University of Arizona

Faculty Member, Anthropology

Professor

School of Anthropology

About

MARY C. STINER is Professor in the School of Anthropology of the University of Arizona and Curator of Zooarchaeology at the Arizona State Museum of the University of Arizona. She earned B.A. and B.F.A. degrees in Anthropology and Fine Arts, respectively, in 1980 from the University of Delaware. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 1990. Her book, Honor among Thieves (1994, Princeton University Press), won the first Society of American Archaeology book prize awarded in 1996. She has conducted archaeological fieldwork at Paleolithic sites in Italy, Israel, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, and France, and sites of diverse ages in the United States. Her professional interests include coevolutionary processes involving Paleolithic humans, forager economics and technology, Paleolithic decorative traditions, the forager-farmer transition, population ecology, behavioral ecology, zooarchaeology of vertebrates and mollusks, and taphonomy, bone diagenesis, animal domestication.