Lisa Maher

Job title: 
Associate Professor
Department: 
Anthropology
Research interests: 

Prehistoric Archaeology, Eastern Mediterranean & Africa, Human-Environment Interactions, Geoarchaeology, Micromorphology, Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology, Human Origins and Evolution, Lithic Technology and Analysis, Archaeological Approaches to Technology, Burial Practices in Prehistory, Transitions to Food Production.

Affiliated Faculty: 
Faculty

Recent Publications

  • Maher, L., Macdonald, D. and J. Stock, "Life, Death, and the Destruction of Architecture: Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Behaviors in Prehistoric Jordan." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 61 (2021):101-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101262

  • Maher, L. (2020) "Hunter-Gatherer-Home-Making? Building Landscape and Community in the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic." In Consciousness and creative at the dawn of settled life: the test-case of Çatalhöyük. I. Hodder (ed.), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 31-62.

  • Maher, L. and D. Macdonald (2020) "Communities of Interaction: Tradition and learning in stone tool production through the lens of Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan." In Culture History and Convergent Evolution: Can we identify ancient populations using material culture? H. Groucutt (ed.), Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 213-243
  • Maher, L.(2019) "Persistent Place-Making in Prehistory: The Creation, Maintenance and Transformation of an Epipalaeolithic Landscape." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 26: 998-1083. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9403-1
Lisa Maher

Contact

maher@berkeley.edu
2251 College Ave, Room 204; Kroeber Hall Room 1 (lab)
Anthropology Page