Curriculum Vitae
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Steven T. Goldstein
Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for the Evolutionary Anthropology
Education
Ph.D, Anthropology. 2017. Washington University in Saint Louis. “Technological and Socio-Economic Organization of Early Herders in Southwestern Kenya.”
M.A. Anthropology. 2012. Washington University in Saint Louis. “Quantifying lithic curation rates at Pastoral Neolithic sites in southwestern Kenya.”
B.A., Anthropology, Magna cum laude, Anthropology with Honors Distinction. 2010. Stony Brook University. Honors Thesis: “Macro- & micro-scopic analyses of quartz projectile points on Long Island, NY.”
Publications
Peer-Reviewed
In review Goldstein, S.T., Fernandes, R., Iminjili, V., Sirak, K., Knisely, M., Ndiema, E., Boivin, N. Revising the chronology and route of the Bantu Expansion. Nature Communications.
In review Goldstein, S.T., Ranhorn, K., James, S. “A two-million year record of obsidian technology in eastern Africa,” In Le Bourdonnec, F.X., Orange, M., & Shackley, S. (Eds.), Obsidian. New York: Springer.
In review Bleasdale, M., Hendy, J., Goldstein S., and N. Boivin. “The origin and spread of dairying in ancient Africa. Journal of World Prehistory”.
In press Goldstein, S.T., Shipton, C., Miller, J., Ndiema, E., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. “Technological organization through the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene in eastern Africa’s coastal forests: Implications for understanding human-environment interactions.” Quaternary Science Reviews.
2022. Goldstein, S.T., Farr, J., Kayuni, M., Katongo, M., Fernandes, R., Janzen, A., Markham, B., Crowther, A., & Boivin, N. “Excavations at the Iron Age village site of Fibobe II, Central Zambia.” Journal of African Archaeology.
2021. Mueller, N.G., Goldstein, S.T., Odeny, D., & Boivin, N. “Variability and preservation biases in the archaeobotanical record of Eleusine coracana (finger millet): Evidence from Iron Age Kenya.” Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-021-00853-y
2021. Goldstein, S.T., Crowther, A., Henry, E.R., Katongo, M., Janzen, A., Farr, J., Picin, A., Le Moyne, C., Boivin, N. “Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia: Implications for the timing of social and subsistence transitions in Iron Age southern Africa.” African Archaeological Review.
2021. Storozum, M., Goldstein, S.T., Conterras, D.A., Gidna, A., Mabulla, A., Grillo, K., & Prendergast, M.E. “Legacies of ancient herder settlement: soil development and landscape evolution on the Mbulu Plateau, Tanzania.” Catena 204:105376.
2021. Janzen, A., Richter, K.K., Brown, S., Mwebi, O., Gatwiri, F., Katongo, M., Goldstein, S.T., Douka, K., Bovin, N. “Distinguishing African bovids using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS).” PLoS1 16 (5), e0251061.
2021. Goldstein, S.T. “Lithic technological organization of the “Elmenteitan” in southern Kenya: Implications for mobility and climatic resilience.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 61: 101259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101259.
2021. Bleasdale, M., Richter, K., Janzen, A., Brown, S., Scott, A., Zech, J., Wilkin, S., Wang, K., Schiffels, S., Desideri, J., Besse, M., Ndiema, E., Ogola, C., Manthi, F., Zahir, M., Petraglia, M., Trachsel, C., Nanni, P., Grossman, J., Hendy, J., Crowther, A., Roberts, P., Goldstein, S., Boivin, N. “Ancient proteins provide direct evidence of dairy consumption in eastern Africa.” Nature Communications 12(632). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20682-3.
2020. Wang, K.*, Goldstein, S.T.*., Bleasdale, M., Clist, B., Bostoen, K., Bakwa-Lufu, P., Buck, L. T., Crowther, A., Dème, A., McIntosh, R., Mercador Florin, J., Ogola, C., Power, R., Sawchuk, E., Willmsen, E., Petraglia, M., Ndiema, E., Manthi, F. K.., Krause, J., Roberts, P., Boivin, N., Schiffels, S. “Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction and integration in sub-Saharan Africa.” Science Advances 6(24). *Co-Corresponding authors
2020. D’errico, F., Shipton, C., Pitarch, A., Le Vraux, E., Goldstein, S., Boivin, N., Ndiema, E., Petraglia, M. “Trajectories of Middle to Later Stone Age cultural innovation in eastern Africa: the case of Panga ya Saidi, Kenya.” Journal of Human Evolution 141: 102737.
2020. Scerri, E., Kuhnert, D., Blinkhorn, J., Groucutt, H., Roberts, P., Zerboni, A., Orijemie, A., Barton, H., Candy, I., Goldstein, S., Hawks, J., N’Dah, D., Niang, K., Nicoll, K., Petraglia, M., & Vella, N. “Field based sciences must transform in response to COVID-19.” Nature Ecology & Evolution.
2019. Goldstein, S.T. “Infrastructures of pre-colonial food-security in eastern Africa,” In A. Logan & M. Shoeman (Eds) Useable Pasts Forum: Critically Engaging Food Security, African Archaeological Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-019-09347-9
2019. Stephens, L., Fuller,D., Boivin, N.,…Goldstein, S.(54th of 121),…Ellis, E. “Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformations through land use”. Science.
2019. Goldstein, S.T. “Lithic technology of the earliest herders in eastern Africa”. Antiquity.
2019. Goldstein, S.T. “The lithic assemblage from Sugenya: A Pastoral Neolithic site of the Elmenteitan group in southwestern Kenya”. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa.
2018. Goldstein, S.T. “Knowledge transmission through the lens of lithic production: A case study from the Pastoral Neolithic of southern Kenya”. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.
2018. Marshall, F.B., Reid, R.E.B., Goldstein, S.T., Storozum, M., Wreschnig, A., Hu, L., Kiura, P., Shahack-Gross, R., & S.H. Ambrose. “Ancient herders enriched and restructured African grasslands”. Nature 561: 387-390..
2018. Hildebrand, E., Grillo, K., E. Sawchuk, E., Pfeiffer, S., Conyers, L., Goldstein, S.,Hill, A.C., Janzen, A., Klehm, C., Helper, M., Kiura, P., Ndiema, E., Ngugi, C., Shea, J.J., and H. Wang. “A monumental cemetery built by eastern Africa’s earliest herders near Lake Turkana, Kenya”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 115 (36): 8942-8947.
2018. Sawchuk, E., Goldstein, S., Grillo, K., & E. Hildebrand. “Cemetery construction and the spread of pastoralism in eastern Africa”. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 51: 187-205.
2018. Goldstein, S.T. ”Picking up the pieces: Reconstructing lithic production strategies at a Late Holocene obsidian quarry in southern Kenya”. Journal of Field Archaeology 43(2): 85-101.
2018. Capriles, J., Albarracin-Jordan, J., Bird, D., Goldstein, S., Jarpa, G., Maldonado, C. & C. Santoro. “Mobility, subsistence, and technological strategies of early Holocene hunter-gatherers in the Bolivian Altiplano”. Quaternary International 473b: 190-205.
2018. Grillo, K., Prendergast, M., Contreras, D., Fitton, T., Gidna, A., Goldstein, S., Knisley, M., Langley, M. & A. Mabulla. “Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Luxmanda”. Tanzania. Journal of Field Archaeology 32(2): 102-120.
2017. Goldstein, S.T. and J.M. Munyiri. “The Elmenteitan Obsidian Quarry (GsJj50): New perspectives on obsidian access and exchange during the Pastoral Neolithic of southern Kenya”. African Archaeological Review 34(1): 43-73.
2017. Frahm, E., Goldstein, S.T., & C.A. Tryon. “Forager-fisher and pastoralist interactions along the Lake Victoria shores, Kenya: Perspectives from portable XRF of obsidian artifacts from Kansyore rock shelters”. Journal o Archaeological Science: Reports 11: 717-742.
2016. Goldstein, S.T. and C.M. Shaffer. “Experimental and archaeological investigations of geometric microlith function among Mid-to-Late Holocen herders in southwestern Kenya”. Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Science 9(8): 1767-1788.
2016. Capriles J., Jordan, J., Lombardo, U., Osorio, D., Herrera, K., Maley, B., Goldstein, S.T., Domic, A. I., Glascock, M.D., Veit, H. & C. Santoro. “High-altitude adaptation and late Pleistocene foraging in the Bolivian Andes”. Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports 6: 46-474.
2014. Goldstein, S.T. “Quantifying endscraper reduction i the context of obsidian exchange among early pastoralists in southwestern Kenya”. Lithic Technology 39: 3-19.
Other writing
2020. Goldstein, S.T. (Book Review) “The Stone Tools of Eastern Africa: A Guide”, by John J. Shea. Azania.
2018. Goldstein, S., Hildebrand, E., Storozum, M., Sawchuk, E., Lewis, J., Ngugi, C. & L. Robbins. New archaeological investigations at the Lothagam harpoon site at Lake Turkana, Kenya. Antiquity: Project Gallery 91(36).
2015. Goldstein, S. The early roots of human technology: Evaluating ancient stone tools in 3D, for AICON- Breuckmann 3D. http://aicon3d.com/aicon-scanner/arts-culture/paleontology/the-early-roots-of-human-technology-evaluating-ancient-stone-tools-in-3d.html
2012. Goldstein, S. Stone Tool Making 101: The Mind of a Modern Knapper, for Science Magazine: Origins Blog.
Research Grants and Fellowships
2017. Post-PhD Fieldwork Grant, P.I. ($19,835) – Wenner-Gren Foundation, “Small-scale responses to large-scale climate change: Archaeological investigations of forager resilience during African Humid Phase in northern Kenya.”
2014. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, co-P.I. ($20,000) – National Science Foundation, “Economic organization in the Pastoral Neolithic: Archaeology of the Elmenteitan Obsidian Quarry, Kenya” (BCS-1439123).
2014, Bernd Breuckmann Grant (€1,000) – AICON-Breuckmann, “Applications of 3D scanning and metrology for stone tool analysis in East African archaeology”. Grant included training and use of AICON SmartScan 3D white-light scanner for digitization and 3d analyses of lithic collections at the National Museums of Kenya.
2012. Summer Publication Writing Award ($2500) – Washington University in St. Louis
2011. Fieldwork Research Award ($2000) – Washington University in St. Louis
2011–2015. Graduate Fellowship – Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis
Awards
Teaching
2017. Kathleen H. Cook Teaching Award – Dept. of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis.
2012. Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence – Washington University in St. Louis.
Other Awards
2017. Student Poster Prize (Honorable mention) – Society for Archaeological Sciences , Society for American Archaeologists annual meeting, Vancouver, CA 2017, “Herder land-use in southern Kenya: geochemical analysis of soil enrichment.”
2012. Student Paper Prize – Society for Africanist Archaeologists, Society for Africanist Archaeologists Annual Meeting, Toronto, CA “Only the mountains do not move: Obsidian curation and mobility of pastoralists in Kenya.”
2006–2010. Presidential Scholarship – Stony Brook University
2009. Daniel H. Weiskotten Award – New York State Archaeological Association,
2006. Fredrick Douglass & Susan B. Anthony Award in Social Sciences and Humanities – University of Rochester
Service
Present. Reviewer: Lithic Technology, South African Archaeological Bulletin, Azania, Quaternary Science Reviews.
2018. Symposium Chair “Moving beyond ‘mosaics’: High resolution models for food production in Africa”.Society of Africanist Archaeologists Biennial Conference, Toronto, Canada.
2018. Symposium Co-Chair “The African Humid Period”. Society of American Archaeology 83rd Annual Conference, Washington D.C., USA.
2017. Co-Organizer for the workshop “Multi-disciplinary approaches to studying the spread of people, plants, and animals, in Holocene eastern Africa”. Hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Dept. of Archaeology. Jena, Germany, 2017.
2016. Symposium Co-Chair: “Social transformations and environmental perception across Holocene Africa”. Society of Africanist Archaeologists Biennial Conference, Toulouse, France.
2013-2014. Anthropology Department Peer-Mentoring Coordinator, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Affiliations: Society for American Archaeology, Society of Africanist Archaeologists, European Association of Archaeologists, National Commission for Science, Technology, and Innovation (NACOSTI), Kenya, National Museums of Kenya, Livingstone Museum of Zambia, University of Zambia