Nicholas Toth Positions • Co-Director, Stone Age Institute, Bloomington, Indiana. • Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington. • Adjunct Professor of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington. • Co-Director, Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology (CRAFT), Indiana University, Bloomington. • Co-Director, Human Evolutionary Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Education • 1982 Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley. Anthropology, human evolutionary studies, Palaeolithic archaeology, African prehistory. • 1978 M.A., University of California at Berkeley. Anthropology. • 1975 Postgraduate Diploma in Prehistory, with Distinction. Oxford University, England. Palaeolithic archaeology, European prehistory. • 1974 B.A. with Distinction. Western College, Ohio. Anthropology, Liberal Arts.
Special • 1983 Scanning Electron Microscopy, Royal Microscopical Society, Cambridge Training University, England. • 1981 Forensic Science, University of California at Berkeley. • 1980 Microwear analysis of stone tools, University of Illinois, Chicago. • 1978 Flintknapping Fieldschool, Washington State University.
Areas of Human evolutionary studies, African prehistory, palaeolithic studies, the evolution of Special human intelligence, lithic technology, experimental archaeology, microscopic approaches Interest to archaeology, faunal analysis and taphonomy, ethnoarchaeology, primate studies, history of evolutionary thought.
Recent and • Experimental archaeological research into the stone tool-making and tool-using ongoing behaviors of modern African apes. research • Experimental archaeological research into the manufacture and use of early Palaeolithic tools.
Awards and • 2004 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Distinctions • 2003- Who’s Who in America. • 2000 L.S.B. Leakey Memorial Lecture, Leakey Foundation, San Francisco • 2000 Selected as one of 50 Scientists profiled by the New York Times in the book, Scientists at Work: Profiles of Today’s Groundbreaking Scientists • 1997 Distinguished Faculty Research Award, Indiana University (shared with Kathy Schick) • 1988 Fulbright Fellow • 1986 Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship
Research National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, National Grants Academy of Sciences, National Geographic Society, L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, Wenner- received from Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Fulbright Fellowship, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Kroeber Society.