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Richard G. Klein, Curriculum Vitae, 15 October 2019 Address: Building 50, Inner Quad, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2034 Phone:+1 (650) 575-5643 Email: [email protected] Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois Marital Status: Married (Gail Ann Christensen Klein) Degrees: A. B., University of Michigan, 1962. M. A., University of Chicago, 1964. Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1966. Positions Held: Sept. 1966 - June 1967 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Sept. 1967 - Aug. 1969 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University Sept. 1969 - Aug. 1973 Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington Sept. 1973 - Aug. 1977 Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago Sept. 1977 - June 1993 Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago July 1993 - Sept. 2007 Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University Dec. 2002 - present Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University Sept. 2007 - present Professor of Biology and Anthropology, Stanford University Research Interest: Human Origins. Principal Geographic Research Area: southern Africa. Books (Authored): 2009 The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Third Edition. 2002 The Dawn of Human Culture. New York: John Wiley & Sons (with Blake Edgar). 1999 The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Second Edition. 1989 The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 1984 The Analysis of Animal Bones from Archeological Sites . Chicago, University of Chicago Press. (with K. Cruz-Uribe). 1973 Ice-Age Hunters of the Ukraine. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Klein vita p. 2 1969 Man and Culture in the Late Pleistocene: A Case Study. San Francisco, Chandler. Books (Edited): 1999 Archaeozoology in Africa (with Ina Plug). Grenoble, La Pensée Sauvage. 1984 Quaternary Extinctions: A Prehistoric Revolution. (with P. S. Martin). Tucson, University of Arizona Press. 1984 Southern African Prehistory and Paleoenvironments. Rotterdam, A. A. Balkema. Articles: 2019 Population structure and the evolution of Homo sapiens in Africa. Evolutionary Anthropology 38: 179-188. (DOI: 10.1002/evan.21788) 2018 Hominin dispersals in the Old World. In (Scarre, C. Ed.) The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies, Fourth Edition, pp. 71-107. London: Thames & Hudson. 2017 Counting and miscounting sheep: genetic evidence for pervasive misclassification of wild fauna as domestic stock. Southern African Humanities 30: 53-69 (with K. A. Horsburgh and J. V. Moreno-Mayer). 2017 Finding the First Americans. Science 358 (6363): 592-594. (with Todd J. Braje, Tom D. Dillehay, Jon M. Erlandson, and Torben C. Rick). 2017 Language and human evolution. Journal of Neurolinguistics 43, 204-221. 2016 Large mammal and tortoise bones from Elands Bay Cave: Implications for Later Stone Age environment and ecology. Southern African Humanities: 29: 259–282 (with Kathryn Cruz-Uribe). 2016 Shellfishing and human evolution. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 44:198-205. (with Douglas W. Bird). 2016 Beware the springbok in sheep's clothing: How secure are the faunal identifications upon which we build our models? African Archaeological Review 33: 1-9. (with K. Ann Horsburgh and Jayson Orton) 2013 Archaeological shellfish size and later human evolution in Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110: 10910-10915 (with Teresa Steele). 2013 The Middle and Later Stone Age faunal remains from Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 40: 3453-3462 (with Teresa Steele). 2013 Modern Human Origins. General Anthropology 20(1):1-4. 2013 Hominin dispersals in the Old World. In (Scarre, C. Ed.) The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies, Third Edition, pp. 84-123. London: Thames & Hudson. 2013 Early dates for cattle from Namaqualand, South Africa: implications for the origins of herding in southern Africa. Antiquity 87: 108–120 (with Jayson Orton, Peter Mitchell, Teresa Steele, and K. Ann Horsburgh). 2011 Two Holocene rock shelter deposits from the Knersvlakte, southern Klein vita p. 3 Namaqualand, South Africa. Southern African Humanities 23: 109-150 (with J. Orton, A. Mackay, S. Schwortz, and T. E. Steele). 2011 Review of fossil phocid and otariid seals from the southern and western coasts of South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 66: 14-24 (with G. Avery). 2011 The abundance of eland, buffalo, and wild pigs in Middle and Later Stone Age sites. Journal of Human Evolution: 60 309-314 (with T. D. Weaver and T. E. Steele). 2010 Comment on the paleoenvironment of Ardipithecus ramidus. Science 328: 1105d (with T. E. Cerling, N. E. Levin, J. Quade, J. G. Wynn, D. L. Fox, J. D. Kingston, and F. H. Brown). 2010 A Howiesons Poort tradition of engraving ostrich eggshell containers dated to 60,000 years ago at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107: 6180-6185 (with P-J. Texier, G. Porraz, J. Parkington, J-Ph. Rigaud, C. Miller, C. Tribolo, C. Cartwright, A. Coudennau. T. E. Steele, and C. Verna). 2010 Morphometric identification of bovid metapodials to genus and implications for taxon-free habitat reconstruction. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 389-401 (with R. G. Franciscus and T. E. Steele). 2009 Darwin and the recent African origin of modern humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (38): 16007–16009. 2009 Mogapelwa: Archaeology, paleoenvironment and oral traditions at Lake Ngami, Botswana. South African Archaeological Bulletin 64 (189): 13–32. (with L.H. Robbins, A. C. Campbell, M. L. Murphy, G. A. Brook, A. A. Mabuse, R. K. Hitchcock, G. Babutsi, M. Mmolawa, K.M. Stewart, Teresa E. Steele, and C. C. Appleton). 2009 Late Pleistocene subsistence strategies and resource intensification in Africa. In (Hublin, J.-J. and Richards, M. P., eds). The Evolution of Hominid Diets: Integrating Approaches to the Study of Palaeolithic Subsistence: 111-124. New York: Springer Publishing (with T. E. Steele). 2009 Hominin dispersals in the Old World. In (Scarre, C. Ed.) The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies, Second Edition, 84-123. London: Thames & Hudson. 2008 Out of Africa and the evolution of human behavior. Evolutionary Anthropology 17 (6): 267-281. 2008 The Ysterfontein 1 Middle Stone Age Rockshelter and the evolution of coastal foraging. South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 10: 66-89 (with G. Avery, D. Halkett, M. Tusenius, J. Orton, and T. E. Steele). 2008 Intertidal shellfish Use during the Middle and Later Stone Age of South Africa. Archaeofauna 17: 63-76 (with T. E. Steele). 2007 The mammalian fauna associated with a fossil hominin skull and later Acheulean artifacts at Elandsfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Klein vita p. 4 Human Evolution 52: 164-186. (with Graham Avery, Kathryn Cruz-Uribe, and Teresa Steele). 2005/06 Mollusk and tortoise size as proxies for stone age population density in South Africa: implications for the evolution of human cultural capacity. Munibe 57: 221- 237 (with T. E. Steele). 2005 The evolution of human walking. In (Rose, J. and Gamble, J. G., Eds.) Human Walking: 23-32. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (with T. D. Weaver). 2005 Hominin dispersals in the Old World. In (Scarre, C. Ed.) The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies: 84-123. London: Thames & Hudson. 2004 Tortoises as food and taphonomic elements in palaeo "landscapes". In (Brugal, J.-Ph. And Desse, J. Eds.) Petits Animaux et Sociétés Humains: Du complement alimentaire aux resources utilitaires: 147-161. Antibes: Editions APOCA (with G. Avery, A. W. Kandel, N.J. Conard, and K. Cruz-Uribe). 2004 The Ysterfontein 1 Middle Stone Age site, South Africa, and early human exploitation of coastal resources. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101: 5708-5715. (with G, Avery, D. Halkett, J. E. Parkington, T. E. Steele, T. P. Volman and R. Yates). 2003 First Excavation of Intact Middle Stone Age Layers at Ysterfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa: Implications for Middle Stone Age Ecology. Journal of Archaeological Science 30: 955-971 (with G. Avery, K. Cruz-Uribe, D. Halkett, T. Hart, J. Orton, J. E. Parkington, T. P. Volman, and R. Yates). 2003 Excavation of buried Late Acheulean (Mid-Quaternary) land Surfaces at Duinefontein 2, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 30: 559-575 (with G. Avery, M. Avery, K. Cruz-Uribe, D. Halkett, T. Hart, R. G. Milo, and T. P. Volman). 2003 Whither the Neanderthals? Science 299: 1525-1527. 2002 Foreword to The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya’akov, Israel: The Wood Assemblage by Naama Goren-Inbar, Ella Werker, and Craig S. Feibel, pp. vii-viii. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 2002 The origin of modern humans. In (Pagel, Mark, Ed.) Encyclopedia of Evolution, pp. 738-740. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002 Foreword to Desolate Landscapes: Ice-Age Settlements in Eastern Europe by John F. Hoffecker, pp. xv-xvi. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2001 Fully modern humans. In (Price, T. D., and Feinman, G., eds.) Archaeology at the Millennium, pp. 109-135. New York: Plenum Press. 2001 Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary Report on the 1992 – 1999 Excavations of the Middle Stone Age Levels. Journal of Archaeological Science 28: 421-448 (with C. S. Henshilwood, J. C. Sealy, R. Yates, K. Cruz- Uribe, P. Goldberg, F. E. Grine, C. Poggenpoel, K. van Niekerk, and I. Watts). Klein vita p. 5 2001 Southern Africa and modern human origins. Journal of Anthropological Research 57: 1-16. 2000 The Earlier Stone Age of Southern Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 27: 107-122. 2000 Macromammals and reptiles. In (Barham, L., ed.) The Middle Stone Age of Zambia, South Central Africa, 51-56. Bristol: Western Academic & Specialist Press (with Kathryn Cruz-Uribe). 2000 Archaeology, paleoenvironment, and chronology of the Tsodilo Hills White Paintings Rock Shelter, northwest Kalahari Desert, Botswana.
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    Durham Research Online Deposited in DRO: 17 February 2016 Version of attached le: Accepted Version Peer-review status of attached le: Peer-reviewed Citation for published item: Elton, S. (2012) 'Impacts of environmental change and community ecology on the composition and diversity of the southern African monkey fauna from the Plio-Pleistocene to the present.', in African genesis : perspectives on hominin evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 471-486. Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology. (62). Further information on publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139096164.028 Publisher's copyright statement: This material has been published in African Genesis: Perspectives on Hominin Evolution edited by Sally C. Reynolds and Andrew Gallagher. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. c Cambridge University Press 2012. Additional information: Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Durham University Library, Stockton Road, Durham DH1 3LY, United Kingdom Tel : +44 (0)191 334 3042 | Fax : +44 (0)191 334 2971 https://dro.dur.ac.uk Elton, S.