Lawrence Guy Straus
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology
At UNM since Fall 1975
Editor, Journal of Anthropological Research
Anthropology Courses taught at UNM
World Archeology (220)
Stone Age Europe (325/525)
African Prehistory (327/527)
Seminar in European Prehistory (577)
Archeological Research Proposals (675)
Various readings & topics courses.
Education
University of Chicago, AB with Honors 1971
University of Chicago, AM 1972
University of Chicago, Ph.D. 1975
Dissertation: "A Study of the Solutrean in Vasco-Cantabrian Spain"
Fieldwork
Upper & Middle Paleolithic, Mesolithic & Neolithic in Spain, Portugal,
France & Belgium.
Current Project (since 1996): excavations in Cueva Mirón (Cantabria, Spain),
funded by NSF, UNM, L.S.B.Leakey Foundation , National Geographic Society, Fundación
M. Botín, and the Governments of Spain & Cantabria.
Selected Publications (Books:)
"Armageddon or Entente? The Demise of the European Neandertals in Isotope
Stage 3" (Quaternary International/Elsevier, Oxford, 2005)
The Role of American Archeologists in the Study of the European Upper Paleolithic (ed.) (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2002).
Out of Africa in the Pleistocene (ed. with O.Bar-Yosef) (Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2001)
La Station de l’Hermitage à Huccorgne. Un Habitat à la Frontière Septentrionale du Monde Gravettien (with M.Otte & P.Haesaerts) (Liège: ERAUL, 2000)
An American in Stone Age Spain: Homenaje de sus Alumnos al Prof. L.G.Freeman (ed.), Special issue of the Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 56, no.1, 2000.
L’Abri du Pape. Bivouacs, Enterrements et Cachettes sur la Haute Meuse Belge: Du Mésolithique au Bas Empire Romain (with J-M.Léotard & M.Otte)(Liège: ERAUL, 1999)
As the World Warmed: Human Adaptations Across the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary (ed. with B. Eriksen) (Oxford: Elsevier Science, 1998)
La Grotte du Bois Laiterie (with M.Otte) (Liège: ERAUL, 1997)
Humans at the End of the Ice Age: The Archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary (ed. with B.Eriksen, J.Erlandson & D.Yesner)(New York: Plenum Publishing, 1996)
Le Trou Magrite: Resurrection d’un Site Classique en Wallonie (with M.Otte) (Li ège: ERAUL, 1995)
Les Derniers Chasseurs de Rennes du Monde Pyrénéen. L’Abri Dufaure, Un Gisement Tardiglaciaire en Gascogne (Paris: Société Préhistorique Française, 1995)
Plus 5 other books, 1983-1992, and over 375 articles, reviews & comments in USA, Argentina & various European countries since 1974.
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