9/2000

5/2004 VITA

JOHN C. WHITTAKER

Personal Information

Born: September 6, 1953, Richland, Washington

Married: Kathryn Kamp Citizenship: USA

Addresses: 1517 Elm Street Dept. of Anthropology

Grinnell, IA 50112 Grinnell College

641-236-6775 Grinnell, IA 50112-0806

641-269-3447

WHITTAKE@GRINNELL.EDU

Degrees

B.A. (1975) Cornell University, cum laude in Anthropology

M.A. (1979) University of Arizona, Anthropology

PhD. (1984) University of Arizona, Anthropology

Dissertation Title: Arrowheads and Artisans: Stone Tool

Manufacture and Individual Variation at Grasshopper Pueblo

Professional Experience

Teaching

Department of Anthropology, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. Department Chair, 1997-1999; Professor, May 2001 – present. (Associate Professor 1994-2001, Assistant Professor 1989- 1994; Lecturer, part-time 1984-1989).

Graduate Program at U. of Arizona: taught one course, TA for several others.

Field Experience and Employment

June 2000: Excavation Director, Kryegjata B paleolithic site. Mallacastra Regional Archaeological Project, Albania.

1990 to present: Ethnographic work with modern flintknappers meeting twice yearly for several days at Fort Osage, MO.

6/29-8/8/95: Ethnographic work with villagers and knappers in Cyprus, helping supervise student internships.

Summers 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1998. Co-director (with K.Kamp) Grinnell College Archaeological Field School excavations and survey at Lizard Man Village, Fortress Hills Pueblo, and New Caves, prehistoric Sinagua sites.

As graduate student and undergraduate, worked on archaeological projects in Jordan, Syria, France, England, Utah, Arizona, California, and New York, including as staff for the U. of Arizona field school at Grasshopper, directing excavations in Yosemite for the National Park Service, and ethnoarchaeological work in Syrian villages.

PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS

Southwestern archaeology, village life and social organization in Sinagua region. Pre-industrial technology, especially lithic manufacture and experiment, atlatls, bronze. Ethnoarchaeology, especially of craft production.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Whittaker, John

2004 American Flintknappers: Stone Age Art in the Age of Computers. University of Texas Press: Austin. ISBN 0-292-70266-3, 353 pp, 70 illustrations, 12 color plates.

1994 Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools.University of Texas Press: Austin.

ISBN 0-292-79082-1, 341 pp, 223 illustrations.

Kamp, K. and J. Whittaker

1999 Surviving Adversity: The Sinagua of Lizard Man Village. University of Utah Anthropological Papers Number 120. University of Utah: Salt Lake City. ISBN 0-87480-575-9, 209 pp., 97 figures.

Selected Articles and Reviews

Whittaker, John

2003 Threshing Sledges and Threshing Floors in Cyprus. In Le Traitement des Récoltes: Un Regard sur la Diversité du Néolithique au Présent. XXIII Rencontres Internationales D’Archéologie et D’Histoire D’Antibes. P. C. Anderson, L. S. Cummings, T. K. Schippers, and B. Simonel eds., pp. 375-387. Editions APDCA, Antibes,France.

2003 Atlatl Elbow: Anatomy and Archaeology. The Atlatl 16(1):16-18.

Kamp, Kathryn A. and John C. Whittaker

2002 Prehistoric Puebloan Children in Archaeology and Art. In Children in the Prehistoric Puebloan Southwest, K.A. Kamp, ed., pp. 14-40. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah.

2002 Excavations at Chiik Nah. (Report submitted to the Belize Department of Archaeology, published on the U.California Santa Barbara El Pilar Web Page at http://www.marc.ucsb.edu/elpilar/)

Whittaker, John and Ron Mertz

2002 Atlatls for Teaching and Sport. Anthropology News 43(4):26.

Graver, Sally, Kristin Sobolik, and John Whittaker

2002 Cannibalism or Violent Death Alone? Human Remains at a Small Anasazi Site. In Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory, and Archaeological Perspectives, W.D. Haglund and M.H. Sorg, eds., pp. 309-320. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

Whittaker, J. and G. McCall

2001 Handaxe-Hurling Hominids: An Unlikely Story. Current Anthropology 42(4):566-572.

Whittaker, J.

2001 “The Oldest British Industry:” Continuity and Obsolescence in a Flintknapper’s Sample Set. Antiquity 75(288):382-390.

2001 Knapping Building Flints in Norfolk. Lithic Technology 26(1): 71-80.

2001 From Gunflints to Arrowheads. Chips 13(3):11-12.

Whittaker, J. and Eric Kaldahl

2001 Where the Waste Went: A Knapper's Dump at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona. In Lithic Debitage: Context, Form, Meaning. William Andrefsky, ed., pp. 32-60. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Whittaker, J.

2000 Alonia and Dhoukanes: The Ethnoarchaeology of Threshing in Cyprus. Near Eastern Archaeology 63(2):62-69.

Whittaker, J., S. Koeman, and R. Taylor

2000 Some Experiments in Petroglyph Technology. In 1999 International Rock Art Congress Proceedings, Volume 1: Papers Presented at the 12th International Rock Art Congress, Ripon, Wisconsin, May 23-31, 1999. P. Whitehead and L. Loendorf, eds., pp. 155-167. Tucson: American Rock Art Research Association.

Whittaker, J. and M. Stafford

1999 Replicas, Fakes, and Art: The Twentieth Century Stone Age and its Effects on Archaeology. American Antiquity 64(2):203-214. Reprinted 2000 in The Arkansas Archaeologist 39:19-30 (1998 issue

Whittaker, J.

1999 Alonia: The Ethnoarchaeology of Cypriot Threshing Floors. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 12(1):7-25.

1999 Frank Cushing: A Young Knapper in 1879." Chips 11(1):8.

1998 Review of The Archaeology of Ancient Arizona by Jefferson Reid and Stephanie Whittlesey. Journal of the Iowa Archaeological Society 45:93-94.

Whittaker, J., D. Caulkins, and K. Kamp

1998 Evaluating Consistency in Archaeological Typology and Classification. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 5(2):129-164.

Whittaker, J.

1997 Red Power Finds Creationism: Review of "Red Earth, White Lies" by Vine Deloria Jr. Skeptical Inquirer 21(1):47-50. Reprinted, Indian Artifact Magazine 17(2):55, 60-61, 6 (April 1998).

Whittaker, J.

1996 Reproducing a Bronze Age Dagger from the Thames:Statements and Questions." London Archaeologist 8(2):51-54.

1996 Athkiajas: A Cypriot Flintknapper and the Threshing Sledge Industry. Lithic Technology, 21(2):108-119.

Whittaker, J. and A. Romano 1996 Some Prehistoric Copper Flaking Tools in Minnesota. Wisconsin Archaeologist 77(1):3-10. Reprinted, Indian Artifact Magazine 13(3):34-35, 66, 69,73 (August 1998).

Whittaker, J. and K. Kamp

1992 Sinagua Painted Armbands. Kiva 58(2):177-187.

Whittaker, J.

1992 The Curse of the Runestone: Deathless Hoaxes. Skeptical Inquirer 17(1):57-63.

1992 Hard Times at Lizard Man. Archaeology 45(4):56-58. Reprinted 1997, 1998 in Annual Editions: Archaeology 97/98, and 98/99, edited by Linda L. Hasten, pp. 51-53, McGraw-Hill, Guilford.

Kamp, K. and J. Whittaker

1990 Lizard Man Village: A Small Site Perspective on Sinagua Social Organization. The Kiva 55(2):99-125.

Whittaker, J., A. Ferg, and J. Speth 1988 Arizona Bifaces of Wyoming Chert. The Kiva 53(4):321-334.

Whittaker, J.

1987 Individual Variation as an Approach to Economic Organization: Projectile Points at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona. Journal of Field Archaeology

14(4):465-480.

1987 Making Arrowpoints in a Prehistoric Pueblo. Lithic Technology 16(1):1-12.

Whittaker, J. and L. Fratt

1984 Continuity and Change in Stone Tools at Mission Tumacacori, Arizona. Lithic Technology 13(1):11-19.

McGuire, R., J. Whittaker, M. McCarthy, and R. McSwain

1982 A Consideration of Observational Error in Lithic Use-Wear Analysis. Lithic Technology 11(3):59-63.

Whittaker, J.

1981 Archeology in Yosemite National Park: The Wawona Testing Project. Western Archeological and Conservation Center Publications in Anthropology 18. Tucson: National Park Service, WACC. (Also available National Technical Information Service).

Dibble, H. and J. Whittaker

1981 New Experimental Evidence on the Relation Between Percussion Flaking and Flake Variation. Journal of Archaeological Science 8:283-298.

Kennedy, K. A. R. and J. Whittaker