Personal Stuff

I was born in 1960 in Hamilton, Massachusetts, where I attended local schools, graduating Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School in 1978. I attended Boston University from 1978-1982, where I majored in both Archaeology and Anthropology. My principal mentors were Creighton Gabel (archaeology) and Misia Landau (anthropology). While at BU, I attended a seminar on the analysis of lithic materials from archaeological sites at MIT's Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology (in the famous Building 20). After graduating, I worked in cultural-resource management archaeology for Harvard's Institute for Conservation Archaeology and BU's Office of Public Archaeology. In 1982, I was employed as a lithic analyst and assistant to George Odell for Richard S. ("Scotty") MacNeish's Belize Archaic Archaeological Reconnaissance project. MacNeish and Odell persuaded me to continue my education, and in 1984, I began doctoral studies at Harvard with Glynn Isaac. Following Isaac's untimely death in 1985, I began studying with Ofer Bar-Yosef, earning my Ph.D. from Harvard in 1991. Shortly thereafter, I joined the faculty at Stony Brook University, my present professional position. My wife, Patricia Crawford, and I currently divide our time between Stony Brook, NY and our home in Santa Fe, NM.