jonathan T. Thomas 2006-07 Chair Completed

Anna Waterman 2005-06 Co-Chair Completed

Angela Collins 2005-06 Committee Member Graduated

Meredith Anderson 2005-06 Committee Member Completed

Erica Begun 2004-06 Co-Chair Completed

Diego Schoch (Dance) 2004-05 Committee Member Graduated

Alexander D. Woods 2004-05 Committee Member Completed

c. Ind. Keelin Baine 2009 Instructor Completed

http://www.publico.pt/ciencias/jornal/placas-de-xisto-gravadas-do-alentejo-e-algarve-podem-ser-o-mais-antigo-sistema-heraldico-do-mundo-203036

http://www.publico.pt/ciencias/jornal/placas-de-xisto-gravadas-do-alentejo-e-algarve-podem-ser-o-mais-antigo-sistema-heraldico-do-mundo-203036


Studies- Anna Waterman 2009 Instructor Completed

Graduate Jonathan T. Thomas 2008 Instructor Completed

Anna Waterman 2008 Instructor Completed


Jonathan Thomas 2007 Instructor Completed

Jonathan Thomas 2006 Instructor Completed


Grant McCall 2005 Instructor Completed

d. Ind. Lily Doershuk 2014 Instructor Completed

Studies- Lily Doershuk 2013 Instructor Completed

Undergrad Katherine Lazzara 2013 Instructor Completed

Laurie Rickels 2011 Instructor Completed

Peter Gillon 2010 Instructor Completed

Sara Moore 2010 Instructor Completed

John Willman 2009 Instructor Completed

Briana Horwath 2008 Instructor Completed

Krista Dotzel 2008 Instructor Completed

Michael Thompson 2004 Instructor Completed

e. Honors Ana-Monica Racila 2012-13 Supervised Completed

Teah Burk 2011-12 Supervised did not complete

Krista Dotzel 2008-09 Supervised Completed

Briana Horwath 2008-09 Supervised Completed

Kelly Wilhelm 2006-07 Supervised Completed

Michael Thompson 2005 Supervised Completed

f. IS Senior Ashley Hollingshead 2009 Supervised Completed

Project Aaron Schlumbohm 2008-09 Supervised Completed

g. Lab Laura Ruebling 2013 (F) Supervised Completed

Practicum Katie Thompson 2013 (Sp) Supervised Completed

Laura Ruebling 2013 (Sp) Supervised Completed

Ana-Monica Racila 2012 Supervised Completed

Laurie Rickels 2011 Supervised Completed

Sara Moore 2009-10 Supervised Completed

Brandi Bowers 2009 Supervised Completed

Laura Stulken 2007 Supervised Completed

Jacob Rosenberg 2006 Supervised Completed

SERVICE

Professional Committees


2018- Member, Advisory Board for Spal. Revista de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la

Universidad de Sevilla.

2017- Escoural (Portugal) Cave Project, Board of Advisors

2016- International advisory board member. Setúbal Arqueológica, Portugal

2016 External referee, Dr. Andrew Jones, University of Southampton, UK

2014-2015 Member, Review Committee of the German Archaeological Institute, Madrid

2014-2015 Member, Advisory Board for Trabajos de Prehistoria, flagship journal for

Iberian archaeology, published by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones

Científicas, Madrid

2013- Member, Editorial Board for ph investigación, cultural heritage journal

published by the Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico

2012-2014 Chair, Society for American Archaeology Dissertation Award

2012-2017 Member, Archaeological Institute of America Gold Medal Award Committee

2012-2013 Member, Archaeological Institute of America Cotsen Excavation Fund

Committee

2011 Founding member of Signum, The International Society for Mark Studies

2011 Founding member of Re:marks, Journal of the International Society for Mark

Studies

2010- Member, Advisory Committee of the Fundación Pozuelo para el Estudio y

Difusión del Megalitismo

2010- Member, Advisory Board of Menga, International Journal of Andalusian

Prehistory

2008-10 President, Iowa Society of the Archaeological Institute of America

2006 Permanent Council Member, Union International de Sciences Pré- et

Protohistoriques

2006-2008 Secretary, Iowa Society of the Archaeological Institute of America

2005-2008 Member, Program for the Annual Meeting Committee. Archaeological Institute

of America

1999-2002 Translator, Instituto Português de Arqueologia. Translated abstracts in Revista

Português de Arqueologia (journal) and Trabalhos de Arqueologia (monograph

series) from Portuguese to English.

1999-2000 Member, Organizing Committee, European Archaeological Association Annual

Meeting (Lisbon, Portugal)

Journal Manuscript Reviews

I have reviewed articles submitted to: Antiquity, American Antiquity, Current Anthropology,

Journal of Field Archaeology, Journal of Social Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, e-

Keltoi, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Journal of Archaeological Method

and Theory, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Journal of Archaeological Science,

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology,

American Journal of Archaeology, World Art, European Journal of Archaeology, PLOS

ONE, Trabajos de Prehistoria, Menga, Archaeometry, International Journal of

Osteoarchaeology, Open Archaeology, American Journal of Archaeology


Grant Proposal Reviews

I have reviewed grant proposals submitted to the: National Science Foundation, National

Endowment for the Humanities, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and National Geographic

Society.

Conference Session Chair or Organizer

2018 Political Matters in Prehistory: Papers in Honor of Antonio Gilman Guillén, co-

organized with P. Díaz-del-Río, European Archaeological Association Meeting

(Barcelona, Spain). September 5-8.

2017 Book Presentation in Honor of Andrew M.T. Moore, co-organized with M.

Chazan. Archaeological Institute of America Meeting (Toronto, Canada).

January

2016 Unfair Trades and Unwilling Travellers: Alternative Mobilities of Things,

People, and Animals in the Past, Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference,

Boulder, CO. April 22-24.

2012 Collective Burials, Collective Identities? Society for American Archaeology

Meeting (Memphis, TN)

2011 From Moments to Millennia: Multiscalar Analyses of the Neolithic-Early Bronze

Age Mortuary Landscape of Torres Vedras, Portugal, Society for American

Archaeology Meeting (Sacramento, CA)

2006 Material Mnemonics in European Prehistory, Union Internationale des Sciences

Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques Meeting (Lisbon)

2003 Writing Without Words: Anthropological Approaches to Semasiographic

Systems, American Anthropological Association Meeting (Chicago, IL)

2000 Recent Approaches to the Study of Groundstone Tools, co-organized with T.

Orozco-Köhler, European Archaeological Association Meeting (Lisbon,

Portugal)

1991 Social Complexity in Late Prehistoric Iberia (3000-1000 BC, American

Anthropological Association Meeting (Chicago, IL)

Department Administration

2019 Chair, Fifth Year Review Committee for M. Hill

2018-2019 Chair, Department Diversity Committee

2017 Member, Third Year Review Committee for T. Powers

2017 Member, Tenure Review Committee for A. Kitchen

2017 Member, Fifth Year Review Committee for R. Ciochon

2016-2017 Chair, Departmental Review Committee

2016-2017 Chair, Department Diversity Committee

2016 Chair, Fifth Year Review Committee for E. Prussing

2016 Faculty Advisor, Anthropology Department Newsletter

2015 Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee for L. Graham

2015 Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee for E. Wentzell

2015 Chair, Fifth Year Review Committee for S. Schnell

2015 Member, Third Year Review Committee for E. Buch

2015 Faculty Advisor, Anthropology Department Newsletter

2013 Director of Undergraduate Studies


2013 Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee for M.E. Hill

2013 Member, Third Year Review Committee for E. Wentzell

2013 Member, Curriculum Committee (spring)

2012 Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee for M. Beck

2012 Chair, Review Committee for M.E. Hill

2012 Department Representative, Hawkeye Visit Day

2010-2011 Member, Search Committee, for Medical Anthropologist

2010-2011 Member, Museum Studies Committee

2011 Department Representative, Hawkeye Visit Day

2009-2012 Director of Graduate Studies, The University of Iowa, Department of

Anthropology

2007-2008 Member, Colloquium Committee

2006-2007 Member, Search Committee, for North American Archaeologist

2006 Departmental Representative, CLAS Commencement, December

2006 Member, Departmental Consulting Group, for Promotion and Tenure of M.

Khandelwal (Anthropology)

2004-2008 Member, Teaching Resources Committee

2004-2006 Chair, Colloquium Committee

2003-2004 Member, Space and Equipment Committee

2003-2004 Museum Committee

2003-2004 Faculty Assembly Alternate Representative

2003-2013 Member, Graduate Admissions Committee (Archaeology)

2003 Department Representative for Open House at Belin-Blank Center for Gifted

and Talented Education

Department Presentations

2017 Writing about One Million Years of Iberian History: Why and How? UI

Anthropology Pub Talk. December 13.

2017 Grant-writing for the National Endowment for the Humanities. UI

Anthropology Graduate Student Brown Bag. October 20.

2017 Climate, Demography, and Culture Change in the Copper and Bronze Ages

of the Iberian Peninsula. UI Anthropology Club. April 5.

2016 Unfair Trades and Unwilling Travellers: Alternative Mobilities of Things,

People, and Animals in the Past. UI Anthropology Graduate Student Brown

Bag Series. April 15.

2015 The Research Process: Cycle or Spaghetti? UI Anthropology Club. October

21.

2013 The Ins and Outs of Applying to Graduate School. UI Anthropology Club.

November 12.

2013 Disciplined Bodies, Disciplined Objects, and the Early History of the

Museu Etnológico Português (1893-1929). UI Anthropology Graduate

Student Brown Bag Series. October.

2013 Excavations at the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age Artificial Cave of

Bolores. What Have We Learned? What Do We Hope to Learn? UI

Anthropology Graduate Student Brown Bag Series. February.


2010 Archaeology as a Career, to student members of the UI Archaeology Club, at

Office of the State Archaeologist, November.

2010 The Social Lives of Dead Bodies in the Third and Second Millennia BC of

the Portuguese Estremadura. Department of Anthropology Colloquium

Lecture. October.

2007 Understanding Deathways - and Lifeways - at the Neolithic Site of Bolóres,

Portugal: Project Goals and (Very) Preliminary Results, for Anthropology

Graduate Student Brown Bag Series. October.

College Committee Service

2018-2019 Member, Collegiate Consulting Group

2016 Member, Nominating Committee for Faculty Assembly

2015 Member, Review Committee for Career Development Awards

2010-2012 Member, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Instructional Technology

Committee

2008 Member, Review Team for the School of Journalism and Mass

Communication

2007 Member, Peer Review Committee for G. Storey (Classics)

2007-2010 Elected Member of Faculty Assembly

College Presentations

2017 The characterization and sourcing of amphibolite tools in ancient Iberia, in

Archaeological Methods (ANTH: 3208), taught by M. Beck. October 18.

2017 The Iberian slate plaques as a writing system, in The Invention of Writing

(ANTH 2248), taught by S. Gölz. Sept. 19.

2016 The Iberian Neolithic plaques as writing, in Scripts, Glyphs, Characters, and

Codes: Adventures in the History of Writing from Cuneiform to Computers

(HONR:167), taught by S. Gölz.

2016 When Did Religion Begin?, in RELS:5200 - Graduate course on Varieties of

Religion in the Contemporary World, taught by M. Schlütter

2013 The Bolores excavations, in First Year Seminar, Archaeology, taught by J.

Doershuk.


Doershuk


Doershuk

2011 What the Dead Can Teach Us About the Living?, in Learning about Living

About the Dead, First Year Seminar taught by M. Bern-Klug.

2008 with B. Kendall on Geoarchaeological Investigations at Bolores, Portugal, for

Quaternary Brown Bag Series, Department of Geoscience. April.

2005 Memories in Space: The Mapping and Geographic of Analysis of Engraved

Stone Plaques of Prehistoric Portugal and Spain, Department of

Geography. February.

University Committees

2016-2017 Member, Charter Committee on Diversity


2013 Panelist, Research@Iowa Orientation, organized by the Office for the VP for

Research and Economic Development

2013 Member, Graduate College Ballard Seashore Review Committee

2012-2013 Member, Obermann Center Advisory Board

2011 Member, Graduate College Focus Group for Evaluation of Presidential

Graduate Fellowships

2011 Member, Selection Committee for Obermann Summer Seminar Director

2010 Member, Search Committee for Assistant Director of Obermann Center for

Advanced Studies

2010-2013 Panelist, Study Abroad Scholarship Committee

2010-2013 Member, Family Issues Charter Committee

2007-2010 Member, Charter Committee on Diversity

2009 Reviewer, Social Sciences Funding Program (SSFP) Awards

2008 Reviewer, Social Sciences Funding Program (SSFP) Awards

2007-2008 Iowa Faculty Investing in Recruiting Student Talent (IowaFIRST)

2007 Reviewer, International Programs Summer Research Fellowships and

Curriculum Development awards

2006-2008 Director, European Studies Group, The University of Iowa, International

Programs

2006 Member, Student Speaker Search Committee

2006 Reviewer, Fulbright Campus Review Committee

2005 Reviewer, Arts and Humanities Initiative Grants

2005 Reviewer, Stanley Grants

2004-2005 Member, European Studies Lecture Committee

2004 Judge of submissions to James F. Jakobsen Conference

University Presentations

2014 Diversity in the Prehistoric Past: Archaeological Excavations at the Neolithic

Site of Bolores, Portugal, for European Studies Group Brown Bag Series.

April 11.

2013 Space, Social Change, and Identity in Neolithic and Bronze Age Portugal.

GIS-a-palooza Day. April.

2010 Disciplinarians, Docents, Diggers, and Dusters: Museum Guards and the

Early History of the Museu Etnográfico Português (1893-1929). Office of the

State Archaeologist. October.

2008 Memory and Identity in Neolithic Iberia, for European Studies Group Brown

Bag Series. April.

2006 with A. Martins (Cultural Heritage Commission, Lisbon, Portugal), on

‘Colonizing Portugal: Portuguese Archaeology and Its Colonial Legacy,’ for

European Studies Group. October.

2006 Memories Etched in Stone: The Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia.

Office of the State Archaeologist. April.

2004 What is Europe to a European Prehistorian? in ‘What is Europe?’, European

Studies Group workshop.


Community Presentations

2017 Death and Mortuary Practices in the Ancient Past. Scattergood Friends

School. May 17.

2016 Funerary Practices in Prehistoric Iberia: A View from the Site of Bolores,

Portugal. Oaknoll Retirement Residence. December 20.

2015 Provided expert advice on case of illegal trafficking of Iberian antiquities

2015 Interviewed by 6th grade Foote School (CT) student for project on Portugal

2015 Interviewed by West High student for essay on cultural responses to death

2014 Archaeological Excavations at Bolores, Portugal. 2 presentations at the

Nathan Bishop Middle School, Providence, Rhode Island. February 28.

2013 Job-shadowed by two New London (Iowa) high school students. May.

2011 Presentation on the engraved stone plaques of Neolithic Iberia:

Experimental archaeology, for National Archaeology Day, Iowa City

Archaeology Fair. October. Reported in Iowa City Press Citizen, October 24.

2010 The Neolithic, Shimek Elementary School, Iowa City. October.

2009 The Archaeology of Social Collapse: A View from the Neolithic-Early

Bronze Age Mortuary Site of Bolóres, Portugal, International Mondays

Lecture Series, Iowa City Public Library. March 2009.

2008 Presentations on bones and archaeology to elementary school children from

the Shimek and Mann Schools, Iowa City. October 2008.

2003 Series of lectures: Great Debates in Archaeology, Institute for Learning in

Retirement, Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, CT (spring)

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