Archaeology, Hunting and Gathering Societies, Human-Environmental Interactions, Stone Tool technology, Spatial Analysis, Geoarchaeology, Experimental Archaeology, Paleoindians, Early Stone Age, and New World Colonization.
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.
Gingerich, Joseph A. M. 2018. "Discussion of the Eastern Paleoindian Record." in Eastern Fluted Point Tradition, Volume II, edited by Gingerich, Joseph., 409-430. University of Utah Press.
2018
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.2016.03.0252018
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/10.1080/20555563.2017.13804412017
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.01799332017
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.2015.11.0032016
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/10.1080/00438243.2014.8924372014
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.2012.12.0032013
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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, edited by Smallwood, Ashley M. and Jennings, Thomas A., 297-318. 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, edited by Gingerich, Joseph A. M., 121-147. 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, edited by Gingerich, Joseph A. M., 9-37. University of Utah Press.
2013
Gingerich, Joseph A. M. 2013. "Revisiting Shawnee-Minisink." in In The Eastern Fluted Point Tradition, edited by Gingerich, Joseph A. M., 218-256. University of Utah Press.
2013