Gilbert Tostevin

Publications

• Tostevin, G., 2012. Seeing Lithics: A Middle-Range Theory for Testing for Cultural Transmission in the Pleistocene. American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph Series, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, & Oxbow Books. ISBN 978-1-84217-527-9. 

• Jones, Daniel, G. Monnier, A. Cooper, M. Baković, G. Pajović, N. Borovinić, and G. Tostevin, 2021. Applying high-throughput rRNA gene sequencing to assess microbial contamination of a 40-year-old exposed archaeological profile. Journal of Archaeological Science Volume 126:105308, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105308.105308.

• Yezzi-Woodley, Katrina, Jeff Calder, Peter J. Olver, Paige Cody, Thomas Huffstutler, Alexander Terwilliger, J. Anne Melton, Martha Tappen, Reed Coil, Gilbert Tostevin, 2021. The virtual goniometer: demonstrating a new method for measuring angles on archaeological materials using fragmentary bone. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2021) 13: 106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-021-01335-y.

• Tostevin, Gilbert. "The sharing of lithic technological knowledge.." In, N. Lavi & D. Friesem (eds.), Towards a Broader View of Hunter-Gatherer Sharing, pp. 195-208. McDonald Institute Conversations Volume. (2019): 195-208.

• Tostevin, Gilbert, 2019. Content Matters: the materiality of cultural transmission and the intersection of Paleolithic archaeology with cultural evolutionary theory. In, A.C. Love and W.C. Wimsatt (eds.), Beyond the Meme: Articulating Dynamic Structures in Evolution. University of Minnesota Press, pp. 311-364.

• Tostevin, Gilbert. "Chapter 20. Prospects and Challenges for Future Research at Crvena Stijena and in Montenegro." In Robert Whallon (ed.), Crvena Stijena in Cultural and Ecological Context: Multidisciplinary Archaeological Research in Montenegro (2017): 456-463.

• Premo, Luke S., and G. Tostevin, 2016. Cultural Transmission on the Taskscape: Exploring the Effects of Taskscape Visibility on Cultural Diversity. PLoS ONE 11(9): e0161766. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161766.

• Mlejnek, Ondřej, Petr Škrdla, G. Tostevin, Lenka Lisá, Jan Novák, 2016. Želeč I (okr. Prostějov / CZ) –the Early Upper Palaeolithic Stratified Site: the Question of the Integrity of the Ondratice I / Želeč Surface Collection. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 46(1):1-14.

• Frahm, Ellery, Joshua M. Feinberg, Gilliane F. Monnier, G. Tostevin, Boris Gasparyan, Daniel S. Adler, 2016. Lithic raw material units based on magnetic properties: A blind test with Armenian obsidian and application to the Middle Palaeolithic site of Lusakert Cave 1. Journal of Archaeological Science 74: 102-123.

• Shott, M., and G. Tostevin, 2015. Diversity Under the Bipolar Umbrella. Lithic Technology 40(4): 377-384.
• Nejman, L., E. Rhodes, P. Škrdla, G. Tostevin, P. Neruda, Z. Nerudová, K. Valoch, M. Oliva, L. Kaminská, J. A. Svoboda, and R. Grün, 2011. New Chronological Evidence for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: New Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating Results. Archaeometry 53(5):1044-1066.
• Tostevin, Gilbert B., 2011. An Introduction to the Special Issue: Reduction Sequence, Chaîne Opératoire, and Other Methods: The Epistemologies of Different Approaches to Lithic Analysis. PaleoAnthropology 2011: 293-296.

• Tostevin, Gilbert B., 2011. Levels of Theory and Social Practice in the Reduction Sequence and Chaîne Opératoire Methods of Lithic Analysis. PaleoAnthropology 2011: 351-375.

• Tostevin, Gilbert B., 2009. The Importance of Process and Historical Event in the Study of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition. In, J. Shea & D. Lieberman (eds.), Transitions in Prehistory: Papers in Honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef, pp. 166-183. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

• Richter, Daniel, G. Tostevin, P. Škrdla, W. Davies, 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.

• Škrdla, P., G. Tostevin, D. Nývlt, L. Lisá, O. Mlejnek, A. Prichystal, D. Richter, 2009. Tvarožná-Za školou. The Results of 2008 Excavation Season. Prehled výzkumu 50(1-2):11-24.
• M. Penn, G. Laden, and G. Tostevin, 2008. Exhibit Review Essay: RACE: Are We So Different? Museum Anthropology 31(2):148-156.
• D. Richter, G. Tostevin, P. Škrdla, 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., 2007. "Social Intimacy, Artefact Visibility, and Acculturation Models of Neanderthal-Modern Human Interaction." In, 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. MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Monographs, Cambridge University, UK
• 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.
• P. Škrdla & G. Tostevin, 2005. Brno-Bohunice, Analysis of the Material from the 2002 Excavation. Prehled výzkumu 46: 35-61.
• Tostevin, Gilbert B., 2003. "A Quest for Antecedents: A Comparison of the Terminal Middle Paleolithic and Early Upper Paleolithic of the Levant." In, More than Meets the Eye: Studies on Upper Palaeolithic Diversity in the Near East, Nigel Goring-Morris & Anna Belfer-Cohen (eds.), 54-67. Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK.
• Tostevin, Gilbert B., 2003. "Attribute Analysis of the Lithic Technologies of Stránská skála II-III in their Regional and Inter-regional Context." In, Stránská skála: Origins of the Upper Paleolithic in the Brno Basin, Jiri Svoboda & Ofer Bar-Yosef (eds.), 77-118. American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletin 47, Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
• Tostevin, Gilbert B., 2000. "It Happened Twice: Inter-regional Diffusion between 60 and 30 kya in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Levant." In, Vremya Poslednih Neandertaltsev (Time of the Last Neanderthals), 216-235. A Special Edition of Stratum Plus, pp. 216-235. High Anthropological School. St. Petersburg, Russia.
• Tostevin, Gilbert B., 2000. "The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition from the Levant to Central Europe: in situ development or diffusion?" In, Neanderthals and modern humans: discussing the transition. Central & Eastern Europe from 50,000-30,000 BP, Jörg Orschiedt & Gerd-Christian Weniger (eds.), 90-109. Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, Germany.

Activities

Courses

• Anth 5269 - Analysis of Stone Tool Technology
• Anth 5221 - Anthropology of Material Culture
• Anth 5008 - Advanced Flintknapping
• Anth 1001 - Human Evolution
• Anth 3008 - Introduction to Flintknapping
• Anth 2006/3006 - Humans & Aliens: Learning Anthropology through Science Fiction