Department Affiliations
Specialties
- human evolution
- lithic technology
- Old World archaeology
- paleolithic archaeology
Educational Background
- Ph.D.: Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2000.
Publications
- Tostevin, Gilbert B (2009). The Importance of Process and Historical Event in the Study of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition.. Transitions in Prehistory: Papers in Honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef, J. Shea & D. Lieberman (eds.), 166-183.
- Tostevin, Gilbert B, Richter, Daniel (first author), Škrdla, Petr (third author), Davies, William (fourth author) (2009). New radiometric ages for the Early Upper Palaeolithic type locality of Brno-Bohunice (Czech Republic). Comparison of OSL, IRSL, TL, and 14C dating results.. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36(3), 708–720.
- Tostevin, Gilbert B, Richter, Daniel (first author), and Škrdla, Petr (third author) (2008). Bohunician technology and the thermoluminescence dating of the type locality of Brno-Bohunice (Czech Republic).. Journal of Human Evolution, 55(5), 871–885.
- Tostevin, Gilbert B, Penn, Mischa (first author), Laden, Greg (second author) (2008). Exhibit Review Essay: RACE: Are We So Different?. Museum Anthropology, 31(2), 148-156. Download
- Tostevin, Gilbert B (2007). Social Intimacy, Artefact Visibility, and Acculturation Models of Neanderthal-Modern Human Interaction.. Rethinking the Human Revolution: New Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origins and Dispersal of Modern Humans. P. Mellars, K. Boyle, O. Bar-Yosef, & C. Stringer (eds.), 341-357. Download
- Tostevin, Gilbert B, Škrdla, Petr (2006). New Excavations at Bohunice and the Question of the Uniqueness of the Type-site for the Bohunician Industrial Type.. Anthropologie (Brno) , XLIV(1), 31-48. Download
- Tostevin, Gilbert B, Škrdla, Petr (first author) (2005). Brno-Bohunice, Analysis of the Material from the 2002 Excavation. Brno-Bohunice, Analýza Materiálu z Výzkumu v Roce 2002.. Prehled výzkumu , 46, 35-61. Download
- Tostevin, Gilbert B (2003). Attribute Analysis of the Lithic Technologies of Stránská skála II-III in their Regional and Inter-regional Context.. Stránská skála: Origins of the Upper Paleolithic in the Brno Basin. Jiri Svoboda & Ofer Bar-Yosef (eds.), 77-118. Download
- Tostevin, Gilbert B (2003). A Quest for Antecedents: A Comparison of the Terminal Middle Paleolithic and Early Upper Paleolithic of the Levant.. More than Meets the Eye: Studies on Upper Palaeolithic Diversity in the Near East, Nigel Goring-Morris & Anna Belfer-Cohen (eds.), 54-67. Download
- Tostevin, Gilbert B (2000). The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition from the Levant to Central Europe: in situ development or diffusion?. Neanderthals and modern humans: discussing the transition. Central & Eastern Europe from 50,000 – 30,000 BP, 90-109. Download
- Tostevin, Gilbert B (2000). It Happened Twice: Inter-regional Diffusion between 60 and 30 kya in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Levant.. Vremya Poslednih Neandertaltsev (Time of the Last Neanderthals). , 216-235.
Research Activities
- Principle Investigator: Excavation of the Early Upper Paleolithic site of Tvarožna X (Moravia, Czech Republic) in collaboration with Dr. Petr Škrdla of the Institute of Archaeology, Brno, 2008 - 2011
- Three-dimensional Analysis & Modeling of Stone Tools: The exploration and testing of new analytical techniques for understanding stone tool variability through the analysis of 3D models of experimental flakes., February 2005 - current
- Lithic Analysis of the Late Pleistocene site of Anghilak Cave, Uzbekistan: In collaboration with M. Glantz (Colorado State) & R. Suleymanov (National Univ. of Uzbekistan). Funded by National Geographic & Leakey Foundation, 2004 - 2006
- Principle Investigator : Excavation, Analysis, & Dating of the Early Upper Paleolithic site of Brno-Bohunice, Czech Republic. In collaboration with Petr Škrdla (Institute of Archaeology, Brno) & Daniel Richter (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig). Funded by Leakey Foundation & U of M Grant-in-Aid, 2002 - 2008
Outreach Activities
- Anthropology Consultant: Anthropological issues for engineers & advanced product development, Tennant Corporation, 2009 - current
- Volunteer: Pillsbury, Minneapolis Public School, 2008 - current
- Invited Speaker: “Pleistocene Migrations and Human Evolution,” for the John B. Coleman Lecture Series of the Mindstretch Group, St. Paul, MN., October 27, 2005
- Invited Speaker: Public lecture for the Minnesota Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, Science Museum of Minnesota., Dec. 1, 2005
- Flintknapping Instructor: BioInvestigators Camp of the Science Museum of Minnesota, August 5, 2004 - August 10, 2005
Courses Taught
- Anth 1001 - Human Evolution
- Anth 5269 - Analysis of Stone Tool Technology
- HSEM2008H - Learning Anthropology through Science Fiction
- Anth 5221 - Anthropology of Material Culture
- Anth 3008 - Introduction to Flintknapping
- Anth 5008 - Advanced Flintknapping
- Anth 4077 - Neanderthals: the Biology & Culture of Humanity's Nearest Relative
- Anth 4069 - Environmental Archaeology
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