CURRICULUM VITAE - Department of Anthropology

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CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME:
Randall K. WHITE
CITIZENSHIP :
Canadian (permanent resident status in the US)
Brassempouy, 23 kya
ADDRESSES :
USA
Department of Anthropology,
New York University,
25 Waverly Place,
New York, NY 10003
USA
France
La Valade
24620 Les Eyzies de Tayac – Sireuil
France
TELEPHONE :
USA
Office: (212) 998-8571
(347) 504 5253
France
Cell :
06 71 86 38 81
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND AND APPOINTMENTS
2012-present
Director on both French and American sides, Center for International Research in
the Humanities and Social Sciences (CIRHUS), a major collaborative arrangement
between the French CNRS and New York University.
http://cirhus.as.nyu.edu/page/home
1994-present
Professor, Department of Anthropology, New York University.
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/anthro/programs/csho/pmwiki.php/Home/RandallWhite
2012-present
Member, Scientific Council of the Réseau National des Maisons de Recherche des
Sciences de l'Homme (RNMRSH). Delegated to serve as the liaison between the
(RNMRSH) and the Maison d'Archéologie et Ethnologie René Ginouvès, Nanterre,
participating in the annual evaluation of the latter, comprising more than 120
professional archaeologists.
2012 - present
Elected member, 8th Commission (Upper Paleolithic), of the
internationale des sciences préhistoriques et protohistoriques (UISPP).
2012 - present
Appointed member of the French Ambassador's commission on the future of the
French language in American universities.
2009-present
Chercheur associé, UMR 5608 TRACES, CNRS, Université de Toulouse.
1987-1994
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, New York University.
1981-1987
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, New York University.
Union
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2005-2006
Consultant for the installation of the modern human section of the new permanent
Hall of Human Evolution, American Museum of Natural History.
2005
Curator, La Femme de Toujours, exhibit of Paleolithic representations of women,
Pôle international de la Préhistoire, Les Eyzies, France, June through October.
2002-2006
Assistant to Conservateur-en-chef, Musée national de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies-deTayac, France for the conception and installation of the personal ornaments section
of the new and expanded permanent galleries.
2001-2004
Elected member, Office de Tourisme, Montignac-sur-Vézère, France.
1987-present
Executive Director, Institute for Ice Age Studies, New York, NY.
1985-1987
Guest Curator, American Museum of Natural History. In charge of creation of
exhibit entitled, Dark Caves, Bright Visions: Life in Ice Age Europe.
1980-1981
Izaac Walton Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology,
University of Alberta.
1980
Ph.D. conferred by the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto,
Canada.
1976-1977
Attended courses offered by Professor François Bordes, Institut du Quaternaire,
Université de Bordeaux I, Bordeaux, France.
1976
B.A. (honors) in Anthropology (Magna cum laude) conferred by the
Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Canada.
FIELD AND RESEARCH PROJECTS
2014-present
Director of multidisciplinary, international excavations at the multi-component
Aurignacian site of Abri Cellier, Tursac, France.
2011-2013
Director of multidisciplinary, international excavations at the 37,000 year old
Aurignacian I site of Abri Blanchard, Dordogne, France.
2004-2013
Director of multidisciplinary, international excavations at the 37,000 year old
Aurignacian I site of Abri Castanet, Dordogne, France.
2000-present
Otto Hauser : archéologue ou agent de l’ennemi ? Historical and archival research
on the Otto Hauser affair.
1996-2013
Collaboration with Yvette Taborin in the analysis and publication of the
Châtelperronian and Aurignacian personal ornaments from the grotte de Renne,
Arcy-sur-Cure, Yonne, France.
1998-present
Member, research team in excavation and analysis of Aurignacian levels at the
Grotte d'Isturitz, Pyrénées-atlantiques, France. Responsible for analysis and
publication of several dozen personal ornaments dated to 38-33,000 BP.
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1996-2008
Microscopic and technological analysis of more than 150 Upper Paleolithic female
statuettes from across Europe.
1990-2007
Member, research team led by D. Gambier and F. Bon in excavation and analysis of
Aurignacian levels at the Grotte de l'Hyène, Brassempouy, Landes, France.
Responsible for analysis and publication of several hundred personal ornaments
dated to 37,000 BP.
2000
Collaboration with speleologists in deep-cave investigations in search of new
Paleolithic images, Sergeac, Dordogne, France.
1994-1998
Co-director with J. Pelegrin of long-term excavations at the 37,000 year old
Aurignacian I site of Abri Castanet, Dordogne, France.
1993-1999
Discovery, analysis and publication of seven missing Paleolithic female statuettes
from Grimaldi, Italy (with M. Bisson).
1990-1998
Collaborative project with A. Pike-Tay to develop and refine a control sample for
the analysis of archaeological seasonality and mortality profiles in caribou/reindeer
teeth.
1988-1999
Analysis of more than 10,000 Early Upper Paleolithic beads and pendants in
museums in England, France, Belgium, West Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland,
Czechoslovakia and the USSR.
1987
Analysis in France of several hundred ivory, bone and steatite beads from early
Aurignacian levels at Abri Blanchard, Abri Castanet and Abri de la Souquette,
Vézère Valley, SW France.
1986-1999
Analysis of French Upper Paleolithic art and body ornamentation held by the
Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, the
Peabody Museum, Harvard, the Peabody Museum, Yale and the American Museum
of Natural History, with A. Roussot, S. De Beaune and G. Tosello.
1985-92
Analysis of French Upper Paleolithic collections held by the Logan Museum, Beloit
College, Beloit, Wisconsin, including several thousand stone tools, 100 works of
Paleolithic art, more than 500 bone tools, and dozens of items of personal
adornment from sites in the Périgord.
1985 to 1989
Collaboration with C.J. DeRousseau and M.U. Brennan in study of diet and disease
in all known Middle and Upper Paleolithic skeletal material from Southwestern
France.
1979-1988
Analysis of the Ami Collection held by the National Museum of Canada and other
Canadian institutions. Included are 25,000 Upper Paleolithic stone tools, several
dozen bone implements, and two works of Upper Paleolithic art, from sites in the
Périgord.
1983
Bibliographic research into the relationship between language, material culture, and
human biocultural evolution.
1982
Pilot survey of the Paleolithic in the Middle Dordogne Valley, Dordogne, France in
cooperation with J.-Ph. Rigaud.
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1982
Directed test excavations at Lower Magdalenian and Mousterian site of Mala in the
Vézère-Beune interfluve, Dordogne, France in cooperation with J.-Ph. Rigaud.
1981
Organizational trip to Southwestern France to explore avenues of future research.
1979
Site location analysis of 85 pre-Magdalenian sites in the Dordogne and adjacent
departments of Southwestern France.
1979
Discovery, with C. Archambeau, of probable Upper Paleolithic engravings in the
Grotte de la Cavaille, Couze Valley, Dordogne, France.
1978
Crew chief at Epipaleolithic site of Kef Zoura, Algeria (directed by Dr. D. Lubell).
1978
Participant and site location analyst in archaeological survey of 19th century Copper
Eskimo sites in the Thomsen River drainage, Banks Island, NWT, Canada.
1977
Participant and analyst in Middle and Upper Paleolithic survey of the Dordogne
Valley, France in cooperation with J.-Ph. Rigaud, H. Laville, J.-P. Texier, and F.
Delpech.
1977
Locality supervisor at Lower and Middle Paleolithic site of Abri Vaufrey, Céou
Valley, Dordogne, France in excavations directed by J.-Ph. Rigaud.
1976
Assistant to J.-Ph. Rigaud and M. Conkey in Middle and Upper Paleolithic survey of
Dordogne Valley, Dordogne, France.
1976
Locality supervisor at Lower and Middle Paleolithic site of Abri Vaufrey and Upper
Paleolithic site of Abris Flageolet I and II, Dordogne, France, in excavations
directed by J.-Ph. Rigaud.
1976
Site location analysis of nearly 100 Upper Magdalenian sites in the Dordogne and
adjacent departments of Southwestern France.
1976
Participant in salvage excavation of apparent Upper Paleolithic skeletal material in
the Grotte de Bernifal and an unnamed cave in the Vézère Valley, Dordogne, France
under the direction of J.-Ph. Rigaud.
1975
Field assistant at Upper Paleolithic site of Abris Flageolet I and II, Dordogne,
France, in excavations directed by J.-Ph. Rigaud.
1975
Assistant to Dr. D. Lubell, University of Alberta, in the analysis of Capsian lithic
assemblages from Algeria.
1974
Field assistant at Lower and Middle Paleolithic site of Abri Vaufrey and Upper
Paleolithic site of Abris Flageolet I and II, Dordogne, France, in excavations
directed by J.-Ph. Rigaud.
SINGULAR HONORS AND AWARDS
2013
Engraving from Abri Castanet, France named by Archaeology Magazine as one of
the top ten archaeological discoveries of 2012 (January issue).
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2009
Invited expert, Lascaux et la Conservation en Milieu Souterrain, an special
symposium convened by French Minister of Culture, Christine Albanel, to examine
the grave conservation issues plaguing Lascaux Cave. February 26 and 27.
2007
Golden Dozen Award for Teaching Excellence, Faculty of Arts and Science, New
York University.
1995
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for a sabbatical project entitled
Newly-Discovered Ice Age Female Figurines from Grimaldi, Italy.
1992
Robert L. Stigler Jr. Award and Lectureship from the University of Arkansas in
recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of archaeology and
communication of archaeological knowledge."
1991
Golden Dozen Award for Teaching Excellence, Faculty of Arts and Science, New
York University.
1988
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for a sabbatical year project entitled, The
Earliest Body Ornaments in Europe.
RESEARCH GRANTS
2015
Fellowship from UMI 3199 CNRS-NYU as chercheur invité, Maison des Science de
l'Homme Toulouse (MSH-T), Université de Toulouse, February 1 through July 31
(€19,000).
2014
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant for student, John
O'Hara for research project entitled Accessing Social Geographies in Late Glacial
Franco-Cantabria ($25,200).
2014
Wenner-Gren Foundation Research Grant for student, John O'Hara for research
project entitled The Social Geographies of Personal Ornamentation in Late Glacial
Franco-Cantabria ($8,100).
2014
Fellowship from UMI 3199 CNRS-NYU as chercheur invité, UMR 5608 TRACES,
CNRS, Université de Toulouse, May. 1 through October 31 (€18,500).
2014
Excavation Grant from the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Aquitaine
(DRAC), French Ministry of Culture for excavations at the multi-component
Aurignacian site of Abri Cellier, Dordogne, France. (€15,000).
2011-2014
Partner University Fund grant from Face Foundation of the French Embassy,
Washington and the Andrew Mellon Foundation, for excavations at Abri CastanetBlanchard (Dordogne) and Régismont-le-Haut (Hérault) as well as a series of
student and faculty exchanges between New York University and the Université de
Toulouse – Jean-Jaurès ($480,000).
2013
CNRS, Université de Toulouse, June. 1 through August. 31 (€18,500).
2012
(DRAC), French Ministry of Culture for excavations at the 37,000 year old
Aurignacian site of Abri Castanet, Dordogne, France. (€15,000).
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2012
2011
Excavation Grant from the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation for excavations at the 37,000
year old Aurignacian site of Abri Blanchard, Dordogne, France. ($4,000).
2011
2011
2010
Analysis Grant (x-ray fluorescence study) from the Direction régionale des affaires
culturelles d’Aquitaine (DRAC), French Ministry of Culture for excavations at the
37,000 year old Aurignacian site of Abri Castanet, Dordogne, France. (€5,000).
2010
2010
2009
Analysis Grant (electrical resistivity study) from the Direction régionale des affaires
culturelles d’Aquitaine (DRAC), French Ministry of Culture for excavations at the
37,000 year old Aurignacian site of Abri Castanet, Dordogne, France. (€12,000).
2009
National Science Foundation Research Grant for excavations at the 37,000 year old
Aurignacian site of Abri Castanet, Dordogne, France. ($44,137)
2009
2009
CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Oct. 1 through Dec. 31 (€10,000).
2008
2008
2008-2009
The Hauser Affair and the Mythical Origins of French Prehistory. New York
University, University Research Challenge Fund Grants. ($9,000).
2007
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2007
Reed Foundation Research Grant for excavations at the 37,000 year old
2007
Aurignacian site of Abri Castanet, Dordogne, France. (€7,000)
2006
2006
Excavation Grant from the Direction régionale des Affaires culturelles d’Aquitaine
Aurignacian site of Abri Castanet, Dordogne, France. (€3,000)
2005
2004
1998
1995-1997
Excavation grants from the Louis Leakey Foundation in support of excavations at
Abri Castanet, France.
1994-1999
Excavation grants from the French Ministry of Culture in support of excavations at
Abri Castanet, Dordogne, France.
1994
Research grant from New York University’s Research Challenge Fund to support
excavations at Abri Castanet, Dordogne, France.
1993-94
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant for student, Brooke
Blades for research on lithic economy in the Vézère Valley, Dordogne, France.
1991-1994
Multi-year National Science Foundation Research Grant (and undergraduate
research supplements) for the development of a control sample for archaeology of
dental crown heights and annuli in Rangifer tarandus (with A. Pike-Tay).
1988-90
National Science Foundation Research Grant for a Pan European analysis of early
Upper Paleolithic body ornaments.
1988
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant for student, Ann
Hendrickson for ethnoarchaeological fieldwork on body decoration among the
Herero.
1987
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant for student, Heidi
Knecht, for research on early Upper Paleolithic bone and antler technology.
1986
National Science Foundation Research Grant for an analysis of Early Aurignacian
Art and Ornamentation from Abri Cellier, Abri Blanchard, and La Souquette
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1986
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend for study of Early
Aurignacian art and ornamentation in American museums.
1986
Andrew Mellon Foundation Grant-in-Aid to support artistic rendering of French
Upper Paleolithic art objects from the Ami Collection, Royal Ontario Museum.
1986
Award from the Distinguished Scholars Program, New York University Humanities
Council, to support conference on Art and Society in Ice Age Europe.
1985
Research grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research for
initial stages of research on the French Upper Paleolithic collections of the Logan
Museum, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin.
1985
Mellon-Scheuer Presidential Fellowship providing release time (one semester) and
research stipend ($2000) for research into the history of French Paleolithic research.
1984
Externally reviewed research grant from the New York University Research
Challenge Fund for early stages of research on the Ami Collection of French Upper
Paleolithic assemblages held by a number of Canadian institutions.
1984
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant for student, M. U.
Brennan, for analysis of Upper Pleistocene dietary stress.
1984
Mellon Foundation Grant-in-Aid for preparation of monograph for British
Archaeological Reports, Oxford.
1982
Research grant from the Foundation for Research into the Origin of Man for pilot
survey of the Paleolithic in the Middle Dordogne Valley, Dordogne, France.
1981
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) grant to facilitate
International collaborative research.
1980
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Post-Doctoral Scholarship, University of Alberta.
1980
Killam Foundation Research Expenses Grant.
1979
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Doctoral Fellowship.
1979
National Museum of Canada Contract No. 1630-9-002 for documentation of the
Ami Collection of French Upper Paleolithic assemblages.
1979
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Travel Grant for
return travel to Southern France.
1979
Conference grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
(Canada) to attend CAA/SAA annual meetings in Vancouver.
1978
Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship.
1978
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Travel Grant for
survey project on Banks Island, NWT, Canada.
1978
Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, travel stipend.
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1977
Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship.
1977
Canada Council Travel Grant for research and study in Southern France.
1976
Canada Council Special M.A. Scholarship.
1976
Canada Council Travel Grant for research and study in Southern France.
1975
Province of Alberta Scholarship.
1975
Escheated Estates Scholarship, University of Alberta.
1974
Province of Alberta Scholarship.
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Monographs
2015 in preparation
Otto Hauser et la politique de l’Avant-Guerre en Périgord.
2015 in translation
The Abri du Poisson Affair : Prehistory and Nationalism on the Eve of WW I.
Cambridge : Harvard University Press.
2015 in preparation
The Practice of Prehistory in the Vallon de Castel-Merle: 1875-2010. Paris: Presse
de la Sorbonne. Collection Locus Solus, 120 pp. (with R. Mensan and Y. Potin)
2006
L’affaire de l’abri du Poisson : patrie et préhistoire. Périgueux : Fanlac.
2003
L’art préhistorique dans le monde. Paris : La Martinière.
2003
Prehistoric Art: The Symbolic Journey of Humankinds. New York: Harry Abrams.
1995
Physical Anthropology and Archaeology. 5th edition. New York: Random House
(with C. Jolly) (formerly Jolly and Plog).
1993
Préhistoire. Bordeaux: Presse Sud-Ouest.
1986
Dark Caves, Bright Visions: Life in Ice Age Europe. New York: American Museum
of Natural History.
1985
Upper Paleolithic Land Use in the Périgord: A Topographic Approach to
Subsistence and Settlement. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.
Edited Volumes, Monographs and Monograph-length Excavation Reports
2015 in press
L'occupation aurignacienne du vallon de Castel-Merle : Abri Castanet, Abri
Blanchard, Abri de la Souquette. Special issue of the journal Paléo. 250pp, all color.
2014
Aurignacian Genius: Art, Daily Life and Social Identity of the First Modern
Humans in Europe. Special issue of Palethnologie. 16 articles, 249pp., published
simultaneously in English and French. (co-edited with R. Bourrillon).
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2014
Excavation report, Abri Cellier, Tursac, Dordogne. Submission to the Service
Régional de l'Archéologie, Bordeaux: 214pp.
2013
Excavation proposal, Abri Cellier, Tursac, Dordogne. Submission to the Service
Régional de l'Archéologie, Bordeaux: 127pp.
2012
Abri Blanchard et Abri Castanet secteur central : fouille programmée et opération
de diagnostic dans le vallon de Castel-Merle (Commune de Sergeac, Dordogne).
Rapport de fouille programmée. Bordeaux: Service Régional de l'Archéologie. 170
pp with more than 80 written by R. White.
2011
Abri Blanchard, opération de diagnostic et d'autres interventions dans le vallon de
Castel-Merle (Commune de Sergeac, Dordogne). Rapport de fouille programmée.
Bordeaux: Service Régional de l'Archéologie. 189 pp with more than 100 written by
R. White.
2010
Abri Castanet (commune de Sergeac, Dordogne), fouille du secteur sud. Rapport de
fouille programmée. Bordeaux: Service Régional de l'Archéologie. 257 pp. with
more than 165 pp written by R. White.
2009
Abri Castanet, fouille du secteur sud et étude géophysique du versant est du vallon
de Castel-Merle (commune de Sergeac, Dordogne). Rapport de fouille programmée.
Bordeaux: Service Régional de l'Archéologie. 220 pp. with more than 75 pp written
by R. White.
2008
Abri Castanet, secteurs sud et nord (Commune de Sergeac, Dordogne). Rapport de
fouille programmée. Bordeaux: Service Régional de l'Archéologie. 292 pp. with
more than 100 pp. written by R. White.
2007
Abri Castanet, secteurs sud et nord (Commune de Sergeac, Dordogne). Rapport de
fouille programmée. Bordeaux: Service Régional de l'Archéologie. 128 pp.
2006
Abri Castanet, Secteur Sud : Rapport de Fouille Programmé, Année 2006.
Bordeaux : Service Régional de l'Archéologie, Ministère de la Culture,. 185 pp.
2005
Abri Castanet, Secteur Sud : Rapport de Fouille Programmé, Année 2005.
Bordeaux : Service Régional de l'Archéologie, Ministère de la Culture,. 109 pp.
1998
Abri Castanet : Rapport de Fouille Programmé, Années 1995-1998. Bordeaux :
Service Régional de l'Archéologie, Ministère de la Culture. (223 pp. incl. 62 figs.,
19 tables). (with J. Pelegrin)
1994
Abri Castanet : Rapport de Fouille Programmé, Année 1994. Bordeaux : Service
Régional de l'Archéologie, Ministère de la Culture. (81 pp. incl. 22 figs., 12 tables).
(with J. Pelegrin)
1993
Before Lascaux: The Complex Record of the Early Upper Paleolithic. (co-edited
with H. Knecht and A. Pike-Tay). Boca Raton: CRC Press.
1992
French Paleolithic Collections in the Logan Museum of Anthropology. Beloit, WI :
Bulletin of the Logan Museum of Anthropology, New Series, 2 (with L. Breitborde).
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Articles and Reports
submitted.
A new discovery of Aurignacian art at Abri Blanchard (Dordogne) : implications for
understanding Aurignacian graphic expression in Western and Central Europe. J.
Human Evolution. (with Bourrillon R., Clark A., Mensan R., Castel J.-C., Chiotti L.,
Cretin C., Higham T., Ranlett S., Sisk M., Tartar E.)
2015 (in press)
Uranium-thorium dating method and Palaeolithic rock art. Quaternary International.
(with Georges Sauvet. Raphaëlle Bourrillon, Margaret Conkey, Carole Fritz, Diego
Gárate-Maidagan, Olivia Rivero Vilá, Gilles Tosello)
2015 (in press)
Une nouvelle figurine féminine provenant de la grotte du Pape à Brassempouy
(Landes). Paléo.
2015 (in press)
La parure aurignacienne de la grotte des Hyènes, Brassempouy. (48 pages text, 62
figures, 7 tables). in D. Gambier and F. Bon (eds.) L'Aurignacien de la Galérie des
Hyènes à Brassempouy (Landes): fouilles 1982-2000. Supplement to the journal
Gallia Préhistoire.
2014
Représentations graphiques des débuts de l’Aurignacien dans la Vallée de la
Vézère : approche contextuelle, formelle et technologique. In White, R. and
Bourrillon, R. eds. Aurignacian Genius: Art, Technology and Society of the First
Modern Humans in Europe. Palethnologie 6, no. spécial., pp. 79-91, published
simultaneously in English and French. (with R. Bourrillon).
2014
Introduction and Conclusion. Aurignacian Genius: Art, Daily Life and Social
Identity of the First Modern Humans in Europe. Special issue of Palethnologie, pp.
7-11 and 241-246, published simultaneously in English and French. (with R.
Bourrillon).
2014
Les parures de l’Aurignacien ancien et archaïque et de la grotte d’Isturitz :
perspectives technologiques et régionales. In White, R. and Bourrillon, R. eds.
Aurignacian Genius: Art, Technology and Society of the First Modern Humans in
Europe. P@lethnologie 6, no. spécial., pp. 189-204, published simultaneously in
English and French.
2014
Anciennes fouilles et nouvelles recherches à l’abri de la Souquette (Dordogne). In
White, R. and Bourrillon, R. eds. Aurignacian Genius: Art, Technology and Society
of the First Modern Humans in Europe. Palethnologie 6, no. spécial., pp. 127-141,
published simultaneously in English and French. (with J. O'Hara).
2014
Micro-PIXE/PIGE analysis of Palaeolithic mammoth ivory: Potential chemical
markers of provenance and relative dating. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology. 416: pp 133–141. (with C. Heckel, K. Müller, H. Floss, N.J. Conard,
I. Reiche).
2014
Quel(s) Aurignacien(s) à l’abri Blanchard (Sergeac, Dordogne, France)? Données
des collections d’industrie osseuse conservées aux États-Unis et retour sur le terrain.
Paléo. 25: pp 309-331. (with Élise Tartar, Randall White, Laurent Chiotti, Catherine
Cretin, Romain Mensan.).
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2014
Uranium-series dating of carbonate formations overlying Paleolithic art: interest and
limitations. Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française, 111(2): pp 211-224.
(with Edwige Pons-Branchu, Raphaëlle Bourrillon, Margaret W. Conkey, Michel
Fontugne, Carole Fritz, Diego Gárate, Anita Quiles, Olivia Rivero, Georges Sauvet,
Gilles Tosello, Hélène Valladas).
2014
Abri Blanchard (Aurignacien ancien et récent). Bilan scientifique de la région
d'Aquitaine. Bordeaux: Ministère de la Culture et la Communication, pp. 62-64.
(with Romain Mensan, Raphaëlle Bourrillon, Amy Clark, Sarah Ranlett, Laurent
Chiotti, Catherine Cretin).
2014
Abri Castanet, secteur central (Aurignacien ancien). Bilan scientifique de la région
d'Aquitaine. Bordeaux: Ministère de la Culture et la Communication, p. 64. (with
Romain Mensan, Raphaëlle Bourrillon, Amy Clark, Sarah Ranlett).
2014
Blanchard et Castanet. In M. Grimpret (ed.) Les Sanctuaires du Monde. Paris:
Robert Laffont. pp. 217-219. (with R. Bourrillon).
2013
The manufacture of Aurignacian split-based points: an experimental challenge.
Journal of Archaeological Science 40: 2723-2745 (with Elise Tartar).
2013
Context and dating of newly discovered Aurignacian rock art from abri Castanet
(Dordogne, France). Paléo. English on-line version. (with Romain Mensan,
Raphaëlle Bourrillon, Catherine Cretin, Philippe Gardère, Laurent Chiotti, Matthew
Sisk, Amy Clark, Thomas Higham, Elise Tartar).
2013
White, R, Mensan, R, Clark, A, Sisk, M. and Ranlett S. Sergeac. Abri Castanet.
Bilan des opérations de diagnostic (Aurignacien ancien). Bilan Scientifique 2012,
Service régional de l'archéologie. DRAC-Aquitaine, pp. 72-75.
2013
White, R, Mensan, R, Clark, A, Sisk, M. and Ranlett S. Sergeac. Abri Castanet. Abri
Blkanchard. Bilan des opérations de diagnostic (Aurignacien ancien). Bilan
Scientifique 2012, Service régional de l'archéologie. DRAC-Aquitaine, pp. 76-79.
2012
Une nouvelle découverte d’art pariétal aurignacien in situ à l’abri Castanet
(France) : contexte et datation. Paléo. 23: 171-188. (with Romain Mensan,
Raphaëlle Bourrillon, Catherine Cretin, Philippe Gardère, Laurent Chiotti, Matthew
Sisk, Amy Clark, Thomas Higham, Elise Tartar).
2012
Context and dating of Aurignacian vulvar representations from Abri Castanet,
France. PNAS. 1089: 8450-8455 plus supplementary data) (with Romain Mensan,
Raphaëlle Bourrillon, Catherine Cretin, Thomas Higham, Amy Clark, Matthew
Sisk, Elise Tartar, Philippe Gardère, Paul Goldberg, Jacques Pelegrin, Hélène
Valladas, Nadine Tisnérat-Laborde, Jacques de Sanoit, Dominique Chambellan,
Laurent Chiotti).
2011
White, R, Mensan, R, Clark, A and Sisk, M. Sergeac. Abri Castanet. Bilan des
fouilles programmées (Aurignacien ancien). Bilan Scientifique 2009, Service
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Transcribed contributions to discussions appearing on several different pages.
Lascaux and preservation issues in subterranean environments : proceedings of the
international symposium, Paris, February 26 and 27, 2009.
2010
Un pedazo de la Prehistoria cántabra en Nueva York: Las Colecciones de la Cueva
de El Castillo (Puente Viesgo, Cantabria) en el American Museum of Natural
History (Nueva York, EEUU) (A little fragment of Cantabrian Prehistory in New
York: The Collections of El Castillo Cave (Puente Viesgo, Cantabria) at the
American Museum of Natural History (New York, USA)) Muniß 61: 5-16. (with
Tejero, J.M., Avezuela, B, Ranlett,, Quam, R., Tattersall, I., and Bernaldo de
Quirós, F.).
2010
Les parures de l’Aurignacien ancien et archaïque : perspectives technologiques et
régionales des fouilles récentes. In V. Mistrot ed. De Néandertal à l’homme
moderne : l’Aquitaine préhistorique, vingt ans de découvertes. Bordeaux : Éditions
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2010
Une nouvelle découverte d’art pariétal aurignacien à l’abri Castanet (France) :
contexte et datation. In Congrès de l’IFRAO, septembre 2010 – Symposium : L’art
pléistocène en Europe (Pré-Actes) IFRAO Congress, September 2010 – Symposium:
Pleistocene art in Europe (Pre-Acts), 5pp. (with Bourrillon, R., Cretin, C., Mensan,
R., Gardère, P., Chiotti, L., Sisk, M., Clark, A., Tartar, E., and Higham, T.).
2010
Les objets de parure provenant de la grotte d’Isturitz : fouilles 2007-2009.
Transition Paléolithique moyen – Paléolithique supérieur et évolution de
l’Aurignacien dans la salle de Saint-Martin de la grotte d’Isturitz. Opération de
fouilles programmées triannuelles, 2003 – 2005. ed. C. Normand. Bordeaux :
Service Régional de l’Archéologie, pp. 261-277.
2010
L’abri Castanet (commune de Sergeac, Dordogne). Livret-Guide de l’excursion B2 –
Occupations paléolithiques en Vallée de la Vézère: L’abri du Moustier, Le Vallon
de Castelmerle (Sergeac). XXVIIe Congrès Préhistorique de France: Bordeaux –
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2009
Une sculpture en matière osseuse provenant de la grotte du Pape à Brassempouy
(Landes) : Étude scientifique préliminaire. Final Report of the scientific evaluation
commissioned by the Service Régional de l’Archéologie, Bordeaux, 70pp.
2009
Inventaire d’objets de parure et coquillages de la grotte d’Isturitz, campagne 2009.
Rapport triannuel des fouilles programmées de la grotte d'Isturitz (ed. C. Normand).
Bordeaux : Ministère de la Culture, 2pp.
2008
Une statuette en matière osseuse dite de provenir de la grotte du Pape à
Brassempouy (Landes) : Expertise scientifique. Preliminary report of the scientific
evaluation commissioned by the Service Régional de l’Archéologie, Bordeaux, 11pp.
2008
Les parures de l’Aurignacien ancien et archaïque et de la grotte d’Isturitz : bilan des
fouilles 2006 à 2008. Rapport triannuel des fouilles programmées de la grotte
d'Isturitz (ed. C. Normand). Bordeaux : Ministère de la Culture, 35pp.
2007
Systems of Personal Ornamentation in the Early Upper Palaeolithic: Methodological
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Cambridge, UK, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 287-302.
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2007
From Puente Viesgo to Central Park West : Hugo Obermaier, Nels Nelson and the
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2007
Systèmes de parures aurignaciennes : défis méthodologiques et nouvelles
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Préhistoires parallèles: Henri Delporte, Edouard Piette et les grottes de
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2007
Nouvelles données sur la séquence aurignacienne de la grotte d’Isturitz (communes
d’Isturitz et de Saint-Martin-d’Arberoue ; Pyrénées-Atlantiques). in Société
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The Women of Brassempouy : a century of research and interpretation. Journal of
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2006
Modifications artificielles des vestiges humains aurignaciens de la grotte des Hyènes
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Animaux gibiers – Animaux rêvés : la parure. L’Homme et l’animal. Les Eyzies-deTayac : Pôle international de la Préhistoire, pp. 23-29.
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Un Big Bang socioculturel. Homo sapiens : l’odyssée de l’espèce. ed. B. Cyrulnik.
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Vestiges humains des niveaux de l’Aurignacien ancien du site de Brassempouy
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La parure en ivoire des hommes de Cro-Magnon. Pour la Science. April-June.
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Les objets de parure de la grotte d'Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) : 2003. Rapport
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Des orfèvres hors pair. Historia, août : 76-79 (with René Castanet).
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« Résumé de ma vie » : une note autobiographique de Denis Peyrony. Bulletin de la
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2003
Une nouvelle statuette phallo-féminine paléolithique : la « Vénus des Milandes »
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The historic and legal context of foreign acquisitions of Paleolithic artifacts from the
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Les objets de parure de la grotte d'Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques). Rapport annuel
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Rapport sur la parure et les objets décorés provenant de l’Aurignacien des chantiers
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Observations technologiques sur les objets de parure in B. Schmider (ed.)
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Personal ornaments from the grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure. Athena Review
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2000
Un big bang socioculturel: Une nouvelle façon d'apprehender le monde est née voici
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Integrating Social and Operational Complexity: The Materal Construction of Social
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Structure, signification and culture: some different logics of representation and their
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Imagerie féminine du Paléolithique. L'apport des nouvelles statuettes de Grimaldi.
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Substantial Acts: From Materials to Meaning in Upper Paleolithic Representation.
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Perspectives technologiques sur la << double statuette >> de Gagarino. Techne, 5:
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Radiocarbon dates from the Upper Paleolithic of the Barma Grande. Current
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Actes de substance: de la matière au sens dans la représentation paléolithique.
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1995
Les images féminines paléolithiques: un coup d’oeil sur quelques perspectives
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Ivory personal ornaments of Aurignacian age: Technological, social and symbolic
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La naissance de l’art. Archéologue -- Archéologie Nouvelle. 17:17-20.
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Les archives paléolithiques. La Recherche. 25:746-750.
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Ice age lamps. Scientific American. 268:108-114. (with S. de Beaune).
1993
Introduction to Gesture and Speech, the first ever English translation of André
Leroi-Gourhan's Le geste et la parole. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1-21.
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Technological and social dimensions of "Aurignacian-age" body ornaments across
Europe. Before Lascaux: The Complex Record of the Upper Paleolithic, H. Knecht,
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The dawn of adornment. Natural History. 102:1-8.
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A social and technological view of Aurignacian and Castelperronian personal
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1992
The earliest images: Ice Age "art" in Europe. Expedition. 34:37-51.
1992
Une Vénus problématique trouvée au Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis,
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Bruniquel (Tarn-et-Garonne) ou le Soucy (Dordogne): Les tribulations d'un cheval à
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1992
Beyond art: Toward an understanding of the origins of material representation in
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Rethinking the Middle/Upper Paleolithic transition. Inquiry and Debate in the
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Topographie des sites magdaléniens du Périgord. Le Peuplement Magdalénien:
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1992
Extant research resources for the study of North African Archaeological collections
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1992
The history and research significance of the Logan Museum's French Paleolithic
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1992
Abri Cellier (or la Ruth), commune de Tursac (Dordogne): Results of the 1927
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1992
An engraved bear from the Grotte des Eyzies, commune des Eyzies (Dordogne),
France. French Paleolithic Collections in the Logan Museum of Anthropology,
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1992
Two Upper Paleolithic representations of uncertain provenience. French Paleolithic
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1992
Bone, antler and ivory objects from Abri Blanchard, commune de Sergeac
(Dordogne), France. French Paleolithic Collections in the Logan Museum of
Anthropology, Beloit College. R. White and L. Breitborde (eds.). Beloit, Wisconsin:
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1992
A spear-thrower fragment from Laugerie-Haute, commune des Eyzies (Dordogne),
France. French Paleolithic Collections in the Logan Museum of Anthropology,
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An engraved cervid from Rocher de la Peine, commune des Eyzies (Dordogne).
French Paleolithic Collections in the Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit
College. R. White and L. Breitborde (eds.). Beloit, Wisconsin: Bulletin of the Logan
Museum of Anthropology, NS, 1(2), 245-248. (with K. Ehrhardt and A. Roussot)
1992
Fifteen Azilian pebbles from Mas d'Azil (Ariège), France. French Paleolithic
Collections in the Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College. R. White and L.
Breitborde (eds.). Beloit, Wisconsin: Bulletin of the Logan Museum of
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Toward a contextual understanding of the earliest body ornaments. The Emergence
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Visual thinking in the Ice Age. Scientific American. 260(7): 92-99.
1989
Husbandry and herd following in the Upper Paleolithic: A critical review. Current
Anthropology. 30(5): 609-632.
1989
Le temps saisonier au Paléolithique supérieur. Les Temps de la Préhistoire. Vol. 2.
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1989
Une lampe paléolithique retrouvée dans les collections du Field Museum of Natural
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1989
Production complexity and standardisation in early Aurignacian bead and pendant
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The Upper Paleolithic: A cultural revolution. Yearbook of Science and the Future.
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Objets magdaléniens provenant de l'Abri du Soucy (Dordogne): La collection de
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1987
Glimpses of long-term shifts in late Paleolithic land use in the Périgord. The
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Rediscovering French Ice Age art. Nature. 320: 683-684.
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Some thoughts on social relationships and language in hominid evolution. Journal
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The influence of solar aspect on Upper Paleolithic site location. New York
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Changing land-use patterns across the Middle/Upper Paleolithic transition. The
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1982
The manipulation and use of burins in incision and notation. Canadian Journal of
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1982
Rethinking the Middle/Upper Paleolithic transition. Curr. Anthrop. 23(2): 169-192.
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On the Middle/Upper Paleolithic transition: a response to Mellars. Current
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The Upper Paleolithic Occupation of the Périgord: A Topographic Approach to
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1980
The Ami Collection of the National Museum of Canada: Geographic and
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1979
A paleodemographic analysis of the os coxae from Ossossané Ossuary. Canadian
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Review of Broglio, A. and Dalmeri, G. (eds.) Pitture paleolitiche nelle Prealpi
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Verona, Italy : Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, 2005. Journal of
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2006
Looking for biological meaning in cave art, a review of D. Guthrie’s The Nature of
Paleolithic Art. University of Chicago Press. American Scientist 94 : 371-372.
2006
Review of M. Petraglia’s and R. Potts’s The Old World Paleolithic and the
Development of a National Collection, Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology,
Number 48. Journal of Anthropological Research 62 : 266-268.
2002
Henri Delporte (1920-2002). Journal of Anthropological Research.
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Review of James Sackett 's The Archaeology of Solvieux : An Upper Palaeolithic
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1998
Comment on D’Errico et al’s The Middle Upper Paleolithic transition at Arcy-surCure. Current Anthropology, 39 (2):30-32
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Comment on Leroy McDermott’s article Self-representation in Pavlovian,
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Current Anthropology. 37(2):264-267.
1996
Comment on Robert Elkins’s article “On the impossibility of close reading: the case
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Review of: Roger Lewin’s The Origin of Modern Humans. Journal of the Royal
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Comment on Robert Bednarik’s article, Taphonomy and the origins of symbolism.
Current Anthropology, 37:623-625.
1994
Review of The Roots of Civilization, 2nd ed., by Alexander Marshack. American
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1993
Review of The Ancient Art of Northern Asia by Anatoly Martynov. American
Antiquity.
1993
Review of Iberia Before the Iberians: The Stone Age Prehistory of Cantabrian Spain
by Lawrence Straus. Science. 259:1632.
1991
Review of The Dawn of Belief: Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern
France by Bruce Dickson. American Antiquity. 56:572-573.
1991
Review of Les peintures postglaciaires en Provence: Inventaire, étude
chronologique, stylistique et iconographique by Philippe Hameau. American
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1990
Reply to Symbolism and Modern Human Origins by Lindly and Clark. Current
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1990
Reply to A. Marshack's letter to editor. Scientific American. 260(12):12-13.
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Review of L'Art des Grottes en Ariège Magdalenienne by Denis Vialou. American
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1989
Review of Images of the Ice Age by P. Bahn and J. Vertut. American Scientist.
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Review of Altamira Revisited by L. Freeman et al (eds.). American Anthropologist.
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1986
Comment on Whitney Davis's, The Origins of Image Making. Current
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1984
On specialization and the
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Reply to: More on the Mousterian flaked bone from Cueva Morín, by L. Freeman.
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PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES
2014
Uranium-thorium dating method and Palaeolithic rock art. XVII Congress of the
International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Burgos, Spain, 1-7
September (with Georges Sauvet, Raphaëlle Bourrillon, Margaret Conkey, Carole
Fritz, Diego Gárate-Maidagan, Olivia Rivero Vilá and Gilles Tosello.
2014
Une nouvelle sculpture féminine de la grotte du Pape à Brassempouy : "la Figurine
échappée." L’art au quotidien: objets ornés du Paléolithique supérieur International
colloquium commemorating the 150th anniversary of the first discoveries of
portable art in the Vézère Valley. Musée National de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies, June
16-20.
2014
Une découverte majeure d’art aurignacien à l’abri Blanchard (Sergeac, Dordogne).
L’art au quotidien: objets ornés du Paléolithique supérieur International
colloquium commemorating the 150th anniversary of the first discoveries of
portable art in the Vézère Valley. Musée National de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies, June
16-20. (with Raphaëlle Bourrillon, Amy Clark, Romain Mensan, Laurent Chiotti,
Catherine Cretin, André Morala, Thomas Higham, Sarah Ranlett, Jean-Christophe
Castel, Mathew Sisk et ÉliseTartar).
2013
Organized symposium and presented two scholarly papers at Aurignacian Genius :
art, technology and society of the first Modern Humans in Europe. A three-day
international symposium with 21 participants from 7 different countries. New York,
April 8-10, 2013.
2013
Graphic imagery and otherwise modified rock surfaces in Aurignacian sites of the
Vèzère Valley: symbolism, context and technique. British Museum European
Palaeolithic Conference, London, February 22 (with R. Bourrillon).
2012
Graphic imagery and otherwise modified rock surfaces in Aurignacian sites of the
Vèzère Valley: symbolism, context and technique. Annual Meetings of the Society
for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN (with R. Bourrillon.
2011
The Aurignacian rock engravings of Abri Castanet: 3D documentation and analysis
(with R. Bourrillon, R. Mensan, A. Clark, C. Cretin and L. Chiotti. Annual meetings
of the Paleoanthropology Society, Minneapolis.
2011
La "figurine échappée" de la grotte du Pape à Brassempouy : étude technologique,
historique et contextuelle d'une nouvelle sculpture féminine. Maison de la Dame,
Brassempouy (Landes), August 6.
2011
Discussant, Personal Adornment and Personhood: The view from prehistory.
Constituting the Human. MaCaulay Honors College, CUNY, April 8.
2010
Une nouvelle découverte d’art pariétal aurignacien à l’abri Castanet (France) :
contexte et datation. In Congrès de l’IFRAO, septembre 2010 – Symposium : L’art
pléistocène en Europe IFRAO Congress, September 2010 – Symposium: Pleistocene
art in Europe (Pre-Acts), 4pp. (with Bourrillon, R., Cretin, C., Mensan, R.,
Gardère, P., Chiotti, L., Sisk, M., Clark, A., Tartar, E., and Higham, T.).
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2010
Invited lecture : La construction des parures aurignaciennes : analyses
technologiques, sociales et symboliques. International ArBoCo workshop, C2RMF,
Laboratoire de Recherche et de Conservation des Musées de France, Paris,
December 1 to 4.
2009
L’homme de Combe-Capelle (Dordogne) : sa place dans les hypothèses de F.
Bordes sur le peuplement de l’Europe au début du Paléolithique supérieur. Colloque
international François Bordes. 134e Congrès des Sociétés Historiques et
Scientifiques. (with D. Henry-Gambier). Bordeaux, April 23.
2009
The dialogue with the caves : religion and the underground in Paleolithic France.
CNRS Workshop, UMI 3199 - Transitions. New York University. March 5-6.
2009
Paleolithic art : the first systems of graphic and plastic representation. Symposium
entitled The Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics. Center for Academic
Research and Training in Anthropogeny. Salk Institute, University of California at
San Diego. March 20-21.
2008
Topographic interpolation as a tool for excavation: Examples from the Abri
Castanet, Dordogne (France). Annual Meetings of the Paleoanthropology Society,
Vancouver, Canada (with M. Sisk and R. Mensan). Poster.
2008
L’affaire de l’abri du Poisson. Nouveaux regards. Workshop on the history of
archaeology in SW France. Carrefour Universitaire de Sarlat. Sarlat, France. Jan. 9.
2006
Approaches and methods for the study of Upper Paleolithic cultural esthetics.
Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2005
Keynote address : Une guerre avant la Guerre, Otto Hauser et Denis Peyrony.
Archives Personnelles des Préhistoriens. Université de Toulouse – le Mirail, 16-18
juin.
2005
Systems of personal ornamentation in the early Upper Paleolithic: methodological
challenges and new observations. Rethinking the Human Revolution: New
Behavioural and Biological and Perspectives on the Origins and Dispersal of Modern
Humans. Cambridge University, Sept. 7-11.
2005
Nouvelles perspectives sur la parure aurignacienne en Aquitaine d’après les fouilles
récentes : Castanet, Brassempouy, Isturitz et Gatzarria. Les chemins de l’art
aurignacien en Europe. Aurignac, France, Sept. 16-18.
2005
De la production locale à l’organisation régionale : technologie et symbolisme
vestimentaire des groupes aurignaciens. Restituer la vie quotidienne au paléolithique
supérieur. Université Jean Moulin - Lyon III, 16-18 March.
2005
« L’affaire de l’abri du Poisson (Dordogne) : mythes et vérités. » Séminaire
international « Représentations préhistoriques. » Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France,
January 14.
2003
Dents humaines percées en contexte Aurignacien ancien en France: Quelle
signification? International colloquium: En el centenario de la cueva de El Castillo :
el ocaso de los Neandertales. Santoña, Spain, 18-20 September. (with D. HenryGambier)
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2003
Les parures aurignaciennes d’Isturitz : perspectives technologiques et régionales.
Table-ronde sur les recherches archéologiques dans les grottes d’Isturitz et
d’Oxocelhaya de 1912 à nos jours : une synthèse des résultats. Hasparren, PyrénéesAtlantiques.
2003
Human-tooth ornaments from the French early Aurignacian : implications for early
Upper Paleolithic treatment of the dead. Annual Meetings of the Paleoanthropology
Society, Tempe, Arizona (with D. Gambier and C. Normand).
2003
New chrono-cultural data on the Cro-Magnon and Combe-Capelle human remains
(Dordogne, France): consequences for the biocultural origins of modern humans in
Europe. Meetings of the Paleoanthropology Society, Tempe, AZ (with D. Gambier).
2003
Les chercheurs américains en Périgord avant la 2ème guerre mondiale. Réunion
annuelle de la Société d’études et de recherches préhistoriques des Eyzies. Les
Eyzies–de-Tayac, France.
2003
La parure aurignacienne de Brassempouy et d’Isturitz : nouvelles données. 13éme
rencontre archéologique de Saliés de Béarn, Saliés de Béarn, France.
2003
La construction d’un monde socio-ethnique : la transformation de matières
minérales et animales en parures aurignaciennes. Colloque international, Groupe de
Recherche no. 1945 : Comportements des hommes du Paléolithique moyen et
supérieur en Europe : territoires et milieux. Grande Galérie de l’Evolution, Muséum
National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, January 8-10.
2003
Les statuettes féminines du Paléolithique supérieur en Périgord : nouvelles données.
Séminaire International sur Représentations Préhistoriques. Laboratoire de
Préhistoire, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, January 17.
2002
Collections et musées de préhistoire aux Etats-Unis. Ecole des hautes etudes en
sciences sociales, Paris. Seminaire sur L’Histoire de la paléontologie, représentation
de la préhistoire.
2002
Approches de l'art mobilier paléolithique : tracéologie et technologie. Ecole des
hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris. Seminaire sur L’Histoire de la
paléontologie, représentation de la préhistoire.
2002
Régionalisation de l'expression symbolique aurignacienne en Europe: implications
sociales. 20e Séminaire International sur Représentations Préhistoriques.
Laboratoire de Préhistoire, Musée de l'Homme, Paris.
2001
A technological and social analysis of the Sungir burials. Symposium sur le
mobilier funéraire du Paléolithique supérieur et du Mésolithique : nouvelles
découvertes et approches méthodologiques. XIVe Congrès, Union intern. des
sciences préhistoriques et protohistoriques. Liège, Belgium, September 2-8.
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2001
Chronological and geographic perspectives on the technology of Aurignacian and
Châtelperronian body ornaments in Western and Central Europe. Symposium on
the chronology of the Aurignacian and of the transitional technocomplexes. Dating,
stratigraphies, cultural implications. XIVe Congrès, Union intern. des sciences
préhistoriques et protohistoriques. Liège, Belgium, September 2-8.
2001
The facts of the matter: evidence for symbolic expression in the Châtelperronian
and Early Aurignacian. Neanderthals and Modern Humans in Late Pleistocene
Eurasia, Gibraltar 16-19 August.
2000
The Personal Ornaments from Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne), France: Technological and
Evolutionary Perspectives. Annual Meetings of the Paleoanthropology Society,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2000
Les statuettes féminines de Brassempouy, Landes. Approches technologiques. 17e
Seminaire International sur Représentations Préhistoriques. Laboratoire de
Préhistoire, Musée de l'Homme, Paris.
1999
Les objets de parure de la grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne) : technologie et
contexte. Institut d’art et d’archéologie, Université de Paris I : Panthéon – Sorbonne.
1998
Female imagery in the Upper Paleolithic. Symposium on The Birth of Art,
University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
1997
Les statuettes féminines de la culture Kostienki/Avdeevo: Approche sociale et
technologique. 15e Séminaire International sur Représentations Préhistoriques.
Laboratoire de Préhistoire, Musée de l'Homme, Paris.
1995
Structure, signification et culture: quelques différents logiques de representation et
leur implications archéologiques. Geste, technique, parole et mémoire, a CNRS
colloquium on the legacy of Leroi-Gourhan. Compiègne: Collège international de
Philosophie et l’Université de Technologie de Compiègne.
1995
Substantial Acts: From Materials to Meaning in Upper Paleolithic Representation.
Upper Paleolithic Image and Symbol: Beyond Art. California Academy of Sciences.
1994
Perspectives américaines sur les images féminines paléolithiques. International
conference commemorating the centenary of the discovery of the
Brassempouy statuettes, Brassempouy, France.
1994
Newly Discovered Female Statuettes from Grimaldi, Italy. Annual Meeting of the
Paleoanthropology Society, Anaheim, California (with M. Bisson).
1994
A Control sample for Determining Season and Age of Death of Rangifer tarandus.
Society for American Archaeology, Annual Meetings, Anaheim, California. (with
A. Pike-Tay).
1993
perspectives. Le Travail et l'Usage de l'Ivoire au Paléolithique Supérieur. Ravello,
Italy: Centre Universitaire Européen pour les Biens Culturels.
1993
Le travail de l'ivoire pendant l'Aurignacien. Colloque International sur les Industries
sur Matières Dures Animales. Treignes, Belgium.
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1993
Approches microscopiques et expérimentaux des traits répétitifs aurignaciens: un
comparaison de deux objéts de l'abri Blanchard, France. Colloque International sur
les Industries sur Matières Dures Animales. Treignes, Belgium.
1993
Approche expérimentale et microscopique des marques répétitives et rhythmées du
Paléolithique supérieur. 10e Séminaire International sur Représentations
Préhistoriques. Laboratoire de Préhistoire, Musée de l'Homme, Paris. (with M.
O'Farrell)
1992
The construction of social identity in the European Aurignacian: From theory to
praxis. Society for American Archaeology, Annual Meetings. Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
1992
Before Lascaux: Anthropological Perspectives on the First 17,000 Years of Art
History. The Robert L. Stigler Jr. Lecture in Archaeology, Department of
Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
1992
perspectives. International round-table on Le Travail et l'Usage de l'Ivoire au
Paléolithique Supérieur. Ravello, Italy: Centre Universitaire Européen pour les
Biens Culturels.
1991
Sungir: The material construction of social identity in the Early Upper Paleolithic.
Society for American Archaeology, Annual Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana.
1991
Technological Approaches to "Aurignacian-Age" body ornaments across Europe.
Invited paper in session entitled Aurignacien en Europe et en Proche Orient. XIIth
Congress of the UISPP, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
1991
A technological view of Castelperronian and Aurignacian body ornaments.
International colloquium on El Origen del Hombre Moderno en el Suroeste de
Europa, Madrid, Spain.
1991
L'art corporelle de Sungir, URSS: Approche technologique, sociale et esthetique. 8e
1990
Participant in Archéologie des grottes ornées: Cinquentenaire de la découverte de la
grotte de Lascaux. Montignac, France.
1989
La chaine opératoire de la fabrication de la parure en ivoire à l'Aurignacien.
Congrès Préhistorique de France. Paris, France.
1989
Variability and change in the structure of Aurignacian body ornamentation. Society
for American Archaeology, Annual Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia.
1989
Participant in Les industries à pointes foliacées du Paléolithique supérieur
européen. Karniowice, Poland, with excursions to Czechoslovakia.
1989
Vers une compréhension contextuelle de l'origine de l'art et de la parure. 6e
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1988
Topographie des sites magdaléniens du Périgord. Autour l'Homme de Chancelade.
Chancelade, France.
1987
Production complexity in Early Aurignacian body ornamentation: The case of Abri
Blanchard and La Souquette. Society for American Archaeology, Annual Meetings,
Toronto, Canada.
1987
L'Art mobilier du Périgord et du Lot dans les musées américains. Colloque
International d'Art Mobilier. Foix and Mas d'Azil, France.
1987
Production complexity and standardisation in early Aurignacian bead and pendant
manufacture: evolutionary implications. The Origins and Dispersal of Modern
Humans: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives. University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, England.
1986
Toward a Contextual Understanding of the Earliest Body Ornaments. School of
American Research Advanced Seminar on the Origins of the Modern Human
Adaptation. Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1986
L'art paléolithique français en Amérique. 3e Seminaire International sur
Représentations Préhistoriques. Labo. de Préhistoire, Musée de l'Homme, Paris.
1985
More on horse sense and nonsense in Southwestern France. Society for American
Archaeology, Annual Meetings, Denver, Colorado.
1985
The Modern Research Value of the Beloit College French Paleolithic Collection.
Symposium on the Logan Museum expeditions to France and North Africa,
1925-1930. Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin.
1984
Information in theory and practice: An archaeological examination. American
Anthropological Association, Annual Meetings, Denver, Colorado, (with F. Myers
and A. Hendrickson)
1983
Toward regional studies in the European Paleolithic: The complex case of the
Périgord. Society for American Archaeology, Annual Meetings. Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
1982
Probable Upper Paleolithic kill strategies in the Périgord: A topographic approach.
Society for American Archaeology, Annual Meetings, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1981
Rethinking Middle/Upper Paleolithic differences in Southwestern France. Society
for American Archaeology, Annual Meetings, San Diego, California.
1981
Henri-Marc Ami: A forgotten Canadian archaeologist. Canadian Archaeological
Association, Annual Meetings, Edmonton, Canada.
1979
Magdalenian settlement strategies in Southwestern France.
Archaeological Association, Annual Meetings, Vancouver, Canada.
1979
The manipulation and use of late Paleolithic burins: Some hypotheses and
conclusions. Canadian Archaeological Association, Annual Meetings, Vancouver,
Canada.
Canadian
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1978
Topographical parameters of prehistoric aggregations: The case in Southwestern
France. Hunter-Gatherer Aggregation and Dispersion. SUNY-Binghamton,
Binghamton, NY.
PUBLIC LECTURES
2014
Fouilles récentes aux abris Castanet, Blanchard et Cellier: les conséquences pour
notre connaissance de l'Aurignacien en Périgord. Conférences d'été de la vallée de
la couze sur la préhistoire. Centre international de recherche et de communication
sur l'homme préhistorique de la Vallée de la Couze. Montferrand-du-Périgord,
France, August 6.
2013
The expressive culture of early modern humans: music, ornaments and images.
Invited presentation in honor of Gordon Getty to the Scientific Board and Trustees
of the LSB Leakey Foundation. San Francisco (April 28).
2013
Personal adornment in Ice Age Europe. British Museum European Palaeolithic
Conference, London, February 23 (public day).
2013
Aurignacian Genius : the Origins of the Arts in Europe. Aurignacian Genius : art,
technology and society of the first Modern Humans in Europe. A three-day
April 8-10, 2013. (Public day, April 9)
2013
Aurignacian Art (37,000-28,000BP): An overview. Aurignacian Genius : art,
technology and society of the first Modern Humans in Europe. A three-day
April 8-10, 2013. (Public day, April 9)(with R. Bourrillon).
2013
Aurignacian expressive culture: music, ornaments and images. Human Evolutionary
Studies Program Journal Club, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
(May 16).
2013
Keynote address : The expressive culture of early modern humans: music, ornaments
and images. All day session entitled Human evolution: Canadian perspectives on the
last million years. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association,
Vancouver, BC, May 17.
2013
La parure dans les sociétés des premiers Cro-Magnons. Grotte d'Isturitz, PyrénéesAtlantiques, France, June 28.
2013
Dark Caves, Bright Visions: Life and Art in Ice Age Europe. Houston Natural
History Museum, Houston, TX. Lecture co-sponsored by the LSB Leakey
Foundation and the Archaeological Institute of America, November 12.
2012
Les abris Castanet et Blanchard (Sergeac, Dordogne) : les arts aurignaciens de la
Vallée de la Vézère cent ans après. Keynote address delivered at the Musée de
Toulouse on March 14 during the week-long PUF-sponsored internship/workshop.
2011
Abri Castanet (Dordogne) France: archaeological evidence for the origins of art in
Europe. Archaeological Institute of America, New York Chapter, September 27,
2011.
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2011
Enquête sur les origines de l’art. Université de Québec à Montréal, Les rendez-vous
du CNRS, Montréal, Québec, October 13.
2011
Issues surrounding the evolution of art and symbolism. Les rendez-vous du CNRS,
Alliance Française, US Embassy, Washington DC, October 20.
2011
Enquête sur les origines de l’art. Lycée Rochambault, Bethesda, MD, October 20.
2011
Questions surrounding the origins of art. Skeptics Society, Blair Academy,
November 15.
2010
La parure dans les sociétés des premiers Cro-Magnons. Commune de Cenac,
Dordogne, France, August 4.
2010
La parure dans les sociétés des premiers Cro-Magnon. Nocturnes de l’abri Pataud.
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, France. August 3.
2009
Lascaux Cave: The Complex Story of an Ice Age Sanctuary. American Society of
Landscape Architects and the Maison Française of New York University. January
30.
2008
Upper Paleolithic female figurines. Wilson Museum, Castine, Maine. April 18.
2007
The Evolution of Symbolism : Humanity’s Earliest Images. Society of Skeptics,
Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ, February 10.
2007
Les Eyzies 1912 : L’histoire d’un cheval, d’une femme et d’un poisson. Société des
amis du musée, Musée National de Préhistoire, le 10 mars.
2007
Systems of Personal Ornamentation and the Origins of Symbolism, American
Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, April 19.
2007
The Abri du Poisson Affair : The Untidy Beginnings of French Antiquities Law.
Columbia University Center for Archaeology, co-sponsored by the New York
Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, New York, NY, November 28.
2006
Keynote address : Edouard Piette et ses Drôles de Dames : Nouveaux Regards. Two
day conference entitled Vingt-cinq ans de fouilles à Brassempouy. July 8 and 9,
2006, Brassempouy, Landes, France.
2005
Les Vénus préhistoriques. Rencontres d’été, Pôle international de la Préhistoire, Les
Eyzies de Tayac, France, le 10 juillet.
2005
La femme matérialisée : formes, techniques et contextes des statuettes féminines
paléolithiques. Technique et image au Paléolithique. Montignac-sur-Vézère, France,
le 4 juillet.
2004
L’Avant-guerre dans le jardin du bien et du mal : les prémices de la préhistoire en
Périgord noir. À la recherche de l’homme préhistorique...depuis 200 ans.
Montignac-sur-Vézère, France, le 15 juillet.
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2004
Keynote address : L’impact des chercheurs étrangers en Périgord noir : 1869 à
1941. Celebrations of the 100e anniversaire de la Société Préhistorique Française,
Musée national de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies de Tayac, France, le 19 octobre.
2004
Animaux gibiers – Animaux rêvés : la parure. Rencontres d’été, Pôle international de
la Préhistoire, le 1er juillet.
2003
The symbolic journey of humankind. American Museum of Natural History, Public
lecture series, New York, September 25.
2003
Thinking about the origins of symbolic expression. Keynote address, New York
University Media Ecology Conference. Williams Lake Hotel, Rosendale, New
York.
2003
La parure aurignacienne de la grotte d’Isturitz. Keynote lecture celebrating the 50th
anniversary of research at Isturitz. Hasparren, France, August, 2003
2003
Les arts des chasseurs-cueilleurs préhistoriques : un tour du monde. L’art
préhistorique autour du monde. Montignac-sur-Vézère, France, June 30
2002
Nouvelles recherches en Russie : Sungir et Kostienki. Adresse à l’assemblée
générale de la Société des amis du Musée National de Préhistoire et de la recherche
archéologique. Conférence inaugurale de la salle de conférences du nouveau musée,
Musée National de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, France, le 21 décembre.
2002
Le monde animal dans l’art paleolithique. Le Monde Animal des Cro-Magnons.
Montignac-sur-Vézère,, France, le 12 août.
2001
L’origine de l’art corporel en Aquitaine dans son contexte européen. L'Art avant
Lascaux, Montignac-sur-Vézère, le 6 août.
2001
L’art figuratif avant Lascaux. L'Art avant Lascaux, Sergeac, le 9 août.
2001
Les statuettes féminines (dites « Vénus ») dans l’art paléolithique. L'Art avant
Lascaux, Montignac, le 13 août.
2001
Les préhistoriens américains en Périgord noir: 1869 à 2001. Nocturnes de l'abri
Pataud. Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, le 31 juillet.
2000
Keynote address: The technology of personal ornaments and female amulets in the
Upper Paleolithic. Annual Meeting of the Society of Bead Researches, Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
2000
In the beginning: personal ornaments and female amulets in the Upper Paleolithic.
Bead Society of Greater Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
2000
The technology of personal ornaments and female amulets in the Upper Paleolithic.
New York Bead Society, New York, NY.
1999
Approches technologiques aux statuettes féminines paléolithiques. Summer lecture
series, Montferrand du Périgord, France.
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1998
La technologie des statuettes féminines. Musée National de Préhistoire, Les Eyziesde-Tayac, France.
1997
Keynote address. Smithsonian Institution Lecture Series on The Origin of Human
Creativity.
1997
Les statuettes féminines gravettiennes. Université de Paris I-Sorbonne, Institut d’Art
et Archéologie.
1997
Art before Lascaux. Invited lecture, Washington University, St. Louis.
1996
Origin of Art 35,000 Years Ago. Annual Lecture in Anthropology, Département de
Sociologie et Anthropologie, Université de Concordia, Montréal, Canada.
1996
La Transition Paléolithique Moyen au Paléolithique Supérieur: Perspectives
Technologiques et Symboliques. Département d’Anthropologie, Université de
Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
1994
Issues in Analysis and Interpretation of Gravettian Female Figurines. University
Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
1994
The Ice Age Revolution. Three lecture sequence for Smithsonian’s Campus-on-theMall.
1993
The Construction of Social Identity Among Early Modern Humans: The Evidence of
Personal Ornaments. Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, Arkansas.
1990
Before Lascaux: The Ice Age Origins of Art and Personal Adornment. Department
of Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
1989
The Archaeology of Ice Age Body Ornaments. New York Academy of Sciences,
New York, NY.
1987
Upper Paleolithic cave art. Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver, Colorado.
1987
Toward a contextual understanding of Aurignacian body ornaments. The Graduate
School, City University of New York, Archaeology Seminar.
1986
The Place of Art and Symbol in Human Evolution. New York
University/Rockefeller University Joint Program in Science and the Humanities.
New York City.
1986
Three-part public lecture series sponsored by the Department of Education,
American Museum of Natural History: 1) Disappearance of the Neanderthals and
the Emergence of Modern Humans, 2) Dismantling the Cave Dweller Myth:
Everyday Life in Late Ice Age Europe, 3) Ice Age Art and Symbolic Expression.
1986
Les chercheurs américains en Périgord: 1920-1930. Institut de Paléontologie
Humaine, Paris.
1986
Cultural Geography: Prehistoric and Historic Land Use in the Périgord. Institute of
French Studies, New York University.
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1985
The Transition to Culturally Modern Humans in Europe. Montclair State College,
Upper Montclair, New Jersey.
1984
Art and Society in the European Stone Age. New York University Alumni
Association Annual Lecture.
1982
New Questions from Old Data: Upper Paleolithic Settlement Systems and Kill Sites.
Department of Anthropology, SUNY-Binghamton.
1982
Topography and People in the Late Pleistocene Périgord. Department of
Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
1982
Upper Paleolithic Settlement in Southwestern France. New York State
Archaeological Society, New York.
PHD AND MA COMMITTEES
2014
Supervisor, for the completed doctoral thesis of Claire Heckel, Department of
Anthropology, New York University, entitled Production Organization in the Early
Upper Paleolithic: Ivory tools and ornaments of the French Aurignacian.
2013
Co-supervisor, completed Masters2 thesis of Lars Anderson, Université de Toulouse
2 - Le Mirail, entitled Une enquête sur la variation lamellaire à la Tuto de Camalhot
(Ariège)
2013
Claire Heckel, John O'Hara, Joelle Nivens (PhD supervisor), Zenobie Garrett, Katie
McCormick, Adam Green (member PhD committee).
2013
Co-supervisor for the in progress Doctoral thesis of Laura Chassaigne, McGill
University, Montréal, Canada, entitled Aurignacian engraved and decorated
objects: technological and symbolic analysis.
2012
Served as member of the jury for the Doctoral thesis of Lise Aurière, Université de
Toulouse – Mirail. Thesis entitled L'art mobilier magdalénien. du support au décor.
Les choix technologiques et leurs implications dans l'élaboration des objets en
matière osseuses. L'étude de cas dans la vallée de l'Aveyron : Les gisements de
Plantade, Lafaye, Montastruc et Courbet.
2012
Co-supervisor for the completed Doctoral thesis of Anne-Laure Mereau, Université
de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. Thesis entitled Le port de la parure au Magdalénien.
De l’usure à l’usage. Defended, March 17, 2012.
2010
Served as rapporteur of the jury for the Doctoral thesis of José Miguel Tejero
Cáceres, Madrid : UNED. Thesis entitled La explotación de las materias duras
animales en el Paleolítico seperior inicial. Aproximación tecno-económica a las
producciones auriñacienses en la Península Ibérica.
2009
Served as president of the jury for the Doctoral thesis of Raphaëlle Bourrillon, Univ.
de Toulouse – Mirail. Thesis entitled Les représentations humaines sexuées dans
l’art du Paléolithique supérieur européen : diversité, réminiscences et permanences.
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Served as rapporteur of the jury for the Doctoral thesis of Elena Man-Ester, Muséum
national d’histoire naturelle. Thesis entitled Les Ursidés au naturel et au figuré
pendant la Préhistoire.
2009
Served as rapporteur of the jury for the Doctoral thesis of Elise Tartar, Université de
Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. Thesis entitled De l’os à l’outil : Caractérisation
technique, économique et sociale de l’utilisation de l’os à l’Aurignacien ancien.
Étude de trois sites : l’abri Castanet (secteurs nord et sud), Brassempouy (grotte des
Hyènes et abri Dubalen) et Gatzarria
2008
Served as rapporteur of the jury for the Doctoral thesis of Philippe Roux, Univ. de
Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, entitled Les « archives Mortillet » à l’Université de
Sarrebruck. Parcours et stratégie scientifique de Gabriel et Adrien de Mortillet.
2005
Served as President of the jury for the Doctoral thesis of Nejma Goutas, Université
de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. Thesis entitled Caractérisation et évolution du
Gravettien en France par l’approche techno-économique des industries en matières
dures animales (étude de six gisements du Sud-Ouest).
1997
Served as Chair of the Doctoral committee of Brooke Blades for a thesis entitled
Aurignacian Lithic Economy in the Vezere Valley of SW France. Department of
Anthropology, New York University.
1996
Served as President of the jury for the Doctoral thesis of Marianne Christensen,
Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. Thesis entitled Le travail et l’usage de
l’ivoire au Paléolithique supérieur.
1992
Served as Chair of the Doctoral committee of Ariane Burke for a thesis entitled Prey
Movements and Settlement Patterns during the Upper Paleolithic in Southwestern
France. Department of Anthropology, New York University.
1991
Served as Chair of the Doctoral committee of Heidi Knecht for a thesis entitled
Technological Innovation and Design during the Early Upper Paleolithic: A Study
of Organic Projectile Technologies. Department of Anthropology, NYU.
1989
Served as Chair of the Doctoral committee of Anne Pike-Tay for a thesis entitled
Red Deer Hunting in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwest France: A Seasonality
Study. Department of Anthropology, New York University.
OUTREACH
2013
Four different outreach presentations on the subject of prehistoric art to Houston TX
middle and high schools (Chinquapin, TH Rogers, St. Johns and Reagan).
Sponsored by the LSB Leakey Foundation and the Archaeological Institute of
America. November 11-13.
2013
Feature scientist in article on excavations at Abris Castanet and Blanchard.
Archaeology Magazine. 66: 55-63.
2011
Feature scientist in French television (France 5) series "Echappées belles."
2010
Consultant, Pôle International de la Préhistoire, Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France for
multimedia project on Gravettian burials from Sungir, Russia.
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2009
Feature scientist in documentary film on Edouard Piette entitled Un visage pour la
préhistoire. France 5.
2009
Feature scientist in three-part documentary for WGBH entitled The Human Spark.
2006-2010
Numerous workshops on the subject of Paleolithic art given to French primary
school children in the Dordogne region of France, designed to sensitize children to
their prehistoric heritage.
2004
Feature scientist on two-part documentary entitled The Neandertals, British
Broadcasting Corporation.
2001 to 2005
Organizer of an annual series of public lectures under the rubric Les Cro-Magnons
et leurs déscendants : 35,000 ans de patrimone en vallée Vézère dans son contexte
européen. In collaboration with the Mairie de Montignac-sur-Vézère and
l'Association du Vallon des Roches (Theme for 2003 : L’art préhistorique autour du
monde)
2003
Feature scientist on one-hour documentary on evolution of human symbolism (When
humans started to think.), Thames Television (Channel 4), January, 2003.
2002
Exhibition of photographs of female statuettes in an exhibition entitled Vénus
intemporelles, Musée Labenche, Brive-la-Gaillarde, France.
2001
Exhibition of photographs of female statuettes in an exhibition entitled Vénus
intemporelles, Montignac-sur-Vézère, France.
2000
Feature scientist on one-hour human cognitive evolution component of WGBHproduced series entitled Evolution, PBS-WGBH, September, 2001.
1999
Feature scientist on Granada films production on Paleolithic art which appeared on
BBC, March, 2000.
1999
Feature scientist in Arte film production of La Vallée des Cro-Magnons, French
television, April 2000.
1998
Feature scientist and consultant in series of half hour programs on archaeology,
Science After School, Metro Learning Channel.
1994
Lengthy series of television interviews and demonstrations for Granada Television’s
three-part Ape/Man special.
1994
Lengthy series of television interviews and demonstrations for BBC’s six-part
History of Technology special.
1993
Half hour segment on the origins of art for the Disney Channel’s Discovery series.
1986-87
Curator, Dark Caves, Bright Visions: Life in Ice Age Europe exhibit. American
Museum of Natural History, New York.
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1986-87
Organizer, Life in Ice Age Europe: A Public Symposium, New York University,
October 24 and 25, 1986. Sponsored by the New York University Humanities
Council, and the Department of Anthropology in collaboration with the American
Museum of Natural History.
1986-88
Chief consultant, National Geographic Magazine for major article on the Upper
Paleolithic.
1986
Editorial consultant, Smithsonian Magazine for article on late Ice Age Europe.
1986
Chief consultant, New York Times Sunday Magazine for feature article on the
evolution of human symbolism.
1985
Consultant, British Broadcasting Corporation in production of two hour
internationally televised documentary entitled Origin.
1985
Consultant, National Geographic Society in production of book entitled The
Adventure of Archaeology.
1985
One hour interview entitled Museums and Archaeology, radio station WHA,
Madison, Wisconsin.
1985
All day seminar for gifted high school students, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
entitled Language Evolution: Past, Present, Future.
1984
Consultant, Italian Public Television in production of documentary on human
prehistory.
1984
Consultant, U.S. Public Television in deliberations concerning a documentary on
prehistoric art.
1984
Consultant to Random House Publishers in revision of archaeology sections of Jolly
and Plog's Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archeology.
1984
Consultant, Harper and Row in revision of John Pfeiffer's Emergence of
Humankind.
1983
Editorial consultant, Smithsonian Magazine.
1982
Consultant, Capitol Children's Museum, Washington, DC, in NEH program on the
Origins of Human Communication for the DC School System.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2014
Member, Scientific Committee, for the international congress, Cien Años de Arte
Rupestre Paleolítico. Centenario del Descubrimiento de la Cueva de Candamo.
Candamo, Spain, July 3-5, 2014.
2013
Co-organizer (with R. Bourrillon) Aurignacian Genius : art, technology and society
of the first Modern Humans in Europe. A three-day international symposium with
21 participants from 7 different countries. New York, April 8-10, 2013.
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2012
Co-organizer of a week-long international internship on Paleolithic technology for
graduate students and researchers from New York University, l'Université de
Toulouse-Mirail and l'Université de Montréal, held at the TRACES laboratory at
the Université de Toulouse-Mirail. Funded by the Partner University Fund of the
French Embassy, Washington DC.
2010-present
Elected president, Association pour la protection de la Vallée de la Vézère, France.
2009 to present
Member, editorial board of the journal Palethnologie.
1992 to 2004
Review committee, J.S. Guggenheim Foundation.
2004-present
Member of the editorial committee for the Journal Paléo.
2002-06
Responsible for the conception and installation of the personal ornaments section of
the new permanent galleries of the Musée National de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies-deTayac, France.
1987-1993
Associate Editor for the journal Lithic Technology.
1994
Discussant, Symposium on Lithic Procurement in Late Paleolithic Europe. Society
for American Archaeology, Annual Meetings, Anaheim, California.
1992
Co-chair of session entitled Operational Sequences in Prehistoric Research. Society
for American Archaeology, Annual Meetings. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1991
Discussant, session on Saint-Césaire and the Middle/Upper Paleolithic transition.
Society for American Archaeology, Annual Meetings. New Orleans, Louisiana.
1989
Co-Chair of session entitled Culture Change and Variability in the Upper
Paleolithic. Society for American Archaeology, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
1987
Chair of session on inter-site comparisons in ad hoc symposium entitled
Hunter-Gatherers at the Last Glacial Maximum: The Global Record. Society for
American Archaeology, Annual Meetings, Toronto, Canada.
1983
Co-organizer (with L. Grimm), Society for American Archaeology symposium
entitled American Contributions to Paleolithic Methodology. Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
1981
Co-organizer (with M. Conkey), Society for American Archaeology symposium
entitled Classic Themes in Hunter-Gatherer and Paleolithic Archaeology. San
Diego, California.
1978
Co-organizer (with M. Conkey), Wenner-Gren sponsored conference entitled
Hunter-Gatherer Aggregation and Dispersion. SUNY-Binghamton.
EXTERNAL REVIEWS
1986-present
Reviewer for NSF, NEH, Wenner-Gren, the J.S. Guggenheim Foundation, and a
number of journals including Current Anthropology, Journal of Anthropological
Archaeology, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Human Evolution,
PNAS, Man, Nature, and Science.
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RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Cognitive evolution and material culture
Prehistoric art and personal ornamentation
Social and symbolic archaeology
Prehistoric technology
Archaeological survey and regional organization of hunter-gatherers
Excavation methodologies and research design
History of archaeology
COURSES TAUGHT AT NYU
Undergraduate
A14.0003 Archaeology: Early Societies and Cultures
A14.0002 Human Evolution and Prehistory
*V14.0090 Human Ecology
*V14.0511 Women and Men in Paleolitic Art
V14.0211 Rise of Civilization
*V14.0212 Prehistoric Art and Symbolic Evolution
V14.0216 Surveys of Regional Prehistory : Europe to the end of the Ice Age
Graduate
G14.1020 Anthropological Archaeology
*G14.1211 Prehistoric Europe
G14.2212 Ancient Societies II: Cities and States
G14.2213 Archaeological Theory
G14.2214 Archaeological Methods and Techniques
*G14.3391 Lithic Analysis
*G14.3397 Topical Seminar: Prehistoric Art
*G14.3397 Topical Seminar: The Archaeology of Modern Human Origins
*G14.3397 Topical Seminar: The Evolution of Human Symbolism
*G14.3397 Style and Material Culture Variability
*New courses developed in part or entirely by R. White
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE
2013-2014
Undergraduate Studies Committee, Laboratory Technology Committee
In the past
Served on virtually every existing departmental committee. Chaired Graduate
Admissions Committee, Graduate Curriculum Committee, Undergraduate
Curriculum Committee. Served as Director of Undergraduate Studies. Also chaired
two archaeological search committees and two promotion committees.
Served for four years as elected member of the Faculty Advisory Committee on
Policy and Planning.
Served for three years as elected member of the NYU Faculty Council and Senate.
LANGUAGE COMPETENCE
English (fluent), French (fluent), German (reading), Spanish (reading)
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