Cornell University Emblemthe department of Anthropology
Faculty
Thomas Volman
Office: McGraw 201
Phone: (607) 255-7115
Current projects:
Excavations at Peers Cave, Cape Peninsula, South Africa.
Analysis of Middle Stone Age lithics from Ysterfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Selected Publications

2003 First excavation of intact Middle Stone Age layers at Ysterfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa: implications for Middle Stone Age ecology. Journal of Archaeological Sciences 30 (in press) (with D. Halkett, T. Hart, R. Yates, J. E. Parkington, J. Orton, R. G. Klein, K. Cruz-Uribe, & G. Avery).
  Excavation of buried Late Acheulean (Mid-Quaternary) land surfaces at Duinefontein 2, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Sciences 30:559-575 (with K. Cruz-Uribe, R. G. Klein, G. Avery, M. Avery, D. Halkett, T. Hart, R. G. Milo, & C. G. Sampson).
1999 Duinefontein 2: An Acheulean site in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 37:153-190 (with R. G. Klein, G. Avery, K. Cruz-Uribe, D. Halkett, T. Hart, & R. G. Milo).
1991 Dating, archaeology and human fossils from the Middle Stone Age levels of Die Kelders, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 21:363-395 (with F. E. Grine and R. G. Klein).
1986 Last interglacial sea levels and coastal caves in the Cape Province, South Africa. Quaternary Research 25:189-198 (with Q. B. Hendey).
1984 Early prehistory of southern Africa. In: Klein, R. G. (ed.) Southern African Prehistory and Paleoenvironments: 169-220. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema.
1981 The Middle Stone Age in the Southern Cape. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology.
1978 Early archaeological evidence for shellfish collecting. Science 201:911-913.