Dr Michael Haslam
Postdoctoral Fellow in Palaeolithic Archaeology
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art
Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Rd, Oxford, OX1 3QY
Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Rd, Oxford, OX1 3QY
phone: 01865 285203
fax: 01865 285220
email: michael.haslam@rlaha.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
Human evolution; Palaeolithic archaeology; primate tool-use; stone tool function and technology; microscopic use-wear and residues.
Primary Geographic Areas
South and southeast Asia, Australia, Oceania, Mesoamerica.
Current Grants
2012-2015 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, 'Functional analysis of
Homo floresiensis stone tools'
2011-2012 Arts and Humanities Research Council Early Career Fellowship,
'Stone Technology in Late Pleistocene India: A new perspective on the dispersal
of Homo sapiens out of Africa'
- 2010-2011 John Fell Fund, Oxford ‘Capuchin archaeology: exploring the adaptive role of stone technology among wild capuchin monkeys, Boa Vista, Brazil’
2010-2011 NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities ‘Proximal-distal ash correlation using 40Ar/39Ar as a provenance tool: insights into the Toba super-eruption and its impact on human populations and environments’
2010 British Academy Overseas Conference Grant ‘Microscopic residue analysis of modern and ancient chimpanzee pounding tools: defining a primate archaeological signature’
2010-2012 British Academy International Partnership- “Out of Africa, Into South Asia: Building a collaborative understanding of the earliest humans in India”
- 2009-2010 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
- “Hominin faunal exploitation in Late Pleistocene India”, Principal Investigator
Current Projects
- Primate Archaeology
- The Toba super-eruption and its impact on human populations and ecosystems (M. Petraglia, PI)
- Microscopic residue and use-wear analysis of Pleistocene stone artefacts from Liang Bua, Indonesia (with C. Lentfer [PI] and G. Robertson, University of Queensland)
- Use-wear and residue analysis of stone artefacts from the Gibraltar caves (with C. Finlayson and the Gibraltar Museum)
Publications
Published Books
- 2009
- , (2009), Archaeological Science Under a Microscope: Studies in residue and ancient DNA analysis in honour of Thomas H. Loy, Canberra: Australian National University E-Press. [http://epress.anu.edu.au/ta30_citation.html]
Contributions to Edited Books
- 2010
- , (2010), Indian lithic technology prior to the 74,000 BP Toba super-eruption: searching for an early modern human signature: in “Boyle, C. Gamble and Bar-Yosef, O. (eds.), Upper Palaeolithic Revolution in Global Perspective: Essays in honour of Paul Mellars”, pp 73-84, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge..
- 2009
- , (2009), Initial tests of the three-dimensional movement of starch in soils: in “New Directions in Archaeological Science: eds Fairbairn, A., O'Connor, S. & Marwick, B.”, pp 93-103, Canberra: ANU E-press.
- , (2009), Mountains and molehills: sample size in archaeological microscopic stone-tool residue analysis: in “Archaeological Science Under a Microscope: Studies in residue and ancient DNA analysis in honour of Thomas H. Loy, eds Haslam, M., Robertson, G., Crowther, A., Nugent, S & Kirkwood, L.”, pp 47-49, Canberra: ANU E-press.
- 2006
- , (2006), To trash and to cache: analysis of a Late Formative living surface at Copan, Honduras: in “An Archaeological Life: Papers in Honour of Jay Hall: eds Ulm, S. & Lilley, I.”, pp 241-250, Brisbane: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland .
- , (2006), Investigation of activity areas through starch analysis: a case study from Copan, Honduras: in “Ancient Starch Research: eds Torrence, R. & Barton, H.”, pp 174-175, Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
- 2003
- , (2003), Evidence for maize processing on 2,000 year-old obsidian artefacts from Copán: in “Phytolith and Starch Research in the Australian-Pacific-Asian Regions: The State of the Art: eds Hart, D.M. & Wallis, L.A.”, pp 153-161, Canberra: Pandanus Press.
Journal Articles & Conference Proceedings
- In press
- , A southern Indian Middle Palaeolithic occupation surface sealed by the 74 ka Toba eruption: Further evidence from Jwalapuran Locality 22., Quaternary International (Toba special volume),
- , Dhaba: an initial report on an Acheulean, Middle Palaeolithic and microlithic locality in the Middle Son Valley, north-central India, Quaternary International,
- 2011
- , (2011), Late Acheulean hominins at the Marine Isotope Stage 6/5e transition in north-central India, Quaternary Research, 75,670-682
- , (2011), Cryptotephra from the 74 kyr BP Toba super-eruption in the Billa Surgam caves, southern India, Quaternary Science Reviews, 30,1819-1824
- , (2011), Geochemical fingerprinting the widespread Toba tephra using biotite compositions., Quaternary International, 246,doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2011.05.012
- 2010
- , (2010), Experimental examination of animal trampling effects on artifact movement in dry and water saturated substrates: a test case from south India, Journal of Archaeological Science, 37,3010-3021
- , (2010), Comment on ‘Environmental impact of the 73 ka Toba super-eruption in South Asia’, by M. Williams et al. [Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 284 (2009) 295-314], Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 296,199-203
- , (2010), The 74,000 BP Toba super-eruption and southern Indian hominins: archaeology, lithic technology and environments at Jwalapuram Locality 3, Journal of Archaeological Science, 37,3370-3384
- , (2010), Foote’s steps: the history, significance and recent archaeological investigation of the Billa Surgam caves in southern India., South Asian Studies, 26,1-19
- , (2010), Out of Africa: new hypotheses and evidence for the dispersal of Homo sapiens along the Indian Ocean rim, Annals of Human Biology, 37(3),288-311
- , (2010), Systematic transect survey of the Jurreru Valley, Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh, Man and Environment, 35,24-36
- 2009
- , (2009), The longest enduring microlithic sequence in India: 35 000 years of modern human occupation and change at the Jwalapuram Locality 9 rockshelter, Antiquity, 83(320),326-348
- , (2009), Primate Archaeology, Nature, 460,339-344
- , (2009), The origins of percussive technology: a smashing time in Cambridge, Evolutionary Anthropology, 18,48-49
- , (2009), Population increase and environmental deterioration correspond with microlithic innovations in South Asia ca. 35,000 years ago, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106,12261-12266
- , (2009), Pleistocene and Holocene occupations of the Kurnool District India: Cave and rockshelter records, the Toba super-eruption and forager-farmer interactions, Journal of Eurasian Prehistory, 6(1-2),119-166
- 2008
- , (2008), The use of flaked stone artifacts from Palau, western Micronesia, Asian Perspectives, 47(2),405-428
- 2007
- , (2007), Blind tests in microscopic residue analysis: comments on Wadley et al. (2004), Journal of Archaeological Science, 34,997-1000
- 2006
- , (2006), Potential misidentification of in situ archaeological tool-residues: starch and conidia, Journal of Archaeological Science, 33,114-121
- , (2006), An archaeology of the instant? Action and narrative in archaeological residue analyses, Journal of Social Archaeology, 6(3),402-424
- 2005
- , (2005), Hearts and minds: public archaeology and the Queensland school curriculum, Australian Archaeology, 61,71-79
- , (2005), Determining the function of Polynesian volcanic glass artefacts: results of a residue study, Hawaiian Archaeology, 10,1-17
- 2004
- , (2004), The decomposition of starch grains in soils: implications for archaeological residue analyses, Journal of Archaeological Science, 31,1715-1734
- 2003
- , (2003), A Lang Park Mystery: Analysis of remains from a nineteenth century burial in Brisbane, Australian Archaeology, 56(1),1-7