John J. Shea
Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1991
Email: john.shea@stonybrook.edu
Teaching
Courses taught include ANT104 Introduction to Archaeology, ANT 268 Archeology of Human Origins, ANT 273 The Unstoppable Species, ANT418 Stone Tools in Human Evolution, ANT511 Paleolithic Archaeology.
Research Interests
The archaeology of human evolution, primarily in Eastern Africa and Southwest Asia. My main areas of topical expertise include the following:
Lithic analysis -interpreting variation among stone tools.
Hominin geographic dispersals, especially those of Homo sapiens.
Survival Archaeology -using insights from bushcraft and wilderness survival skills to develop hypotheses
about past human behavior.
Neanderthals -how they survived, why they became extinct.