David Killick
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Professor of Anthropology
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Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Courses
World Archaeology
ANTH 160A1 (Fall 2022)
ANTH 160A1 (Fall 2021)
ANTH 160A1 (Fall 2020)
ANTH 160A1 (Fall 2018)
ANTH 160A1 (Fall 2017)
ANTH 160A1 (Fall 2016)
Culture+Societies Africa
AFAS 329 (Spring 2021)
AFAS 329 (Spring 2019)
AFAS 329 (Spring 2018)
AFAS 329 (Spring 2017)
ANTH 329 (Spring 2021)
ANTH 329 (Spring 2019)
ANTH 329 (Spring 2018)
ANTH 329 (Spring 2017)
Independent Study
ANTH 699 (Fall 2022)
ANTH 699 (Fall 2017)
ANTH 699 (Spring 2017)
ANTH 699 (Fall 2016)
MSE 399 (Spring 2016)
Archaeometry:Art+Archeo
ANTH 474 (Spring 2022)
ANTH 474 (Spring 2021)
ANTH 474 (Spring 2020)
ANTH 474 (Fall 2018)
ANTH 474 (Fall 2017)
ANTH 474 (Fall 2016)
ANTH 474 (Spring 2016)
ANTH 574 (Spring 2021)
ANTH 574 (Spring 2020)
ANTH 574 (Fall 2017)
ANTH 574 (Fall 2016)
ANTH 574 (Spring 2016)
CLAS 474 (Spring 2022)
CLAS 474 (Spring 2021)
CLAS 474 (Spring 2020)
CLAS 474 (Fall 2018)
CLAS 474 (Fall 2017)
CLAS 474 (Spring 2016)
CLAS 574 (Spring 2022)
CLAS 574 (Spring 2021)
CLAS 574 (Fall 2018)
CLAS 574 (Fall 2017)
CLAS 574 (Fall 2016)
CLAS 574 (Spring 2016)
MENA 474 (Spring 2022)
MENA 474 (Spring 2016)
MSE 574 (Fall 2018)
MSE 574 (Fall 2017)
MSE 574 (Fall 2016)
MSE 574 (Spring 2016)
Sp Top Archaeology
ANTH 495A (Spring 2019)
ANTH 495A (Spring 2017)
ANTH 595A (Fall 2021)
ANTH 595A (Spring 2019)
ANTH 595A (Spring 2017)
Spec Tops Mat Sci+Eng
MSE 596A (Fall 2016)
Archaeol Methodology
ANTH 637 (Spring 2020)
ANTH 637 (Spring 2018)
ANTH 637 (Spring 2016)
Master's Report
ANTH 909 (Fall 2016)
ANTH 909 (Spring 2016)
Dissertation
ANTH 920 (Spring 2024)
ANTH 920 (Fall 2023)
ANTH 920 (Spring 2023)
ANTH 920 (Fall 2022)
ANTH 920 (Spring 2022)
ANTH 920 (Fall 2021)
ANTH 920 (Spring 2021)
ANTH 920 (Fall 2020)
ANTH 920 (Spring 2020)
ANTH 920 (Fall 2019)
ANTH 920 (Spring 2019)
ANTH 920 (Fall 2018)
ANTH 920 (Spring 2018)
ANTH 920 (Fall 2017)
ANTH 920 (Spring 2017)
ANTH 920 (Fall 2016)
ANTH 920 (Spring 2016)
Selected Publications
Chapters
- Killick, D. J. (2016). Iron smelting technology in the Middle Senegal Valley, ca. 550 BCE-1500 CE. In The Search for Takrur: Archaeological Excavations and Reconnaissance along the Middle Senegal River Valley, edited by Roderick J. McIntosh, Susan Keech McIntosh and Hamady Bocoum.(pp 191-280). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
- Killick, D. J., & Fenn, T. (2016). Copper Alloys. In The Search for Takrur: Archaeological Excavations and Reconnaissance along the Middle Senegal River Valley, edited by Roderick J. McIntosh, Susan Keech McIntosh and Hamady Bocoum.(pp 281-298). New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Killick, D. J. (2015). On the role of the sciences in contemporary archaeology. In Material Evidence: Learning From Archaeological Practice, edited by Alyson Wylie and Robert Chapman(pp 159-171). London: Routledge.
- Martinon-Torres, M., & Killick, D. J. (2015). Archaeological theories and archaeological sciences. In The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Theory(pp 1-28). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Killick, D. J. (2014). Cairo to Cape: the spread of metallurgy through eastern and southern Africa. In Archaeometallurgy in Global Perspective: Methods and Syntheses, edited by Ben Roberts and Christopher Thornton.(pp 507-528). New York: Springer.
- Killick, D. J. (2014). From ores to metals. In Archaeometallurgy in Global Perspective: Methods and Syntheses, edited by Ben Roberts and Christopher Thornton.(pp 11-46). New York: Springer.
- Killick, D. J. (2014). van der Merwe. Nikolaas J.. In Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology(pp 7579-7589). New York: Springer.
- Thibodeau, A. M., Chesley, J. T., Ruiz, J., Killick, D. J., & Vokes, A. (2012). An alternative approach to the Prehispanic turquoise trade. In Turquoise in Mexico and North America, edited by J.C.H. King, C.R. Cartright, R. Stacey, C. McEwan and M. Carocci.(pp 63-72). London: British Museum.
Journals/Publications
- Chiu, S., Killick, D. J., Dickinson, W. R., & Sand, C. (2016). Connection and competition: some early insights gained from petrographic studies of New Caledonian Lapita pottery. Archaeology in Oceania, 51, 141-149.
- Killick, D. J., Miller, D., Thondhlana, T., & Martinon-Torres, M. (2016). Copper mining and metallurgy in the northern Lowveld, South Africa, ca. 1000 CE - ca. 1880.. Journal of Archaeological Science, 75, 10-26.
- Killick, D. J., Wilmsen, E. N., Griffiths, A., Thebe, P., & Molatlhegi, G. (2016). Moijabana rocks and Pilikwe potters: acceleration of clay formation by potters employing simple mechanical means. Ethnoarchaeology, 8, 137-157.
- Pailes, M., Killick, D. J., Ferguson, T. J., & Mills, B. J. (2016). Diabase temper as a marker for Laguna ceramics. KIVA.
- Bleed, P., Long, L., Long, J., Roberg, M., & Killick, D. J. (2015). Scale armor on the North American frontier. Plains Anthropologist, 60, 199-222.
- Killick, D. (2015). Invention and Innovation in African Iron-smelting Technologies. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 25, 307--319.
- Killick, D. J. (2015). Invention and Innovation in African iron smelting. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 25(1), 307-319.
- Killick, D. J. (2015). The awkward adolescence of archaeological science. Journal of Archaeological Science, 56, 242-247.
- Stephens, J. A., Vandiver, P. B., Hernandez, S. A., & Killick, D. (2015). The Technological Development of Decorated Corinthian Pottery, 8 th to 6 th Centuries BCE. MRS Proceedings, 1656, mrsf13--1656.
- Thibodeau, A. M., Killick, D. J., Hedquist, S. L., Chesley, J. T., & Ruiz, J. (2015). Isotopic evidence for the provenance of turquoise in the southwestern United States. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 127(11/12), 1617-1631.
- Hayashida, F., Killick, D. J., Shimada, I., Hausler, F. M., Wagner, F. E., & Wagner, U. (2014). A pre-Columbian copper alloy smelting furnace: Mössbauer and XRD study of the firing conditions. Hyperfine Interactions, 224, 161-170.
- Killick, D. J., & Miller, D. A. (2014). Smelting of magnetite and magnetite-ilmenite ores in the northern Lowveld, South Africa, ca. 1000 CE - ca.1880 CE.. Journal of Archaeological Science, 43, 239-255.
- Molofsky, L. J., Killick, D., Ducea, M. N., Macovei, M., Chesley, J. T., Ruiz, J., Thibodeau, A., & Popescu, G. C. (2014). A novel approach to lead isotope provenance studies of tin and bronze: applications to South African, Botswanan and Romanian artifacts. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 50, 440-450.
- Killick, D. J., & Holliday, V. (2013). An early PaleoIndian bead from the Mockingbird Gap site , New Mexico. Current Anthropology, 54, 85-95.
- Killick, D. J., & Fenn, T. (2012). Archaeometallurgy: the study of preindustrial mining and metallurgy. Annual Review of Anthropology.
Proceedings Publications
- Killick, D. J. (2015, March). Archaeometallurgy as archaeology: a keynote lecture.. In Archaeometallurgy in Europe III, Der Anschnitt, 295-300.
- Santarelli, B., Killick, D. J., & Goff, S. (2014, Winter). Technological behavior in the Southwest: Pueblo 1 glaze paints from the upper San Juan region.. In Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1656.
Poster Presentations
- Killick, D. J., Santarelli, B., & Goff, S. (2014, April). Technological Behavior in the Southwest: Pueblo I Lead Glaze Paints from the Upper San Juan Region. Society for American Archaeology, 79th Annual Meeting. Austin, TX.
- Killick, D. J., Santarelli, B., & Goff, S. (2014, May). Technological Behavior in the Southwest: Pueblo I Lead Glaze Paints from the Upper San Juan Region. 40th International Symposium on Archaeometry. Los Angeles.
Presentations
- Killick, D. J. (2017, Spring). Iron or gold? Comparing the production and uses of metals in the Andes and in sub-Saharan Africa before 1500 CE.. Council on Archaeological Studies at Yale. New Haven, CT: Yale University.
- Killick, D. J. (2016, Spring). Technology and Society: a comparison of metallurgical technology in sub-Saharan Africa and in South America. Frontiers in Archaeology lecture series. Santa Cruz, CA: University of California, Sanata Cruz.
- Thibodeau, A. M., & Killick, D. J. (2016, January). Tracing turquoise in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico: the case for lead and strontium isotopes.. Southwest Symposium. Tucson: Southwest Symposium.
- Chiu, S., Killick, D. J., Dickinson, W. R., & Sand, C. (2015, April). Connection and competition: some insights gained from petrographic studies of New Caledonian Lapita pottery.. 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. San Francisco: Society for American Archaeology.
- Killick, D. J. (2015, October). Tracing the movements of inorganic materials with heavy stable isotopes. Invited presentation, University of Georgia. Athens, GA: Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia.
- Killick, D. J., & Wilmsen, E. N. (2015, April). Tracing the arrival of the earliest pottery producers in northern Botswana.. 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. San Francisco: Society for American Archaeology.
- Fenn, T., Ameje, J., Gronenborn, D., Killick, D. J., & Joaquin, R. (2014, Summer). Archaeometallurgy of metal finds from the medieval “royal” burials of Durbi Takusheyi, northern Nigeria.. PanAfrican Archaeological Association,14th Congress.. Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Fenn, T., Wilmsen, E., Robertshaw, P., Killick, D. J., & Ruiz, J. (2014, Summer). Botswana, South Africa and glass bead trade in the Indian Ocean during the first and second millennia AD.. PanAfrican Archaeological Association,14th Congress.. Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Killick, D. J. (2014, Fall). Learning from Things (Keynote Lecture). Mellon Research Initiative “From Surface to Substrate: the Archaeology, Art History and Science of Materials Transfers”. New York: New York University Institute of Fine Arts.
- Killick, D. J. (2014, Fall). Politics and prehistory: arguments about African metallurgical technologies.. Invited seminar at Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Taipei.
- Killick, D. J., Chiu, S., & Sand, C. (2014, April). New Discovery for sourcing New Caledonian Lapita Pottery Based on Petrographic Studies of 10 Lapita Sites. 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Austin, TX.
- Killick, D. J., Chiu, S., Sand, C., & Dickinson, W. R. (2014, May). Paradise for petrographers: tracking movements of Lapita pottery (1200-900 BCE) between New Caledonia, Isle de Pins, the Loyalty Islands and Vanuatu.. 40th International Symposium on Archaeometry. Los Angeles.
- Killick, D. J. (2013, 2013-04-01). Invention and Innovation in African Iron Smelting. Society for American Archaeology, 78th Annual Meeting. Honolulu.
- Killick, D. J., & Echinique, E. (2013, 2013-02-01). Technology and production patterns of domestic fine wares during the Late Formative and Middle Periods in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile: a petrographic and experimental study. Institute of Andean Studies 53rd Annual Meeting. University of California, Berkeley.
- Killick, D. J., Chiu, S., Sand, C., Glasscock, M., & Sun, Y. (2013, 2013-04-01). Exchange spheres identified by using both chemical composite and petrographic analysis: a case study on six Lapita sites in New Caledonia. Society for American Archaeology, 78th Annual Meeting. Honolulu.