Alex started following the work of 4 people.
Alex started following the work of Teresa Steele, University of California, Davis, Anthropology.
Alex started following the work of Tom Higham, University of Oxford, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art.
The Australian National University
Post-Doc, School of Archaeology & Anthropology
Thesis Title: History and selection in the late Pleistocene archaeology of the Western Cape, South Africa
About
My primary interest is in explaining technological change in the late Pleistocene of southern Africa using insights from a variety of theoretical streams including evolutionary ecology, transmission theory and that roughly aligned body of work known as the organisation of technology. I'm also interested in how archaeologists approach archaeology, and thus in the history of archaeological research and in the effects that history has on how we perceive, approach and explain the changes we see in the record through time and space.
Currently I'm focusing on a three-year project looking at technological adaptations to environmental variation through the late Pleistocene in the Western Cape with Peter Hiscock and Brian Chase as principle collaborators. I'm also involved in projects in northern Malawi with Jess Thompson (U Queensland), and in the Peruvian Andes with Nico Tripcevich (UC Berkeley).
