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David Lubell

David Lubell

David Lubell, Adjunct Professor, as well as Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta, is an archaeologist whose research focuses on human-environmental relationships and the interdisciplinary analysis of palaeoecological, palaeoeconomic and bioarchaeological data.  He is primarily interested in the late Pleistocene-early Holocene prehistory of the western Mediterranean, especially southern Europe and the Maghreb, and on palaeoeconomies in which land snails were an important food resource.  He also specializes in lithic analysis.

Education

Contact Information

Dr. Lubell's office is PAS 2008 and his phone number is (519) 888-4567 ext 35407.  He can be contacted via email at dlubell@uwaterloo.ca.

Recent and forthcoming publications

Edited Journals

2011 - D. Lubell & N. Barton (eds.). Gastropods and Humans in the Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of the Western Mediterranean Basin.  Quaternary International 244 (1).

2008 - N. Barton, A. Bouzouggar & D. Lubell (eds.).  Modern Human Dispersals, Environments and Cultural Change in the Late Pleistocene of Northwest Africa.  African Archaeological Review 25(1-2).

Refereed Journal Articles

2011 - A.C. Colonese, M.A. Mannino, D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.A. Fa, J.C. Finlayson, D. Lubell, M.C. Stiner.  Marine mollusc exploitation in Mediterranean prehistory: an overview.  Quaternary International 239:86-103.

2009 - D. Lubell with contributions by J. Feathers & J.-L. Schwenninger.  Post-Capsian settlement in the eastern Maghreb: impications of a revised chronological assessment for the adult burial in Ain Misteheyia.  Journal of African Archaeology 7(2): 175-189.

2008 - M. Jackes & D. Lubell.  Environmental and cultural change in the early and mid Holocene: evidence from the Telidjene Basin, Algeria.  African Archaeological Review 25(1-2): 41-55.

2005 - N. Rahmani and D. Lubell.  "Dessine-moi une autruche" La gravure de Kef Zoura D et la representation de l'autruche au Maghreb.  Sahara 16: 39-54.

2004 - Are land snails a signature for the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the circum-Mediterranean?  In, M. Budja (ed.), The Neolithization of Eurasia - paradigms, models and concepts involved, Neolithic Studies 11, Documenta Praehistorica XXXI: 1-24.

Chapters

2010 - N. Rahmani and D. Lubell.  Climate change and the adoption of pressure technique in the Maghreb: the Capsian sequence at Kef Zoura D (Eastern Algeria).  In, P.M. Desrosiers and N. Rahmani (eds.) The Emergence of Pressure Knapping: From Origin to Modern Experimentation.  New York: Springer (in press).

2007 - D. Lubell, M. Jackes, P. Sheppard & P. Rowley-Conwy.  The Mesolithic-Neolithic in the Alentejo: archaeological investigations, 1984-1986.  In, N. Bichp (ed.) From the Mediterranean basin to the Portuguese Atlantic shore: Papers in Honor of Anthony Marks.  Actas do IV Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular.  Centro do Estudos de Patrimonio, Departamento de Historia, Arqueologia et Patrimonio, Universidade do Algarve: Faro, pp. 209-229.

2005 - D. Lubell.  Continuite et changement dans l'Epipaleolithique du Maghreb.  In, M. Sahnouni (ed.) Le Paleolithique en Afrique: l'histoire la plus longue, pp. 205-226.  Guides de la Prehistoire Mondiale, Editions Artcom'/Errance: Paris.

2004 - Prehistoric edible land snails in the circum-Mediterranean: the archaeological evidence.  In, J-J. Brugal & J. Desse (eds.) Petits Animaux et Societes Humaines.  Du Complement Alimentaire Aux Ressources Utilitaires.  XXIVe rencontres internationales d'archeologie et d'histoire d'Antibes, pp. 77-98.  Antibes: Editions APDCA.

Reviews

2006 - W.J. Burroughs, Climate Change in Prehistory: the End of the Reign of Chaos.  SAS Bulletin: The Newsletter of the Society for Archaeological Sciences 29(3): 24-26.

2006 - M.R. Gonzales Morales & G.A. Clark (eds.), The Mesolithic of the Atlantic Facade: Proceedings of the Santander Symposium.  Journal of Anthropological Research 62: 276-277.

For further information on research interests and publications, please visit Dr. Lubell's webpage.