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CURRICULUM VITAE: Stanley H. Ambrose

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Department of Anthropology 217-244-3504 (office & lab)

University of Illinois 217-244-3490 (fax)

109 Davenport Hall ambrose@illinois.edu

607 South Mathews Avenue

Urbana, Illinois 61801 USA

EDUCATION AND DEGREES

BA, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, May 1977

MA, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, June 1981

PhD, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, May 1984

Dissertation title: Holocene Environments and Human Adaptations in the Central Rift Valley, Kenya. Glynn Ll. Isaac and J. Desmond Clark, advisors.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2003- Professor, Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana.

1991-03 Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana.

1985-91 Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana.

1984-85 Post-Doctoral Scholar, Earth and Planetary Sciences, U. California, Los Angeles.

OTHER ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS

2016 Institute for Genomic Biology, Molecular Microbiome Engineering, U. Illinois Urbana

2012 Department of Geology, University of Illinois, Urbana.

2003- Program in Ecology, Conservation and Evolutionary Biology, U. Illinois, Urbana.

2002- Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana.

1985- Center for African Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana.

PUBLICATIONS Google Scholar profile. h-index 54, i10 index 95

BOOKS

2007. Leslea Hlusko, Stanley H. Ambrose and Mwanzia D. Kyule, (eds), Lemudong’o – Paleontology, Geology and Paleoecology of a Terminal Miocene Formation in Southwest Kenya. Kirtlandia 57. 179 pp.

2003. John Krigbaum and Stanley H. Ambrose (eds), Bone Chemistry and Bioarchaeology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 22 (3):191-304.

2000. Stanley H. Ambrose and M. Anne Katzenberg (eds), Biogeochemical Approaches to Paleodietary Analysis. Advances in Archaeological and Museum Science. Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York. 261 pp.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS AND EDITED PROCEEDINGS

2019 Ambrose, S.H. Chronological calibration of Late Pleistocene modern human dispersals, climate change and archaeology with geochemical isochrons. In Modern Human Origins and Dispersal. Hugo Reyes-Centeno, Yonatan Sahle and Christian Bentz (eds). DFG Center for Advanced Studies. University of Tübingen, Germany. Kerns Verlag, Tübingen, pp. 171-213.

2016. Fort, M.A., Hedman, K.M., Ambrose, S.H. Stable isotope analysis of diet in a sample of human bone. In Dale L. McElrath and Madeleine G. Evans (eds), The Tree Row Site. A late Archaic habitation and mortuary site in the central Illinois Valley. Illinois State Archaeological Survey, Report No. 38, pp. 215-221.

2015. Schapiro, B., Ambrose, S.H. On the origins of propaganda: Bio-cultural and evolutionary perspectives on social cohesion. In Michael Grabowski (ed.), Neuroscience and Media: New understandings and representations. Routledge, NY, pp. 108-132.

2012. Ambrose, S.H. Obsidian hydration dating and source exploitation studies in Africa. In Ioannis Liritzis and Christopher M. Stevenson, (eds), The Dating and Provenance of Obsidian and Ancient Manufactured Glasses. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, pp. 56-72.

2009. Balasse, M., Upex, B., Ambrose, S.H. The influence of environmental factors on enamel hypoplasia in domestic sheep and goats in southern Kenya Masailand. In Gisela Grupe, George McGlynn and Joris Peters (eds) Tracking Down the Past; Ethnohistory meets archaeozoology. (Documenta Archaeobiologiae 7). Verlag Marie Leidorf GmnH, Rahden/Westfalia, pp. 17-36.

2009. Su, D.F., Ambrose, S.H., DeGusta, D., Haile-Selassie, Y. Paleoenvironment. In Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel (eds), Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 521-547.

2008. WoldeGabriel, G. Gilbert, W.H., Hart, W.K., Renne, P.R., Ambrose, S.H. Geology and geochronology. In W. Henry Gilbert and Berhane Asfaw (eds) The Daka Member: A Unique Window into the Pleistocene of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 13-43.

2007. Ambrose, S.H. Raiders of the lost Art: Implications of rock art forgery at Lukenya Hill, Kenya, for cultural and natural heritage protection strategies. In Janette Deacon (ed.), The Future of Africa’s Past: Proceedings of Rock Art Conference, 2004, Nairobi. Trust for African Rock Art, Nairobi, pp. 106-111.

2007. Beehr, D.E., Ambrose, S.H. Reconstructing Mississippian diet in the American Bottom with stable isotope ratios of pot sherd residues. In Hans Bernard and Jelmer E. Eerkens (eds), Theory and Practice of Archaeological Residue Analysis. British Archaeological Reports S1650. Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 189-199.

2007. Barnard, H., Ambrose, S.H., Beehr, D.E., Forster, M.E, Lanehart, R.E., Malainey, M.E., Parr, R.E., Rider, M., Solazzo, C., Yohe. R. II. Mixed results of seven methods for residue analysis applied to one vessel with the residue of a known a known foodstuff. In Hans Bernard and Jelmer E. Eerkens (eds), Theory and Practice of Archaeological Residue Analysis. British Archaeological Reports S1650. Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 200-215.

2007. Beehr, D., Ambrose, S.H. Were they what they cooked? Stable isotopic analysis of Mississippian pottery residues. In Katherine Twiss (ed), We Are What We Eat: Archaeology, Food, and Identity. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, pp. 171-191.

2003. Ambrose, S.H. Population bottleneck. In R. Robinson (ed) Genetics, volume 3. Macmillan Reference, New York, pp. 167-171.

2002. Ambrose, S.H. Small things remembered: Origins of early microlithic industries in Subsaharan Africa. In Robert Elston and Steven Kuhn (eds), Thinking Small: Global Perspectives on Microlithic Technologies. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 12, pp. 9-29.

2001. Jim, S., Stott, A.W., Evershed, R.P., Rogers, J.M., Ambrose, S.H. Animal feeding experiments in the development of cholesterol as a paleodietary indicator. In Andrew Millard (ed.), Archaeological Sciences '97. BAR (International Series) 939. Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 68-77.

2001. Ambrose, S.H. Middle and Later Stone Age settlement patterns in the central Rift Valley, Kenya: Comparisons and contrasts. In Nicholas Conard (ed), Settlement Dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. Kerns Verlag, Tübingen, pp. 21-43.

2001. Ambrose, S.H. East African Neolithic. In Peter N. Peregrine & Melvin Ember (eds), Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Vol. 1, Africa. Kluwer Academic, New York, pp. 97-109.

2000. Rampino, M.R., Ambrose, S.H. Volcanic winter in the Garden of Eden: The Toba super-eruption and the Late Pleistocene human population crash. In Floyd W. McCoy and Grant Heiken (eds), Volcanic Hazards and Disasters in Human Antiquity. Geological Society of America Special Paper 345:71-82.

2000. Ambrose, S.H. Controlled diet and climate experiments on nitrogen isotope ratios of rat bone collagen, hair and muscle. In Stanley H. Ambrose and M. Anne Katzenberg (eds), Biogeochemical Approaches to Paleodietary Analysis. Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, pp. 243-259.

1998. Ambrose, S.H. Prospects for stable isotopic analysis of Later Pleistocene hominid diets in West Asia and Europe. In Takeru Akazawa, Kenichi Aoki and Ofer Bar-Yosef (eds), Origin of Neanderthals and Modern Humans in West Asia. Plenum Press, NY, pp. 277-289.

1997. Ambrose, S.H. African Neolithic. In J.O. Vogel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa: Archaeology, history, languages, culture and environments. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, CA, pp. 381-385.

1993. Ambrose, S.H. Isotopic analysis of paleodiets: Methodological and interpretive considerations. In M.K. Sandford (ed.) Investigations of Ancient Human Tissue: Chemical analyses in anthropology. Gordon and Breach Scientific, NY, pp. 59-130.

1993. Ambrose, S.H., Norr, L. Isotopic composition of dietary protein and energy versus bone collagen and apatite: purified diet growth experiments. In Joseph Lambert and Gisela Grupe (eds), Molecular Archaeology of Prehistoric Human Bone. Springer, Berlin, pp. 1-37.

1990. Ambrose, S.H., Lorenz, K.G. Social and ecological models for the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa. In Paul Mellars (ed.), The Emergence of Modern Humans. An archaeological perspective. Edinburgh U. Press, Edinburgh, pp. 3-33.

1987. Ambrose, S.H. Chemical and isotopic techniques of diet reconstruction in Eastern North America. In William F. Keegan (ed.), Emergent Horticultural Economies of the Eastern Woodlands. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Carbondale, IL. Occasional Paper No. 7, pp. 87-107.

1984. Ambrose, S.H. The introduction of pastoral adaptations to the central highlands of East Africa. In J.D. Clark and S.A. Brandt (eds), From Hunters to Farmers: Considerations of the causes and consequences of food production in Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 212-239.

1982. Ambrose, S.H. Archaeology and linguistics in East Africa. In Christopher Ehret and Merrick Posnansky (eds), The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 104-157.

1980. Ambrose, S.H., Hivernel, F., Nelson, C.M. The taxonomic status of the Kenya Capsian. In Bethwell A. Ogot and Richard E. Leakey (eds), Proceedings of the Eighth Pan-African Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies, Nairobi, pp. 248-252.

1980. Ambrose, S.H. Elmenteitan and other late Pastoral Neolithic adaptations to the central highlands of East Africa. In Bethwell A. Ogot and Richard E. Leakey (eds), Proceedings of the Eighth Pan-African Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies, Nairobi, pp. 279-282.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

Submitted. (2019). Zipkin, A.M., Ambrose, S.H., Lundstrom, C.C. Bartov, G., Dwyer, A. Taylor, A.H. Red rock to green glass: Borate fusion methods for solid state elemental analysis of ochres. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.

Submitted (2019). Prendergast, M.E., Lipson, M., Sawchuk, E.A., Olalde, I., Ogola, C., Sirak, K.R., Mallick, S., Rohland, N., Bernardos, R., Adamski, N., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Callan, K., Culleton, B., Harper, T., Lawson, A-M., Mah, M., Oppenheimer, J., Stewardson, K., Zalzala, F., Ambrose, S.H., Ayodo, G., Cohen, M.N., Gates, H.L., Jr., Gidna, A., Katongo, M., Kwekason, A., Mabulla, A., Ndiema, E., Nelson, C.M., Robertshaw, P., Kennett, D., Manthi, F.K., Reich, D. Ancient DNA reveals a multi-step spread of the first herders into Sub-Saharan Africa. Science. (accepted after review).

Submitted (2019). Janzen, A., Balasse M., Ambrose, S.H. Early pastoral mobility and seasonality in Kenya sssessed through stable isotope analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science.

Submitted (2018). Wright, D.K., MacEachern, S., Ambrose, S.H. Iron Age landscape changes in the Benoué River Valley, Cameroon. Quaternary Research.

2019. Larmon, J.T., McDonald, H.G., Ambrose, S.H., DeSantis, L.R.G., Lucero, L.J. A year in the life of a giant ground sloth during the Last Glacial Maximum in Belize. Science Advances 5: eaau1200.

2018. Madden, G., Arnold, E.A., Karsten, J., Ambrose, S.H. Evaluating models of competition and conflict among western Ukraine Neolithic farmers with stable isotope analyses of human teeth. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 21:897-903

2018 Marshall, F., Reid, R.E.B., Goldstein, S., Storozum, M., Wreschnig, A., Kiura, P., Shahack-Gross, R., Ambrose, S.H. Ancient herders enriched and restructured African grasslands. Nature 581:387-390.

2018. Brooks, A.S., Yellen, J.E., Potts, R., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Deino, A.L., Leslie, D.E., Ambrose, S.H., Ferguson, J, d’Errico, F., Zipkin, A.M., Whittaker, S., Post, J., Veatch, E.G., Foecke, K., Clark, J.B.). Long-distance stone procurement and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age. Science 360: 90-94.

2017. Zipkin, A. M., Ambrose, S. H., Hanchar, J. M., Piccoli, P. M., Brooks, A. S., Anthony, E. Y. Elemental fingerprinting of Kenya Rift Valley ochre deposits for provenance studies of rock art and archaeological pigments. Quaternary International 430: 42-59.

2016. Katoh, S., Beyene, Y., Itaya, T., Hyodo, H., Hyodo, M., Yagi, K., Gouzu, C., WoldeGabriel, G., Hart, W.K., Ambrose, S.H., Nakaya, H., Bernor, R.L., Boisserie, J.-R., Bibi, F., Saegusa, H., Sasaki, T., Sano, K., Asfaw, B., Suwa, G. New geological and palaeontological age constraint for the gorilla-human lineage split. Nature 530:215-218.

2015. Suwa, G., Beyene, Y., Nakaya, H., Bernor, R.L., Boisserie, J.-R., Bibi, F., Ambrose, S.H., Sano, K., Katoh, S., Asfaw, B. Newly discovered cercopithecid, equid and other mammalian fossils from the Chorora Formation, Ethiopia. Anthropological Science 123(1):19-39.

2013. Brookman, T.H., Ambrose, S.H. Kangaroo tooth enamel oxygen and carbon isotope variation on a latitudinal transect in southern Australia: implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Oecologia 171:403-416.

2012. Brookman, T.H., Ambrose, S.H. Seasonal variation in kangaroo tooth enamel oxygen and carbon isotope ratios in southern Australia. Quaternary Research 78:256-265.

2012. Brandt, S.A., Fischer, E.C., Hildebrand, E.A., Vogelsang, R., Ambrose, S.H., Lesur, J., Wang, H. Early MIS 3 occupation of Mochena Borago rockshelter, southwest Ethiopian highlands: Implications for Late Pleistocene archaeology, paleoenvironments and modern human dispersals. Quaternary International 274:38-54.

2010. Williams, M.A.J., Ambrose, S.H., van der Kaars, S., Ruehlmann, C., Chattopadhyaya, U., Pal, J., Chauhan, P. Reply to the Comment on ‘Environmental impact of the 73 ka Toba super-eruption in South Asia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 296:204-211.

2010. Haslam, M., Clarkson, C., Petraglia, M., Korisettar, R., Jones, S., Shipton, C., Ditchfield, P., Ambrose, S.H. The 74 ka Toba super-eruption and southern Indian hominins: archaeology, lithic technology and environments at Jwalapuram Locality 3. Journal of Archaeological Science 37:3370-3384.

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2010. Wang, H., Ambrose, S.H., Hedman, K.M., Emerson, T.E. AMS 14C dating of human bones using sequential pyrolysis and combustion of collagen. Radiocarbon 52:157-163.

2009. Williams, M.A.J., Ambrose, S.H., van der Kaars, S., Ruehlmann, C., Chattopadhyaya, U., Pal, J., Chauhan, P. Environmental impact of the Toba mega-eruption inferred from paleosol carbonate stable isotopes in central India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 284:295-314.

2009. White, T.D., Ambrose, S.H., Suwa, G., Su, D.F., DeGusta, D., Bernor, R.L., Boisserie, J.R., Brunet, M., Delson, E., Frost, S., Garcia, N., Giaourtsakis, I.X., Haile-Selassie, Y., Howell, F.C., Lehmann, T., Likius, A., Pehevan, C., Saegusa, H., Semprebon, G., Teaford, M., Vrba, E. Macrovertebrate paleontology and the Pliocene habitat of Ardipithecus ramidus. Science 326:87-93.

2009. WoldeGabriel, G, Ambrose, S.H., Barboni, D., Bonnefille, R., Bremond, L., Currie, B., DeGusta, D., Hart, W.K., Murray, A.M., Rennie, P.R., Jolly-Saad, M.C., Stewart, K.M., White, T.D. The geological, isotopic, botanical, invertebrate, and lower vertebrate surroundings of Ardipithecus ramidus. Science 326:65E1-E5.

2008. Coleman, M.E., Ferguson, J.R., Glascock, M.D., Robertson, D.J., Ambrose, S.H. A new look at the geochemistry of obsidian from East Africa. International Association of Obsidian Studies Bulletin 39:11-14.

2008. Shahack-Gross, R., Simons, A., Ambrose, S.H. Identification of pastoral sites using stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes from bulk sediment samples: a case study in modern and archaeological pastoral settlements in Kenya. Journal of Archaeological Science 35:983-990.

2008. Corr, L., Richards, M.P., Jim, S., Ambrose, S.H., Mackie, A., Beattie, O., Evershed, R.P. Multi-molecular and isotope dietary fingerprint of Kwäday Dän Ts’inchi, an ancient glacier body. Journal of Archaeological Science 35:2102-2110.

2007. Ambrose, S.H., Nyamai, C.M., Mathu, E.M, Williams, M.A.J. Geology, geochemistry and stratigraphy of the Lemudong’o Formation, Kenya Rift Valley. Kirtlandia 57:53-64.

2007. Ambrose, S.H., Kyule, M.D., Hlusko, L. History of paleontological research in the Narok District of Kenya. Kirtlandia 57:1-37.

2007. Deino, A.L., Ambrose, S.H., 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Lemudong’o late Miocene fossil assemblages, southern Kenya Rift. Kirtlandia 57:65-71.

2007. Ambrose, S.H., Bell, C.J., Bernor, R.L., Boisserie, J.-R., Darwent, C.M., DeGusta, D., Deino, A.L., Garcia, N., Haile-Selassie, Y., Head, J.J., Howell, F.C., Kyule, M.D., Manthi, F.K., Mathu, E.M., Nyamai, C.M., Pickford, M., Saegusa, H., Stidham, T., Williams, M.A.J., and Hlusko, L.H. The paleoecology and paleogeographic context of Lemudong’o Locality 1, a Late Miocene terrestrial fossil site in southern Kenya. Kirtlandia 57:38-52.

2007. Price, T.D., Ambrose, S.H., Bennike, P., Heinemeier, J., Noe-Nygaard, N., Brinch Petersen, E., Petersen, V.P., Richards, M.P. New information on the Stone Age graves at Dragsholm, Denmark. Acta Archaeologica 78:193-219.

2007. Barnard, H., Ambrose, S.H., Beehr, D.E., Forster, M., Lanehart, R.H., Malainey, M.E., Rider, M., Solazzo, C., and Yohe. R. Mixed results of seven methodologies for archaeological residue analysis applied to one vessel with the residue of a known foodstuff. Journal of Archaeological Science 34:28-37.

2006. Ambrose, S.H. A tool for all seasons. Science 314:930-931.

2006. Balasse, M., Tresset, A., Ambrose, S.H. Stable carbon and oxygen isotope evidence for winter foddering of sheep with seaweed in the Neolithic of Scotland. Journal of Zoology (London) 270:170-176.

2006. Hu, Yaowu, Ambrose, S.H., Wang, Changsui. Stable isotopic analysis of human bones from Jiahu site, Henan, China: Implications for the transition to agriculture. Journal of Archaeological Science 33:1319-1330.

2006. Jim, S., Jones V., Ambrose S.H., Evershed R.P. Quantifying dietary macronutrient sources of carbon for bone collagen biosynthesis using natural abundance stable carbon isotope analysis. British Journal of Nutrition 95:1055-1062.

2006. White, T.D., WoldeGabriel, G., Asfaw, B., Ambrose, S. Beyene, Y., Bernor, R.L., Boisserie, J-R. Currie, B., Gilbert, H., Haile-Selassie, Y., Hart, W.K., Hlusko, L.J., Howell, F.C., Kono, R.T., Lehmann, T., Louchart, A., Lovejoy, C.O., Renne, P.R., Saegusa, H., Vrba, E.S., Wesselman, H., Suwa, G. Asa Issie, Aramis, and the origin of Australopithecus. Nature 440:883-889.

2006. Ambrose, S.H. Howiesons Poort lithic raw material procurement patterns and the evolution of modern human behavior: A response to Minichillo (2006). Journal of Human Evolution 50:365-369.

2005. Yellen, J., Brooks, A.S., Helgren, D., Tappen, M., Ambrose, S.H., Bonnefille, R., Feathers, J., Goodfriend, G., Ludwig, K., Renne, P., Stewart, K. The Archaeology of Aduma: A Middle Stone Age Site in the Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Paleoanthropology 10:25-100.

2005. Balasse, M., Ambrose, S.H. Mobilité altitudinale des pasteurs néolithiques dans la vallée du Rift (Kenya): Premiers indices de l’analyse du δ13C de l’émail dentaire du cheptel domestique. Anthropozoologica 40:147-166.

2005. Pechenkina, K., Ambrose, S.H., Ma, Xiaolin, Benfer, R.A. Dietary changes in the Late Neolithic of northern China (Yangshao culture) based on carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios. Journal of Archaeological Science 32:1176-1189.

2005. Balasse, M., Tresset, A., Dobney, K., Ambrose, S.H. The use of isotope ratios to test for seaweed eating in sheep. Journal of Zoology, London 266:283-291.

2005. Balasse, M., Ambrose, S.H. Distinguishing sheep and goats using dental morphology and stable carbon isotopes in C4 grassland environments. Journal of Archaeological Science 32:691-702.

2004. Wang, H., Ambrose, S.H., Fouke, B. Late glacial terrestrial climate and habitat reconstruction with stable isotope ratios of paleosol carbonate rootlet casts. Geophysical Research Letters 31: L13203 doi:10.1029/2004GL020207.

2004. WoldeGabriel, G., Renne, P., Hart, W.K., Ambrose, S.H., Asfaw, B., White, T.D. Geoscience methods lead to paleo-anthropological discoveries in Afar Rift, Ethiopia. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 85 (20):273-280.

2004. Haile-Selassie, Y., WoldeGabriel, G., White, T.D., Bernor, R.L., Degusta, D., Renne, P.R., Hart, W.K., Vrba, E., Ambrose, S.H., Howell, F.C. Mio-Pliocene mammals from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Geobios 37:536-552.

2004. Jim S., Ambrose S.H., Evershed R.P. Stable carbon isotopic evidence for differences in the dietary origin of bone cholesterol, collagen and apatite: implications for their use in palaeodietary reconstruction. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68:61-72.

2003. Ambrose, S.H. Did the super-eruption of Toba cause a human population bottleneck? Reply to Gathorne-Hardy and Harcourt-Smith. Journal of Human Evolution 45:231-237.

2003. Jim S., Jones V., Copley M.S., Ambrose S.H., Evershed R.P. Effects of hydrolysis on the δ13C values of individual amino acids derived from polypeptides and proteins. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 17:2283-2289.

2003. Jim S., Ambrose S.H., Evershed, R.P. Stable carbon isotopic evidence for the routing and de novo synthesis of bone fatty acids and cholesterol. Lipids 38:179-186.

2003. Ambrose, S.H., Hlusko, L.A., Kyule, M.D., Deino, A., Williams, M.A.J. Lemudong’o: A new 6 Myr paleontological site in Narok, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 44:737-742.

2003. Ambrose, S.H., Krigbaum, J. Foreword: Bone chemistry and bioarchaeology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 22:191-192

2003.Ambrose, S.H., Krigbaum, J. Bone chemistry and bioarchaeology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 22:193-199.

2003. Ambrose, S.H., Buikstra, J., Krueger, H.W. Gender and status differences in diet at Mound 72, Cahokia, revealed by isotopic analysis of bone. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 22:217-228.

2003. Lavin, S.R., Van Deelen, T.R., Brown, P.W., Ambrose, S.H., Warner, R.E. Prey use by red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in urban and rural areas of Illinois. Canadian Journal of Zoology 81:1070-1082.

2003. Balasse, M., Ambrose, S.H., Smith, A.B., Leigh, S. Determining birth seasonality of prehistoric sheep by analysis of tooth enamel oxygen isotope ratios. Journal of Archaeological Science 30:205-215.

2002. Hedman, K., Hargrave, E.A., Ambrose, S.H. Inter- and intra-site comparisons of Mississippian diet in the American Bottom: Results of recent stable isotope analysis of bone collagen and apatite. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 27:237-271.

2002. Balasse, M., Ambrose, S.H., Smith, A.B., Price, T.D. The seasonal mobility model for prehistoric herders in the Southwestern Cape, South Africa assessed by isotopic analysis of bovid tooth enamel. Journal of Archaeological Science 29:917-932.

2001. WoldeGabriel, G., Haile-Selassie, Y., Renne, P.R., Hart, W.K., Ambrose, S.H., Asfaw, B., Heiken, G., White, T. Geology and paleontology of the late Miocene Middle Awash Valley, Afar Rift, Ethiopia. Nature 412:175-178.

2001. Ambrose, S.H. Paleolithic technology and human evolution. Science 291:1748-1753.

2001. Balasse, M., Bocherens, H., Ambrose, S.H., Mariotti, A. Detection of dietary changes by intra-tooth carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis: An experimental study of dentine collagen of cattle (Bos taurus). Journal of Archaeological Science 27:235-245.

1999. Stott, A.W., Evershed, R.P., Jim, S., Jones, V., Rogers, M.J., Tuross, N., Ambrose, S.H. Cholesterol as a new source of paleodietary information: Experimental approaches and archaeological applications. Journal of Archaeological Science 26:705-716.

1998. Ambrose, S.H. Late Pleistocene human population bottlenecks, volcanic winter, and the differentiation of modern humans. Journal of Human Evolution 34:623-651.

1998. Ambrose, S.H. Chronology of the Later Stone Age and food production in East Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 25:377-392.

1997. Cerling, T.E., Harris, J.M., Ambrose, S.H., Leakey, M.G., Solounias, N. Dietary and environmental reconstruction with stable isotope analyses of herbivore tooth enamel from the Miocene locality of Fort Ternan, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 33:635-650.

1997. Wang, H., Ambrose, S.H., Follmer, L., Liu, C-L.J. Paleosol stable isotope evidence for early hominid occupation of East Asian high latitude temperate environments. Quaternary Research 48:228-238.

1997. Ambrose, S.H., Butler, B.M., Hanson, D.B., Hunter-Anderson, R.L. Stable isotopic analysis of human diet in the Mariana Archipelago, western Pacific. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 104:343-361.

1997. Johnson, D.L., Ambrose, S.H., Bassett, T.J., Bowen, M.L., Isaacson, J.S., Crummey, D.E., Johnson, D.N., Lamb, P., Saul, M., Winter-Nelson, A.E. Meanings of environmental terms. Journal of Environmental Quality 26:581-589.

1995. Froment, A., Ambrose, S.H. Analyses tissulaires isotopiques et reconstruction du régime alimentaire en milieu tropical: implications pour l'archéologie. Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris n.s. 7:79-98.

1992. Proefke, M.L., Rinehart, K.L., Raheel, M., Ambrose, S.H., Wisseman, S.U. Probing the mysteries of ancient Egypt. Chemical analysis of a Roman period Egyptian mummy. Analytical Chemistry 64:105-111.

1992. Ambrose, S.H., Norr, L. On stable isotopic data and prehistoric subsistence in the Soconusco region. Current Anthropology 33:401-404.

1992. Cerling, T.E., Kappelman, J., Quade, J., Ambrose, S.H., Sikes, N.E., Andrews, P. Reply to comment on the paleoenvironment of Kenyapithecus at Fort Ternan. Journal of Human Evolution 23:371-377.

1991. Ambrose, S.H. Effects of diet, climate and physiology on nitrogen isotope abundances in terrestrial foodwebs. Journal of Archaeological Science 18:293-317.

1991. Ambrose, S.H., Sikes N.E. Soil carbon isotope evidence for Holocene habitat change in the Kenya Rift Valley. Science 253:1402-1405.

1991. Cerling, T.E., Quade, J., Ambrose, S.H., Sikes, N. Miocene fossil soils, grasses and carbon isotopes from Fort Ternan (Kenya): grassland or woodland? Journal of Human Evolution 21:295-306.

1990. Ambrose, S.H. Preparation and characterization of bone and tooth collagen for stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 17:431-451.

1989. Ambrose, S.H., DeNiro, M.J. Climate and habitat reconstruction using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of collagen in prehistoric herbivore teeth from Kenya. Quaternary Research 31:407-422

1987. Ambrose, S.H. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of animal and human diet in Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 15:707-731.

1986. Ambrose, S.H. Hunter-gatherer adaptations to non-marginal environments: an ecological and archaeological assessment of the Dorobo model. Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika (SUGIA) 7(2):11-42.

1986. Ambrose, S.H., DeNiro, M.J. The isotopic ecology of East African mammals. Oecologia 69:395-406.

1986. Ambrose, S.H., DeNiro, M.J. Reconstruction of African human diet using bone collagen carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios. Nature 319:321-324.

1985. Ambrose, S.H. Prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the central Rift Valley, Kenya. AnthroQuest 33:13-14.

1985. Ambrose, S.H. Excavations at Masai Gorge Rockshelter, Naivasha, Kenya. Azania 20:29-67.

1984. Ambrose, S.H. Excavations at Deloraine Farm, Rongai, 1978. Azania 19:79-104.

1984. Ambrose, S.H. Diet and hominid evolution. AnthroQuest 30:6-7.

BOOK REVIEWS

2002. Ambrose, S.H. Human Beginning in South Africa. Uncovering the secrets of the Stone Age. By. Hilary and Janette Deacon. Altamira Press. American Antiquity 67:587-588.

1999. Ambrose, S.H. Before Food Production in North Africa. Questions and tools dealing with resource exploitation and population dynamics at 12,000-7000 bp. Edited by Savino di Lernia and Giorgio Manzi. Union International des Sciences Prehistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP). XIII World Congress, Forli, 1998. A.B.A.C.O. Edizioni. South African Archaeological Bulletin 54:67-68

1992. Ambrose, S.H. The Chemistry of Prehistoric Human Bone. By T.D. Price (ed), Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin 15(1):18-20.

1987. Ambrose, S.H. Ecology and Tropical Biology. By Ian Deshmukh. American Anthropologist 89:727-728.

COMMENTARIES AND SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCES

2015. White, T.D., Suwa, G., Ambrose, S.H. Reply to Cerling et al. (Concerning comments and replies on the environment of Aramis, August 2014 in Current Anthropology 56(3), 2015). Current Anthropology 56(3):447-448.

2014. Suwa, Gen., Ambrose, Stanley H. Response to Cerling et al. 2014. On the Environment of Aramis: A Comment on White in Domínguez-Rodrigo. Current Anthropology 55(4):469–470.

2010. White, T.D., Ambrose, S.H., Suwa, G., WoldeGabriel, G. Response to comments on the paleoenvironment of Ardipithecus ramidus. Science 328:1105-e (3 pages).

1987. Ambrose, S.H., DeNiro, M.J. Bone nitrogen isotope composition and climate. Nature 325:201.

1986. Ambrose, S.H. (Comment on) Systematic butchery by Plio/Pleistocene hominids at Olduvai Gorge. By H.T. Bunn and E. Kroll. Current Anthropology 27:443.

1986. Giles, E., Ambrose, S.H. Are we all out of Africa? Nature 322:21-22.

ABSTRACTS PUBLISHED IN JOURNAL SUPPLEMENTS

2018. Ambrose, S.H. Calibrating the chronology of Late Pleistocene modern human dispersals, climate change and archaeology with geochemical isochrons. PaleoAnthropology 2018: (in press).

2018. Zipkin, A.M., Ambrose, S.H., Bartov, G., Benmamoun, Z., Gomani-Chindebyu, E. Thompson, J.C. Constructing strontium isoscapes to test models of terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene forager social and territorial organization in northern Malawi. PaleoAnthropology 2018: (in press).

2018. Dent, S.C., Hutchinson, D., Hedman, C.M., Fort, M, Ambrose, S.H. Purification of dental calculus organic and carbonate biofractions improves correlations with bone stable isotope ratios. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165 (S66): 65.

2017. Peschel, E.M., Dunn, T.E., Bethard, J.D., Naradi, Z., Gonciar, M., Katzenberg, M.A., Ambrose, S.H. Reconstructing Székely subsistence: Stable isotope evidence for Medieval diet in eastern Transylvania. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 162 (S64):314.

2017. Ambrose, S.H., Zipkin, A.M, Gakii, M., Coulson, D., Magnani, M. Ethnography of red ochre use by pastoralists and hunters in Kenya. PaleoAnthropology 2017: A1.

2016. Ambrose, S.H., WoldeGabriel, G., Hart, W.K., Renne, P. Early hominid habitat preferences in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia, from 5.6 to 0.08 Ma: Paleosol stable isotope evidence. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159 (S62):79.

2016. Ambrose, S.H., Hirbo, J. Is neanderthal-human admixture actually African ancestry? PaleoAnthropology 2016: A1.

2015. Fort, M.A., Hedman, K., Ambrose, S.H. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of early Mississippian diet at Cahokia Mound 72. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156 (S60):135-136.

2014. Ambrose, S.H. Controlled diet experiments for diet reconstruction with stable isotopes of hair, muscle, bone collagen and bone apatite. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 153 (S58):66.

2013. Ambrose, S.H., Slater, P.A. Smaller things remembered: Ostrich eggshell technology, taphonomy and geochemistry in Kenya. PaleoAnthropology 2013: A1.

2013. Slater, P.A., Ambrose, S.H., Drigo, M.V., Wiessner, P. Ostrich eggshell isotope analysis: results and implications for reconstructing prehistoric exchange systems in the African Stone Age. PaleoAnthropology 2013: A35.

2012. Ambrose, S.H., Slater, P.A., Ferguson, J., Glascock, M., Steele, I. 2012. Obsidian source survey and late Quaternary artifact sourcing in Kenya: Implications for early modern human behavior." Paleoanthropology 2012: A1-2.

2011. Ambrose, S.H., WoldeGabriel, G., White, T.D., Suwa, G. Reconstructing the environment of Ardipithecus ramidus with paleosol and tooth enamel carbon isotopes: Grassland or woodland? American Journal of Physical Anthropology 144(S52):76.

2011. Ambrose, S.H., WoldeGabriel, G., White, T.D., Suwa, G. The role of paleosol carbon isotopes in reconstructing the Ardipithecus ramidus habitat: Grassland or woodland? PaleoAnthropology 2011: A2.

2010. Ambrose, S.H., Deino, A. Technological diversity and geochronology of Middle Stone Age Industries in the Central Rift Valley, Kenya: Implications for the evolution of modern human behavior. PaleoAnthropology 2010: A1.

2008. Ambrose, S. H., Williams, M.A.J. van der Kaars, S, Chattopadhyaya, U. Pal, J., Chauhan, P.R. Guichard, F., Bassinot, F. and Ruehlemann, C. Paleosol carbonate and pollen evidence for deforestation and cooling in South Asia caused by the Toba super-eruption: Implications for human evolution. Paleoanthropology 2008: A2.

2007. Ambrose, S.H., Williams, M.A.J., Chattopadhyaya, U., Pal, J., Chauhan, P. Environmental impact of the 73 ka Toba eruption reflected by paleosol carbonate isotope ratios in central India. Quaternary International 167-168:8.

2007. Duller, G.A.T., Choi, J.H., Jain, M. Tsukamoto, S., Wintle, A.G., Ambrose, S.H., Barham, L. Optical dating of Middle Stone Age sites in Kenya and Zambia. Quaternary International 167-168:104.

2007. Ambrose, S.H. Wang, R. Dong, Y., Pechenkina, E.A., Liu, L., Hu, Y. Wang, C. Chen. X. Stable carbon isotope evidence for Neolithic Chinese diet differences in the Huang He and Yangtze River valleys. American Journal of Physical Anthropology132 (S44):64.

2005. Ambrose, S.H., Suwa, G. Katoh, S., Bayene, Y., Asfaw, B. Isotopic paleoecology of Plio-Pleistocene mammals and paleosols, Konso Formation, southern Ethiopia. Paleoanthropology 2005: A36.

2004. Ambrose, S.H. J. Desmond Clark, Glynn Isaac, and the troop-to-tribe transition in the evolution of modern human behavior. PaleoAnthropology 2004: A1.

2003. Ambrose, S.H. Influence of trophic level on bone oxygen isotope ratios. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 120(S36):59.

2002. Hlusko, L., Ambrose, S.H., Bernor, R., Stidham, T., Deino, A. Lemudong’o, a late Miocene mammalian-dominated locality in southern Kenya. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):56A-66A.

2002. Ambrose, S.H., Hlusko, L., Deino, A.L., Kyule, M.D., Williams, M.A.J. Lemudong'o: A late Miocene fossil site in southern Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 117 (S34):37.

2002. Tomczak, P., Ambrose, S.H. and Blom, D. Prehistoric population movements in southern coastal and highland Peru: Bone isotopic evidence. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 117 (S34):156.

2002. Ambrose, S.H., Deino, A.L., Kyule, M.D. and Williams, M.A.J. The emergence of modern human behavior during the late Middle Stone Age in the Kenya Rift Valley. Journal of Human Evolution 42(3): A3-4.

2000. Ambrose, S.H. Change in Middle Stone Age settlement patterns in the central Rift Valley, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution. 34(4): A4.

1998. Ambrose, S.H. Implications of 24 controlled diet experiments for diet reconstruction with carbon isotopes of bone collagen and carbonate. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18 (3, supplement):24A.

1997. Ambrose, S.H. Implications of geomagnetic field variation for the chronology of the Middle to Later Stone Age and Middle to Upper Paleolithic transitions. Journal of Human Evolution 32(4): A2.

1997. Kyule, M.D., Ambrose, S.H., Noll, M.P. and Atkinson, J.L. Pliocene and Pleistocene sites in southern Narok District, southwest Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 32(4): A9-10.

1997. Ambrose, S.H. and Froment, A. Carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis of hair of fishers, farmers and hunter-gatherers in Cameroon. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 104 (S24):66.

1995. Ambrose, S.H., Butler, B.M., Hanson, D.B. and Hunter-Anderson, R.L. Stable isotope analysis of human diet in the Marianas archipelago. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 38 (S20):57.

1993. Ambrose S.H. and Norr, L. Relationship of carbon isotope ratios of whole diet and dietary protein to those of bone collagen and carbonate. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 36 (S16):49.

1992. Ambrose, S.H. The oxygen isotope ecology of East African mammal bone. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12:16A.

1991. Ambrose, S., Sikes, N., Cerling, T.E. and Quade, J. Paleosol carbon isotope evidence for Middle Miocene woodland and forest at Fort Ternan, Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 12 (S3):43.

1989. Whitney, S., Wenner, D.B., Ambrose, S.H. A data base for the analysis of pottery use in Somalia. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 21(3):66.

1988. Ambrose, S. Swat redux: Ecologic relations of ethnic groups in highland Kenya. Collegium Antropologicum 12 (supplement):92.

GRANTS (excluding UIUC travel grants to professional conferences and annual meetings, etc.)

2017-19 NSF Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (Archaeology Program). "Testing models of ancient forager social and territorial organization with a strontium isoscape." Co-PI Andrew Zipkin. NSF BCS-17-25123 $174,564.

2016-17 NSF Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (Archaeology Program). "Trace element analysis of ochre for modern and prehistoric pigment source use patterns". Co-PIs Andrew Zipkin and Stanley H. Ambrose. NSF BCS 15-61176, $45,241.

2015-17 NSF Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoc Program. "Integrating geochemistry and ethnography to understand modern and ancient ochre use," Co-PIs Andrew Zipkin, Stanley H. Ambrose, Craig Lundstrom. NSF BCS-1513984, $221,500.

2015-16 LSB Leakey Foundation. "Hydration dating of Late Pleistocene archaeological sites in eastern Africa". Co-PIs Christopher Stevenson, Steven Brandt and Stanley H. Ambrose. $12,000.

2014-15 National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation. "Acquisition of a laser ablation system for the Department of Geology, University of Illinois. Co-PIs Craig Lundstrom, Thomas Anderson and S.H. Ambrose. EAR-14-41465, $278,150.

2013-15 NSF Archaeology. “Doctoral Dissertation Research for Philip Slater: “Change in lithic technological organization during the Middle and Later Stone Ages in East Africa: Implications for the evolution of human behavior”. BCS-12-47996 $24,434.

2011 UIUC Research Board. " Tracing the evolution of Late Quaternary human interaction and mobility patterns in Kenya " $13,370.

2010 UIUC Research Board. "Tracing the evolution of Late Quaternary human interaction and mobility patterns in Kenya." $15,725.

10. NSF Archaeology. BCS-0819528 "Collaborative proposal: Tracing the evolution of Late Quaternary human interaction and mobility patterns in Kenya." $122,732. S.H. Ambrose, PI; Collaborative Proposal with Jeffrey Ferguson, Michael Glascock and J.D. Robertson, University of Missouri, Columbia, Research Reactor (MURR).

2009 UIUC Research Board. “Paleoenvironment of the late Quaternary biotic refugium of southwest Ethiopia." $15,060.

2005 African Studies Center, University of Illinois, Title VI travel grant for fieldwork in Kenya. $3000.

2003-05 National Science Foundation. HOMINID grant to F.C. Howell and T. White, “Revealing Hominid Origins.” Analytical Working Group: Stable Isotopes. For organizing workshop on African Neogene stable isotope research. $16,000.

2003 University of Illinois Research Board: "Chronology of the Middle and Later Stone Age in East Africa". $15,889.

2002 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation (with Leslea Hlusko): “Paleontological study of a 6 Myr site in Narok, Kenya.” $14,128.

2001-05 National Science Foundation, Archaeology Program: "Chronology of the Middle and Later Stone Age in East Africa". $237,668.

2001-02 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation: "Chronology and Paleoecology of the Middle and Later Stone Age, Kenya Rift Valley". $17,500.

2000 University of Illinois, Research Board: "Chronology and Paleoecology of Modern Human Behavior in the Kenya Rift Valley". $5,767.

2000 African Studies Center UIUC, Department of Education, Title VI International Education and Graduate Programs Service, travel grant. $2,500 for fieldwork in Kenya.

1999 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation: "Chronology and Paleoecology of the Middle and Later Stone Age, Kenya Rift Valley". $18,854.

1999 University of Illinois, Research Board: "Chronology and Paleoecology of the Middle and Later Stone Age, Kenya Rift Valley". $6,000.

1999-04 National Science Foundation, Small Research Instrumentation Program "Acquisition of Toyota Land Cruiser for Field Research in Kenya" $36,866 NSF direct & indirect costs; $9,217 UIUC matching funds.

1998-99 UIUC Research Board and NSF (to Tim White, U. California, Berkeley) "Reconstructing the environments of Early hominids in Ethiopia and Modern Humans in Kenya with Stable Isotopic Analysis of Fossil Soils." $13,062 from UIUC, and $6,840 from UC Berkeley.

1998-01 National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation Program "Acquisition of Finnegan MAT 252 Mass Spectrometer". $319,921, plus $137,109 matching funds from UIUC Research Board, Provost and LAS Dean.

1998 African Studies Center UIUC, Department of Education, Title VI International Education and Graduate Programs, travel grant. $2,566. Field and lab research in Kenya and South Africa.

1997 UIUC Research Board and NSF (to Tim White, U. California, Berkeley) "Reconstructing the Environment of the Earliest Hominid with Stable Isotopic Analysis of Fossil Soils: Implications for Hominid Origins". $10,368 (UIUC) and $3,500 (UCB).

1996 National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant, for Michael P. Noll. "The effects of Raw Material and Land Use Patterns on Lithic Assemblage Variability in the Acheulean at Olorgesailie, Kenya". $8,700.

1996 UIUC African Studies Center, Title VI travel funds. "Survey and Excavation in Narok District, Kenya." $2,500.

1996 Educational Technologies Board, UIUC. "Computers for evaluation of CD:ROM titled Investigating Olduvai, for use in instructional settings". $6,000.

1995 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation "Survey and Excavation in Narok District, Kenya." $3,850.

1994 UIUC African Studies Center Title VI travel funds: "Hunter-gatherer adaptations to climate change in the Kenya Rift Valley." $2,000.

1994 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation (with co-PI M.A. Katzenberg): "Fourth Advanced Seminar on Paleodiet." $5,000.

1994 Wenner-Gren Foundation (with co-PI M.A. Katzenberg). "Fourth Advanced Seminar on Paleodiet." $9,700.

1994 UIUC Research Board: "Hunter-gatherer adaptations to climate Change in the Kenya Rift Valley." $1,150.

1993 UIUC Research Board: Research Assistant support for " Diet reconstruction with stable isotopes." $11,526.

1992-94 National Science Foundation, Archaeometry Panel: “Diet reconstruction with stable isotopes." (renewal). June 1992 to June 1994. $266,611.

1992 Midwest University Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA): Travel grant for Semester Abroad in Kenya Program and Faculty Exchange with College of Social Sciences at Egerton University. $993.

1992 UIUC Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs: Shoestring Grant "Accelerator Radiocarbon Dating of Ol Tepesi Rockshelter." $535.

1992 UIUC Research Board: Research Assistant support for "Diet Reconstruction with Stable Isotopes". $10,893.

1991 National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral dissertation improvement grant supplement for Nancy Sikes: "Stable Isotope Analysis of Paleosols in Bed I and Lower Bed II, Olduvai Gorge." $5,635.

1991 National Geographic Society. Research and Exploration Grant: "Hunter-gatherer Adaptations to Climate Change in the Kenya Rift Valley." $20,454.

1990-92 National Science Foundation: "Diet reconstruction with stable isotopes." $202,119.

1990 National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral dissertation improvement grant for Nancy Sikes: "Stable Isotope Analysis of Paleosols in Bed I and Lower Bed II, Olduvai Gorge." $6,365.

1989 International Programs and Studies: Support for African Protohistory symposium. $4,000.

1989 Wenner-Gren Foundation: Support for African Protohistory symposium. $5,000.

1989 University of Illinois Research Board Grant: "Stable Carbon Isotope analysis of Modern and Prehistoric Wood Charcoal and Soils in East Africa." $16,000.

1987-88 National Science Foundation: "Late Quaternary Adaptations in the Central Rift Valley, Kenya." $115,000.

1988 University of Illinois Research Board (Beckman Institute) Grant: "Archaeological and Isotopic Techniques of Reconstructing Human Ecology and Environmental History of the Central Rift Valley, Kenya. $17,556.

1988 Hewlett Foundation, Summer International Research Grant. $2,760.

1987 University of Illinois Research Board Grant: Research assistance and stable isotope laboratory analysis support. $8,778.

1987 University of Illinois Biomedical Research Support grant: Stable isotope laboratory improvements. $820.

1986 University of Illinois Biomedical Research Support grant: Stable isotope laboratory improvements. $2,190.

1985-86 University of Illinois Research Board Grant: Isotope laboratory and research assistance grant. $10,955.

1985 Wenner-Gren Foundation, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, and isotope laboratory equipment grant. $5,500.

1985 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, Stable isotope laboratory research grant. $3,000.

1985 University of Illinois Biomedical Research Support grant: Stable isotope laboratory improvements. $5,000.

1984-85 Foundation for Research into the Origins of Man, Post-Doctoral research: "Stable isotope analysis of the evolution of human Diet." $20,000.

1983 Robert M. Lowie Fund, grant for radiocarbon dating. $400.

1982 Robert M. Lowie Fund field research grant. " Early Holocene environments and adaptations in the central Rift Valley, Kenya." $400.

1981-82 National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral dissertation improvement grant (awarded to Glynn Isaac, supervisor): " Early Holocene environments and adaptations in the central Rift Valley, Kenya." $9,985.

1981-82 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation field research grant. "Early Holocene environments and adaptations in the central Rift Valley, Kenya." $2,998.

FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS

2015 Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Hallam L. Movius Jr. 23rd Annual Lecture, Harvard University.

2014-15 Shandong University, Jinan, Peoples Republic of China. Invited lecture series on paleoanthropology and archaeology (9 lectures, December 22, 2014-January 8, 2015).

2013 Center for African Studies, 22nd Annual Distinguished Lecture in African Archaeology, University of Florida, Gainesville.

2009 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for course on Archaeometry.

2006 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for course on African Prehistory.

2002 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study. Fall semester, University of Illinois.

1998 University of Illinois, Alumni Association, Discretionary Award for academic achievements.

1992 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study. Spring semester, University of Illinois.

1991 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for course on Human Evolutionary Ecology.

1984-85 Foundation for Research into the Origins of Man, Post-doctoral Fellowship: Stable isotope analysis of the evolution of human diet.

1980-81 Regents Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley.

1979-80 Regents Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley.

1977 Alumni Association Award: Outstanding Undergraduate Research. University of Massachusetts at Boston.

CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA AND PUBLIC LECTURES ORGANIZED

26 April 2006. "Behavioral Complexity in the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Africa", Symposium organizer with Veerle Rots, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium. Society for American Archaeology, 71st annual meeting, San Juan.

April 19, 2001. "Pioneer in Paleodiet and Radiocarbon Dating of Bone: Papers in honor of Harold W. Krueger", Symposium organizer: with John Krigbaum, U. Florida. Sponsored by the Society for Archaeological Sciences. Society of American Archaeology, 66th Annual Meeting, New Orleans.

January 11, 1999. "Millennial Landmarks: 100,000 Years Ago." Theme Symposium Organizer, World Archaeological Congress 4, Cape Town, South Africa.

May 22-23, 1996. Major theme session on "Biomaterials" (with Linda Klepinger), 30th International Symposium on Archaeometry, University of Illinois, Urbana.

September 5-9, 1994. Fourth Advanced Seminar on Paleodiet (with M. Anne Katzenberg), Banff, Alberta, Canada.

April 22-24, 1989. 16th Annual African Studies Annual Symposium, "African Protohistory: Multidisciplinary Perspectives." University of Illinois, Urbana.

April 21, 1989. MillerComm lecture by J. Desmond Clark, University of Illinois, Urbana.

INVITED LECTURES (*) AND PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

April 13 2018. Ambrose, S.H., Zipkin, A.M., Kennett, D.J., Fisher, A., Thompson, J.C. Dietary and environmental reconstruction with stable isotopes of early, middle and late Holocene humans from northern Malawi. Society for American Archaeology, 83rd annual meeting, Washington, DC.

April 13 2018. Thompson, J.C, Zipkin, A.M., Wright, D., Ambrose, S.H., Schilt, F. Out with a Whimper or a Bang? Hunter-gatherer response to the end of the African Humid Period in northern Malawi. Society for American Archaeology, 83rd annual meeting, Washington, DC.

April 12 2018. Lorraine Hu, Fiona Marshall, Henry Saitabau, Angela Kabiru and Stanley Ambrose—Pastoral Neolithic mortuary site sedimentology at Noomparrua Nkosesia, Kenya. Society for American Archaeology, 83rd annual meeting, Washington, DC.

April 12 2018. Zipkin, A.M., Ambrose, S.H., Bartov, G., Taylor, A., Gakii, M.—Ethnoarchaeometry of ochre mineral pigment extraction, transport, and use in the Kenya Rift Valley. Society for American Archaeology, 83rd annual meeting, Washington, DC.

April 12 2018. Dent, S.C., Hutchinson, D., Hedman, C.M., Fort, M, Ambrose, S.H. Purification of dental calculus organic and carbonate biofractions improves correlations with bone stable isotope ratios. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 87th annual meeting, Austin, Texas.

April 11 2018. Zipkin, A.M., Ambrose, S.H., Bartov, G., Benmamoun, Z.W., Gomani-Chindebyu, E., Thompson, J.C. Constructing strontium isoscapes to test models of terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene forager social and territorial organization in northern Malawi. PaleoAnthropology Society annual meeting, Austin, Texas.

April 10 2018. Ambrose, S.H. Calibrating the chronology of Late Pleistocene modern human dispersals, climate change and archaeology with geochemical isochrons. PaleoAnthropology Society annual meeting, Austin, Texas.

February 23 2018. Shu, P., Ambrose S.H., Wang, H. Intra- and inter-tooth variation in oxygen and carbon isotope ratios of fossil mammal teeth from Salawusu (Inner Mongolia, north China): Implications for Late Pleistocene Paleoenvironments Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials, Fifth Science and Archaeology Symposium, Champaign, IL.

February 23 2018. Ambrose, S.H., Benmamoun, Z.W., Zipkin, A.M., Thompson, J.L. Reconstructing Later Stone Age paleoenvironments in northern Malawi with ostrich eggshell stable isotope ratios. Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials, Fifth Science and Archaeology Symposium, Champaign, IL.

February 23 2018. Zipkin, A.M., Taylor, A., Dwyer, A., Bartov, G., Ambrose, S.H., Lundstrom, C.C. Red rock and black glass: Geochemical methods and provenance case studies of ochres from the Kenya Rift Valley. Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials, Fifth Science and Archaeology Symposium, Champaign, IL.

February 23 2018. Benmamoun, Z.W. Zipkin, A.M., Bartov, G., Ambrose, S.H. What is the best method to measure bioavailable strontium isotope ratios for archaeological provenance? Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials, Fifth Science and Archaeology Symposium, Champaign, IL.

February 23 2018. Fort, M.A., Hedman, K.M. Ambrose, S.H. The radiocarbon reservoir effect in the American Bottom. Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials, Fifth Science and Archaeology Symposium, Champaign, IL.

January 5 2018 *. Ambrose, S.H. Middle Stone Age and Early Later Stone Age Technologies in the Kenya Rift Valley. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

January 5 2018 *. Ambrose, S.H. Volcanic winter and modern human evolution: The Troop-to-Tribe Transition. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

November 18 2017 *. Developing Isotopic Investigations in the Ancient Near East and Caucasus. (discussant). American School of Oriental Research, annual meeting, Boston.

November 3 2017 *. Climate isochrons and the archaeology of modern human dispersals from Eastern Africa Words Bones Genes Tools, 3rd Annual Symposium, Modern Human Origins and Dispersals, DFG Center for Advanced Studies, Eberhart Karls Universität, Tubingen, Germany.

May 17 2017 *. Ambrose, S.H. Ethnography of red ochre use by pastoralists and hunters in Kenya. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

May 16 2017 *. Ambrose, S.H. African linguistics, archaeology and genetics: implications for reconstructing population expansions, interactions and admixture. Reich Paleogenetics Laboratory, Harvard University Medical School, Boston.

April 20 2017. Peschel, E.M., Dunn, T.E., Bethard, J.D., Naradi, Z., Gonciar, M., Katzenberg, M.A., Ambrose, S.H. Reconstructing Székely subsistence: Stable isotope evidence for Medieval diet in eastern Transylvania. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 86th annual meeting, New Orleans.

April 1 2017. Ambrose, S.H., Hirbo, J. African ancestry or neanderthal-human genetic admixture in Eurasians? African diversity matters. Society for American Archaeology, 82nd annual meeting, Vancouver.

March 31 2017. Goldstein, S., Storozum, M., Marshall, F., Ambrose, S.H. Herder land use and nutrient hotspots in southern Kenya: Geochemical analysis of anthropogenic soil enrichment. Society for American Archaeology, 82nd annual meeting, Vancouver.

March 31 2017. Wright, D., MacEachern, S., Ambrose, S. Evolution of Iron Age to modern landscapes in the Benoué River Valley, Cameroon. Society for American Archaeology, 82nd annual meeting, Vancouver.

March 29 2017. Ambrose, S.H., Zipkin, A.M, Gakii, M., Coulson, D., Magnani, M. Ethnography of red ochre use by pastoralists and hunters in Kenya. Paleoanthropology Society, annual meeting, Vancouver.

February 24 2017 *. Ambrose, S.H. Neanderthal-modern human genetic admixture or African Ancestry? Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis.

August 13 2016 *. Ambrose, S.H. Volcanic winter and modern human evolution in Africa. Kenya Museum Society, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi.

June 29 2016. Wright, D.K., MacEachern, S., Datounng Djoussou, J.-M., Choi, J.-H., Lang, C., Ambrose, S.H. Landscape evolution and shifting settlement patterns in the Benoué River Valley, Cameroon. Society of Africanist Archaeologists, 23rd biennial meeting, Toulouse, France.

June 28 2016. Marshall, F.B, Ambrose, S.H., Wreshnig, A., Goldstein, S., Kiura, P. Nutrient hotspots and Pastoral Neolith landscapes in southern Kenya. Society of Africanist Archaeologists, 23rd biennial meeting, Toulouse, France.

June 28 2016. Taffere, A., Stevenson, C., Rogers, A., Brandt, S.A., Ambrose, S.H., Pleurdeau, D. Implications of new late Pleistocene obsidian hydration dates from Porc Epic Cave (eastern Ethiopia). Society of Africanist Archaeologists, 23rd biennial meeting, Toulouse, France.

June 28 2016 *. Ambrose S.H. Late Pleistocene human dispersals “Out of Africa”: Current perspectives and enduring questions. Symposium discussion and summary. Society of Africanist Archaeologists, 23rd biennial meeting, Toulouse, France.

June 28 2016. Ambrose, S.H. Late Pleistocene Climate Change and the Chronology of Modern Human Dispersals from Africa. Society of Africanist Archaeologists, 23rd biennial meeting, Toulouse, France.

June 26 2016 *. Ambrose, S.H. Small things remembered (then forgotten) in the early last glacial maximum (MIS 4). Workshop on Defining and identifying microliths in the African Stone Age record. Toulouse, France.

May 16 2016 *. Ambrose, S.H. The MSA in the central and southern Rift Valley of Kenya: Comparisons and contrasts with Ethiopia. International workshop: Current research in the MSA – New perspectives on the archaeology of Halibee (Ethiopia). Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology; University of Tübingen, Germany.

April 18 2016. Larmon, J.T., Ambrose, S.H., G. MacDonald, Fouke, B.W., Wang, H., Lucero, L.J. What the wild things ate: Isotopic analysis of an extinct giant ground sloth tooth from Cara Blanca, Belize. Geological Society of America North-Central Section 50th Annual Meeting, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

April 14 2016. Ambrose, S.H., WoldeGabriel, G., Hart, W.K., Renne, P. Early hominid habitat preferences in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia, from 5.6 to 0.08 Ma: Paleosol stable isotope evidence. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 85th Annual Meeting, Atlanta.

April 13 2016. Ambrose, S.H., Hirbo, J. Is neanderthal-human admixture actually African ancestry? PaleoAnthropology Society, annual meeting, Atlanta.

April 7 2016. Ambrose, S.H., Zipkin, A.M., Gakii, M., Lundstrom, C. Ethnography and archaeology of red ochre use by the Maasai and Samburu in Kenya. Society for American archaeology, 81st annual meeting, Orlando.

April 5 2016 *. Ambrose, S.H. Chronology of climate Change in Lake Malawi cores and Soreq Cave stalagmite: Implications for MIS 5 dispersals. Parting the Red Sea Workshop. University of Florida, Gainesville.

March 12 2016 *. Zipkin, A.M., Ambrose, S.H., Lundstrom, C., Gakii, M., Magnani, M. The Ethno-archaeometry of modern ochre use in Kenya. Symposium on Raw Materials Exploitation in Prehistory: Sourcing, Processing and Distribution, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal.

March 6 2016 *. Ambrose, S.H. Volcanic winter and modern human evolution. Archaeological Institute of America, Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

February 19 2016. Larmon, J.T., Ambrose, S.H., Fouke, B.W., Wang, H., G. MacDonald, Lucero, L.J. Taking a bite out of history: Isotopic and cathodoluminescence analysis of an extinct giant ground sloth tooth. Fourth Science and Archaeology Symposium, Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

February 19 2016. Ambrose, S.H., Marshall, F.B., Wreshnig, A., Goldstein, S. Neolithic pastoral settlements create enduring soil nutrient hotspots in East African savannas. Fourth Science and Archaeology Symposium, Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

April 19 2015. Ambrose, S.H., Marshall, F., Wreshnig, A., Goldstein, S., Kiura, P. Nutrient hotspots and pastoral legacies in East African savannas. Society for American Archaeology, 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

April 17 2015. Slater, P.A., Ambrose, S.H. Technological organization strategies during the East African Later Stone Age: Blade production and the evolution of standardized technology. Society for American Archaeology, 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

March 26 2015. Fort, M.A., Hedman, K., Ambrose, S.H. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of early Mississippian diet at Cahokia Mound 72. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 84th Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri.

March 12 2015 *. Ambrose, S.H. Volcanic winter, population bottlenecks and modern human evolution: The troop-to-tribe transition. Hallam L. Movius Jr. 23rd Annual Lecture, Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. View online: (video)

January 3 2015 *. Ambrose, S.H. Ostrich Eggshell Isotope Analysis: Reconstructing Prehistoric Exchange Systems and Environments in Africa. Department of Archaeology, Northwest University, Xi'an, Peoples Republic of China.

December 26 2014 *. Ambrose, S.H. Reconstructing Prehistoric Exchange Systems and Environments in Africa with stable isotope analysis of ostrich eggshell. Department of Scientific Archaeometry, University of the Chinese National Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China.

October 2 2014. Ambrose, S.H., Hedman, K.M, Slater, P.A. and Fort, M.A. Isotopic evidence of diet and place of origin in the Midcontinent. Midwest Archaeology Conference, Champaign, Illinois.

September 9 2014 *. Ambrose, S.H. Technological Change and Cultural Evolution in the MSA of East Africa. Conference on Contextualizing technological change and cultural evolution in the MSA of southern Africa. Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Eberhart Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany.

July 25 2014 *. Ambrose, S.H. Soils, trees, grasses, carbon isotopes and Ardipithecus. Department of Plant Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

July 17 2014. Ambrose, S.H. Origins of The Later Stone Age in East Africa: insights from the organization of lithic technology. 14th Pan African Archaeological Association Congress and Society of Africanist Archaeologists, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

July 13 2014 *. Ambrose, S.H. Origins of the Later Stone Age in East Africa: Insights from the organization of lithic technology. Workshop on Approaches to the African Late Pleistocene Later Stone Age. Bernard Price Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

April 24 2014. Zimmermann, E., Ambrose, S.H. Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental reconstruction with micromammals from Ol Tepesi rockshelter, central Rift Valley, Kenya. Society for American Archaeology 79th annual meeting, Austin, Texas.

April 24 2014. Arnold, E.A., Ambrose, S.H. Regional mobility of domestic herds and their implications for understanding land use in the early Iron Age of southeastern Africa. Society for American Archaeology 79th annual meeting, Austin, Texas.

April 10 2014. Ambrose, S.H. Controlled diet experiments for diet reconstruction with stable isotopes of hair, muscle, bone collagen and bone apatite. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 83rd annual meeting, Calgary, Canada.

February 21 2014. Slater, P.A., Ambrose, S.H. Ostrich eggshell strontium isotope analysis: Preliminary results and implications for reconstructing prehistoric exchange systems in the African Late Stone Age. Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials, 2nd Science and Archaeology Symposium, Illinois State Archaeological Survey, Urbana, Illinois.

October 31 2013 *. Ambrose, S.H. Smaller things remembered: Tracing Kalahari San forager exchange relationships with ostrich eggshell strontium isotopes. Department of Anthropology, New York University.

October 30 2013 *. Ambrose, S.H. Hominid origins, behavior and cognition: Biosocial perspectives" Department of Anthropology, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.

October 10 2013 *. Ambrose, S.H. Smaller things remembered: Tracing Kalahari San forager exchange relationships with ostrich eggshell strontium isotopes. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

September 26 2013 *. "Consequences of the Toba super-eruption for human adaptation and evolution." Geology Department, University of Illinois, Chicago.

August 7 2013 *. Ambrose, S.H., Slater, P.A. Ostrich eggshell technology, taphonomy and geochemistry in Kenya. Staff seminar series, Earth Sciences Division, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi.

July 30 2013. Ambrose, S.H., Slater, P.A., Ferguson J., Glascock, M., Steele, I. Characterization of obsidian sources and provenience of Middle Stone Age artifacts in the Kenya Rift Valley. 4th East African Association for Paleoanthropology and Paleontology Conference, Mombasa, Kenya.

July 25 2013. Ambrose, S.H. Implications of volcanic ash from Toba (Sumatra) in Lake Malawi cores for late Quaternary climate and human adaptations. Eastern African Quaternary Research Association, 4th Conference, Nanyuki, Kenya.

April 6 2013 *. Ambrose, S.H., Slater, P.A. Ostrich eggshell strontium isotope analysis: Preliminary results and implications for reconstructing prehistoric exchange systems in the African Late Stone Age. Society for American Archaeology, 78th annual meeting, Honolulu.

April 6 2013. Madden, G., Arnold, E.A., Karsten, J., Ambrose, S.H. Using isotope analyses to examine origins of agriculture and Neolithic farmers in western Ukraine. Society for American Archaeology, 78th annual meeting, Honolulu.

April 5 2013 *. Ambrose, S.H. Consequences of the Toba super-eruption for human adaptation and evolution. Society for American Archaeology, 78th annual meeting, Honolulu.

April 4 2013. Salazar-Garcia, D., Nehlich, O., Ambrose, S.H., Richards, M., Henry, A. New insights into dental calculus as palaeodietary markers. Collagen, carbonate and calculus stable isotope values from an Islamic Medieval Cemetery in eastern Iberia. Society for American Archaeology, 78th annual meeting, Honolulu.

April 3 2013. Ambrose, S.H., Slater, P.A. Smaller things remembered: Ostrich eggshell technology, taphonomy and geochemistry in Kenya. Paleoanthropology Society annual meeting, Honolulu.

April 3 2013. Slater, P.A., Ambrose, S.H., Drigo, M.V., Wiessner, P. Ostrich eggshell isotope analysis: results and implications for reconstructing prehistoric exchange systems in the African Stone Age. Paleoanthropology Society annual meeting, Honolulu.

February 11 2013 *. Ambrose, S.H. The archaeology of modern human origins in Africa: The gift is mightier than the spear. Center for African Studies, 22nd Annual Distinguished Lecture in African Archaeology, University of Florida, Gainesville.

January 15 2013 *. Ambrose, S.H. Consequences of the Toba super-eruption for human adaptation and evolution. Symposium on Volcanic Eruptions and Human Vulnerabilities in Traditional Societies Past and Present. LaPaDiS, Department of Archaeology, Århus University, Denmark.

October 5 2012. Hedman, K.M., Slater, P.A., Emerson, T.E., Fort, M., Ambrose, S.H., Johnson, T.M., Lundstrom, C. Isotopic evidence of immigrants and interactions at Cahokia. Archaeological Sciences of the Americas Symposium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

August 16 2012. Zheng, N. Ambrose, S.H. Isotopic analysis of absorbed food residues in Dawenkou Neolithic pottery from Beiqian, Shandong, and experimental cooking vessels. 5th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China.

August 15 2012 *. Ambrose, S.H. Controlled diet experiments for diet reconstruction with stable isotopes of hair, muscle, bone collagen and bone apatite: A tail of 200 rats. 5th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China.

June 23 2012. Ambrose, S.H., Arnold, E.A., Carbaugh, A., Jaramillo, I. Tracing Maasai sheep and goat birth and diet seasonality with tooth enamel stable isotope analysis. Society for Africanist Archaeologists, Toronto, Canada.

April 21 2012. Ambrose, S.H., Ferguson, J., Glascock, M., Slater, P.A. Chemical fingerprinting of Kenyan obsidian sources and late Quaternary artifacts with NAA and XRF. Society for American Archaeology, 77th annual meeting, Memphis, Tennessee.

April 21 2012. Slater, P.A., Ambrose, S.H. Steele, I., Ferguson, J., Glascock, M. Chemical fingerprinting of Kenyan obsidian sources and late Quaternary artifacts with electron microprobe. Society for American Archaeology, 77th annual meeting, Memphis, Tennessee.

April 19, 2012. Madden, G., Arnold, E.R., Karsten, J., Ambrose, S.H. "Isotopic analysis in the re-proveniencing of undocumented human mummified remains." Society for American Archaeology, 77th annual meeting, Memphis, Tennessee.

April 19, 2012. Dong, Y., Ambrose, S.H., Luan, F., Lin, L., Gao, M. "Food choices and social stratification in late Neolithic northern China." Society for American Archaeology, 77th annual meeting, Memphis, Tennessee.

April 19, 2012. Freiwald, C., Ambrose, S.H. "Childhood and adult diet of the Classic Maya" Exploring dietary differences at the regional, household and individual level using carbon, oxygen and nitrogen isotope values." Society for American Archaeology, 77th annual meeting, Memphis, Tennessee.

April 18, 2012. Ambrose, S.H., Slater, P.A., Ferguson, J., Glascock, M., Steele, I. "Obsidian source survey and late quaternary artifact sourcing in Kenya: Implications for early modern human behavior." Paleoanthropology Society annual meeting, Memphis, Tennessee.

November 10, 2011.* "Models of the Younger Toba Tuff eruption: Implications for human adaptation and evolution." Geology Department, Purdue University, Indiana.

November 6, 2011.* Ambrose, S.H. "Models of the Younger Toba Tuff eruption: Implications for human adaptation and evolution." Anthropological Society of Nippon, 65th annual meeting, Okinawa Prefecture Museum, Okinawa, Japan.

October 7, 2011.* Ambrose, S.H. "Kalahari San ostrich eggshell stable isotope analysis: implications for reconstructing prehistoric exchange systems." Archaeology Department, University of York, U.K.

August 12, 2011.* Ambrose, S.H. "Apocalypse then: Consequences of the Younger Toba Tuff eruption for human adaptation and evolution. Conference on Severe Atmospheric Events. Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, University of Hamburg, Germany.

July 31, 2011.* Ambrose, S.H. "African Origin of Cooperation." 2nd Kenyan Teachers’ Workshop on Prehistory and Evolution. National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi.

May 26, 2011.* Ambrose, S.H. "Volcanic winter in the Garden of Eden?" Department of History and Archaeology, Seoul National University, South Korea.

April 15, 2011. Ambrose, S.H., WoldeGabriel, G., White, T.D., Suwa, G. "Reconstructing the environment of Ardipithecus ramidus with paleosol and tooth enamel carbon isotopes: Grassland or woodland?" American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, Minneapolis.

April 12, 2011. Ambrose, S.H., WoldeGabriel, G., White, T.D., Suwa, G. "The role of paleosol carbon isotopes in reconstructing the Ardipithecus ramidus habitat." Paleoanthropology Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis.

March 31, 2011.* Ambrose, S.H., Slater, P.A., Drigo, M.V., Wiessner, P. "Kalahari San ostrich eggshell stable isotope analysis: implications for reconstructing prehistoric exchange systems ". Society for American Archaeology, 76th annual meeting, Sacramento.

March 22, 2011.* Ambrose, S.H. "Reconstructing the habitat of Ardipithecus ramidus with paleosol and tooth enamel carbon isotopes: Woodland or grassland?" School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University.

November 12 2010 Ambrose, S.H., Slater, P.A. Geochemical characterization of obsidian sources and provenience of Middle Stone Age artifacts in the Kenya Rift Valley. Science and Archaeology Symposium, Illinois State Archaeological Survey, Urbana, Illinois.

November 12 2010. Jaramillo, I., Ambrose, S.H., Arnold, E., Carbaugh, A. Identifying birth seasonality and diet in Masai sheep and goats with tooth enamel oxygen and carbon isotope analysis. Science and Archaeology Symposium, Illinois State Archaeological Survey, Urbana, Illinois.

June 11 2010*. Reconstructing the environment of Ardipithecus: Grassland or woodland? Staff seminar series, Earth Sciences Division, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi.

May 13 2010. Ferguson, J.R., Ambrose, S.H., Glascock, M.D. A multi-tier and multi-method approach to the Analysis of obsidian source data from the Central Rift Valley of Kenya. 38th International Symposium on Archaeometry, Tampa, Florida.

April 17 2010. Waskiewicz Pugh, C., Ambrose, S.H. Turkey management and bison trade at T’aitöna (Pot Creek Pueblo). Society for American Archaeology, 75th annual meeting, St. Louis, MO.

April 17 2010. Dong, Y., Ambrose, S.H., Chen, H., Cui, Y., Hu, Y. Paleodietary reconstruction at late Neolithic Zongri site, western China. Society for American Archaeology, 75th annual meeting, St. Louis, MO.

April 17 2010. Betts, C., Ambrose, S.H. Spatial, temporal and seasonal sources of isotopic variability in Plains bison. Society for American Archaeology, 75th annual meeting, St. Louis.

April 17 2010. Ambrose, S.H., Arnold, E.A., Carbaugh, A., Jaramillo, I. Identifying birth seasonality in Masai sheep and goats with intra-tooth oxygen isotope variation. Society for American Archaeology, 75th annual meeting, St. Louis, MO.

April 14 2010. Ambrose, S.H., Deino, A. "Technological diversity and geochronology of Middle Stone Age Industries in the Central Rift Valley, Kenya: Implications for the evolution of modern human behavior." Paleoanthropology Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.

March 5, 2010*. Ambrose, S.H. Apocalypse Then? Volcanic winter and modern humans in India. Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis.

August 17, 2009. Ambrose, S.H., Deino, A. "Chronology of technological diversity of MSA industries in the Central Rift Valley, Kenya: Implications for the evolution of modern human behavior." East African Association for Paleoanthropology and Paleontology, Second Annual Meeting, August 16-21, 2009, Arusha, Tanzania.

April 23, 2009. Coleman, M.E., Robertson, D.J., Ferguson, J.R., Glascock, M.D., Ambrose, S.H. "Further studies into the geochemistry of obsidian from Kenya." Society For American Archaeology, 74th annual meeting, Atlanta.

October 15, 2008* Ambrose, S.H. Later Stone Age during the late Upper Pleistocene and Holocene in highland Kenya. Human Evolution Workshop: Holocene Archaeology of the Turkana Basin. Stony Brook University, New York.

September 12 2008* Ambrose, S.H. Strontium isotope studies of mobility, seasonality and exchange. Strontium Isotope Workshop, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder.

May 13 2008 Coleman, M.E., Ferguson, J.R., Glascock, M.D., Ambrose, S.H. ‘"Revisiting obsidian from Eastern Africa. Poster presentation at the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, Siena, Italy.

March 27 2008. Coleman, M.E., Robertson, D.J., Ferguson, J.R., Glascock, M.D., Ambrose, S.H. "Revisiting obsidian from eastern Africa. Society for American Archaeology, 73rd annual meeting, Vancouver.

March 28 2008. Dong, Y., Ambrose, S.H., Pechenkina, E.A., Liu, L., Chen, X. Isotopic evidence for changes in Neolithic Chinese domestic pig herd management. Society for American Archaeology, 73rd annual meeting, Vancouver.

March 27 2008. Coleman, M.E. Ferguson, J.R., Glascock, M.D., Robertson, J.D. Ambrose, S.H. Revisiting obsidian from eastern Africa. Society for American Archaeology, 73rd annual meeting, Vancouver.

March 27 2008. Ambrose, S.H. Oxygen isotope variation in modern and prehistoric human bones in eastern and southern Africa. Society for American Archaeology, 73rd annual meeting, Vancouver.

March 27 2008. Meiggs, D.C., Ambrose, S.H. Gradients in caprine δ18O intra-tooth profiles from Neolithic Gritille, Turkey: Implications for herd management, human mobility and subsistence. Society for American Archaeology, 73rd annual meeting, Vancouver.

March 26 2008. Ambrose, S. H., Williams, M.A.J., van der Kaars, S., Chattopadhyaya, U., Pal, J., Chauhan, P.R., Guichard, F., Bassinot, F., and Ruehlemann, C. Paleosol carbonate and pollen evidence for deforestation and cooling in South Asia caused by the Toba super-eruption: Implications for human evolution. Paleoanthropology Society annual meeting, Vancouver.

March 26 2008. Hildebrand, E., Brandt, S. Fischer, E., Mohammed, M., Wang, H., Ambrose, S. H., Roberts, R., Grun, R. SW Ethiopia as a Late Pleistocene refugium: Recent excavations at Moche Borago rockshelter, Ethiopia. Paleoanthropology Society annual meeting, Vancouver.

March 12 2008* Coevolution of composite tool technology, working memory and language: Implications for the evolution of modern human behavior. Wenner-Gren Symposium 139: Working Memory and the Evolution of Modern Thinking. Fortaleza do Guincho, Cascais, Portugal.

November 9 2007* The Archaeology of Modern Human Origins in East Africa: isolating the final stages of the transition with obsidian source use in the Middle and Later Stone Age in Kenya. Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia.

November 3 2007* The Toba supereruption and human evolution. Cernan Earth and Space Center, Triton College, Chicago.

May 14 2007* Controlled diet experiments to determine stable carbon isotope fractionation factors in bone collagen, apatite, lipids and amino acids. World Universities Network Archaeometry Consortium (York University, UK). Interactive live video seminar webcast.

March 23 2007* Reconstructing seasonal variation in diet and climate with stable isotope ratios of herbivore teeth. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

March 31 2007 Stable carbon isotope evidence for Neolithic Chinese diet differences in the Huang He and Yangtze River valleys. S.H. Ambrose, S.H, Wang, R., Dong, Y., Pechenkina, E.A., Liu,, L., Hu, Y,, Wang, C,, Chen,, X. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 76th annual meeting, Philadelphia.

July 24 2007* The paleoecology and paleogeographic context of Lemudong’o Locality 1, a Late Miocene terrestrial fossil site in southern Kenya. Ambrose, S.H., Bell, C.J., Bernor, R.L., Boisserie, J.-R., Darwent, C.M., DeGusta, D., Deino, A.L., Garcia, N., Haile-Selassie, Y., Head, J.J., Howell, F.C., Hlusko, L.H., Kyule, M.D., Manthi, F.K., Mathu, E.M., Nyamai, C.M., Pickford, M., Saegusa, H., Stidham, T. and Williams, M.A.J. INQUA project 403: Out of Africa in the Pleistocene. National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi.

April 27 2006 Behavioral complexity in projectile technology during the MSA/LSA transition in East Africa. Society for American Archaeology, 71st annual meeting, San Juan.

April 28 2006 Evaluating Oneota bison hunting through stable isotope analysis. Betts, C., Ambrose, S.H. Society for American Archaeology, 71st annual meeting, San Juan.

April 30 2006. Changing water temperatures at Maycock’s Point and the effect on Middle Woodland subsistence”. Stevenson, Christopher M. and Ambrose, S.H. Society for American Archaeology, 71st annual meeting, San Juan.

September 8 2005*. Isolating the transition to cultural adaptations in the Middle Stone Age in East Africa. Rethinking the Human Revolution. Cambridge University.

July 19, 2005*. “Marmonet Drift MSA: field excursion in the central Rift Valley, Kenya.” Workshop on the Middle Stone Age of East Africa. National Museums of Kenya and Ethiopia.

July 17 2005*. Current research on MSA sites in south Narok and central Rift Valley. Workshop on the Middle Stone Age of East Africa. National Museums of Kenya and Ethiopia.

April 6 2005. “Isotopic paleoecology of Plio-Pleistocene mammals and paleosols, Konso Formation, southern Ethiopia.” S.H. Ambrose, G. Suwa, S. Katoh, Y. Bayene, B. Asfaw. Paleoanthropology Society, Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI.

April 2 2005. Stable carbon isotope evidence for winter feeding on seaweed in the Neolithic of Scotland M. Balasse, A. Tresset, K. Dobney and S.H. Ambrose. Society for American Archaeology, 70th annual meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.

March 31, 2005 “Reconstructing Mississippian diet in the American Bottom with stable isotope ratios of potsherd residues.” D. Beehr and S.H. Ambrose. Society for American Archaeology, 70th annual meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.

March 31, 2005 “Chinese Neolithic human and animal diet reconstruction with stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of bone collagen and apatite.” S.H. Ambrose and R. Wang. Society for American Archaeology, 70th annual meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.

March 12, 2005* “Reconstructing seasonal variation in diet and climate with stable isotope ratios of herbivore teeth.” Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

March 12, 2005* “Transitions from Acheulean to MSA and MSA to LSA in East Africa: implications for the evolution of modern human behavior.” Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

November 4, 2004* “Rock art at Lukenya Hill, Kenya (field excursion leader).” Rock Art Conference, Trust for African Rock Art, Nairobi.

November 3, 2004* “Transformation of a rock art panel at GvJm16 Lukenya Hill, Kenya.” Rock Art Conference, Trust for African Rock Art, Nairobi.

September 8, 2004* “Transitions from Acheulean to MSA and MSA to LSA in East Africa: implications for the evolution of modern human behavior.” Workshop on the Evolution of Modern Humans. Stony Brook University, New York.

September 7, 2004* “Population bottlenecks (and expansions) in recent human evolution.” Workshop on the Evolution of Modern Humans. Stony Brook University, New York.

September 4, 2004* “Obsidian source use in the Middle and Later Stone Age in Kenya: implications for the evolution of modern human behavior.” S.H. Ambrose and I. Steele. Obsidian Summit International Workshop. Rikkyo University, Tokyo.

September 3, 2004* “Obsidian hydration dating and source exploitation studies in East Africa.” Obsidian Summit International Workshop. Rikkyo University, Tokyo.

June 28, 2004 “Implications of a Late Pleistocene human genetic bottleneck for African prehistory.” Society of Africanist Archaeologists, biennial meeting, Bergen, Norway.

June 27, 2004 “The MSA/LSA transition in southwest Kenya: current research.” Society of Africanist Archaeologists, biennial meeting, Bergen, Norway.

May 26 2004* “Reconstructing seasonal variation in diet and climate with stable isotope ratios of herbivore teeth, or Nature read in tooth (and claw)”. Anthropology Department, Field Museum, Chicago.

March 31, 2004 “J. Desmond Clark, Glynn Isaac, and the troop-to-tribe transition in the evolution of modern human behavior.” Paleoanthropology Society, Annual Meeting. McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

March 27, 2004 “A Late Pleistocene population bottleneck, the evolution of modern human behavior, and dispersals out of Africa.” Second Annual conference on Africa and the Genome, symposium session: Out of and Into Africa. Ain Shams University (Egypt), and Council for Scientific Research (South Africa), Mina House Hotel, Giza, Cairo.

March 13, 2004 “Were they what they cooked? Investigating maize-usage patterns through stable isotope analysis of Mississippian pot-sherd residues.” D.E. Beehr and S.H. Ambrose. Annual Visiting. Scholars conference: We Are What We Eat: Archaeology of Food and Identity. Center for American Archaeology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

February 20, 2004* “The African origin of modern humans: archaeological, genetic and environmental perspectives.” Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville.

February 19, 2004* “Stable isotopic evidence for dietary versus environmental differences between neanderthals and early modern humans: interpretations based on controlled observations and experiments. Interdisciplinary/Interdepartmental Monthly Forum on Stable Isotopes in Animal Tissues. University of Florida, Gainesville.

November 7, 2003* “East African ceramic traditions”. Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis.

August 9, 2003 “The emergence of modern humans: Evidence from the Kenya Rift Valley”. Seminar on Current Archaeology and Paleoanthropological Research in Kenya. National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi.

July 24, 2003 “Mobility pattern of Neolithic herders in the Central Rift Valley of Kenya, assessed by isotope analysis of domestic animal teeth. M. Balasse and S.H. Ambrose). 6th symposium on the Later Prehistory of Northeast Africa, Poznan, Poland

April 24, 2003 “Influence of trophic level on bone oxygen isotope ratios.” American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 72nd Annual Meeting, Tempe, AZ.

April 22, 2003 “Determining early hominid habitats in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia, with paleosol stable isotopes.” Paleoanthropology Society Annual Meeting, Tempe, AZ.

April 12, 2003 “The troop-to-tribe transition in the evolution of modern human behavior.” Society for American Archaeology, 68th Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI.

March 26, 2003 “Unraveling the stable carbon isotope signature of bone collagen.” R.P. Evershed, S. Jim and S.H. Ambrose. 225th American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans.

March 26, 2003 “Effects of hydrolysis on the δ13C values of individual amino acids derived from polypeptides and proteins.” S. Jim, R.P. Evershed and S.H. Ambrose. 225th American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans.

December 9, 2002* “Archaeology of Modern Human Origins: Current Research In Kenya.” Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol.

October 30, 2002* “Reconstructing the environmental context of six million years of hominid evolution in the Middle Awash Valley, with stable isotope geochemistry.” Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

October 9, 2002 “Lemudong’o, a late Miocene mammalian-dominated locality in southern Kenya.” L. Hlusko, S.H. Ambrose, R. Bernor, T. Stidham, A. Deino. Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, 62nd Annual Meeting, Norman, OK.

June 2, 2002 “The Troop-to-Tribe Transition in the evolution of modern human behavior”. Symposium on Paleontological and Archaeological Insights into Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

April 19, 2002* “Ice Age human population colonization and climatic bottlenecks, and biocultural evolution.” Department of Biology, Eastern Illinois University.

April 13, 2002 "Lemudong'o: a late Miocene fossil site in southern Kenya." S.H. Ambrose, L. Hlusko, M. Kyule, A. Deino, M.A.J. Williams. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 71st Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY.

April 12, 2002 "Prehistoric population movement in southern coastal and highland Peru: Bone isotopic evidence." P. Tomczak, S. Ambrose and D. Blom. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 71st Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY.

March, 22, 2002 "Temporal trends versus cycles in the Middle Stone Age of East Africa." Symposium on Temporal Trends in the Middle Stone Age and Middle Paleolithic. Society for American Archaeology, 67th Annual Meeting, Denver.

March 20, 2002 "The emergence of modern human behavior during the Late Middle Stone Age in the Kenya Rift Valley." (S.H. Ambrose, A. Deino, M. Kyule, I. Steele and M.A.J. Williams. Paleoanthropology Society, Annual Meeting, Denver.

February 28, 2002* "The evolution of language: A paleoanthropological perspective". Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois.

January 23, 2002* "The evolution of modern human behavior in Africa: Current research in Kenya". Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle.

January 22, 2002* "The impact of volcanic winter at 71,000 BP on human biocultural evolution". Quaternary Research Center seminar series: Dynamics of Human-Environment Interaction: A Quaternary Perspective. University of Washington, Seattle.

December 10, 2001 “Assessment of dietary variations among red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in east-central Illinois by stable isotope analysis.” S.R. Lavin, T.R. Van Deelen, P.W. Brown, S.H. Ambrose, T.E. Gosselink and R.E. Warner. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Des Moines, IA.

November 7, 2001* “Are you what you eat? Tracing the metabolic fate of dietary macronutrients with bone collagen and carbonate carbon isotopes.” Nutritional Sciences Program, University of Illinois, Urbana.

September 9, 2001 “Environmental and dietary influences on oxygen isotopes in bone carbonate and phosphate.” Sixth Advanced Seminar on Paleodiet. University of California, Santa Cruz.

June 23, 2001* “The archaeology of modern human origins in the Kenya Rift Valley.” Prehistory Club of Kenya. Hyrax Hill Site Museum, Nakuru, Kenya.

April 19, 2001 "Gender and status differences in diet at Mound 72, Cahokia, revealed by isotopic analysis of bone." S.H. Ambrose, J. Buikstra and H. W. Krueger. Society of American Archaeology, 66th Annual Meeting, New Orleans.

April 19, 2001 "Seasonal variation in sheep tooth enamel carbon isotopes in Kasteelberg, South Africa." M. Balasse, A.B. Smith and S.H. Ambrose. Society of American Archaeology, 66th Annual Meeting, New Orleans.

February 18, 2001* “The impact of volcanic winter on human biocultural evolution.” Anthropology Club, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington.

November 7-9, 2000 "Marginal horticulturalists or maize agriculturalists? Archaeobotanical paleopathological, and isotopic data on Langford Tradition subsistence practices". T.E. Emerson, K. Hedman, M. Simon, and S.H. Ambrose. Joint Midwest Archaeological and Plains Anthropology conference, Minneapolis.

September 8, 2000* "Diet reconstruction with stable isotopes of bones and teeth: Experiments and applications." Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

April 5, 2000 "Dating the MSA/LSA transition in southwest Kenya." S.H. Ambrose, M.D. Kyule, M. Muia, A. Deino, and M.A.J. Williams. Society for American Archaeology, 65th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.

April 3, 2000 "Change in Middle Stone Age settlement patterns in the Central Rift Valley, Kenya." Paleoanthropology Society, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.

March 9, 2000* "Diet reconstruction with stable isotopes of prehistoric human bone: Experiments and applications." Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop on Archaeology, Technology and Society.

October 24, 1999. "Reconstructing human diets with bone collagen and carbonate carbon isotopes: experiments and applications." Invited topical symposium T102: "Perspectives on our Ancestors: Organic Geochemistry Division Symposium on Old World and New World Human Populations." Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Denver.

April 27, 1999 "Composite tool manufacture and the evolution of language." Paleoanthropology Society, 8th Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH.

January 13, 1999 "African human diet reconstruction with stable isotopes of collagen and apatite." Symposium on Theory and Practice of Isotopic Dietary Studies. World Archaeology Congress 4, Cape Town, South Africa.

January 12, 1999 "The impact of volcanic winter on modern human biological and cultural evolution." Symposium on Catastrophism, Natural Disasters, and Cultural Change. World Archaeological Congress 4, Cape Town, South Africa.

January 11, 1999 "Problems and Prospects for Accurate Chronometric Dating of the Middle Stone Age in the Kenya Rift Valley." Symposium on Millennial Landmarks: 100,000 Years Ago. World Archaeological Congress 4, Cape Town, South Africa.

January 5, 1999 "Middle and Later Stone Age settlement patterns in the Central Rift Valley, Kenya: Comparisons and contrasts." 2nd conf. of UISPP Commission 27: Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age Settlement Patterns. Institüt für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters Abteilung Älter Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany.

October 1, 1998* "Human population bottlenecks, volcanic winter and modern human evolution." Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

September 30 1998 Implications of 24 controlled diet experiments for diet reconstruction with carbon isotopes of bone collagen and carbonate. Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, 58th annual meeting, Snowbird, Utah.

July 22 1998* Reconstructing the environment of Ardipithecus ramidus, the earliest hominid in Ethiopia. Quaternary Research Center, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

June 23 1998* Reconstructing East African hominid environments with paleosol stable isotope ratios: Examples from the Holocene, Pleistocene and Pliocene. Laboratoire du Biogéochimie Isotopique, CNRS-INRA, Université de Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

April 23 1998* "Population bottlenecks, volcanic winter, and modern human variation." Department of Anthropology, Drew University.

April 8 1998* Volcanic winter and modern human evolution. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

April 7 1998* Stable carbon isotope ratios of bone as dietary tracers: Controlled diet experiments and applications to prehistoric humans. Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

March 27 1998 Effect of geomagnetic field strength variation on the chronology of the Middle to Later Stone Age transition." Society for American Archaeology, 63rd annual meeting, Seattle.

March 27 1998 Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleosol stable isotope analysis of Ntuka River 3, southwest Kenya. J.L. Atkinson and S.H. Ambrose. Society for American Archaeology, 63rd annual meeting, Seattle.

February 24,1998* Volcanic Winter and modern human evolution. Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology, Indiana University.

February 23 1998* Reconstructing African hominid environments with paleosol stable isotopes. Seminar Series, Department of Geology, Indiana University.

December 10,1997* Diet and nutrition in prehistoric humans. Omni Magazine on-line cyber interview ().

October 5 1997* The human population bottleneck, volcanic winter, technological change, and the origin of modern human behavior. Conference on Human Evolution. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York.

September 2 1997 Results of 24 controlled diet experiments on carbon and nitrogen isotopes of bone collagen and carbonate: implications for diet reconstruction. Fifth Advanced Seminar on Paleodiets, Valbonne (CNRS), France.

May 23 1997 Stratigraphy, sedimentology and paleosol stable isotope analysis of Ntuka River 3, a late Pleistocene archaeological site in Kenya: preliminary report. J.L. Atkinson and S.H. Ambrose. Soils, Geomorphology and Archaeology (Pedo-Archaeology), third International Conference. Luray, VA.

April 5 1997 Carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis of hair of fishers, farmers and hunter-gatherers in Cameroon." S.H. Ambrose and A. Froment. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 66th annual meeting, St. Louis.

April 2 1997 Implications of geomagnetic field variation for the chronology of the Middle to Later Stone Age and Middle to Upper Paleolithic transitions Paleoanthropology Society, sixth annual meeting, St. Louis.

April 1 1997 Pliocene and Pleistocene sites in southern Narok District, southwest Kenya. S.H. Ambrose M.D. Kyule, M.P. Noll, and J.L. Atkinson. Paleoanthropology Society, sixth annual meeting, St. Louis.

July 10 1996* Volcanic winter, the population bottleneck in the early Upper Pleistocene, and the origin of modern human races. Quaternary Research Center (QUARC), University of Cape Town.

May 22 1996 Diet reconstruction with stable isotopes of collagen and apatite: examples from Africa, Micronesia and North America. 30th International Symposium on Archaeometry, Urbana.

April 13 1996 Lithic raw material patterns in the Later Stone Age of East Africa. Society for American Archaeology, 61st annual meeting, New Orleans.

April 10 1996 Prospects for stable isotopic analysis of Later Pleistocene hominid diets in central Europe and western Asia. Paleoanthropology Society, fifth annual meeting, New Orleans.

March 15 1996* After the Garden of Eden: Reduction and expansion of Late Pleistocene modern human populations. Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis.

December 20 1995* The African origin of modern humans. Champaign West Rotary Club.

November 24, 1995* Prospects for stable isotopic analysis of Later Pleistocene hominid diets in western Asia. Symposium on Neanderthals and Modern Humans in West Asia. Tokyo University.

October 17 1995* Paleoenvironment of the earliest hominid in Ethiopia. Program in Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials. University of Illinois, Urbana.

June 20 1995 New evidence for Middle Holocene subsistence and settlement in the Central Rift Valley, Kenya. Pan African Association for Prehistory and Related Studies, 10th Congress, Harare, Zimbabwe.

April 3 1995* Quantification of protein and non-protein diet components by carbon isotope analysis of bone collagen and carbonate. Symposium on Archaeological Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 209th national meeting, Anaheim, CA.

April 2 1995* Advances in stable carbon isotope analysis in archaeological research. Symposium on Archaeological Chemistry, Pedagogical Symposium, American Chemical Society, 209th national meeting, Anaheim, CA. Transcribed lecture published as a summary of three major papers introducing the Archaeological Chemistry Symposium, by Wen Chen and M.V. Orna (1996) Recent advances in Archaeological Chemistry. Journal of Chemical Education 73: 485-490.

March 31 1995 Stable isotopic analysis of human diet in the Marianas archipelago. S.H. Ambrose, B.M. Butler, D.B. Hanson and R.L. Hunter-Anderson. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 64th annual meeting, Oakland, CA.

March 28 1995 Paleoecology and paleobiogeography of Late Miocene hominoid/hominid cladogenesis: Was the trichotomy a reality? Paleoanthropology Society, fourth annual meeting, Oakland, CA.

September 4 1994 Controlled diet and climate experiments on nitrogen isotope ratios of rat bone collagen, hair and muscle. Fourth Advanced Seminar on Paleodiet. Banff, Alberta, Canada.

April 29 1994 The Pleistocene/Holocene boundary in the Central Rift Valley, Kenya. Society for Africanist Archaeologists, 12th biennial meeting, Indiana University, Bloomington.

April 22 1994 Stable isotopic analysis of human diet variation in Micronesia. S.H. Ambrose, B.M. Butler, D. Hanson, R. Hunter-Anderson and H.W. Krueger. Society for American Archaeology, 59th annual meeting, Anaheim.

April 20 1994 A big bang and a bottleneck in the Upper Pleistocene? Society for American Archaeology, 59th annual meeting, Anaheim.

April 20 1994 Technological change, volcanic winter, and genetic evidence for the spread of modern humans from Africa. Paleoanthropology Society, third annual meeting, Anaheim.

March 26 1994* Reconstructing grass/tree ratios with stable carbon isotopes of soils. International Workshop on Tropical Pedology and Landscape Degradation. MacArthur Foundation and Center for African Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana.

November 12 1993 Complexities of cultural geography in highland Kenya: an ecological perspective. Chacmool Conference, 26th annual meeting, Archaeological Association, Calgary.

November 10 1993* Technology, climate and mitochondrial DNA: Is the Garden of Eden in East Africa? Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary.

April 26 1993* Late Pleistocene/early Holocene hunter-gatherers of the Kenya Rift Valley. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

April 16 1993 Relationship of carbon isotope ratios of whole diet and dietary protein to those of bone collagen and carbonate. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 62nd annual meeting, Toronto.

April 15 1993 Relationship of carbon isotope ratios of dietary protein and energy to those of bone collagen and apatite. Society for American Archaeology, 58th annual meeting, St. Louis.

April 14 1993 Home on the range: Animal and dietary models of early hominid home range size. N. Sikes and S.H. Ambrose. Paleoanthropology Society, second annual meeting, Toronto.

January 14 1993* Using laboratory rats to help reconstruct ancient human diets. S.H. Ambrose and L. Norr. American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Central Illinois Branch, Decatur, IL.

October 30 1992* Controlled dietary experiments with rats and the resultant isotopic signatures in bone collagen and apatite. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

October 28 1992 The oxygen isotope ecology of East African mammal bone. Symposium on Stable Isotopes and Trace Element Geochemistry of Fossil Vertebrates: Interpretation of Ancient Diets and Climates. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 52nd annual meeting, Toronto.

July 2 1992 Forager-herder interactions and the advent of pastoralism in highland East Africa. South African Association of Archaeologists, biennial meeting, Cape Town, South Africa.

July 4, 1992 Soil carbon isotope evidence for habitat change in the Kenya Rift Valley: Implications for hunter-gatherer settlement preferences and the advent of food production. South African Association of Archaeologists, biennial meeting, Cape Town, South Africa.

June 29 1992* Soil carbon isotope evidence for vegetation change in the Kenya Rift Valley. Paleoenvironments Working Group, University of Cape Town.

June 24 1992* Prehistoric climate change and land use in the Rift Valley, Kenya. Department of Geography, Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya.

June 23 1992* Tracing animal diets and habitats in the central Rift Valley with stable carbon isotopes. Department of Natural Resources, Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya.

22 June, 1992* The origin of food production in highland Kenya. Department of History, Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya.

April 9, 1992 Stable isotope analysis of Pleistocene archaeofaunas from Central Europe. 57th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh.

March 27 1992 The Pleistocene cultural sequence at Enkapune Ya Muto, Kenya. Society of Africanist Archaeologists, 11th biennial meeting, Los Angeles.

March 26 1992 Modeling early hominid home range sizes. S.H. Ambrose, N.E. Sikes. Society of Africanist Archaeologists, 11th biennial meeting, Los Angeles.

March 25 1992* Are you what you eat? Controlled diet experiments for diet reconstruction with stable isotopes." Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

March 23 1992 Purification of bone collagen of European Upper Pleistocene mammals for stable isotopic analysis. 28th International Symposium on Archaeometry, Los Angeles.

March 6 1992* Carbon isotopes in human evolution and diet. CRAFT Anthropology Lecture Series, University of Indiana, Bloomington.

September 2 1991* Relationship of dietary protein and energy isotopic composition to that of bone collagen and apatite: the design and initial results of purified diet growth experiments. Third Advanced Seminar on Paleodiet, Bad-Homburg, Germany.

May 17 1991* Archaeology and stable isotopes in the Kenya Rift Valley. Illinois State Museum, Springfield.

April 6 1991 Paleosol carbon isotope evidence for Middle Miocene woodland and forest at Fort Ternan, Kenya. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 60th annual meeting, Milwaukee.

November 7 1990* Reconstruction of prehistoric African diets and climates with stable isotopes. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Chicago.

May 24 1990* Paleoenvironmental reconstruction with carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of herbivore bone collagen. International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ), Sixth International Conference, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

May 17 1990* They were what they ate: Reconstructing prehistoric human diet with bone chemistry. South Suburban (Chicago) Archaeological Society, Homewood IL.

April 21 1990 Soil carbon isotope evidence for Holocene habitat change in the Kenya Rift Valley. S.H. Ambrose and N.E. Sikes. Society for American Archaeology, 56th annual meeting, Las Vegas.

March 23 1990 Soil carbon isotope evidence for Holocene habitat change in the Kenya Rift Valley. S.H. Ambrose and N.E. Sikes. Society of Africanist Archaeologists, 10th biennial meeting, Gainesville.

March 22 1990 Hunter-gatherer/herder interactions in highland East Africa. Society of Africanist Archaeologists, 10th biennial meeting, Gainesville.

November 18 1989 Are you what you eat? Problems with dietary interpretations of stable isotope ratios in human bones. American Anthropological Association, 88th annual meeting, Washington.

May 26, 1989* Sedentary hunter-gatherers in highland East Africa: Ethnographic and archaeological perspectives. Sedentism Colloquium, Clare Hall, Cambridge University.

April 24 1989* Who were the later prehistoric East Africans? African Protohistory Symposium. 16th Annual African Studies Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana.

April 7 1989 A data base for the analysis of pottery use in Somalia. Whitney, S., Wenner, D.B., Ambrose, S.H. Geological Society of America, Southeastern Section, 38th annual meeting, Atlanta.

April 1 1989 Radiocarbon chronology of the Later Stone Age in East Africa. Society for American Archaeology, 54th annual meeting, Atlanta.

February 28 1989* Climatic reconstruction using charcoal and soil stable carbon isotopes in terrestrial ecosystems. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Iowa State University.

February 28,1989* Close to the bone: Isotopic traces of prehistoric human diet". Lectures Program, Iowa State University.

July 25, 1988* Swat redux: Ecologic relations of ethnic groups in highland Kenya. Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 12th International Congress, Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

July 19 1988* Environmental, physiological and diagenetic influences on bone collagen stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios. International Workshop on Fossil Bone, Oxford, UK.

June 7 1988 How do diet, climate and physiology influence nitrogen isotope abundances in terrestrial ecosystems? Second Advanced Seminar on Bone Chemistry and Diet, Cape Town.

March 19 1988* Environmental and physiological influences on bone collagen stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios: archaeological applications. Rubey Colloquium on Stable Isotopes. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.

November 20, 1987 How old is anatomically modern Homo sapiens? Radiocarbon cannot tell us. American Anthropological Association, 86th annual meeting, Chicago.

May 26 1987* Isotopic and archaeological reconstruction of Late Quaternary environments, mammalian ecology and human diet in the Central Rift Valley, Kenya. Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia.

May 15 1987* Habitat reconstruction using stable carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotope analysis of animal bone. Symposium on Stable Isotope Techniques for Climate Reconstruction. Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle.

March 23 1987 Social and ecological models for the Howieson's Poort tradition in southern Africa. International Symposium: The Origins and Dispersal of Modern Humans: Behavioral and Biological Perspectives. Cambridge, England.

March 13 1987* Diet and human evolution in Africa: Reconstruction of diet with stable isotopes. Department of Anthropology, University of Indiana, Bloomington.

December 5 1986 The earliest archaeological traces: proximate and ultimate causes. American Anthropological Association, 85th annual meeting, Philadelphia.

November 9 1986* Recent developments in stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of bone. 19th Annual Chacmool Conference. Diet and Subsistence: Current Archaeological Perspectives. University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

April 26 1986 Why African hunters gather. Society for American Archaeology, 52nd annual meeting, New Orleans.

April 14 1986* Stable isotope analysis of human diet in Africa. International Symposium: The Longest Record, in honor of J. Desmond Clark, University of California, Berkeley.

March 28 1986* Chemical and isotopic techniques of diet reconstruction in Eastern North America." Symposium on Emergent Horticultural Economies of the Eastern Woodlands. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

May 5 1985 Dietary reconstruction in eastern and southern Africa based on bone collagen stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios. Society for American Archaeology, 51st annual meeting, Denver.

January 5 1985* The relevance of the Dorobo to the prehistory of East Africa. International Symposium: African Hunter-Gatherers. University of Cologne, West Germany.

December 12 1984* Resource partitioning, character displacement and Plio-Pleistocene hominid evolution. Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Stony Brook.

December 6 1984* East African hunters: Are they nomads without cattle? Institute of Archaeology, Seminar Series, University of California, Los Angeles.

July 26 1984* Stable isotope techniques of paleodietary and paleoclimatic reconstruction. Department of Anatomy, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg.

April 1 1984 Excavations at Twilight Cave, Naivasha, Kenya. Society of Africanist Archaeologists in America, Eighth Biennial Meeting, Portland, Oregon.

May 14 1983 Hunter-gatherer settlement patterns in the central Rift Valley, Kenya. Kroeber Anthropological Society, Berkeley, CA.

November 10 1982* Isotopes and the Eburran. Symposium on Later Prehistory in Eastern Africa. British Institute in Eastern Africa and National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi.

October 6 1982* Problems in the archaeology of the Rift Valley, Kenya. South African Archaeological Society, Claremont, Cape.

June 15 1979* Historical linguistic reconstructions in East Africa: The archaeological evidence. Symposium on Historical and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History. African Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles.

November 17 1978* The differentiation of Pastoral Neolithic adaptations in the central highlands of East Africa. Symposium on the Causes and Consequences of Food Production in Africa. American Anthropological Association, 77th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles.

September 12-15 1977* Rift Valley Excursion Leader. Eighth Pan-African Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies, Nairobi.

September 10 1977 A reassessment of the taxonomic status of the Kenya Capsian. Eighth Pan-African Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies, Nairobi.

September 9 1977 Elmenteitan and other later Pastoral Neolithic adaptations in the central highlands of East Africa. Eighth Pan-African Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies, Nairobi.

April 26 1977 The archaeology of Masai Gorge Rockshelter. Society of Africanist Archaeologists in America, Fourth Biennial Meeting, New Orleans.

FIELD AND LABORATORY EXPERIENCE

2017 Rescue excavation and analysis of Neolithic cremation and cairn burial sites Olmesutie location, Narok, Kenya (January, June-August), with F. Marshall (Washington University, St. Louis) and National Museums of Kenya staff.

1985-2017 UIUC Anthropology Environmental Isotope Paleobiogeochemistry Laboratory. Research on dietary and environmental reconstruction with stable carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and strontium isotope ratios of animal, plants, soils and geological materials.

2015-17 Red ochre geological source survey, rock art survey and ethnography of Kenya herders and foragers (fieldwork June-2015-July 2017) with Andrew Zipkin (UIUC) and Merci Gakii (National Museum of Kenya); geochemical analysis at UIUC with Craig Lundstrom.

2015 Excavation of late Quaternary fossil soil profiles in Acheulean and Middle Stone Age paleolandscapes for stable isotope analysis. Halibee area Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia (Dec 2015-Jan 2016).

2014 Analysis of lithic assemblages in the Kenya National Museum from the Ntuka region, Narok County, Kenya (June-July.)

2013 Excavation of Marmonet Drift MSA site, Naivasha, Kenya (supervision of excavations for P. Slater's dissertation research, June-July).

2013 Stratigraphy, archaeology and stable isotope analysis of Lower Pleistocene Dhansi Formation paleosols (fieldwork in May).

2012 Obsidian and red ochre geological source survey in Kenya (June-July).

2011 Domesticated pastoral landscapes in Southern Kenya: Neolithic pastoral settlements on savanna grassland ecosystems and isotopic analysis of anthropic sediments. Co-PI Fiona Marshall, Washington University (fieldwork June-July).

2008-2011 Obsidian geological source survey and chemical fingerprinting of sources and late Quaternary obsidian artifacts from Kenya.

2010 Stratigraphy, archaeology and stable isotope analysis of paleosols in stratigraphic sections with Toba volcanic ash, Gujrat, India (fieldwork in December).

2007 Sedimentary stratigraphy of Mt. Damota region, Wolayta, Southern Ethiopia (June). Artifact analysis in the National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, and fossil collection in Lemudong’o Formation (July/August).

2006 Exploration of caves in the Flinders Range, South Australia, for stalagmites for climatic reconstruction of the Upper Pleistocene period of the Toba eruption (December).

2005 Stratigraphy, archaeology and stable isotope analysis of paleosols in stratigraphic sections with Toba volcanic ash, Son and Narmada valleys, India (November).

2000-2006 Survey and analyses of late Quaternary archaeological and Mio-Pliocene paleontological sites, and geochronology and tephrastratigraphy of volcanic ashes in Nakuru and Narok Districts, Kenya (3 months per year).

2002 Excavation of middle/early Pliocene soil profiles and collection of paleosol carbonate isotope samples, Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia (November).

2002 Excavation of early Plio-Pleistocene soil profiles and collection of fossil suid, bovid and equid tooth enamel for stable isotope analysis, in Konso-Gardula, Ethiopia (September)

1999 ThermoQuest - Finnigan MAT 252 Operator Training Course (one week), Applications Laboratory, Bremen, Germany.

1999 Survey and excavation of archaeological sites in Narok District, Kenya (six weeks).

1998 Excavation of Late Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene fossil soil profiles for stable isotope analysis. Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia (3 weeks).

1998 Site survey in Narok District; analysis of lithic assemblages from 1995-1996 excavations. National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi (one month).

1996 Excavation of early Pliocene soil profiles for stable isotope analysis. Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia (two weeks).

1996 Survey and excavation of archaeological sites in Narok District, Kenya (one month).

1995 Survey and excavation of archaeological sites in Narok District, Kenya (one month).

1994 Analysis of artifacts from 1991 field season; Site survey in the central Rift Valley and Narok District, Kenya (one month).

1992 Kenya: Analysis of artifacts from 1991 field season in the Kenya Rift Valley, National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi (one month).

1991 Hunter-gatherer adaptations to climate change in the Kenya Rift Valley. Excavations at one rockshelter and one cave in the Kenya Rift Valley (5 months).

1989 Analysis of artifacts from 1987 field season, Kenya National Museum, Nairobi (one month).

1988 Analysis of artifacts from 1987 field season, Kenya National Museum, Nairobi (one month).

1987 Late Quaternary adaptations in the Central Rift Valley, Kenya. Archaeological excavations and stable isotope sample collection (5 months).

1984-85 Stable isotope analysis of the evolution of human diet. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles (16 months).

1984 Sample collection for isotope analysis from museums in Nairobi, Dar Es Salaam, Johannesburg and Cape Town (one month).

1983 Curator, Old World Prehistory Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.

1982 Laboratory preparation of bone collagen and apatite samples, Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town (four months).

1981-82 Doctoral dissertation research: Archaeological and taphonomic survey and excavations in the Naivasha Basin, Rift Valley, Kenya (8 months).

1981 Training in laboratory methods of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles (three weeks).

1978-79 Curator, Old World Prehistory collections. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.

1979 Excavations at Marula Rockshelter, Naivasha, Kenya; Excavation. Laboratory analysis at Lukenya Hill. University of Massachusetts/Boston Archaeological Expedition (3 months).

1978 Excavation at Deloraine Farm, Rift Valley District, Rongai, Kenya. British Institute in Eastern Africa (one week).

1977-78 Supervision of Archaeological survey, excavation and laboratory analysis at Lukenya Hill, Kenya. University of Massachusetts/Boston Archaeological Expedition (13 months).

1976-77 Laboratory Assistant, Department of Anthropology, U. Massachusetts, Boston.

1976 Site survey and excavation at Eli Bor, Marsabit district, Kenya. British Institute in Eastern Africa (three weeks).

1975-76 Pre-professional training program in African Prehistory, in Kenya. University of Massachusetts at Boston Archaeological Expedition (13 months).

1975 Analysis of pollen from sediment core in Hammond Pond, Newton, MA. Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

1974-75 Research Assistant, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Construction, testing and operation of froth flotation unit for recovery of botanical remains.

1974-75 Photography, description and cataloging of the ancient glass collection, Semitic Museum, Harvard University.

1974 Survey and excavations of Boston Harbor Islands, Department of Natural Resources and University of Massachusetts, Boston (two months).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Association of Physical Anthropology

American Museum of Natural History

American School of Oriental Research

British Institute in Eastern Africa

East African Natural History Society

International Association for Obsidian Studies

Paleoanthropology Society

Pan African Association for Prehistory and Related Studies

Sigma Xi

Society of Africanist Archaeologists

Society for American Archaeology

Society for Archaeological Sciences

South African Archaeological Society

SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES, PROGRAMS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS

2008-2011 National Science Foundation, Archaeology Program: Grant proposal review panel.

1999-2003 Editorial Board of Ancient Biomolecules Harwood Academic Publishers.

1997-2003 Advisory Board, HRAF (Human Relations Area Files): Collection of Archaeology and Encyclopedia of Prehistory. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press.

1997 National Science Foundation, Archaeometry Program: 10-year review of program.

1995-97 National Science Foundation, Archaeometry Program: Grant proposal review panel.

1989- Sigma Xi: Anthropology Department Representative.

94. Society for American Archaeology: Nominations Committee of the George Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Research (Chairman, 1994, Physical Sciences).

2004-2005 Society of Africanist Archaeologist: Liaison for Society of American Archaeology.

LANGUAGES

Kiswahili (fluent speaking)

French (reading, speaking)

SPECIALIZATIONS AND AREAS OF INTEREST

Old World prehistory, African prehistory, human ecology, paleoecology, hominid evolution, genetic population history, evolutionary ecology, dietary and environmental reconstruction, Archaeometry, stable isotope geochemistry, geoarchaeology, lithic technology, hunter-gatherer, farmer and pastoralist ecology, East Africa, language evolution, evolution of cooperation, planning, cognition and symbolism.

COURSES TAUGHT

African Prehistory

Human Evolutionary Ecology

Theory and Method of Lithic Analysis

Evolution of Humans and Culture (Introduction to Archaeology and Physical Anthropology)

Introduction to Archaeology (archaeological method and theory)

Archaeometry: Advanced Scientific Methods in Archaeology

Archaeology of Human Origins

Late Quaternary Prehistory of Eastern and Southern Africa

Isotopic Ecology, Paleoecology and Archaeology

Archaeology of Modern Human Origins

Research Design and Proposal Writing

Graduate Proseminars in Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

History of Human Evolution

History of Archaeological Theory

Peoples of the Ice Age

BA HONORS THESES SUPERVISED

Whitney Mihel 2006

Matthew Fort 2012

MA THESES SUPERVISED

Valerie Williams, 1992

Theresa Schober, 1998

Janet L. Van Dyke (Atkinson) 1999

Shana Lavin 2002

Todd Coleman 2004

Dana Beehr 2004

PHD THESES SUPERVISED

Lynette Norr (laboratory research supervisor), 1990

Nancy Sikes, 1995

Wang Hong, 1996

Michael Noll, 2000

Bernard Mbae (in progress)

M.D. Kyule (in progress)

Mulu Muia (in progress)

Rui Wang (laboratory research supervisor), 2004

Dong Yu, 2013

Philip Slater 2015

POST-DOCTORAL SCHOLARS SUPERVISED

Dr. Lynette Norr (1990-1994)

Dr. Marie Balasse (2000-2001)

Dr. Elizabeth Arnold (2008-2009)

Dr. Andrew Zipkin (2015-2017)

VISITING SENIOR SCHOLARS-IN-RESIDENCE SUPERVISED

Dr. Simiyu Wandibba, African Studies, University of Nairobi, Fulbright scholar (1986-87)

Dr. Andrew B. Smith, Archaeology Department, University of Cape Town, sabbatical (2000)

Dr. Zhu Tiequan, Anthropology Department, Sun Yat Sen University, sabbatical (2010-11)

Dr. Ling Xue, Archaeology Department, Northwest University, Xi'an, sabbatical (2015-16)

EXTERNAL EXAMINER ON MA & PHD THESES

Mulu Muia, MA, Department of History, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1996

Jeanette Smith, MSc, Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, S. Africa 1997

Kennedy Mutundu, PhD, Department of Anthropology, Washington University, 1998

Roman Harrison, PhD, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, 2000

Harmon Kiriama, PhD, Department of History, University of Nairobi, 2002

Cecilene Muller, MA, Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, 2002

Robert Berstan, PhD, Department of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK, 2002

Jeffrey Rose, PhD, Southern Methodist University, 2006

Alexandra Sumner, University of Toronto, 2009

Ashley Coutu, York University, UK, 2011

Gokce Bike Yazicioglu-Santamaria, PhD, University of Chicago, 2015

Abigail Chipps Stone, PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, 2015

Steven Goldstein, PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, 2017

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