ADMINISTRATION
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Kathy Schick, co-director
Kathy Schick received her Ph.D. in 1984 for The University of California at Berkeley. Her interests in Old World prehistory, palaeoanthropology, archaeological site formation, zooarchaeology, lithic technology, and primate studies have led her to conduct fieldwork in Africa, Asia and Europe, as well as laboratory research in the United States. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004, and received the Distinguished Faculty Research Award from Indiana University in 1997.
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Nicholas Toth, co-director
Nicholas Toth received his Ph.D. in 1982 for The University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include African prehistory, palaeolithic studies, the evolution of human intelligence, lithic technology, experimental archaeology, microscopic approaches to archaeology, zooarchaeology, ethnoarchaeology, and primate studies. He is currently involved in experimental investigations of stone tool-making and tool-using behaviors of modern African apes and of the manufacture and use of early Palaeolithic tools. Dr. Toth was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004, and listed in Who's Who in the World, 2003.
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Mila Norman, Administrative Secretary & Chief of Staff
Mila Norman came to The Stone Age Institute in October of 2004 to serve as our Administrative Secretary. Mila has been with Indiana University for twenty years, first working seven years in Contract Administration and then serving twelve years as Office Manager in the School of Public & Environmental Affairs’ Transportation Research Center. Mila is a life-long resident of Monroe County and brings many years of experience to our organization.
RESEARCH SCIENTISTS
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Kevin Hunt
Kevin Hunt received his Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Core Faculty member of the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, both at Indiana University. His research focuses on the evolution and ecology of bipedalism and especially the evidence provided by chimpanzee anatomy in relationship to posture, locomotion and food-getting practices. Dr. Hunt has studied wild primates in Gombe and Mahale Mountains National Parks in Tanzania and the Kibale Forest Reserve in Uganda, and has been conducting research with previously unstudied chimpanzee communities in the Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve in Uganda since 1996. He received the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award in 2002 and the Teaching Excellence Recognition Award in 1997 and 2000 and has been listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in Science and Engineering since 1995.
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Mohamed Sahnouni
Mohamed Sahnouni received a Doctorat 3eme cycle in 1985 from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) and a Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1996. He is the director of Paleoanthropological investigations in the Setifian sedimentary basin of northeastern Algeria and has research interests in Old World Archaeology, Paleoanthropology, Lithic technology & typology, Geo-Archaeology, African Prehistory, Prehistory of North African and Middle East, Prehistoric Rock Art, Plio-Pleistone stratigraphy & Biochronology.
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Sileshi Semaw
Sileshi Semaw received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Rutgers University. He is the director of the Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project in Afar, Ethiopia, and has major research interests in Palaeolithic archaeology, lithic technology, human evolutionary studies, African prehistory, and Oldowan technology. Among other things, Sileshi's work at Gona has documented the oldest known stone tools in the world, at an age of 2.6 million years.
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Parth Chauhan
Parth Chauhan received his Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Sheffield (U.K.) and his M.A. from Deccan College Post-graduate & Research Institute ( India). He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Stone Age Institute. His area of specialization is the paleoanthropology of the Indian subcontinent. Additional interests include Old World prehistory, paleolithic archaeology, lithic typology and analyses of Mode 1 technologies, Pleistocene paleoenvironments and hominin adaptive strategies, and geoarchaeology. He is also a co-editor for the Global Cultural Heritage Handbook Series for the World Archaeological Congress and co-director of the Narmada Basin Paleoanthropology Project. He is also carrying out smaller field projects in the Siwalik hills of northern India and is in the process of correlating and compiling all known Palaeolithic, paleontological, and paleoclimatic data of Pleistocene age from southern Asia.
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GRADUATE STUDENTS
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Charles Egeland
Charles Egeland received his B.A. in Anthropology in 2001 from Colorado State University. He has interests in zooarchaeology, vertebrate taphonomy, experimental archaeology, Old World prehistory, and hunter-gatherer ecology, which he is pursuing through research including experimental large mammal butchery, the paleoecological implications of enamel hypoplasia in bison, and the zooarchaeology and taphonomy of Swartkrans Member 3 (South Africa). Charles received the 59th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference Student Paper Award in 2001, and a research fellowship from Eberhart Karls Universität Tübingen in 2000.
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Melanie Everett
Melanie Everett advanced to Ph.D. candidacy at Indiana University in 2004. She is conducting dissertation research on the paleoecological reconstruction of the Pleistocene deposits of the site of Gona site in Ethiopia. Her major research interests include paleoenvironmental reconstruction, paleoecology, vertebrate paleontology, ecomorphology, faunal analysis and taphonomy, stable isotope analysis, stratigraphy and paleosol geomorphology, geographic information systems and remote sensing, and hominid resource availability and distribution. She received a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education in 2000, and a Indiana University Dean’s Minority Fellowship, also in 2000.
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August Costa
August Costa received his B.Sc. in Archaeology in 2004 from Mercyhurst College. He has interests in Paleolithic archaeology especially the earliest Eurasian archaeological record, Plio-Pleistocene paleontology, paleobiogeography, flint knapping and experimental archaeology.
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RESEARCH ASSISTANT
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