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Dr. John Shea

E-mail

John.Shea@sunysb.edu

Position and Institution

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
State University of New York, Stony Brook

Current Excavation

working in East Africa and Southwest Asia

Specialties

Paleolithic Archaeology, Lithics/Stone Tools, Paleoanthropology

Former Excavations

Recent Excavations (since 1995):
  Ubediya, Israel (Early Paleolithic)
  Ar Rasfa, Jordan (Middle Paleolithic)
  Omo Kibish, Ethiopia (Middle Paleolithic)

Other Information

website:
    http://www.sunysb.edu/anthro/Shea%20webpage/index.html

Publications:
  2001. The Middle Paleolithic: Early Modern Humans and Neanderthals in the Levant Near Eastern Archaeology 64 (1-2): 38-71.

 

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