Richard Klein (paleoanthropologist)
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| Born | April 11, 1941 University of Washington, Seattle; Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
Richard G. Klein (born April 11, 1941) is a Professor of
Later Stone Age around 50-40,000 years ago.[1]
Early life and education
Klein was born in 1941 in Chicago, and went to college at the
Cro-Magnons of Europe or that they had been replaced by the Cro-Magnons, Klein favored the replacement theory. Klein completed a master's degree in 1964, and then studied at the University of Bordeaux with François Bordes, who specialized in prehistory. There he visited the La Quina and La Ferrassie caves in southwest France, containing Cro-Magnon artifacts layered on top of Neanderthal ones. These visits influenced him into believing the shift from Neanderthal to modern humans 40,000 to 35,000 years ago was sudden rather than gradual. Klein also visited Russia to examine artifacts.[2]
Klein briefly held positions at the
University of Washington, Seattle
, before becoming a professor at the University of Chicago in 1973. Twenty years later, he moved to Stanford University.
Scientific contributions
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Works
- Man and culture in the late Pleistocene: A case study, ISBN 978-1597405881)
- Ice-Age Hunters of the Ukraine, ISBN 0-226-43945-3
- The Analysis of Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites, with Kathryn Cruz-Uribe, ISBN 978-0-226-43958-7
- Quaternary extinctions: A prehistoric revolution, first editor Paul S. Martin, ISBN 978-0816511006
- The Dawn of Human Culture, with Blake Edgar, ISBN 0-471-25252-2
- The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins, 3rd ed., ISBN 978-0-226-43965-5
Awards
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- President, South African Archaeological Society (2002–2004)
- Gordon J. Laing Award
See also
References
- ^ Mitchell Leslie (July–August 2012). "Suddenly smarter". Stanford Magazine.
- PMID 15079069.
External links
- three distinct populations(archived)
- Archeology and the Evolution of Human Behavior
- The Ysterfontein 1 Middle Stone Age site, South Africa, and early human exploitation of coastal resources
- Video of talk at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo on YouTube
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