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Expert Profile: John J. Shea

Expertise: Questions about Old World prehistoric archaeology (mainly Europe, Near East, and Africa during the Paleolithic period/Pleistocene Epoch). IMPORTANT: I do not give advice about colleges. I do not appraise the value of artifacts or fossils.
University professor of anthropology/archaeology since 1991. Dozens of publications in peer-review anthropology journals. Director of archaeological-paleontological expeditions and excavations in Israel, Jordan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Kenya. See my main profile under Allexperts` "Anthropology" section. Professional website: http://www.sunysb.edu/anthro/staff/jshea.shtml Personal website: http://www.sunysb.edu/anthro/Shea/Shea%20pers%20webpage.htm

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What do you like about this subject? It combines the life of the mind with an active outdoors lifestyle.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field? I want to understand the relationship between prehistoric human behavioral variability and our species dispersal across the world.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know: Thomas Jefferson conducted one of the first archaeological excavations in America.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject Archaeology is the remedy to just about every claim made about the past by religious fundamentalists, demagogic politicians, and crackpot scientists.

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Thank you, well spoken.
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Recent Answers from John J. Shea

2008-11-07 Futures in Archaeology: Sara It is indeed common for students to go into archae. from history, albeit usually they focus on the archaeology of complex societies and/or historical archaeology. Your best bet now, though, is to...

2008-10-22 K/T boundary: Dear Wilburt, Thank you for your kind offer, but the K/T boundary concerns an event 65 million years ago, much earlier than the focus of my research (last 2 million years). I suggest you offer these...

2008-09-18 Neanderthal: Erin All species have morphological features that signal potential mates. Such differences could have been a factor in discouraging interbreeding between Neandertals and Homo sapiens. Most reconstructions...

2008-08-24 Nibiru - is it true?: Dear Bernadette This Nibiru is a mish-mash of "lunatic fringe" readings of Maya and Sumerian literature. These ancient peoples had only a rudimentary understanding of astrophysics (eg., treating stars...

2008-08-19 history of dating of cave paintings: Michael, The simple answer is that they found pieces of the walls with paint on them as well as other art objects together with stone tools and the remains of extinct Ice Age mammals in sealed cave deposits...