Curator of North American Archaeology, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology (Emeritus)
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218-A West Hall, 1085 S. University Ave, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1107
Highlighted Work and Publications
Could Neanderthals Boil?
John D. Speth
Name of Periodical: PaleoAnthropology
Year of Publication: 2014
The Importance of Iran’s Paleolithic Record for Unraveling Key Issues in Human Evolution
John D. Speth
Name of Periodical: International Journal of the Society of Iranian Archaeologists
Volume Number: 1
Year of Publication: 2014
Page Numbers: 10-26
Thoughts About Hunting: Some Things We Know and Some Things We Don’t Know
John D. Speth
Name of Periodical: Quaternary International
Volume Number: 297
Year of Publication: 2013
Page Numbers: 176-185
Early Paleoindian Big-Game Hunting in North America: Provisioning or Politics?
John D. Speth, Khori Newlander, Andrew A. White, Ashley K. Lemke, Lars E. Anderson
Name of Periodical: Quaternary International
Volume Number: 285
Year of Publication: 2013
Page Numbers: 111-139
Spatial Organization of Middle Paleolithic Occupation X in Kebara Cave (Israel): Concentrations of Animal Bones
John D. Speth, Liliane Meignen, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Paul Goldberg
Name of Periodical: Quaternary International
Volume Number: 247
Year of Publication: 2012
Page Numbers: 85-102
Bison Hunting and the Emergence of Plains-Pueblo Interaction in Southeastern New Mexico: The View from Rocky Arroyo and Its Neighbors
John D. Speth, Laura Staro
Name of Periodical: The Artifact
Volume Number: 50
Year of Publication: 2012
Page Numbers: 1-44
Middle Paleolithic Subsistence in the Near East: Zooarchaeological Perspectives—Past, Present, and Future
John D. Speth
Name of Periodical: Before Farming
Volume Number: 2
Issue Number: 1
Year of Publication: 2012
Page Numbers: 1-45
Boiling vs. Roasting in the Paleolithic: Broadening the “Broadening Food Spectrum"
John D. Speth
Name of Periodical: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society
Volume Number: 40
Year of Publication: 2010
Page Numbers: 63-83
Zooarchaeology and Modern Human Origins: Human Hunting Behavior during the Later Pleistocene
Jamie L. Clark, John D. Speth (editors)
Publisher: Springer
Year of Publication: 2013
Location: New York, NY
The Paleoanthropology and Archaeology of Big-Game Hunting: Protein, Fat, or Politics?
John D. Speth
Publisher: Springer
Year of Publication: 2010
Location: New York, NY
Human Paleoecology in the Levantine Corridor
Naama Goren-Inbar, John D. Speth (editors)
Publisher: Oxbow Press
Year of Publication: 2004
Location: Oxford, England
37. Life on the Periphery: Economic Change in Late Prehistoric Southeastern New Mexico
John Speth (editor)
Dramatic economic changes transformed an isolated 13th-century village of farmer-hunters in the arid grasslands of southeastern New Mexico into a community heavily engaged in long-distance bison hunting and intense exchange with the Puebloan world to the west. Individual chapters consider the procurement and use of bison, antelope, deer, dogs, rabbits, rodents, birds, molluscs, and fish; the importance of maize; changing patterns of fuel use; flaked and groundstone tools; and the ceramics which saw a sudden influx of pottery from as far afield as west-central New Mexico, southeastern...
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