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Michael Chazan

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Michael Chazan. Photo by Per Kristiansen

Michael Chazan, Ph.D. (Yale University, 1992)

Professor, St. George Campus and Director, Archaeology Center

(416) 971-1369 (lab)

(416) 585-4423 (office)

mchazan@chass.utoronto.ca

Office: AP 500 and 232 Northrop Frye Hall (Victoria College)

Lab: AP 500A

Website: http://web.me.com/mchazan/Home.html

Field: Paleoarchaeology, lithic analysis, history of archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology; Near East, France, South Africa

 

Recent Publications

2009  Chazan, M. Assessing the Lower to Middle Paleolithic Transition. In Sourcebook of Paleolithic Transitions, edited by M. Camps and P. Chauhan. New York: Springer, pp. 237-244.

2009  Chazan, M. Pattern and technology:  Why the Chaîne Opératoire matters.  In Transitions in Prehistory: Essays in Honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef, edited by John Shea and Daniel Lieberman.  Cambridge:  American School of Prehsitoric Research, pp. 469-478.

2008    Chazan, M. Pathways Through Time: An Introduction to Prehistory and Archaeology.

Canadian Edition. Toronto: Pearson Canada

2008    Chazan, M. Culture, information, and inheritance: New perspectives on old questions. Reviews in Anthropology 37 (1): 3-15

2007    Chazan, M. and Horwitz, L. (eds) The Lower Paleolithic Site of Holon, Israel. Cambridge: Peabody Museum Press

2006    Banning, E.B. and M. Chazan (eds) Domesticating Space: New Research on Neolithic Architecture in the Middle East. Berlin: Ex Oriente.

2006   Chazan, M. and L. Horwitz. Finding the Message in Complexity: The Association of Lithics and Fauna on Lower Paleolithic Multiple Carcass Sites. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 25: 436-447.