INSTAAR: John Hoffecker

Fellow of INSTAAR.

PhD, University of Chicago, 1986.

John.Hoffecker@Colorado.edu
303-735-7804

INSTAAR Directorate Members

Specialty: archaeology and human paleoecology

Research Interests: The evolution of human adaptations to cold environments during the Quaternary period. Studies of archaeological sites in Eastern Europe and Alaska. Currently investigating the earliest modern human sites in Russia and the dispersal of modern humans into Eastern Europe (and related disappearance of local Neanderthals). Special focus on the role of technology in the dispersal process. Current research also includes interdisciplinary study of coastal middens in northern Alaska and the origins of modern Inuit culture with a focus on technological innovation.

Selected Publications:

Hoffecker, J. F. and S. A. Elias. 2007. Human Ecology of Beringia. New York: Columbia University Press.
Holliday, V.T., Hoffecker, J.F., Goldberg, P., Macphail, R.I., Forman, S.L., Anikovich, M. and Sinitsyn, A. 2007. Geoarchaeology of the Kostenki-Borshchevo sites, Don River, Russia. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 22(2): 183-230.
Anikovich, M.V., A.A. Sinitsyn, J.F. Hoffecker, V.T. Holliday, V.V. Popov, S.N. Lisitsyn, S.L. Forman, G.M. Levkovskaya, G.A. Pospelova, I.E. Kuz’mina, N.D. Burova, P. Goldberg, R.I. Macphail. B. Giaccio, and N.D. Praslov. 2007. Early Upper Paleolithic in eastern Europe and implications for the dispersal of modern humans. Science 315: 223-226.
Sinitsyn, A.A. and J.F. Hoffecker. 2006. Radiocarbon dating and chronology of the early Upper Paleolithic at Kostenki (Russia). Quaternary International 152-153: 175-185.
Hoffecker, J.F. 2005. Innovation and technological knowledge in the Upper Paleolithic of Northern Eurasia. Evolutionary Anthropology 14(5): 186-198.
Hoffecker, J.F. 2005. A Prehistory of the North: Human Settlement of the Higher Latitudes. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Hoffecker, J.F. 2005. What is technology? The Review of Archaeology 26(1): 25-29.
Hoffecker, J.F., I.E. Kuz’mina, M.V. Anikovich, and V.V. Popov. 2005. Taphonomy of an early Upper Paleolithic bone bed at Kostenki 12, in M.V. Anikovich (editor) Problemy rannei pory verkhnego paleolita Kostenkovsko-Borshchevosgo raiona i sopredel’nykh terrirorii, pp. 161-176. Saint-Petersburg: Russian Academy of Sciences.
Hoffecker, J.F., G.F. Baryshnikov, and V.B. Doronichev 2003. Large mammal taphonomy of the Middle Pleistocene hominid occupation at Treugol’naya Cave (northern Caucasus). Quaternary Science Reviews 21: 595-607.
Hoffecker, J.F. and S.A. Elias 2003. Environment and archaeology in Beringia. Evolutionary Anthropology 12: 34-49.
Hoffecker, J.F. 2002. The Eastern Gravettian “Kostenki Culture” as an Arctic Adaptation. Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska, New Series 2(1): 115-136.
Hoffecker, J.F. 2002. Desolate Landscapes: Ice-Age Settlement in Eastern Europe. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

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