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Born | 1960 (age 63–64) |
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Thesis | The Behavioral Significance of Levantine Mousterian Industrial Variability (1991) |
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Discipline | Anthropology |
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Institutions | Stony Brook University |
John Joseph Shea (born 9 May 1960 in Hamilton, Massachusetts) is an American archaeologist and paleoanthropologist. He has been a professor of anthropology at Stony Brook University in New York since 1992. [1]
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Shea was born in 1960 to Joseph P. and Gloria C. (Cyr) Shea.
In 1982 he earned a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology from Boston University and a PhD from Harvard in Anthropology in 1991. His first doctoral advisor was Glynn Isaac, after whose death, Ofer Bar-Yosef, David Pilbeam, and K.C. Chang oversaw his training.
Shea has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Israel, Jordan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Belize, New Mexico, and Massachusetts. [2] He is married to Patricia L. Crawford and resides in Stony Brook, New York and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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biography of a living person does not
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references or sources. (September 2021) |
Shea's research focuses on stone tools and how they relate to major issues in human evolution. He has experience in flintknapping and other ancient technologies. He is specialized in Paleoanthropology, the evolution of hominin behavior, pleistocene archaeology of the Near East and of Eastern Africa, lithic analysis, as well as experimental archaeology
Highlights of Shea's research include the following, in rough chronological order.
In 2014 he earned the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. [3]
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John Shea | |
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Born | 1960 (age 63–64) |
Academic background | |
Education |
|
Thesis | The Behavioral Significance of Levantine Mousterian Industrial Variability (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Anthropology |
Sub-discipline | |
Institutions | Stony Brook University |
John Joseph Shea (born 9 May 1960 in Hamilton, Massachusetts) is an American archaeologist and paleoanthropologist. He has been a professor of anthropology at Stony Brook University in New York since 1992. [1]
![]() | This section of a
biography of a living person does not
include any
references or sources. (September 2021) |
Shea was born in 1960 to Joseph P. and Gloria C. (Cyr) Shea.
In 1982 he earned a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology from Boston University and a PhD from Harvard in Anthropology in 1991. His first doctoral advisor was Glynn Isaac, after whose death, Ofer Bar-Yosef, David Pilbeam, and K.C. Chang oversaw his training.
Shea has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Israel, Jordan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Belize, New Mexico, and Massachusetts. [2] He is married to Patricia L. Crawford and resides in Stony Brook, New York and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
![]() | This section of a
biography of a living person does not
include any
references or sources. (September 2021) |
Shea's research focuses on stone tools and how they relate to major issues in human evolution. He has experience in flintknapping and other ancient technologies. He is specialized in Paleoanthropology, the evolution of hominin behavior, pleistocene archaeology of the Near East and of Eastern Africa, lithic analysis, as well as experimental archaeology
Highlights of Shea's research include the following, in rough chronological order.
In 2014 he earned the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. [3]
Books