Jonathan Thomas
Background:
Jonathan T. Thomas is an anthropological archaeologist who studies the relationship between the production of material culture and the evolution of social complexity. His research and fieldwork center on questions related to increasingly organized craft production in Late Neolithic southwestern Iberia, and how technological reorganization in the Namib Desert, central Namibia, reflects the emergence of behavioral modernity during the African Middle Stone Age. His most recent work "When the Bough Breaks: Childhood Mortality and Burial Practice in Late Neolithic Atlantic Europe", coauthored with Anna Waterman, appears in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. The courses he has taught include Introduction to Prehistory, Rhetoric, The Anthropology of Art, and The Origins of Inequality.
