Jonathan Paige
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Research Scientist
New Mexico Consortium, Center for Applied Fire and Ecosystem Science Former: Post-doctoral fellow , Department of Anthropology University of Missouri PhD, Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University Dissertation: "The Evolution of Stone Tool Traditions" funded by the Leakey Foundation AffiliationsThe Institute of Human Origins
Center for Archaeological Research, University of Texas, San Antonio I study the evolution of technologies, the role they play in human evolution, and how groups adapt to new and challenging environments. I am especially interested in when hominins developed a capacity for cumulative culture, the ability to transmit and maintain increasingly difficult-to-learn cultural practices across generations, which may have driven many other changes in human biology, sociality, and adaptiveness. To address these issues, I take a theoretically-informed and computational approach involving comparisons of thousands of archaeological assemblages spanning the past 3 million years of human evolution. More generally, I work on advancing our capacity to perform comparative research in archaeology through extracting data from text.
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Analyzing material from Pitcairn Island at the Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand
Global sample of technological variability incorporating hundreds of assemblages.
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