Joe Gingerich is an archaeologist that specializes in the first people that entered the Americas. His expertise include hunting and gathering societies, stone tool technology, spatial analysis, and geoarchaeology. He has done fieldwork in France, Kenya, Japan, the American Southwest and Plains, and throughout Eastern North America. Joe’s current work focuses on human-environmental interactions, past climate change, changes in stone tool technology over time, and the spatial organization of hunter-gatherer campsites. His current projects are based in the eastern United States and east Africa. He is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University and a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, and the Smithsonian Institution.

Article

• Surovell, Todd A., Allaun, Sarah A., Crass, Barbara A., Gingerich, Joseph A. M., Graf, Kelly E., Holmes, Charles E., Kelly, Robert L., Kornfeld, Marcel, Krasinski, Kathryn E., Larson, Mary Lou, Pelton, Spencer R., and Wygal, Brian T. 2022. "Late date of human arrival to North America: Continental scale differences in stratigraphic integrity of pre-13,000 BP archaeological sites." PLOS ONE, 17, (4) e0264092. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264092. 2022
• Gingerich, Joseph A. M. 2019. "Dennis J. Stanford (1943–2019)." PaleoAmerica, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2019.1662692. 2019
• Gingerich, Joseph A. M., Whyte, Thomas R., and Whittaker, Scott. 2019. "Misidentified Clovis-age fish bone at Shawnee-Minisink and the problem with single case studies in Late Pleistocene archaeology." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 25 94–99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.04.001. 2019
• Gingerich, Joseph A. M. and Stanford, Dennis J. 2018. "Lessons from Ginsberg: An analysis of elephant butchery tools." Quaternary International, 466, (Part B) 269–283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.03.025. 2018
• Gingerich, Joseph A. M. and Wagner, Daniel P. 2017. "Terminal Pleistocene Depositional Patterns and Their Relationship to the Paleoindian Occupation of Drainage Basins in the Middle Atlantic Region, USA." PaleoAmerica, 3, (4) 383–394. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2017.1380441. 2017
• Sholts, Sabrina B., Gingerich, Joseph A. M., Schlager, Stefan, Stanford, Dennis J., and Wärmländer, Sebastian K. T. S. 2017. "Tracing social interactions in Pleistocene North America via 3D model analysis of stone tool asymmetry." PloS One, 12, (7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179933. 2017
• Buchanan, Briggs, Hamilton, Marcus J., Kilby, J. D., and Gingerich, Joseph A. M. 2016. "Lithic networks reveal early regionalization in late Pleistocene North America." Journal of Archaeological Science, 65 114–121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.11.003. 2016
• Gingerich, Joseph A. M., Sholts, Sabrina B., Wärmländer, Sebastian K. T. S., and Stanford, Dennis J. 2014. "Fluted point manufacture in eastern North America: an assessment of form and technology using traditional metrics and 3D digital morphometrics." World Archaeology, 46, (1) 101–122. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2014.892437. 2014
• Miller, D. S. and Gingerich, Joseph A. M. 2013. "Regional variation in the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene radiocarbon record of eastern North America." Quaternary Research, 79, (2) 175–188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2012.12.003. 2013

Chapter

• Gingerich, Joseph A. M. 2018. "Discussion of the Eastern Paleoindian Record." In Eastern Fluted Point Tradition, Volume II. Gingerich, Joseph, editor. 409–430. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 2018
• Gingerich, Joseph A. M. and Kitchel, Nathaniel. 2014. "Early Paleoindian subsistence strategies in eastern North America: A continuation of the Clovis tradition? Or evidence of regional adaptations?" In Clovis: On the Edge of a New Understanding. Smallwood, Ashley M. and Jennings, Thomas A., editors. 297–318. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2014
• Gingerich, Joseph A. M. 2013. "Fifty Years of Discovery at Plenge: Rethinking the Importance of New Jersey's Largest Paleoindian Site." In In The Eastern Fluted Point Tradition. Gingerich, Joseph A. M., editor. 121–147. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 2013
• Miller, D. S. and Gingerich, Joseph A. M. 2013. "Paleoindian Chronology and the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition." In In The Eastern Fluted Point Tradition. Gingerich, Joseph A. M., editor. 9–37. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 2013
• Gingerich, Joseph A. M. 2013. "Revisiting Shawnee-Minisink." In In The Eastern Fluted Point Tradition. Gingerich, Joseph A. M., editor. 218–256. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 2013

Book

• Gingerich, Joseph A. M., editor. 2018. In The Eastern Fluted Point Tradition, Volume II. Salt Lake: University of Utah. 2018
• Gingerich, Joseph A. M., editor. 2013. In The Eastern Fluted Point Tradition. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 2013

• ANTH 2020 - World Archaeology
• ANTH 3610/5610 - North American Prehistory
• ANTH 4943/5943 - Stone Tools and Human Behavior
• ANTH 3730 - Mapping the Past: GIS and Anthropology