Éric Boëda Author

Éric Boëda, a Professor at the University of Paris Nanterre, is among the pioneers of the French technological approach to stone tool analysis and among the most active Paleolithic archaeologists working today. His fieldwork includes projects in Brazil, Mali, Syria, France and China. His reserch challenge some of our most established ideas about prehistory including the timing of the first arrival of humans in the Americas, the evolutionary context of Homo erectus, and the hunting capabilities of Neanderthals. Prof. Boëda’s reputation is built equally on his influential work on the theory of technological evolution and the methodology of stone tool analysis.

Michael Chazan is a Professor at the University of Toronto. He co-directs the Wonderwerk Cave Research Project with fieldwork at Wonderwerk Cave and the sites of the Kathu Complex, both located in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. He is author of The Reality of Artifacts: An Archaeological Perspective (Routledge, 2019).