Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies

Brian Adams is currently Assistant Director of the Public Service Archeology Architecture Program in the Anthropology Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include lithic analysis, microwear analysis of lithic artifacts, hunter-gatherer adaptations, and the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe. He has conducted research at Paleolithic sites in Central Europe and Egypt, as well as prehistoric and early historic sites in the Midwest USA. Brooke S. Blades is currently an archeologist with A.D. Marble Company an environmental consulting firm in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. He has conducted archeological research and excavations in various temporal and geographic contexts in eastern North America and in Western Europe. This research has focused in part on analyses of lithic materials and the challenges inherent in relating lithic economy to fundamental concerns of human mobility and social organization. His Paleolithic research in Western Europe has been generously supported by the American Philosophical Society, the International Relations and Exchanges Board (IREX), the National Science Foundation, and New York University.Blades, Brooke S. is the author of 'Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies', published 2009 under ISBN 9781405168373 and ISBN 1405168374.