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  • Siobhán Cully
  • Siobhán Cully
  • Associate Professor
  • Specialization: Disability, bio-cultural anthropology, evolutionary behavioral sciences, human biology, evolutionary medicine, demography, mixed methods, China, Vanuatu
  • Degree and University: Ph.D. University of Washington, 2010
  • Office Hours: Spring 2025: Wednesday 1-2 pm, virtually or in office
  • Ryne Palombit
  • Ryne Palombit
  • Professor, SAS
  • Specialization: diversity of social and mating strategies in animals (human and nonhuman); cohesive social bonds between adult males and females; chacma baboons in Okavango Delta, Botswana and olive baboons in Laikipia, Kenya.
  • Degree and University: Ph.D. University of California, Davis 1992
  • Office: BIO-209A
  • Office Hours: Monday 1:30-2:30 in office or ZOOM; Thurs 11-noon by ZOOM
  • Courses: 01:070:212 The Life of Primates

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Ryne Palombit's research focuses on the extraordinary diversity of social and mating strategies in animals (both human and nonhuman), and how those strategies have evolved. His current interests focus on a feature of primate biology that largely differentiates these animals from most other mammals: cohesive social bonds between adult males and females persisting beyond estrus. He uses the comparative approach and field experiments to understand the behavioral and ecological bases of variation in male-female social relationships. He has studied monogamous pair bonds in wild white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) and siamang (H.syndactylus) in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and conducted short-term research on titi monkeys (Callicebus moloch) and red-bearded saki monkeys (Pithecia aequatorialis) in the upper Amazon of Ecuador. Currently, he directs "Project Papio, a study "friendships" in chacma baboons in Okavango Delta, Botswana and in olive baboons at his field site in Laikipia, Kenya.

CURRENT PROJECTS

primate societies cover mediumProf. Ryne Palombit recently published with his collaborators Evolution of Primate Societies (University of Chicago Press). Many years in the making, the new book complies 32 chapters by 44 leading authorities in the field. They provide an up to date synthesis of the current state of understanding of primate behavioral ecology, organized around four major adaptive problems primates face as they grow up in a difficult and dangerous world, find mates and rear offspring, negotiate complex social worlds, and employ cognitive strategies for coping with life's challenges. Chapters on human behavior at the end of each section is one novel aspect of the book that reminds us what we can learn about ourselves through cutting edge research on nonhuman primates.

Project PAPIO: Comparative Study of Infanticide and Anti-Infanticide Strategies in Baboons
Dr. Palombit is currently conducting a long-term comparative study of chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) in Botswana and olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis) in central Kenya.  The aim is to understand the evolution of male infanticide and female counter-strategies to infanticide. Of particular interest are the affiliative bonds between males and lactating females, known as "friendships."  His data suggest that this social relationship functions as a deterrent to sexually selected infanticide in chacma baboons, which accounts for at least 37% of infant mortality.  In East African olive baboons, however, male infanticide occurs rarely, and yet heterosexual friendships develop just as reliably.  This difference is just one of numerous social features distinguishing chacma baboons from their East African cousins (e.g., lack of male-male coalitions, apparently greater sexual monopolization of estrus females by high-ranking males, enhanced territoriality).  I am studying variation within and between both populations of baboons, collecting genetic, experimental, and observational data that will clarify the causal and functional bases of sexually selected infanticide and heterosexual bonds in a multi-male social setting.

Collaborators in this project include Dr. Dorothy Cheney (Biology, University of Pennsylvania) and Dr. Robert Seyfarth (Psychology, University of Pennsylvania) for the Botswama component, and Dr. Clifford Jolly (Anthropology, New York University), Dr. Anthrony di Fiore (NYU) and Joseph Lorenz (Central Washington University) who are conducting genetic analyses. Dr. Palombit's research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, and Rutgers University.  The research is sponsored by the National Museums of Kenya and the Institute of Primate Research.

CONTACT INFORMATION

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SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Palombit, R.A. in press. Infanticide. In: Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality (P. Whelehan & A. Bolin, eds.), Wiley-Blackwell, New York.

Danish, L.M. & Palombit, R.A. in press. "Following:" An alternative mating strategy used by male olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis): Quantitative behavioral and functional description. International Journal of Primatology.

Danish, L.M. & Palombit, R.A. in press. Male olive baboon (Papio hamadryas anubis) "followers" incur time, but not energetic costs. Behaviorial Ecology & Sociobiology.

Palombit, R.A.  in press. Olive baboon (Papio anubis).  In: All the World's Primates (N. Rowe, ed).  Charlestown, Rhode Island.  Pogonias Press.

Mitani, J.C., Call, J., Kappeler, P.M., Palombit, R.A., and Silk, J.B., editors. 2012. Evolution of Primate Societies. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Palombit, R.A.  2010.  Conflict and bonding between the sexes in primates.  In: Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origin of Human Universals (P.M. Kappeler & J.B. Silk, editors), pp. 53-84.  Berlin, Springer.

Palombit, R.A.  2009.  Friendships with males: A female counterstrategy to infanticide in the Okavango chacma baboons.  In: Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females, (M.N. Muller & R.W. Wrangham, eds.), pp. 377-409.  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Palombit, R.A.  2013.  Papio anubis, Olive baboon (Anubis Baboon).  In: Mammals of Africa vol. II Primates, (T.M. Butynski, J. Kingdon & J. Kalina, eds.), pp. 233-239.  Bloomsbury, London.

Lemasson, A., Palombit, R.A. & Jubin, R.  2008.  Friendships between males and lactating females in wild olive baboons: Observations and call playback experiments.  Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 67:1027-1035.  [pdf, 220KB]

Palombit, R.A.  2008.  Primates.  International Encylopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, (W.A. Darity, ed), vol. 6, pp. 459-462.   Macmillan / Thomas Gale.

Lemasson, A., Palombit, R.A. & Jubin, R.  2007.  Is friendship between adult males and lactating females a counter-strategy to infanticide?  Observations and playback experiments in Kenyan olive baboons.  Folia Primatologica, 78:202.

Cheney, D.L., Seyfarth, R.M., Fischer, J., Beehner, J., Bergman, T., Johnson, S.E., Kitchen, D.M., Palombit, R.A., Rendall, D. & Silk, J.B.  2006.  Reproduction, mortality, and female reproductive success in chacma baboons of the Okavango Delta, Botswana.  In: Reproduction and Fitness in Baboons: Behavioral, Ecological, and Life History Perspectives, (L. Swedell & S.R. Leight, eds.), pp. 147-176.  Springer, New York.

Cheney, D.L., Seyfarth, R.M.,  Fischer, J., Beehner, J., Bergman, Johnson, S.E., Kitchen, D., Palombit, R.A., Rendall, D., and Silk, J.B. 2004.  Factors affecting reproduction and mortality among baboons in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.  International Journal of Primatology, 25:401-428. [pdf] [216 KB]

Palombit, R.A. 2003. Male infanticide in savanna baboons: Adaptive significance and intraspecific variation. In: Sexual Selection and Reproductive Competition in Primates: New Perspectives and Directions (C.B. Jones, ed.), pp.  367-412. American Society of Primatologists. [pdf, 884KB]

Palombit, R.A. 2003. ‘Friendship’ behavior as a reproductive strategy in savanna baboons: Intraspecific variation.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 36:163-164.

Palombit, R.A. 2001.  Why primates kill their young: Incidences of infanticide in monkey and ape species.  In: The Encyclopedia of Mammals, 2nd edition (D.W. MacDonald, editor), pp. 392-393.  Oxford University Press.  London.

Palombit, R.A., Cheney, D.L., and Seyfarth, R.M.  2001. Female-female competition for male "friends" in wild chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus).  Animal Behaviour, 61:1159-1171.  [pdf, 196 KB]

Palombit, R.A.  2000.  Infanticide and the evolution of male-female bonds in animals. In: Infanticide by Males and Its Implications (C.P. van Schaik and C.R. Janson, eds.), pp. 239-268.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [pdf, 292 KB]

Palombit, R.A., Cheney, D.L., Fischer, J., Johnson, S., Rendall, D., Seyfarth, R.M, and Silk, J.B.  2000.  Male infanticide and infant defense in chacma baboons. In: Infanticide by Males and Its Implications (C.P. van Schaik and C.R. Janson, eds.), pp. 123-152.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [pdf, 308 KB]

Cohen, M., Parr, L., & Palombit, R.A.  2000.  Cracking the code: The contextual use of facial expressions by group-housed chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and human children (Homo sapiens).  American Journal of Primatology, 51(S1):52.

Palombit, R.A.  1999.  Infanticide and the evolution of pair bonds in nonhuman primates.  Evolutionary Anthropology, 7:117-129. [pdf, 128 KB]

Palombit, R.A., Seyfarth, R.M., and Cheney, D.L.  1999.  Male grunts as mediators of interaction with females in wild chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus).  Behaviour, 136:221-242. [pdf] [1.7 MB]

Wich, S.A., Steenbeek, R., Sterck, E.H.M., Palombit, R.A., and Usman, S. 1999.  Tree mortality and recruitment in an Indonesian rain forest.  Tropical Biodiversity, 6:189-195.

Palombit, R.A., Seyfarth, R.M., & D.L. Cheney.  1997.  The adaptive value of "friendships" to female baboons: Experimental and observational evidence.  Animal Behaviour, 54:599-614. [pdf] [195 KB]

Palombit, R.A.  1997.  Inter- and intra-specific variation in the diets of sympatric siamang (Hylobates syndactylus) and white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar).  Folia Primatologica, 68:321-337. [pdf] [1.1 MB]

Palombit, R.A.  1997.  Of neglect and negligence: Conservation, science, and the fate of the red ape.  American Journal of Primatology, 42:61-65. [pdf] [40 KB]

Palombit, R.A.  1996.  Pair bonds in monogamous apes: A comparison of the siamang (Hylobates syndactylus) and the white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar). Behaviour, 133:321-356. [pdf] [2.3 MB]

Palombit, R.A.  1996.  The Siamang and White-Handed Gibbon. In: Leuser: A Sumatran Sanctuary (C. P. van Schaik and J. Supriatna, eds.), pp. 269-280.  Yayasan Bina Sains Hayati Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia.

Cheney, D.L., R.M. Seyfarth, & R.A. Palombit.  1996.  The function and underlying mechanisms of baboon 'contact' barks. Animal Behaviour, 52:507-518. [pdf] [262 KB]

Palombit, R.A.  1995.  Longitudinal patterns of reproduction in wild female siamang (Hylobates syndactylus) and white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar).  International Journal of Primatology, 16:739-760.

Palombit, R.A.  1994.  Dynamic pair bonds in hylobatids: Implications regarding monogamous social systems. Behaviour, 128:65-101.  [pdf] [2.4 MB]

Palombit, R.A.  1994.  Extra-pair copulations in a monogamous ape. Animal Behaviour, 47:721-723. [pdf] [135 KB]

Palombit, R.A.  1993.  Lethal territorial aggression in a monogamous primate. American Journal of Primatology, 31:311-318.

Grether, G.F., R.A. Palombit, and P.S. Rodman.  1992.  Gibbon foraging decisions and the marginal value model. International Journal of Primatology, 13:1-18.

Palombit, R.A.  1992.  A preliminary study of vocal communication in wild long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis). I. Vocal repertoire and call emission. International Journal of Primatology, 13:143-182. [pdf] [3.6 MB]

Palombit, R.A.  1992.  A preliminary study of vocal communication in wild long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis). II. Potential of calls to regulate intragroup spacing. International Journal of Primatology, 13:183-207.  [pdf] [2.2 MB]

 

 

 

 

  • Omar Dewachi
  • Omar Dewachi
  • Anthropology Department Chair
  • Associate Professor, SAS, Medical Anthropology
  • Specialization: History of science and medicine, war, statecraft, humanitarianism, biopolitics, infrastructure, mobility, health, the body; Middle East, Iraq, Lebanon
  • Degree and University: Ph.D., Harvard University 2008
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  • Office: RAB-314
  • Zoom Link for Office Hours
  • Phone: 848-932-4102
  • Courses: 01:070:307 Medical Anthropology

 

EDUCATION

2008    PhD Anthropology, Harvard University

1999    MPH Public Health, American University of Beirut

1997    MBChB (MD), College of Medicine, University of Baghdad

RESEARCH STATEMENT

Trained in medicine and anthropology, I work at the intersections of global health, history of medicine and political anthropology. My scholarship focuses on the human and environmental manifestations of decades of conflict and military interventions in Iraq and the broader Middle East. My first book, Ungovernable Life chronicles the rise and fall of state medicine in Iraq and the role of medical doctors in infrastructure making (and unmaking) in the country, dating back from the British Mandate (1920-1932). Arguing against narrow understanding of statecraft, I show the centrality of health, disease and the body to state-making history, as well as to the lived experiences of war, violence, and Empire.

My current research project is a multi-sited ethnography exploring what I call the “ecologies of wounds and wounding,” where I attempt to link the biophysical wounds of war to a broader understanding of wounding in contemporary conflicts. I focus on the biomedical, environmental, and social experiences of war injury, displacement, and the rise of Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) across different conflict-settings and therapeutic geographies in the Middle East. Building on long-term fieldwork and professional engagement with local and international medical organizations (such as Doctors Without Borders), and with individuals and families wounded in ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Syria, I have been documenting the transformations in the landscapes and infrastructures of care resulting from the changing ecologies of war: the collapse of state healthcare systems, the destruction of the lived environment, the intensifications of mobility of patients and refugees across state borders, the proliferation of violence, and the manifestations of war’s toxic legacies.

This work has culminated in the inauguration of the Conflict Medicine Program at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. The program is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the physical, psychological and social manifestations of war wounds.

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Education

B.A., Dartmouth College
M.S., Iowa State University
Ph.D., University of Utah

Teaching Interests

Undergraduate: Introduction to Human Evolution, Environment and Human Evolution, Geoarchaeology, Sedimentary Geology, Microstratigraphy

Graduate: Reconstructing Quaternary Environments

Research Interests

Stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleoenvironments, geoarchaeology, environmental geology, Africa, Levant, Europe.

My interests center on the investigation of the geological context for evolution in terrestrial ecosystems, particularly those related to hominin evolution and the later Neogene. My primary research area is the Turkana Basin of Kenya, where I've worked for twenty-four years in association with the National Museums of Kenya. My work there involves stratigraphy, sedimentology and paleontology, working to establish a geologic framework and an environmental backdrop to the evolutionary and archaeological record for which that region is so famous. My other projects at the moment include an analysis of the stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Hadar site in Ethiopia, and a large project on the sedimentology of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, an Acheulean site complex in the Dead Sea Rift of Israel, and an investigation of Pannonian (Miocene) lake deposits in Croatia.

Publications

Feibel, C. S.  2005.  Quaternary lake margins of the Levant Rift Valley.  In:  Speth, J. D. and Goren-Inbar, N. (eds.)  Paleoecology of the Levantine Corridor.  Oxbow Books, Oxford.  pp. 21-36.

Roche, H., Brugal, J. -P., Delagnes, A., Feibel, C., Harmand, S., Kibunjia, M., Prat, S. and Texier, P. -J.  2004.  Plio-Pleistocene archaeological sites in the Nachukui Formation, West Turkana, Kenya: synthetic results 1997-2001. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2: 663-673.

Rosenfeld, A., Nathan, Y., Feibel, C. S., Shilman, B., Halicz, L., Goren-Inbar, N. and Siman-Tov, R.  2004.  Paleoenvironment of the Acheulian Gesher Benot Ya’aqov Pleistocene lacustrine strata, northern Israel – lithology, ostracod assemblages and ostracod shell geochemistry.  Journal of African Earth Sciences 38: 169-181.

Feibel, C. S. 2003.  Stratigraphy and depositional setting of the Pliocene Kanapoi Formation, lower Kerio Valley, Kenya. Contributions in Science  498: 9-20.

Bernor, R. L., Feibel, C. S. and Viranta, S.  2003.  The vertebrate locality of Hatvan, Late Miocene (Middle Turolian, MN12), Hungary.  In: Petculescu, A. and Stiuca, E. (eds.) Advances in Vertebrate Paleontology, Hen to Panta, Bucharest.  pp. 105-112.

Feibel, C. S.  2003.  Stratigraphy and depositional history of the Lothagam sequence.  In: Leakey, M. G. and Harris, J. M. (eds.) Lothagam: The Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa.  Columbia University Press, New York.  pp. 17-29.

Sharon, G., Feibel, C. S., Belitzky, S., Marder, O., Khalaily, H. and Rabinovitch, R.  2002.  1999 Jordan River drainage project damages Gesher Benot Ya’aqov: A preliminary study of the archaeological and geological implications.  In: Gal, Z. (ed.) Eretz Zafon: Studies in Galilean Archaeology.  Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem.  pp. 1-19.

Goren-Inbar, N., Werker, E. and Feibel, C. S.  2002.  The Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov: The wood assemblage.  Oxbow Press, Oxford.  121 pp.

Feibel, C. S.  2001.  Archaeological sediments in lake margin environments.  In: Stein, J. K. and Farrand, W. R. (eds.) Sediments in Archaeological Context.  University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.  pp. 127-148.

Goren-Inbar, N., Feibel,C. S., Verosub, K. L., Melamed, Y., Kislev, M. E., Tchernov, E. and Saragusti, I.  2000.  Pleistocene milestones on the Out-of-Africa corridor at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel.  Science 289: 944-947.

Feibel, C. S.  1999c.  Basin evolution, sedimentary dynamics and hominid habitats in East Africa: an ecosystem approach.  In:  Bromage, T. and Schrenk, F. (eds.)  African Biogeography, Climate Change, and Human Evolution.  Oxford University Press, Oxford.  pp. 276-281.

Feibel, C. S.  1999b.  Tephrostratigraphy and geological context in paleoanthropology.  Evolutionary Anthropology 8: 87-100.

McDougall, I. and Feibel, C. S.  1999.  Numerical age control for the Miocene-Pliocene succession at Lothagam, a hominoid-bearing sequence in the northern Kenya Rift.  Journal of the Geological Society, London 156: 731-745.

Roche, H., Delagnes, A., Brugal, J. P., Feibel, C. S., Kibunjia, M., Mourre, V. and Texier, P. J.  1999.  Early hominid stone tool production and technical skill 2.34 Myr ago in West Turkana, Kenya.  Nature 399: 57-60.

Leakey, M. G., Feibel, C. S., McDougall, I., Ward, C. and Walker, A.  1998.  New specimens and confirmation of an early age for Australopithecus anamensis.  Nature 393: 62-66.

Feibel, C. S.  1997.  A terrestrial Auxiliary Stratotype Point and Section for the Plio-Pleistocene boundary in the Turkana Basin, East Africa.  Quaternary International 40: 73-79.

Feibel, C. S.  1997.  Debating the environmental factors in hominid evolution. GSA Today 7(3):1-7.

Semaw, S., Renne, P., Harris, J. W. K., Feibel, C. S., Bernor, R. L., Fessaha, N. and Mowbray, K.  1997.  2.5-million-year-old stone tools from Gona, Ethiopia.  Nature 385: 333-336.

Leakey, M. G., Feibel, C. S., Bernor, R. L., Cerling, T. E., Harris, J. M., Stewart, K. M., Storrs, G. W., Walker, A., Werdelin, L., and  Winkler, A. J.  1996.  Lothagam: a record of faunal change in the late Miocene of East Africa.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16: 556-570.

Feibel, C. S., Agnew, N., Latimer, B., Demas, M., Marshall, F., Waane, S. A. C. and Schmid, P.  1996.  The Laetoli hominid footprints - a preliminary report on the conservation and scientific restudy.  Evolutionary Anthropology 4: 149-154.

Feibel, C. S.  1995.  Geological context and the ecology of Homo erectus  in East Africa.  In: Bower, J. R. F. and Sartono, S. (eds.) Evolution and ecology of Homo erectus.  Pithecanthropus Centennial Foundation, Leiden.  pp. 67-74.

Leakey, M. G., Feibel, C. S., McDougall, I. and Walker, A.  1995.  New four-million-year-old hominid species from Kanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya.  Nature 376: 565-571.

  • Dan Cabanes
  • Dan Cabanes
  • Undergraduate Director
  • Associate Professor, Anthropology, SAS
  • Specialization: Microarchaeology, Site Formation Processes, Phytoliths, FTIR, Diagenesis, Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition, Neanderthals, Anatomically Modern Humans, Activity Areas, Urban Centres, Levantine Bronze and Iron Age; Europe, the Levant.
  • Degree and University: Ph.D. Universitat Rovira i Vigili, Tarragona, Spain, 2009
  • Office: BIO-203A
  • Office Hours: Sp 2025: Tuesday 10-noon in BIO-203A
  • Phone: 848-932-9393
  • Courses: 01:070:105 Introduction to Archaeology, 01:070:207 Prehistoric Archaeology of Europe, 01:070:314 Prehistoric Funerary Archaeology

 

Education

University Rovira and Virgili (Tarragona), History degree, 2000
University Rovira and Virgili (Tarragona), History, MA, 2002
University Rovira and Virgili (Tarragona), Doctoral Thesis. 2009 Advisors: R.M. Albert and E. Carbonell. Title: The study of formation processes of archaeological sediments and paleosoils through the analysis of phytoilths, minerals and other microremains

 

Academic Appointments

Cabanesinfieldscaled1002015 – 2016: Plant Foods in Hominin Dietary Ecology Research Group, Department of Human Evolution. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany). Post-doctoral researcher.

2012 – 2015: Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain). Juan de la Cierva Post-doctoral contract (Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spanish government).

2010–2012: Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science, Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel). Beatriu de Pinós Post-doctoral fellowship (Agaur, Catalonian government).

2009–2010: Institute of Archaeology, Tel-Aviv University (Tel-Aviv, Israel). Post-doctoral fellowship FP-7 CORDIS European Research Council.

2006–2009: Prehistory Department, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). Atapuerca Fundation pre-doctoral fellowship.

2001–2005: Prehistory Department, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). Pre-doctoral fellowship Ministry of Science and Education (Spanish government).

 

Research Interest

Microarchaeology, Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition, Phytoliths, FTIR, Mineralogy, Fire Technology, Levantine Urban Centers, Paleodemography, Site Formation Processes, Human Evolution

As a microarchaeologist specialized in phytolith and FTIR analysis my capabilities lie halfway between Archaeobotany and Geoarcheology. My main research interest is the evolution of the anthropogenic impact in archaeological sediments as a proxy for biological, social, and economic changes. In other words, I try to understand how human activities had modified the microscopic sedimentary record, and what can this microscopic record tell us about site formation processes, human behavior, and adaptation strategies in the past. To investigate these questions, I focus on the minerals and micro-botanical remains preserved in the archaeological record. So far I studied three critical periods in human history: the emergence of the genus Homo in Africa, the transition from the Middle to Upper Paleolithic in Europe, and the evolution of the urban centers in the Levant. I also have lead ground-breaking research on phytolith preservation and collaborated in the development of a fast method for phytolith analyses.

 

Link to Anthropology Laboratory for MicroArchaeology

 

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Esteban, I., De Vynck, J.C., Singels, E., Vlok, J., Marean, C.W., Cowling, R.M., Fisher, E.C., Cabanes, D., Albert, R.M. In press.  Modern soil phytolith assemblages used as proxies for Paleoscape reconstruction on the south coast of South Africa. Quaternary International.

Vergès, J.M., Burguet-Coca, A., Allué, E., Expósito, I., Guardiola, M., Martín, P., Morales, J.I., Burjachs, F., Cabanes, D., Carrancho, Á., Vallverdú, J. In press. The Mas del Pepet experimental programme for the study of prehistoric livestock practices: Preliminary data from dung burning. Quaternary International.

Sanz, M., Daura, J., Égüez, N., Cabanes, D. In press. On the track of anthropogenic activity in carnivore dens: Altered combustion structures in Cova del Gegant (NE Iberian Peninsula). Quaternary International.

Rodríguez, A., Cabanes, D. In press. Phytolith and FTIR studies applied to combustion structures: the case of the Middle Paleolithic site of El Salt (Alcoy, Alicante). Quaternary International.

Asscher, Y., Cabanes, D., Hitchcok, L., Maeir, A.M., Weiner, S., Boaretto, E. 2015. Radiocarbon Dating Shows an Early Appearance of Philistine Material Culture in Tell es-Safi/Gath, Philistia. Radiocarbon, 57 (5), pp 825-850.

Balbo, A.L., Cabanes, D., García-Granero, J.J., Bonet, A., Ajithprasad, P., Terradas, X. 2015.  A microarchaeological approach for the study of pits. Environmental Archaeology, 20 (4), pp. 390-405.

Regev, L., Cabanes, D., Homsher, R., Kleiman, A., Weiner, S., Finkelstein, I., Shahack-Gross, R. In press. Geoarchaeological Investigations in a Domestic Iron Age Quarter, Tel Megiddo, Israel. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. BASOR 374, pp. 1–24.

Stutz, A.J., Shea, J.J., Rech, J.A., Pigate, J.S., Wilson, J., Belmaker, M., Albert, R.M., Aprin, T., Cabanes, D., Clark, J.L., Hartman, G., Hourani, F., White, C.E., Nilsson Stuttz, L. 2015. Early Upper Paleolihtic chronology in the Levant: New ABOx-SC accelerator mass spectrometry results from the Mughr el Hamamah Site, Jordan. Journal of Human Evolution, 85, pp. 157-173.

Cabanes, D.; Shahack-Gross R. 2015. Understanding Fossil Phytolith Preservation: The Role of Partial Dissolution in Paleoecology and Archaeology. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0125532. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125532.

Ackermann, O., Greenbaum, N., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M., Boaretto, E., Bruins, H.J., Cabanes, D., Howkitz, L.K., Neumann, F.H., Porat, N., Weiss, E., Maeir, A.M. 2014 Using palaeo-environmental proxies to reconstruct natural and anthropogenic controls on sedimentation rates, Tell es-Safi/Gath, eastern Mediterranean. Anthropocene, 8, pp. 70-82.

Shahack-Gross, R., Boaretto, E., Cabanes, D., Katz, O, Finkelstein, I. 2014. Subsistence Economy in the Negev Highlands: The Iron Age and the Byzantine/Early Islamic Period. Levant, 46, 1, pp. 98-117.

Mallol, C., Hernández, C., Cabanes, D., Machado, J., Sistiaga, A., Pérez, L., Galván, B., 2013. Human Actions Performed on Simple Combustion Structures: An Experimental Approach to the Study of Middle Paleolithic Fire. Quaternary International, 315, pp. 3-15.

Mallol, C., Hernández, C.M., Cabanes, D., Sistiaga, A., Machado, J., Rodríguez, A., Pérez, L. Galván, B., 2013. The black layer of Middle Palaeolithic combustion structures, interpretation and archaeostratigraphic interpretations. Journal of Archaeological Science, 40, pp. 2515-2537.

Albert, R.M., Cau, M.Á., Cabanes, D., 2012. Editorial: The international workshop on site formation and post-depositional processes in archaeology (Barcelona, 2-4 June 2010). Quaternary International, 275, 1-3.

Cabanes, D., Gadot, Y., Cabanes, M., Finkelstein, I., Weiner, S., Shahack-Gross, R., 2012. Human impact around settlement sites: a phytolith and mineralogical study for assessing site boundaries, phytolith preservation, and implications for spatial reconstructions using plant remains. Journal of Archaeological Science, 39, 2607-2705.

Cabanes, D., Weiner, S., Shahack-Gross, R., 2011. Stability of phytoliths in the archaeological record: a dissolution study of modern and fossil phytoliths. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38, 2480-2490.

Namdar, D., Zukerman, A., Maeir, A.M., Katz, J.C., Cabanes, D., Trueman, C., Shahack-Gross, R., Weiner, S., 2011. The 9th century BCE destruction layer at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: integrating macro- and microarchaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38, 3471-3482.

Cabanes, D., Albert, R.M., 2011. Microarchaeology of a collective burial: cova des Pas (Minorca). Journal of Archaeological Science, 38, 1119-1126.

Katz, O., Cabanes, D., Weiner, S., Maeir, A.M., Boaretto, E., Shahack-Gross, R., 2010. Rapid phytolith extraction for analysis of phytolith concentrations and assemblages during an excavation: an application at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37, 1557-1563.

Cabanes, D., Mallol, C., Expósito, I., Baena, J., 2010. Phytolith evidence for hearths and beds in the late Mousterian occupations of Esquilleu cave (Cantabria, Spain). Journal of Archaeological Science, 37, 2947-2957.

Mallol, C., Cabanes, D., Baena, J., 2010. Microstratigraphy and diagenesis at the upper Pleistocene site of Esquilleu Cave (Cantabria, Spain). Quaternary International, 214, 70-81.

Albert, R.M., Cabanes, D., 2009. Fire in prehistory: An experimental approach to combustion processes and phytolith remains. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences, 56, 175-189.

Cabanes, D., Burjachs, F., Expósito, I., Rodríguez, A., Allué, E., Euba, I., Vergés, J.M., 2009. Formation processes through archaeobotanical remains: The case of the Bronze Age levels in El Mirador cave, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain. Quaternary International, 193, 160-173.

Albert, R.M., Bamford, M.K., Cabanes, D., 2009. Palaeoecological significance of palms at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, based on phytolith remains. Quaternary International, 193, 41-48.

Albert, R.M., Shahack-Gross, R., Cabanes, D., Gilboa, A., Portillo, M., Sharon, I., Boaretto, E., Weiner, S., 2008. Phytolith-rich layers from the Late Bronze and Iron Ages at Tel Dor (Israel): Mode of formation and archaeological significance. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35, 57-75.

Bamford, M.K., Albert, R.M., Cabanes, D., 2006. Plio-Pleistocene macroplant fossil remains and phytoliths from Lowermost Bed II in the eastern paleolake margin of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Quaternary International, 148, 95-112.

Albert, R.M., Bamford, M.K., Cabanes, D., 2006. Taphonomy of phytoliths and macroplants in different soils from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) and the application to Plio-Pleistocene palaeoanthropological samples. Quaternary International, 148, 78-94.

 

Edited Journal Special Issues

Rosa Maria Albert, Miguel Ángel Cau and Dan Cabanes (Eds.) 2012. Site Formation and Postdepositional Processes in Archaeology (International Workshop, Barcelona, 2–4 June 2010). Quaternary International, 275, pp. 1-136.

 

Book Chapters

Allué, E., Cabanes, D., Solé, A., Sala, R. 2012. Hearth Functioning and Forest Resource Exploitation Based on the Archeobotanical Assemblage from Level J in: Carbonell E., (Ed.), High Resolution Archaeology and Neanderthal Behavior. Time and Space in level J of Abric Romaní (Capellades, Spain). Springer Netherlands, Dordretch, pp. 373-385.

Cabanes, D., Allué, E., Vallverdú, J., Cáceres, I., Vaquero, M., Pastó, I., 2007. Hearth structure and function at level J (50kyr, bp) from Abric Romaní (Capellades, Spain): phytolith, charcaoal, bones and stone-tools in: Madella, M., Zurro, D. (Eds.), Plant People and Places - Recent Studies in Phytolith Analysis  Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 98-106.

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