Professor Emeritus, Anthropology; Curator Emeritus of Mediterranean Prehistory, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
About
Robert Whallon is Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Curator of Mediterranean Prehistory at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. He earned his Ph. D from the University of Chicago. His research focus on several important issues in European and Middle-eastern Prehistory, the Ecology and evolution of Hunter-gatherers, quantitative methods and spatial analysis, and the Prehistory of Languages. He has been involved during the years in field work in different Europeans countries, with a focus on the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic as well as Mesolithic, in Dordogne in France, Keban Dam (East central Turkey), in Netherlands, Boznia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. He is currently involved in a new project in the Abruzzo Province in Italy. He is the founder and editor for more than a decade of the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Affiliation(s)
- Anthropology
- Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
