John C Whittaker
John C Whittaker
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa USA
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United States
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Bio
BA Cornell U, PhD U Arizona 1984. Retired, taught at Grinnell College since 1984. I consider myself a broadly trained anthropologist who works mostly in archaeology.
My primary research areas (with wife Kathryn Kamp) are the prehistoric American Southwest, and pre-industrial technology, especially stone tools and atlatl/spearthrowers. But in the course of my training and career, I have worked in France, UK, Syria, Jordan, Belize, Turkey, and the US, with material ranging from Paleolithic to Historic and ethnographic.
Most relevant to EXARC have been many projects experimenting with stone tools, early agriculture, and projectiles with atlatls and bow and arrow, and ethnographic work in Middle Eastern villages and with modern flintknappers.
Most of my papers can be found on Academia.edu I am currently revising my book Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools (1994) and working with projectile penetration studies and gunflints.
My primary research areas (with wife Kathryn Kamp) are the prehistoric American Southwest, and pre-industrial technology, especially stone tools and atlatl/spearthrowers. But in the course of my training and career, I have worked in France, UK, Syria, Jordan, Belize, Turkey, and the US, with material ranging from Paleolithic to Historic and ethnographic.
Most relevant to EXARC have been many projects experimenting with stone tools, early agriculture, and projectiles with atlatls and bow and arrow, and ethnographic work in Middle Eastern villages and with modern flintknappers.
Most of my papers can be found on Academia.edu I am currently revising my book Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools (1994) and working with projectile penetration studies and gunflints.