Anthropology at UNCG

Dr. Charles Egeland

Visiting Lecturer
cpegelan@uncg.edu
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Curriculum Vita

Research Interests

Paleoanthropology; Paleolithic Archaeology; Diet and Subsistence; Zooarchaeology; Vertebrate Taphonomy; Paleoenvironmental Studies

My research revolves around reconstructions of human-environment interactions in the past. I focus primarily on the analysis of animal bones from archaeological sites in order to understand diet and subsistence and to reconstruct past environments. I have conducted fieldwork in the American West and Midwest in addition to Germany, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa and, most recently, the Republic of Armenia. My current interests involve the dispersals of Homo erectus from Africa around 2 million years ago and understanding Neandertal adaptations in the Caucasus.

Since 2009 I have co-directed (with my colleague Boris Gasparian) the Lori Depression Paleoanthropological Project, which is a joint venture between the Department of Anthropology at UNCG and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography at the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. The purpose of this project is to document the Paleolithic settlement of northeastern Armenia and to understand the adaptations of Paleolithic peoples in the region. I am also involved (with my colleague Ryan Byerly) in a reanalysis of the bison archaeofauna from the well-known Paleoindian site of Olsen-Chubbuck in Colorado.

Courses Taught

ATY 213: General Anthropology
ATY 253: Introduction to Physical Anthropology
ATY 253L: Introduction to Physical Anthropology Lab
ATY 331: Human Variation
ATY 357: Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
ATY 359: Forensic Anthropology
ATY 479: Analysis of Archaeological Data (Zooarchaeology)
ATY 555: Human Evolution
ATY 557: Primate Behavior


Selected Publications:

In press	Egeland, CP, Nicholson, CM, Gasparian, B. Using GIS and ecological variables to identify high potential areas for paleoanthropological survey: an example from northern Armenia. Journal of Ecological Anthropology
2008	Egeland, CP. Patterns of early hominid site use at Olduvai Gorge. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 17, 9-37.
2008	Egeland, CP, Domínguez-Rodrigo, M. Taphonomic perspectives on hominid site use and foraging strategies during Bed II times at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Journal of Human Evolution 55, 1031-1052.
2007	Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., Barba, R., Egeland, CP. Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites. New York: Springer.
2005	Egeland, CP, Byerly, RM. Application of return rates to large mammal butchery and transport among hunter-gatherers and its implications for Plio-Pleistocene hominid carcass foraging and site use. Journal of Taphonomy 3, 135-158.
2004	Egeland, CP, Pickering, TR, Domínguez-Rodrigo, M, Brain, CK. Disentangling Early Stone Age palimpsests: assessing the functional independence of carnivore- and hominid-derived portions of archaeofaunas. Journal of Human Evolution 47, 343-357.
2003	Egeland, CP.Carcass processing intensity and cutmark creation: an experimental approach. Plains Anthropologist 48, 39-51.