Courses Taught at Stony Brook University

• • ANT 103 Archaeology for a Better World (co-taught with Prof. Katheryn C. Twiss).  An exploration of how archaeology can improve the world.

  • ANT 104 Archaeology. An introduction to the development, methods, and applications of archaeology. 

  • ANT 268 Archaeology of Human Origins -survey of the archaeological record for hominin behavioral variability from 6000 to 3.5 Million years ago.

  • ANT 273 The Unstoppable Species? -origin, evolution and dispersal of Homo sapiens since 300,000 years ago.

  • ANT 418 Lithic Analysis -lab/seminar about prehistoric stoneworking technology, the methods archaeologists use to analyze stone tools, and major issues in  interpretation. (Graduate version DPA  518).

Students in ANT 417/517 making wooden javelins.

The .mov file below shows field tests of the wooden javelins in which the students try to hit me with them.

Since 1992 there has been an as-yet-unclaimed $20 prize for doing so.

Learning How to Survive the Ice Age, Hands-On is a short feature and video of the Fall 2015 ANT 417 Primitive Technology Students doing field trials of their spearthrowers.  The segment begins in the lab where we compare modern vs. Stone Age survival gear, then moves to the athletic fields where the weapons trials take place.