Staff
Dott. Daniela Burroni
Daniela Burroni has participated or directed several archaeological excavations, in Italy above all, but also in Long Island (USA). She received a first-class Master’s Degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Siena (Italy), Her thesis was on the lithic analysis of a Palaeolithic site in the Southern Italy dated 28000 BP. She pursued further study and research related to lithic analysis at the University of Pisa (Italy), Michigan State University, Stony Brook University (USA) and at the University of Sheffield (UK). Currently her principal fields of research in archaeology are the effects of post-depositional processes on lithic tools and prehistoric rock art, following the discovery of a rock art site in Tuscany (Italy). She is a Senior Associate of the Lithic Microwear Research Laboratory and Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University.
Dr Randolph E. Donahue
Donahue received his PhD in Anthropology from Michigan State University in 1986 where he specialised in the European Stone Age, archaeological (and quantitative) methods, hunter-gatherers, and lithic analyses. During his PhD he also received training in lithic microwear analysis from Prof Lawrence Keeley, who served on his dissertation committee. Donahue taught for three years at SUNY—Stony Brook and four years at the University of Sheffield before joining the University of Bradford in 1994 and serving as Head of the Department of Archaeological Sciences from 2002 to 2004. Donahue is currently Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University and a Senior Associate of the Lithic Microwear Research Laboratory. He is currently on the editorial board of Nature Scientific Reports and Associate Editor for CAPRA (Cave Archaeology and Palaeontology Research Archive). Donahue has over 25 years of archaeological field experience, about 100 publications and has been awarded over 100 grants and contracts including: AHRC, NERC, British Academy, English Heritage, Fulbright-Hays, Nuffield, and European Commission (Marie Curie Training Site).
Prof. William A. Lovis
Michigan State University Professor and Curator Emeritus of Anthropology William Lovis is an environmental archaeologist. His research explores the relationship between human economic adaptation and mobility, and changing late glacial and Holocene environments in the Great Lakes region, northern England and northern Europe, primarily among hunter-gatherers and transitional low level horticulturalists. Lovis brings a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach to this inquiry in concert with the biological and earth sciences, and is a strong proponent of ethnographic analogy to refine archaeological interpretation of early hunter-gatherers. Analytically, this multidisciplinary perspective includes collaborative experiments on carbonized food residue formation and interpretation of resultant isotope signatures to track the transition from hunting and gathering to horticulture in the Great Lakes, and with colleagues explores the taphonomy of Freshwater Reservoir Offsets (FROs) and their effect on carbonized residue ages. Lovis' career includes substantial experience in public policy, particularly surrounding repatriation nationally and internationally, as well as forensic applications including human remains investigations and law enforcement training. He has spent his entire career in museum collections research, management, teaching and curation and continues engagement in this arena. Lovis is currently Editor for the Midwest Archaeological Perspectives monograph series, and is engaged in multiple archaeoenvironmental research and writing projects. (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9221-7447<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__orcid.org_0000-2D0002-2D9221-2D7447&d=DwMFaQ&c=nE__W8dFE-shTxStwXtp0A&r=yy_E2SHasHOQoiOx57jspg&m=vnWWtbsFMGsKPe_y84Mp-5fb6ATsBP8x7aMA2xv_rJw&s=ial_Ao0Htlwyv5dvTTJssP125cCRCbZ0uABnzXFcbDg&e=>)
