ALISON SPENCE BROOKS

PRESENT APPOINTMENT:
S ince 1988 Professor of Anthropology, George Washington University.
S ince 1989 Director, Geobiology Program.
Research Associate in Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution.
Visiting Scientist, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Geophysical
Laboratory.

EDUCATION:
BA in Anthropology from Harvard University, 1965.
MA in Anthropology from Harvard University, 1967.
PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University, 1979.

CURRENT RESEARCH SUPPORT: (selected)
1994-1999 NSF (SBE94-13554, $88,659) Instrumentation for dating and stratigraphic assessment of archaeological sites using amino acid diagenesis in carbonate fossils. (PI: P. E. Hare, Co-PI's: A.S. Brooks, D.W. von Endt, and G. Goodfriend).

1995-1998 NSF (SBE95-21879, $227,227) Paleoanthropological investigation of the Middle Stone Age in the Middle Awash Valley of Ethiopia (co PI: J. D. Clark).
NSF (SBE96-02741, $162,000) Replacement, consolidation and upgrading of existing.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES:
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993-present)
Memberships in Professional Societies: Amer. Anthropol. Assoc. (ethics comm) (1993-1996)
Amer.Anthropologist, assoc. ed. Anthropol. Soc. of Wash. (1989-1993)
Soc. for Amer. Archeol. (nom. committee) (1991)
Anthropol. Soc. of Wash, councillor (1977-1982), president (1985-6)
Soc. of Woman Geographers (1984-1987)
Soc. of Afr. Archaeol., Paleoanthro. Soc., Amer. Assoc. of Phys. Anthropologists
Other editorships (associate): Anthro.Notes (1980-present), Journal of Human Evolution (1987-1990), Archaeomaterials (1992-3), Geoarchaeology (1994-present)

PUBLICATIONS: (selected)
Brooks, A. S., and J. E. Yellen. 1987. The preservation of activity areas in the archaeological record: archaeological and
ethnoarchaeological work in northwest Ngamiland, Botswana. Pp. 63-106.
In:. Method and Theory of Activity Area Research. S. Kent (ed.). New
York: Columbia Univ. Pr.
Brooks, A. S. 1990. Dating Pleistocene archaeological sites by protein diagenesis in ostrich eggshell Science, 248:60-64.
Brooks, A. S., D.M. Helgren, J.S. Cramer, A. Franklin, W. Hornyak, J.M.
Keating, R.G. Klein, J. Rink, H. Schwarcz, J.N.L. Smith, K. Stewart, N.
Todd, J. Verniers, and J. Yellen. 1995. Dating and context of three
Middle Stone Age sites with bone points in the Upper Semliki Valley,
Zaire. Science, 268: 548-553.
Brooks, A. S. 1996. Behavior and human evolution In: Contemporary Issues in Human Evolution. W.E. Meikle, F.C. Howell and N. Jablonski (eds.),
Calif. Acad. of Sci. Mem. 21:135-166.
Brooks, A. S. and P. Robertshaw. 1990. The glacial maximum in tropical
Africa: 22000 to 14000 bp In: The World at 18000 BP: Vol 2: Low
Latitudes. O. Soffer and C. Gamble (eds.), London: Unwin Hyman, pp. 119-169.
Brooks, A. S., J. Yellen, E. Corneliesen, M. Mehlman, and K. Stewart.
1995. A Middle Stone Age worked bone industry from Katanda, Upper
Semliki Valley, Zaire. Science, 268:553-556.
Brooks, A. S. 1996. Behavioral perspectives on the origin of modern humans: another look at the African evidence. Pp. 157-166. In: Proceedings of the XIII International Congress of Pre- and Protohistoric Sciences, Forli Italy. Section 5. O. Bar-Yosef, L.L.
Cavalli-Sforza, R.J. March and M. Piperno (eds.), Colloq. X: The origin of modern man.

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