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Jayson Gill

Visiting Assistant Professor
Phone: (208) 426-3037
Email: jaysongill@boisestate.edu
Office: Hemingway Building, Room 116

Jayson Gill’s Publications on ORCiD

Biography

Jayson Gill is an anthropologically trained archaeologist specializing in Pleistocene hominin behavior and digital methods. His research broadly deals with lithic technological variability and change during the Pleistocene of Eurasia and the relationships between behavior, biological evolution, and geography. His particular focus is on the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic techno-periods in the Armenian Highlands and southern Caucasus, as well as the United Kingdom. Along with more traditional qualitative and quantitative methods of lithic analysis, he applies 3D digitization and geometric morphometric techniques. Of importance to his research is the application of cultural evolutionary theory in tandem with optimality modeling from human behavioral ecology to understand both how and why technologies vary within a neo-Darwinian framework. Currently, Jayson directs Palaeolithic fieldwork projects in northern Armenia in collaboration with the Armenian Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Yerevan State University, King’s College London, the University of Winchester, and the University of Connecticut. His experience in archaeology includes cultural resource management work in the United States.

Education

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Connecticut
M.A., Anthropology, University of Connecticut
B.A., Anthropology, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Professional Interests

  • Cultural evolutionary theory
  • human behavioral ecology
  • hunter-forager lifeways
  • human evolution
  • Pleistocene environments
  • lithic analysis
  • archaeological statistics
  • the southern Caucasus

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Archaeology
  • World Archaeology
  • Cultural Resource Management