Mary C. Stiner

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Mary Clare Stiner (* 1955 ) is an American paleoanthropologist . Her research focuses on human evolution , in coevolutionary processes affecting humans, in the economy and technology of hunter-gatherer cultures as well as in the consideration of the transition between hunter -gatherer activities and agriculture. Furthermore, she deals with the archeozoology of vertebrates and molluscs .

Life

Studies and academic teaching

She studied at the University of Delaware , where she received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in anthropology and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in art history . Stiner continued her studies at the University of New Mexico , where she received a Master of Arts degree in anthropology in 1983 and a Ph.D. in 1990. in anthropology. Her dissertation was entitled The Ecology of Choice: Procurement and Transport of Animal Resources by Upper Pleistocene Hominids in West-central Italy . The archaeologist Lewis Binford was her PhD advisor . Stiner taught from 1990 to 1992 as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. From 1993 to 1994 she was Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago . In 1994 she moved to the University of Arizona , where she taught at the Department of Anthropology from 1994 to 2000 as an assistant professor and from 2000 as an associate professor . In 2001 she became an associate curator at the university's Arizona State Museum . In 2006 she was appointed professor and curator for archeozoology . She has been Regents' professor since 2014 .

In 1990 Stiner was Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Delaware. Her book Honor among Thieves: A Zooarchaeological Study of Neanderthal Ecology received the Society for American Archeology's first Book Award in 1996 . Stiner is married to the archaeologist Steven L. Kuhn .

Archaeological field research

In her archaeological research, she specializes in the observation of prehistoric human species (especially Neanderthals ), paleoeconomics and social evolution. In the course of her field research, she took part in excavations in ancient , Middle and Neolithic sites. This includes the Grotta Breuil and the Riparo Mochi in Italy , which belongs to the Balzi Rossi di Grimaldi find complex , the Qesem Cave and the Hayonim Cave in Israel , the Franchthi Cave in Greece and the Aşıklı Höyük , the Klissoura Cave 1, the Üçağızlı Cave and the Yarımburgaz Cave in Turkey .

Publications (selection)

  • Mary C. Stiner [Ed.]: Human Predators and Prey Mortality. (1991, Westview Special Studies in Archaeological Research, Boulder, CO: Westview Press)
  • Mary C. Stiner: Honor among Thieves: A Zooarchaeological Study of Neanderthal Ecology. (1994, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press)
  • Mary C. Stiner: The Faunas of Hayonim Cave (Israel): A 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography & Society. (2005, American School of Prehistoric Research, Bulletin 48, Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University Cambridge, Mass)
  • Margarita Koumouzelis, Janusz K. Kosłowski, Mary C. Stiner [Eds.]: Klissoura Cave1, Argolid, Greece: The Upper Palaeolithic Sequence. (2010, Special Issue of Eurasian Prehistory)
  • F. Clarke Howell , Güven Arsebük, Steven L. Kuhn, Mihriban Özbaşaran, Mary C. Stiner [Eds.]: Culture and Biology at a Crossroads: The Middle Pleistocene Record of Yarimburgaz Cave (Thrace, Turkey). (2010, Zero Books / Ege Publications, Istanbul)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Short biography ( memento of the original from October 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ibrarian.net
  2. ^ Book Award , website of the Society for American Archeology
  3. ^ When Humans Became Human , Feb.12, 2002, The New York Times
personal data
SURNAME Stiner, Mary C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stiner, Mary Clare (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleoanthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955