At the moment, I am  supervising five PhD students:

• Caitlin Craig. Caitlin is investigating how environmental change during MIS 2 (26-12 ka) affected hunter-gatherer occupation dynamics and technological organisation, particularly the development of the Robberg Technocomplex, at Boomplaas Cave in South Africa.
• Brea McCauley. Brea is using cross-cultural data and phylogenetic comparative techniques to investigate the evolutionary significance of body modification, including tattoos, cranial deformation, and finger amputation.
• Chris Nichols. Chris is seeking to improve our ability to elucidate the functions of dogs in the distant past, using zooarchaeological remains.
• Amalea Ruffett. Amalea is evaluating the accuracy of the Body Mass Index as a measure of body fat compared to other anthropometric proxy measures.
• Earl Stefanyshen. Earl is carrying out a quantitative, multi-scale landscape ethnography of a Himalayan Valley.

I am also supervising  four MA students:

• Kaia Carr-Meehan. Kaia is using CT scanning and replicative experiments to investigate the form and function of bone needles from a number of Upper Palaeolithic sites in Southwest Europe.
• Caroline Crinson. Caroline is undertaking a cross-cultural analysis of the functions of music in the recent past with a view to shedding light on the evolution of musicality in the hominin lineage.
• Sasha McConnell. Sasha is using an experimental archaeology approach to investigate the relative merits of several different methods of transporting embers that have been documented ethnographically.
• Holly O’Neil. Holly is testing the hypothesis that beliefs about so-called big gods foster group cooperation. She is doing so with textual and archaeological data from Ancient Greece.

Additionally, I am on the supervisory committees of two PhD students, Olivia Arnold and Ruth Linsky. Olivia is in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland and is working on a spectacular collection of rock art in the Flinders Island Group, which is off the coast of Cape York in far-northern Queensland, Australia. Ruth is in the SFU Department of Biological Sciences and is developing and testing methods for improving estimates of the population size of living wild orangutans.

In the past, I have supervised >50 honours students, graduate students, and postdocs. Among these individuals are Briggs Buchanan, Chris Carleton, Marina Elliott, Ben Raffield, Victoria Herridge, Luseadra McKerracher, John Stewart, Jamie Tehrani, and Stephen Lycett. Currently, Briggs (postdoc: 2005-2013) is a full professor at the University of Tulsa, USA (further details here); Chris (PhD student: 2011-2017, postdoc: 2017-2019) is a senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany (further details here); Marina (MA student: 2006-2008, PhD student: 2008-2015) is a limited-term lecturer at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta; Luseadra (MA student: 2007- 2009, PhD student: 2009-2016, postdoc: 2016) is an assistant professor at Aarhus University in Denmark (further details here); Ben (postdoc: 2014-2016) is an associate professor at the University of Uppsala in Sweden (further details here); Victoria (undergrad honours student: 2001-2002) is a senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield (further details here); John (postdoc: 2000-2002) is a full professor at Bournemouth University, UK (further details here); Jamie (MSc student: 2000-2001, PhD student: 2001-2005, postdoc: 2006-2007) is a full professor at Durham University, UK (further details here); and Stephen (MSc student: 2002-2003) is an associate professor at the Buffalo University, USA (further details here).