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Lawrence Guy Straus
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology (Archaeology)
Editor, Journal of Anthropological Research
At UNM since Fall 1975


lstraus@unm.edu
505.277.6688

Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM since 2002

  • World Archeology (220)
  • Stone Age Europe (325/525)
  • African Prehistory (327/527)
  • Seminar: What are “Modern” Humans? (497/597)
  • Seminar on Pleistocene-Holocene Transition (577)
  • Proposal Writing (675)

Education

University of Chicago, Anthropology, AB Honors 1971, AM 1972, PhD 1975
Dissertation: “A Study of the Solutrean in Vasco-Cantabrian Spain”


Research

Paleolithic prehistory, paleoanthropology, archaeology of caves, lithic analysis; Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium


Selected Publications

“The Mesolithic of Atlantic Iberia,” pp. 302-27 in G. Bailey and P. Spikins, eds., Mesolithic Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)

(Straus, M. R. González Morales and E. B. Stewart) “Early Magdalenian Variability: New Evidence from El Mirón Cave, Cantabria, Spain,” Journal of Field Archaeology 33 (2008): 197-218

(N. Bicho, A. Carvalho, C. Gonzalez Sainz, J. Sanchidrian, Straus and V. Villaverde) “The Upper Paleolithic Rock Art of Iberia,” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 14 (2007): 81-151

(and M. González Morales) “Further Radiocarbon Dates for the Upper Paleolithic of El Mirón Cave,” Radiocarbon 49 (2007): 1205-14

“Of Stones and Bones: Interpreting Site Function in the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic of Western Europe,” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 25 (2006): 500-09

Armageddon or Entente? The Demise of the European Neanderthals in Isotope Stage 3 (Oxford: Quaternary International/Elsevier, 2005)

“The Upper Paleolithic of Cantabrian Spain, Evolutionary Anthropology 14 (2005): 145-58

(Straus, D. L. Meltzer and T. Goebel) “Ice Age Atlantis? Exploring the Solutrean-Clovis ‘Connection’,” World Archaeology 37 (2005): 507-32

The Role of American Archeologists in the Study of the European Upper Paleolithic (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2002)

(and O. Bar-Yosef, eds.) Out of Africa in the Pleistocene (Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2001)


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