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Steven E. Churchill

Steven E. Churchill, Associate Professor and Chair, Biological Anthropology & Anatomy and Internal Scientific Advisory Committee

Contact Info:
05 Bio Sci Bldg
919 660 7314
churchy@duke.edu
Education:
  • Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1994
  • M.A., University of New Mexico, 1989
  • B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 1981

Curriculum Vitae
Teaching (Summer2 2008):

  • BAA 147.01, Bodies Of Evidence Synopsis
    Bio sci 130, MTuWThF 11:00 AM-12:15 PM

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Churchill, S.E. and F.H. Smith. "Makers of the early Aurignacian of Europe." Yearbk . Phys. Anthropol. Suppl 31 (2000): 61-115.
  2. Churchill, S.E., J.S. Brink, L.R. Berger, R.A. Hutchison, L. Rossouw, D. Stynder, P.J. Hancox, D. Brandt, S. Woodborne, J.C. Loock, L. Scott and P. Ungar. "Erfkroon: A new early Florisian fossil locality from fluvial contexts in the western Free State, South Africa." S. Afr. J. Sci 96 (2000): 161-163.
  3. Churchill, S.E.. "Cold adaptation, heterochrony and the Neandertals." Ev. Anthropol. 7 (1998): 46-61.
  4. Churchill, S.E.. "Morphological evolution, behavior change and the origins of modern humans." Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research. Ed. G.A. Clark and C.M. Willermet New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1997: 202-219.
  5. Churchill, S.E. and V. Formicola. "A case of marked bilateral asymmetry in the upper limbs of an Upper Paleolithic male from Barma Grande (Liguria), Italy." Int. J. Osteoarch. 7 (1997): 18-38.
  6. Churchill, S.E., A.H. Weaver and W.A. Niewoehner. "Late Pleistocene human technological and subsistence behavior: Functional interpretations of upper limb morphology." Reduction Processes ("ChaĆ®nes OpĆ©ratoires") in the European Mousterian. Ed. A. Bietti and S. Grimaldi Quaternaria Nova1996: 18-51.
  7. Churchill, S.E.. "Particulate versus integrated evolution of the upper body in late Pleistocene humans: a test of two models." Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 100 (1996): 559-583.
  8. Churchill, S.E., O.M. Pearson, F.E. Grine, E. Trinkaus and T.W. Holliday. "Morphological affinities of the proximal ulna from Klasies River Main Site: Archaic or Modern?." J. Hum. Evol 31 (1996): 213-237.
  9. Trinkaus, E., S.E. Churchill and C.B. Ruff. "Postcranial robusticity in Homo, II: Humeral bilateral asymmetry and bone plasticity." Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 93 (1994): 1-34.
  10. Churchill, S.E.. "Weapon technology, prey size selection and hunting methods in modern hunter-gatherers: implications for hunting in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic." Hunting and Animal Exploitation in the Later Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Eurasia. Ed. In G.L. Peterkin, H.M. Bricker and P.A. Mellars Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association1993: 11-24.