Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology

The Editor

Allan S. Gilbert is Professor of Anthropology at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology were earned at Columbia University. His areas of research interest include the Near East (late prehistory and early historic periods) as well as the historical archaeology of New York City. His specializations are in zooarchaeology and geoarchaeology, especially compositional analysis of building materials. 

The Associate Editors

Paul Goldberg is Professor Emeritus at Boston University, and Affiliated Professor of Geoarchaeology and Senior Researcher in the Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen. His degrees are in geology (B.A. University of Colorado, Boulder, and M.S. and Ph.D. from The University of Michigan). He uses micromorphology to study sediments, soils, landscapes, and archaeological site formation. Most of his research has been in France, Spain, Israel, Germany, China, and Siberia.

Rolfe D. Mandel is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, and Senior Scientist and Director of the Odyssey Archaeological Research Program at the Kansas Geological Survey in Lawrence, Kansas. He has spent most of career working with archaeologists in North America and the eastern Mediterranean, and over the past 22 years he has been focusing on the use of geoscientific methods to search for the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas. 

Vera Aldeias is a coordinating researcher at the ICArEHB in the University of Algarve, Portugal. She earned a Ph.D. in Earth & Environmental Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania and was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. She specializes in applying geoarchaeological techniques to study human adaptations and site formation processes, with research spanning Early Pleistocene to Early Holocene contexts in Europe, the Levant, and in Africa.