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Volman, Thomas
tpv1@cornell.edu McGraw 201; 607-255-7115
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1981)
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology

human origins, stone age archaeology, southern Africa, lithic analysis

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.



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Santiago-Irizarry, Vilma
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Smith, Robert
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Volman, Thomas
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