MARIE SELVAGGIO Sociology-Anthropology

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS:

With R. J. Blumenschine. "On the Marks of Marrow Bones by Hammerstones and
Hyenas: Their Anatomical Patterning and Archaeological Implications." In Cultural
Beginnings: Approaches to Understanding Early Hominid Life-Ways in the African
Savanna, edited by J. Desmond Clark.

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

"Evidence for a three stage sequence of hominid and carnivore involvement with long bones at FLK Zinjanthnopus, Olduvai Gorge Tanzania."  Journal of Archaeological Science, Academic Press.

"Carnivore Tooth Marks and Stone Tool Butchery Marks on Scavenged Bones:
Archaeological Implications." Journal of Human Evolution 27: 215-228.

With R. J. Blumenschine. "Percussion Marks on Bone Surfaces as a New Diagnostic
Hominid Behavior." Nature 333: 763-765.

"From Noble Hunters to Carrion Robbers: The Evolution of the Scavenging Model of Early Hominid Subsistence." Crosscurrents 1: 33-47.

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:

With R. J. Blumenschine. "Evidence from Tooth Marks and Butchery Marks for
Scavenging by Early Pleistocene Hominids at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania." 12th Biennial
Conference of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Indiana University, Bloomington,
ID, April 28-May 1, 1994.

"Canivore Involvement at FLK Zinjanthropus." International Conference in Honor of Dr.
Mary D. Leakey, Arusha, Tanzania, August 1993.

With J. Bishop. "The Effects of Lithic Material on Percussion Mark Morphology." Society
for American Archaeology, St. Louis, MO, 1993.

"Canivore Tooth Marks and Stone Tool Butchery Marks on Scavenged Bone:
Archaeological Implications." Symposium, Early Hominid Behavioral Ecology: New
Looks at Old Questions, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Toronto,
April 1993.

"Felid and Hyenid Tooth Marks: Preliminary Results on Their Patterning and Morphology." 2nd Paleoanthropological Meeting, Toronto, 1993.

With H. T. Bunn and R. J. Blumenschine. "Alternative Views on the Nature and
Sequence of Hominid and Carnivore Activities at the FLK Zinjanthropus Site, Olduvai
Gorge, Tanzania." 2nd Paleoanthropological Meeting, Toronto, 1993.

"Towards Identifying Felids and Hyenids from Their Tooth Marks on Bones." 91st Annual
Meeting of the AAA, San Francisco, 1992.

"Scavenging from Scavengers." First Paleoanthropological Meetings, Pittsburgh, PA, 1992.

"Scavenging from East African Carnivores: Implications for Early Hominid Behavior at
FLK Zinjanthropus." 90th Annual Meeting of the AAA, Chicago, 1991.

With R. J. Blumenschine, H. T. Bunn and C. Saanane. "Site Formation and Hominid
Behavior at FLK Zinjanthropus: Preliminary Refinements Based on Long Bone Surface
Modification." International Council for Archaeozoology Sixth International Conference,
Smithsonian, Washington, DC, 1990.

"Scavenging from East African Carnivores: Implications for Hominid Behavioral
Evolution." Society of Africanist Archaeologists Biennial Conference, University of
Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1990.

With R. J. Blumenschine. "Establishing the Taxon-Specificity of Tooth Marks on Bone."
Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA, 1989.

With R. J. Blumenschine. "Percussion Marks on Bone Surfaces as a New Diagnostic of
Hominid Behavior." Society for American Archaeology, Phoenix, AZ, 1988.

RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:

1995--Connecticut State University System

1992--Boise Foundation

1987-1992--Research Grants, Rutgers University

1985-1992--Travel Grants, Rutgers University

1991--Wenner-Gren Foundation

1990--National Science Foundation

1990--L. S. B. Leakey Foundation

1989--L. S. B. Leakey Foundation

1988--Sigma Xi, Grant-in-aid of Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:

Old World Prehistory; Hominid Ecology and Behavioral Evolution; Archaeological Method and Theory; Taphonomy (especially Bone Modification); Zooarchaeology; Evolution of Technology; Women's Role in Prehistoric Societies; Socio-Ecology of Human Foragers and Non-Human Primates

Research in Europe on faunal remains

DISSERTATION TITLE:

Evidence from Carnivore Tooth Marks and Stone-Tool-Butchery Marks for
Scavenging by Hominids at FLK Zinjanthropus, Olduvai Gorge Tanzania

INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:

Rutgers University